Talking about Obama’s Executive “Experience” and his “stinky” plane…
October 8, 2008 by PUMA Pundit
Correct me if I am mistaken, but Obama’s claim to having great executive experience is the fact that he runs a Presidential campaign.
Well, it seems CBS News’ Dean Reynolds who has covered Obama’s campaign, and now covers John McCain’s had the following interesting insights:
Obama’s campaign schedule is fuller, more hectic and seemingly improvisational. The Obama aides who deal with the national reporters on the campaign plane are often overwhelmed, overworked and un-informed about where, when, why or how the candidate is moving about. Baggage calls are preposterously early with the explanation that it’s all for security reasons.
If so, I would love to have someone from Obama’s campaign explain why the entire press corps, the Secret Service, and the local police idled for two hours in a Miami hotel parking lot recently because there was nothing to do and nowhere to go. It was not an isolated case.
The national headquarters in Chicago airily dismisses complaints from journalists wondering why a schedule cannot be printed up or at least e-mailed in time to make coverage plans. Nor is there much sympathy for those of us who report for a newscast that airs in the early evening hours. Our shows place a premium on live reporting from the scene of campaign events. But this campaign can often be found in the air and flying around at the time the “CBS Evening News with Katie Couric” is broadcast. I suspect there is a feeling within the Obama campaign that the broadcast networks are less influential in the age of the internet and thus needn’t be accomodated as in the days of yore. Even if it’s true, they are only hurting themselves by dissing audiences that run in the tens of millions every night.
The McCain folks are more helpful and generally friendly. The schedules are printed on actual books you can hold in your hand, read, and then plan accordingly. The press aides are more knowledgeable and useful to us in the news media. The events are designed with a better eye, and for the simple needs of the press corps. When he is available, John McCain is friendly and loquacious. Obama holds news conferences, but seldom banters with the reporters who’ve been following him for thousands of miles around the country. Go figure.
The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama’s, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated.
The other day in Albuquerque, N.M., the reporters were given almost no time to file their reports after McCain spoke. It was an important, aggressive speech, lambasting Obama’s past associations. When we asked for more time to write up his remarks and prepare our reports, the campaign readily agreed to it. They understood.
Similar requests are often denied or ignored by the Obama campaign aides, apparently terrified that the candidate may have to wait 20 minutes to allow reporters to chronicle what he’s just said. It’s made all the more maddening when we are rushed to our buses only to sit and wait for 30 minutes or more because nobody seems to know when Obama is actually on the move.
Maybe none of this means much. Maybe a front-running campaign like Obama’s that is focused solely on victory doesn’t have the time to do the mundane things like print up schedules or attend to the needs of reporters.
But in politics, everything that goes around comes around.
There you have it folks. I wonder what this says about Obama’s executive ability. If this is how he intends to run the country, well, that’s another strike against him…
As to the point that his plane ”stinks“, that is exactly how I feel about him as a potential future President.
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Love it Puma Pundit - let’s call him “stinky” from now on.
Barrack “Stinky” Hussein Obama!
I notice that all the questions about Ayers and Dohrn are being answered by spokesmen; Does Ecru-man need the ability to deny?
badlybehaved - answer - YES!
And another glitch. Somebody has to be willing to actually ask the man a question. Maybe they need to reassign Dean Reynolds to Obama. Sounds like somebody might be in the mood to break the Teflon Wall around the Stealth Candidate.
IndieDogg - the only Teflon Wall Obama has is the MSM - they have lied and covered up for him since the beginning.
Morning folks: There is an article in the WSJ on the media bias, check it out. Sparky, Matt/JAO has questions. I’d love to see your answer.
Good Morning PUMA’s.
Badylybehaved, do you have the link?
thx
And is it just me, or is Campbell Brown annoying as shit????
If I post a link it will go into moderation; Just go to WSJ and then to opinion; title Media Backs Obama. There is an article in the American Spectator, also.
Sounds like a plan badly behaved. Yes, I saw Matt/JAO’s question…heh, heh.
boemery - Campbell Brown is so far up Obama’s poop shoot she can actually see through his eyes….
I saw the WSJ article, great! Should also look at Rove’s, it’s interesting.
Also, two of the favorite Browns players endorse McCain, which hopefully will help with Ohio.
Not over til Nov. 4 nidnight.!
As our dear Sparkalicious says: POUNCE POUNCE!
i laughed out loud when I read sparky’s comment about campbell brown. that was hilarious … well played sparky.
Nasty!
Heck - I burst out laughing at boemery’s comment! Meow-w-w-w-w!
Here I had no idea who Campbell Brown was…so I looked it up full name Alma Dale Campbell Brown got her start in Topeka where my Palinesque sister lives. Now tell me more about her.
She is an anchor on CNN who is desperate to make a big name for herself. She is firmly in t he Obama Camp. She has been outwardly nasty towards Sarah Palin.
CNN reported that Republican Nominee, John McCain canceled an interview with Larry King on Tuesday because of a heated interview with CNN’s Campbell Brown and McCain spokesman, Tucker Bounds.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer defended Campbell’s interview but only showed the second half of the interview questioning her Executive Experience. The first half of the interview about Palin’s daughters situation and questioning Palin’s choices as a mother was not shown. I have attached the interview in it’s entirety.
If Palin is asking for privacy for her daughter and both McCain and Obama believes the topic is out of bounds, why can’t the media outlets such as CNN stand down? At the very least, CNN should have shown the entire interview when explaining why McCain canceled his interview.
http://www.jasonbinder.com/2008/09/02/cnns-campbell-brown-out-of-line/
and her husband works for FOX; how fun.
Well, I am just loving the irony! Obama, “the media darling,” has apparently dissed his lovers, the MSM. I am amused, although not surprised. The “O” has used anyone who could “aid and abet” him in his rise to fame and power (Rev. Wright, Ayers, ACORN, etc.), but then he conveniently states that everyone was a “mere acquaintance,” that he didn’t “know” about their pasts, their values, or their destructive , corrupt ,or RACIST natures.
NOW, he doesn’t “know” or “want to know” his MSM buddies. Translation: He just doesn’t think he “needs” them anymore. Wake up, American voters, because the handwriting is on the wall. After you give this “man” your vote, he won’t need YOU anymore, either. In addition, he will be as AWOL for you as he is for the “free” press.
p.s. Do you think he knows that the plane stinks? Does he care?