Barack Obama. An idealist, an Evangelist, and Scary Good Politician
If I was a democrat I would vote for him. Heck, when I heard him give his speech at the Democratic National Convention a few years ago I just about submitted my resume. Mind you I was watching in a bar, a DC tradition, but it was a really good speech. –Too bad he didn’t say anything that he really meant, and the reason that I thought that I could work for is that he speaks Republican. For the sticklers in the crowd, no, Republican is not a real language, but there is a different vocabulary that is used by republicans than our democratic counterparts.– Anyway, Senator Obama is a phenomenal politician and speaker. He fills the air with excitement when he speaks and the people want to hear a message of change.
Why praise Obama- the man is winning.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Barack Obama routed Hillary Rodham Clinton in the racially charged South Carolina primary Saturday night, regaining campaign momentum in the prelude to a Feb. 5 coast-to-coast competition for more than 1,600 Democratic National Convention delegates.
“The choice in this election is not about regions or religions or genders,” Obama said at a boisterous victory rally. “It’s not about rich versus poor, young versus old and it’s not about black versus white. It’s about the past versus the future.”The audience chanted “Race doesn’t matter” as it awaited Obama to make his appearance after rolling up 55 percent of the vote in a three-way race.
But it did, in a primary that shattered turnout records.
About half the voters were black, according to polling place interviews, and four out of five of them supported Obama. Black women turned out in particularly large numbers. Obama, the first-term Illinois senator, got about a quarter of the white vote while Clinton and former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina split the rest.
Clinton flew to Nashville as the polls closed, and looked ahead. “Now the eyes of the country turn to Tennessee and the other states voting on Feb. 5,” she said, adding “millions and millions of Americans are going to have their voices heard.”
Another one down, and one large day to go. With Tsunami day on the horizon this could be the bump of a lifetime. Leading to what Bill Clinton might call a fairy tale of a story. Remember that just a few short years ago Senator Obama was a state legislator, and now he is running, successfully, for the job as the head honcho.
In no way do I agree with Senator Obama’s political ideology, but he is one of the most electrifying politicians that has graced the top of a soapbox with a stump speech in years and maybe even generations.
