July 12, 2008

  • The Audacity of Listening

    Gail Collins makes the point that if you actually were listening to Obama over the years, you would not be so quick to attribute all of his recent decisions to political expediency, but rather an adherence to two of his common themes, making smart decisions (as opposed to dumb ones) and being willing work out compromise. The only true "flip flop" was his decision to forego public financing.

    I have felt for months that the media has not been willing to actually listen and comprehend what Obama was actually saying, because the media has been too impatient and shallow to take the time to actually do their job of journalism by filtering and processing information so that readers and viewers can have a clear, concise, and accurate report of conditions and events.