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Barack Obama: Could he be too popular?
St Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 9/16/06 | Kevin McDermott

Posted on 09/17/2006 7:06:06 PM PDT by TravisBickle

For a politician, is there such a thing as too much popularity?

If there's any cloud over U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's seemingly charmed political life, it may be that one.

With national political pundits now using words such as "messiah" in connection with the Chicago Democrat - and one former campaign opponent calling on him to run for president - some say he could ultimately be rising so fast and high in the American consciousness that he may end up with nowhere to go but down.

(Excerpt) Read more at stltoday.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2sweet; bisexual; emptysuit; kingbarack; muslim; obasms; osamaobama; racecard
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Poor, poor Barack. A "messiah"?

Someone really wants to put this genie back in the bottle.

1 posted on 09/17/2006 7:06:10 PM PDT by TravisBickle
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To: TravisBickle

You owe me a new keyboard sir. I just puked all over mine.


2 posted on 09/17/2006 7:07:31 PM PDT by Phibes
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To: TravisBickle

Obama gives empty suits a bad name.


3 posted on 09/17/2006 7:07:39 PM PDT by exit82 (Sorry. You, along with Pluto, have just been voted out of the solar system(from FreeperLasVegasMac).)
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To: TravisBickle

Let him run for President of Nigeria ...


4 posted on 09/17/2006 7:08:13 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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To: TravisBickle

Mr. Kennedy, what's the name of that young Senator again?

http://fatboy.cc/Audio/Obama%20Bin%20Laden.mp3


5 posted on 09/17/2006 7:08:51 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: TravisBickle

he has already peaked with me , and is on his way down.


6 posted on 09/17/2006 7:08:59 PM PDT by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: TravisBickle

Just what we need - an Islamic senator.


7 posted on 09/17/2006 7:10:11 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: TravisBickle

The second Barack has to REALLY propound on the issues he will make people laugh at him mercilessly.

The man is nothing but abstract talking points. He has not CLUE about the issues, nor a REAL opinion on them.

"Empty suit" doesn't BEGIN to explain how facile and empty he really is.


8 posted on 09/17/2006 7:10:55 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
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To: TravisBickle

The media's Obasms are all fake.


9 posted on 09/17/2006 7:11:03 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)
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To: TravisBickle

I don't like him. There's something about his manner. So smooth it makes me think of snake oil.

Just an impression.


10 posted on 09/17/2006 7:12:07 PM PDT by Irish Rose (Will work for chocolate.)
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To: TravisBickle
But the MSM is unbiased and professional.

They would NOT promote (er, anoint) a democrat socialist, would they?
11 posted on 09/17/2006 7:12:46 PM PDT by Robert A. Cook, PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: TravisBickle

What is this garbage? We have a guy who smiles and delivers a speech well and all of a sudden he's going to bring world peace and cure warts. A speech and a grin does not make a man president. Just ask Mario Cuomo.


12 posted on 09/17/2006 7:13:29 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Uh....remember Bill Clinton?


13 posted on 09/17/2006 7:14:33 PM PDT by goodnesswins (I think the real problem is islamo-bombia! (Rummyfan))
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To: TravisBickle

I think his popularity is manufactured. Most people don't even know who he is.


14 posted on 09/17/2006 7:14:42 PM PDT by JamesP81 (The answer always lies with more freedom; not less)
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To: Irish Rose
So smooth it makes me think of snake oil.

Bingo. He gives me the same feeling I had when I saw my first Bill Clinton photo.

15 posted on 09/17/2006 7:15:47 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: TravisBickle
He is a 'prettyboy' tall and elegant but is he smart enough to do anything? I don't think I have heard him speak.
16 posted on 09/17/2006 7:16:23 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: goodnesswins

Clinton didn't even need speeches. It didn't matter what He said, some people just thought He was Messiah.


17 posted on 09/17/2006 7:19:00 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault ("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
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To: TravisBickle

The media is so predictable, watching his speech at the convention, you knew the media would anoint him the new Savior of America.

It is like when you read the description of a movie, and before it is released, you know it will be nominated for an Oscar, because of it's political or social message.


