Reply #4: I think it subtly undercuts Harold Ford. Mark Twain's Huck Finn said, [View All]

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"give a (n-word) an inch and he will take an ell".

Some of those who are pushing an Obama candidacy are in effect saying, IMO, "Give them a Tennessee Senate seat and the next thing you know they"ll have the White House".

Of course, many who are talking about Obama are exactly the same people who used to talk about VA governor Mark Warner, who has ruled out an '08 run. Warner, like Obama, is an appealing young politician without the national baggage of all the other '08 contenders (Hil, Kerry, etc).