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texan
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 Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:48 am Post subject: Magical Democrat? |
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It makes one feel like a killjoy to point out that Barack Obama is merely a man, and a politician at that. At the risk of being even more of a sourpuss, one can note that, in spite of the meaning he's already giving to so many people's lives, Obama is a thoroughly conventional liberal. At least when Bill Clinton ran, he did so promising a number of things that weren't in the traditional Democrat's bailiwick. Aside from a very occasional, very tepid suggestion that teachers' unions may be fallible, Obama resides firmly within the Democratic mainstream on every major issue.
Nevertheless, there's something about him that encourages his supporters to consider the impossible achievable. People don't weep in his presence because they have heard the details of his health care prescriptions and concur with his proposals. Obama's success has relied on his campaign occupying a higher plane, a place of hopes realized and dreams come true.
The only problem with being the Magical Democrat is that most elections end up focusing on issues; Obama then may look smaller than he does now. It is harder to strike a pose as a world-historical figure when quibbling over the top marginal income tax rate.
The challenge for Republicans, specifically John McCain, will be to conduct the general election in the real world of limited government and dangerous foreign malefactors rather than in the Obama fantasy world. The good news for McCain is that he has far more experience dealing with the ugliness of the real world
than Obama has, and can speak to our looming challenges with far more authenticity.
The bad news is that Obama's fantasy world is appealing, much more appealing than the real world. Obama's opponent will have to disenchant his followers. And in troubled times, many voters may be eager to curl up in the fetal position in a warm, safe place created by the most attractive Magical Democrat of them all. |
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Revan
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| Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:52 pm Post subject: |
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I prefer Barack than Hillary anyday.
In the end, it don't really matter much. Either we will have the first woman president or the first colored president. I seriously doubt that John McCain will win it all. |
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texan
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:30 am Post subject: |
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| Revan wrote: |
I prefer Barack than Hillary anyday.
In the end, it don't really matter much. Either we will have the first woman president or the first colored president. I seriously doubt that John McCain will win it all. |
We have to wait and see, Obama's former pastor is rapidly becoming an anchor he cannot get away from. It is a long time till November, a massive amount of BS will be thrown at us between now and then. |
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