In other words, "Geez Louise, isn't this thing mine already?!  C'mon!!!!!!"

I'm sure those voters who are on-the-fence and have yet to decide are going to enjoy hearing he's "bored".  Plus he'll now go under the microscope and people will no longer listen to whatever message he's pushing that day and, instead, just spend their time playing Gotcha and catching him when he's "bored" eg.  "yeah, he really DID seem bored, didn't he?".  

Not exactly what you want voters focusing on in the home stretch, in my opinion.

Since it's so hard to find really experience, found this interesting bit of Obama visiting Azerbaijan.
Obama to Azeri Dictator: Set Our Big Macs Free

So what topics did Obama raise with Aliyev? Human rights? Political reform? His government's flagrant corruption and theft of energy revenues? Well, actually the topics he called to Aliyev's attention were "slightly more parochial," the Tribune reported:

Why is McDonald's having difficulty opening restaurants in Baku [the Azeri capital]? And why is Boeing shut out of selling planes to the state-owned airline? "They are two Illinois companies who want to do business and expand," Obama explained, "but they are having roadblocks." He didn't walk away with a concrete answer. He could, however, report back to constituents that he voiced concern at the highest levels of government.

Don't tell me that you have exhausted the primary.  When a man says that, one knows that the primary has exhausted him.

"Campaigning is hard work!"

Zelda Fitgerald: " She refused to be bored chiefly because she was not boring"

Emerson:  "Every hero becomes a bore at last"

Bierce:  "Bore a person who talks when you wish him  to listen"

But I too am reaching a fatigue factor with the Democratic Party Leadership and the Obama supporters Clyburn, Wright, Brazile, Pelosi and Politco's article quoting a Sr. Dem Leadership source thinking that Independents are what's needed not the Dem Base as their mind set.  Add there will be two weeks of nothing but what was kicked off by Clyburn, Barzile, Clay this weekend and now followed up with Wright press of non stop myopic focus on racial tensions inclusive of their added threat of militancy, the reintroduction of the nation of Islam as body guards to spice up the drama of the race, Also Sharpton's threats to shut down NY hurt pocketbooks are making it feel as if no Dem can win the White House in Nov with all this baggage.  

Having to wait for obstacles to be removed so he doesn't have to walk around them or knock them down himself must be such a drag.

Plus, it's interesting tha Obama gets bored just when he has to ask the real Democratic base for their votes, instead of orating to a teleprompter in front of cheering fans. Odd, that.

He also wasn't raised in "humble" or "modest" or "on food stamps" envinroment.

He lived with his wealthy, oil executive stepfather in a gated community until he was 10 and then he lived with his wealthy grandparents (his grandfather owned a large furniture store and his grandmother was a bank executive) until he graduated from his elite private high school.

One of his points was that Obama is stale now.  He needs to remember to feed the press.  If not, they'll go out and find stories themselves.

I think his stump speech is stale.  

Another point was to give people specifics.  I still say he can't and won't because he hasn't thought it through.

What amazes me is the senseless debate we have over the meaningless rhetoric that is our campaign system.

Here is an idea for any reporter who wants to do some real work, perhaps even commit to writing a real story.  Go back through the past 4 election cycles and find EVERY american mentioned in the debates who "lost their job" "does not have health ins" etc etc, and ask them if the president got them their job back, made our "country great again" made their lives easier etc.  Do it for Hillarys senate races, Mccains, Obamas and give me real stories on how any of these elected officials changed their lives signficantly as a result of their election to higher office.

Save me the tired bs that it is wrong for a candidate to be bored, if they are not bored than they are completely, wholly full of dung.   I can see why the press looks forward to a flag burning or lapel pin or a flaky minister, they too are bored.

I am willing to bet that less than 5% of the people on this site watched more than 10 of the debates in full.  I am willing to bet that it is probably true of most Americans.  Why?  

