From the Politico, “Obama Preps in Solitude for Speech” by Carrie Budoff Brown Behold! The most egregious Obama puff piece of the day! As you read, you’ll almost hear echoes of Ms. Budoff Brown chanting “O-ba-ma!” while she worked the keyboard.
First off, remember what I said a while ago about Obama donors demanding a refund? Here’s what your money, dear Obama donor, is going towards – Obama’s mansion isn’t sufficiently comfortable for him, so you have to put him up in a luxury hotel a few miles away so he can properly think. On a more substantive note, Obama’s concluding quote reveals how he has painted himself into a corner. He excels at the vague stem-winders that rev up the audience. But stung by the celebrity charge, he knows he has to offer more substance. Yet if he does an updated version of Bill Clinton endlessly prattling on about midnight basketball, he’ll disappoint even his most devoted acolytes. (Okay, his most devoted acolytes will never find him disappointing, but you get my drift.) So what does Obama do? He’s talking about making a “yeoman-like” case for his presidency, which sounds like he intends to show more seriousness and specificity than he typically does at these big addresses. And yet he long ago committed to delivering this yeoman-like speech in a 75,000 seat football stadium and just committed to having Jon Bon Jovi precede him on the stage and Bruce Springsteen follow him. I love Jersey rock as much as the next guy, but this presentation doesn’t bespeak great seriousness. The Obama campaign realizes its old narrative of hope/change/new politics has grown stale. But it apparently doesn’t quite know how to put it out to pasture.
