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Cam-pains In The Neck
Looking for a
recession-proof job? President Obama and Secretary of State
Clinton will always need speechwriters, travel coordinators and
publicists. The visual news media will never have enough
camera operators to do a proper job of covering their never-ending
campaigns.
"What campaigns?" you
say. "The campaigns have been over for months."
Both trainees have tried
their novice hands at straight news conferences. Both came
away from those experiences looking less than shovel-ready; less
than as invincibly charming, charismatically intelligent and
perfectly right as the press allowed them to be perceived during
their days on the stump.
Now they're back to doing
what they do best -- campaigning.
"There is a hunger for the United
States to be present again," the First Lady of Pants Suits told reporters as she flew to Seoul. "Showing up
is not all of life -- but it counts for a lot."
Well, we know that
present was the vote of choice for then-Illinois legislator Obama
who wanted to keep his record 100% politically correct just in case.
We also know that both Hillary and Barack were less than
present
during their terms in the Senate as a result of being on the
presidential campaign trail so much of the time.
If you live in New York
you also know that the very first thing Hillary the Carpetbagger did
after announcing her intention to move here to run for the senate
(read: run for president at the earliest possible moment) was to go
on a "listening tour" much like her current
junket to Asia.
Of course, she wasted a
lot less jet fuel limo-ing from town to town while reading Cliff's
Notes about the Erie Canal and the Corning Glass Works. But
otherwise it's the very same campaign tactic.
"My
trip here today is to hear your views, because I believe
strongly that we learn from listening to one another,"
Clinton told students at Tokyo University on Tuesday. "And
that is, for me, part of what this first trip of mine as
Secretary of State is about."
Ironically,
she made the very same speech in 2000 to the faculty and
student bodies at
Syracuse University, Nassau Community College and other
New York institutions -- which is all well and good
except that Tokyo and Seoul aren't exactly Utica and Plattsburgh.
"Learning" to be our
nation's highest-ranking diplomat isn't the same thing
as someone from out of state figuring out which
companies, colleges, state-run projects and tourist
attractions drive any given local or regional economy.
Similarly, and in
conjunction with a 5% first-month drop in popularity polls, the
president has reverted to campaigning, as well. And doesn't he
look just as presidential as he did last year as he orates those
prepared remarks and then ceremonially signs bills and executive
orders in familiar venues like Colorado?
It's almost as if he
knows what he's doing and, more importantly, it forces the media to
cover those events as events while excluding their reporters from asking pesky
news conference questions that might detract from the people's
perception of Obama's greatness enough to drop his poll numbers
below the re-electability margin.
"What campaign?" you say.
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