Is Obama the next Kerry?
Posted 11 weeks 2 days ago byJohn Brummett thinks so:
For all the talk of newness and history-making, we've seen this presidential race before.
Democrats are burdened with a mealy-mouthed, message-conflicted, reactive, apologizing, conflict-averse nominee. He goes into a prevent defense on Labor Day, at which point the Republicans commence traipsing up and down the field hitting wide-open receivers.
For their part, Republicans suddenly are all fired up again about those supposedly outsider and right-wing reforms they incessantly talk about but never actually get done, such as fiscal responsibility and an end to abortion and the deployment of military that makes quick work of any and all adversaries.
Do you see Obama like Kerry? Or is he more like another, possibly more successful former Democratic party candidate?
Thoughts
He is not like Kerry. He is
Submitted on September 15th, 2008 by koolmom21He is not like Kerry. He is not like any other left winged politician. He is not even close in being ready.
After Columbia he spent a year in a New York business, a year in a NY non-profit, and then headed to Chicago where he spent 3 years as a “community organizer.” Part time.
Then he went to law school, returning to Chicago in 1991. He did some community organizing, then was an associate for a Chicago law firm for three years. After that he was to the State Senate - a part time legislature — and served as a lecturer at the Univ. of Chicago law school — another part-time gig. He was involved in a variety of community organizations during this period.
His Senate seat is the first full-time job he has had since his law firm days — but he’s only been in that job for 4 years. Two as state senator and almost two as U.S. senator. His Senate seat showed a lot of time away, too.
He can not even do his job as a senator. A senator need to make decisions and vote on the issues.
He has voted “present” more than any legislator, possibly in the entire country. That doesn’t even give him the credit for making mistakes, and learning from them, since he didn’t take any chances.
He has no track record of executive or political authority, and he wants to be President. It is stunning that he has made it this far.
"We are the ones we've been waiting for"
Submitted on September 15th, 2008 by John 2000I haven't read a word from any of Ann Coulter's books because she can say it all with a title: "If Democrats Had Brains They Would Be Republicans".
The Democrat underlying message to Americans (since Carter) has been give to the government more to waste and yourselves do with less. Is Obama different in this regard? No! Is he trustworthy? No! At this moment, does even Obama know who he is? I doubt it.
I might not have agreed with a lot of Hillary but I never heard her talk down to Americans with snooty disguised insults and unbelievable hubris like "We are the ones we've been waiting for." So in a number of ways, Obama is by far the worst of the lot but it is close between him and Kerry.
I also believe that the spouses of the candidates carry an undocumented weight in deciding elections.
I look at it this way. If democrats did have brains they would have gone with Hillary. Were that the case you wouldn't be fretting now about Palin being the next Reagan. Of course she is not because quite frankly she is just Sarah, Alaska governor, VP candidate. She does not talk down to America.
With Obama I have never seen a candidate so baldly hyped by the media, both large and small, nor with Palin, a VP candidate so fully attacked. I cannot tell you how sweet it will be!
Either way
Submitted on September 15th, 2008 by rom12921"...mealy-mouthed, message-conflicted, reactive, apologizing, conflict-averse nominee..." Don't be so easy on him. Obama's lack of clear, strong political stands on issues has really turned me off. Why does Obama have to uh & um his way to an answer that would sound acceptable to his supporters, not alienate independents or incite criticism from detractors? How does somone running for Pres not know where they stand?
If he is like Kerry or Clinton, he will carry 40-43% of the vote and lose. If he does slightly better than AlGore- welcome President Obama
Both
Submitted on September 15th, 2008 by TreeTopFlyerPolicy-wise he is worse than all combined.
Blind devotion of his followers is something Pres Clinton couldn't even dream of.