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Barack Obama in Iowa:
“The sooner he runs, the better,” is how Sheila Pottebaum, a Des Moines psychologist, described her feelings about calls for the first-term Illinois Democrat to jump into the presidential race. “He has the personality and the moral convictions.”
Obama, who was the featured speaker at Sen. Tom Harkin’s annual steak fry, has repeatedly said he is not a presidential candidate for 2008 and that he has no interest in running. Yet his invitation to speak at Harkin’s showcase event has only elevated Obama’s profile.
Personally, I don’t buy the idea that Obama needs more time in the Senate. Frankly, I feel he should run before the senate wipes out all his humanity and renders him incapable of human conversation (see Kerry, John).
Oliver,
Barack is not ready to be President of anything, much less of the entire country.
Doesn’t it strike you as strange all this fawning and adulation for this Senate brotha?
Are these people for real?
The media gave us Colin and Condi and I’m night quite ready to swallow another one of their contrived negroes.
I need some time. I have no hatred for the brotha, I just don’t think I have much love for him either.
I think Obama’s voting for Condi’s confirmation curbed my enthusiasm.
I am also starting to realize that if we ever have a black president. He will not be of our choosing.
I have to mentally adjust to that.
May God help him if he really does want it.
Personally, I don’t buy the idea that Obama needs more time in the Senate. Frankly, I feel he should run before the senate wipes out all his humanity and renders him incapable of human conversation (see Kerry, John).
The reason Obama needs to run now is to avoid a Senate *record* that the Republicans can spin. One alternative would be to run for governor and then vault to Prez from there. That would make more sense.
Running for Governor in a state with no contribution limits will not make Barack a better politician. It will make him a better prostitute. If you believe what you say, help the brotha get on the ticket in 08′as Hillary’s Vice.
I have no objection to an Obama Presidential run on the basis of his inexperience, or his race. I object because he is little better than Hillary Clinton or Joe Lieberman on the issues. We don’t need another symbolic President who simply speaks well and shows intelligence but enacts policies that are detrimental to the working people of America. We had that already in Bill Clinton.
Definitely Hillary Clinton and Obama are the two leading Democrats. Nothing confirms that any better than the stirrings of hate for Obama on the left. Above he is already a “contrived negro.”
Ms Clinton recently laid into the yahoo haters who made the ‘murder the president’ movie. Good for her!
And Obama says things like:
“We Democrats are just, well, confused,” Obama writes. He goes on. “Mainly, though, the Democratic Party has become the party of reaction. In reaction to a war that is ill-conceived, we appear suspicious of all military action.
“In reaction to those who proclaim the market can cure all ills, we resist efforts to use market principles to tackle pressing problems. In reaction to religious overreach, we equate tolerance with secularism, and forfeit the moral language that would help infuse our policies with a larger meaning.”
On Bush, Obama relates two encounters with the president. “Both times I found the President to be a likable man, shrewd and disciplined but with the same straightforward manner that had helped him win two elections.”
He’s still a Democrat,as is Ms Clinton, but clearly he has not drank a lot of Hodean’s Kool Aid.
We don’t need another symbolic President who simply speaks well and shows intelligence but enacts policies that are detrimental to the working people of America. We had that already in Bill Clinton.
Yeah, okay, charley. Whatever.
As opposed to a symbolic President who speaks poorly and shows no intelligence but enacts policies that are detrimental to the working people of America.
I just wish the senator would stop publicly criticizing Democrats, which, going by news items, is all he’s got to say. There’s plenty to criticize, but his comments have negative effects on both Democrats and the general public when delivered as speeches covered by the media. Let him issue critiques to his own in private and in public criticize Republicans.
How about noting that the Rs use religion for their own anti-Christian purposes or that George Bush won’t talk to his own bishop and doesn’t go to church?
Well, I like Obama and I think a Clinton-Obama ticket would be a good one for the Ds. You heard it here first, folks” Clinton/Obama (female- male, white-black, east-midwest, old-new; – only negative: both US senators). Dugger, everyone!!!
I am going to go all in on this hand.
I was electrified as I have never been before by the time Obama had reached the third line of his 2004 convention speech.
I have been in and out of politics at the precinct and ward organizational and campaign level since I was 8 years old.
