Des Moines Register's David Yepsen: John Fitzgerald Obama

[flpoljunkie]

Tue 10.2.2007 6:11 PM

Barack Obama cloaked himself in John Kennedy’s legacy Tuesday as he sought to retake the initiative in the Democratic presidential campaign.

Invoking Kennedy imagery is a delicate thing for any politician to do but Obama succeeded in pulling it off.

The Illinois senator used the fifth anniversary of an anti-war speech he gave in Chicago to draw contrasts with his chief rival for the nomination, Hillary Clinton. He brought former Kennedy speechwriter and aide Ted Sorensen to Iowa to introduce him for the speech in Des Moines and again in Coralville.

Sorensen invoked parallels with the Cuban missile crisis decisions made by the young President Kennedy.

Obama is playing the Kennedy card because national polls show him trailing Clinton in the national contest. National observers are saying Obama’s not gaining traction and that Clinton is starting to lock up the nomination.

That’s not the shape of the race in Iowa, where polls show Clinton, Obama and John Edwards locked in a statistical tie for first place among likely Democratic caucus-goers. Obama’s spent more time than Clinton in the lead-off state, has plenty of money to deploy here and has built a formidable organization to go up against his two rivals.

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[Mojorabbit]

1. He does have the

"it" factor.

[Bitwit1234]

2. I don't think so... I was alive and well during Kennedy's term and

I see absolutely nothing of JFK in Obama. Obama is an honorable man I'll give him that, but JFK hell no.

[flpoljunkie]

3. Who knew JFK better than Ted Sorensen, I ask you, bitwit.

[Catherine Vincent]

4. Well, he is part Irish. n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

5. K&R