The media profile of Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is huge this week, as he promotes his new book, “The Audacity of Hope.” He went on “Oprah” and continues to downplay a run for president. Excerpts from the book are in the latest Time magazine, alongside an article headlined “Why Barack Obama Could Be the Next President.” Even conservative columnist George Will helped fuel the Obama phenomenon, saying Sunday during ABC’s “This Week With George Stephanopoulos “ that he noticed Obama is different when they had a sandwich together recently. “When I left the office I thought to myself, ‘This is what the scouts must have felt like when they saw Alex Rodriguez play high school baseball.’ He was a long way from the big leagues then, but he was on the way to the big leagues.”
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One of two inevitablitites will transpire:a) A Democrat takes the White House in 2008;b) Barack Obama takes the White House in 2012.
Could be someone’s VP in 2008..not with Hillary. Gore?
I’m pushing for crossparty matchup with McCain, your fav Mr. C.
Every long term Senator has issues and controversy.
McCain would be a one termer dealing with Bush’s failed war issues and keeps Obama out of the Senate that has very poor Dem leadership.
2008 needs a cross party matchup because political schism is harming the fed from doing their jobs.
We can’t have a do nothing Congress continually. Party line rubber stamping truly injures legitimate legislation. Allows for pork barrel and corruption protection.
If Obama runs for Prez by 2012, look out for Eliot Spitzer who is running for NY gov, to be a VP for him.
That guy alone saved investors like Bush’s appointed SEC figurehead’s never did.
Consider fraud on the stock market without Spitzer attacking. He caught back dating options for corporate executives. The IRS wasn’t up on that. He’s not perfect but did a huge job going after corporate crooks.
Obama if he can survive the Senate without controversies and Spitzer does well as NY gov for one term, they run for the White House in 2012.
Repubs will put up George P. Bush, son of Jeb for Prez. If not 2012, 2016. Another Bush is on the horizon politically!
2008 is a year, different politics have to take effect.
What’s bipartisan if Presidential teams never try it for voters to approve.
You don’t know McCain.Don’t get me started on him.
Barak mania has a lot to to with “hope”. Hope for a tolerant USA that welcomes diversity, hope for a firm, yet benevolent foreign policy, hope for millions of unducumented workers trying to live in the shadows, hope for some compassion in our government, and hope for the rights of the poor, the abused, the weak and the less fortunate. All of the things that compassionate Americans hope for have been abandoned by our current administration in favor of the rich, the strong and the powerful. Obama represents hope for what the USA used to be like prior to January 2001.
It isnt just hope. It is possiblility.
He represents the possibility, more than just a wish and a prayer, that America could be, once again:
The land of the free and the home of the brave.
Respected in the world community as an ethical, honest, and reliable nation.
The land of equal opportunity for all, not just rich, straight, white, male, christian republicans.
That equal justice under the law is more than a phrase. It could, once again, be the guiding principle of a nation built on laws, not theocracy and the cult of personality.
The possibility that your children could have a better life than you did.
That your children wont toil forever, in unsafe working conditions for subminimum wage, to pay off the national debt the skull and bones boys ran up on YOUR dime.
That America could once again hold it’s head high with real moral authority for NEVER engaging in torture, spying on citizens without a warrant, and that our elections are true and fair and not rigged between Diebold and PNAC.
That Americans could once again live without fear instead of wetting the bed and whining everytime some little tin dictator farts.
Yep. Obama has something the repukes have never understood.
The truth of real possibility.
Goodbye smoke and mirrors. Hello America once again.
I’m from Illinois and the people just love Barack Obama. I watched him and wife on Oprah and I was impressed with them both. They still live in Chicago and are raising their two children in a normal life.
I was also impressed with Obama’s self-imposed policy of not riding on corporate jets. (of which Oprah acknowledged that he had turned down her offer to ride in hers). That’s integrity, that’s principles and I didn’t see any piety or fake Christianity. He seems like the real deal, came from a humble background, and wants to see the country as a whole regain what we have lost under the GOP controlled government.
As for McCain, I just don’t trust the man.
Barak Obamma is simply the latest novelty minority politician to be propped up by the drive by media. Sorry, the only thing impressive about Obama is that he is a black United States Senator.
Hmmmmm…let me guess jw…republican?
Obviously the GOP won’t fall into the Barack Obama fan group. This man is too much of a threat to the GOP’s stronghold on their corrupt power.
But what if Barack was a GOP card-carrying member? Then the party lapdogs would all over this like a kid in a candy store.
