Obama has announced he is running for President. You can see his announcement video at his bareboned presidential exploratory site.
Here is the AP article.
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Well, I wish him well but do not think he is what America needs at this time.
awww. where’s the love?
On a Roberta Flack album, in a duet with Donnie Hathaway:
I’m really dating myself there, LOL!
Nah, everyone here already knew you were old. 😉
I love that song!!!!! I guess I am old to. I tell people I am older than dirt but younger than god. LOL
Help me find my glasses so I can hunt up my walker and hit you with it, will ya?
ROTFLMAO!!!!! You know I luv ya Omir!!!!
Right back at cha 🙂
I don’t see what he is offering. We don’t need a variable, which is what Obama offers – what you see is what you want to see.
That’s exactly it ..he is what you want him to be or project onto him. I’m not saying I don’t like him just don’t think he is any more ready to be President than I am.
Not a believer.
I hate to rain on anyone’s parade. But I don’t see Obama doing speeches like Edwards at Riverside Church on MLK Day.
I’ll give him time.
I think that he’s essentially the Anti-Hillary.
But he’s still an empty suit.
I think the media is intentionally trying to make him the anti-Hillary to get rid of Edwards. And I do see him giving the great speech, that is his one demonstrated skill, but the lack of substance behind the rhetoric has been very apparent the last two years. I’m not a big fan either (he hasn’t accomplished anything that would help him recover from the bankruptcy bill vote in my eyes).
In a different time his diplomatic skills might help heal the nation, but the current crop of Republican sheep isn’t amenable to compromise. Even if he chose to agree with everything they wanted, they would just move further to the right and demand more. You can’t govern by consensus when a third of the country is that selfish and short-sighted.
Well, it would explain signing on to co-sponsor the latest McCain – Lieberman global warming bill at the same time he’s cosying up to Big Coal.
Not ready for prime time. But it wouldn’t surprise me if he ended up the junior partner on an Edwards-Obama ticket.
Definitely steals wind from Hillary’s sails.
That’s all I want, for Obama to please sink Hillary so we can have somebody better than both of them on the top of the ticket.
Obama for VP, fine.
AMEN!!!!!!
Maybe I’m reading this wrong, but watching all of the Obama-love on cable news gives me the distinct impression that they are building him up so they can have a Hillary/Obama horserace and eliminate all of the other less colorful candidates (yes, Hillary has intentionally been one of the blandest politicians ever, but that doesn’t stop them from creating their own image). As soon as that is accomplished (6 months or a year from now), the same people pimping for him now will be tearing him down. I think Hillary is almost universally the true media candidate, she makes for better stories win or lose. For some bizarre reason I have never figured out, media people in general seem obsessed with the Clintons.
Definitely steals wind from Hillary’s sails.
And if he does that successfully, that would be a good thing.
This greatly complicates Hillary’s path. Bill Clinton still has tremendous clout in the black community and he’d make a fascinating first man (you get two for the price of one).
Hillary is going to need heavy black support in the south to fend off Edwards. But Obama is definitely going to wade into her support there and Edwards is going right for the heart, announcing from the 9th Ward in NOLA. Edwards wants to see that vote splintered.
with almost no info. Do you think he’s trying to get people to buy his book to find out more about him?
This is going to be a fascinating primary.
Still support Edwards (out of the declared candidates) for now…but it could change. We’ll see.
Hey, the more the merrier. I am not committing to anyone at this point in time but have been swayed a tad by Edwards moves of late. Especially denouncing loud and clear the escalation.
I agree with you. So far Edwards has my support. Someone will have to do a lot to get my support and not keep waiting for something to happen. I am very unimpressed with the other so called front runners. I saw Obama on CNN after King Shrubs speech and was not impressed in the least. He said uhm so much I had to keep looking to make sure Bush wasn’t still speaking.
Well, as I said he is the fore runner as of now. That could all change if Gore threw his hat into the ring.
Gore doesn’t want the job or if he did he would have already thrown his hat in the ring. I think his not saying one way or another had led most former supporters not to care if he runs or not. If he doesn’t have the balls to run, he sure doesn’t have the balls to be president. I think Gore’s time has passed.
His time is not passed, it was stolen from him.
I’m not talking about 2000. I’m talking about now. If he wants to run, he should have already announced and done something. I think he is doing great things with his work on global warming but I don’t think he has what it takes or willingness to run for President anymore.
lotsa style… rockstar they call him..
he talks some of the talk but not much walking yet.
he needs to be really careful not to fall into the glamour-trap any further, indeed i could not take him fully seriously unless he played that entirely down.
he’s articulate though, and if he solidifies his values and comes more from his centre rather than his smiling photogenic head, we could be looking at a future statesman, presently cutting his teeth.
there’s a tad too much self-satisfaction there, not to narcissistic levels, but a certain immature vanity that stops him from being more than a bantamweight till now.
he deserves a good gig though.
vp might be ok.
so far edwards seems the best, though obama could rise to the occasion and catch fire.
kerry still seems the most presidential!
i guess gore/kerry would be my choice, followed far behind by edwards/obama, and even further by clinton/richardson.
any of those duos would be such a ridiculously huge improvement over bush/cheney!
haven’t seen any pugs jockeying that look to be much opposition so far…
Speaking of being a bit full of himself he is quoted as saying about deciding to run that he has to decide whether it will be good for his family but more importantly whether it will be good for the country…which sounded just a tad bombastic to me.
So I guess we will have to endure a month of Obama and the media producing expectation and desire. Perhaps he should stop dangling his toes in the water and just jump in. Now on to something truly important.
Blech! I was so excited to vote for him for Senate, he’s been such a disappointment. He’s also doing what he’s done before: have a little success, decide that where you are isn’t good enough, shoot way above your head.
He had his a** handed to him in the only tough race he’s had. I doubt it will be much different this time, when he’ll eventually have to move beyond platitudes. I’m not sure he can do it.
I’ve not been impressed with him as a Senator, and, frankly, we need some substance in the White House. And I’d like a Senator for the next four years, not someone who’s more interested in trying to get the next job.
Think about it: even less experience than John Edwards had in 2004. Less experience than Bush. Scary.