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The American Presidency. No, Not the Movie With Michael Douglas
ElJeffe
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Nigeria: Barack Obama
Nigeria: Barack Obama
Vanguard (Lagos)
8 June 2008
Posted to the web 9 June 2008
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BARACK Obama. Nobody now asks who he is. He has broken the barrier of our consciousness and now resides there.
He was not altogether unknown. He has been known in the confines of the United States as senator; damned good lawyer and a well-educated citizen.
Now he stamped most forcefully into the political history of the most powerful democracy in the world. He has stopped to be a byline.
Perhaps, at 46, he typifies what the world thinks and what the world wants as its rulers. Clinton came into the Presidency of the United States at about the age that Obama will, if he wins the Presidency. But Obama's case is different.
He is the first coloured man to win the presidential primary of any major party. He will be the first coloured man if he wins the Presidency. And that will be history.
It clearly shows that America knows her mind and would give anybody the chance at the highest level, regardless. Obama has dealt the last vestiges of racism its punchiest blows. Of course, she is still reeling and let us hope that it would not be a case of being punch-drunk but one of a deadly blow. For good.
It has been a stormy primary: Sometimes dirty in places. Obama, however, discounted the hit beneath the belt and played it with some decency.
Those who resented him, he ignored and wooed them. It is fair to say that both contenders - Hillary Rodham Clinton and himself - were marvelous and in spite of accidents of language here, there and yonder - played according to the rules.
Now that the chicken has come home to roost, Americans have chosen the better of its democratic best. And Clinton was not worsted. She manifested the American penchant and gave her best. She underwent the rigour of election tours and campaigns.
Till the end, Hillary did not show she was worse for tears. They never say die and she fought to the last in South Dakota.
The results showed the amount of work one has put in. As I write this, there is no confirmation that Hillary had been offered or accepted the vice-presidential slot of the Democratic presidential ticket.
But it will be a wonderful combination and a winning one. Both have dynamism and character and will complement each other. Simply because Hillary would pull the women's votes across the board just as it has been demonstrated that Obama has crashed the racial barrier.
Come November, their chances are very, very bright. Particularly against the background of war and economic crises.
Usually, people are clamouring for change. In the opening gambit of his campaign, Obama said: We came together as Democrats, as Republicans, and Independents, to stand up and say we are one nation, we are one people and our time for change has come."
And they may have the change against the background of Afghanistan and Israel. I would keep my fingers crossed. Even if some are skeptical that a blackman cannot mount the Presidency of the United States.
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I really can't see them working together in harmony very well, especially not after this primary seasons. Their styles and attitudes are just way too different.
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Yes.
And compared to the next.
I'm not really sure what to put. I probably like Bloomberg the best out of all of those (minus gore). But that's so not realistic.
To be fair, it's not that badly written at all. Keep in mind that there are two things going on here - First, English is likely the author's second language and his native language quite different than any European language. Second, his English comes from British, rather than American, sources which might also make some of the word choices look odd.
Anyway, good for Obama. When parents fight, the children are the losers.
See, Obama's campaign spent a lot more money while it was in the middle of a heated primary battle than McCain did while he was sitting back with his secure nomination and watching the show, so clearly Obama doesn't know how to handle his finances.
And his campaign is broke because look at the monkey.
edit: Also, Obama's organization is much larger, which is bad because ooh, there's that monkey again.
The Weekly Standard would be a lot more credible if they asked for my banking information.
But isn't that the Bill Kristol run Weekly Standard? I fail at getting my right wing water carriers straight in my head. Anyway, if it is Kristol, why do we care?
I was under the impression that you could donate $2,300 for the primary and another $2,300 for the general. I could be wrong, but I swear it said something like that when I donated to Obama.
You can, but I believe he can't spend the general election money until after the convention.
My thinking was that you could do a $2300/$2300 split per candidate.
Straight from the FEC
Right. But he still has a butt-ton of fundraising potential until then, both from Hillary supporters and from un-maxed past donors.
I guess they consider Ron Paul as viable as Hillary.
Well, to be fair...
Indeed. I voted for Vilsack because of name recognition. Mainly because I can't forget a last name that bad.
And I like Dick Gephardt because his name sounds kinda like dick-fart.
I'm ElJeffe, and I approve this complete rejection of maturity.
I'm disappointed.
So, uh, we've lost Ted Strickland from the veepstakes.
Well he does have to take care of propane and propane accessories.
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Just because Hillary isn't in the race at the moment, doesn't mean he can't run ads to keep his name in the public eye. He probably still has quite the war chest from the primary season.
That was the last thread. He got 1 vote.
Hasn't one burley VP with a potty mouth from a barbaric, backwards state been enough?
They have a long article about how Obama's neighborhood in Chicago is pretentious.
I'm sure McCain lives in a broken dwon old bungalo....
These halfassed, repeated attempts to paint Obama as some kind of blue blood is pathetic.
Damn straight
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I went with Richardson anyway; good to have some executive experience on the ticket as well.
The "awful campaigner" might have something to do with it.