Obama is MLK, Dean, Lincoln, JFK, RFK which is it?

[quinnox]

I have seen Obama supporters compare him to all these august personages. Which one fits best?

Also, Should Obama be the only face carved on Mt. Rushmore? And destroy all the lesser people whose carvings are on the monument to make way for the one and only Obama. May he be praised. Amen

I'm anxious to hear from devoted Obama supporters.

[no name no slogan]

1. Millard Filmore

[Critters2]

32. LOL!! nt

[Thrill]

2. All of them all rolled up in one. You should be happy

[maximusveritas]

3. Hillary is comparing him to JFK and MLK

so I guess she's fallen for him too.

[SteppingRazor]

4. I admit the hagiography's a wee bit over the top...

but I'm not gonna beat people over the head for being inspired by a politician. The last thing we need is more cynicism.

[maddiejoan]

5. who knows who he is?

His whole campaign of Hope is predicated on the eyes of the beholder.

insert your hope here.

[gdaerin]

26. Yes, how I feel exactly

[calico1]

6. You forgot Jesus. n/t

[Anouka]

9. No.

That goes into anti-christ territory.

[BootinUp]

22. We should probably throw Raygun in

might help in the GE.

[Anouka]

7. He's Obama.

He's himself.

[Clintonista2]

8. Obama supporters will compare him to JHC

Jesus H Christ

[Uncle Sinister]

10. You left out Jesus and Gahndi, you Obama-hater, you!

[Cha]

11. And who should we

compare hillary to? I compare Obama to no one..he is his own unique person who doesn't need any historical comparisons. But, you know how people like to compare.

[emilyg]

12. c. none of the above

[Quixote1818]

13. I once compared Wes Clark to Thomas Jefferson and everyone laughed at me

My feelings were hurt. :cry:

[elixir]

37. Another Clark fan, I assume. Welcome brother.

[Sulawesi]

14. What makes you so bitter?

[Xipe Totec]

15. Lincoln

The worthy successor to the man from Illinois.

I'm not an Obama activist, but that's who comes to my mind when Obama speaks.

[Kucinich4America]

16. I'm a little nervous about the fact that he's compared to all of those guys

Considering they were all assassinated :( (Including Jesus and Ghandi, for you who brought them into this)

True, it was only a political assassination in Dean's case. But just as in 1968, it effectively ended the Democrats best chance to win the 2004 election.

I don't know yet if Obama is the best chance to win 2008. I DO know that Hillary Clinton is NOT. And those who would want to assassinate Obama are clearly working for her benefit

(and I mean political assassination, so don't start dry humping the alert button)

[bklyncowgirl]

28. I was thinking that myself, I've heard him compared to both Kennedy's, King & Lincoln

What of course do all of these great leaders and orators have in common?

Scary, isn't it, that people who can conjure so much love and hope can also conjure such hatred and violence. Whether you back him or not, let's hope that Obama has only the ability to move people's emotions in common with these great but doomed men.

[SaveElmer]

17. He's a Rorschach Test...nt

[terisan]

18. Joshua Generation. His words. Look it up.

[madrchsod]

24. i see you`re back with the "joshua generation" again

nice try but anyone who wishes to do just a simple search knows that he is not...but if it makes you happy go for it..

[madrchsod]

19. none of the above

for better or worse he is who he is. each of those who you mentioned lived in a different times. obama or any other politician live in this time and will be judged on his or her own merits.

i am not a "devoted obama supporter". i am a democrat

[suston96]

20. People, stop comparing Obama with 4 of those people for reasons I shouldn't have to go into.

[Quixote1818]

21. Probably more JFK with a pinch of Dean. nt

[skooooo]

23. abraham lincoln

[pnwmom]

25. Much more JFK than RFK. RFK had a far more intense public persona. n/t

[DemCam]

27. Nope, he's the Messiah...

poor thing

[MessiahRp]

29. Jesse Jackson

Jackson won Iowa (and 4 other states) in 1988. Pat Robertson won Iowa for the Republicans. Hey wait, Robertson is a preacher like Huckabee... hmm... and whoa, Jackson is black! I guess that means Obama wasn't the first to do it and *gasp* the media has been blatantly dishonest about it...

Maybe this is 1988 after all... Only let's hope for better than Dukakis as our nominee.

Rp

[michaelwb]

33. Nope.

Jackson did not win Iowa in 1988, instead: "He captured 6.9 million votes and won 11 contests; seven primaries (Alabama, the District of Columbia, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Puerto Rico and Virginia) and four caucuses (Delaware, Michigan, South Carolina and Vermont)." - Jackson 1988

In 1988 Iowa was: "Dick Gephardt (31%) Paul Simon (27%), Michael Dukakis* (22%) and Bruce Babbitt (6%)" - Iowa 1988

[MessiahRp]

38. My bad.

I read that somewhere and I am humbly corrected.

Rp

[zulchzulu]

30. Is Led Zeppelin Nirvava, the Grateful Dead, Beethoven, John Cage...which is it?

Obama is his own person. Either you "get it" or you don't.

Thanks for playing.

[Occam Bandage]

31. He's Barack Obama. That's it.

[Leopolds Ghost]

34. Charles De Gaulle: "I am Joan of Arc. I am Clemenceau."

Joan-Of-Arc Quote
When Franklin Roosevelt and Charles de Gaulle met for the first time in Casablanca, they took an instant dislike to each other. De Gaulle resented the fact that FDR did most of the talking and FDR thought De Gaulle was too sure of his position as leader of the Free French fighting the Nazis. After the meeting FDR told Secretary of State Cordell Hull that the French General had walked up to him and, insisting that he represented the spirit of France, announced: "I am Joan of Arc. I am Clemenceau." To some of FDR's other associates the President later embroidered the story... "Who are you?" "I am both," de Gaulle is supposed to have replied, and then, FDR said, he told de Gaulle that "he should make up his mind which one of these he was really like because he surely couldn't be both of them."

FDR's tale was soon circulating widely and steadily expanding as it did so. By the time it got into American newspapers and magazines de Gaulle was alleged to have compared himself to Louis XIV, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Seigneur de Bayard, Jean Baptiste, and other famous French figures, as well as to Joan of Arc and Georges Clemenceau... When de Gaulle heard about the FDR story he was highly incensed, and said he "never wanted again to meet the President."

[PVnRT]

35. No, no, Cindy Sheehan is MLK

Christ, people, get it right.

[Adelante]

36. Obama is Obama

Get it straight, quinnox :hi:

Every single group of candidate supporters has compared their candidate to some past president. It's commonplace. It means not too much except it somehow symbolizes something to somebody and can be adopted and reinterpreted and promoted by any supporter who picks it up for their candidate. It happens every day.

Big deal, no? :shrug:

[IndianaJones]

39. how the hell does Dean get put in that group? nt.