This article is warped and horrible and the picture may either offend or scare you or both.
I can kind of agree with the perception that Smarty McSmart Guy tends to lose to the Straight Shooter I’d Wanna Have A Beer With, and thus the point of the article seems pretty decent, and painfully somewhat true, but then he tries to stretch his comparisons way too far. Bill Bradley? Paul Tsongas? Energizing the intellectual youth voters? The author is trying so hard to shoehorn Obama into a wholly concocted and inconsistent narrative of “nerdy, egghead candidates with no populist appeal who lose elections” and fails miserably. One of the major premises of it is that Obama hasn’t focused on low-income people’s issues at all- which is complete bullshit on the face of it, even if Edwards is supposedly the anti-poverty champion. The author is also completely wrong about Obama’s fundraising.
Further, Obama tends to be both Smarty McSmartpants and the guy you wanna have a beer with. He’s the guy who apologizes for cockblocking a reporter, who apparently has some b-ball skills, who jokes that he’s gone so often his wife is reffering to him as “my first husband.”
