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Posted on 08/12/2007 2:09:05 PM PDT by neverdem
Barack Obama needed more than talent and ambition to rocket from obscure state senator to presidential contender in three years. He needed serious luck.
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In the summer of 2002, a little-known Illinois state legislator named Barack Obama thought he saw the political opening he'd been looking for.
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The newly passed McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law contained a "millionaire's amendment." In a race against a wealthy opponent who is financing his own campaign, a candidate is permitted to raise significantly more than the normal limit. In this case, Obama could raise $12,000 from each donor instead of $2,000.
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But it's equally important, Dickerson says, that Obama does not speak like Jesse Jackson or Martin Luther King Jr. It may be good that his keynote speech wasn't delivered in King's majestic cadence, because then he might have been too authentically African American. To appeal to whites as well as blacks, he can't do "the whole Southern preacher thing."
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As in Illinois, he has to be a crossover candidate. And his mannerisms, his credentials, his white mother all help. "He doesn't look like a sub-Saharan African, and he doesn't have an accent," Dickerson says. "If he were sub-Saharan-African-looking, with the same résumé, we would not know his name right now."
In her most controversial assertion, Dickerson argues that Obama appeals to white voters because he enables them to support a black man without having to confront the legacy of slavery. Because Obama is not confrontational; because he describes himself as "being rooted in the African American community, but not limited to it," he permits whites to support a black and feel self-congratulatory. This may or may not be true, but it does seem that -- in the wake of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
B’rock is not going to become president.
Not to mention Hillary already has that market cornered.
—as an aside, MacFiengold would be a stupid joke if it weren’t such blatantly unconstitutional idiocy-—
“B’rock is not going to become president.”
The Rich White Democrats won’t even let Obama clean their golf shoes, nevermind him becoming this nations President.
Never be too sure--stranger things have happened.
nor how Illinois Republicans are the most incompetent bunch in the country.
The article sounds like the musing of racists about how to appeal to racists.
Senator Obama declined to fully endorse gay marriage, declaring that a “civil union” ought to be sufficient. “You know, many married people wish they had a civil union,” Obama said. “Getting spouses to be civil to one another is a worthy goal. Maybe if we convert all the marriages into ‘civil unions’ people will get the idea they ought to be civil to who they live with.”
read more...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
Thanks for the link.
Thanks for the pic. Baraka!
All issues aside, I just can’t find myself able to believe that, seven years after 9/11, Americans would vote for a man named “Obama” who attended a madrassa.
Or if he were some white senator with 2 years of experience. If he were, he would be laughed at on a daily basis for his stupid, naive statements.
LOLOL!
I love the theme from “Mash”!
Do I smell Barakaka? lol
That’s a great post and I like your Background!
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