Comments on: Obama Overexposed?

By: Navin

Navin — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:09:05 +0000

I must admit I'm starting to feel like I'm getting Obamassaulted. In particular, his voice has begun to bug me a little: the way he ends of sentences with unresolved, raised voice inflections, which used to strike me as nostalgic, now just sounds affected. I think the danger of overexposure is real. Now that the primary race is over, I don't want to hear about it, or anyone who was involved with it, for a couple months. And yet Obama's face is being plastered across the screen a half-dozen times a day. Enough already. The real problem, I think, is that Obama may no longer be in control of his own media exposure anymore. I'm not sure the current flood of stories about why he loves his wife and what his last dump smelled like are in his power to stop. I'm not even sure they're in Oprah's power to stop.

By: Triumph

Triumph — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:04:43 +0000

Listen, Obama is a Liberal so of course he's overexposed.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:53:18 +0000

Truth, after all, is whatever Democrats say it is.

And Democrats are whatever you say they are. Sure makes it easier to disagree with us them way, doesn't it?

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:51:47 +0000

Everybody hates negative ads too, but the fact is they work. If running more ads gets Obama more votes (or McCain less votes), then Obama will run them regardless of whether people like watching them or not.

By: Hal

Hal — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:12:00 +0000

The whole "I know you are but what are you" really is childish. But I guess it's all you've got so I should be charitable.

By: Bithead

Bithead — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:00:22 +0000

Well, I do.
You are, after all.... what was the phrase?... Ah, yes... Endlessly amusing.

By: Hal

Hal — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:44:04 +0000

Laugh while you can, monkey boy.

By: Bithead

Bithead — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:38:31 +0000

Don't forget, some of Obama's biggest defeats in the primaries were in states that he out spent Hillary by 10 to 1

I know, but I'm being kind. I've found that hittng them with too many supporting facts tends to confuse them.

Yes, Bithead. We're the nihilists.

Ah, yes, Err America as a source for this and Suskind as a source for anything whatever. It's a good thing you don't really exist. {/snark]

By: Hal

Hal — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:13:33 +0000

Suskind: He says, you know, "You, Suskind, you're in what we call the 'reality-based community'" -- that's actually the term he used. I said, "The WHAT?" He says, "The 'reality-based community'.". He said, "you all believe" -- now let me see if I can get this right -- "You all believe that answers to solutions will emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I said, "Yeah... YEAH, OF COURSE..." He says, "Well, let me tell you how we really see it. You see, we're an empire now. And when we act, we kinda create a reality. Events flow from our actions. And because of that, what we do is... essentially... we act, and every time we act we create a whole new set of laws of physics, which you then judiciously study for your solutions, and while you're doing that we'll act again, promulgate a whole other set." Janine Garofolo: "So you throw a rock in the pond, and the ripples go out..." Suskind: And this guy said, "and that's where we'll stand ultimately; you'll study us, and we'll act. We'll be the actors, and you will study what we do. And if you're really good -- on good behavior -- maybe thirty years from now one of us will visit that graduate seminar you'll be teaching at Dartmouth in your tweed blazer." That's the thinking.

Yes, Bithead. We're the nihilists.

By: yetanotherjohn

yetanotherjohn — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:08:12 +0000

Don't forget, some of Obama's biggest defeats in the primaries were in states that he out spent Hillary by 10 to 1. Maybe part of that was the face of Obama starring at people from everywhere. Obama started to slide in the primaries when the presses fawning had gotten so bad, even SNL did a skit on it. He became the punch line to the joke. Buy enough media exposure and he can recreate that moment again. And then the more exposure, the more he becomes a joke.

By: Bithead

Bithead — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:56:26 +0000

well, let's look at the word.

an extreme form of skepticism: the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth.

Truth, after all, is whatever Democrats say it is.

Rejection of all distinctions in moral or religious value and a willingness to repudiate all previous theories of morality or religious belief.

Well, yeah... that works too.

The belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions is necessary for future improvement.

uh... Yeah, that's Democrats. Gotta tear down traaditional America to 'improve it'. I don't deny that the word has other connotations. But these certainly apply to the left, today.

By: Hal

Hal — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:39:56 +0000

Show me the polling data on "nihilism". I mean, we both know from 100% of the past conversations on this that you won't bother to do so, but I'll keep asking. Geebus. Nihilism? Yea, I'm sure that's a phrase that's completely associated with MoveOn and the democratic party. roflmao.

By: Bithead

Bithead — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:27:22 +0000

So, we're to discount the polling data on the subject, then, Hal?

Based on.... well.... what, exactly?

By: Hal

Hal — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:22:22 +0000

All for one and one for all strikes me as a losing combo when you're talking to what amounts to a group dedicated to nihlism. You really are a treasure. it's going to be a personal pleasure to see all your bizarro assertions and conspiracy fantasies shattered as we move to Nov 8. Really, it's going to be a pleasure to see.

By: Bithead

Bithead — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:39:07 +0000

Which, I should add, would seem to play into James' point about "she’d be less angry if it were Hillary Clinton’s shining face in all those places instead"