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The Problem with Obama
Obama is too black
Obama is too white
Obama's lack of Washington experience problem
Obama's Hispanic problem
Obama's Asian problem
Obama's Jewish problem
Obama's Catholic problem
Obama's Muslim problem
Obama's Black voter problem
Obama's White voter problem
Obama's reliance on young people problem
Obama's elderly problem
Obama's women problem
Obama's White elderly women voter problem
Obama's white collar voter problem
Obama's blue collar voter problem
Obama's Reverend Wright problem
Obama's problem with not being vetted
Obama's Muslim perception problem
Obama's elitist perception problem
Obama's Big State problem
Obama's problem with the Right
Obama's problem with the Left
Obama's Hillary Clinton problem
Obama's Bill Clinton problem
Obama's Ronald Reagan problem
Obama's Jesse Jackson problem
Obama's Michelle Obama problem
Obama's bowling problem
Obama's lapel pin problem
Obama's problem with Hillary voters
Obama's Pledge of Allegiance problem
Obama's NAFTA problem
Obama's FISA problem
Obama's public financing problem
Obama's Populist message problem
Obama's moving to the center problem
Obama's problem with speaking against Iraq invasion Obama's problem with the paranormal
Obama's 50 State problem
Obama's gun problem
Obama's abortion problem
Obama's Social Security problem
Obama's Foreign policy problem
Obama's Healthcare problem
Obama's flip-flop problem
Obama's surrogate problem
Obama's Appalachian problem
Obama's Isreal problem
Obama's Pakistan problem
Obama's Iran problem
Obama's Cuba problem
Obama's Florida problem
Obama's popularity problem
Obama's problem with living abroad
Obama's problem with not traveling abroad
Obama's aloofness problem
Obama's patriotism problem
Obama's endorsement problem
Obama's Union problem
Obama's Business problem
Obama's working class problem
Obama's problem with FOX News
Obama's problem with Rush Limbaugh
Obama's Internet whisper problem
Obama's small donor problem
Obama's big donor problem
Obama's Liberal voting record problem
Obama's stadium convention problem
Obama's problem with leading McCain in the polls
Obama's Bubba Gap problem
Obama's arugula problem
Obama's orange juice problem
Obama's fundraising problem
Obama's problem with problems
I've been following elections for a long time, and never have I seen a candidate saddled with so many perceived problems. While every candidate is sure to run into their share of problems during a long campaign, much of these so called problems have to do with the 24hour news culture, where they have raised every issue as a potential problem for Obama. At some point one must ask the question of why? I appologize for the long list, but we all know that it's only a partial list.
Comments (27)
In addition to being too white and too black, he also has:
Obama's not white enough problem, and
Obama's not black enough problem, and
did you mention the
Obama's too Centrist problem? Or
Obama's too snobby problem? Or
Obama's too elitist problem? Or
Obama's too arrogant problem?
Good list! Rec'd.
July 11, 2008 7:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
...plus he fake and a liar. I love his little sermon speech. Where exactly did he pick that up? Harvard? What a goof. Plus he has that sniveling little, lucky-sperm-club ingrate JJ Jr. hanging around. This little dude is to JJ sr. what George W is to George H. Not a very good association for BO. Wouldn't mind bitch-slapping the little punk on behalf of his brave and HEROIC father.
I might be able to vote for him by fall...but right now, ha! He looks like the other side of the same coin. I really want my vote back from this freak.
(I will try not to post like this any more...he just REALLY pissed me off. So tired of being played. )
Don't feel much better. maybe one more post...
July 12, 2008 3:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
The same reason that McBananaPeel hasn't been endowed with such a list. Especially after the self-inflicted Yosemite Sam week the campaign has demonstrated.
These numbnuts (MSM not Jesse's people) are actually debating why McCain's campaign has not taken off, not caught fire, not defined itself. Nevermind that the campaign gutted itself on every major campaign point in the last 3 days; economy, Iraq, Afghanistan, Social Security, campaign finance, Iran...etc
The media is only interested in controversy/conflict perceived or otherwise to boost ratings against the competitors, infotainment.
I suspect this why MSNBC spent the 6:00pm est hour coming up with excuses for the McCain campaign. That is, they have their heads so far up their own ass trying to beat FOX news in ratings that they gently suck up to McCain to peel away viewers from FOX and CNN. This also allows the perception that the election is close and as you know if you repeat it enough it must be true.
