Obama ran for U.S. Congress in 2000. Am I the last to know? n/t

[DURHAM D]

[hedgehog]

1. I think I am, now.

[DURHAM D]

4. He must not have been successful. . . n/t

[dchill]

2. Nope.

;)

[Blue_In_AK]

3. I must be. n/t

[ElizabethDC]

5. Did he really? Because I hadn't heard that, either. n/t

[zabet]

7. They don't shout

Obama's failures from the
rooftops. They prefer to
pretend they do not exist.

[DURHAM D]

8. Yep.

If Hillary (or any other presidential candidate) had run for a national office unsuccessfuly the constant refrain would be - "Hillary Clinton, after losing her first race for national office, came back to win blah, blah, blah."

I am actually shocked to find this out tonight.

[MH1]

9. John Kerry ran for Congress and lost. nt

[ElizabethDC]

11. Yep, and so did Bill Clinton. n/t

[Alexander]

16. And George W. Bush.

[DURHAM D]

13. I knew that - even before the internet age. n/t

[MH1]

15. So was that the "constant refrain" when Kerry ran for President?

As I recall it wasn't; the media had other things to talk about wrt Kerry. As they do Obama.

[ElizabethDC]

10. Wow, I'm really shocked, too. I had no idea. n/t

[NC_Nurse]

6. Put me in the last to know group.

:hi:

[pearl]

14. He ran against Bobby Rush

Not of the Daley machine, that's what most are missing, he wasn't even the machine candidate in the primary for the Senate in 2004. He was in a field of 6 other candidates and won over 50% in the
primaries and all the others got the rest combined. Google Barack Obama + Chicago Reader.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

12. but he didn't have JFK's speech writer Ted Sorensen, writing his speeches then

[BootinUp]

17. Yeah I read something about it.

It isn't talked about much is it?

[Adelante]

18. You're all so full of shit nt

[ElizabethDC]

19. What? n/t

[BeyondGeography]

20. Got his butt kicked, too, which is good

Always beware the politician who hasn't lost an election...which leads me to Hillary...