See now that is worse than the Nagourney article. This guy is deliberately mis-quoting what has been said to draw up a negative.

"In a country where people liked to know where you were from, Obama lacks a ready answer -- he is part Hawaii, part Kansas, part Chicago."

 

That's not a "ready" enough answer? Can someone define what a "ready answer" is, then?

 

I know - I need to pick on something with a bit more substance, like his Marxist philosophies and affinities, his relations to people who don't like this country, the whole Messiah image from the MSM that he doesn't try to dispel, his bashing of Sean Hannity, or his flip-flops. But instead I get to respond to an article which tries to make an issue out of something that isn't.

 

You know, I'm actually searching for a reason to like Obama again (Yes, there was a day when I liked Barack Obama), but I'm having a hard time finding it...

 

Anyway, back to another comment from what he said:

 

 McCain hails from an America that exalted service to country,

And we don't today? Do the majority of Americans look down upon our troops because they decided to join the military?

and he is the scion of a military family who endured five years in enemy captivity and who preaches a mantra of personal honor and of the nation over the individual -- "Country First," as his campaign slogan declares.

nothing to dispel there, unless you're one of the people who thinks his years in captivity were all either overexaggerated or a lie

His wife is conspicuously reserved at his side; he does not communicate by e-mail and only recently learned to use the Internet; even his roguish sense of humor carries echoes of the more chauvinistic 1950s of his youth.

So in other words, McCain is too outdated for the White House...

At least he didn't mention McCain had a rotary dial in his office. I think Limbaugh used the rotary dial joke for I think it was Robert Byrd several years back.

When did Obama 'bash' Hannity?  Isn't that a good enough reason to like him again?

The two paragraphs that MMFA highlights are not really representative of the entire article, which is far more broad in its discussion of generational and background differences between the two candidates. Granted, the author should have gotten the "citizen of the world" quote accurate, but I hope everyone reads the whole piece instead of relying on MMFA's selectivity.

Media Matters didn't say that the whole article's slant was represented by the comments they highlighted.

It doesn't matter if the whole article was overall a fair one if there was a piece of conservative misinformation in that article. The overall article can be good even if it has a bad part. It still has that bad part.

I did read the piece (as you told me to; I am a good boy).  The quote highlighted by MMFA is misinformation and is a non-sequitor in this article.  He talks about a generation gap and then seems to take a swipe at Obama, saying he can't make up his mind on where he lives or where he's from.

It would be akin to saying that, "In a country where people liked to know where you were from, [Ronald Reagan] lacks a ready answer -- he is part [California], part Kansas [he was in the movie, Santa Fe Trail], part [Illinois]."  He declared himself a "citizen of the world"?      

 

.... reporter Alec MacGillis claimed that Sen. Barack Obama is the "embodiment of a new America" and that "Obama lacks a ready answer" to the question of where he is from, in contrast with Sen. John McCain, who, MacGillis wrote, "hails from an America that exalted service to country."

The funny part about this ... Sen. Obama was actually born in the United States ... McSame wasn't.

Obama's embodiment of a newer America begins but hardly ends with the fact that he would be the first black president.

What's a Newer America?

In a country where people liked to know where you were from, Obama lacks a ready answer -- he is part Hawaii, part Kansas, part Chicago. In a recent speech in Berlin, he declared himself a "citizen of the world."

Since Illinois was the 21st to enter the Union on December 3, 1818 and Kansas was the 34th state to enter the Union on January 29, 1861 and Hawaii entered the Union on August 21, 1959, how difficult is it for folks to know where Obama came from?

If you're having trouble finding these places, I suggest MapQuest. And for those from the chauvinistic 1950s, a visit to your local AAA, they have the paper maps.

This election is not about who is from where.  It is not about George W Bush or John McCain.  Obama can't let it become about him.  It is never about a single individual, or at least it should not be.  This election must be about Republican incompetence at governing.  They absolutely suck at it.  It is not about the one man that is elected, it is about the hacks that take over positions of power and influence.  Everyone knows that Republicans hate government, so why elect someone to be responsible for the performance of something they hate?  Obama will have people in the levers of government that are capable and posses hunger to make government efficient again.  That is what this election is about:America can't afford Republican incompetence for four more days, much less four more years.  

These so called MSM are amazing.  Many, many Americans do not live in the State that they were born in.  Many, many Americans don't even live in the the State that they grew up in.  Americans are constantly on the move to different States and even different countries.  Only when it's democrats or, in this case, a non-white Democrat, is that fact considered a difficiency or a negative.  Now they want to know where's Obama's from.  He's from Chicago.  Was born in Hawaii, and raised in Kansa.  That is so not different from many Americans' life experience.  With these old media types, the rules are always different for Dems than for Repubs.  Their biases never ceases to amaze. 

Here we have it folks. The new "I created the internet" quote that will be replayed again and again, or I should say, taken out of context, again and again to tar Obama as someone who wants to "sell out" the US for the rest of the world.