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Barack Obama: Could he be too popular?
St Louis Post-Dispatch ^
| 9/16/06
| Kevin McDermott
Posted on 09/17/2006 7:06:06 PM PDT by TravisBickle
For a politician, is there such a thing as too much popularity?
If there's any cloud over U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's seemingly charmed political life, it may be that one.
With national political pundits now using words such as "messiah" in connection with the Chicago Democrat - and one former campaign opponent calling on him to run for president - some say he could ultimately be rising so fast and high in the American consciousness that he may end up with nowhere to go but down.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2sweet; bisexual; emptysuit; kingbarack; muslim; obasms; osamaobama; racecard
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Poor, poor Barack. A "messiah"?
Someone really wants to put this genie back in the bottle.
To: TravisBickle
You owe me a new keyboard sir. I just puked all over mine.
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posted on
09/17/2006 7:07:31 PM PDT
by
Phibes
To: TravisBickle
Obama gives empty suits a bad name.
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posted on
09/17/2006 7:07:39 PM PDT
by
exit82
(Sorry. You, along with Pluto, have just been voted out of the solar system(from FreeperLasVegasMac).)
To: TravisBickle
Let him run for President of Nigeria ...
To: TravisBickle
To: TravisBickle
he has already peaked with me , and is on his way down.
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posted on
09/17/2006 7:08:59 PM PDT
by
sgtbono2002
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: TravisBickle
Just what we need - an Islamic senator.
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posted on
09/17/2006 7:10:11 PM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: TravisBickle
The second Barack has to REALLY propound on the issues he will make people laugh at him mercilessly.
The man is nothing but abstract talking points. He has not CLUE about the issues, nor a REAL opinion on them.
"Empty suit" doesn't BEGIN to explain how facile and empty he really is.
To: TravisBickle
The media's Obasms are all fake.
9
posted on
09/17/2006 7:11:03 PM PDT
by
RightWingAtheist
(Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)
To: TravisBickle
I don't like him. There's something about his manner. So smooth it makes me think of snake oil.
Just an impression.
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posted on
09/17/2006 7:12:07 PM PDT
by
Irish Rose
(Will work for chocolate.)
To: TravisBickle
But the MSM is unbiased and professional.
They would NOT promote (er, anoint) a democrat socialist, would they?
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posted on
09/17/2006 7:12:46 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: TravisBickle
What is this garbage? We have a guy who smiles and delivers a speech well and all of a sudden he's going to bring world peace and cure warts. A speech and a grin does not make a man president. Just ask Mario Cuomo.
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posted on
09/17/2006 7:13:29 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: Right Wing Assault
Uh....remember Bill Clinton?
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posted on
09/17/2006 7:14:33 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(I think the real problem is islamo-bombia! (Rummyfan))
To: TravisBickle
I think his popularity is manufactured. Most people don't even know who he is.
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posted on
09/17/2006 7:14:42 PM PDT
by
JamesP81
(The answer always lies with more freedom; not less)
To: Irish Rose
So smooth it makes me think of snake oil. Bingo. He gives me the same feeling I had when I saw my first Bill Clinton photo.
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posted on
09/17/2006 7:15:47 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: TravisBickle
He is a 'prettyboy' tall and elegant but is he smart enough to do anything? I don't think I have heard him speak.
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posted on
09/17/2006 7:16:23 PM PDT
by
Ditter
To: goodnesswins
Clinton didn't even need speeches. It didn't matter what He said, some people just thought He was Messiah.
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posted on
09/17/2006 7:19:00 PM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: TravisBickle
The media is so predictable, watching his speech at the convention, you knew the media would anoint him the new Savior of America.
It is like when you read the description of a movie, and before it is released, you know it will be nominated for an Oscar, because of it's political or social message.
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posted on
09/17/2006 7:19:31 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(illicit sin holds a sway over their lives to the point where boldness begins to be craved.)
To: TravisBickle; Clintonfatigued; Kuksool; AuH2ORepublican; AntiGuv; JohnnyZ
"And I'm too sexy for my sheets, too sexy for my sheets..."
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posted on
09/17/2006 7:25:06 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
To: Ditter
He is a 'prettyboy' tall and elegant but is he smart enough to do anything? I don't think I have heard him speak. What little I've heard of him speaking suggests to me that he's fairly intelligent.It also suggests that he doesn't have any genuine core values.
But then,that's no surprise,given the "D" usually seen after his name.
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posted on
09/17/2006 7:26:33 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
("An empty limousine pulled up and Hillary Clinton got out")
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