I was fully prepared to give Him a break
Posted by TFG on April 21st, 2008
The Swamp: Obama: ‘Why can’t I just eat my waffle?’
As Sen. Hillary Clinton was preparing to campaign here today, Sen. Barack Obama was meeting with voters at a diner and apparently pretty hungry.
“Why can’t I just eat my waffle?” he said, when asked a foreign policy question by a reporter at the Glider Diner.
Because it’s a staged photo-op with voters at a diner where you and your wife wouldn’t be caught dead in if you weren’t running for President?
As The Fat Guy, I was ready to launch into the necessity of allowing a man his waffle, as even a slightly pink American needs that start, and who knows, he might help us out by making us think harder — and then I read that it’s just another press setup.
Eat your waffle at home or in your hotel room, NMI. You can’t have it both ways.
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:07 am
C’mon. It’s an issue of basic civility. Why should he have to hide to be able to eat in peace? Hell, that is why so many celebrities come to Dallas and Houston to live — people recognize them, but they don’t jack with them while they are eating. (I think Chuck Norris pointed this out, although I’m not sure what kind of idiot jacks with Chuck Norris.)
These damned reporter ghouls think that they are entitled to every moment of a candidate’s day. That was their problem with Fred Thompson. Let him at least fulfill his biological necessities without getting questioned. (Keep the cameras rolling though. He should be able to eat with manners himself.)
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:46 am
If it wasn’t a pre-announced, pre-arranged presser photo op, I’d be 100% in agreement. I’m almost in agreement, anyway, but if you ask the press to watch you eat, then I gotta believe a question from the press is not exactly a surprising or shocking occurrence.
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:56 am
Any politician who would order waffles in public is showing a remarkable lack of judgment. What’s the matter, running a little low on “waffles” these days? Or does he need the calories to fill the empty suit?
I’ve never been into celebrity hood much and always leave them alone when I encounter them. But this is different, especially since he hasn’t spoke to the press in ten days. If you want to run for President and eat inpeace, get room service, eat on the bus, or get the Secret Service to clear the arae for you. Expecting to get the photo op and not have to deal with the media and populace is a bit much to ask. Kind of reminds me of the celebrities who tell their servants not to make eye contact.
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Well, I’ve come around.
April 22nd, 2008 at 4:01 pm
What a phony is Barry. I hope he loses today. Not that it matters. He’s going to lose big in November.