Tammy Bruce: Obama Camp Suffering from Deweyitis

Obama Camp Suffering from Deweyitis

When a reporter has to remind a cap flack that your guy isn't the president, it's time to check with the Dewey Presidential Library when it comes to certain rhetoric.

Obama tries to dial down politics

AMMAN, Jordan – Democrat Barack Obama’s entire traveling campaign apparatus is in place. He will speak Thursday at an historic site in Berlin that could draw tens of thousands of spectators. And chief campaign strategist David Axelrod might even assemble film crews to gather footage of it, possibly for a TV commercial...

At a morning background briefing, reporters parried with senior advisers on the characterization of Obama’s speech Thursday in Berlin as a campaign rally. The outdoor speech at the Victory Column could draw thousands of people, similar to the size of Obama events in the United States.

“It is not going to be a political speech,” said a senior foreign policy adviser, who spoke to reporters on background. “When the president of the United States goes and gives a speech, it is not a political speech or a political rally.

“But he is not president of the United States,” a reporter reminded the adviser.

“He is going to talk about the issues as an individual … not as a candidate, but as an individual, as a senator,” the adviser added...Aides suggested the speech would not target Republican John McCain, but might draw contrasts with President Bush’s policies...

More of the same from the candidate of "change." Well, I suppose the biggest change of all is becoming president without waiting for the election.

Posted by Tammy · July 23, 2008 12:55 PM · Permalink
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I have never seen such an "assumption" as opposed to ascention to the presidency in my life. The media swoons over this guy, and forgives any gaff. The media coverage is like love sick teens swooning over the Beatles in the '60s or (yikes) the early days of Hitler's mesmerization of masses of Germans who at that point were also looking for "hope" and "change" not knowing what was to come. I'm NOT comparing OBE-WAN-OBAMA to the facist Hitler at all, I'm comparing the sicophantic adoration of every empty word and phrase by the media, and his deciples. I'm starting to get very nervous.

Posted by: mrfixit at July 23, 2008 02:20 PM

Me too, MRFIXIT. Me too.

Posted by: jdb at July 23, 2008 03:51 PM

Somebody needs to tell him he isn't a member of the Senate Banking Committee either.

Obama incorrectly claims membership of Senate committee

“Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee - which is my committee - a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon,” Obama said at a press conference in Sderot, Israel.

Later his campaign said he meant it was his bill. He was tired. In fact, it was not his bill. It is the Dodd-Shelby Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act of 2008 which contains some provisions of a bill submitted by Obama last year.

I can understand why he thinks he's President (at the very least) based on how he's treated. I can also understand why he doesn't know what his job is in the Senate. Was he ever there long enough to find out where the bathroom is?

Let's not forget the question was prompted by Obama's remarks to AIPAC about an undivided Jerusalem followed 24 hours later by a clarification that it was up to the parties involved followed yet again a month later by his regret for "poor phrasing". He says he actually meant he didn't want to see barbed wire running through the city.

This guy is voice and a tan. McCain can't you handle this?

Posted by: pat_s at July 23, 2008 06:47 PM

BHO is already POTUS? Well then, I do support a Change.

Posted by: ashleymatt at July 23, 2008 09:05 PM

Harry had something BHO doesn't personal integrity and consistency. You may not agreed with Harry, but you always knew where he stood.

Posted by: STOICCAT at July 25, 2008 08:23 AM

President Dewey Obama!

Won everything, except that pesky little thing proscribed in the U.S. constitution: THE ELECTION!

Oooops.

Posted by: Jack Bauer at July 26, 2008 02:36 AM