Obama Announces Presidential Exploratory Committee
Illinois Senator Barack Obama threw his hat into the 2008 Presidential race by announcing the creation of his Presidential exploratory committee. In a statement Obama said,
For the next several weeks, I am going to talk with people from around the country, listening and learning more about the challenges we face as a nation, the opportunities that lie before us, and the role that a presidential campaign might play in bringing our country together. And on February 10th, at the end of these decisions and in my home state of Illinois, I’ll share my plans with my friends, neighbors and fellow Americans.
The bombshell will be if he decides not to run for President.
If Obama gets the nomination he gives the Democrats a “perfect shield.” A liberal media will drool deeply desiring a Black to become President and a Democrat on top of it. Stories will be slanted Obama’s way while reading between the lines of editorials you’ll learn, “If you criticize Obama you’re a racist.”
The pressure’s on Sen. Hillary Clinton. She seems like the likely nominee, but she lacks the rock star aura Obama and her husband have. What she does have are plenty of conniving, political minds willing to do anything to win the nomination. Obama will have to endure some shots to the teeth if he wants to win.
And to think Obama has Alan Keyes to thank for his sharp rise to political stardom.
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Obama’s video is below the fold.
ARGH.
1) Hillary is NOT the likely nominee! I don’t know a single liberal who likes her, much less wants to vote for her! The Hillary candidacy is pure media creation. Conservatives hate her because she’s a Clinton, and liberals hate her because she’s a carpetbagging faux-centrist whose political positions change whenever it will benefit her career. She’s completely transparent. No one likes her. Stop perpetuating this media myth that Hillary is a popular candidate.
As far as the “If you criticize Obama you’re a racist” meme, please. If anything, i hear just as much “what has he done?” criticism on the left as i do on the right; maybe more.
In any case, i think the “what has he done?” thing is a non-issue. It sure didn’t stop a certain Texas Governor (Texas being a state where the Lt. Governor does the most work, practically making the Governorship a figurehead position) from being elected President…or from getting close enough that fraud could get him the rest of the way, whatever.