John Podhoretz on Contentions at Commentary Magazine writes about how important it is for Republican hopes to get Barack Obama away from the teleprompter and into Q&A forums where he cripples his message with vagueness and uncertainty:
The November election is, and remains, Barack Obama’s to lose. Usually, candidates whose victories are entirely in their own hands make it through. It is clear Obama’s path to victory is through the teleprompter. Let him give a big speech and he drives it like Tiger Woods hitting a fairway, as he did Sunday with his stunning sermon about the importance of fathers. But let him sit for an interview with a well-prepared reporter who isn’t interested in shilling for him and Obama makes mistake after mistake. This is what happened the other day with ABC’s Jake Tapper, who got Obama to talk about how we need to treat terrorism as a law-enforcement matter — which is exactly what he should not be saying if he wants to solidify those less-liberal Democratic votes in the states where he was shellacked by Hillary Clinton — and how he opposes all forms of school choice — which works against his vague message that he is a vague agent of vague change.
The only problem? Getting Obama to agree to a forum that will shine an unforgiving light on his greatest weakness. The media may end up deciding this election.
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