Sen. Obama launches White House bid

AP on Yahoo ^ | 2/10/07 | Nedra Pickler - ap

[NormsRevenge]

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. waves to spectators as he arrives to announce his candidacy for president of the United States at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

[politicalwit]

I can FEEL the Love already, but I feel someone's hand in my pocketbook.

[Condor51]

Well golly gee whiz. I am just all atwitter over Obama making it official. I'm sure you all feel the same too.

After all, if we don't get the vapors and swoon over this mope we must be knuckle dragging, neo-Nazi, cross burning KKK racists.

(No offense meant Sen Byrd)

[Vaduz]

Bet he and the hag make a team for the office.

[Bommer]

The Liberal that compares himself to a Republican! Proof that this worthless jackass is absolutely void of anything substantiative!

[Phlap]

What is the over and under for how many times each candidate announces they are running?

[353FMG]

Muslim Trojan Horse.

[Dixie Yooper]

I was hoping he would publicly admit to being a muslim first.

[medscribe]

If Lincoln was alive today, some folks here would likely accuse him of being a RINO too.

[Condor51]

***Bet he and the hag make a team for the office.****

Good bet. And that would mean that the Silky Pony has to pick a minority, like el mexicano Gov. Richardson.

It'll be a regular love fest of 'diversity' -- OR -- a dog fight over which team has the more authentic 'person of color' (gag) on their ticket.

[Cvengr]

When people make allusions to Bill Clinton possibly being the antichrist, I knew he wasn't smart enough. He did strike me as an example for a younger person to emulate who might be more nefarious.

IMHO, Obama comes closer to matching the description of such a person evolving from the sea of politics.

Considering the affinity socialists and masons in general are displaying towards Islam as an acceptable world religion, I suspect their are far worse plans associated with Obama's promotion within the liberal establishment.

[keepitreal]

A speech filled with empty platitudes gets the country excited. The speech was one cliche after another. How sad that he evoked the memory of Abraham Lincoln, a brilliant thinker, when he didn't espouse one original thought.

[slyfoxvirden]

Nedra got one important fact wrong. When Lincoln served in the state legislature, the capitol was in Vandalia, Illinois. So, I don't think the building in Springfield is the one in which Lincoln served in the state legislature. Opps.

[keepitreal]

My favorite part of the speech was the line, not verbatim, that we live in a country where lobbyists have access to the lawmakers, while citizens only get to write letters. He was implying that somehow he would be different. Here is an interesting piece about some of his donors (same old lobbyists, special interests. Mr. Obama is another inside the beltway elitist posing as a populist.
http://harpers.org/sb-a-little-bit-more-on-obama-1161881683.html

[generalhammond]

Young & fresh translates into an unknown quantity without political experience.

Apart from the scary Muslim Trojan horse possibility, the scary thing is that he'll be a naive doormat for radical leftist groups pushing their agendas.

[sgtbono2002]

A man who belongs to a church that espouses everything black. A man who's father is Islamic, A man who has forgotten his mother was white and now identifis only with the black part of himself. He is going to bring us together.??

I dont think so.

[AdvisorB]

It makes you wonder about the IQ, and the emotional stability of these people. It's become a religion for many guilt-laden white liberals, and a kind of therapy for others. Whatever it is, it is not healthy to hero worship someone with such tenuous credentials....

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

He just wants to improve America, there was a CAIR commercial that said the same thing!

[ziravan]

A great Republican choice for the Democratic Nominee or VEEP pick.

It's not that he isn't electable because he's nominally black. Some won't vote for him because of that, including some blacks that would feel him growing up in a 'white' world is tantamount to cultural 'dissonance'.

It's not just that he's a liberal's liberal that will not get thoughtful 'libertarian' or middle right centrist votes. Yes, there ARE some of those out there.

It's not just his muslim ties (although that's a big consideration). Can anyone say: Manchurian Candidate? More to the point, in 6 months, will anybody NOT be saying it?

It's not just that he's the posterboy for the Dems declaring defeat in war, something that has kept them principally out of the White House for most of a generation, especially during times of international risk.

It's the combination of of it all. He's unelectable. As such, I LOVE the Dem love fest with him. The current Dem tag line is that 'we might blow '08 yet'. Oh really? I wonder just the opposite, how the heck do you plan to win with this cast of players?

While the dems are foaming about which candidate best represents the Soros crowd at the expense of the general election, the Republicans have just the opposite concern: which candidate, even though they might fare better in the gen election, approaches passing muster by the right? The result will be a dem meltdown at some point over the concept of electability. That might take both Hussein AND Hillary out. Let the MSM highlight all the dems in the next few months: overexposure of their Soros bona fides is the perfect formula for: we might just blow it yet.

Given the friction between him and Hillary, his unelectability, and the fact that Clinton, Inc., is much better at politics than just Hillary, I doubt seriously he makes the ticket. Cooler heads will prevail and if she gets the nods, it's much more likely that Richardson will be her VEEP pick: all the wonderful minority symbolism without the baggage.

[353FMG]

"Can anyone say: Manchurian Candidate?"


Can anyone say Al-Qaedian Candidate?