Posted on 10/15/2006 8:52:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Senator Barack Obama, a rising political star who generates extensive media coverage, is reportedly leaving the door open to a 2008 presidential run.
The Democratic lawmaker appears on Time magazine's cover, coinciding with the release of his latest book, "The Audacity of Hope," which sets out his political views.
Asked if he will enter the race for the White House once November's midterm legislative elections are out of the way, Obama, 45, avoids offering a definitive answer, but appears to be more seriously weighing the idea.
"When the election is over and my book tour is done, I will think about how I can be most useful to the country and how I can reconcile that with being a good dad and a good husband," he is quoted as saying by Time.
"I haven't completely decided or unraveled that puzzle yet," said Obama, the only African-American currently serving in the US Senate.
Obama generates strong enthusiasm among Democratic party activists but some pundits have warned that a presidential run in 2008 might be too much too soon for the young and inexperienced senator. Others believe that the United States may not be quite ready for a black president.
In an excerpt from his new book, Obama argued that progressives should not shy away from referring to religion and faith in political discussions.
"Over the long haul, I think we make a mistake when we fail to acknowledge the power of faith in the lives of the American people, and so avoid joining a serious debate about how to reconcile faith with our modern, pluralistic democracy," Obama writes in the passage of his book carried in Time.
Such an approach is "bad politics" and cedes ground to partisans on the right, he said.
"When we abandon the field of religious discourse -- when we ignore the debate about what it means to be a good Christian or Muslim or Jew; when we discuss religion only in the negative sense of where or how it should not be practiced ... others will fill the vacuum," he said.
"Wonder what his real name is?"
Barack Hussein Obama
ping
he is a black lib/dem....why other qualifications does the lib/dem msm need to hype him?
he is another poster boy of affirmative action!!!
May your TRIBE increase a hundred fold!!!!!!
hmmm ? so a few questions for truth about his past exposes him AND THE MSM
I don't find him good looking at all. Who I like is J.C. Watts... he is both smart and good looking and is a conservative.. much more appealing than Obama.
"Who I like is J.C. Watts... he is both smart and good looking and is a conservative.. much more appealing than Obama."
All that, and he was one heck of a good quarterback at Oklahoma University back when folks knew how to run a wishbone offense.
He proved that at John Bolton's confirmation hearings, when he identified him as "Josh Belton."
An overinflated ego is not a pretty sight.
"Shame on all of you for discounting John Kerry and his service to this country. You have put your political persuasion before respect of someone who served for this country. You should be ashamed."
He's managed to last a week?
I hope he runs. It will be fun rummaging through his closet.
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., signs copies of his new book 'The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream' at a bookstore in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006. It was the first stop on a book tour that will take him to a dozen cities in the next two weeks. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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