Obama: Best since FDR?

The Boston Globe ^ | Robert Kuttner

[irishjuggler]

I've said it before but I'll say it again... Let's just get it over with and put Barack Obama on Mount Rushmore already.

[zarf]

This article is itching powder thrown at Obamas critics. Nothing more.

Kuttner's article has all the sincerity Joe Isuzu.

[muawiyah]

Sounds much more like a reincarnation of Caligula than anything else.

Guy sure does like to kill doesn't he.

BTW, did you notice that when he had a chance to take a shot at Australian people, like the good little Indonesian child that he still is, he took it.

This guy is not fit to participate in American political life.

[weegee]

"Obama: Best since FDR?"

Well look at the choices...

Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton.

And then the also rans McGovern, Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry.

It's not saying much.

[beaversmom]

I agree with you--this gushing over Obama is puke inducing. I've already got a headache that's making me feel queasy--shouldn't have pulled up this thread.

[ShawTaylor]

"What's even scarier is the US electorate is so dumbed down he might get elected."

Not gonna happen.
But hey, I hope they chose Hussein Obama as their candidate.
That will make our job much easier.

[William James]

"The Rohrschack candidate."

That's kind of how my brother, a socially conservative Democrat, sees him. Obama has no substance. And yes; he's a rock star. He exemplifies the dumbing down of politics.

[Gritty]

[weegee]

The same fools who embraced the Soviets during the Cold War see no global threat from Islamic supremacists.

[meyer]

Does he mean FDR, the communist? Twas a huge leap in government size, power, and scope in those FDR days.

[Mere]

I want to puke too. This is contrived by the DNC to promote Klinton campaign and to make her look in the "center".

[EternalVigilance]

No 33-year-old has the right to such uncommon wisdom and humanity. The comparisons that come to mind are the young Martin Luther King Jr., or Václav Havel, or maybe Thomas Jefferson.

Gosh. He's a god.

He better watch it. The real God has a way of pulling down idolatrous wannabes.

[Wheee The People]

Yawnnnnnnn....left wing love fest.

[hosepipe]

[.. Obama eons away from FDR's capacities both as a politician, and as a man. ..]

Why?.. Both are socialists.. except Obama is healthier..

FDR and his wife were both commies.. (except his wife was the smarter one)..

The Communist manifesto has been enacted though legislation completely to the last point NOW.. because of the policys that FDR enacted and the people he salted into the federal system.. and Truman continued..

[ChildOfThe60s]

[Sam Ketcham]

OBomba, OBomba, yo no... oops wrong song.

[Verginius Rufus]

I was surprised a couple of weeks ago to hear Brit Hume gushing over Obama (but he may have just meant that he finds him a likeable person).

Ben Stein in the Feb. 2007 issue of The American Spectator eviscerates Obama:

"...what is this insanity about Barack Obama? He's nobody. Nothing. Just a small town ward heeler who has already been busted taking bribes, has no experience at all -- NONE -- on the world stage or in defense or anything else. Could we be crazy enough to even consider him as president? Have we gone totally nuts? Hillary is a responsible politician with broad experience. I do not want to see her elected, but she's Winston Churchill compared to Obama."

[Beagle8U]

The only thing easier to beat than Hillary would be Ossama Barakk Huseain Obamma-yo momma.

A halfrican American with big ears and next to nothing for political experience.

[SteamShovel]

If his skin were white, he'd be Dennis Kucinich. But with less qualifications.

That is a very good point. Dennis is relatively more qualified.

The problem for Dennis is he has a record, is white so he doesn't get the "minority bonus points" with the "white guilt crowd", and looks like an alien.

[tsowellfan]

The dems sure have sharpened up their propaganda machine since 2004. That's for sure