Posted on 10/05/2006 6:19:24 PM PDT by blam
The black senator who could challenge Hillary
By Alex Massie in Washington
(Filed: 06/10/2006)
A black senator with only two years in office has emerged as the outstanding star of the Democrats' campaign for next month's mid-term elections.
Senator Barack Obama is bringing hope to Democrats
Kenyan-born Barack Obama, 45, is already being touted as a challenger to Hillary Clinton for the party's presidential nomination.
Another scenario sees him as Mrs Clinton's running mate, raising the possibility of a first female president and first black vice-president in one fell swoop in 2008.
Mr Obama is disproving the adage that Washington is "Hollywood for ugly people". He is the Denzil Washington of Capitol Hill, bringing glamour to the staid hallways of the US Senate, and was this week given the ultimate glamour accolade: the front cover of Men's Vogue.
Accompanied by pictures taken by Annie Liebowitz, photographer to the great and glamorous, the magazine's article is headlined, simply, "Barack Obama: The Path to Power."
Mr Obama has been careful not to declare himself a non-runner in the presidential stakes, but ever since he delivered the best speech heard at the Democratic convention in Boston two years ago, he has been tagged for greatness.
"What gives people a jolt in their gut about the idea of President Obama is the idea that it would be a ringing symbol that racism no longer rules our land," argues John McWhorter, a leading black intellectual.
A civil rights lawyer, Mr Obama was the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. He is known for a charisma some observers would say is on a par with Mrs Clinton's husband Bill, the last Democrat president. He was elected as a senator for Illinois in 2004 by a landslide.
He grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, and promises the prospect of a national reconciliation on racial issues.
The prospect of an Obama candidacy is especially appealing to those Democrats desperately searching for an alternative to Mrs Clinton, the front-runner to win her party's presidential nomination.
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He was saying that the only reason Obama is being mentioned is his race, if he was white no one would be promoting a freshman Senator as a presidental candidate.
I agree with you in theory, but Warren G. Harding and John F. Kennedy, the only two men who I believe directly made the jump from Senator to President succeeded two-term Presidents of the opposite party - Woodrow Wilson and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Even more unfortunate than Osama!
And "Barack" is Kenyan for "Fidel". ;-)
He's just a darker version of John 'Mah Daddy Worked at a Mill' Edwards, a poverty-pimp that is nice to look at but a millionaire behind it all.
I was afraid you were going to say it was a North African slang for "George".
So.. you like finely tuned hair?
Get out the popcorn! This is going to be fun to watch.
"Good conservative Hispanic candidates?!?" Please, bite your tongue! We do NOT need more La Raza types in power (and ALL Hispanics are secretly in favor of La Raza, no matter what they say in public). "For the face, everything...for those outside the race, nothing."
No, thanks, America doesn't need this. Or haven't you read your copy of Pat Buchanan's book yet? :)
well, if "all hispanics" are La Raza types as you claim - then this country is gone anyway, so it hardly matters.
"There is a collective spirit that says our possibilities are boundless," Obama said. But "it seems as if we have an administration that believes in an ownership society … instead of believing we're all in it together, you're on your own."
I certainly hope you are being sarcastic, because if not your stupidity is incredible - not to mention you'd also be a racist.
Below you will find the symbol that sums up the substance of Barack Obama:
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I second that.
I did not know I was in favor of "La Raza". Thanks for pointing it out to me.
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Obama seems to have many different stories about his religious background.
http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0804/0804obamafaith.htm
Obama the Christian is a devout believer in unlimited abortion rights. He denies the existence of Hell. He came to Christianity through social organizing with activist religious.
***His devout Christianity derives from the secular humanist "values" his atheist mother imbued him with.****
He believes, with all his heart, in the separation of church and state – except when he campaigns in black churches, in violation of that separation, and in violation of the tax code. Obama wears his religion on his sleeve in churches, but in dealing with the mainstream media criticizes such behavior.
"America will not elect someone named [B. HUSSEIN] OBAMA"
I may be a little late to the thread .. I'm catching up on several weeks of neglect of the FR, but ..
Yep. I would never be able to find myself "pulling the lever" for someone named B. HUSSEIN OBAMA! Sorry, he might be a nice guy, and he may not even be a Muslim, but (1) his name is too close to a sworn diabolically evil enemy of the U.S. who is responsible for thousands of deaths of Americans, and (2) he is a member of the wrong Party!
This is probably bad to admit .. but this goes through my mind every time I hear the name:
"You say Obama, I say Osama. You say Osama, I say Obama. Obama! Osama! Osama! Obama! Let's call the whole thing off .."
Mr Obama is disproving the adage that Washington is "Hollywood for ugly people". He is the Denzil Washington of Capitol Hill...Whoever the hell "Denzil" Washington is, eh? Looks like another well-informed and racially sensitive foreign reporter at work.
Get this - NJ poet laureate poem about 911....Somebody Blew Up America
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Posted on 10/06/2002 8:30:09 PM EDT by Sub-Driver
“Somebody Blew Up America” By Amiri Baraka
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/764197/posts
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