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Flashback: Barack Obama: The New Stephen Douglas

Posted by: Jason | July 30th, 2008 · 3:51 PM

On February 16, 2007, I wrote my first statement at PostPolitical. An examination into the newly established Barack Obama craze, it questioned whether his invoking Abraham Lincoln during a candidacy announcement at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois was plausible. Charging the senator as hardly Lincolnesque, supporting the status quo over a bold vision for the greatest issue of our time–defense against radical Islam–I believe my skepticism of Barack Obama still stands true one year later.

As an admirer of American history I’ve always had a love for the study of past presidents. Recognizing a select few, the figure dearest to my heart is President Abraham Lincoln. He wasn’t a perfect man, but his actions saved this union and allowed us to recognize and deliver on the dream of a society where all men are created equal.

I was struck heavily by a symbolic gesture to Lincoln this weekend when I watched Senator Barack Obama address the residents of Springfield, Illinois. In the shadow of the Old State Capitol where Lincoln once delivered his famous speech in which he stated “a house divided against itself cannot stand”, I watched as a free black man announced his candidacy to follow in the footsteps of Lincoln and lead the very nation that had once debated the freedom of his ancestors.

As an admirer of our history, I had asked what this meant for the state of politics in the present. Had it affirmed a sign that we as Americans had moved on from the moral demons of our past? Was I, as a 30 year old man, witnessing a generational icon such as my parents did in 1960 when they heard the message of the great John F. Kennedy?

Ok… let’s put the bong down for a second. After considering these larger themes which tugged at my emotions, I couldn’t help but ground myself in questions of a more practical nature. I can’t deny the excitement that I had experienced personally, I think largely due to a general love of politics and the witnessing of something new and fresh, but who was this man, Barack Obama? He was certainly a handsome figure with exceptional speaking skills. I had known this from the time I watched his speech to the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He is likewise probably the first black American politician who we can all honestly say has a real chance at the presidency, but who is he? What has he voted for in his senate experience both at the federal and state level? What does he believe in?

I then began to think about the symbolic gesture that was used by Senator Obama when he invoked Lincoln’s “house divided” speech. Like today, America in the 1860s was torn in half by a highly divisive issue. I’m not to suggest we’re in danger of another civil war, but like today our nation is divided and asking itself about the direction of the future.

Today we face those same challenges. We are fighting a war in Iraq that is largely unpopular among the electorate. Like the year 1858 in which Lincoln gave the quoted speech, our nation is indeed a house divided. I then asked myself, where does American go from here? But more importantly, in regards to the senator and this great debate of our time, whose message really represents the boldness of President Lincoln, and likewise, whose represents that of his infamous opponent Stephen Douglas?

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“African men like Obama’s father love trashy white women”

Posted by: Ion | May 15th, 2007 · 9:10 PM

Meet racially obsessed, lunatic pastor James David Manning. He issues a series of highly racist and sexist insults against Barack Obama and castigates interracial marriage among other things:

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The Neverending Introduction

Posted by: Ion | April 1st, 2007 · 11:31 AM

(photo: VOA)

Michelle Obama gave a campaign speech in Iowa. The substance of it was a family hallmark evidently:

On her first solo campaign trip on behalf of her husband, Obama discussed politics only briefly with the Des Moines crowd of about 150.

Instead, in a 15-minute speech, she focused on her upbringing in a working-class family on Chicago’s South Side and on her marriage to Barack Obama, now a U.S. senator from Illinois.
(Des Moines Register)

That of course isn’t unusual at all for the wife of a candidate. But the trouble is it’s virtually identical to the candidate’s speeches. At what point do the journalists who attend these events and know the family biography by rote, start getting bored with the endless rehash of their history?

So far Obama’s politics is like a five hundred page book, with 495 pages devoted to the preface. I’d say it’s only natural, given the earliness of the campaign…but Edwards and Hillary are talking policy and doing so seriously…and is there really anyone who will vote in a Democratic primary election, who has not heard of Barack Obama or his life’s story?

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Whoa… Obama Surges!

Posted by: Jason | February 28th, 2007 · 3:53 PM

New Washington Post Poll out:

The Washington Post reports that Obama has gone from an anemic 17 percent of the vote among Democratic primary electorate to a more robust 24 percent, while the former First Lady dropped from 41 percent to 36 percent. (Edwards, going no place fast, was mired at 14 percent in third place). So the Post has Hillary’s lead cut in half from 24 percent to 12 percent.

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Pollster John Zogby finds a similar trend in a February 22-24 poll with Obama surging from 14 percent to 25 percent in two weeks during which time he has Hillary gaining only 4 points from 29 percent to 33 percent. Again, Edwards runs third at 12 percent.

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Secretary Rice on Fox News Sunday

Posted by: Jason | February 25th, 2007 · 10:31 AM

Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice appeared on Fox News Sunday this morning. She was asked about her views on the Iranian nuclear crisis, the Iraq War, Russian diplomacy, and presidential politics.

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Obama’s Stereotyping Problem

Posted by: Jason | February 24th, 2007 · 11:32 AM

At a rally in Austin, Texas yesterday, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama blasted Vice President Dick Cheney. The jab was prompted by comments Cheney had recently made over Britain’s decision to pull additional troops out of Iraq, as the US was set to increase troop levels by 20,000.

Obama said (on the logic of the troop surge) “now if Tony Blair can understand that, then why can’t George Bush and Dick Cheney understand that?”.

Senator Obama later added “now, keep in mind, this is the same guy that said we’d be greeted as liberators, the same guy that said that we’re in the last throes. I’m sure he forecast sun today”.

The “said we’d be greeted as liberators” line is a common argument among Leftists today as they attempt to support their anti-war position. To Obama, the line was meant to suggest that because there is terrorism in Iraq, that this clearly implies that the majority of Iraqis do not greet us as liberators. To me, this suggests that Barack Obama has a real problem with stereotyping people.

In the case of this argument, Obama is either being clearly hypocritical with other issues that he holds dear to him, or he is being deceptive in order to persuade people politically.

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Daschle on Inspiration

Posted by: Jason | February 23rd, 2007 · 3:49 PM

In a press release yesterday, former South Dakota senator Tom Daschle endorsed Barack Obama for president. This makes Daschle one of many other politicians that have joined the Cult of Obama.

Of the presidential hopeful, (Obama) “personifies the future of Democratic leadership in our country” said Daschle.

Daschle went on with more praise of the senator saying he has a “great capacity to unify our country and inspire a new generation of young Americans, just as I was inspired by the Kennedys and Martin Luther King when I was young.”

Of course… who but Tom Daschle knows more about inspiring Americans?

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Barack Obama: The New Stephen Douglas

Posted by: Jason | February 16th, 2007 · 9:10 AM

As an admirer of American history I have always had a love for the study of past presidents. Recognizing a select few, the figure who has always been the dearest to my heart is President Abraham Lincoln. He wasn’t a perfect man, but his actions saved this union and allowed us to recognize and deliver on the dream of a society where all men are created equal.

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