OBAMA FACTOR: Unproven OBAMA showered with Year End praise...

The OBAMA Factor ^ | 01.02.2004

[KMC1]

This week multiple news organizations honored Obama.

In his hometown the Chicago Sun Times named him on of the "Year's Biggest" local stories... "Obama charged onto the national stage at the Democratic National Convention in July with an acclaimed keynote speech declaring "in no other country on earth is my story even possible.'' When his campaign to get to Washington was beginning, Obama himself joked about his name, which he received from his Kenyan father, calling it a possible political liability. But behind the jokes, Obama ran a serious, textbook-perfect campaign. And on the campaign trail, he appealed to everyone across the state, from the inner city to the cornfields. In recent weeks, he has been on the cover of Newsweek and signed a $1.9 million three-book contract. Obama's also already being touted as a likely future presidential or vice presidential candidate." His neighbors and friends to the north in Madison, Wisconsin and The Capital Times named him their person of the year... "Obama beat more prominent Democrats for his party's Senate nomination because he was more courageous politically - opposing the war in Iraq, criticizing the Patriot Act and promising to battle corporate special interests. And he wowed the convention, and the nation, by eschewing standard rhetoric in favor of an uplifting and unifying message that was in stark contrast to the dispiriting politics of 2004. If he carries that courage and vision into the Senate, he may well succeed in setting a different, and better, tone."

And CNN listed him as one of the top "political plays of the year"... "Did the Democrats produce a star? They sure did. 'The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too,' said Barack Obama in his speech at the Democratic National Convention on July 27. Obama won a stunning 43-point victory after wowing Democrats with his spellbinding oratory at the Boston convention."

All and all - a ton of recognition for someone who has yet to accomplish anything in his position - but with the left it often is symbolism that beats out substance...

[TAquinas]

We have met the enemy and he's us.

[BenLurkin]

By all accounts this creepy democrat hack is at the far left of the political spectrum.

If true then this person deserves NO praise and instead should be shunned and condemned.

[solitas]

Of course! Point-out his failings and lies and you're branded a racist. Is he still praising the 'AA' father that abandoned him and his White Mother (who rarely gets mentioned)?

[BobL]

What again has he accomplished?

Got to speak at the Dem convention.
Beat a Republican who didn't stand a chance.
Oh yea - he's handsome.

I was sickened by the way the media played up is victory on election night. He was only up by 50 points in the final polls. It's the same saying Sheila Jackson-Lee getting re-elected in Houston is a major news story. This was sickening.

[FreedomPoster]

Who has good pre-DNC 2004 information on this guy? An Archive Search here at FR yielded little.

[Musket]

...this person deserves NO praise and instead should be shunned and condemned.

Au contraire. Chicago and suburban Democrats orgasm all over themselves at the mere mention of his name.

[Once-Ler]

The MSM can prop up Obama but being a socialist black man is not unique or popular in middle America. One speech doesn't make a carreer. Success in Ill does not equal suceess on the national stage.