18 posted on 09/17/2006 7:19:31 PM PDT by ansel12 (illicit sin holds a sway over their lives to the point where boldness begins to be craved.)
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To: TravisBickle; Clintonfatigued; Kuksool; AuH2ORepublican; AntiGuv; JohnnyZ

"And I'm too sexy for my sheets, too sexy for my sheets..."

19 posted on 09/17/2006 7:25:06 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)
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To: Ditter
He is a 'prettyboy' tall and elegant but is he smart enough to do anything? I don't think I have heard him speak.

What little I've heard of him speaking suggests to me that he's fairly intelligent.It also suggests that he doesn't have any genuine core values.

But then,that's no surprise,given the "D" usually seen after his name.

20 posted on 09/17/2006 7:26:33 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("An empty limousine pulled up and Hillary Clinton got out")
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To: TravisBickle

Barack is a socialist. There, I said it..


21 posted on 09/17/2006 7:31:30 PM PDT by cardinal4 (America, despite the usual suspects, stands firmly with Israel..)
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To: TravisBickle

He is smart and lacks a core. He will out flip flop Kerry in a lot less time. He also lacks a sugar momma if you don't count the media. He has offered no core... and when he does he is going to crumble like a sand castle in a sand storm.


22 posted on 09/17/2006 7:31:31 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: exit82
Obama gives empty suits a bad name.

He did until Antonio Villareconquista, the MECHista from LA.

23 posted on 09/17/2006 7:33:40 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The state board will meet in closed session to discuss whether it violated an open meetings law)
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To: TravisBickle

My wifes Grandparents 60 years ago called the Post Dispatch a yellow journal. Hasn't changed.


24 posted on 09/17/2006 7:33:59 PM PDT by golfisnr1 (look at a map)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

His sole claim to fame is his sperm donor. No, I don't mean his father, because he ducked out when little Obama was two years old. I mean his sperm donor. His mama gets no credit because she's the wrong color and wrong religion.


25 posted on 09/17/2006 7:34:28 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: exit82

Ain't that the truth. Even my boss, a big Dem, doesn't understand his popularity. He even used the phrase "empty suit".


26 posted on 09/17/2006 7:36:39 PM PDT by Marathoner
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To: TravisBickle
The day this muslim/Christian convert makes the Executive Office is the day I truly leave this country.
27 posted on 09/17/2006 7:37:15 PM PDT by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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To: toddlintown

Is he Muslim?


28 posted on 09/17/2006 7:40:17 PM PDT by Ciexyz (Leaning on the everlasting arms.)
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To: Vigilanteman

Has Obama promised free health care? If so, I'm holding out for free dental, $25.00 an hour minimum wage and two months vacation. This guy is a big nobody. A reprehensible political hack posing as a consensus candidate. A socialist is a socialist is a socialist.


29 posted on 09/17/2006 7:40:50 PM PDT by donaldo
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To: TravisBickle

The latest Great Liberal Hope. The last one was John Edwards. We know how that worked out.


30 posted on 09/17/2006 7:41:00 PM PDT by Ticonderoga34
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To: TravisBickle
GreenObama

Remember this?

Right now, the press has been treating him with kid gloves. He won't be able to run a campaign like that.

31 posted on 09/17/2006 7:44:12 PM PDT by Tim Slagle
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To: zert_28

To all: I just heard this one. Bill Clinton was vacationing at Camp David and realized that he had forgotten his casual shoes. He immediately called the White House staff and asked them to send over a pair of loafers. Twenty minutes later Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson showed up.


32 posted on 09/17/2006 7:44:19 PM PDT by donaldo
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To: cardinal4

If he's a democrat he's a communist and he knows it.


33 posted on 09/17/2006 7:46:02 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: TravisBickle

With national political pundits now using words such as "messiah"...


Coulter is right. They are "Godless".


34 posted on 09/17/2006 7:46:10 PM PDT by CommieCutter
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To: TravisBickle

Who's Barack Obama?


35 posted on 09/17/2006 7:47:51 PM PDT by GianniV
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To: donaldo

Also, Bill misunderstood Descartes's maxim "cogito ergo sum." He thought the philosophy instructor said "Copulo ergo sum" and acted accordingly.


