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It takes Maureen Dowd<http://www.irishcentral.com/topics?topic=Maureen+Dowd> to
finally point out what media people have known for months.

Vice President Joe Biden<http://www.irishcentral.com/topics?topic=Joe+Biden> is
more popular than President
Obama<http://www.irishcentral.com/topics?topic=Barack+Obama> these
days.

Dowd's column this Sunday morning slams Obama and how he treats the media.

Biden on the other hand is praised for his openness and popularity.

"Biden gave a press party at his house recently with a beach theme —
complete with Uzi-size squirt guns and water slides. Journalists came with
their families, schmoozed with top White
House<http://www.irishcentral.com/topics?topic=The+White+House>
officials
like David Axelrod and Rahm
Emanuel<http://www.irishcentral.com/topics?topic=Rahm+Emanuel>,
and watched a dripping wet vice president walk around with his little
grandson. One Obama aide remarked that Biden is “the most beloved person in
the White House.”

"...the vice president is so lacking in any vengeful feelings for past
reporting that left him for dead, I sometimes wonder if he’s really Irish."
Dowd writes.

Dowd writes that Obama was always aloof and distrustful of the press despite
the fact that most adored him during the campaign.

Now that some in the press have turned against him Dowd says Obama is
proving very thin skinned.

" It hurts Obama to be a crybaby about it, and to blame the press and the
“old Washington
<http://www.irishcentral.com/topics?topic=Washington%2c+DC> game”
for his own communication failures." Dowd writes

Amazing isn't it when you think of it that Biden has become the more popular
of the two.

Suddenly Obama's incredible leap from obscurity to the White House is coming
back to haunt him when it comes to the long term savvy on how to deal with
the press.

In this case it is Irish Uncle Joe who is showing the way.
--
Eric D. Schwerin
Rosemont Seneca Partners
(202) 333-1880
eschwerin@rosemontseneca.co