Posted on 10/23/2006 5:38:56 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
October 23, 2006 - 08:17
CBS reporter Gloria Borger has offered an interesting theory to explain the recent outbreak of Obama Fever, also known as Barack Mania: Democrats don't think Hillary can win.,
Appearing on this morning's Early Show, Borger said of Hillary:
"She's the automatic front runner. She has more money, more staff, more supporters lined up. She has Bill Clinton out there who is going to be her campaigner-in-chief."
Borger then dropped this bomb:
"And what you see happening right now is a lot of Democrats looking at the field saying 'oh, Hillary is the natural nominee?' And they don't believe she can win. That's why they are looking elsewhere. That's why you see Barack Obama's name come up now. The public will not see him as an inisder, they will see him as different kind of politician, which might appeal."
But in Borger's view, Barack has his problems too. She observed that he has "no national security experience whatsoever. It's going to be a question that in this post-9/11 world the American public is going to ask. Can we really put somedobdy in the Oval Office who does not have any national security experience? That is going to be a problem."
Hmm, so the Dems' natural front-runner can't win, and the most attractive alternative has "no experience whatsoever" on the most crucial issue of the age. I'd call that a political party with a problem.
Early Show/NewsBusgers Hillary-can't-win ping to Today show list.
Wait til Rove pens the can of worms that is Obama.
What a light weight.
Who has accomplished more in the Senate; Clinton, Obama, or the guy who sweeps the floors?
Obama vs. McCain? I just threw up in my mouth a little bit!
One of these days, the 'Rats are going to be hit over the head with the fact that Obama hasn't done anything. Sure he sounds good on Oprah and all, but he has ZERO experience.
Obama anointed the next Messiah by the esteemed "board of white guys" from the Madison Avenue/Meida/DC axis.
No national security experience?
OK, then, what other kind of experience does he have? [crickets]
Hitlery/Osama '08
Why do mixed race people who have some African ancestry become "black" in the eyes of celebrities and politicians?
Tiger Woods is just as much Asian as he is African.... so is Obama who is part Indonesian...
Are the Black Americans so desperate they borrow or what?
Don't the Dems have anybody that has any, you know, achievements to their name? They have to have at least one governor somewhere who can point to an accomplishment, any accomplishment. All they seem to have is a bunch of media-puffed empty suits.
With two books and a keynote speech, suddenly he's a contender for Leader of the Free World.
So run Rudy with Senator Michael Steele as his running mate.
Let the 'Rats nominate him. He can be totally destroyed in a debate with one single question to which there is no satisfactory answer in a national election:
"You were raised Muslim, why did you convert?"
The old time racist "one drop" rule has come back to bite us.
The guy who sweeps the floor earns more of his pay.
Neither Barack bin Obama nor Hillary Klinton can win - ditto for Kerry and Gore. So I hope the Democrats nominate one of them, or put two of them on ticket together.
95% of the counties in the U.S. are not ready for a completely socialist government, weak national defense and "blame America" defeatism.
His fingerprints are all over this.
There is no way that the Dem hierarchy would support a black candidate for President nor the rank and file for that matter. As the Maryland Dem senatorial primary proved, Dems vote along racial lines in the primaries.
I wonder if Hillary had Obama's FBI file too?
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