Ignoring speeches MSNBC's Alexander claims Obama "hasn't really been all that specific about policy"

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Ignoring recent speeches, MSNBC's Alexander claimed Obama "hasn't really been all that specific about policy"

In discussing the upcoming Democratic presidential debate on the April 24 edition of MSNBC Live, anchor Peter Alexander claimed that "the conventional wisdom on Barack Obama is that he's a great speaker, a terrific orator, but hasn't really been all that specific about policy," and asked Washington Post staff writer Chris Cillizza: "Is his performance likely to be the most scrutinized? Does he have the most to win or lose, perhaps?" Neither Alexander nor Cillizza noted that Obama gave a detailed foreign policy speech the previous day and offered an energy policy proposal on April 20.

An April 24 New York Times article reported on Obama's April 23 speech in Chicago:

Presenting himself as a presidential candidate ''who can speak directly to the world,'' Senator Barack Obama on Monday outlined his approach to foreign policy, vowing to double foreign aid, expand and modernize the military, and rebuild fractured alliances.

In a speech before the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Mr. Obama combined a harsh critique of the Bush administration with a call for the United States to resist the temptation to turn inward. A robust engagement in world affairs, he said, will help reduce the threat of terrorism and repair what he characterized as the nation's bruised image across the globe.

''America cannot meet the threats of this century alone, but the world cannot meet them without America,'' Mr. Obama said. ''We must neither retreat from the world nor try to bully it into submission -- we must lead the world, by deed and example.''

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1. Get the feeling they are trying to overhype him, to lay it on too thick

so that he can't possibly measure up?

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2. actual support for their catchy one liners is not what the Corp Punditry does

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3. And unfortunately, some Democrats use the same talking point.

Obama has been giving detailed speeches the past couple of weeks, but the media is too damn lazy to get off their asses and actually LISTEN to what he's saying in his speeches.

Obama has had an Iraq war withdrawal plan for the past few months, but the media never mentions it.