Posted on 02/26/2008 7:17:32 AM PST by seanmerc
The best evidence of Obama’s readiness to lead the nation is displayed through his ability to run for president. After all, what is more difficult, complicated, or challenging than getting elected president? What other life experience better illustrates one’s qualification to hold the office than a manifest skill in seeking it?
For anyone who has ever been elected president, the race that sent them to the White House was the single most important event in their lives and dwarfs any other experience they might have had before running.
As we have watched Obama surmount the hurdles that lay in his path, we cannot help but be impressed with his judgment. Adam Wallinsky, who served on Bobby Kennedy’s staff, once singled out good judgment as JFK’s most salient characteristic. Obama has faced so many delicate questions and issues and seems always to have the right feel for how to handle them.
At the start of the contest, he chose to avoid running as a black candidate for president and ran, instead, as a candidate who happened to have black skin. He crafted a middle course between the determined rejection of his race and its grievances of a Clarence Thomas and its emphatic embrace by a Jesse Jackson or an Al Sharpton. While Hillary invoked her gender at every turn, Obama decided to transcend his race rather than invoke it.
He began his candidacy eschewing donations from PACs and lobbyists, preserving his purity and giving him ground on which to stand in his claim to represent a new kind of politics, rejecting the special interests. When Hillary, whose campaign decisions have been as faulty as Obama’s have been flawless, wallowed in such donations, the Illinois senator used the difference to paint her into the corner of the status quo candidate.
Beyond simply avoiding special interest money, Obama learned the lesson of Joe Trippi and the Howard Dean campaign of 2004 (even though Trippi was working for Edwards) and used his star power to develop a massive cyber-roots fundraising base which he mobilized again and again by the click of a mouse.
He realized the potential of the Internet to democratize campaign funding in a way the other candidates in general, and Hillary in particular, did not. (Mrs. Clinton invested tens of millions in direct mail instead with all of its costs and limited returns.)
When Hillary criticized him for lacking experience, he brilliantly seized the opening she provided by becoming the candidate of change. He realized, as Hillary and Bill did not, that America wanted a change beyond the Bush/Clinton oscillation and grasped the fact that Hillary’s emphasis on experience would play into his hands.
And when the Clintons tried to use race to derail Obama, he countered skillfully by making Super Tuesday a referendum on tolerance and inclusivity, overtly rejecting the racial polarization which seemed to have set in after South Carolina. Underscoring his message with victories in white states like Utah, Idaho, Colorado and North Dakota, he buried the race issue.
While the Clintons went for the knockout blows of winning New York and California, Obama created a 50-state organization to win each caucus state. As Hillary’s campaign wasted half a million dollars on flowers, Obama’s husbanded his resources to put teams on the ground in the small states where his organizing paid off and brought him sufficient victories to survive the loss of the two big Super Tuesday states.
And when the Clintons went to full time negatives, Obama carefully parsed the attacks he would answer from those he wouldn’t and disdained to engage in the tit-for-tat negative campaigning, realizing that the process turned voters off more than the negatives themselves ever did.
Will he be a good president? If he is half as skillful in serving as he has been in running, he can’t miss.
This is complete and utter nonsense from the toe-sucker.
What hurdles, the absolute fawning media? A few jabs from Clinton? Pffft...
I am not sure if this is skill by Oprah’s Obama but just a run of liberal luck from Socialist types in the United States looking for “help” from a new president.
Dick Morris is a slutty toesucker.
Has Morris drank the Obama Kool-Aid?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Ask George McGovern, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, John Kerry...
ever notice issues never matter w/ Morris ?
just appearances...........
After two sentences all I got out of this was “blah, blah, blah,” etc., then I stopped reading.
Obama is leading by winning 10 states , but he hasn’t given Voters anything concrete as to how he is going to improve the economy.
Clinton and Obama are yelling at one another back and forth over issues that have little relevance, Obama looks worse than Clinton while childishly arguing with her.
