If you hold a sea shell to your ear you can hear Barack Obama!
Posted on 02/17/2008 3:54:14 PM PST by melt
One man has captured the heart of the new America
It is hard to see who can stop Senator Barack Obama becoming the next President of the United States. He has built up an excitement such as no candidate has created since President Kennedy in 1960. He is, in my view, a better speaker than Kennedy. Like Kennedy, he combines personal magnetism with a strong appeal to American idealism.
Like Kennedy, he is young and speaks for the new generation of American politics. By ordinary political reckoning, 2008 ought to be the Democrats' year. In 2006 they captured both houses of Congress in mid-term elections.
There are, of course, hypothetical events that could change everything. There could be an attack on Mr Obama himself, but he is protected by the Secret Service. There could be an action by al-Qaeda, which would refocus American anxiety on the threat of terror.
But al-Qaeda is itself highly political. It would probably not be in its interest to secure the election of Senator John McCain. Al-Qaeda may be unpredictable, but it would be a mistake for it to interfere in American politics, even if it had the capacity to do so.
At the start of the primaries, when all eyes were on Iowa and New Hampshire, Senator Clinton was the frontrunner for the Democratic Party nomination. She had the organisation, she had the money, she had the name recognition, she had the professionalism; she even had Bill Clinton, even if he is something of an unguided missile.
But those days are now long ago. Senator Clinton has fallen behind Senator Obama in almost all of these factors, except for Bill Clinton's support.
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I am very bothered by the fact that my grandparents who voted republican their entire lives and were talking about Reagan in 1973 as a future President are voting democrat now since they are dead and lived in Chicago.
You do have proof of this, I suppose? Otherwise your comment reflects very badly on your intellectual honesty.
I believe JFK was a great leader. He was starting his own version of a “Reagan Revolution”. Low taxes, smaller government, strong national defense.
Obama is more like Lyndon Baines Johnson. Call it the “Great Society” part deux
Remember: Adolf Hitler gained power through an election, not a coup.
And remember how Jack Ryan was beating him or even in the polls before he got the reporter to sue to open the divorce records?
And I don’t know how the Sun Times gets away with their coverage having a reporter just on his campaign.
HES NOT FROM ILLINOIS! He didn’t come here until he was grown.
He might not have been but he was raised by parents who were racist and also supported Hitler.
Anti-abortion (we can assume by being a ardent Roman Catholic)
Unfortunately that is flawed logic....look at brother Ted, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry etc...all Catholics - at least in name- and all ardent of the right to kill the fetus right up until delivery!
Haven’t you heard? Hope and change, or change and hope. Who can’t get behind that?:)
He is Kennedy , He is Reagan , He is abe lincoln *L*
have you ever listened to his speeches? He says a lot of nothing
And with his inability to keep it zipped JFK was probably responsible or half responsible for dozens of them personally.
That’s why his followers are a cult.
Even Hillary’s supporters can come up with concrete reasons to vote for her. Not that I’d agree with them but at least they come up with substance.
Obama will bring about change. That’s what we will have in our pockets after his taxes.
I will say it again, Obamamania is like “Heaven’s Gate” without the payoff.
Totally. He talks about change but never talks about what to change or how to change it.
Kennedy was a homosexual coke addict?
Heavens Gateists only killed themselves.
Obamas cult will kill America.
Start with tax cuts that were bigger that Reagan’s and Bush 43’s combined.
Keeping Russian missiles out of Cuba comes to mind, as well.
The only change Obama will bring is whats in my purse after his taxes.
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