Just your typical 'Rat.
Posted on 12/11/2006 2:33:11 PM PST by jdm
MANCHESTER, N.H. – With standing room crowds chanting for the star to show, Sunday's Democratic fundraiser could have been a rock concert. But it was only Sen. Barack Obama's first visit to the nation's first primary state.
If Senator Obama should jump into the Democratic presidential primary, where he is now ranked just behind Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York in recent polls, Democrats in the land of retail politics wonder if there's a living room big enough to hold the throngs who'd come to hear him.
"Right now, he's a rock star. Getting 1,500 people out on a Sunday afternoon ... says something different is going on here," says Jim Craig, former Democratic leader in the New Hampshire House.
So what's driving Obama-mania?
It isn't a single set of issues such as the war or the economy. Rather, the attraction seems to be a mix of Obama's own compelling personal narrative and many voters' desire for a less caustic brand of politics.
"It's the sense that you're in the presence of someone who is touched with the gift of grace," says Ross Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. Obama, Illinois' junior senator, exemplifies the hope that there's some way to triumph over the intense polarization of American politics, he adds.
A barely known state lawmaker and community organizer in Chicago, Obama shot to superstar status after an electrifying speech at the 2004 Democratic national convention in Boston. With a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas, he embodies two racial cultures deeply at odds in American history.
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I read that line, said "Barf!" out loud, decided I couldn't read another word, and scrolled down to your image. LOL!
[Hillery is looking for an attractive running mate...]
Bingo. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama, can't you just picture it?
"Barak Obama, the Donovan McNabb of politics...."
Stupidity!!!!!
You got me there, Obama, Blackwell, Steele and Swann are all black...but "one of these people is not like the others"........
Are they a Rat Dream? or a race-traitorous dupe of the VRWC?
Its the MSM "intelligensia" at work. Why else is the Honorable Clarence Thomas relegated to being a tag-a-along to Judge Scalia, rather than the respected jurist that he is?
That's a real insult to Donovan McNabb.
Absolutely correct. This is a media driven show.
Stupidity!!!!!
I know - it's like the run up to the Oscars or the Emmys. Mara Liarson(sic) on Fox said "someone said she hadn't seen such reaction to a candidate since JFK" All style, no substance.
Right. Let's ask how much executive experience, business background he has. Let's ask him about military assets - fiscal and monetary policy, homeland security. Ask him how many cabinet officers are in the executive branch. He is such a juvenile.
But then again, he is only being sent out there as a stalking horse for Hilary. He'll have the skids pulled out very shortly, when the MSM gets its orders.
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We are doooooooooooooooooooooomed.
Yes, he was born in Hawaii to a US-born (Hawaiian) mother and a Kenyan father.
That's scary. And probably not far off track.
What's driving Obama-mania? I think it's a quasi-Stockholm Syndrome. We're at war with Islamist terrorists -- they want us dead -- and the politically correct crowd are feeling guilty that we may be painting all Muslims with the brush. So, what better way to prove our sympathy with the greater Muslim world than to embrace an American politician with an Islamist-like name? "Don't confuse us with that Geo. W. Bush guy...We actually like Muslims. See?! We're willing to fawn and drool all over this Osama Obama guy."
Just your typical 'Rat.
MSM they need news.
Its entirely possible that Prof. Baker was misquoted. The following would be more accurate:
"It's the sense that you're in the presence of someone who is touched with the gift of race," says Ross Baker.
With so many qualified conservative blacks (Thomas, Sowell, Rice, Keyes, etc), the liberals just HAD to jump on the first liberal black who was even marginally palitable.
"It's the sense that you're in the presence of someone who is touched with the gift of grace," says Ross Baker...
Obama is all about white liberals expunging themselves of the "original sin" of racism. Only a properly ordained liberal democrat of color can perform this ritual.
Just think...with an Obama bumpersticker a good liberal can park their hybrid in Harlem with no worries. Its aura of kumbaya will protect it.
I was joking. I know that, but I was being sarcastic to make people think about it, with a middle name like Hussein...
The press.
Born in hawaii to an american white woman, and a kenyan father.
can an admitted coke snorter become president? isn't that a felony?
That's right. He sounds sane. That's unusual for a D.
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