The Obama campaign has for months pursued the odd strategy of having the junior senator from Illinois act as if he were already kinda-sorta president of the United States. In June, it tried sticking a quasi-presidential seal on his lectern. In July, Obama conducted what seemed like official state visits with foreign leaders and delivered something like a “prenaugural” address in Berlin, inviting comparisons to JFK and Reagan.
...Now fate has given Obama a chance to be presidential rather than pretend.
Wasn't that Clinton's lament? That fate denied him a "9/11 moment" so that he could have acted more Presidential and stuff?
...So for an international crisis, Obama puts away the soaring rhetoric and hides behind a statement we might expect from any State Department functionary. But that’s not to say he didn’t make it to the cameras. The next day he headlined a rally celebrating his vacation in Hawaii. He promised “to go body surfing at some undisclosed location.”
(Shades of John Kerry!)
...Yet this moment calls for more than playacting, and Obama looks lost without a presidential script.
Or someone else's paper to copy from!
...Perhaps this isn’t a time for a novice spouting grand rhetoric about a new page in history, but for someone who’s actually read the pages of some old but still relevant books. Perhaps this is not the time for playacting.
Perhaps it is not the time for body surfing.
Barack Obama: The first
Cross Posted at Say Anything
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