Sen. Barack Obama Eyes White House

NewsMax ^ | 11/08/06 | AP

[cricket]

That's my prediction too. Lord help us if they succeed in reaching the White House. What an empty ticket.

Washington Post is preparing this combo as the 'the ticket'. . .this is the Libs best. . .

[Prost1]

The point is that in "3 of the major religions" he is a pariah, not a man of the "promise".

If you don't believe the Saudis jump through hoops when a Woman (Albright or Rice) comes to visit, wait until they have to deal with a pariah.

Why, it may be enough to bring the kingdom down.

[unspun]

I'm listening to his interview with Russert, on MSNBC. It appears that Obama has studied the soul of the moderate/centrist long and hard and is making a very strong effort at posing, to appeal to them.

All the while, in this interview, he is avoiding talk of real political philosophy, or the measure of what is and is not actually for the public good in America.

[cricket]

That's what happens when the White House doesn't fight back the lies.

Everyone knows; as do 'the' Repubs; that perception is reality. . .Dems count on it and create their own history and ours.

Repubs ignore it; or figure(d) 'Rush' will take care of it. (No wonder he got tired; I got tired 'for' him.)

Now, they cannot even agree on 'why' we lost Congress; and no one has yet come out to slay any dragons set forth by Dems, since election.

[Contra]

The "dream team" is coming, it is inevitable. It will be either "HillaryBarack2008 or BarackHillary2008." Of course this PC team ends up being the Republican dream team and liberal and democratic nightmare. The liberal media will try to peddle these two as "rock stars" and claim that as a ticket they can't be beat. They will be known by their first names, Hillary and Barack, just like Cher and Fabio. But when the smoke clears they will join McGovern, Dukakis, Mondale and Kerry.

[cricket]

Some one and I wonder who is laying money out for this guy.

Have not heard any 'where's George'queries. 'Soros', that is. . .

While his 'investments' appear to be 'ongoing'; he certainly kept a lower profile this past election. But no doubt - he is continuing to craft his poltics in his own image.

Pelosi probably in the 'not helpful' category; but nothing he cannot take car of as he moves forward towards next Election.

[pepsionice]

This is the career of Obama:

- After high school, he went to Occidental College for two years, then onto Colombia College (political science major and numerous classes in international relations.)

- After graduation, he worked one year for Business International Corporation, and then took a job with a nonprofit organization in Chicago helping local churches organize job training programs for poor neighborhoods.

- Then went to Harvard Law School for three years. Was president of Harvard Law Review and was magna cum laude in 1991.

- 1991, returns to Chicago works for civil rights law firm and teaches over at Univ of Chicago Law School.

- 1996, elected to Illinois State Senate. Seven years later, he is named chairman of state Senate Health and Human Services Committee.

- 2000, unsuccessful primary run for U.S. House of Representatives (against 4-term incumbent Bobby Rush who was a community activist). Rush by the way...said that the Obama hadn't been around enough to see the real district...winning with 61 percent of the vote. Remains in the state senate.

- 2004, gave keynote speech at national convention.

- 2004, runs in senate campaign and todays sit in DC.

So to spell out the big picture...Obama spent a good seven years of his life after high school in higher education. If you are looking for real paychecks and real work...you are stuck with five years at a law firm (and teaching law), plus a year at a poor neighborhood support center. Since 1996...he has been either a state senator or a US senator. No executive experience...although since I am a historian...I must remind you that Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and John Tyler were no better at experience. And in the case of Jimmy Carter and Woody Wilson...executive experience really didn't help them much at all.

He hasn't exactly worked at high paying jobs...and he doesn't have huge bank accounts to hint of bribes. So far...only one accusation has popped up and it would appear that someone wanted to be an "insider" to Obama...not much more than that (our boy "Bill"....had thousands of insiders).

If he chooses to run, Hillary will have huge issues in overcoming his presentation and his lack of background issues. The fact that he tied himself to helping in poor neighborhoods, has a vast knowledge on international affairs, and carry an audience with a speech...makes him a difficult character to compete against.

If he isn't tagged out by any single moral issue....then Hillary, Gore, and McCain are finished when you bring up past history. He appears to have moral high ground....and that carries the heartland in any race. The MSM could make this guy a poster child and carry him the last mile. 2008 promises the best presidential race in 50 years.

[cricket]

All the while, in this interview, he is avoiding talk of real political philosophy, or the measure of what is and is not actually for the public good in America

Obama's delivery of empty rhetoric is captivating. . .and frightening; or should be.

[EternalVigilance]

CAUTION- not for those with a weak stomach. Hint: Obama is FOR late term abortion (aka Partial-birth)

Shoot, he's for infanticide. A distinction without a difference, I know, but as a committee chairman in the IL legislature he blocked legislation that would have stopped the ongoing practice of killing babies who had miraculously survived the abortionists' murder attempts and were already born.

New tagline...

[the invisib1e hand]

It will be Rodham/Obama in 2008.

That would make Clinton/Gore in 92 look pretty good by comparison.

[...heaves]

[BARLF]

Obama's delivery of empty rhetoric is captivating. . .and frightening; or should be.

I'm not captivated by Osama OBama Hussien' rhetoric but my gut tells me what I see is not what he is.

That scares me.

[Just mythoughts]

Think maybe there is a religious competition going on as to who can be the new king/queen maker?

Seems with Mr. Warren giving Obama a platform flies in the face of Billy Graham pronouncing his blessing upon the mighty Clintons.

[USS Alaska]

Religion of peace, man of peace, party of peace.

Man, do I feel peaceful.

[TheBattman]

Your tagline is backed up clearly by Christ's own words...Matthew 25:45

[SteamShovel]

You left out the most important credentials of all: female, black. That's all it would take to create an avalanche of brain dead votes.

I was thinking that as I wrote, but somehow it didn't make the posting. You are right, the liberals are so gender and color conscious that they think it trumps all other things.

The irony is, by being so gender and color conscious, they are the ones who are the bigots and discriminators. I wonder what Martin Luther King would have to say about that. I think he would be ashamed of the behavior of most liberals today.

[Coldwater Creek]

If it wasn't so scary, I would have to laugh!

[chiefqc]

WHAT HAS THIS PERSON EVER DONE?????

[upcountryhorseman]

Somehow I don't trust this guy. He has an african name even
though he was born in this country: Does he have any knowledge of American Traditions, American culture, American
belief systems?

[wagglebee]

Does he have any knowledge of American Traditions, American culture, American belief systems?

You ask as if this somehow matters to the left.

[DMZFrank]

In his book, "The Audacity of Hope," Obama displays a candid self-awareness about the reality and limits of his political appeal. "I am new enough on the national political scene that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views," he wrote.

The word for this guy is Tabula Rasa. The libs are projecting onto him their hopes despite the fact that modern day liberalism is a grotesque tumor. They figure his pretty boy mask will conceal the Dorian Gray face underneath.