What is up with the constant Obama media frenzy now? A useful distraction

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

going into midterms?

As an example, I was eating lunch in a lounge at my work and (ugh) Fox news was on. On the crawl at the bottom of the screen it had some poll with McCain winning some hypothetical election vs. Obama 41 to 38 percent, and it had him winning by a larger margin vs. Sen. Clinton.

It hasn't even been demonstrated that the Democrats can win back EITHER the House or Senate YET, so it seems premature...

I also thought it interesting that Giuliani's name doesn't seem to get mentioned much in this kind of hypothetical election story anymore.

[Rockstone]

1. They failed to sell hillary

so now they are trying to sell us Obama.

All a strategy to sell us a candidate that can lose.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. What... You Don't Want To Have Obama's Baby? nt

[applegrove]

3. Please. He is a star. When elections are about to occur - you send out

your stars!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. But it's not a presidential election for another 2 years.

[pnwmom]

6. He came here and appeared with Darcy Burner and

Maria Cantwell, and thereby helped them both in their campaigns, which ARE occuring right now.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

12. I guess I was referring to the "Obama for prez in 08" frenzy, not so much the

generalized Obama frenzy.

[applegrove]

15. It is called hope in that case. Hope for those who love Obama. Hope

is often found in political stars.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

4. I think it subtly undercuts Harold Ford. Mark Twain's Huck Finn said,

"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).

[pnwmom]

8. Just because they are both black? I disagree.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

10. You disagree, I disagree, but we're not Tennessee Confederate

swastika flyers.

[H2O Man]

14. It seems highly unlikely

that the attention being paid to Senator Obama is an attempt to undercut the support for Ford among the "Tennessee Confederate swastika flyers." I suspect they are more likely aroused by the semi-naked white woman with the come-hither wink on the KKKommercial.

The attention being paid to Obama is, in fact, the result of his dedicated campaigning for a large number of democratic candidates across the country. The more he has traveled, the more obvious it is becoming that he is a dynamic face of the future for the party at the national level. The democratic party is large and should not be confused with a college basketball team from the distant past, when it was questionable if it was "fair" or if it presented the "right image" to have two "Negro" players on the court at the same time. Those days are long gone.

It's good to have short- and long-term goals. We need to win the '06 elections, and we need to be looking at our '08 options. We don't need the party "leaders" to tell us that we should invest in a retread tired candidate. The Dick Gephardts can stay in the mothballs.

[Telly Savalas]

7. He's plugging his new book.

The media are feeding on it because the man makes for a compelling story that doesn't take any real effort to report on.

If you want to complain about Obama, I'd recommend doing it in this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2582496

[Taxloss]

9. Everything's a distraction from everything else.

In a parallel universe, DU is filled with threads saying "why is the M$M ignoring Obama?"

[blues90]

11. I think it's insanity

Here we are with so many problems already and there is talk about 2008 candidates , what a complete joke and waste of time .

Lets see if we even win in 2006 and if anything changes real damn soon , if not then 2008 may as well be 100 years from now .

Obama seemed to come out of no where and now is the cover on time magazine . This looks like another political career move which is something we don;t need , what we need are proven people who want to get this country back on some sort of solid track well before the train derailes forever if it has'nt already .

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

13. I agree exactly with this sentiment.