Andrew Breitbart Quotes
With its emphasis on star power, the Obama campaign from Day One emphasized the candidate's perfectly cut presidential presence.
Breitbart, Andrew. "Opinion." The Washington Times, 2009.
The Johnny Carson Show was then the most popular late night TV show.
Sinclair was a writer who had written about some of the worst scandals in American politics, leaned toward socialized democracy, and decided to run as a reform candidate in California where he lived. He won the Democratic primary easily even though he had no money, political experience, or backing. He terrified the Republicans who ran one of the dirtiest campaigns in American History to defeat him spending more money than in any election up to then including the Presidential elections. (for more details see {619613}) Sinclair lost, but it was close.
This was the first time that an American President was “sold’ to the voters in the same way that consumer goods were marketed to the public. Within 20 year, all presidential campaigns have been used these merchandising techniques.
It was a 3-way race where the right wing of the Republican Party had stacked the deck so that Taft would be selected the nominee despite the greater popularity of TR who then decided to run as a 3rd party candidate. He beat the Republican nominee and incumbent President Taft soundly and the two of them together got many more votes than Wilson but Wilson had the most votes with only 42 percent. He got the loyal Democrat votes but lost the independents to Roosevelt who in turn lost the conservative Republicans to Taft. Wilson had the mathematics which made up for his personal weaknesses. What is very interesting about this quotation is that Wilson thought of himself as an intellectual as opposed to TR, but in reality Roosevelt was not only also an intellectual but the only President who was a world class scientists.
He had spent a great deal of time traveling and observing President Barack Obama. While he and many others appreciated the contemplation that Obama gave to serious issues, there were many people who saw it as a lack of courage to act swiftly or an elite intellectual proactice.
Andrew James Breitbart was an American conservative journalist, writer, and commentator who was the founder of Breitbart News and a co-founder of HuffPost.
