Apr 03 2007
Barrack Obama: The Seinfeld Campaign
Prezvid hits this one out of the park. They call Barrack Obama’s campaign “The Seinfeld Campaign” because it’s a campaign about nothing. One commenter really nails it:
want to like Obama - he has an amazing story and obviously he’s the smartest guy in most rooms that he’s in. But he hasn’t given me anything to hold onto, anything that I can point to and say that this is how he’ll fix the problems created by the Bush administration.
Saying that we should get out of Iraq is not a plan, it’s a statement with no substance to back it.
Saying that we need to fix health care is, again, not a plan, but an unsubstantiated statement.
Yep. Listen to the last clip of his speech right before the end of the video. Lots of passion. Lots of loud yelling. Not a whole lot of substance.
Aside from his race, what are people voting for with this guy?
Oh, and about the remark by one of the kids in the crowd. “He’s an inclusive candidate.” How does one be an inclusive candidate? How is Barrack Obama any more inclusive than Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, or Bill Richardson? Does being black automatically make you inclusive?
Just something to think about as the darling of the media starts ramping up his campaign. I would like to see some developed positions. Considering the first batch of primaries is in January, there hasn’t been a lot of depth to Senator Obama’s campaign. He sounds like a southern baptist preacher at a Sunday sermon, but other than that, I can’t seem to find the meat there….
Full disclosure: I’m a paid supporter of the Hillary for President campaign. Take that for what it’s worth.
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April 3rd, 2007 at 2:24 pm
It looks like he’s starting to talk substance now, but it’s been something we’ve been pretty critical about for the past few months.
Guess we’ll just have to wait and see…
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Wow, Vinny, my mouth fell open at that last statement.
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Heh… Sometimes the “right” candidate isn’t the one that has a certain letter after their name
April 3rd, 2007 at 10:06 pm
What Trish said. I could tell you were on the Clinton band wagon but I didn’t realize you were driving it.
About Obama’s vagueness, for whatever it’s worth. I haven’t followed the race so far so I don’t know the extent of it. Here’s a thought though. Being specific right now can backfire in two ways I can think of. One, a detailed plan may seem boring when compared with rhetoric. It may bog a campaign down. Two, tipping your hand on policy allows your opponents to attack earlier.
October 21st, 2007 at 4:05 am
voting barrack obama will put america in a fresh perspective, voting anyone else other than him is like encouraging the sanction killings of people like Bush &co who are licence by the electorate evertime theseek to perpetrate their evil, and their qualification sterm from the family they come from the several institutions that have been run in the past by their father/family members. wake up and do the right thing. vote for change, vote barrack obama, it has nothing to do with race or color. save america vote barrack obama
October 21st, 2007 at 4:16 am
is there any difference between hillary and bill clinton? why does america always allow emotions to rule their judgment. there is no doubt, bill was a fair president but you cannot forget how that man look americans in the face and lied like a little school boy caught red handed with stolen candy, that man screw monica lewinsky and denied. don’t america think its about time we make changes? return clinton to office at the perils of your young girl child. the little girls are not safe, as the husband will be busy screwing the little girls she will be busy demanding oral sex from young male office staff. please save amerca and vote barrack obama. if hilary wants to become president she must part ways with that sex maniac. bill clinton. a word is enough for the wise. vote obama.
February 25th, 2008 at 8:41 am
Uncle, whatever Bill Clinton did that dis pleased you was she not the victim of that action?? Why are we blaming HER for HIS actions?? That is sexist and ridiculous!
If someone cheats on your daughter and he lies about it are you going to hold HER accountable for that for the rest of her life??
This woman has her own accomplishments going all the way back to community organizing for poor immigrant workers while she was still in high school.
She is running against a man with hardly ANY record compared to hers and she IS after all innocent of having “cheated”
Obama gets a pass on his coke using days but, she is blamed because her husband cheated and the republicans went after him like a dog with a bone. GWB has got away with crimes so bad we are the laughing stock of the world!
No, she’s held to a MUCH tougher standard. And for that fact she would have made a MUCH better president.
I will NEVER vote Obama now because he has disenfranchised a HUGE portion of this party. He has been very arrogant about this.
She would have been criticized for leaving him OR for staying. That’s not a real issue. Not at all and it’s a cover for what the real issue is.
Did you tell Ford to leave his wife when she became a drunk in the White House??
How many women do you know of who go through that and work it out. Had she been republican this would not have ever even come up. It’s because she is a she. Period and I’m sick and tired of people using these lame excuses to cover up their biased attitudes.