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.
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Kuttner scores a trifecta. He looks, acts, and writes, like a lunatic.
Is he talking about the FDR who killed a million civilians so that he could get the war over in a hurry????
Hillary will not be denied.....It is going to be scorched earth politics on the Dems side.
Har! This guy Kuttner was laughing to himself the whole time he wrote this. It's a JOKE, folks.... satire! NOBODY in the real world is this much of an assclown. Kuttner is using satire to admit that Obama is indeed the oily, empty-suit of a scumbag everybody suspects he is. Kuttner is simply making fun of his colleagues here. The piece actually had ME laughing by the end.
That was Truman.
Sure FDR was a socialist. But at least he was a socialist capable of making serious decisions. Obama skipped out on every controversial vote during his time in the Illinois state house. He has never taken a position which could potentially hurt him, or advocated anything other then left-wing positions. FDR might be advocating all sorts of lunatic social programs if he were alive today, but he'd be considerably closer to Lieberman then Obama on the war. He was a socialist, but a serious socialist with some measure of courage.
Hold on one second I support droping the nukes on Japan because we would have taken huge losses on their main island. Also,Truman was president then.Obama sucks.FDR>Obama no contest.
It is rather unprecedented, but it is also illuminating. Two possibilities seem likely at this point (in no particular order):
1. The Obama "phenomenon", manufactured though it is, indicates that there are many Democrats who really do NOT want to see Hillary Clinton's name on that ballot; and/or
2. Hillary and her people are actually behind Obama's "out of nowhere" appearance in these earliest days of the campaign. He's Hillary's "stalking horse".
"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.""
My thoughts exactly. Except for the Hillary being better bit. She's more sincere, that's for sure. But who's to say she's really more responsible.
I say they're both rotten.
Richardson seems to be the only responsible candidate in the Dem field to me.
Of the Democrats' top three, I marginally prefer Edwards for having a platform (albeit left) and not being a gimmick candidate. But it's all trash.
Best Socialist since FDR.
"Innocent Obama". Oh Boy! That slays me. We ought to take to calling him that.
Despite Usama Obama being annointed savior of this nation, its funny how Hillary still destroys him in the polls. HMMMMMMM..................
"Sure FDR was a socialist. But at least he was a socialist capable of making serious decisions. Obama skipped out on every controversial vote during his time in the Illinois state house. He has never taken a position which could potentially hurt him, or advocated anything other then left-wing positions. FDR might be advocating all sorts of lunatic social programs if he were alive today, but he'd be considerably closer to Lieberman then Obama on the war. He was a socialist, but a serious socialist with some measure of courage."
There's no courage or vision among the Democrats today. They nitpick at the president in a time of war and call that a party platform.
Oh, that's all right, Robert. Don't hold back. What could be more multi-culti than a same-sex interracial relationship? Go for it!
> They want this man to be a winner so bad they can taste it. And to put an unseasoned person like this out there as the party nominee in the middle of a world wide war on terror is really scary stuff.
It depends what the meaning of "they" is. Kuttner is a Boston Fishwrap puke whose loyalty (and whose paper's loyalty) is to the Kennedy organization (or what's left of it) and therefore their loyalty is to Not-Hillary. I think what we're seeing with the Geffner flap (love it) and the Obama candidacy (what an utter bozo!) is that the big-money Dems are in a shambles. And nothing could be better news.
From the "article:"
"I could be wrong, of course!"
Saxxon Woods slaps forehead - "Brilliant!"
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