Sep 05 2008
Obama Realizes Too Late The Importance Of Women
I have been admiring McCain’s political chess game with Obama over the past few weeks. He has Barack running in circles and goads him in one direction while blocking off another, it is masterful. Remember all the rumors of a big McCain ad coming out on the day of Obama’s speech and all the angst and anger from the left on how McCain was trying to upstage Obama? What happened was a warm congratulations to Obama issued so late in the day – but early enough to get played constantly before Obama’s speech – that Obama couldn’t take the red meat from his speech (which was stabilized days before). It was a perfectly timed gotcha wrapped in velvet.
On the Palin role out certain aspects of her life were not expressly trotted out to the media vultures. I am fairly certain McCain knew the press had two options when the open secrets about Bristol Palin and her fiancee: they could either treat it with respect or go to the gutter. Either way it would play into McCain’s side. And now look at how Obama seems to be trying to upstage McCain with his wimpy O’Reilly appearance (apparently the questions were know ahead of time so Obama could ‘practice’ and study up).
People seem to think the Palin pick was recent. I think McCain laid this plan out weeks and months ago like the chessman he is. For example, McCain’s speech was about putting the people, the voters over party. That concept trumps a hell of a lot of normal political arguments.Â
For example, the Obama campaign is too late realizing the importance of the women’s vote. He should have picked Hillary with all the challenges. We see in McCain and happy warrior glad to be upstaged by his female lieutenant. Obama’s ego was unable to accept. Now Obama has belatedly asked Hillary and Democrat women to come rescue him from his big mistake:
Senator Barack Obama will increasingly lean on prominent Democratic women to undercut Gov. Sarah Palin and Senator John McCain, dispatching Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to Florida on Monday and bolstering his plan to deploy female surrogates to battleground states, Obama advisers said Thursday.
Mrs. Clinton’s campaign event in Florida, her first for Mr. Obama since the Democratic convention, will serve as a counterpoint to the searing attacks and fresh burst of energy that Ms. Palin injected into the race with her convention speech on Wednesday, Obama aides said.
All the left has said regarding Palin is women must lose this opportunity to break the glass ceiling because they need to vote party first. Palin is not the answer to this country’s centuries long challenge to become the place for true equal opportunity. But that is the opposite of what Americans want out of Washington – as McCain so artfully reminded us last night. McCain knew Palin would neutralize Hillary in the worst case, and cripple Obama in the best case if he did decide to go with some safe male VP selection.
The Chessmaster had these moves set out a while back I think. Either that or he is the luckiest man on the planet. I also just don’t see Democrats deploying women as nothing more than an open propaganda move. And I wonder why women would put much effort or energy in it in the first place. I have said it before, but the two track system for men and women really bugs me. Strong women does not equate to weak men (unless your a Taliban nutcase). In fact, I dare say men who can’t deal with strong women in their lives rarely have that problem thrust on them.
I fail to see why most apolitical women just don’t look at Obama and the Dems and say “had your chance – muffed it” and rally behind McCain-Palin?
I don’t think O’Reilley should have run an interview with Obama on McCain’s night. He could have waited a day. I watched C-Span to avoid it.
Terrye… Do not forget O’Reilly has TV ratings to go for… and the convention allowed him a great opportunity to tease us with the interview and get extra ratings next week when the rest of it airs.
He didn’t really step on the Repub convention… it was a short segment and effective. Even MSNBC noted it.
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Aj… I posted re the Palin pick which compliments your observations at http://fuanglada.wordpress.com/
♥ The Timid man ♥
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Teaser: … “When Obama refused Hillary, the old guy went for the juglar as a warrior will always do… and chose a pit bull with lipstick”…
I was hoping for a rerun.
Anyone watch Glenn Beck last night? It was an effective move on Glenn’s part by interviewing Stephen Moore, Jonah Goldberg, and David Fredoso (there’s one more guy but don’t have his name) to talk about Obama and his ideology.
Yes, Lurker, I saw it and it was great. ( I refused to watch o’reilly)
This is a question for this election:
Are we a nation that cares more about how our leaders sound or how they stand?
boy, who could ever have guessed that a career military man, son and grandson of Admirals, could possibly have been so good at strategy? I mean, who saw that coming? (heh)
And I agree with you, AJ – sending Hillary to Florida to say “women, vote for Obama even though he treated me like crap” is hardly likely to be very effective. I imagine Hillary will do a nice job of going through the motions but still, at this stage of the game surrogates aren’t going to do much for either side.
And this brings up one of the HUGE advantages of the Palin pick. McCain and Palin now have two electrifying campaigners that can work crowds and states daily for the next 2 months. Yes, they start off together, but they will split up soon and you can be sure Palin will spend most of her time in battleground states. Obama only has himself – who is going to get fired up by Slow Joe Biden anywhere? What demographic segment, what battleground state, is going to be enthused by the man who got less votes in the Presidential primary than Sarah Palin got when she ran for mayor of Wasilla?
Anyone out there think Hillary is doing this out of the goodness of her heart, out of loyalty, out of belief…
Nah, watch the news. Me thinks her $20 million debt has been/will be paid promptly now. No more fundraisers. Just a simple payoff. Like all the talking head demanded.
So, Liberals, do you enjoy donating to the Obama Campaign to pay Hillary’s campaign debt? Just wondering.
My intuition was that Michelle Obama would never let Hillary on the ticket. But for sure it would have been a winner. Those who would be uncomfortable with Obama would vote for the ticket anyway with Hillary on it.
McCain must have been looking for a woman for a long time, thinking that Hillary might win. When Obama won and didn’t put Hillary on the ticket it was a no brainer I’m thinking. Anyway he found a good one, a really bright spot in an otherwise very bad election for republicans. If this ticket has coat tails, the dems better rethink their big victory in Nov. and get to work on our many problems instead of waiting for the landslide.