Maybe on of dese folks can be the "new Clinton"!
Posted on 11/03/2004 12:28:36 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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Yup, you got it. It is absolutely true! The more metropolitan, the more liberal!! Also there is something with cool breeze from oceans that just does something to people!
Don't bet on it. Your assuming Obama actually has some kind of ideological integrity. He doesn't, he's a political oppurtunist who loves the camera and is super ambitious.
More likely, he won't care, not bother understanding any issue (though this won't stop him from finding a camera, and speaking before it, i.e. see Shumer) and just voting in different and inconsistant ways so as to build some kind of centerist record.
My guess, He'll try and be the new John Breax or Frost or Ford. Sort of a consencus builder so as to gain popularity and keep the liberal label off of him. He doesn't care about results, or beliefs, he cares about his image and being a rising star. Not being a knee jerk liberal and acting more like a Biden or Lieberman or Breax sets him up great for a future run for the white house.
Well put, and I intiutively agree with you, but do you have some examples?
And that insurmountable urban-rural divide implies that a better system of government for the United States would be a decentralized federal system partitioned into urban-rural districts, rather than the existing division of states.
Maybe on of dese folks can be the "new Clinton"!
Why are liberals calling this nation divided?
Your map and a similar one from the 2000 party demonstrates the main problem for the Democrats. Simply put the are no longer a national party. They start of each election cycle conceding about 20 states to the Republicans.
Plug in Hillary Clinton for John Kerry
They have Clintons, I am shure Bubba will be thrilled to run against Hildebeast.
We shall see.
One thing is sure. Much like the old media was complicit in the JFKennedy "Camelot" fable, they have set their collective sights on him as one they will fawn over and publicize.
With the change in media consumption by many Americans to the internet, perhaps the Brinkley's of the world will have a harder time selling that pap.
I wonder if Zogby is eating crow, yet.
He will paint a happy face on his work.
There's no doubt about that in my mind. He's got his eye on the ball, and is going to handle everything as though he was running a campaign for middle america. He's polished, knows how to talk (notice his constant referances to religion and god), and shows optimism. But, and I'm noticing it now, I think a lot of other dems are going to try and bring him down a peg, including Hillary, this guy is competition, he's ambition without principle and ideology without committment, making him the kind of guy who can work for 4 years playing games.
It'll be hard to sling him on his senate record, it'll take the GOP (and the dems who will compete with him) to have to go back to his early days to really ravage him.
The media will try and sell him like he was a product and they owned stock in the company, it'll fail though. He'll get the wringer from both sides with both barrels.
She needs to cover those up better! Isn't early for Turkey Day...Turkeys Done!....
The Democrats "need only nominate a moderate candidate with warmth,"
Yes, but these days we call those folks "Republicans."
At this point in history, the phrase "moderate Democrat" is becoming an oxymoron.
Beware of Evan Bayh.
Indiana, our new South Dakota.
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