OBAMA-RAMA!
National media experiences a collective pre-mature ejaculation at the very thought that the immature senator will run. Giving us the prospect of democrats (two years hence) deciding whether to field the first women presidential candidate or the first African-American.
The Times: Crowd-Pleaser From Illinois Considers White House Run
The Post: Obama Says He'll Consider A 2008 Bid for The Presidency
Good commentary from the Post: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/ which shows just how much of the Democratic establishment is behind Obama. Although it must be said, the list of backers hardly warms the heart and screams of impending victory. Tom Daschle! Al Gore! And, Jim Jordan, who ran Kerry's primary run that resulted in the nomination.
Why now? Is it a signal to Hillary that there is enough party apparatus out there to really rock her ship of state on its presumed smooth cruise to the nomination.
Or is something slightly more clever going on?
One thing that was largely glossed over in the post-Meet-the-Press Obama frenzy is the candidate's blatant abandonment of his pledge to voters to stay out the term. Real people HATE it when politicans do that kind of thing. Its especially jarring vs. Hillary's kept promise to stay a full term, and her vague "but-who-are-we-kidding" non-acknowledgment acknowledgment that she's running in this weekend's NY Senate debate.
Obama's draw, his mini-narrative of the moment, is that he's just not like everybody else. And his answer to Russert's "but you said you'd stick out your entire senate term," is the most boringly politics-as-usual, real voter turn-off imaginable: that's the way I felt then, but now I feel different.
Its his first flip-flop, and he may think its smart to get it out of the way now, and give the public and voters two years to get used to his aspirations and forget his ditching a pledge to the voters who elected him.
In any case, his Meet the Press interview is safely in the files of Republican and Mrs. Clinton's ad consultants, and they'll use that to paint him as just another politician, just wait two years and see.
The Times: Crowd-Pleaser From Illinois Considers White House Run
The Post: Obama Says He'll Consider A 2008 Bid for The Presidency
Good commentary from the Post: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/ which shows just how much of the Democratic establishment is behind Obama. Although it must be said, the list of backers hardly warms the heart and screams of impending victory. Tom Daschle! Al Gore! And, Jim Jordan, who ran Kerry's primary run that resulted in the nomination.
Why now? Is it a signal to Hillary that there is enough party apparatus out there to really rock her ship of state on its presumed smooth cruise to the nomination.
Or is something slightly more clever going on?
One thing that was largely glossed over in the post-Meet-the-Press Obama frenzy is the candidate's blatant abandonment of his pledge to voters to stay out the term. Real people HATE it when politicans do that kind of thing. Its especially jarring vs. Hillary's kept promise to stay a full term, and her vague "but-who-are-we-kidding" non-acknowledgment acknowledgment that she's running in this weekend's NY Senate debate.
Obama's draw, his mini-narrative of the moment, is that he's just not like everybody else. And his answer to Russert's "but you said you'd stick out your entire senate term," is the most boringly politics-as-usual, real voter turn-off imaginable: that's the way I felt then, but now I feel different.
Its his first flip-flop, and he may think its smart to get it out of the way now, and give the public and voters two years to get used to his aspirations and forget his ditching a pledge to the voters who elected him.
In any case, his Meet the Press interview is safely in the files of Republican and Mrs. Clinton's ad consultants, and they'll use that to paint him as just another politician, just wait two years and see.
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