March 13, 2008
Dems 2008: Every picture tells a story [Karl]

For whatever reason, today’s New York Times story on the latest round of identity politics in the campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination leads with an AP photo that does not directly relate to the story, but is interesting in its own right.  The caption for the photo reads:

Barack Obama at a news conference on Wednesday in Chicago with retired generals and admirals who endorsed his candidacy. He was responding to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s arguments about his ability to be commander in chief.

What is interesting about the photo, however, is that Obama is speaking from behind a lectern with a sign reading, “Judgment to Lead.”

The Obama campaign has been enormously disciplined in any number of areas, but perhaps none moreso than in its branding and marketing of the candidate. 

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has changed its banner slogan frequently as it flailed along the campaign trial. 

In contrast, if there has been another event before yesterday’s speech at which Obama spoke from a lectern without the slogan “Change We Can Believe In,” I have missed it.

It is one thing for Obama to surround himself with retired military officers.  The bigger sign that Clinton is making inroads against Obama on the issue of who would make a better Commander in Chief can be found on his lectern.

13 Comments  :::   Post a comment »

  1. Comment by Dan Collins on 3/13 @ 6:32 am #

    Hillary’s campaign slogan is: NO, HE CAN’T!

  2. Comment by Diana on 3/13 @ 6:57 am #

    What I want to know is … who are clients one, two, three, four, five, sex, seven and eight … ’cause they’d be hotter.

  3. Comment by Diana on 3/13 @ 6:58 am #

    And that would be the wrong thread.

  4. Comment by ThomasD on 3/13 @ 7:03 am #

    Judgement to lead? Is that some kind of Alice in Wonderland reference? I thought Hilary was the Red Queen…

  5. Comment by MayBee on 3/13 @ 7:31 am #

    who are clients one, two, three, four, five, sex, seven and eight … ’cause they’d be hotter.

    I thought Diana was captioning the picture, Jeopardy style.

  6. Comment by happyfeet on 3/13 @ 7:31 am #

    Oh. NPR has been emphasizing “it’s about judgment, not experience.” I thought they were freelancing. Guess not.

  7. Comment by alppuccino on 3/13 @ 7:38 am #

    Karl, you’re going to have to help me out here. What does a heavy, soft, malleable metal have to do with judgment?

  8. Comment by happyfeet on 3/13 @ 7:42 am #

    link

    Robert Dalek is somehow a very Obama-friendly “historian” person… who is pretty resolved that a person’s history really can be a lot discounted in favor of other qualities that are mostly a lot visible in retrospect. Clever boy. Like here:

    Well, I think he has the experience and the judgment. I’m mindful that Robert Dalek, one of the great American historians, met with really the outstanding American historians, and they were considering which presidents of the former presidents of the United States, how would they rank them and what were the qualities that they had that made them really unusual and made them special in terms of the country.

    And the qualities that they look to were: Were they men of judgment? Were they men of vision? Did they have the ability to inspire? Did they have the capability and the character to be able to bring good people to work on the common problems? I see all of these qualities that the great American historians were looking at and evaluating in Barack Obama.

  9. Comment by alppuccino on 3/13 @ 7:55 am #

    “OK Barack, one more time. You buy the house at cost and I buy the lot next door, to keep the negroes at a safe distance – no offense. Then you write a letter to the Health Department telling them that my hamburgers are not made from mad cows. Then we all go on about our business.”

    “Well Tony, in my judgment, this is good for Obama.”

  10. Comment by Rob Crawford on 3/13 @ 8:21 am #

    Robert Dalek is somehow a very Obama-friendly “historian” person…

    Yeah, but can you trust someone with one eye on the end of a stalk, a toilet plunger in place of one hand, and the tendency to run around the room shrieking “EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!”?

  11. Comment by J. Peden on 3/13 @ 9:29 am #

    When have “Doves” ever had good judgement?

  12. Comment by Cave Bear on 3/13 @ 12:48 pm #

    Actually, it’s more like “EX-TER-MIN-ATE! EX-TER-MIN-ATE!”

    I think those one-eyed, plunger-and-death-ray weilding, overgrown salt shaker type historian persons have syllable issues.

    Personally, I blame HALLIBURTON!

  13. Comment by Diana on 3/13 @ 12:53 pm #

    @5 … Maybee … I was channeling.

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