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**casinobonusnolimit** · 03-11-2006, 05:00 PM

adaher
Obama is popular because of the convention speech and the mature way he's conducted himself since being elected to the Senate. He's gotten fantastic reviews from his colleagues, with the notable exception of the McCain incident. That was a misunderstanding more than any actual friction between the men.

The man clearly has a brain, leadership qualities, and is an outstanding communicator. Plus he's young and energetic. I think the minority aspect is rather far down the list of his qualities, as it is with all successful politicians. If you're known as a woman, or an African-American first, you're appeal probably doesn't extend very far. Obama transcends race. What a joke, if Barack Obama was John Smith, and white and every word he had ever uttered were exactly the same, he would be getting little to no national attention. Far from transcending race, he represents nothing more than the democratic party's complete and utter fixation with race.

And the "McCain incident" was not a misunderstanding. McCain's letter was dead on, Obama--despite his lip service to wanting to treat the issue at hand in a bipartisan and in your word "mature" manner, he jumped on board a completely partisan band wagon.

On the otherhand, even though McCain was EXACTLY right, the letter was also a demonstration of what a political whore McCain is. What was unusual about the letter was NOT its tone, but that it was directed at a democrat. McCain generally had reserved such lambasting for his OWN party in order to bask in the attention and adoration of a MLM that just loves to elevate Republicans bashing their own, but now that he desperately wants the nomination, the letter was nothing more than a crass attempt at throwing red meat to the party base.

03-11-2006, 05:00 PM	#25
casinobonusnolimit Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 439 Senior Member	adaher Obama is popular because of the convention speech and the mature way he's conducted himself since being elected to the Senate. He's gotten fantastic reviews from his colleagues, with the notable exception of the McCain incident. That was a misunderstanding more than any actual friction between the men. The man clearly has a brain, leadership qualities, and is an outstanding communicator. Plus he's young and energetic. I think the minority aspect is rather far down the list of his qualities, as it is with all successful politicians. If you're known as a woman, or an African-American first, you're appeal probably doesn't extend very far. Obama transcends race. What a joke, if Barack Obama was John Smith, and white and every word he had ever uttered were exactly the same, he would be getting little to no national attention. Far from transcending race, he represents nothing more than the democratic party's complete and utter fixation with race. And the "McCain incident" was not a misunderstanding. McCain's letter was dead on, Obama--despite his lip service to wanting to treat the issue at hand in a bipartisan and in your word "mature" manner, he jumped on board a completely partisan band wagon. On the otherhand, even though McCain was EXACTLY right, the letter was also a demonstration of what a political whore McCain is. What was unusual about the letter was NOT its tone, but that it was directed at a democrat. McCain generally had reserved such lambasting for his OWN party in order to bask in the attention and adoration of a MLM that just loves to elevate Republicans bashing their own, but now that he desperately wants the nomination, the letter was nothing more than a crass attempt at throwing red meat to the party base.
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