so obama met once with a guy who doesn't dislike NAFTA, and met maybe a few times with an academic that referred to hillary as a monster? how are either of these stories?
what is it that makes newsrooms decide that the best course for plotting the day's or week's coverage is to essentially reprint overblown press releases instead of finding their own stories? it's like they're a bunch of gossipy sixth graders.
I agree that these things are overblown, mainly because the press likes conflict. But I think you're underblowing them. Goolsbee and Power are advisors to the campaign; they're the people Obama has chosen to surround himself with and to advise him on matters of policy. They would be candidates for high-level staff or cabinet positions in an Obama administration. It is fair to report on the things they say.
See e.g. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/arc...ives/
182174.php
There are advisers and then there are advisers. Power is Barack Obama's Condi Rice.
A Harvard Law grad, former foreign correspondent, and Pulitzer Prize winning author, Power left her Harvard faculty gig to go work on Obama's Senate staff for a year. It might be a little condescending to say she schooled him on foreign policy, but that's close to accurate. In the constellation of Obama advisers, the 37-year-old Irish-born Power has as high a profile and as close a relationship to the candidate as anyone.
Commenting by HaloScan
