IMO- that plotting was by the liberal left (and the liberal right), who thought it would be "cute" to have one of them in the WH. I don't believe for one moment that obama planned and accomplished it by himself. He was a nothing as a senator, and now he amounts to nothing more than a sock-puppet.
The GOP also could have provided a better selection of candidates for 2008 than they did.
The theory that Obama’s meteoric rise was attributable to some devious behind-the-scenes scheming of the Democratic/leftist machine, would be plausible if it weren’t for the critically important role that the clownish Alan Keyes’ stupendously incompetent Senate campaign against Obama played in the improbable launch of Obama’s political profile into the stratosphere. There seems to be widespread amnesia on FR about this important chapter in US political history, and willful blindness to its impact. Those who forget history are apt to repeat it in unfortunate ways . . .
And if Obama’s got this huge secret band of ultrapowerful and ultrawealthy supporters who put him into the White House, what happened to them after that? Where are they when he’s nominating frightfully unvetted people for cabinet positions, only to have to withdraw them after political opponents spend 5 minutes vetting them? Where are they when he’s pushing through bizarre schemes like the “cash-for-clunkers” program that will obviously delay and worsen the inevitable relapse into economic decline, pushing it closer to the time he needs to start his re-election campaign?
All Presidents have “handlers” (and teleprompters), but Obama’s current crop of handlers are not doing an impressive job. They certainly weren’t capable of orchestrating his amazingly fast rise through the political ranks.