DemocRATS are incapable of defining their campaigns.
Their attempts are all Anti-Bush Policy Campaign, and now arguing amongst themselves demonstrates what they would do after winning the White House. The campaign has reached its most despicable when puke-faced Ralph Nadar now enters the Presidential Race, after he has demonstrated no concern for the Voters, only himself.
Unfortunately for America McCain is the best Candidate so far unless something close to a miracle occurs and a strong, conservative candidate emerges.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It could also be that Oprah’s Obama, more than others, understands the collective intelligence level of “We the People”.
Oh, Dick, Dick, Dick — his run for prez thus far has been nothing but the good fortune of being against a witch the far left dems have been looking for an excuse to flush for months. Second, and more important, he is black (more or less), and she dast not criticize him for fear of having a head-on collision with the famed political correctness of the left. Third, because his opponent is just as communist as he is, there is no way for any of that abhorrent ideology to have been exposed heretofore.
So. He has not yet “experienced” a real presidential run to date. That comes later. And he will be exposed and will come absolutely unglued. He will not like being called what he is, after all this ridiculous adulation.
The main problem is that race riots are inevitable in 2008 — either when he loses to the nominatrix in the convention, or when he loses to McCain in November. The cult will not sit still for anything less than his inauguration.
Oh, Dick, Dick, Dick — his run for prez thus far has been nothing but the good fortune of being against a witch the far left dems have been looking for an excuse to flush for months. Second, and more important, he is black (more or less), and she dast not criticize him for fear of having a head-on collision with the famed political correctness of the left. Third, because his opponent is just as communist as he is, there is no way for any of that abhorrent ideology to have been exposed heretofore.
So. He has not yet “experienced” a real presidential run to date. That comes later. And he will be exposed and will come absolutely unglued. He will not like being called what he is, after all this ridiculous adulation.
The main problem is that race riots are inevitable in 2008 — either when he loses to the nominatrix in the convention, or when he loses to McCain in November. The cult will not sit still for anything less than his inauguration.
I have to disagree right off the bat.
Prepared to be president?
Of course Barak Obama is prepared to be president -- if you consider two things. 1) His training as an attorney and 2) America would be electing an attorney to represent us before the world's peoples' court.
"Change! A new America." That is our attorney's strategy.
Barak's defense for us? Insanity.
Barak's plea? Mercy for us.
Barak's advice to us? Do as the world's peoples' judge orders.
Admit guilt.
Willingly submit to the world's people's court.
Seek counseling. Tone down our rhetoric. Control our temper. Stop our violence. Stop stealing from the others. Pay fines.. hefty fines.
Barak appears to have close associations with the world's people's prosecutors, an added bonus.
(I'm only half-kidding.)
Watching Hillary has been like observing a multiple personality disorder patient bounce around in padded room. She goes from screechy to quiet and deliberate, from cackling to serious, then she's sarcastic and the next day she's angry.
Now imagine and these outward appearances of the candidates to what their behavior might be in the oval office when faced with a stressful situation. It is not difficult to imagine Obama surrounded by a few advisors and deliberately working on a strategy. Then imagine Hillary stomping around the room throwing things at her underlings (I doubt she even trusts an 'advisor').
Campaigning has got to be difficult, at best. You are on the road for months on end, appearing in several cities per day. When you're not speaking to a crowd, you're huddled with staff planning your next move or the function in the next city. The reporters and cameras are always on you. Sleep is a luxury. How a person reacts under the circumstances is very telling of their ability to deal. Obama seems to deal very well and Hillary is scattered everywhere.
I am certainly no fan of either democrat candidate, but I can see the point that Morris is trying to make.
You can have the best marketing in the world for a ‘product’. Doesn’t mean that product is any gooo.
Oh, Migraine, Migraine, Migraine — that post was bad enough, you didn’t have to inflict it twice.
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