36 posted on 09/17/2006 7:48:04 PM PDT by donaldo
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To: Ciexyz
Is he Muslim?

"Obama is especially proud of being a husband and father of two daughters, Malia, 8 and Sasha, 4. Obama and his wife, Michelle, married in 1992 and live on Chicago ’s South Side where they attend Trinity United Church of Christ."

http://obama.senate.gov/about/

37 posted on 09/17/2006 7:51:45 PM PDT by show me state
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To: JamesP81
I think his popularity is manufactured. Most people don't even know who he is.

If this guy runs for national office, I see the math this way:

30% won't vote for him because he's a Democrat.
20% won't vote for him because they think he's a terrorist.
10% won't vote for him because he's black.
10% won't for him because he's not as far left as some other guy.

So, at best, he can get 30% of the vote. And if the remaining independent voters find out what he believes, he'll be lucky to get 15% of the vote.

Yeah, his support is totally manufactured.

38 posted on 09/17/2006 7:54:49 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

He was the president of the Harvard Law Review--no minor feat--and I would be careful not to underestimate him. He's clearly very intelligent, and could probably understand anything important to getting elected very well.


39 posted on 09/17/2006 7:56:18 PM PDT by Young Scholar
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To: show me state

Thank you for confirming Barack's Christian affiliation.


40 posted on 09/17/2006 7:59:15 PM PDT by Ciexyz (Leaning on the everlasting arms.)
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To: CommieCutter
Coulter is right. They are "Godless".

That was my very first thought when I read this article.

41 posted on 09/17/2006 8:23:49 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde
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To: Young Scholar

I have to agree. He is very well spoken and should not be misunderestimated.

The antichrist, perhaps?


42 posted on 09/17/2006 9:07:11 PM PDT by Clinging Bitterly (Oregon - a pro-militia and firearms state that looks just like Afghanistan .)
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To: cardinal4

You may have SAID it, but we in Illinois FEEL it!


43 posted on 09/17/2006 9:11:07 PM PDT by endthematrix (“Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence.”)
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To: Dave in Eugene of all places
No - that would Be one GW Bush:

http://www.bushisantichrist.com/
44 posted on 09/17/2006 9:14:21 PM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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To: Ciexyz; show me state
He made some comments (IIRC in his book) that didn't really put him into the "I believe in Jesus as Lord and Saviour" affiliation.
45 posted on 09/17/2006 9:15:27 PM PDT by endthematrix (“Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence.”)
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To: endthematrix
It's really hard to figure out which of our Senators is the worst.

But when ones choices are Durbin and Obama it hardly matters.

It's kind of like trying to decide of being infected with gardia is worse than being infected with salmonella.

In either case one is left with the same result.

L

46 posted on 09/17/2006 9:20:21 PM PDT by Lurker (islam is not a religion. It's the new face of Fascism in our time. We ignore it at our peril.)
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To: Dave in Eugene of all places
Obama got trashed by Keyes in the senatorial debates. He's not very smart and, in spite (or because) of teaching Constitutional law at the U of Chicago, he knows little about the Constitution. A friend of mine interviewed Obama on his radio show and agrees that he is an empty suit.
47 posted on 09/17/2006 9:22:44 PM PDT by Richard from IL
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To: Lurker

At least we know how they vote...


48 posted on 09/17/2006 9:25:22 PM PDT by endthematrix (“Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence.”)
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To: Richard from IL
Obama got trashed by Keyes in the senatorial debates.

One of these days I'm going to run into the moron who thought running Keyes would be a good idea and I'm going to smack him or her upside the head.

Just when I thought the IL GOP couldn't do anything more stupid than nominating Ryan they went and did that Keyes thing.

Idiots....mouth breathing brain dead numb nuts idiots.

L

49 posted on 09/17/2006 9:28:55 PM PDT by Lurker (islam is not a religion. It's the new face of Fascism in our time. We ignore it at our peril.)
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To: Lurker
One of these days I'm going to run into the moron who thought running Keyes would be a good idea and I'm going to smack him or her upside the head.

You don't have to look very far to find at least one of them.

50 posted on 09/17/2006 9:30:19 PM PDT by Howlin (Declassify the Joe Wilson "Report!")
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