Well I just started the first Obama Meet-up group in Virginia

[Perky]

I have determined to throw caution to the wind and hump on the bandwagon.

I am worried about his ability to govern his way through the mess the * has created in the Middle East. He is no doubt youthful but I have no doubt that he will put the right team around him to help run Foreign Policy.

I believe he is amajoritarian rather than being a liberal or a conservative. Ordinarily I have doubt about those who appeal to a least common denominator shorthand about america and her values because it is largely pablum for the uninformed and they do not mean what they say.


Barrack Obama believes what he says. I think he has the intellect and articulation to be a great and courageous president in tumultuous times. Largely because I believe the nation will warm to his manner after the cheerleading of the past what will be six years, But also because I believe the nation is ready for a new breed of presidency largely due the disenchantment of the past two generations.

I earnestly submit that while you may favor some other candidate at the moment, and you may be suspicious of Obama's capacity to talk with the right wing. It is what the majority of Americans want in a president.

He will win not because he is black, He will not win because he is so un-Bush. He will win on intellect and vision and the hope be carries in his every word,

Electorally, it is my impression that he has a mortal lock on victory should he advance. He will force the the GOP to defend their base in the south because of tremendous growth in african american voter registration and I believe his faith in God will help split the solid south.

He will win Ohio, He will will Florida, He will win Virginia. He will win Missouri.

If HRC chooses not to run (and I don't think she is going to run) He will be the perceived front-runner. We make a mistake if we think the next election will be about Bush's war. I ti going to abe about fixing problems home and abroad.

I can not think of anything more valuable to the cause of peace than to disarm those who have come to hate us for our historical hypocrisy on self determination than to elect a black man as president.

I can no think of any single act that can move this nation past its bitter racial divide faster than electing a black man to the highest office in the land.

He may not be your cup of tea. But due respect, we must move beyond Iraq and enter into a season of hope we have not seen since 1960.

[msongs]

1. what bandwagon? he has a book on the remaindered table?

gave a nice speech at a convention and won a first term to the senate. lots of media attention because of his book tour.

those things do not make a "bandwagon".

or maybe clairvoyance is a bad thing to waste, eh?

maybe he has a future, maybe not.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[Perky]

2. And I generally agree...

But their is a fundamental difference her. Their is a dramatic political shift undeway. There has been a historical bias against liberalism as being too idealistic and now there is a large perception out there that Coservatives can not be trusted. Obama is able to defeat every GOP candidate out there including McCain. I don't think you can say that about any other democrat who is thinking actively about running. A single democrat. Al Gore maybe....but he should have walked away with the election in 2000 and he chose to not run in 2004. He has re-erged as potentially formidable and while he may be the darling of the netroots, his popularity is not all that great in early primary states.

[Perky]

3. I suggest you check the best seller lists eom

[msongs]

4. ann coulter makes the best seller lists. Obama is not my new messiah at this time.

but I might vote for him someday as a politician running for an office, so long as I do not have to pray to his version of god if he wins.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[Perky]

5. Do you honestly think you would have pray to his God?

Give me a break.

[Perky]

6. You were the one saying his book was on the remainders table