Raising Obama (Vanity Fair)

[Drunken Irishman]

Raising Obama

Is he tough enough? That’s the question being asked of Barack Obama. To those who have known the candidate since boyhood, it’s not just those “dreams from my father” that make Obama a contender, but also his mother’s daring, his grandmother’s grit, and his own relentless drive.

by Todd Purdum March 2008


Senator Barack Obama (with Lincoln and King) in his Capitol Hill office. Photograph by Jonas Karlsson.

By the fall of 2002, Barack Obama had been in the Illinois state senate for not quite six years. He was a member of the Democratic minority, representing a swath of Chicago’s South Side. He had done what he could in a state capital where Republicans ruled, and he was ready for a change. As it happened, so were voters in Illinois, who that November put the Democrats back in power in Springfield.

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[tularetom]

1. Is he tough enough? I think he's plenty tough.

He's not the one who's getting rattled, I haven't seen anybody panicking on his side of the contest, on the other hand it's clear that Obama has gotten under his opponent's skin.

Maybe the question should be is she tough enough?

[Cha]

2. We're gonna see just how tough Obama is.

How much have the clintons thrown at him and he's still standing tall?

"In The Audacity of Hope, whose publication in the fall of 2006 effectively turned what was first billed as a book tour into a march toward the New Hampshire primary, Obama cops a plea to the quintessential qualification for any presidential candidate: “a chronic restlessness, an inability to appreciate, no matter how well things were going, those blessings that were right there in front of me.” He has tried to turn this to his advantage. “I know I haven’t spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington,” he said in announcing that he would run for president. “But I’ve been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change.” Obama’s restlessness is a quality that would lead him to conclude, again and again, that the time had come to make a move—to take a chance, to aim higher—when others told him to wait his turn. Far more often than not, his timing has been right."

[candice]

3. Fortunately, his Republican opposition was done in by his own wife...

they were in the midst of a divorce and she spilled the beans about him frequently sex clubs.

That did in his campaign and threw it to the other candidate--Obama!

Let's hope this campaign is as easy for our Dem candidate! The Republicans have nothing to lose.

Looks like a hard worker, but he lied about the messy desk. It ain't so messy. Looks staged though.