Monday, April 21, 2008

A Thin-Skinned President?

Senator Obama is revealing himself to be a very touchy person. A president can't afford the luxury of being irascible. Jed Babbin speaks of Barack's glass jaw:


The supposedly-brilliant Democratic wunderkind can’t take a punch. Like a Hollywood actor, he’s only comfortable, quick and charismatic as long as the crowd is oohing and ahhing. But the moment that he is challenged -- as we first saw in his presser after he lost the Ohio primary in March and again last week in the ABC debate -- the mask shatters. What we see is what we would get with an Obama presidency: a man whose range is so small and ego so huge and fragile that when taken out of his comfort zone, he not only fails to shine, he barely is able to speak.

Whoever is president has got to be figuratively bulletproof. And sometimes literally.

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