(Community Matters) His column in today’s NYT here. Some excerpts:
What Obama also should have learned by now is that the press is not his friend. Of course, he gets more ink and airtime than McCain; he’s sexier news. But as George Mason University’s Center for Media and Public Affairs documented in its study of six weeks of TV news coverage 28% was positive, 72% negative. (For McCain, the split was 43/57)
Asked in last week’s NYT/CBS News poll if each candidate shares their values, registered voters gave Obama and McCain an identical 63%. Asked if each candidate “cares about the needs and problems of people like yourself,” Obama beat McCain by 37 to 23 percent. Is the candidate “someone you can relate to”? Obama 55%, McCain: 41%.
Most Americans, unlike the press, are not obsessed by race. (Those whites who are obsessed by race will not vote for Obama no matter what he or anyone else has to say about it.)
Pacifistic politics is an oxymoron, and Obama is constitutionally incapable of coming off angrier than McCain.
Is a man who is just discovering the Internet qualified to lead a restoration of America’s economic and educational infrastructure? Is the leader of a virtually all-white political party America’s best salesman and moral avatar in the age of globalization?
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