Obama Gets Out To See An America He Missed |
This isn’t Romney related obviously, but it irked me so much that I had to post it…
This comes from MSNBC via The New York Times.
Click the link, but here are a few highlights:
BUTTE, Mont. - Senator Barack Obama marveled at the view here in Big Sky Country. He discovered that the gumbo in New Orleans was far tastier than in Chicago. And he was pleasantly surprised that he loved Austin, Tex., and its music — but who doesn’t?
The presidential campaign has not only given the country a chance to meet Mr. Obama. It has also given Mr. Obama a chance to meet the country, taking him to large swaths of the United States that he has never seen before.
Since his political rise began less than four years ago, he has visited New Orleans, toured parts of the Great Plains and traveled across the South — all for the first time. He made a nighttime stop to Mount Rushmore, paid his respects at the grave of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and dropped by the home of President Harry S. Truman.
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Having grown up in Hawaii and Indonesia and spending much of his adult life in large cities, Mr. Obama, 46, is now acquainting himself more deeply with his country and finds himself unusually surprised by some of his findings.
“A place that I’ve come to love, which I did not expect until this campaign, is Texas,” he said in an interview the other day aboard his campaign plane, a patchwork of the countryside passing below him. “I ended up loving Texas! I’ve been struck by how many beautiful places there are in the country that you don’t necessarily think of as beautiful. Pittsburgh, for example, is a really handsome town with the rivers and the hills.”
I find it really funny that he’s been so stereotypical about his “own” country. I mean if it were me, I’d be embarrassed to make comments as shallow as those about his “own” country. It reeks about as badly as Michelle’s comment that she’d never been proud of her country until that moment in time.
Most presidential nominees have been on the national stage for years or even decades, traveling the country raising money and building a network for themselves and others.
Over the course of a long career in politics, as well as his service in the Navy, Senator John McCain, Mr. Obama’s Republican rival, has seen much of the country. He was born in the Panama Canal Zone, but he lived in many places growing up, following his father’s military career from Virginia to California and several other states. Mr. McCain has traveled to 42 states since his presidential campaign began last year.
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Still, local newspapers have picked up on a handful of his on-location gaffes, which then are telegraphed to a wider audience by the Republican National Committee.
In May, when Mr. Obama arrived for a rally in South Dakota’s largest city, he declared: “Thank you, Sioux City!” That city, of course, is in Iowa. He was standing in Sioux Falls.
A week later, he greeted the crowd in a large arena in South Florida with, “How’s it going, Sunshine?” A few minutes later, he added, “It’s good to be in Sunshine!” Actually, he was in Sunrise, Fla.
It appears that he is trying really hard to be one of us. It reveals a great amount of insecurity to me. I don’t believe that a candidate running for President should need to have to try. I believe that it should come naturally.
As I said on my Facebook page (that I shared the link to this story to):
I just don’t see how this guy has the experience to be President. He knows so little about our country. I just see him as a person so far over his head that it’d be a disaster to elect him President.
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Tags: America, Barack Obama, Campaigning, Traveling