Friday, July 25, 2008
Obama's Caravan of Unity
Well it is nice the Obama Caravan Of Unity included in all the network anchors because they really don't travel enough. And it gave those anchors a chance to sanctify by their presence their Chosen One. When was the last time a presumptive candidate got this kind of blanket coverage? Never.
So while McCain talks about the past and seems unable to focus an agenda the public can get behind, Obama talks about nothing really, and the photo ops show us that the Europeans are waving American flags. They like us, they really like us. That isn't so bad. It's just hard to know what is going to happen after the Obama coronation because Obama doesn't confront issues, he sidles past. Like Bush, Obama has never been wrong — he is always confident he is right.
Furman, Obama's economic adviser, was on Fresh Air, and he sounded solid — a good choice as an adviser. Obama is going to need to vet and re-vet his advisers because he clearly is in over his head and has never shown the inclination to be proactive about inevitable outcomes: the likelihood that something won't go right for Obama and he won't be enabled out of it by a mind meld of herd-think with jive oratory. Of course, Reagan was called the Teflon president and that may be true about an Obama presidency. The problem with that sort of leadership is that the stuff that doesn't stick to the leader is still a sorry detritus for the country to clean up.