Barack Obama Has Made Mistakes

Barack Obama and his champagne have made mistakes.

This whole texting my VP choice sounds like some antiquated second season American Idol stunt. But I must admit I have had more then a few people ask me if I received a text today. I am not even sure I signed up to receive a text, but the Obama political machine is so well oiled and efficiently ran, forget my cell phone, they’ll probably text message my landline while there at it, but I digress.

As well oiled as Barack Obama’s campaigned maybe, I am of the opinion that mistakes were made. And I have a couple U.S. election polls to back my assessment. I think this whole wait until two days before the convention to announce my VP is a mistake, Barack Obama since the end of the Democratic Primaries has been out spent in TV and radio ads by John McCain and the deep pockets of the Republican National Committee two to one. John McCain and the Republican’s spin machine have been working overtime to damage Obama presidential credibility. It has become so absurd that if you watch FOX News, you’d think that John Edward’s elicit affair with his former campaign staffer was Barack Obama’s fault. And Obama has done little, until recently, to counter any of this. And Michelle Obama, an invaluable asset to his Presidential bid in my opinion, is nowhere to be found. Week after week, ever since Obama has come back from his international tour, he’s been loosing traction and media attention, which is crucial.

It wouldn’t be fair to blame Obama and his Campaign completely for the reduced media attention, the Olympic Games, as exciting as they have been, have taken attention away from the political champagnes. But with that said, mistakes were made. One big mistake in my opinion is waiting until the last minute to announce his VP decision. Despite what many people may think, Barack Obama is still a media darling, and hasn’t been using his media capital enough to grab some crucial free press to combat John McCain and the deep pockets of the Republican spin machine.

Take this whole text my VP choice, stunt, how much media coverage is it really going to get, if he announces his VP on Friday afternoon, or worse yet on Saturday, it may get two days of coverage and then the Convention begins, that in my opinion is a mistake.

If Barack Obama had announced his VP decision the Monday before the convention; him and his new VP would have had an entire week dominating the media coverage and then dominating it again next week during the Convention, it would have been in all, two whole weeks of crucial and valuable air time. It was a strategic mistake not to do that.

Fine, Obama wants to wait until after the convention to begin spending his campaign war chest, so he can go head to head with McCain and the Republicans, I can understand that. But in the meantime, use the two greatest assets you got going for you, which is the media’s love affair with Barack Obama, and second, Michelle Obama, where the hell is she?