Posted on 05/26/2007 9:02:20 PM PDT by DBCJR
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The crowd was strikingly diverse – mainly white but with a heavy black and Latino presence and skewed young. Obama took the stage and the energy in the room intensified. With no notes, this gawky intellectual rallied his base – part seminar, part sermon... If I had to find a single word to describe his effect it would be easy: real. In a universe of political plastic, Obama has a rough, authentic edge... It’s an odd feeling for a small government conservative like me. Obama, after all, is a big government liberal. Make no mistake about that.
He may, in fact, be the most effective liberal advocate I’ve heard in my lifetime. He isn’t Tony Blair or Clinton. He doesn’t have their defensive crouch learnt from a postReagan era of dominant conservatism. The overwhelming first impression is that this is a candidate for real change. He has what Ronald Reagan had in 1980 and Clinton had in 1992: the wind at his back. Sometimes elections really do come down to a simple choice: change or more of the same?
... The New York Times poll released on Friday found that more Americans – a whopping 72% – now say that “generally things in the country are seriously off on the wrong track” than at any time since 1983.
Who best offers them a chance to turn the page cleanly on an era that most want to forget? It isn’t Hillary Clinton, God help us. John Edwards is so 2004. John McCain is a throwback. Romney makes Bill Clinton look like a rock of unbending principle. Rudy Giuliani does offer something new for Republicans – the abortion friendly, socially tolerant protector against terror. But no one captures the raw, pent-up desire for a new start more effectively than Obama.
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And what is so bad about America these days? Sounds like Euro trash talk to me.
Whaaaaaat? Andrew Sullivan is a small government conservative insofar as he believes the state should not arrest him for exercising his tastes. He spends most of his time trashing conservatives.
I don't even want to think about why he's interested in Osama-Obama. Yuck.
Yeah right. These pathetic white libs just want a black candidate to fawn over. It’s disgusting.
I don’t understand why the Brit media obsesses over the United States.
That headline has an undertone of gender scrambling. It’s really kinda funny.
Sounds more like a horndog that would pay to me. Sullivan a Britcon, LOL.
It’s no diferent than those who want Condi to run because she’s black or a woman.
I thought Hillary was the man to watch.
You must be joking. Sullivan is Gay,gay,gay agenda driving.. first and foremost. Everything else is secondary. He has no conservative "principles", just "positions", which change with the wind. How does it all fit with his agenda? Thats what counts
>>>He has no conservative “principles”, just “positions”, which change with the wind. How does it all fit with his agenda? Thats what counts<<<
Oh, but the media loves to use him as a conservative mouthpiece!
In what sense is Obama an intellectual?
I keep hearing this... Obama is a candidate for “Real change.” It’s certain that he would change America, and probably not for the better, but change for the sake of change isn’t something I’ve ever much appreciated. When I’ve tried to pin an Obama supporter down on the EXACT nature of this miraculous “change”... they’ve got nothing. They don’t even know what their candidate’s positions are.
He’s clean and articulate.
“I thought Hillary was the man to watch.”
Good point!
Then she'll get out her secret "files" on him and poof...like magic....all the money will be transferred to her coffers.
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