“How, then, has Obama been saddled with an image of being long on inspiration and short on details? The answer is that journalists are not accustomed to covering a candidate who moves crowds the way Obama does, who uses speech cadences and rhythm like Martin Luther King Jr. without making his talk explicitly about race. Sen. Clinton already owned the policy-wonk slot, so by default, Obama was cast as the poetic one.” WayLongDoeUseInspirationMovingAnswersRacePolicyKingsSpeechClintonCastsDetailsCrowdsRhythmJournalistCandidatesPoeticAccustomedLutherCoveringDefaultCadence Author:Howard Kurtz