What the hell was the question again?
July 11, 2008 8:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL at Yosemite Sam, are we watching his little brother Yosemite Johnny?
When Johnny finally blows his top for all the world to see, someone needs to turn the video into a Yosemite Johnny parody, sounds like the kind of fit he threw in Viet Nam when he threatened them there with "repurcussions" if his Songbird tapes are ever released...
July 12, 2008 10:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
Amen.
Bottom line, whateveeer.
You dont stop blocking for the Quarterback just because he throws an interception.
July 11, 2008 8:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I would hope we could retire Obama's "throwin' folk under the bus" problem. McCain just threw one of his oldest allies under the bus - to Minsk. I could understand McCain distancing himself, but his "ambassador to Belarus" bit was truly classless.
"This cat ain't nobody's friend." - All That Jazz
July 11, 2008 8:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Really? Then why is Dr.Phil still his campaign co-chair? All McCain did was put him to work in the back kitchen.
McCain has no actual economic plan outside of what Gramm tells him, by his own admission (see You tube, Bunnycat).
July 11, 2008 8:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gramm-cracker?
July 12, 2008 10:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Bravo, this is perfect.
Fear of someone who really is new and different is driving all this nonsense:
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Mohandas Gandhi
The perfect compliment to this list of all the people Barack has now been compared to from Nate www.fivethirtyeight.com
Obama is the New...
Bush (43):
Wall Street Journal editorial board, 7/2/08.
L. Whitey Johnson, 7/10/08.
Kerry:
Steve Schmidt, 6/20/08.
Grover Norquist, 6/26/08.
Frank Newport, 5/7/08.
Hillary Clinton, 4/14/08.
Gore:
Hillary Clinton, 4/14/08.
Hugh Hewitt, 3/30/08.
(Bill) Clinton:
Paul Krugman, 6/30/08.
Abe Greenwald, 1/15/08.
Ron Fournier, 12/18/07.
Dole:
Mark Halperin, 2/28/08.
George H. W. Bush:
David Brooks, 5/19/08.
New York Sun editorial board, 4/18/08
YouTube, 4/6/08:
Dukakis:
Susan Estrich, 5/12/08.
Nate Silver, 7/10/08.
Mondale:
Ronald Kessler, 2/27/08.
Dan McLaughlin, 5/30/07.
Reagan:
Andrew Sullivan, 7/24/07.
Darrell M. West, 7/8/08.
Diane Winston, 6/27/08.
David Paul Kuhn, 7/24/07.
E.J. Dionne, 2/29/08
George F. Will, 5/8/08.
Barack Obama, 1/16/08.
Carter:
John McCain, 6/21/08.
Dinesh D'Souza, 6/18/08.
Matthew Continetti, 5/5/08.
Kurt Anderson, 6/16/08.
Ford:
Dennis Byrne, 1/4/07.
Nixon:
Karl Rove, 7/10/08.
James Kirchick, 7/2/07.
John Pitney, 3/4/08.
McGovern:
John Judis, 4/23/08.
Jeralyn, 2/16/08.
New York Sun editorial board, 5/9/08.
Humphrey:
Dr. Violet Socks, 6/5/08.
Johnson:
Rush Limbaugh, 6/10/08.
Jeffrey Lord, 6/10/08.
Michael Crowley, 6/5/08:
Goldwater:
Alfred Regnery, 2/25/08.
Kennedy:
Caroline Kennedy, 1/27/08.
Ted Sorensen, 7/23/07.
William Rees-Mogg, 2/18/08.
Justin Raimondo, 8/3/07.
E.J. Dionne, 4/22/08.
Eisenhower:
Susan Eisenhower, 2/2/08.
Alan W. Dowd, 6/3/08.
Stevenson:
George F. Will, 4/15/08.
Steve Clemons, 11/4/07.
David Greenberg, 11/16/07.
E.J. Dionne, 4/22/08.
Truman:
New York Sun editorial board, 7/2/08.
Chicago Sun-Times, 5/13/07.
Dewey:
East Hartford Gazette, 6/25/08
Voters of New Hampshire, 1/8/08.
July 11, 2008 9:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
OMG - this is priceless! Thanks so much for your research.
