I’m at a loss for how Obama managed to assume this role, outside of the massive media promotion, especially beginning on election night 2004. You’d figure since he was in the state senate for 8 years Illinois would be a veritable paradise and have an afterglow from Obama’s aura. But I didn’t notice much inspired leadership coming from him all those years (or from anyone else for that matter) and if the Democratic and Republican U.S. Senate frontrunners hadn’t fallen to scandals, Obama would still be toiling away in obscurity in Springfield.
Sure, he is physically appealing and suave and well-spoken and all that, but where is the substance? This is a time in our history in which we need substance by the ton and, so far, I haven’t seen it in Obama.
...part of this is a result of all the Dem losses from 1994 to 2004 - their bench strength was gutted...to me, Obama's ascendance signals weakness on the part of the Dem's...
I can’t get past his purple lips, that’s all I see.