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Tough test awaits Obama if he runs ["Obama-gasm" Alert!]
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 12/10/06 | Carol marin

Posted on 12/10/2006 10:08:21 PM PST by melt

As anyone who has ever fallen in love knows, it takes a while to get your head straight, to stop your heart from pounding and for your dewy eyes to find their focus again. So it is with Barack Obama.

The junior senator from Illinois has gotten our blood racing, our faces flushed, and some among us are already prepared to skip the engagement and race down the aisle with him in 2008.

That fever pitch is certainly evident among Democrats in New Hampshire today. A sellout crowd awaits Obama there. The Associated Press reports all 1,500 tickets for his Sunday Democratic Party appearance in Manchester have been snatched up. And crowds are expected to line up earlier in the day for his book reading in Portsmouth.

But it wouldn't hurt to take a deep breath now and then and consider a couple of things.

Presidential campaigns are not sprints but agonizing marathons that punish both the candidates and the public. And front-runners have been known to fade fast. Ask Howard Dean about that.

I'm not predicting that will happen to Obama. But telegenic, charismatic and brilliant though he may be, what's ahead is a test like no other.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; iraqosama; obama
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To: melt

The media is shoving this guy down our throats. People will be so sick of him way before the election occurs. It's Obama overload.


21 posted on 12/11/2006 4:05:16 AM PST by hsmomx3 (Steelers in '07--Go BIG BEN!!!)
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To: hnj_00
his middle name is hussein.....is that what america wants in the white house?????

That's your argument? "His middle name is scary."

No wonder we are losing.

22 posted on 12/11/2006 4:08:13 AM PST by Wormwood (Everybody is lying---but it doesn't matter because nobody is listening)
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To: melt

Isn't Obama just a creation of the MSM, just like Casey Jr was a creation of the MSM in Pennsylvania?

What has Obama ever done to make this country a better place to live in?

Isn't Obama a great believer in abortion and the right of baby to be killed before it is born?


23 posted on 12/11/2006 4:35:23 AM PST by ethics
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To: ethics

All good questions....which begs the larger questions, just, who is he, what does he stand for....i.e. WTH is with all those people jumping on his bandwagon without a clue??


24 posted on 12/11/2006 6:09:30 AM PST by poncho67
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To: melt

The word is O-basm


25 posted on 12/11/2006 6:31:42 AM PST by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
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To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball; cardinal4

I thought he was Irish. My grandfather came over on the boat from Limerick with a bunch of O'Bamas.


26 posted on 12/11/2006 6:52:17 AM PST by Ax (It's kuwais in Ruwais. It's beddah in Jeddah.)
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To: melt
Tough test awaits Obama if he runs ["Obama-gasm" Alert!]

Yes how fast and how long can he avoid Arkancide.
27 posted on 12/11/2006 6:54:31 AM PST by Hydroshock ( (Proverbs 22:7). The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.)
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To: melt

28 posted on 12/11/2006 8:27:49 AM PST by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: melt
As anyone who has ever fallen in love knows, it takes a while to get your head straight, to stop your heart from pounding and for your dewy eyes to find their focus again. So it is with Barack Obama. The junior senator from Illinois has gotten our blood racing, our faces flushed, and some among us are already prepared to skip the engagement and race down the aisle with him in 2008.

I DON'T KNOW WHY I LOVE HIM
(From the musical, "Barack Obama Superstar")
Tune: "I Don't Know How to Love Him"

I don't know why I love him,
My Barack, my Obama;
I've been charmed, yes really charmed,
By his trim physique, so slim and sleek--
I'm awed by his mystique.

I don't know why he's running,
I don't see any substance;
No real plan, flash in the pan,
And I've heard such empty words before
That when I close my eyes
He's just a bore.

But I like his face,
And I like his voice;
Makes my heartbeat race!
Makes me feel all moist!
I never thought I'd come to this:
Obama is my choice.

Don't you think it's rather shallow
I should vote for this fellow?
I'm the one who's always been
So pure, so pissed, so feminist;
I don't need men, oh no--
He scares me so.

But I like his face,
And I like his voice;
Makes my heartbeat race!
Makes me feel all moist!
I never thought I'd come to this:
Obama is my choice.

Yet, like in a romance novel,
I'm in love with a male model;
I've got to look! He signed my book!
My heart runs wild! I'll bear his child!
I want the world to know:
He's my "Big O"!
Obama, go!
I love you so!

29 posted on 12/11/2006 2:42:55 PM PST by Charles Henrickson (The wag tailoring the doggerel)
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To: Charles Henrickson
LOL!

Your hired for my next song... : )

30 posted on 12/11/2006 5:12:49 PM PST by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: Charles Henrickson
Makes me feel all moist!

We have an Obamasm

LOL

31 posted on 12/11/2006 5:13:55 PM PST by NeoCaveman (Kucinich, Vilsak, Obama, Biden, Bayh, Dodd, & Edwards the 7 dwarves to Snow Rodham)
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To: poncho67
All good questions....which begs the larger questions, just, who is he, what does he stand for....i.e. WTH is with all those people jumping on his bandwagon without a clue??

We MUST inform people about him. I had the opportunity the other nite at a party to talk to a lady who said to me "He (obama) might do some good"!!! I told her I'd send her his voting record and other things, told her he was against the patriot act, for abortion etc. etc.

She said to me "really???". She then had a different outlook on him & said she'd read whatever I sent her to get more informed!!

That is what we need to do for the next 2 years!

32 posted on 12/12/2006 1:05:39 AM PST by blondee123
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To: Mike Bates

You've got that right, he's the POSTER BOY for the RAT party (and that's about all)!


33 posted on 12/12/2006 1:06:15 AM PST by blondee123
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To: melt

When the Clinton Slime Machine gets on his case, he won't know whjat hit him.


34 posted on 12/12/2006 1:09:48 AM PST by Cincinna (HILLARY & HER HINO " We are going to take things away from you for the Common Good ")
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To: blondee123
My mom was the same way. She thought Obama sounds good then I sent her info regarding his voting record. He already lost one vote. I don't care what he does now. We have not had a campaign yet. His record will come out during the course of a campaign. That is IF he gets the nomination. Who in 1983 was the Dem who the press anointed as the next president?
35 posted on 12/12/2006 7:32:17 PM PST by sachem longrifle (proud member of the fond Du lac band of the Ojibwa people)
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To: melt

Could it be......666, charismatic, loved by many, lived six of his young years in Indonesia, super liberal!!


36 posted on 12/12/2006 7:36:06 PM PST by KenmcG414
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To: gb63

"Do you think Rush will pick up the term 'Obamagasm' as he did with Gorbachev? Remember 'Gorbasm'?"

I think he might be refered to as the "Surprisingly Articulate, Barack Obama" with the same intonation as Rush says "REVEREND Jackson".

Obama is often described as articulate as though there is something unsual about an articulate black man. The liberal MSM shows it's racism here.


37 posted on 12/14/2006 11:53:19 PM PST by UnChained
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To: melt
Extend welfare and Medicaid to immigrants. (Jul 1998)

Voted YES on establishing a Guest Worker program. (May 2006)

Voted YES on allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security. (May 2006)

Voted YES on giving Guest Workers a path to citizenship. (May 2006)

That's more than enough reasons to make him unsuitable for any government position let alone POTUS.

38 posted on 01/10/2007 12:59:23 PM PST by GoRepGo
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To: GoRepGo
Thanks GoRepGo for the info. I was unaware of the facts. I'll use them.

Thank you.

39 posted on 01/10/2007 10:00:31 PM PST by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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