Reply #121: I can give you four: [View All]

[Political Heretic]

1) One Obama weakness is the tendency to get caught in so-called "gaffes" because he gets too intellectual in his comments. A three paragraph response is whittled into a two second-sound bite and made to say the opposite. Some of that is Obama's fault though, for trying to give huge answers when what is really required of a national politician campaigning for president is a more concise sound bite that is more difficult to distort.

2) I like Obama's health care plan, but I don't think it goes far enough, and I think Hillary's is better, though it also does not go far enough.

3) The Obama "bitter" comments, even though I understand what he meant in context and it isn't offensive to this rural voter, was still a gaffe.

4) Obama's Ohio/Texas accusations that Clinton's health care plan would force poor people who couldn't afford it to get health insurance was really unfair, just like her claims that his plan would leave millions uncovered was really unfair. His campaign distorted her position. That happens all the time in politics, but I don't have to like it.