As much as I agree that Obama's comments were elitist and a great fallacy of his campaign, I also think that media is taking the wrong spin on this issue. I have a hard time believing that everything a candidate says on a campaign trail is a direct indication of what he thinks or how he relates to an issue. Rather, most of the candidate’s positions and speeches reflect what his or her particular audience wants to hear. However, some candidates manage to maintain their own identity and stay firmly on the positions they believe in even though they are unpopular. Barack Obama, unfortunately, is not one of them (even though he is constantly praising his vote against the war when everyone voted for it). His comments at the San Francisco fund raiser attended by the millionaires is just another proof that he will tell whatever he thinks the public wants to hear. The way he referred to the rural people of
His campaign’s earlier slip with NAFTA comments in
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I agree that Obama caters his message to the crowd that he is delivering it to, but I think that is a common tactic that politicians use, a least to a small degree. I don't think that there are many politicians who do otherwise because it is an effective approach for gathering support, especially in a primary. Hopefully, his stories have not contradict too much because he wont want to run into problems later on. But all in all, this speaks to the fact that Obama is a regular politican, not the huge catalyst of change he claims to be. Like many politicians, he is a "crowd pleaser."
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