Posted on 12/11/2006 12:09:50 PM PST by Diago
Dec. 11 - After a rocking visit to N.H. this weekend, an appearance tonight on Monday Night Football is the latest sign that Barak Obama is running for president.
"We've got a series of very important decisions to make, and we have the opportunity to make them not as Republicans or Democrats, but as Americans," he said in a speech that mentioned health insurance, climate change, lobbying reform and the war in Iraq.
Quoting Martin Luther King Jr., Obama said, "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.
"It doesn't bend on its own," he added. "It bends because each of us individually, we put our hand on that arc, and we bend it in the direction of justice. That, I think, is the essence of hope. And that is what I think America is hungry for, right now. And I'm looking forward to being a part of that process, with you of bending that arc in the direction of justice."
The excitement Obama is generating among crowds in this first-in-the-nation-primary state could be bad news for his possible Democratic rivals, including Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., the presumed frontrunner.
"I was behind Sen. Clinton prior to getting to know Barack Obama," said New Hampshire resident Kim Cain. "I'm a woman. I would love to have a woman president. But I think she's too much of a politician. I think to effect change, we need somebody outside of that system."
But there is much voters do not know about Obama beyond his charisma and message of national unity. And the process through which the American people may learn more about Obama -- his relatively unstudied state legislative voting record, his teenage cocaine use, questions about a land deal he entered into with a questionable character -- may be unpleasant. And new.
"Sen. Obama has never had a rough political week in his life," said Lynn Sweet, a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. "He's never had one negative commercial run against him."
Before another event today for the state Democratic Party in Manchester, at which he was the featured speaker, Obama himself downplayed the voter warmth and the media heat he felt in chilly New England.
"I am suspicious of hype," he said. "I think what's going on is that people are very hungry for something new."
ABC News asked what he would say to voters who may ask what right he has to think about running for president just two years out of the Illinois state senate. Obama said that since he had yet to make up his mind about whether he was in the presidential hunt, a rebuttal would not be forthcoming.
"I don't mind people asking tough questions; I think they should of every candidate," he said. "One of the values of retail politics like New Hampshire is by the end of the process they know where you stand, and they have a sense of who you are."
Leading Democrats say this is not all just hype, and that Obama, should he decide to run, will be a force.
"If I was part of Hillary Clinton's inner circle right now, I'd be worried about Obama," said Democratic strategist Donna Brazille. "He has the ability to raise money. He also has the ability to tap into a vast network of activists."
Obama supporters point out that his mere existence brings out Clinton's greatest vulnerability as a public figure -- likeability.
His staffers jokingly say, "Don't tell mama I'm for Obama."
"Mama," of course, is Clinton.
It may be, as Clinton allies argue, that Obama does more to hurt the other Democratic presidential hopefuls, such as John Edwards or John Kerry, than the powerhouse Clinton.
Either way, Obama will leave New Hampshire tonight setting a pretty high bar for visits to the Granite State, especially considering he'd never even set foot in this state until late Saturday evening.
I dont' like him either, but I dont think he can help that his father, who was Muslim, named him Hussein. I care more about his policies, about which I know nothing.
Kornholer and the other two will probably be chatting with Obama for half the game, ignoring everything on the field. ESPN's coverage has just sucked. The only real night football is Sunday Night with Al Michaels and John Madden.
We're still too close to the events of 911. I wouldn't trust him. The islamic nut can make all the promises in the world but I wouldn't trust him or his religion.
Barak Obama a Muslim apostate headed for the White House? (FR linked)
canadafreepress.com ^ | 3/10/2006 | Judi McLeod
Posted on 03/10/2006 5:35:29 AM PST by Dark Skies
Essentially Obama is a Christian convert--but also then a Muslim apostate.
The "What If" category of "the new face of change and reform for the democratic party" doesnt get written up by the mainstream media.
What if Obama is engaged in pious fraud? This is a Muslim practice of pretending not to be Muslim to further the cause of Islam or to "defend the faith". He becomes President and then says, "Gee
I think I want to be Muslim again" after he finds the "football" in his hands that carries the launch codes for the USA nuke forces.
Is the "New Face" theory espoused in USA Today, New Face as in the "Portrait of Dorian Grey"?
What if Obamas into Pious Fraud IslamHudaibiyah treaty"kiss the hand of your enemy until you can cut it off"? (www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/708295/posts). Not Obama? Remember the pictures of the little kids bobbing their heads up and down at the madrassas? They are all of the age Obama would have been in back in Indonesia.
What if the converted-to-Christianity Barak Obama decides to exercise his right to revert back?
Your eyesight must have had drastic improvement. Suzie is only hot compared to the ugly skank who works with her.
I hate females on the sidelines. At least with Phyllis George or Jane Kennedy I could turn the sound down and enjoy. With this dame even that doesn't help.
Cossell was a bust without Dandy Don Meredith.
Howard needed Don's boots to throw up on.
My dead cat is more qualified than this dope.
Soros?
If he was dead, Al Michaels would be turning over in his grave.
Genius!
What a joke. Barack Hussein Obama has absolutely nothing in common with the experience of American Blacks. He grew up in a wealthy white family. His father was a wealthy Muslim landowner in Africa, as was his grandfather. He made an outrageous lie at the DNC saying his father was a poor goat herder, when he employed hundreds of employees as a landowner.
The MNF games have been incredibly dull this year. Looks like the NFL gave the better games to NBC SNF on purpose to reward Al Michaels. SNF has had some of the finest games of the season.
HE IS NOT MUSLIM!
Hussain Obama is totally unqualified...but so was algore and he had 50+ MILLION IDIOTS vote for him. Those are the same idiots that will vote for Hitliary and/or Obama Osama.
Seventy five percent of the electorate in this country are intellectually lazy, ignorant even.
It's horrible what this country is going to go through in the next three years...I can only hope we survive.
Take 'er easy across the pond, I may have to return to Scotland...
G
How do we know?
He DID attend muzzie school in Indonesia didn't he?
Once a muzzie, always a muzzie right?
They'll kill ya if you convert right?
No Sharia laws in the USA!!
What a loss for the Thursday Night Football. Bryant Gumbel can gush and slobber over left wingers better than whoever those guys are that are doing MNF.
Let them continue their political subliminal rants! MNF TV ratings in the past have been in the tank and if they continue with their stupidity, they too will go under!
"Remember Semmi, we will be poor goat herders while I look for my bride"
I think it's mean spirited and very low of people who are obsessed with this guy's middle name. If that's ALL you have to criticize him about, then that's pretty sad and shows the GOP has NOTHING better to offer.
It's also pretty sad that you obsess over him going to a school in Indonesia that may or may not be Muslim. Looks like he went there until he was 10.
"When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced and his father returned to Kenya. His mother married Lolo Soetoro [5], 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.[6] He was enrolled in the fifth grade at Punahou School where he graduated from high school in 1979."[7]
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