I'm on a conference call with I'm on a conference call with Obama staffers about a new voter registration effort. So what is the first question from the reporters on the call? It's about Jeremiah Wright, attempting to generate some new controversy related to his remarks in the interview with Bill Moyers.
Gah.
The same reporter follows with a question about Obama's recent talk about special interests: "Could you give us the name of who those special interests are?" I think it's fair enough to ask about the senator's comments, but what is the point of this question? What does she want, a list or something? As in, "Here are the names and addresses of every special interest, ever."
More importantly, not a single question thus far has had anything to do with voter registration, the ostensible topic of the call. The Obama folks are starting to get annoyed: "You have plenty of access to the campaign to ask all the questions in the world. If you want to ask questions about voter registration, that would be great."
--Kate Sheppard
