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'Obama Looked as if He Needed a Smoke and He Needed it Bad'
by Daniel Freedman
Wed, 14 Feb 2007 at 7:33 AM
updated Wed, 14 Feb 2007 at 8:09 AM
Maureen Dowd writes in the the New York Times: So there he was, trying to meet the deep, inexhaustible needs of both Iowa activists and the global press behemoth on his first swing across the state, while giving up cigarettes ... He was eloquent, if not as inspiring as his advance billing had prepared audiences to expect. He made his first Swift-boat-able slip when he had to apologize for talking about soldiers' lives "wasted" in Iraq. He sounded self-consciously pristine at times, as if he was too refined for the muck of politics. That's not how you beat anybody but Alan Keyes ... He poses for the cover of Men's Vogue and then gets huffy when people don't treat him as Hannah Arendt ... For a man who couldn't wait to inject himself into the national arena, and who has spent so much time writing books about himself, the senator is oddly put off by press inquisitiveness.
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