President for Sale!

I’d read several times before that many in the press consider Obama a master question dodger, but I had never really seen it for myself until last night.

While on Larry King Live Obama was asked by King if he would consider Clinton as a possible Vice President if he were to win the primaries. His answer was essentialy that it would be far to presumptive and arrogant for him assume that he’ll even win at this point. King went on to ask Obama about his feelings about McCain, Obama answered that he respected McCain and that he looked forward to facing him in the general election.

Huh? Obama says he can’t answer a question because it presumes that he’ll be the Democrat in the general election, and then moments later, after being asked a question totally unrelated to the general election, he makes an unqualified claim that he’ll be the one to face McCain in the general election. This is the man of honesty and integrity everybody loves?

Obama is a set of vague ideals and values meticulously packaged into one charismatic man being sold to the American people. Watching him is more like watching a television ad than it is like watching a Presidential candidate. This is why he dodges questions, because he has a specific image manufactured by his campaign that he cannot deviate from; because he isn’t campaigning on the issues, he’s campaigning on that image.