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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Let's Not Overreact to Obama's Win

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Lambasted for Not Drinking the Obama Kool-Aid

It's hard out here for Black pundits/analysts/commentators who haven't come around to drinking the Barack-Obama-is-the-best-
thing-since-sliced-bread-how-
did-we-ever-exist-as-a-nation-
without-him-this-is-our-last-
best-
chance-to-elect-a-Black-
president-so-we-better-
support-him-see-I-told-you-
racism-is-dead Kool-Aid.

I have learned an unfortunate lesson in observing the Democratic presidential nomination fight: In too many segments of the country Black and White to express any skepticism about Barack Obama is considered political heresy. I'm blown away by this discovery, because it suggests a dangerous group think: Obama is the only agent of change and to not praise him at every opportunity is to support the status quo (And, oh, by the way, Hilary is the devil!).

This is a strange position for me to be in, as I think he has the instincts to be a really good president. I don't consider myself an Obama critic, just someone willing to critically analyze his candidacy.

I am a progressive registered as an Independent and my preferred candidate is not in the race, so I get a little touchy when callers and blog respondents assume that because I'm not yet ready to drink the Obama kool-aid, that I must be in the tank for Hilary Clinton.

Not true. I think it's narrow-minded to think that just because one is lukewarm to Obama that they must want Hilary to win. Between you and me: I'll take Al Gore over either of them in a heartbeat.

Posted by Corky at 2008-01-08 12:32 PM | Reply | Flag:

Don't worry the fawning will end as soon as he gets the nomination.

Posted by danni at 2008-01-08 01:49 PM | Reply | Flag:

I wonder if Clinton supporters, and the Clintons themselves for that matter, will support Obama if he get the nomination, or will they just stay at home during the elections?

Posted by taxman at 2008-01-08 01:58 PM | Reply | Flag:

Bill on Obama: Big Fairy Tale
abcnews.go.com

Posted by kerrin57 at 2008-01-08 02:12 PM | Reply | Flag:

Bubba is correct on the facts, as usual.

Thanks, K.

Posted by Corky at 2008-01-08 02:56 PM | Reply | Flag:

Gotta say, much as I like the guy, CNN was pretty pathetic in trying hard not to call NH for Hillary last night. Before I went over to A Daily Show, they were explaining something about a legendary city of 50,000 blacks up in the hills which hadn't reported in yet.

Posted by northguy3 at 2008-01-09 11:22 AM | Reply | Flag:

Northguy

Primaries: Brokaw's Novel Idea' For The Media

Tom Brokaw, somewhat of an elder statesmen of television news, may have said it best on MSNBC around 11 p.m. As Mr. Olbermann's co-anchor Chris Matthews commented on faulty New Hampshire polls, Mr. Brokaw pointed to a larger fault shared by media organizations, suggesting that journalists should "temper that temptation to constantly try to get ahead of what the voters are deciding:"

MATTHEWS: We're going to have to go back and figure out the methodology, I think, on some of these.
BROKAW: You know what I think we're going to have to go back and do? Wait for the voters to make their judgment.
MATTHEWS: What do we do then in the days before balloting
BROKAW: What a novel idea
MATTHEWS: We must stay home then I guess.
BROKAW: No, no, we don't stay home. There are reasons to analyze what they're saying. We know from how the people voted today what moved them to vote. We can take a look at that. There are a lot of issues that had not been fully explored in all this.
But we don't have to get in the business of making judgments before the polls have closed and trying to stampede and affect the process.
Look, I'm not picking just on us. It's part of the culture in which we live these days.
But I think the people out there are going to begin to make some judgments about us, if they haven't already, if we don't begin to temper that temptation to constantly try to get ahead of what the voters are deciding, in many cases as we learned in New Hampshire, as they went into the polling place today or in the past three days. They were making decisions very late.

tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com

NH'ers in particular don't like the media deciding who their Presidential candidates are going to be.

Posted by Corky at 2008-01-09 12:29 PM | Reply | Flag:

Corky-wrong polls or not, when Hillary was consistently 4-5000 votes ahead for an hour, it was time to call it.
Sad part is, now we've got how many weeks coverage of the amazing resurrections of Hillary and McCain't.

Posted by northguy3 at 2008-01-09 05:54 PM | Reply | Flag: