More window dressing
Remember back in April when Obama campaign workers ordered “More white people, I need more white people” as backdrop for Michelle Obama’s speech? At the time, Ben Smith at Politico recounted;
The Tartan’s correspondents observed one event coordinator say to another, “Get me more white people, we need more white people.” To an Asian girl sitting in the back row, one coordinator said, “We’re moving you, sorry. It’s going to look so pretty, though.”
Well, the same principle is being applied at the Obama campaign in countering John McCain’s Vice presidential choice Sarah Palin, according to the Washington Post;
The Obama campaign is seeking to address a range of festering problems, including the candidate’s persistent underperformance among female voters, especially the older ones. It rolled out a women’s outreach effort Monday, led by scores of prominent female entrepreneurs, athletes and politicians, including former secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright, cosmetics entrepreneur Bobbi Brown and Yahoo! Inc. President Sue Decker.
The women will act as surrogates for Obama, advocating his support for issues such as equal pay, expansion of family leave and reduction of health care costs. Prominent women also are flooding the airwaves on Obama’s behalf, including Sen. Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Govs. Janet Napolitano of Arizona and Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.), a former Hillary Rodham Clinton backer.
Holy mackeral! It’ll take all of those women, all of that horsepower, “acting as surrogates” to negate the effect of one little working Mom, who, according to Democrats, is from one backwater state and had no foreign policy credientials, no experience? I guess that highlights the danger of playing identity politics, doesn’t it?
You’d think Obama would try to address the problem that he’s bleeding female voters by changing his policies (didn’t women put President Bush in office twice?) instead of trying to manipulate the electorate with window dressing. If he’s losing women, it’s because they don’t trust him….so why does he think he can cover up his shortcomings with “surrogates”? How gullible does he think women are?
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Politics
