Is It Falling Apart For Obama?

from PolMach Forums

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/09/03/obama-booked-oreilly-mccain-aide-trashes-medias-palin-frenzy

 

Obama has agreed to appear on The O'Reilly Factor on the night that McCain accepts the Republican nomination.

 

Firstly: After McCain went all soft during Obama's big day, what does Obama hope to achieve by trying to steal McCain's?

Secondly: Is Obama out of his mind? O'Reilly may be a hot-headed interrogator, but he's not that big of an idiot. Obama has proven time and time again that he may be charismatic, but when thinking on his feet he has about the oratory skills of a particularly dim boxer with concussion (sweety) (above my pay-grade). Given the many agendas which would absolutely destroy Obama if they were heavily debated in the media, such as abortion and his foreign-policy (which seems to be completely undefined when you read what he says in interviews carefully), what does he think he has to win?

 

Well, thirdly: Maybe he thinks it's all coming away beneath his feet. He has already tried to play the nice-guy while letting his attack-dogs in the liberal media smear-campaign against Sarah Palin. But rather than looking like a nice guy, while smearing her credentials, it isn't working. Sure, liberals are jumping on this in a frenzy, but do independents think the aggressive dismissal of a woman's credentials because she's A ) a mother, B ) got a daughter who is pregnant out of wedlock,C ) only had mayoral experience in a small town (still more mayoral experience than Obama) will make it more likely they won't vote for her? I sincerely doubt it. The way I see it going in the blogs and amateur media is people are seeing the dark-side of the liberals while seeing Sarah Palin as the plucky underdog.

 

Is this move sheer desperation from Obama, or political genius? I think the former.

 

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top

O'Reilly has proven he is no one's toady - left or right.  I cant see how this is genius.

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

It's been one of Obama's mantra's that he is willing to meet, without preconditions, any of the leaders of America's enemies.  The fact that he's been too afraid to meet with O'Reilly until now seems rather odd, to be kind.

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Reply #3 from PolMach Forums Top

Perhaps he's rehearsed for months and now thinks he can "spin" Bill's questions, since anyone who listens to the factor knows what those questions will be for Obama.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Reply #4 from PolMach Forums Top

I watched the first part of the Obama interview on the O'Reilly factor, and I have to admit, O'Reilly ground him into dust. O'Reilly made him stammer, and correct himself. I look forward to watching part two of the interview just to see Obama make a complete fool of himself. Political genious..I think not.

Reply #5 from PolMach Forums Top

I thought he did surprisingly well, although I agree with you, LynnFromOhio, that O'Reilly showed him up.

 

The problem is, with easily over half of the media (and virtually all of the papers) leaning significantly toward Democrats, anything but a complete destruction of Obama by O'Reilly will be spun to ignore the umms, errs, and 'well I believed in X, but Y worked, except Y shouldn't have worked so was still wrong' nonesense statements.

 

O'Reilly wouldn't have wanted Obama to walk out after 10 minutes, that would have lost his show huge figures, so perhaps he deliberately started almost pussy-footing around Obama (compared to the way O'Reilly usually treats people). He pushed all the buttons, though, and so far I don't think this has payed off for Obama. I can't see many positive headlines for him tomorrow and it was too early to disrupt viewing of McCain's speech.

Reply #6 from PolMach Forums Top

I thought Obama did well.  I mean honestly, it was obvious that O Reilly was looking for a provocative one-liner from Obama like, "sure I'll invade Pakistan."  Unfortunately, for O Reilly reality isn't that simple, which is why Obama kept explaining his quite nuanced and largely intelligent answers.  Regardless, I thought Reilly was being fair to Obama and asking him hard questions; I'm sick of watching cowardly interviews of Presidential candidates.

Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top

I mean honestly, it was obvious that O Reilly was looking for a provocative one-liner from Obama like, "sure I'll invade Pakistan."
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Thank god!  O'Reilly may have wanted it, but only a fool would have walked into that trap.

But then we have had those in the past. ;)