Originally posted by finti
say what you want about Clinton but at least he managed to be popular in Europe now not many US prez have achieved that. And his administration did straighten out the American economy though.
Clinton was cool, the American presidency looked like fun while he was in office................ worlds apart from that mumbling retard that`s in office now
😆 O yah if the republicans change it so arnold s. can run I say the Democrats change it so B.C can come back
Originally posted by ash007
BARACK OBAMA trounced Republican Alan Keyes on Tuesday to claim a Senate seat in Illinois. He will be just the third black U.S. senator since Reconstruction.Well done 👆
Trounced? That's a total understatement...like I said it'd be, biggest landslide in state history. Obama got 88% of the votes, and Keyes only got 11%. And yes, I voted for Obama.
Originally posted by Silver Stardust
Trounced? That's a total understatement...like I said it'd be, biggest landslide in state history. Obama got 88% of the votes, and Keyes only got 11%. And yes, I voted for Obama.
Anywho, since we now have do deal with Bush for another four years, i think Obama would have a very good chance if ne ran in the next election. Everyone will be craving a change by then, i mean after 8 years of bush who wouldn't, but i think what people will be looking for would be someone like Barack. He is an anazing politian, and i would be very relieved to have him in a more influential office than senate.
I heard former Mayor of New York Rudolph Gulliani was condsidering running in 2008.
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As New Yorker, I don't see a problem with this. He was a little agressive in the way he handled things, but his actions during the 9/11 attack were top notch.
New York as a whole loved him. At least, better than this ****ing ****face ****er we have now, **** Bloomberg.
Originally posted by PandoraMomo
I voted for Obama as well..
the one thing i wanna know is who the hell voted for Keyes???Anywho, since we now have do deal with Bush for another four years, i think Obama would have a very good chance if ne ran in the next election. Everyone will be craving a change by then, i mean after 8 years of bush who wouldn't, but i think what people will be looking for would be someone like Barack. He is an anazing politian, and i would be very relieved to have him in a more influential office than senate.
Apparently, no one voted for Keyes 😂 prolly some downstate people did, but I doubt anyone from the northern two thirds of the state did.
Obama considers presidential run
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama said Sunday that he may run for president in 2008, despite previous assertions that he would complete his current six-year senatorial term, which ends in 2011."I would say I am still at the point where I have not made a decision to pursue higher office, but it is true that I have thought about it over the last several months," the 45-year-old Democratic senator from Illinois told NBC's "Meet the Press."
In January, Obama told NBC that he would not run for president or vice president in 2008.
Asked Sunday about his earlier stance, Obama said, "That was how I was thinking at that time."
"I don't want to be coy about this, given the responses that I've been getting over the last several months," he said. "I have thought about the possibility, but I have not thought about it with the seriousness and depth that I think is required."
Obama has given a slew of interviews in recent weeks to television shows, magazines and other publications to promote his new book, "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream." The book, published last week, touches on themes of race and identity. (Watch Obama talk about his plans on Larry King Live -- 11:37 )
He wove many of the same topics into his 2004 Democratic convention speech. The speech, and his election to the Senate that same year, helped propel the attorney and father of two to an overnight political sensation in Democratic circles.
"He is so appealing because he has escaped some of the normal, you know, bad stuff that happens to people on the campaign trail," Lynne Sweet, a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, said Sunday on CNN's "Reliable Sources."
"And here's the realization I think his people and Sen. Obama is coming to, and it's this: you can't time timing."
Other columnists have hailed Obama as the solution to the Democratic Party's woes in winning elections.
"The next Democratic nominee should either be Barack Obama or should have the stature that would come from defeating Barack Obama," David Brooks, a conservative op-ed columnist for The New York Times, wrote in his Thursday column, entitled, "Run, Barack, Run."
Frank Rich, a liberal op-ed columnist for the same newspaper, wrote in his Sunday piece that much of the Democrats' long-term success will depend on whether "Obama steps up and changes the party before the party of terminal timidity and equivocation changes him."
Political analysts have also speculated that another Democrat, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, is gearing up for a presidential bid in 2008. In a Sunday debate with Republican challenger John Spencer, the junior senator from New York wouldn't say definitively if she would complete her six-year term if re-elected.
Spencer accused her of using New Yorkers' time to run for president. Clinton would make a "tremendous candidate for the president of the United States but not at the expense of New Yorkers," he said. (Full story)
This month, former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, a man many saw as another possible Democratic presidential contender, ruled out a 2008 bid.
lets hope he runs!
Re: Barack Obama for President 2008????
Originally posted by Neo Baggins
Do you think BARACK OBAMA is gonna wanna run for president in 2008???????
I don't know. But, this I do.....
And I'm more a Republican than a Democrat, mind you. He will be the next great President of this country (sometime in the future), in the mold of JFK, FDR, Lincoln, Washington, etc.
He is polished, articulate, bright, and not a pushover. The world will fall in love with him, just like the US already has. 😉