In the 70s I hit three home runs with Romano Mazolli to the House, Wendell Ford to the Senate, and Harvey Sloane to two terms as mayor of Louisville KY. and one as County Judge Executive to Jefferson County, KY.
I came of age in the Camelot years. I was in the military in the middle of the agony of Viet Nam.
I went to college and graduated into the industrial melt down of 1974.
I meet a lot of elementary, high school and college kids through my backup job of reading coach and content tutor. I will be able to maintain a nice retirement because of the functional illiterate, high GPA, wad of kids that will be presenting themselves to the college world for the next 10 or so years.
We have had no galvanizing leadership in this country since Kennedy threw out the challenge to go to the moon. Just as Kennedy did through out his brief Presidency, Obama will shake the first time voter and the follow on voters as never before.
The power of affirming words and a clear word picture of vision and possibilities will break down the walls of negativity and skepticism as never before.
Let’s get a bit biblical for a moment.
Barak, you son of lion killers and frontier sod busters – you stand before the Jericho like walls of error and great transgression, break down these walls!
Lash them with their own imagery.
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Oh! With just a bit of research. I must add -
“Barak is remembered in the New Testament as one who “through faith defeated kingdoms in conflict”. (Hebrews 11:32-34)”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barak
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Dugger is right about the power of positive and exciting message with hope. Especially after so many years of Bush’s negative and fear mongering that has made people cranky and parinoid and willing to accept torture in some cases.
We also need someone who can make people come together after the bitter partisanship.
I voted for Obama for Senator 2 years ago. I felt he would make a good Senator and follow in the same traditions of Durban and the Late Paul Simon.
I don’t know about President for one reason. Not his experience as if you have good advisers and are bright, you can get the job done. Afterall, Bush didn’t learn anything from his politco dad and being Governor. Obama is extreemly intellegent.
My uncertainty is from the major job the next President will have cleaning up the mess of Bush. It’s not going to be like any other time. The damage domestically, economically and internationally done by Bush is going to take a giant to straighten out.
Y’all
Barack Obama has done an excellent job positioning himself for a White House bid. He took the world by storm two years ago and he is still riding the wave. The proof is in the pudding of his being asked to campaign for Jim Webb in Virginia. Jim Webb’s hapless behind could use the help with the African American electorate given his penchant for calling Affirmative Action “state sponsored racism.”
Why would a conservative former republican want Obama? It’s because he has perfected the “safe negro two-step” For every step forward, the brotha takes two steps back. Obama opposes the war, but supports the confirmation of Condoleezza Rice and campaigns for the Lieberwhore in Connecticut.
Don’t get a brotha wrong. I will happily support any ticket this cat can get on. It could be worse, we could end up with Harold-I-made-up-a-story-that-my-grandma-was-white-Ford,jr.
Heh heh
As an Illinois Democrat who lives in the very Red part of downstate Illinois let me clarify the feelings of some folks that have followed Obama for quite awhile. HE IS THE REAL DEAL. Smart, articulate, fair minded, very progressive but with the right amount of savy and leadership skills to know how to get things done. He should run in 08 and I hope he does. The suggestion that he should be Govenor first shows a lack of understanding of Illinois politics. Our Governors do not go on to the White House they go to prison (2 Dems, two Repubs, and a Dem in office now under investigation that will be re-elected because his opponet is also a crook). He would be a great Governor but the taint of that position in Illinois is a killer. Just ask Jim Edgar. I say he should run before he becomes tainted by the DC establishment. He sure as hell cannot do worse than what we have now or what the Repubs have on the table in O8. Remember also that he knows the constitution inside and out. I say Obama 08.
Bigot alert!! Bigot alert!! Oliver, someone just called Obama articulate!! Don’t you remember? That’s an insult.
Good catch, Cyrus!
Why is it that Democrats criticizing their own party damages the party’s election efforts, but criticizing the war doesn’t damage the war effort?
Is criticism of our own healthy or isn’t it? I say it is. Sweeping the Democratic Party’s problems under the rug or trying to keep it on the downlow isn’t very useful.
Most of the Democrats that criticize the party tend to have ideas of their own that they think would work. Instead of bashing them for daring to criticize the Holy Party, why not adopt their ideas?