Posted on 02/24/2007 2:56:14 PM PST by Obilisk18
The Democratic nominee is likely to be Barack Obama.
I have followed politics far too long to fall in love, but Obama is like nothing we have seen since Bobby Kennedy and maybe since FDR. If you haven't read his first book, "Dreams from My Father," you owe it to yourself.
Obama wrote the book when he was 33, having spent nearly three years as an organizer on Chicago's South Side, and then three years at Harvard Law School, where he was elected president of the Law Review. 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.
If you think Obama is a pretty face with a gift for rhetoric and not an effective politician in the most noble sense of the word, read the chapters about his small victories organizing in the desolate neighborhoods of the South Side, one pastor and one kitchen table at a time.
Columnist Maureen Dowd described Hillary Rodham Clinton's money machine against the innocent Obama as Hillzilla vs. Obambi.
But Obama's mass appeal could well roll over Clinton's money. Obama is the only rock star in the campaign. We are likely to see a tidal wave of Americans under 40 who have never seen such a leader. Obama is young, and the Republican field is nothing so much as old. And this is a generation casually accustomed to revering the likes of Tiger Woods and Oprah Winfrey.
Obama lacks the foreign policy experience of, oh, Dick Cheney or Donald Rumsfeld. But read of his first trip to his ancestral Kenya, and you'll feel quite comfortable that he has an unerring grasp of the complex world beyond these shores.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
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.
Kuttner's article has all the sincerity Joe Isuzu.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
The same fools who embraced the Soviets during the Cold War see no global threat from Islamic supremacists.
Does he mean FDR, the communist? Twas a huge leap in government size, power, and scope in those FDR days.
I want to puke too. This is contrived by the DNC to promote Klinton campaign and to make her look in the "center".
Gosh. He's a god.
He better watch it. The real God has a way of pulling down idolatrous wannabes.
Yawnnnnnnn....left wing love fest.
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..
OBomba, OBomba, yo no... oops wrong song.
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."
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.
The dems sure have sharpened up their propaganda machine since 2004. That's for sure
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