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Planned Out (none / 0) (#59)
by 1jane on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 11:30:06 AM EST
Yeah, I watched how they stage managed President Clinton's vist. The crowd was moved up in the gym to fill the first half of the gym, then roped off to make it appear on camera the gym was packed. When Obama came to town the backdrop was children who arrived early from a sports club, then anyone else who wanted to sit behind him.

The point is both campaigns stage manage their appearances and it's no big deal.

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That IS the point (none / 0) (#62)
by Big Tent Democrat on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 11:32:15 AM EST
And willis and others were all "outrage" about that when it was clinton.

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You Just Made That Up (none / 0) (#112)
by Oliver Willis on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 02:10:15 PM EST
I expressed no such outrage. I'm not a naive country bumpkin. I know that political campaigns are largely stage managed. In fact at the 2007 DNC winter meeting I wrote up praise for Sen. Clinton because I felt her campaign folks had done excellent stage management.

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May I ask why you characterized (5.00 / 2) (#119)
by tree on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 02:51:33 PM EST
Jeralyn's post and the comments here as being "shocked" about the seating rearrangement? Because no one here expressed any kind of shock. Most of the comments were along the line of how this is standard political operating procedures. The point that seems to keep getting lost is that many Obama supporters seem to think that the Obama is some kind of "new" politician what wouldn't do such things.

There was no outrage here. Why did you get outraged? Is it somehow declasse to point out that Obama is in fact a typical politician after all?

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one other general request (none / 0) (#120)
by tree on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 03:32:29 PM EST
Oliver, if a blogger comes here to defend the point of their post, I respect that and consider that laudable, but if all you are going to do is make a comment and not engage in conversation what really is the point? Drive-by comments don't help the dialog at all. I'll cut you some slack on this one, maybe you are busy right now, but in the future if you don't want to stick around and answer legitimate questions, don't assume that we aren't going to take your lack of engagement as an indicator of emptiness of your argument.

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Oh please. (none / 0) (#122)
by Oliver Willis on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 04:39:29 PM EST
Please look up Casablanca.

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Thanks for the repeat drive-by and non-answer (none / 0) (#123)
by tree on Thu Apr 10, 2008 at 03:40:17 AM EST
Obviously you've got nothing of substance to add. Duly noted.

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