Barack Obama
Barack Obama is not a serious presidential candidate or even a force in American politics he is a political lightweight who got very lucky.
Obama’s luck is almost astronomical, he was the only African American elected to the Senate in recent years. Obama only won that election because the Republican candidate Mr. Ryan was destroyed by a sex scandal. Obama immediately caught the eye of the media and won their hearts not because he has any serious credentials or experience but because they like him.
Obama came along at the right time the liberal elite was looking for a political savior and a black leader they could like. Obama fit the bill perfectly, he’s the kind of politician, the leftist elite loves: Ivy League educated, liberal, wishy washy, antiwar, intellectual and whiny. Yet he has very dark skin and his father was from Africa so he can call himself an African American.
Obama is the liberal elite’s dream politician an African American politician who isn’t the least bit black. He doesn’t talk in a thick Southern accent, he isn’t a preacher he doesn’t go to church or read the Bible. He never played football or served in the military and he doesn’t harp on the injustices real and imagined meted out against Blacks. He’s the African American political leader the liberal elite has been looking for since the Civil Rights movement.
Democrats look to Obama because they’re short on leadership and political heroes. Let’s face it there hasn’t been a truly popular Democratic President since FDR and he died in 1945. Truman was a strong president and a great leader but he wasn’t a popular figure, John F. Kennedy, (well his cult of popularity didn’t appear until after his death), LBJ he was a miserable failure, Jimmy Carter a disaster and Bill Clinton well he was liked. No strong leader has emerged to take Clinton’s place and Hillary well she really isn’t an inspiring leader.
The media seeing a rather dismal presidential field, latches onto Obama. One big reason is that he’s in Washington, no need to fly to Iowa or New Mexico or Arkansas to interview some governor nobody in the Beltway has ever heard of. Obama is in the Senate, a subway ticket downtown is a lot easier to justify in your expense report than a trip to Little Rock to interview some guy name Huckabee. Of course no liberal reporter wants to visit Little Rock, it’s full of ignorant Bible thumpers, a president couldn’t from that place.
Another reason the media latches onto Obama is that in modern American politics no publicity is good publicity. Potential presidential candidates remember Gary Hart who dared the reporters to get him, they got him he now practices law in Denver and occasionally walks the streets and nobody notices him (I’ve seen it). The same candidates remember Bill Clinton and George W. Bush who quietly hid below the radar until the start of the campaign, they both captured the White House.
No potential presidential candidate is going to go anywhere near the national press until the big race starts. Even then they’ll keep reporters at arms length because they want to survive.
Obama by being the media favorite runs interference for the real candidates and that’s about all. We’ve seen this kind of media celebrity candidate before, remember Bill Bradley and John McCain in 2000 neither of them stood a serious chance but the media pushed them because they sold newspapers and drove ratings. The media needs drama, a bunch of career politicians sticking their heads in the sand to keep safe from the reporters isn’t but the plucky African American crusader from Chicago is.
My prediction Barack Obama’s presidential bid will go nowhere and he’ll be lucky to be appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Bill Richardson cabinet. Of course, Obama does have one potential thing going for him, Oprah Winfrey likes him….
Obama’s luck is almost astronomical, he was the only African American elected to the Senate in recent years. Obama only won that election because the Republican candidate Mr. Ryan was destroyed by a sex scandal. Obama immediately caught the eye of the media and won their hearts not because he has any serious credentials or experience but because they like him.
Obama came along at the right time the liberal elite was looking for a political savior and a black leader they could like. Obama fit the bill perfectly, he’s the kind of politician, the leftist elite loves: Ivy League educated, liberal, wishy washy, antiwar, intellectual and whiny. Yet he has very dark skin and his father was from Africa so he can call himself an African American.
Obama is the liberal elite’s dream politician an African American politician who isn’t the least bit black. He doesn’t talk in a thick Southern accent, he isn’t a preacher he doesn’t go to church or read the Bible. He never played football or served in the military and he doesn’t harp on the injustices real and imagined meted out against Blacks. He’s the African American political leader the liberal elite has been looking for since the Civil Rights movement.
Democrats look to Obama because they’re short on leadership and political heroes. Let’s face it there hasn’t been a truly popular Democratic President since FDR and he died in 1945. Truman was a strong president and a great leader but he wasn’t a popular figure, John F. Kennedy, (well his cult of popularity didn’t appear until after his death), LBJ he was a miserable failure, Jimmy Carter a disaster and Bill Clinton well he was liked. No strong leader has emerged to take Clinton’s place and Hillary well she really isn’t an inspiring leader.
The media seeing a rather dismal presidential field, latches onto Obama. One big reason is that he’s in Washington, no need to fly to Iowa or New Mexico or Arkansas to interview some governor nobody in the Beltway has ever heard of. Obama is in the Senate, a subway ticket downtown is a lot easier to justify in your expense report than a trip to Little Rock to interview some guy name Huckabee. Of course no liberal reporter wants to visit Little Rock, it’s full of ignorant Bible thumpers, a president couldn’t from that place.
Another reason the media latches onto Obama is that in modern American politics no publicity is good publicity. Potential presidential candidates remember Gary Hart who dared the reporters to get him, they got him he now practices law in Denver and occasionally walks the streets and nobody notices him (I’ve seen it). The same candidates remember Bill Clinton and George W. Bush who quietly hid below the radar until the start of the campaign, they both captured the White House.
No potential presidential candidate is going to go anywhere near the national press until the big race starts. Even then they’ll keep reporters at arms length because they want to survive.
Obama by being the media favorite runs interference for the real candidates and that’s about all. We’ve seen this kind of media celebrity candidate before, remember Bill Bradley and John McCain in 2000 neither of them stood a serious chance but the media pushed them because they sold newspapers and drove ratings. The media needs drama, a bunch of career politicians sticking their heads in the sand to keep safe from the reporters isn’t but the plucky African American crusader from Chicago is.
My prediction Barack Obama’s presidential bid will go nowhere and he’ll be lucky to be appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Bill Richardson cabinet. Of course, Obama does have one potential thing going for him, Oprah Winfrey likes him….
posted by great one at 6:44 PM
1 Comments:
It's difficult to put much credibility on an article when you read part of it that you know from personal experience to not be true. To wit, I've been with Gary Hart on the streets of Denver, Boston, Manchester, NH, and other places, and he is indeed recognized -- and much respected for his brilliant books and other writings over the years. Keep your eyes out for the "Draft Hart" website. He's needed now more than ever.
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