If I thought that he'd accept it, I'd offer to interview Obama here myself.
...Alas, we're "inconsequential." No, really. There are *hundreds* of websites eager to tell you that, in fact.
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But that's OK. We can let Ed Morrissey handle this one:
I did ask to see whether Obama wants to do an interview. The caller said she's pass it along to the Saint Paul office's press shop to see whether they can arrange it. I'd say it's unlikely to happen, but if they really want to reach out to Minnesota Republicans, they're going to have to start talking to one of us.
It's in the context of the Democrats - well, OK, both parties - suddenly realizing that it's not going to over before Super-Duper Tuesday, and altering their approach accordingly. Ed's been trying to get Democratic candidates to talk to him on his online radio show for some time now; hence the offer.
Read on.
I suppose that it actually makes sense that Senator Obama wouldn't agree to an interview for this site, or Power Line, or Vodkapundit, or Right Wing News (just to name a few that would just love to ask the Senator a few questions). The whole point of the exercise for us would be to watch the man squirm; and the fact that we can do that simply by asking him to justify his positions to people unready to crown him King of America doesn't really signify. We already know that the man's message of inclusion doesn't actually include people like ourselves, after all. There's no real need to reinforce it.
Ed, though... Ed's a gentleman, and the sort of person who can say about Obama that he has "...a genuineness and dignity about him that Hillary and the entire Clinton squad lacks..." without having people say "Yeah. Sure you think that." So there's no worries there, right? Also, Ed's a big wheel in the Right-blogosphere; he's precisely the sort of opinion leader from the Other Side that a Democrat would want to impress. And, right now, the Obama campaign needs to start impressing more people. So it's a no-brainer...
Except, of course, for one little detail. In this hypothetical interview, at some point Ed is going to politely yet inexorably get a meaningful answer to the question Why is it that you're still calling a war that we're winning a lost cause? - which pretty much ends the chance of any sort of interview right there. It is a question that Obama will not answer, because it is a question that he must not answer. But I'd be happy to be proven wrong. Let's see that famous supposed willingness to transcend partisan divides, Senator. Appear on Right Talk Radio.
If you dare.
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Not gonna happen. His handlers wont let him venture away from his script. Sort of like G.W. in 2000. The brass ring is too close to make a mistake.
...is that the brass ring in question is actually receding. The Clinton campaign has bore-sighted in Obama's: he'll probably still get South Carolina, but after that the Deep Hurting... no, not "starts:" "intensifies."
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
If that doesn't scare you I don't know what will.
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