Media's Obamagasms and Mile High Club
By Ken Shepherd | July 23, 2008
Check out the promotional ad for Lynn Sweet's reporting from Obama's Mideast tour, as captured from the Chicago Sun-Times Web page today. The caption reads "Lynn Sweet Aboard O-Force One! Get up-to-the-minute updates from Barack Obama's World Tour."
With the media's history of Obamagasms, wouldn't the Mile High Club be a better comparison to draw?
By Kyle Drennen | July 23, 2008
In a interview with Louisiana’s Republican governor, Bobby Jindal, on Wednesday’s CBS "Early Show," co-host Harry Smith asked: "...you have been an advocate for Senator McCain. He's committed a number of verbal gaffes over the last couple of weeks and the last couple of months. What does that tell you? Are they just mis-speaking -- is he just mis-speaking, or is it -- read something more?"
Smith asked no such question about Barack Obama being wrong about the success of the troop surge, but Jindal pointed out that fact in his reply:
Well look, there's no doubt that Senator Obama is a gifted speaker. But who has taken the right positions. For example, I thought it was an excellent interview with Katie Couric and Senator Obama had a great chance to say he was just wrong on the surge. Senator McCain was right, even before the administration had agreed to this. Senator McCain rightfully saw that the surge would help to produce the kinds of security gains that are allowing us now to begin to withdraw troops, maybe even more aggressively than was thought possible a few months ago. So, to me, certainly, I want to say that Senator Obama is a great speaker, but I think on getting these core positions right--Senator McCain was right about the surge.
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