Posted on 10/23/2006 6:30:17 PM PDT by PghBaldy
My question is the motivation of the MSM to harp on this guy two weeks before the election. I posted earlier on the Mark Levin Lounge Thread that I think the Dems are behind this frenzy. Thought is that the Dems would push this lovable fuzz ball to assimilate the entire Democratic Party with Obama and his image. Dems hoping that American people will think all Dems are lovable, rock stars and just great candidates!
I know. George Clooney just endorsed him for President in 08. Amazing. Obama hasn't been a Senator for 2 years, yet prominent dems are endorsing him to run for Prez.
Damn, with a voting record like this, I would have guessed this guy was the senior democrat senator from Mass., not a junior fellow? Sounds like he has a lot of promise in the democrat party?????? Maybe not in the real world, but definitely in the democrat party.......
ho hum, just another democrat with grandiose self-aggrandizement aided by his liberal friends in the old media.
Ol' George Jefferson would characterize Osama-Obama as nothing other than a ZEBRA!
Black? Yeah, right.
This outburst of publicity for osama obama indicated to me that the RATS are very nervous about hillary's chances in '08.
Yeah, but -- but -- but OPRAH likes him and that's probably enough for the Clinton Soccer Moms still out there.
God save us...
And who could forget that proud day!
My thought is Obama feeding frenzy works for the Dem. Party now, for this election cycle. As for all the chatter lasting through to '08, not going to happen. I just think that the Dem Party is using Obama (and he is a faithful party loyalist) to change the subject off the individual analysis of current Dem runners. Why else would all the MSM be in lock step chattering away everywhere about this person now, two weeks before the election. Cover of magazines, every talking show and news show are just too eager to talk about a person that is not worthy, unless it is to distract. Just my thoughts!
The Dems appear to be dodging a bullet. The GOP has 3 African-American candidates for high office who looked like they could win (Blackwell, Swann and Steele) As of now, only Steele looks like he might win.
The Dems have Ford and Obama.
How do the Dems keep 90% or more loyalty from the African-American population if the perception is that they have at least an equal chance of power in the GOP?
Maybe by pretending to have an African-American presidential candidate? If it gets them through this election, it's good enough.
Other than the veneers on his teeth, I've seen nothing on him which is attractive. nothing.
After living through the Clinton year's and seeing how they connive to gain and keep power I never look at the original intent as displayed. Always am thinking what really is the reason.
Of course that is what he will do. I'll bet we will never ever hear him talk about his mother or grandparents that raised him. I'll bet he will mysteriously find the father that abandoned him as well.
That's actually a plausible analysis, a distraction, a nice "face" for the Democratic Party, blah, blah, blah. I think Obama wants to sell his books and is taking advantage of the opportunity, lol. But then again, there is always the possibility that the idiot is beleiving his own press.
Obama is too liberal, too young and too inexperienced for high office. IMHO, he shouldn't even be in the Senate.
I agree.
Remember that the Dems count on loyal voting blocs. They don't compete on issues. They count on Blacks, Seniors, Jews, Catholics, Labor Unions (although they seem to be losing votes in private Unions, they still win in Gov't and Teacher's Unions).
If any of those blocs start looking at issues instead of just being loyal, the Dems are in trouble.
There was another politician who had a meteoric rise in popularity, and was touted as the next presidential candidate, after an eloquent Dem Convention speech:
Mario Cuomo in 1984. He was even more qualified than Barack, having been Gov of NY. Fortunately, because of all the early hype, conservatives were given enough time to expose the *real* Mario, so nothing ever came of it. Hopefully, the same will happen with Obama.
What does Obama bin bama bring to the table that someone like LA Rep. Bobby Jindal does not?
(From Fred Barnes for the Weekly Standard by way of Powerline Blog):
Jindal has an extraordinary life story. His given first name is Piyush, but at age 4 he decided to change it to Bobby. In high school, he abandoned his parents' Hindu faith and converted to Catholicism. (His father is an engineer, his mother an assistant secretary in the Louisiana state labor department.) By the time he graduated from Baton Rouge High School, Jindal was a Republican. When he got to Brown--an eight-year medical program had attracted him--he naively asked about joining the College Republicans. There was no chapter at Brown. The Republican club Jindal subsequently helped found grew, he says, to 300 members, a surprisingly large membership for a liberal Ivy League school.
His post-Brown career has been dizzying. Instead of pursuing medicine, Jindal studied at Oxford for two years as a Rhodes Scholar, worked the next two years for McKinsey, the business consulting firm, and at age 24 returned to Baton Rouge to take over, at Foster's urging, the mammoth Department of Health and Hospitals. There, he transformed a $400 million deficit into a $220 million surplus...
He's issued lengthy position papers on health care, ethics, economic opportunity, the environment, schools, and religious faith. These were packaged together last week in a glossy 24-page booklet entitled "The Jindal Blueprint for Louisiana--A Bold New Vision." Most notable is the section on "defending the role of faith and values in our state." In it, he tells how a friend led him to Christian faith. "Today, my faith in Jesus Christ is central to who I am, and I pray regularly for God's wisdom in all the parts of my life," he says.
Jindal says he became a Republican as a teenager for two reasons. In Louisiana, with its history of political corruption, Republicans are the reform party. Also, they're the champions of opportunity. "I'd seen what great opportunity my father had [in America] as an engineer," he said in an interview. His mother has succeeded in state government, he said, and "I'm running for governor. This is an amazing country."
As Yogi Berra said of the election of a Jewish mayor of Dublin, "Only in America."
His bio from the biographical directory of the US Congress):
"JINDAL, Bobby, a Representative from Louisiana; born in Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish, La., June 10, 1971; B.S., Brown University, Providence, R.I., 1991; M.Litt., Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1994; secretary, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals 1996-1998; appointed executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, 1998; president, University of Louisiana system, 1999; appointed Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services by President George W. Bush on March 7, 2001; elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Ninth Congress (January 3, 2005-present)."
Does anyone think that if Jindal had won the governorship of LA instead of Blanco the farcical handling of Katrina would have occurred?
Now here is Obama's bio (from the biographical directory of the US Congress):
OBAMA, Barack, a Senator from Illinois; born in Honolulu, Hawaii, August 4, 1961; obtained early education in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Hawaii; continued education at Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif., and Columbia University, New York City; studied law at Harvard University, where he became the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review, and received J.D. in 1992; lecturer on constitutional law, University of Chicago; member, Illinois State senate 1997-2004; elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 2004 for term beginning January 3, 2005."
See the relative lack of accomplishment? And Jindal is a full TEN years younger than Obama!
The Republicans need to recognize a gem in their own party that could easily counter the hyped up Obama.
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