Barack Obama, whining for votes

Why, do you suppose, Barack Obama is so far behind Hillary Clinton in Kentucky?  Could it have anything to do with this?  Or this?  Is he too liberal?  Maybe it has something to do with this.  If not, this could be the answer.  Or maybe it's Fox News:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, facing a likely defeat in next Tuesday's primary election, won't travel to Kentucky before the voting, but said he hopes to have much more time to win over Kentucky voters before the November general election.             

He also blamed Fox News for disseminating "rumors" about him and said that that and e-mails filled with misinformation that have been "systematically" dispersed have hurt him in Kentucky.

I guess it hasn't occurred to Obama that he is running for President and should expect that not everyone is going to vote for him.  Not everyone is going to agree with him.  Blaming e-mails and Fox News is one more example of Obama's increasingly irritating habit of whining in public.  It's not a very attractive trait. 

Obama also believes one of the problems is that folks in Kentucky just don't know him:

Obama conceded that he has a steep challenge to get his message and background to voters in states such as Kentucky — where he trails Sen. Hillary Clinton by 27 points, according to a poll published earlier this week — and West Virginia, where voters chose Clinton over Obama by 40 points on Tuesday.

"What it says is that I'm not very well known in that part of the country," Obama said. "Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it's not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle."

Wrong again.  This has been a very long campaign for the Democratic nomination.  The longer it goes on the more we learn about the Senator and his background.  A background he really doesn't want to talk about.  Obama has declared that questions about his background are "distractions".  The only thing we need to know about him is that he's all for hope and change.  Unfortunately for Obama, not everyone is hopeless.  And all change means is "something different", not necessarily something better.

Obama's claims against Fox noticeably lack any specific examples:

“And there are a lot of voters who get their news from Fox News. Fox has been pumping up rumors about my religious beliefs or my patriotism or what have you since the beginning of the campaign.”

Obama sounds petty and spiteful.  And not at all Presidential.

Comments

[linda]

If you're picking on Obamarama I'm going to tell on you!

I guess when you're treated like a rock stat it's hard to believe the whole world doesn't love you!

[Julie]

I'm just one of those "downright mean" Americans Michelle Obama was talking about.

But for crying out loud, does the man just assume he can sail to the White House untouched? Politics is, sadly, pretty sleazy business for the most part.

[Don]

Obama said, "Sen. Clinton, I think, is much better known, coming from a nearby state of Arkansas. So it's not surprising that she would have an advantage in some of those states in the middle."

Obama seems to have difficulty with Geography 101. First was the 57 states thing, and now he thinks Arkansas is a lot closer to Kentucky than Illinois is.

[Julie]

That is pretty funny, isn't it? Maybe a few of those extra states are in there. South Illinois, South Indiana, and South Ohio. Pushes Kentucky somewhere down around Tennessee.