Obama for President 2012

[DenverDem]

A Leap of Faith
By BOB HERBERT

Published: June 4, 2004
Remember the name Barack Obama. You'll be hearing it a lot as this election season unfolds.

Mr. Obama, a Democrat, is tall, thin, youthful and very smart, and he's running (sometimes literally, depending on the schedule) for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois.

He's got a million-dollar smile and he's charismatic. At the moment he has a substantial lead in the polls. If that lead holds and he wins in November, he'll be only the third African-American to take a seat in the Senate since Reconstruction.

His partisans describe Mr. Obama as a dream candidate, the point man for a new kind of politics designed to piece together a coalition reminiscent of the one blasted apart by the bullet that killed Robert Kennedy in 1968.

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<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/04/opinion/04HERB.html>

[rocktivity]

1. VP 2012, President 2020

He's only 42--what's the rush? Better he should put in four to eight years as the VP to whoever succeeds Kerry in 2012. It will be harder to hold his race against him if he can boast of having direct exposure to the job. Plus, in 2020, he'll be a nice seasoned mature 58 years of age.

:headbang:
rocknation

[DenverDem]

5. Great point.

I just really like the guy.

[AP]

8. Politicians aren't like wine. You have to strike when the iron is hot.

If a politicians is the perfect person for a historical moment, get him in there. He's going to be the same person today or in ten years (if he's the real deal to begin with).

[paranoid floyd]

2. I suspect...

he should stay out of airplanes from now on. Oops, my tinfoil hat fell off.

[Democat]

3. Make sure you donate to Obama's campaign - he needs to win this year first

http://www.obamaforillinois.com/

[leyton]

4. We need presidential elections more often!

There are so many great rising stars out there - which one to pick? Durbin, Clark, Edwards, Vilsack, Obama, Ford, Landrieu: they all need some time in the oval office!

Maybe we can have a Kerry-rotating VP ticket or something. Is that allowed?

[dolstein]

6. No -- Edwards/Obama in 2012

NT

[CalProf]

7. I really like the sound of that ticket

An old friend of mine went to college with Obama. My friend's a cautious person, but he says flat out that Obama will be the first African American president.

Give him eight years as VP with Edwards, and then he can take over.

[tritsofme]

9. And Blago wants to play president too,

that sure would be an interesting primary with two IL Dems duking it out.

[yankees_suck]

10. Blagojevich better be concerned about getting re-elected first...

The way he's going, he might not last beyond this term...his approval ratings are WAY down, and he doesn't even have total support from his own party. Of course, that's the great Chicago dem machine at it again, with Mike Madigan at the controls.