March 30, 2008...11:44 am

Where’s Obama?

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For the past couple of weeks, I have kept in my edit buffer a concern/complaint about the small amount of campaigning Barack Obama has done in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.   Bill “the lech” Clinton has done more campaigning in this state than Obama has done (I am unimpressed with Dickinson’s female law students breathlessly commenting on WJC’s “sexiness”).

Yes, Obama more than sold out his appearances today in State College and Harrisburg (The Forum will utilize overflow areas to accommodate the crowd), and for his appearance tomorrow in Lancaster, but he has done comparatively little campaigning in this state.  None of Obama’s campaigning has been of the street-level variety which has helped him win states which were initially projected to go into Hillary Clinton’s win column.

Has Obama given up on winning Pennsylvania?  Is Obama going to allow the pollsters to decide?

 Here is what I wrote about the situation on Cooper’s site this morning: 

“Some of Obama’s people are starting to remind me of HRC’s people: arrogant to the point of being beyond smarmy. That is NOT the way to run a campaign.

Obama is doing his first real bit of stumping in PA this weekend. But it’s only in 2000+ people forums. The ones scheduled for State College and Harrisburg today cannot handle the people who want to listen to him speak.Some of his paid organizers are doing next to nothing. There are many of us who spend more time wondering what the heck is going on then we do on campaign work. No guidance, no literature, no yard signs, no nothing.It’s really starting to piss me off.Obama can win this state. Many of the people who registered to vote or who changed their registrations voiced their intent to vote for Obama. But I now wonder whether they will cast their ballot for the other candidate due to his absence in this state.If he loses PA, then he’s got no one to blame but himself and whoever is making campaign decisions on his behalf.

Obama needs to get off his ass and start campaigning in this state. He can win here. If he wins, Hillary will have to drop out. Period.

If he continues not campaigning, he might as well hang it up.“

If you want to read more about Pennsylvanian’s concerns, follow the link on Cooper’s site to the politico.com articles.

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Filed under Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Election 2008, Harrisburg, Hillary Clinton, Lancaster, State College, pennsylvania, politics

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  • oceallaigh
    March 30, 2008 at 1:34 pm

    One of the principal true criteria for the Presidency is the ability to manage. I have not been following the campaign closely because (a) I have become disillusioned with all the candidates, and (b) I would, in a heartbeat, enact a rule that prohibits all campaigning for any office until 90 days before the election for that office. Among other things, that might actually keep three of this nation’s elected Senators working for the people who elected them, on (to name one) the national budget. (You will recall that it was a major news item, a month or so ago, when Clinton, McCain, and Obama actually showed up on the Senate floor to vote on a measure.)

    Still, Obama’s recent behavior is disheartening. Has he no answer to Summers, and fears being publicly questioned about Summers’s charges? Has he no answer to the charge that his campaign is all sound and fury, signifying nothing? Has he no ability to attract the non-vacuous to his banner? Is there a Democratic Cheney in the wings somewhere, to whose tune Obama is dancing (so that HRC’s Bushist strategy to buy the election in advance will work)?

    Heirs to the throne of Hawai‘i still live, and argue for the restoration of the throne. Maybe that throne should be reestablished, and the monarch be named Absolute Ruler of these United States. I no longer think We the People are fit for self-government.

  • sauer kraut
    March 30, 2008 at 4:05 pm

    Keep yer chin up, old boy. Once gw leaves office, funding for the sciences is sure to go up. Can’t get any lower now, can it?

    My tweener wants you to post more pictures of farting flowers. :-)

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