Posted on 1/6/2008, 2:03:34 AM by Aristotelian
THE first time she heard Barack Obama speak, it gave Kathy Gillett goose bumps. “Everybody can find a little piece of themselves in Barack. I guess, for me, it was his optimism,” she said.
He reminded her of President John F Kennedy. “I love Kennedy and I’ve often wondered if people understood how great he was when they were in a room with him in 1960. Now I know they did. When I heard Barack I thought, ‘This is a once-in-a-generation leader’.”
Gillett, 48, moved back to her home state of New Hampshire last summer from London, where her husband worked in the City. In Manchester last Thursday night, she watched the Iowa caucus results come in with other volunteers for Obama, before returning to her duties in the morning as a ward organiser.
She now has two days left to turn out the vote on Tuesday, when New Hampshire will decide whether to turn a page on the Clinton era. Gillett has met dozens of Republican and independent voters who say, “I like your guy,” and have promised to support him. His appeal is “beyond Bill Cinton”, she said. “He believes that we are one United States.”
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Another John F’n Kerry ?
John would have kicked any of the current crop of dems right in the ass and right out the door.
JFK actually fought commies while Obama is one.
“The first credible black candidate for president...”
Credible how?
There’s a reason why the media’s talking up so much Republican candidates such as the Huckster - they know he’s got a track record of big government idealism, whereas Obama’s a mystery to all.
The trouble is that this JFK BS is that voters eat it up. If
JFK had not been shot he probably would not have been reelected.
>>The first credible black candidate for president, and the press is perfectly giddy.<<
He is a really good speaker. So is Huckabee.
With a war and serious economic and domestic issues, a good speaker is not what I am fixated on.
She would have been 6 years old when Kennedy was killed. What utter nonsense for her to say this.
He’s so black, and so clean :) Oprah said he was qualified so it must be so.
simply because he’s a black democrat, my friend...
Why the broad support? He is light skinned and has white features. In short, he doesn't frighten White Liberals.
The Brit take on the US is hilarious. They think they understand, and yet know so little. Ever since Alistair Cooke’s “Letters from America” ended, their grasp of the “Yanks” is cartoonish. (This applies not only to this particular article.) The irony is that the Brits think their analysis of America is accurate and better than anythingelse. And they think the religious right is a bunch of snake handlers. Check out the BBC menus when you get a chance.
No.
I won't say it.
I wouldn’t want to be in the room when Hillary saw that headline.
Oh, THAT kind of credible ;-)
Libs and socialists in europe are gushing over Obama. What a surprise.
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