Friday, April 25, 2008

Obama Look Too Good for President? Too Elitist?

I found this video also to be very interesting, as a reporter asks him if he feels that looking too much like a GQ model, will push some voters away from him. He later goes on to candidly discuss his bowling score, which happened a couple weeks before, and then talk about his background, and how the other two candidates are far more likely to be considered elitist, than he. It's just a pity to show that these are issues that voters care about, elitism, and how one looks, rather then real life issues and policies of a candidate.

From the description
Recently a local news reporter asked Barack Obama whether he was too good-looking to relate to working class people. She stated how some think that Obama looks like a male cover model from the magazine "GQ". Hmm... I don't think they ever thought this would be the problem.

He goes on to address comments that he is an "elitist", which is the most bizarre thing to pin on someone who was raised by a single mother and his grandparents, who was a community activist and civil rights lawyer on Chicago's poor South side, and who has just finished paying off his students loans after working to get into Harvard.

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