Nathan Moore's Thoughts
If He Doesn’t Win, He Loses - The Exploding Candidacy
Michelle Obama has been a rather consistent source of clarity in the Barack Obama campaign. From her we learn the senator is “stinky”, never really thinks himself right, and now prognosticates that if he does not win Iowa, “it is over”.
Some people seem to think such statements make Senator Obama more human. In effect, I think it makes him too human.
There is an intangible quality to the presidency, where the holder of the office becomes, through the tradition of the office but also through his inherent characteristics, larger than life. Bill Clinton was and remains that way. Ronald Reagan was that way as well. Neither Bush presidency has grasped that intangibility, nor did Jimmy Carter. It seems that the presidential administrations that have the most problems advancing an agenda are those where the occupant of the Oval Office is all too human.
I’d rather, for the sake of the office sought, that Michelle Obama leave the dirty laundry at home, where it belongs. And if I was the candidate, I would rather my spouse not predict a date-certain when my candidacy would explode.
September 27th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
It actually turns out it was a somewhat of a misquote. As for Michelle Obama being too human (or making Obama too human) I think a little humanity above the resuscitation of talking points is a good thing. I think there can be a happy medium between the political activism and outspokenness of Hillary Clinton during the 90s, and the somewhat Queen-like nature of some of the Bush ladies.
September 27th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
[...] Were Nathan Moore a presidential candidate he’d like to think he would be able to regulate his bride better than Barack Obama has: There is an intangible quality to the presidency, where the holder of the office becomes, through the tradition of the office but also through his inherent characteristics, larger than life. Bill Clinton was and remains that way. Ronald Reagan was that way as well. Neither Bush presidency has grasped that intangibility, nor did Jimmy Carter. It seems that the presidential administrations that have the most problems advancing an agenda are those where the occupant of the Oval Office is all too human. [...]