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The key to his success: bringing us together (except that wealthy 5%)
Baltimore Sun ^ | Steve Chapman

Posted on 10/29/2008 11:52:32 AM PDT by sickoflibs

NDIANAPOLIS - Barack Obama's success in this campaign is a puzzle. How is it that a youngish first-term senator with so many disadvantages - a slight résumé, a foreign-sounding name, an exotic background, a professorial manner, a thoroughly liberal voting record and a skin color unlike any previous president - has come so far, and even leads in national polls with a week to go?

He does have some things going for him, of course: his rhetorical skill, his unflappability and not least of all a financial crisis that reflects badly on the party occupying the White House.

"There are no real and fake parts of this country," Mr. Obama declares. "We are not separated by the pro-America and anti-America parts of this nation - we all love this country, no matter where we live or where we come from." America's veterans, he says, "have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a red America or a blue America - they have served the United States of America."

It is a message of fundamental unity and good will, at a time when politics often resemble Henry Adams' mordant description: "the systematic organization of hatreds." And it has worked especially well for Senator Obama for several reasons. One is that as the son of an African father and a white, Kansas-born mother, he embodies the diversity of America.

Another is that it contrasts so starkly with the message of the opposing camp, such as Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's statement that she loves visiting "the real America ... [the] very pro-America areas of this great nation." It's a strategy seems to be failing, because the things that bind us together really are more powerful than the ones that push us apart.

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: liberalsdemocrats; obama; success
Feel the love yet? Obama brings us all together (except that wealthy 5%, or is it 10%, or 20%....???) ... together in love and justice and fairness. We republicans divide in hatred and fear.... Oh the shame LOL
1 posted on 10/29/2008 11:52:33 AM PDT by sickoflibs
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To: sickoflibs

“NDIANAPOLIS - Barack Obama’s success in this campaign is a puzzle. How is it that a youngish first-term senator with so many disadvantages - a slight résumé, a foreign-sounding name, an exotic background, a professorial manner, a thoroughly liberal voting record and a skin color unlike any previous president - has come so far, and even leads in national polls with a week to go?”

Easy. “those who control the information control the people.” If the media did it’s job, Obama never would have gotten out of the primaries.


2 posted on 10/29/2008 11:56:36 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (McCain/Palin 2008)
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If you want to FURTHER DIVIDE and SPLIT this country along racial, economic and social lines...

a far-left, liberal, Marxist EXTREMIST like Hussein,,,

IS THE RIGHT MAN AT THE RIGHT TIME!!

3 posted on 10/29/2008 11:59:09 AM PDT by stockstrader (At least Biden has tried to warn us of the dangers of an inexperienced and unqualified ticket)
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xxx

4 posted on 10/29/2008 12:04:50 PM PDT by sickoflibs ( Obama's "95% Middle Class" ="those not paying taxes who deserve YOUR wealth")
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"white, Kansas-born mother,"

yeah, those good old mid-western Kansas values that he comes from. I'm sure most Kansans move their family to the West coast so there daughter can attend a "progessive school" and I'm sure most Kansan grandparents would join the Communist party and take their grandson daily to sit at the knee of a radical black communist agitator for his daily indoctrination lessons.

Yeah, the Dunham family sounds like salt of the earth types to me!

5 posted on 10/29/2008 12:04:50 PM PDT by marlon
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And Hitler brought Germans together in a time of fiscal crisis and internal stress.

I feel so much better now.

6 posted on 10/29/2008 12:05:13 PM PDT by norton
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“And Hitler brought Germans together in a time of fiscal crisis and internal stress.”

And Castro brought CHANGE to Cuba in 1959!!!!!

HOPE you feel much better now....


7 posted on 10/29/2008 12:09:00 PM PDT by BubbaBobTX (Obama is all about hope and change: he hopes you don't find out what he wants to change.)
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To: sickoflibs
How is it that a youngish first-term senator with so many disadvantages - a slight résumé, a foreign-sounding name, an exotic background, a professorial manner, a thoroughly liberal voting record and a skin color unlike any previous president - has come so far, and even leads in national polls with a week to go? He does have some things going for him, of course: his rhetorical skill, his unflappability and not least of all a financial crisis that reflects badly on the party occupying the White House.

Such is pondering at the Baltimore Sun. (btw, how many layoffs did they have this week?)

8 posted on 10/29/2008 12:13:37 PM PDT by workerbee (If you vote for Democrats, you are engaging in UnAmerican Activity.)
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5%? More like 100% of taxpayers when the Bush tax cuts expire.

As for why an empty suit like him has made it this far? Easy. The color of his skin, he’s a Democrat, and the MSM is creaming themselves at the thought of a black Democrat who will help them fend off conservative dominated alternative media.


9 posted on 10/29/2008 12:17:47 PM PDT by Harry Wurzbach (Joe The Plumber & Rep. Thaddeus McCotter are my heroes.)
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How is it that a youngish first-term senator with so many disadvantages ...

Very simply - because he's the first Afirmative Action hire for the job of the presidency. He'll almost certainly be the last also if he wins!

10 posted on 10/29/2008 12:21:31 PM PDT by MathDoc (I'm Joe the Plumber's friend, and I vote)
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It is a message of fundamental unity and good will,

I wonder if this "steve chapman" guy really believes this, or is he merely one more psychotic child of the Left smearing feces on the wall and calling it art.

11 posted on 10/29/2008 4:59:24 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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