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A Worthy Front Runner... A True Leader
The link below leads to a presser that Obama did today. If you read carefully, you will realise that Obama has been planning and preparing his base for November from day one.
He is happy to campaign is all 50 states because it gives him the chance to establish bases which will be in hibernation until the GE gets going. Once he is declared the nominee then he will unleash this vast base on McCain. If you consider the size of his base right now, I cannot see how McCain will be able to withstand this onslaught. He also sees this 50 state trek as his moment to actually meet the people face to face.
The more I read of him, the more I realise why he remains the front runner and why Hillary lags behind in so many respects. This chap is amazing.
http://thepage.time.com/transcript-of-obamas-new-albany-indiana-press-availability/







Comments (3)
That was a nice read. I didnt automatically assume "spin" while reading it. I think he speaks "frankly" a little too much, I have a bad habit of it myself, but he says "you know" quite abit when I read his transcripts.
But he is right. The plan is sound, about campaigning in all of the states and building a base their.
McCain has to sort of start from scratch.
April 23, 2008 11:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you for the link! I especially liked this bit:
That's one of my favorite things about him--that he will sometimes tell television producers that they've got to take more responsibility for the appropriateness of what they put on the air and when, and that he will tell struggling families that they have to sit their kids down at the table and make sure they do their homework, etc. He doesn't just say what people want to hear, but how we need to pony up. Why don't more people recognize that?
April 24, 2008 4:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Two-headed Giant that Barack is battling — the Clintons and the Republican Machine are very good, I would say excellent at re-labelling a person and re-characterizing them by use of the Media brought and paid for by the Republican Party mostly to shape, mold, distort, lie, carricaturize a person so the very thing they are is not seen and what they are not is seen! Barack's achievement in Pa --to close the enormous gap between him and Clinton was a monumentual success and not given credit. It is a fact that the Clintons' have an army of political hacks all over the country that owe them and they call in favors which skewes the odds in favor of the Clintons' -- Barack does not have that long coatail to depend on. But, what he does have are political people who are tired of the spin and dishonesty and loyalty to the corporations and who want change so they forge alliances with Obama whom they know incorporates the best hope for unity, and inspiration which can bring about real change. Obama does not have to tear down his oppnents or speak with a Loud Voice for the masses to hear him. However, he is up against a Mighty Giant in the Clintons and the Republicans: Joe Scarborough, Pat Buchanan, Wolf Blitzer, and Fox News TV which berate and belittle Barack daily, 24 hours a day, and yet he is the one that is still standing and still winning, although bloodied and bruised, as Rush Limbaugh asked his loyalists to do. The very Republicans that are helping Hillary now will turn on her like a mighty sword come Fall if she becomes the nominee! They must know some things that they are holding back on because they are trying their darndest to get her to become the Democratic nominee, that is who they want to run against and so she has a stallworth ally in the Republicans for now. I don't think she is going to make it over the goalpost, however. As Michael Moore so ably pointed out in his recent endorsement of Barack, Hillary Clinton chides Barack for his Pastor, Rev. Wright, yet who did they turn to when Bill was facing Impeachment due to the Monical Lewinsky scandal, who did they call -- yes, the very Rev. Wright himself, such hypocrisy! However, we, the people do have a say in this process, although that too can be suspect with some of the "voting machines" still in process. Yet, despite the odds, we will continue to battle on for indepedence and a true democratic say in this process of ours!
April 24, 2008 7:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
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