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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BINGO! We have a winner.
He will pull in 99.5% of the black vote while Her Heinous will pull in most single women and stoopid women.
What's the matter? Don't you like the sound of the title: President Hussein?
Pre-meditated propaganda from the finest propagandists in the history of civilization.
Robert George (NY Post editorial writer) thinks it's because Americans have a deep yearning for unconventional candidates--i.e., not white males. Although he quickly adds, like the standup comic he is, that some of his best friends are white men.
"Mob rule, by another name= HYPE"
The only problem for the guy is that he is REALLY going to have to watch his back now that the media is NOT giving Hillary as much attention as she believes she is entitled to!!
This man will experience an "accident" of some kind!
Nancee
The media, it's clear. I shocked they are touting him over Hillary.
That is a rather obscure 20th century horticultural reference.
I don't think we have enough dykes.....yet.
Maybe New Orleans if they don't fix the levees.
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That is so, but the problem is how he is going to get across to the African American voting block.
THE MEDIA IS IN THE TANK FOR THIS GUY! ABCBSNBCNN are shilling like crazy. Haven't seen anything like it since '60 when the big networks went to work hard for JFK.
The liberal pimp Dem media never saw a minority they didn't love; with Obama it's more than that, they are going to demand that he be on the ticket.
Given their power they may well get their wish. Hillary/Obama '08 looks like it.
Why do we need the media?
I think the media knows Hillary is unelectable and this is their ploy to force her out.
That is so outrageously wrong that I can't believe you said it.
Uh, if he wasn't a natural born American he wouldn't be running for President.
As for being the Anti-Christ... lol, talk about having an active imagination. There is nothing extraordinary about this man.
The successful campaigns of Harold Ford, Jr.; Ken Blackwell, Lynn Swann; Michael Steele; and Kwasi Imfume.
As I was sitting for 90 minutes at the doctor's office they had CNN on the TV. CNN ran almost nonstop Obama stories saying how he is loved by everyone, everywhere, and they're already crowning him the second coming of Christ.
It's Hitlery who wants him on her ticket as VP. Rush shot O. Hussein down big time today.
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