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His name and news agency shall remain anonymous.
Anyway, he has been on the campaign trail, both in Iowa and most recently in New Hampshire. When not reporting, he likes to use his free time to observe the stump speeches as if a voter himself.
While at a Hillary/Bill speech, he manged to get one of the "Vote for Hillary" signs, moved to the front of the crowd, spoke to Hillary and Bill, and asked if they both would sign his campaign sign. No problem. They agreed and signed it in front of him.
Fast forward to later while attending an Obama speech. He more or less tried to do the same. Got a sign, got to the front of the crowd, and tried to get Obama to sign it. At this request, Obama's campaign staff rushed in and said they would take the sign and have Obama sign it behind stage.
His response? "Yeah, sure you will!"
I just think it interesting that this journalist, who reports for a foreign news agency, who is a foreigner himself, cannot vote in the United States, and is simply an interested observer concluded with the following:
"Obama? So much for change and doing things honestly and openly. While Hillary and Bill had no problem giving me an autograph, Obama chooses to instead rely on his campaign machine to do the job."
He also mentioned, after hearing many speeches by both candidates, that once you get beyond Obama's preechy, Steve Jobs-like marketing vortex, he starts to fall apart on the issues, whereas Hillary clearly speaks from experience and has more command of the subject matter.
On the Republican side, he feels that Romney has some good things to say, whereas he is scared to death of Mike Huckabee. He says he would leave the USA for good should Mike be elected.
Anyway, such was my conversation with a journalist.
Anyway, he has been on the campaign trail, both in Iowa and most recently in New Hampshire. When not reporting, he likes to use his free time to observe the stump speeches as if a voter himself.
While at a Hillary/Bill speech, he manged to get one of the "Vote for Hillary" signs, moved to the front of the crowd, spoke to Hillary and Bill, and asked if they both would sign his campaign sign. No problem. They agreed and signed it in front of him.
Fast forward to later while attending an Obama speech. He more or less tried to do the same. Got a sign, got to the front of the crowd, and tried to get Obama to sign it. At this request, Obama's campaign staff rushed in and said they would take the sign and have Obama sign it behind stage.
His response? "Yeah, sure you will!"
I just think it interesting that this journalist, who reports for a foreign news agency, who is a foreigner himself, cannot vote in the United States, and is simply an interested observer concluded with the following:
"Obama? So much for change and doing things honestly and openly. While Hillary and Bill had no problem giving me an autograph, Obama chooses to instead rely on his campaign machine to do the job."
He also mentioned, after hearing many speeches by both candidates, that once you get beyond Obama's preechy, Steve Jobs-like marketing vortex, he starts to fall apart on the issues, whereas Hillary clearly speaks from experience and has more command of the subject matter.
On the Republican side, he feels that Romney has some good things to say, whereas he is scared to death of Mike Huckabee. He says he would leave the USA for good should Mike be elected.
Anyway, such was my conversation with a journalist.
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