President Cosby
Not long after Nevada Obama came out to defend both his record and some comments at the debate. When asked about his greatest weakness he answered honestly while Edwards and Hillary gave that kind of answers that make the question meaningless, trying to spin it into a vacuous positive. Obama used humour to make his point quite effectively I thought.
In fact his delivery reminded me of Bill Cosby. Not the latter Cosby of television fame and shill for Jello, I mean old stand up Cosby whose greatest distribution was on vinyl. The Noah bit Cosby. Personally I thought it was great.
Apparently I wasn’t the only one. The week following that speech it seemed every candidate this side of Giuliani was trying their hand at comedy. Once again Obama’s message and methodology is stolen by others. He’s a trend setter with ideas so good candidates on both sides feel the need to take them on for themselves while opposing him and not giving him credit. Hopefully the American people are smart enough to know that.
