Osama Obama, Osama Hussien ...
Posted on 10/30/2006 3:00:47 PM PST by BlackRazor
Obama in '08 Might Bring GOP Smiles
By Peter Brown
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois is the flavor of the month among Democrats who are seeking an alternative to Sen. Hillary Clinton for president in 2008.
As much as the Republicans would like to see Sen. Clinton as the Democratic nominee, believing she is quite beatable, they probably wouldn't be upset to see Obama as their opponent either.
Actually, they might even like running against him better.
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Among those who know who Obama is - a minority, and disproportionately those who would fit the definition of political junkie -- he is quite popular. But he is a blank slate to most Americans.
In the Quinnipiac Poll quarterly survey of how warmly Americans feel toward their politicians, Obama gets the best grades among the 13 Democrats tested. Yet, his numbers have been going down among non-Democrats as he becomes better known.
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Putting race aside, Obama is at best a more charismatic version of the kind of losing Democratic candidates we have seen in recent decades. The only Democrats elected president since 1960 have been Southerners, and the most recent ones, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, were able to convince voters they were ideological moderates.
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The well-respected National Journal compares members of Congress to their colleagues on a variety of issues on a liberal/conservative scale. Obama ranks high on the liberal scale, slightly more liberal on defense, economic and foreign policy than Sen. Clinton, and slightly less so on social issues.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
No doubt!
Exactly! If this guy was white, no one would know who he is.
Some may think he talks like a moderate without the partisanship that has made Congress a vicious place these days, but his voting record makes it more difficult to make that case in the Sun Belt, where a Democratic must break through in order to win the White House.
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Maybe the fact that Obama has spent little time in Washington, none in the military nor had any other kind of relevant foreign policy credentials won't matter in the face of his personal charm.
I think Hilliary would be easier to beat, however he is eminently beatable.
Right now, I just want 2006 smiles.
This latest crop is the worst of all.
Regards, Ivan
Barack Hussein Obama.
Just using his middle name marginalizes him a bit.
James Polk was our greatest President ever IMO, but he was not a modern Democrat by any stretch. Invaded half of Mexico and started with Canada.
They were right.
Regards, Ivan
The schtick is THIS election. He's the handsome, dynamic, smooth-talking golden boy being pushed hard by the Dem high-level controllers in these last 4 weeks before the voting.
His presumed "star" appeal is being thrust forward to take the voters' minds off of Pelosi, Reid, Durban, Murtha etal. Also off of "cut-and-run" in Iraq, stopping the tax cuts and coddling terrorists.
They've got him flooding the air waves. They've got their willing accomplices in the media writing about him, his phony history, and his "wild" but sexy bachelor life.
If the Dems lose, the media will lose interest in this guy, at least until they start promoting him for president again.
I hope the American voting public keeps its eyes on the ball.
Leni
He was born biracial and raised by his lilly white mother and grandparents.
Oh, yeah! He's had it sooooo hard in THE HOOD...!
As we all know, liberal senators have a great track record of winning the whitehouse.
WIKIPEDIA
Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama, Sr. of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Kenya, and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas. His parents met while both were attending the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where his father was enrolled as a foreign student. In his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, Obama describes a nearly race-blind early childhood. He writes: "That my father looked nothing like the people around me – that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk – barely registered in my mind."[3]
When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced and his father returned to Kenya. His mother then married an Indonesian foreign student, moving to Jakarta with Obama when he was six years old. Four years later, Obama returned to Hawaii to live with his maternal grandparents.[4] He was enrolled in the fifth grade at Punahou School, where he graduated from high school in 1979.[5]
Repeating his 1995 memoir's admission that he had used marijuana during his youth, Obama recently stated before a group of magazine editors: "When I was a kid, I inhaled." He also hinted in his memoir of previously trying cocaine.[6]
After high school, Obama studied for two years at Occidental College, before transferring to Columbia College of Columbia University. There he majored in political science, with a specialization in international relations. Upon graduation in 1983, Obama worked for one year at Business International Corporation before moving to Chicago and taking a job with a non-profit organization helping local churches organize job training programs for residents of poor neighborhoods.[7]
Obama then left Chicago for three years to study at Harvard Law School. He was elected president of the Harvard Law Review, obtaining his Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, in 1991. On returning to Chicago, Obama supported a voter registration drive, then worked for the civil rights law firm Miner, Barnhill and Galland, and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School.[8]
In 1996, Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate from the 13th District in the south side neighborhood of Hyde Park, in Chicago. In January 2003, Democrats regained control of the chamber, and Sen. Obama was named chairman of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee.[9]
Obama helped to author an Earned Income Tax Credit for the state that provided benefits to the working poor.[citation needed] He also worked for legislation that would cover residents who could not afford health insurance, and helped pass bills to increase funding for AIDS prevention and care programs.[citation needed]
In 2000, Obama made an unsuccessful Democratic primary run for the U.S. House of Representatives seat held by four-term incumbent candidate Bobby Rush. Rush, a former Black Panther and community activist, charged that Obama hadn't "been around the first congressional district long enough to really see what's going on".[10] Rush received 61% of the vote, while Obama received 30%.[11]
After the loss, Obama rededicated his efforts to the state Senate. In his 2002 reelection campaign, he was unopposed. Obama authored a death penalty reform law under the guidance of former U.S. Senator Paul Simon.[citation needed] He also pushed through legislation that would force insurance companies to cover routine mammograms.[1]
Reviewing Obama's career in the Illinois State Senate, commentators noted his ability to work effectively with both Democrats and Republicans, and to build coalitions.[12][13] In his subsequent campaign for the U.S. Senate, Obama won the endorsement of the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police, whose officials cited his "longtime support of gun control measures and his willingness to negotiate compromises", this despite his support for some bills that the police union had opposed.[14]
Obama is as white as he is black!!!!!
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