Why does senator Obama refers about" Washington"as if he weren't a member of Washington himself,as an outsider

Question

Washington this and Washington that while he IS a senator, a member of Washington himself. Double Standard???

Answer 1

Because he gets away with it.  The media has treated him like a rockstar and until just recently, not asked him any serious questions.  Had he been exposed early on for the charlatan he is, there is no way he'd be the nominee.

Answer 2

His rating is lower than bush he has done a horrible job.

Answer 3

He Is a Washington insider as well as a back room Chicago political fixer. What a con man!

Answer 4

brian, peddle your rhetoric elsewhere, obama is a politician plain and simple. he turned down public financing after he agreed to it. he discovered he could raise a lot more money than what he thought he could when he agreed. he did it for political expediency, no more, no less. sorry but i'm not stupid enough to believe george soros and rupert murdoch aren't special interest people. apparently you are. his change mantra has been tried before and failed before. it isn't change to raise taxes, the dems have controlled congress for 42 of the last 56 yrs. and my taxes have gone up. i guess yours haven't.

Answer 5

He might refer to himself as a Washington outsider.  His campaign  staff is made up of Washington insiders. Lot of these are former Jimmy ( i am scarred of bunny rabbits) Carter administration people.

Answer 6

...For the same reason you say "typical" when describing people who are rather unamazingly like yourself. He sees the difference between himself and his "assigned" demographic, just as you think you do, yours.

Answer 7

Every candidate has to emphasize their perceived strengths. Senator Obama is on his first term in Washington (as are 32 out of 100 senators) so he has to emphasize that he is an "agent of change" rather than an experienced Washington Insider.

  McCain will do the same thing even though he was elected to go to Washington in 1982 as a representative. He will emphasize his outsider status in a number of issues. No presidential candidate wants to be seen as part of the machine.

Answer 8

It comes down to this. People are pissed at the state of the country. People see Washington as blind to the real problems, and unable to find solutions. The country overwhelmingly hates Bush.

So you have one candidate that has been in Washington since 2004, and another who has been in Washington since 1982. You have a new face, and an old face that has been part of the corruption in Washington (Keating Five, etc.). You have McCain on one hand who has lobbyists running his whole campaign, and other the other hand, you have Obama who is raising his money from record numbers of individuals who give less than $200 on average, and who refuses special interest money.

Answer 9

"Us against them" Marxist mentality.

Answer 10

OK, I'll make this very clear.  Anyone in Washington can consider it separate from himself, especially a senator.  Do you know how much they have to deal with people shooting down their ideas and trying to make them look like fools?  They do see Washington as a separate entity, and no, it's not a double standard.  You should learn what those words mean as well, because it has nothing to do with this.  A double standard means that you believe something about a specific entity and not the same about something which would be quite similar.  If you said something like Obama considers himself separate from Washington but considers McCain a part of Washington, that would be different.

Heh, really makes me want to believe what you're saying when you call me "whiteflag" and then proceed to debase my point by not making a single actual argument.  All I ask is that you read the definition of what it is to be a double standard.  Your knowledge of the English language is obviously not very good or else you'd actually say something worthwhile in response to me, instead of arguing the semantics of these 2 words.