Obama said he would be the president of everyone, not just the liberals, who have claimed him.
The media and the right extreme have painted Obama with a liberal brush. But really, he's not a liberal and he's never claimed to be a liberal.
The media is childish in its manipulation, writing glowingly about Obama when they approve and then breaking out the poison pen when they disapprove.
In case you hadn't noticed, newspapers are going out of business. The NYT is just mad because Obama isn't a puppet of any media outlet. So is the Huffington Post and DailyKos. As if Obama should let bloggers and newspaper writers tell him how not to "blow it." These people are just asserting their perceived power.
The Obama camp has done a brilliant job of running its campaign.
A president has to be willing to change his mind, when presented with new facts, otherwise you get George Bush. Obama doesn't think from the viewpoint of a liberal or whatever label you'd want to slap on him. He thinks independently while adhering to the fundamentals of a bottom up democracy, healthcare and education for all and world citizenship.
Everyone's so focused on their own little issues, their ideologies. You got to look at the bigger picture.
The New York Times looks naively at fundraising (it's no wonder the right gets annoyed at the "liberal media"). Of course, he has wealthy, elitist support. So does John McCain.
They then twist what Pritzker says. The way I read her quote is they haven't been able to get to the big money fundraisers because Obama's been busy.
Even his own chief money collector, Penny Pritzker, suggests that the magic of $20 donations from the Web was less a matter of principle than of scheduling. “We have not been able to have much of the senator’s time during the primaries, so we have had to rely more on the Internet,” she explained as she and her team busily scheduled more than a dozen big-ticket events over the next few weeks at which the target price for quality time with the candidate is more than $30,000 per person.
