"Basically, since John McCain has been alive a lot longer than Obama, if you focus only on the positive actions of both men but refuse to count any of Obama's positive actions then McCain comes off looking much better than Obama. Consequently, to Cohen Obama is a bit of a sketchy unknown figure:

I know that Barack Obama is a near-perfect political package. I'm still not sure, though, what's in it.
Now in an ideal world candidates for office might release statements, speeches, documents, etc. about their policy ideas. People could scrutinize these ideas. Most people, of course, might be too busy to plow into detail. But a professional newspaper columnist, at least, would be able to sit down and really dig into what Obama is proposing to do on taxes versus what McCain is proposing to do. You could look into their plans for health care and for the environment. All sorts of things like that. And then even a guy with a relatively brief record in federal office wouldn't appear to be such a blank slate. So it's really too bad nobody does that. You would think that with the dawn of the internet candidates could at least put something up on their website under an "issues" tab or something.

Oh well...."

Comments on this column from others:

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So, if Cohen doesn't know anything, it means there's nothing there?

Funny, I just thought that would mean that dumbass would lose his job. I mean, if he doesn't know anything, what the fuck good can he be?

On Scarborough this morning, Cohen said Obama had been in the Senate "one year."
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Posted by Grand Moff Texan | July 29, 2008 10:16 AM



In any sane nation Cohen would be torn limb from limb by an angry mob. The fact that that animal can safely walk the streets without fear of just retribution for his many crimes is one of the saddest facts about our current desperate situation.


Posted by voice of reason | July 29, 2008 10:16 AM



Heck, Cohen could look at Obama's Wikipedia entry.

But of course Cohen is just being a di*k.


Posted by DTM | July 29, 2008 10:18 AM



Maybe Cohen's been hanging out with Fred Hiatt again. Maybe Hiatt awards bonuses based on number of pro-McCain, anti-Obama columns, with bonus points for arguing in the dumbest possible way.


Posted by bob | July 29, 2008 10:20 AM
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