I'm not a Campaign Manager, but I play one on this blog..
Over the past three days, being bombarded with the non-scandal of the week that is "Pastor-gate", the mainstream media shamelessly regurgitating right wing talking points while FOX News has started using youtube clips of Rev. Jeremiah Wright as masturbatory material(I guess they were bored with "rubbing one out" to Mein Kampf) - I noticed that when white preachers denounce America, they are embraced, black preachers, not so much. As much as I'd like to think that Americans are smart enough to reject the guilt-by-association game, our fellow countrymen/women did elect the Barney Fife of presidents to two terms in office - so when you factor that in, I'd say that we all agree that Obama has to get in front of this in a very big way. So far he has done the right things, rejecting everything the pastor said that was inflammatory, writing a post on Huffington Post on Friday - that same night making the rounds on any cable news outlet that comes to mind to address the issue. That was just phase one, here is what I feel should be his second wave of political maneuvering when it comes the Rev Wright non-controversy - granted, I'm not a campaign manager but I play one on this blog.
"Make em' clap to this": Its commonly known that one of Obama's fiercest weapons in his political arsenal is his soaring oratory - I feel that it was a tactical error of him to be suckered into the whole "he has no substance" argument with Hillary, where he mistakenly ditched the rhetorical pirouettes for more meat and potato speeches. Here he can kill two birds with one stone, ignore Hillary's "empty suit" prodding and get back to making more youtube-worthy speeches - and address this pastor issue with the same sort of unifying public address that made people take notice when he gave the Keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.(Equipped with your garden variety anecdotes about his work with the Jewish Community, his multiracial background, etc.)
Be more of a media snake-charmer: Despite Barack Obama having a better grassroots organization than Hillary, a top notch ground game that has proven itself to be a force to be reckoned with based on all their Caucus victories, and his campaign's ability to figuratively print money when it comes to fundraising - the one area that Hillary has severely outclassed him in is her ability to work the media. Because of her spinmeisters, the media has bought into the narrative that Caucuses are less important than primaries, that states with large African American voting blocs are virtually meaningless - and that the fate of civilization as we know it rests on the Pennsylvania primary.
The "Brave New Films" youtube clip posted above, details how the FOX News smear merchants infect the rest of the mainstream media - true, a fundamentally lazy lot anyways, but its still inexcusable none the less. To both work the media and to inoculate himself somewhat from the smears he will face the the general election - he needs to partner up with "Brave New Films", cut an ad detailing FOX News' penchant for scraping the bottom of the barrell when it comes to political discourse - and deplore Americans everywhere to "reject divisiveness, and turn the page on the politics of yesteryear". Also, being that most of these smears originated on FOX, he needs to shame the mainstream media and begin to "work the refs" as they say - with something like, "Its a sad day in this great country of ours, when respected journalists start subscribing to "Sean Hannity"-style of journalism.."
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