Picture of the Day - 2
Image control.
A few weeks ago I wrote a post complimenting how agile the Obama campaign had been at managing the pictures of him. Pictures of his family laughing and loving, pictures of Obama in front of huge raucous rallies, closeups of Obama meeting with starstruck supporters.... A real feel of likability and populism.
Now there's this disaster.
There were better pictures from the door to door event, but this is the one that is being posted with all the Obama and Clinton articles right now because it seems to echo a broader conventional wisdom. With Clinton's "inevitability" growing, and the polls trending her way, this image of a frustrated Obama "locked out" is an image control disaster because it echoes a broader sense of a campaign that has stalled.
(Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., waits patiently for someone to answer the door during a neighborhood canvas in Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, Oct. 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Kevin Sanders))
Oh, and this is pretty disgusting. "What is it about South Carolina and ugly whisper campaigns?"
posted by mikevotes at
9:03 AM
4 Comments:
Just watched the Tweety Bird Matthews show and the conventional wisdom savants bashed Clinton for the entire 22 minutes. If The Matthews Show was the only "news" source I watched, I would think HRC was getting trounced and running the worst campaign ever. Not that they had anything nice to say about Obama either.
Maybe they like Rudy.
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Reality-Based Educator, at 9:29 AM
You know they secretly do. He's got that nice fascist edge and a wonderful "man musk."
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mikevotes, at 2:22 PM
The South. I just don't get it.
I admit I don't speak from personal knowledge, but it seems there's a very dark, ugly, angry, hateful sinew that still lies beneath the surface of the south. It may not be part of the every day social fabric. But it's there to be tapped -- successfully -- by those appealing to our darker natures.
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-epm, at 9:29 PM
Isn't that story just awful?
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mikevotes, at 9:51 PM
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