Silliness: OMG! Barak Obama is at the Beach!

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-[url]http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/202672,CST-NWS-sweet09.article]From the Chicago Sun-Times[/url]

I don't care! I don't care! I don't care! I don't care! I don't care!

Did you know his middle-name is Hussein?

I don't care! I don't care! I don't care! I don't care! I don't care!

I don't (edit) care much of him politically, BTW. I just don't like nonsensical coverage of important national figures.

Last edited by jimservo on 09 Jan 2007, 8:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Down with celebrity candidates. Though, to his credit, I think Obama is least encouraging of them.

People, which trends left of center politically but has more to go on with someone like Obama then any other Democrat (like an aging Hillary Clinton*), is probably trying to give him a little of a JFKish boost. Senator Obama is being smart to resist their swooning. Hanging out with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin was a lot different then hanging out with Martin Sheen and Barbara Streisand.

When your a first term senator, being modest helps. Or at least it should. (Most first-termers aren't on the cover of TIME as possible Presidential candidates).

(*It's not her fault, I'm just saying People don't exactly have the same readership as The American Progressive).

Almost every potential candidate for '08 is a pseudocelebrity (Hillary, Obama, Edwards, McCain, and Giuliani).

Somewhat, but here's my take:

Hillary
Already has 8 years of whitehouse experience with her husband. Going against her is the whole Whitewater debacle.

Obama
1st term Senator, lack experience to be President. Maybe later

Edwards
Governor and Senator for the state of North Carolina. I didn't think he was bad for NC at all when I was living there during the times he was serving.

McCain
A bona fide true conservative who's not afraid to tell the Religious Right exactly where they they can go. Unlike GWB, he served and was a bona fide hero in Vietnam.

Giuliani
Took out John Gotti, and was elected Mayor of New York because of that. He Allegedly cleaned up NYC, but there were numerous scandals that followed him through his tenure. --This could be a liability for him.

I could see serious runs for the presidential run being put forth by Clinton, Edwards, McCain and Giuliani, but not Obama, though he does have charisma.

Edwards was never governor of NC. He was a Senator for one term and dropped out of his reelection in 2004 for his Veep candidacy.

Obama used to use drugs. Like cocaine, he admits to it in his first book

The only one I remember that isn't is Mitt Romney.

I don't think Whitewater is that big a stain on Hillary anymore. The bigger issue is that she seems to polarize moderates and cater to the extreme left more than other Dems. But if she does try to capitilize off Bill's more moderate following, then that with her name recognition could help her. She needs to go opposite of the Gore strategy, remember trying to disassociate himself from Clinton. She needs to ride that for the good & the bad, I think it would workout.

Other than that, the Republicans haven't put steam behind anyone yet, they need to fast to have a chance. McCain has to be the best option now, he's been moderate and bipartisan at times and can have the middle ground voters. He just doesn't have enough of his partys' support. Guiliani is a joke, there's mountains too much dirt on him and he even knows it. Someone needs to come out of the woodworks for the Reps, but I don't see it happening.

hm. I don't really have anything to say about this other than that my friends in Arizona LOVE McCain.

Hmm.... should we put together a thread listing the positions, strengths and weaknesses of known political candidates with a poll of the one people here like best?

Ohmigod, did you hear that Barack Obama is feuding with Lindsay Lohan? He totally said that she was a drunken tramp who would sleep with, like, anybody, and she said that he was, like, totally inexperienced.

OMG, I totally hope he disses Paris Hilton next.

Nobody has mentioned that McCain would be 72 if he runs in 2008. That is 3 years older than Reagan was when he started running in 1980.

On a side note, the average age of the people in the top three spots in the line of succession (VP, House Speaker, Senate President Pro Tem) is 73.

Just another Democrat to me, perhaps not as much of a schmuck as jOhn kErry.