1.0 link 84581 <![CDATA[Obama Adviser: Barack "Doesn't Go On TV And Have Crying Fits"]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/02/obama-adviser-barack-does_n_84581.html The advisor, retired Gen. Merrill A. "Tony" McPeak, said in a telephone interview that Obama has "real gravitas, not artificially created, focus-grouped, poll-directed, rehearsed gravitas."

He also said Obama "doesn't go on television and have crying fits; he isn't discovering his voice at the age of 60" -- references to Clinton's much-publicized show of emotion during the New Hampshire primary campaign and her speech after winning the contest in which she declared that she had "found my voice."

McPeak later retracted his...

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