In strategy sessions last week, advisers concluded that Mr. Obama, of Illinois, needed to do a better job reminding voters of his biography, including his modest upbringing by a single mother and one of his first jobs as a community organizer helping displaced steel mill workers

I think that the only people urging others to read Obama's Dreams from My Father are people who haven't actually read the book themselves.  If they had, then they would understand that it is NOT a good idea to get people to read the book, because then all of their fears about Obama will have been realized.

Background:  I'm a brown guy who grew up in a middle-class/rich white community in a conservative white area of the NorthEast in the 70's and 80's.  I know what it's like to be discriminated against;  my mother was dark and foreign, my father passes for white (he's technically Hispanic, though you wouldn't know it...he easily passes for a white NJ Jew).  So I do understand some of what Obama tries to relate to in his book, but most of what I've been reading has been an angry black man's perspective on the illness of "white people" to "get it", despite having grown up privileged and with a LOT less discrimination in his life than even I had.  So that's the perspective that I'm reading from.

In Part One of the book he desperately tries to paint his grandparents as a sort of clueless, racist white people, despite anything written about his grandfather is pretty darned accepting of his daughter's relationship and marriage to an African black.  His portrayal of his grandmother is worse, his portrayal of his mother as somewhat of a fetishist (just because she likes black men and said that "Harry Belafonte was the most beautiful man in the world") was even more disturbing.

He says he turned to Lolo (that Indonesian Muslim his mother married after Barack Sr. left her) for guidance, yet here's a gem on page 39 from Lolo himself:

"Your mother has a soft heart," Lolo would tell me one day after my mother tried to take the blame for knocking a radio off the dresser.  "That'sa good thing in a woman.  But you will be a man some day, and a man needs to have more sense."

Nice, and a bit explanatory re: the reluctance to address any of the sexism in the media against Hillary or the refusal to acknwoledge or sense his own ingrained sexism in his own remarks.

On page 99, he denigrates the very kind of "progressive" student that's voting for him now;  he goes on a rant about how after a pretty "black" girl told him that she wasn't black that she was "multiracial" and that it was blacks who were always forcing her to choose that "that was the problem with people like Joyce" because they avoided black people.  That only "white culture" had individuals and at the end of the rant he gives his most mocking of comments:

Don't you know who I am?  I'm an individual! (pg. 100)

Yeah, it was apart form the rest of the rant and definitely came off as sarcastic to me.

Anyway.  There's also other stuff I'm sure Obama really doesn't want people to see, like how Hussein Obama (his African grandfather) wrote to the Dunhams about how he disapproved of the marriage and didn't want "Obama blood to be sullied by a white woman" (pg. 126).  Of course, Obama never goes into that and leaves it at that, but instead goes on to harp more about his mother (when his mother really did try to give him the best life she could've given him).  When he later describes his sister's visit when they're older, his sister tells Obama about how Barack Sr. liked having a white woman for a wife but was also very pleased to be able to flaunt his "beautiful African wife" at the same time.  Obama never seems to address this polygamy at all, instead opting towards denigrating anything and everything white vs. black.

I wrote about this in another thread, but he goes off on a huge ramble about black esteem when one of his female AA "friends" had suddenly shown up to his office wearing blue eye contacts (pg. 192-195).

"What did you do to your eyes?"
"Oh, these."  Ruby shook her head an laughed.  "They're just contacts, Barack.  The company I work for makes cosmetic lenses, and I get them at a discount.  You like them?"
"Your eyes looked fine the way they were."
"It's just for fun," she said, looking down.  "Something different, you know."  (pg. 192)

and from then on until page 195 he goes on this rambling account about black self-esteem and how he perceived that it couldn't be achieved without subjugating oneself to That Evil Whiteness.  To me, it's like his own version of Farrakhan's "blue eyed devils" comment...he just berated her and made her feel like crap all because she was wearing blue eye contacts!

Eh.  Each and every instance where he writes of Nation of Islam members he's encountered or of black nationalism is pretty positive.  I'm on page 217, but only because I have to pace myself.  Every time I think he's going to write something that shows he's becoming enlightened towards race relations, he writes something inherently Angry and Black and it sets it back for me.  I can see exactly why he gravitated towards someone like Jeremiah Wright.