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Hey, Obama, You're Letting It Get To You Already
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02/13/07 08:09 AM ET
Hey Barack, in case David Axelrod forgot to tell you, sniping at the media is for those OTHER candidates, remember? You are the UN-candidate. You are the un-grumpy, un-control freak, un-power-hungry, un-tired-moribund-overexposed-incumbent-insider, that the electorate and the media have been waiting for. Don't let everyone down or it will be your un-doing.
I know you are nearly frostbitten after that 3-below-zero announcement of yours, and likely sleep-deprived too. But without a hefty resume you have thrown your hat-less head into the ring to take on powerful political machines that could potentially crush you, telling us your hope alone can get you elected president in wartime. It's presumptuous, and audacious, as you have said, but it has gotten you further than anyone expected.
Your claim that your best-selling books probably give people more insight into your positions on issues "than any candidate in the field and probably any candidate who's run for office in recent memory" is pretty audacious and perhaps a bit defensive, but it is politically useful and maybe not incorrect. But saying "the problem is that that's not what you guys have been reporting on. You've been reporting on how I look in a swimsuit" probably wasn't too useful. First of all, the political reporters following you breathlessly from Washington to Illinois to Iowa to New Hampshire in recent days were not the ones taking photographs of you in the ocean. And as Tucker Carlson pointed out on his show yesterday on MSNBC, you subjected yourself to a photo shoot with Annie Leibowitz for Men's Vogue, so let's drop the camera-shy routine. Carlson also said he was told by a friend who is covering your campaign that you get "prickly," and the ABC Note has dropped hints about your rumored temper.
So if you want to overcome Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) or eventually Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), get back to the audacity of your zen. It was working. If you can appear the exciting, laid-back leader everyone took you for, you can continue distinguishing yourself from your opponents, who often appear paranoid and uncomfortable as they bark at the press, calculate, and obfuscate.
Hey Barack, we know you're human too, but no one wants to see it.
I know you are nearly frostbitten after that 3-below-zero announcement of yours, and likely sleep-deprived too. But without a hefty resume you have thrown your hat-less head into the ring to take on powerful political machines that could potentially crush you, telling us your hope alone can get you elected president in wartime. It's presumptuous, and audacious, as you have said, but it has gotten you further than anyone expected.
Your claim that your best-selling books probably give people more insight into your positions on issues "than any candidate in the field and probably any candidate who's run for office in recent memory" is pretty audacious and perhaps a bit defensive, but it is politically useful and maybe not incorrect. But saying "the problem is that that's not what you guys have been reporting on. You've been reporting on how I look in a swimsuit" probably wasn't too useful. First of all, the political reporters following you breathlessly from Washington to Illinois to Iowa to New Hampshire in recent days were not the ones taking photographs of you in the ocean. And as Tucker Carlson pointed out on his show yesterday on MSNBC, you subjected yourself to a photo shoot with Annie Leibowitz for Men's Vogue, so let's drop the camera-shy routine. Carlson also said he was told by a friend who is covering your campaign that you get "prickly," and the ABC Note has dropped hints about your rumored temper.
So if you want to overcome Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) or eventually Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), get back to the audacity of your zen. It was working. If you can appear the exciting, laid-back leader everyone took you for, you can continue distinguishing yourself from your opponents, who often appear paranoid and uncomfortable as they bark at the press, calculate, and obfuscate.
Hey Barack, we know you're human too, but no one wants to see it.
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