After all, hide it is what they have been doing as he has collectively committed more gaffes and stumbles than any presidential candidate in the modern media era that are enumerated in the Bozell commentary below.
So much so that he has now been coined a "one man gaffe machine" by ABC's Jake Tapper, a blogger and political reporter who is certainly no right wing conspirator you can bet, but even he has had to take notice as hopefully the rest of the country will realize this campaign is one running adlib fest.
A campaign filled with mostly empty promises and lofty platitudes that have no bearing or relation to what he has actually accomplished in the political arena, of which he has only been a part of in Washington for barely 2 years. Two years he has spent running for president by the way, not writing and voting on legislation and representing the people of Illinois, which he was sent there to do in the first place.
Barack Potatoe Obama?
Bozell's News Column -- 05/28/2008 -- -- Media Research Center: "Imagine that John McCain named a young running mate to campaign with him, and this national rookie suggested America had 58 states, repeatedly used the wrong names for the cities he was visiting, and honored a Memorial Day crowd by acknowledging the “fallen heroes” who were present, somehow alive and standing in the audience. How long would it take for the national media to see another Dan Quayle caricature? Let’s raise the stakes. What if it was the GOP presidential candidate making these thoroughly ridiculous comments? This scenario is very real, except it isn’t McCain. It’s the other fellow.
ABC reporter Jake Tapper follows politicians around for a living. On his blog, he suggested Barack Obama has a problem: “The man has been a one-man gaffe machine.”
Just in the last few days, in Sunrise, Florida, Obama said, “How's it going, Sunshine?” He did the same thing in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, calling it “Sioux City.” Some of his geographic struggles seem calculated. When asked why Hillary Clinton trounced him in Kentucky, Obama claimed “I'm not very well known in that part of the country...Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas.
So it's not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle.” But Obama’s home state of Illinois is more than “near” Kentucky – it borders Kentucky.
In Oregon, there was a doozy. Obama said of his long campaign, “I’ve been in fifty-seven states, I think, one left to go.” No one in the press made much of this. As former ABC political reporter Marc Ambinder, now with the Atlantic Monthly magazine, admitted: “But if John McCain did this — if he mistakenly said he’d visited 57 states — the media would be all up in his grill, accusing him of a senior moment.” If you doubt him, remember how most media outlets noted, then underlined McCain’s error about al-Qaeda being trained and funded by Iran. continued here
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