[kaaos]

Obama in '08? He's thinking about it
(http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/1...weet23.article)

October 23, 2006

BY LYNN SWEET Sun-Times Columnist
A few days ago, Sen. Barack Obama seemed to promise Oprah she would get the news first, as if a decision to make a run for president comes all at once. It does not.

It actually is an incremental process and on NBC's "Meet the Press," Obama said Sunday he is mulling a 2008 presidential run.

Obama told Tim Russert that he had "thought about the possibility'' of a 2008 bid. Obama walked away from the flat denial of interest in being on the 2008 ticket that he had made on the same show on Jan. 22.

Then, Obama said "I will not'' when Russert asked him about running for president or vice president in 2008. The Illinois Democrat, elected to the Senate in 2004, pledged "absolutely'' in the same interview to serve his entire six-year term.


Book blitz
On Sunday, Obama -- in the midst of an orchestrated massive publicity campaign to sell his new book -- reversed himself on both points.
It's the furthest Obama has gone in the scores of print and television interviews he has been giving in order to hype The Audacity of Hope, published last week.

Hinting about his White House ambitions has fueled a media frenzy in the weeks leading up to the book's release. Obama has been saying he will defer any decision until after the November elections -- but never, until Sunday, conceded he was thinking about a run.

Russert asked Obama if it was "fair to say'' he was "thinking'' about a 2008 White House bid.

"It's fair, yes," Obama replied.

Obama strategist David Axelrod -- who traveled to Washington from Chicago to be with Obama for the Russert interview -- said if Obama made a bid, he would go the traditional route of looking for support in the states with the earliest presidential test votes, Iowa and New Hampshire.


'Less wiggle room'
"If you are going to do this, you have to respect the process and the people who participate in it,'' Axelrod told me Sunday.
Axelrod said Obama went further with Russert than with other interviewers who have been pressing him about 2008 because of the "context'' in which he asked the question.

"The context was that Obama had less wiggle room because Russert replayed the tape and asked specifically about his earlier comments.

"That was how I was thinking at the time,'' Obama said. "And, and, you know, I don't want to be coy about this, given the responses that I've been getting over the last several months, I have thought about the possibility.''

Obama said he was not worried about a lack of experience. "I'm not sure anybody is ready to be president before they're president.''

[kidcnote]

It will be a complete waste of time and effort for Sen. Barack Obama to make a run for president.

This country isn't ready for a black President Obama yet anymore then a female democrapic Billery Clinton. Good, Bad right or wrong, thats the reality. But don't let that stop them from trying.

[kaaos]

Originally Posted by kidcnote

It will be a complete waste of time and effort for Sen. Barack Obama seemed to make a run for president.

This country isn't ready for a black President Obama yet anymore then a female democrapic Billery Clinton. Good, Bad right or wrong, thats the reality. But don't let that stop them from trying.

i think Powell could of made a strong run the last time.

there are some southern states that would not vote for obama just based on his skin color, mostly south states. they cost the democrats the 2000 election when they would not vote a jew in as vice president

[Littlefield]

Hillary Clinton has too much baggage and Barack Obama does not even have enough for a carry on !

[Mulderator]

Joe Lieberman--I'd vote for him. Problem is he'd get more Republican votes than Democrat and wouldn't get elected.

Democrats will only nominate liberals--Clinton the only exception to that rule (although when he was nominated no one thought the Dems had a shot at the white house). The last non-liberal Democrat besides Clinton was Johnson.

[poochee]

Originally Posted by kidcnote

It will be a complete waste of time and effort for Sen. Barack Obama to make a run for president.

This country isn't ready for a black President Obama yet anymore then a female democrapic Billery Clinton. Good, Bad right or wrong, thats the reality. But don't let that stop them from trying.

As my parents told me, "nothing beats a try, but a failure".

[linskyjack]

I think the country is ready for a black president---He served in the Illinois Senate for seven years, he will be a senator for 6 years when and if he runs in 2008. He is intelligent (president of the Harvard Law Review), charismatic, and of course, his religion is a personal manner.

[kidcnote]

Originally Posted by linskyjack

I think the country is ready for a black president---He served in the Illinois Senate for seven years, he will be a senator for 6 years when and if he runs in 2008. He is intelligent (president of the Harvard Law Review), charismatic, and of course, his religion is a personal manner.

Nothing like running for Prez 2 full yrs before his time. Lets try and get through novembers mid terms first. I hope he does run just so I can see Billery get pissed off

[Mulderator]

Originally Posted by linskyjack

I think the country is ready for a black president---He served in the Illinois Senate for seven years, he will be a senator for 6 years when and if he runs in 2008. He is intelligent (president of the Harvard Law Review), charismatic, and of course, his religion is a personal manner.

LOL! What a hypocrite you are--you've been roasting Bush for his religious beliefs for years--now all of a sudden its a personal matter! Yeah--like Clinton's BJ in the oval office--a personal matter! Every flaw is a personal matter when its a liberal!

[Littlefield]

Barack Obama would have voted aganist John Roberts and he said on Keith Olberman that Keith's analysis of habeus corpus was great.He would also repeal the tax cuts .A black man will not be President especially one that liberal.He would not get any votes in the South be honest.
He is hoping for a vice presidential slot .

[bassetman]

The nice thing about being a Dem, is they don't have to tell the GOP what they are planning!

[Littlefield]

No they have to tell Oprah !

[Paquadez]

Watched Billery being interviewed on British TV news last night.

She apparently objected to the sniping about herself and stoutly maintained that furhermore it was untrue; i.e. she wasn't ugly....................

I'd hate to cast my eyes on a lady whom Billery believed to be ugly!

Here is a nice doggy, on the same scale.

Paq

[linskyjack]

Originally Posted by Mulder

LOL! What a hypocrite you are--you've been roasting Bush for his religious beliefs for years--now all of a sudden its a personal matter! Yeah--like Clinton's BJ in the oval office--a personal matter! Every flaw is a personal matter when its a liberal!

Sometimes I have to wonder if you actually read the threads before you post. My claim about Obama's religious beliefs was made to juxtapose them against Bush the Born Again, who takes his religion out into the political world and uses it to maintain power. Some examples:

1. The Terry Schiavo Case
2. The anti-Gay Marriage Fake Ammendement.
3. The faith based intiaitive that ends up being a front for the Bush political machine.


You really do need to spend more time in here. You are losing your ability to capture nuance!

[kidcnote]

Originally Posted by Mulder

Yeah--like Clinton's BJ in the oval office--a personal matter!

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