Posted on 11/03/2004 11:19:39 AM PST by Thebaddog
I have been gently reminded that a politician will break your heart. And Lord knows, I've had my heart broken more times than I care to remember. So, many of us are hoping. No, we are praying that Sen. Barack Obama will prove to be a new breed of politician.
We've had our fill of charlatans. They steal your heart with their charisma only to betray you with their chicanery.
As only the third African American to go to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction, we know Obama will go to Washington carrying a heavy burden. He will not just be the Illinois senator representing a diverse population, he will be the only man in the Senate that African Americans can look to as one of their own.
Born to a woman from Kansas and a man from Kenya, Obama never ran from his black ancestry. We loved him for that.
He and his wife, Michelle, and their two children, represent an image seen too seldom in the national spotlight -- an intact, loving, black family.
As one of my single sisters put it, it wasn't Obama's electrifying speech at the Democratic National Convention that moved her.
It was the image of the coffee complexioned, smartly dressed Michelle Obama on the platform, at his side waving at the crowd.
Brown sugar sister
Black women needed that moment. That this Harvard-educated biracial man, who was raised in a white family, chose a brown sugar sister to marry gave black women all over this country a boost.
The Obamas are now the African-American First Family.
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That said, I'm content to have the dems lionize a hollow shell with a pleasing exterior. The less he has to work, the less substance he shows, the better IMHO.
If/when Obama has to sell himself to the American people, I want him to be onproven, untested, and believing in his own invincibility. He'll be just as shocked as his supporters when he falls.
If good looks was all it takes to be a successful candidate, Edwards would have been on the top of the ticket and in the WH today.
Obama just another step and fetch it liberal Democrat.
Anyone who thinks that is not a conservative, troll.
He'll prove an unliked and ineffectual Senator.
Yep, that's how he's struck me, the same old warnmed over Lib'ralism is a slick, new package...ho hum.
FReegards...MUD
Man your post #81 totally nails it about Obama. Talk about an empty suit....Obama isn't even wearing a bathroom robe.
Great. So I'm a troll for pointing out the obvious about Keyes.
I think I'm going to cry now and run to my momma.
You are correct and I will call him a islamic mole.
I'll second that notion
"Perhaps, just perhaps, you should entertain the idea that there are factors beyond "tint" that influence successful men to pursue and marry the women they are with"
Case in point: queer McGreevey and most of closeted Hollywood and their arranged PR marriages - Yack!
"I suppose that explains why he made a point to thank his pastor during his victory speech last night."
Hey if it worked for Bill Clinton being a disengenious christian it can work for anyone.
If Obama was a republican, they would indeed call him an Uncle Tom. Why? Because RATS are racist bigots.
The only "light" coming from Obama is self generated methane that has reached it's combustion temp.
Well, lets see. In Illinois, we have Dick Durbinladen, Babama Osama, Rod Bagoshi* and King Richie the Gunless. It's definitely time for a change here. We need to do something now for 2006 and 2008.
Chicago voters need to understand the benefits a Republican administration can bring to them, and also how they have been ripped off all these years. Daley's scandals and excessive taxation remedies, plus his obscene gun laws, should help.
That's what I look for in a candidate. A good Anglo sounding name! Folks this 'Islamic mole' stuff sounds like something even Alan Keyes wouldn't say at his most floridly impolitic. BO was raised in a Protestant environment his whole life and there's no reason to think he's a Muslim. His mother is a direct descendant of Jefferson Davis!
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