10/24/2006

10 Responses to “Barack the Magnificent”

1. Heartwarming, isn’t it, that the MSM is beginning to run puff pieces for Obama already? It’s their no-cost contribution to his 2008 presidential campaign.

   It does point to some future difficulties for Hilary. Looks like the MSM moguls aren’t all in her camp.

   Insufficiently Sensitive (01397c) — 10/25/2006 @ 6:33 am

   
   

2. “Do you need anybody
   I just need someone to love
   Could it be anybody
   I want somebody to love.”

   Joe Cocker version of “I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends”. He (Obama) fills their need and they (the media) fill his.

   nk (d7a872) — 10/25/2006 @ 8:17 am

   
   

3. That’s a good song, but his background singers sound like eunochs and look very strange.

   Leviticus (68eff1) — 10/25/2006 @ 8:57 am

   
   

4. Obama is running to generate interest in Democrats in general for ’08.

   I expect he’ll quit or become Hillary’s VP.

   His lack of experience would make an ’08 victory unlikely, but getting his name out there with a bunch of puff pieces would set him up nicely for a later run.

   jpm100 (6dd049) — 10/25/2006 @ 9:06 am

   
   

5. Which 2004 red state could Senator Obama reasonably expect to carry? None. He’d have a glimmer of hope in Mississippi and Colorado.

   And which 2004 blue states might Senator Obama lose? Try Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Illinois, Wisconsin and Oregon.

   Dana (3e4784) — 10/25/2006 @ 9:37 am

   
   

6. Barak Obama at this early stage of his career has done nothing to deserve all the media hype, love, and accolades he is receiving but neither does he deserve the belittling and scorn being heaped on him by Dafydd and some others on the Right. This man is by all accounts a decent human being who, without asking, was born to a white Kansan mother and a black African father and has tried to understand and meld that mixed- race heritage in a healthy and productive way throughout his life and work. How many politicians in America today are as genuinely comfortable and equally welcomed in a black Baptist church as they are at a Winnetka dinner party? And with Obama it is not an act. He really does belong in and relate to those worlds because, owing to his DNA, he is part of them.
   It seems to me that it is the national media who have glorified him and labelled him “the great Black hope” in much the same way Tiger Wood, (also a proudly mixed-race American) has been labelled the “Black” golfer.
   Barak’s politics are quite far to the left of my own and I disagree with him on many issues but his speech at the last Democratic National Convention was one of the few statements emanating from either poltical party in recent years that sought to point out what unites us as Americans rather than focusing on what divides us. I give him props for that.
   I am kind of a political junkie and I fully understand that to denigrate Obama is a politically defensive move to help weaken a potential Democratic Presidential hopeful for 2008 who may be running against Guliani or McCain or another of our guys. But to me, it just looks petty and small and unnecessary at this stage of the game and not at all what I expect from my fellow conservatives.

   Li (09e542) — 10/25/2006 @ 11:18 am

   
   

7. It’s not Barak Obama who’s being derogated. It’s the 99% biased media who are shoving him into our faces with fawning puff pieces, beginning their support of the Democratic Presidential campaign of 2008 a couple of years early. He is by all accounts an honest and smart and personable guy, but he’s being used by the MSM as a puppet for purposes beyond his own.

   The puppet tactic by media is not anything new. Cindy Sheehan would be just another lefty crank had she not been assigned TV crews and reporters 24/7 in their attempt to resurrect the editors’ glory days as ‘antiwar’ activists in the 60s.

   Insufficiently Sensitive (01397c) — 10/25/2006 @ 9:50 pm

   
   

8. it’s a measure of just how bad our current leadership is, that this guy is being talked up for president now. he might be a great president, i don’t know.
   all i know about him is that he’s a black, conventional liberal senator from illinois, and it’s a measure of just how bad our current leadership is that i just might vote for him in a contest against more of the same. there’s another black, conventional liberal in illinois who is even more likely to become president someday.
   oprah winfrey.

   assistant devil's advocate (bb6b2a) — 10/26/2006 @ 12:27 am

   
   

9. I wonder if this one will track back to Fort Detrick, the Army’s biological warfare lab, like the 2001 anthrax attack did…

   Enlightenment (ab8278) — 10/26/2006 @ 9:17 pm

   
   

10. Obama is the one who flew his campaign manager in for his appearance on ‘Meet The Press’ and is actively entertaining this attention.

    He is a lightweight, and is going to get opened up like a can of creamed corn.

    TimesHater (b2f884) — 10/29/2006 @ 11:10 am