Posted on 02/17/2008 5:13:39 AM PST by libstripper
By now it's a familiar tale: On July 27, 2004, Barack Obama strode to the podium at the Democratic National Convention and captivated the nation with a soaring and memorable keynote address entitled "The Audacity of Hope." The speech marked America's first encounter with a rising political star. By the time Obama took the stage in Boston, he was already a shoo-in to become the next United States Senator from Illinois; he enjoyed a massive lead in the polls back home, where the state Republican Party was in total disarray and his carpet-bagging opponent seemed to specialize in alienating voters. Since that summer night more than three years ago, Obama has rocketed into the political stratosphere and now faces the possibility—if not the probability—of becoming his party's standard-bearer in the 2008 election.
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The MTV generation will die for Obama before voting for Anyone Else.
Obama is a product of the video world. Chauncey Gardener from “Being There” played by Peter Sellers was the same empty suit.
Political Success is quite often due to Opportunism.
whoa Im so far behind - anyone wanna help out?
This con-man should have his own TV show, a lighter whiter Montel.
Great column this week. I am looking forward to your thoughts on Barry’s phenomenal rise.
Girls are FAINTING during his speeches. sick
I'm glad to see SOMEONE picked up on the punch America received when Obama spoke at the DNC.
I watched that thing, start to finish, and after Obama spoke ... I subtily trembled in fear ... this guy is dangerous and if the Pubbies don't get their heads out of their asses ... we'll face him in some important way.
I didn't really see his so immediate rise to presidential candidate, but when he announced ... I knew we were in trouble. He has ALL the attributes ... black, well spoken, reasonable to look at, and a message that, if you close your eyes ... you might think it was another Ronald Reagan type that could get followers, just by talking.
Our only hope against losing America is to get rid of the bwitch NOW, in the primaries ... and hammer the Hussein Marxist (with plenty of explanation as to what that is) from here on out.
It depends. There are two elements of a successful pitch - the pitchman and the product. Both Obama and Reagan are/were good pitchmen. But the products are as different as night and day. Compare and contrast Reagan's "shining city on a hill" and Obama's land of despair.
I agree ... I’m just acutely aware of the danger this guy is ... and the unfortunate fickleness of the American electorate.
Exactly! August is a loooooong way from here and November is another eternity. The fervor will ebb and flow but the questions of substance will continue to mount. When he says he wants change, some of these Democrats and Independents will actually ask that he describe what he means.
I can’t believe someone who wasn’t even ELECTED as a senator, EVER, is this much of a superstar.
Since Obama’s two strongest opponents were taken out by opportunistic sex scandals, it would be real poetic justice for the Witch to take Obama out with the Larry Sinclair homosexual sex and crack scandal. See:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVeFVtcdSYY
and
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971579/posts
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