Monday, July 27, 2009

WaPo's Tom Shales: 'Barack Obama Still Seems Too Good to Be True'

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Washington Post TV reviewer Tom Shales offered yet another sappy A to President Obama after the latest prime-time press conference. He wrapped it up this way:

"Though polls show his popularity in slight decline, Obama did nothing at the news conference -- other than preempt or delay some prime-time shows -- that would seem potentially harmful to his image. About the most justifiable criticism that could likely be made:

"Barack Obama still seems too good to be true."

The headline was "Obama Goes Off-Topic, Clearly." That referred to Obama’s last answer saying the cops in Cambridge, Massachusetts acted "stupidly" in dealing with the screaming and yelling Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates. Shales thought it might require a little damage control, but he found it "refreshingly blunt."

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