'08 Reasons Obama Will RunFollow

I thought this said Osama...
I think that alone (the name confusion) would be enough to turn most people off.

I think Gore will take it but this would be a nice turn of events.

Didn't this election prove that you can't win the white house by ignoring the south?

On the light note.

Today I was switching back and forth between Franken and Rush.

Franken: I've gotta hand it to the republicans, Bush got the most popular votes in the history of US elections. The person with the second most popular votes in history is John Kerry. (paraphrased)

Of course this means just total vote count, not percentages or anything.

Rush: The reason president Bush's approval rating is so low (51%) is because he spent his political capital tackling hard issues. Take out the Iraq war that's another 10 points, so 61%. Take out his need to fix social security that's another 5-6 points. So without him dodging problems and tackling the hard issues that gives him a 70% approval rating. (paraphrased)

Which explains why Rush never has good solid facts. People could too easily refute his opinions

Anyway, the question was whether or not he would run not whether he would win. In fact the column suggests a failed run might actually do him some good since he'd learn more from that than he ever did from running against Keyes.

Edited, Thu Jan 20 15:56:48 2005 by Jophiel

I think you may have meant to word that in such a manner as to actually make sense. I think.

Granted. Moving beyond that, however, and quite possibly completely hijacking the thread, do you believe that America is prepared to take a black candidate seriously now? Do you believe it will be in 3 years? 7? 10?

I would suggest that there would have to be a serious shift in the map were that to be the case. Also, I would tend to take more seriously the threats of cessesion from the decendents of those who tried it once than those of a bunch of whiney California tree huggers. Believe it or not, there are still quite a few people in the South from who's mouths it would be completely in character to hear "I ain't about to live in no cun[/b]try whar a nig[b]ger cun be pres'dent."

EDIT: Edited for technical issues, not content.

Edited, Thu Jan 20 16:07:10 2005 by MoebiusLord

I am a republican, I make no bones about it, but I think this man has some good ideas. I honestly belive that he is really concerned with bringing the country together, and not necessarily just back to the left, as most other democrats want.



As for Hillary, I can ASSURE you, Obama has about 1000% better chance of getting elected, even if he is black and muslim.

EDIT: Typo



Edited, Thu Jan 20 16:16:52 2005 by Barretboy

Obama who?

Obama yo momma.

There's an old running joke that the easiest job in journalism is Rush Limbaugh's "fact checker".

My bad on the winning/running, you're right. I honestly don't care whether or not he wins/runs, but rather we put someone in there who can. Of course that's not the point of the thread either.

Edit: By we I mean us progressives/liberals/leftys/dems

Edited, Thu Jan 20 16:57:09 2005 by BoondockSaint