Obama is still too “new” for a run at President. I agree with MrC – maybe 2012 – or even 2016.
As VP in 2008 could be quite interesting – paired with a governor.
Ben..this is just my humble opinion.. but… becoming VP is probably one of the worst things that Obama could do…my reasons: 1.) the VP takes on all the negatives of his President.. he must stand up for the President’s decisions, even if he personally does not agree…. 2.) very seldom does the VP win after 8 years as VP.3.) he could actually be making a record to stand on right where he is, including cross-party coalitions. 4.) VP’s are soon forgotten… don’t believe that.. without looking, name the last 10 VP’s.
I think he is better off keeping his current job and work towards healing the great divides that have split Congress!
valid points kssam …
CheneyGoreDole(?)MondaleAgnew-Ford (Quayle)HumphreyLBJNixon
Ben, Quayle was VP for Bush I, not Dole.
Thanks. I should have remembered that. Did Ford pick up a VP? I put Q there with a ?
Obama needs a few more years of experience. 2012 sounds good, if he stays on the path he’s on and isn’t corrupted by then. The only thing I count on is my fingers and toes. ;)
Ben, not that I recall; I guess I could Google it, but from memory, don’t recall.
Mr.C..PLEASE..I’ve asked this a number of times…what’s with you and John McCain? Something personal?
Through you, let me know him! Share the story!
I still want to see a cross party election choice regardless.
Obama as VP in 2008, would give White House access to Africa. He’s known in Nigeria. The war on Terror is in Africa. China is taking oil from rogue nation states there and that’s why the UN security council does “nothing” to stablize Sudan, Darfur. Any other place with national resources being exploited.
He would be a VP with some status for the positive. Cheney has been Mr. Negative his whole life. Gore was nothing useful. Quayle was a joke. Bush daddy as VP, he was puppet master to Reagan in his second term. Who’s fault was crash of the stock market in 1987.Arm sales to Contra’s, all by Daddy Bush, since Reagan testified he had no memories as President.
Reagan, Bush Daddy both sent Rumsfeld to make friends with Saddam. He’s deserved only one term as President, we had to read his freakin lips lying!
VP for Obama in 2008 with who?
McCain, of course he’s not trustworthy on all topics, but he’s timely because of the wars needing fixing from Bush failed policies. Wars aren’t going to end in 2008!
Obama can run for President in 2012. Win again in 2016 with 12 access years in the White House possibly!
Keep the guy out of the Senate because that’s a pit where legislation is being corrupted. He can’t fix Congress, doesn’t have the Senority. The senior leadership of Dem party is terrible!
I’ll be surprised if McCain is chosen Republican Presidential nominee. Maybe he has forgotten and forgiven what was done to him by his own party before. I haven’t. Because of that, I feel that he makes a stand, then backs down to follow the party line. I call that flip-flopping. I don’t trust him.
We need this guy. Reminds me of another Intelligent Democrat who ran the white house for 8 solid years.
I would really like to hear what Obama has to say on specific issues prior to jumping on the bandwagon. So far, he has masterly sidestepped issues. His handelers will have to let him loose sometime if he is going to bring new thinking to the plate.
Ben:
Ford’s VP was Nelson Rockefeller. And Kanssam’s point is well taken. Bush I was the first sitting VP to win the presidency in something like a century.
Old joke: There once was a woman who had two sons; one went off to the sea, and the other became vice president. Neither was ever heard from again.
Call me when Obama accomplishes something besides wowing the media and the party faithful. Then we’ll talk.
GMC70 – thanks. Now I remember. (Must be my age showing!)
Good point about Obama – we need to get to know him better. He’s still too new on the scene.
There once was a man named ObamaBy chance his name rhymed with OsamaTo the senate he wentWith a liberal bentSix years later he’s home with his mama
Sorry Ben, but Obama’s mother (who was born in Wichita) died of Ovarian cancer at age 53, about 10 years ago. He would probably be thrilled to see her again. That is one reason for his interest in research for cancer treatment, as well as a wide variety of other subjects that impact ordinary Americans. Your attempt at rhyme fell flat. Listen to the man sometime. After listening to him a number of times, I finally have hope in a politician. It has been a long time since I could say that. I can only hope that we can muddle through until he runs. He is the only person I have seen in recent years that I could really get excited about as President.
Sorry, Ben. I am new to this. You were not author of the “rhyme,” and the comment should have been addressed to FPL. My aoplogies.