July 12, 2008 12:25 AM | Reply | Permalink
Where is the comparison to William Jennings Bryan? I am so disappointed.
July 12, 2008 2:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Neville Chamberlain
Tankard, 07/12/08
July 12, 2008 3:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Once a Zebra gets past the "too black, too white" thing the rest is gravy. Cold, lumpy, putrid gravy but gravy none the less.
July 11, 2008 10:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Kane,
Good post.
July 12, 2008 12:09 AM | Reply | Permalink
July 12, 2008 1:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
I would add, Obama's startling-disloyatly among-Democrats-who-love-the-sound-of-their-own-voice problem
July 12, 2008 5:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
You forgot the Obama is smarter than all get-out and most voters are stupes-who-need-to-be-told-what-to-think problem.
July 12, 2008 7:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
I think we covered that thoroughly in the primary. It's also known as the
I-dont-hate-Obama-just-all-his-supporters-on-this-blog problem.
July 12, 2008 8:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
The wingnut media isn't just on talk radio, they are salted and peppered throughout the entire system, and we will see them identify themsleves with this kind of trash, throughout this historic season of lies.
Obama is being held to a standard that, if applied to someone like Bush or McCain, would become an endless wheel of karmic trash illuminating their constant drumbeat of gaffes, mistakes and doofusisms.
We will see this often between now and November. Obama's minor gaffes and even some of his best qualities have been and will be framed as egregious faults, with a spin so wicked, anyone with a clear mind will reel at the obvious decepition.
But, considering that there's a huge collection of mud-brained wingnuts out there, to whom clear thinking is not only impossible, it is actually anathema, we can expect this pattern to repeat itself at every turn of the page.
Wasn't it Orwell who warned us that, one day, good will be evil and vice-versa, in the doublespeak realm. Here we see it manifested in our own compliant media.
July 12, 2008 9:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Add to that:
Obama's Communist problem.
Because (per Glen Beck's radio show, unless I had him confused with another guy the other day), Obama will be America's first Socialist Party president, and in a Socialist-Communist country (I'm not kidding), if you disagree, you die. That's why one caller's not voting for Obama. The host did not disagree.
July 12, 2008 9:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
well there is also the fist bump problem your list is hardly complete, if you left out the white references your list could have been shorter, which leads me to think you think there is a race problem for obama because of all his problems involving white people to a great extent quit looking for spiders & snakes in the basement, put on a happy face
July 12, 2008 9:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
It is often said that this race is all about Obama. The reality is, its all about whether America is reasy to elect a realy smart, young black guy. McCain can't win on his own merits.. he only wins if people find Obama unacceptable. So making him so is the single goal of all of his critics, and hyping race issues is the easist way to do it. Just look at that list and see how many of those "problems" have a racial element to them.
No wonder the MSM has decided that picking on McCain goofs just doesn't make good TV. On the other hand, anything to do with Obama has a much deeper emotional impact, because hiding beneath about 70% of them is the undiscussed issue of race, an issue each American relates to on a personal basis. And because so many Americans are equally busy claiming they aren't racist but someone else is, this stuff resonates with viewers in a way calling them all whiners just doesn't.
This is not going to change. So it needs to be out in the open. Time to call a spade a spade.
I think this should be Bill Clinton's job for fall. To challenge America not to vote on its racial fears. To put an end to the Southern stratgey once and for all, by yanking off the sheet and letting the sun shine in
July 12, 2008 10:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
Agree 100% with the analysis.
Odds of getting Bill Clinton to actually help? Mmmm . . .
Fortunately, it has never been clearer that sticking with the status quo is a losing strategy. It's a good year to look like something new and different.
July 12, 2008 11:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
How could you miss his "waffle" problem?
The kind with syrup, I mean, not "waffling" as in flip-flopping, seesawing, teetering, tottering, vacillating, or equivocating.;)
July 12, 2008 11:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
You must not have been following politics very long...
July 12, 2008 11:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
You forgot Obama's pet problem.
If you were to write a novel about a fictitious candidate like Obama, no one would believe you.
The media has become a parody of itself. Christopher Buckley is probably taking notes.
July 12, 2008 1:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
For a quick and very unscientific analysis:
Google "Mccain problem" -- 20 million hits
Google "Obama problem" -- 40 million hits
July 12, 2008 1:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
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