Obama plays blame game

Ok Sasha, it is clear you an Hillary supporter- but to totally tant the situation to defame Obama is disappointing. Why is it blame, was Hillary playing the Blame Game when her campaign coordinators issued the false emails about Obama being a muslim? Was Hillary playing the Blame Game when her campaign planted the college student to ask her questions? Was Hillary playing the Blame Game when she attacked Obama on his Kindergarden essay? (Oh, sorry that was suppose to be a joke, right?) Please!!! maybe you're happy with the way politics has been in Washington in the recent past (Including Bill's run), but many of us are not. You should be ashamed of yourself for viewing the world so limited that you would be willing to do anything (including smear an honest man) to keep it that way.

I am reposting my response to this same point from the First Read blog on MSNBC. (Is it coincidental that so many reporters had the same thought on the same day? I think not.)

"How is the statement "I did not fill out the form" equivalent to throwing a staffer under the bus? Is Senator Clinton throwing her staff under the bus when she doesn't know about all the email slurs that her campaing staff is forwarding (3 staffers involved and counting), and she doesn't know about the questions they are planting that she just so happens to have the answers to?

How is the discovery of a questionaire outlining your positions 10 years ago "adversity"? I suspect his positions have not changed enough to warrant a news story, but on the off chance that the have, is that a problem? Every candidate for both parties have changed their positions - some drastically (pro-choice to pro-life, for NAFTA to NAFTA's bad, etc.). After 8 years of George Bush never changing his mind, evidence to the contrary be damned, I'll take an evolution of thought from time to time when the facts warrant it. "

I find Hillary's characterization of Obama as too liberal to be the most humurous aspect of this questionnaire news-byte. Since when is liberalism a bad thing? And so what if this questionnaire supports a single-payer system and banning guns? It was filled out 11 years ago! Those are laudable aspirations for any politician and those views were probably not that rare in the pre-Hillarycare-debacle era. Finally, Obama was state legislator at the time; one would expect his views to change as he is now answers to the national demographic, not just the state one.

Ms. Issenberg, your post comes off as a desperate attempt to malign Senator Obama. Campaign scheduling and its collateral damage is the state of politics in this country. Hillary, fortunately, does not have as much of a problem with this as Senator Obama because the bulk of her donors are big-ticket donors. Senator Obama, on the other hand, gets more than half of his campaign money through small donations and thus needs to be in many more places at once. I'll let you be the judge of how this reflects on the candidates.

Sasha is voting Clinton and probably dredging through Obama's school essays.

VOTE OBAMA.

Obama, as much as I like him, REALISTICALLY doesn't have a shot nationwide. That's why Oprah's trying to push him forward, so soon in the election. I think Hillary is another Bush, all over again, with a bad perm.

Obama is the MAN we need for President, and do you think that Hillary would admit to her "experimental" times at Wellesley College? If we all heard, the real truth about Hillary, it would make what Obama did, look like Carlton, from The Fresh Price of Bellair. If the RED states, would just wake up, and throw away the fact that he's African American, (sort of) this country would be so much better off, not only domestically, but internationally speaking as well. The bottom line, is foreign leaders, from other countries simply do not want to discuss anything of a huge significance with a female. Ms. Rice is the perfect example, of this. I'm not saying its right by all means, but its the reality in which we all live. Now, if we as Americans, would like to take back of lives, from the Republicans, which widen our gap between the rich and poor in the last 4 years, more than anytime in history we need Obama. It's pretty ironic too, because we need Obama, but we're looking for Osama. Oh, and by the way, Iraq, is the exact location of Babylon, which is discussed in almost every religous text, known to man. Bush isn't much of a history buff, and it shows, in Iraq. How many people were killed in Iraq the last two days? But, oh yeah we're making tons of progress, that's why when any politican tours Iraq, they have an entire convoy with them, while our female soliders are in the front lines. HELLO.

"Sasha is voting Clinton and probably dredging through Obama's school essays.
VOTE OBAMA."

Couldn't have said it better myself. You are not a journalist, Ms. Issenberg.

You should change the section title from "Political Intelligence" to "Political Misdirection".

This is not a post about Hillary. It is about Obama and whether or not he will take responsibility for the people that work for him. He is consistent in his 'pass the buck' methods. I doubt that will change once he gets in the white house.

This article was probably written mostly in late June, but it took the Obama Campaign nearly half a year to make another blunder.

I feel he should take responsibility if it was a paid employee that screwed up. But if, as president, Obama makes 3 mistakes of this calibur every year, I think we're going to be okay. Obama says plainly that he's not perfect, but he seeks to push the country in the right direction.

I live in Indiana which went 59/41 for Bush last time...Republicans are so discontent here, I think Obama could come close to winning a state like this, or at least putting it in play for 2012.

I find it hard to believe that anyone would pay Sasha a salary to write for them. Who is the Einstein doing the hiring at the Globe?

It is clear to me that she has not spent much time around a campaign otherwise she might know that the staff screws up from time to time (actually more like daily). They are tired and stressed and they make mistakes like the rest of us.

As to the notion that Obama can't win a national campaign. Please. Look at where he came from in a few months in Iowa and NH. People don't know who he is yet elsewhere. When they get to know him they will like him. He is the most genuine politician I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. Plus, I have talked to many, many independants and repubs that really like him. Go Obama! Let's change politics for the better.

I find it hard to believe that anyone would pay Sasha a salary to write for them. Who is the Einstein doing the hiring at the Globe?

It is clear to me that she has not spent much time around a campaign otherwise she might know that the staff screws up from time to time (actually more like daily). They are tired and stressed and they make mistakes like the rest of us.

As to the notion that Obama can't win a national campaign. Please. Look at where he came from in a few months in Iowa and NH. People don't know who he is yet elsewhere. When they get to know him they will like him. He is the most genuine politician I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. Plus, I have talked to many, many independants and repubs that really like him. Go Obama! Let's change politics for the better.

ABC/WA Post Poll: Hillary leads Obama by 30%. She is ...simply the best...

Obama is not a saint, but he is better and more transparent than Hillary and more consistent than Edwards.

Everybody who voted for the war in Iraq has to be held accountable for the war. And apologizing is not enough, there are no do-overs when it comes to such a stupid or calculating decision.

This is not journalism. This is pure crap, the nonobjective slant is shameful. Taylor Marsh, Paul Krugman, Sasha Issenberg, Lynn Sweet can not call themselves journalists. There's a story there.

This is NOT news. The reality is that presidential campaign staffs are big, and rather unruly. They are enormous organizations that spring up out o[f nothing in a matter of a few months, and are comprised of a sometimes loosely connected network of paid staff, volunteers, and surrogates.

Obama wasn't blaming anyone; he was telling the truth. That silly questionnaire is exactly the kind of thing a staffer would fill out, and Obama's explanation is highly probable.

This is NOT news. The reality is that presidential campaign staffs are big, and rather unruly. They are enormous organizations that spring up out o[f nothing in a matter of a few months, and are comprised of a sometimes loosely connected network of paid staff, volunteers, and surrogates.

Obama wasn't blaming anyone; he was telling the truth. That silly questionnaire is exactly the kind of thing a staffer would fill out, and Obama's explanation is highly probable.