“Daddy, Are you going to try to be president?”

[Flabbergasted]

These six questions were posed on December the 24th 2006 in the New York Times. The article can be viewed http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/washington/24obama.html?_r=1&sq=obama%20third%20senator%20reconstruction&st=nyt&scp=10&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin">here


“Are you going to try to be president?”

“Shouldn’t you be the vice president first?”

Is he simply a first-term liberal Democrat long on charisma who is enjoying a brief moment of fame?

Is he, as some of his more enthusiastic fans seem to feel, the post-partisan, post-racial, post-baby boom embodiment of a new brand of politics?

Does he have the drive and discipline to survive a wide-open presidential campaign?

Put more bluntly: Is he for real?


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Malia asked her daddy, “Are you going to try to be president? Shouldn’t you be the vice president first?”

Actually these questions are as relevant today as they were 15 months ago. No one knows whether Obama will be president obviously, and surely http://wcbstv.com/topstories/clinton.obama.ticket.2.669799.html">Hillary among others believe Obama should be VP first. It is strange to think that these questions might come from the mind of a child and reintroduced today.

Is he simply a first-term liberal Democrat long on charisma who is enjoying a brief moment of fame?

He is enjoying a moment of fame that seems to grow by the day, seems to grow more controversial by the day, seems to outdo itself by the day. We can more accurately say he is experiencing a generation of fame whether he wins the race or not.

Is he, as some of his more enthusiastic fans seem to feel, the post-partisan, post-racial, post-baby boom embodiment of a new brand of politics?

In this I must agree. He has taken the rule book and not necessarily broken the rules but superseded them. He seems to have renewed them in a way that if followed can be used by democrats for years to win elections. (from the article) Laurence Tribe, a liberal scholar at Harvard Law School who once employed Mr. Obama as a research assistant said “I think he comes at things in a way that is perpendicular to the usual left-right axis.”

Does he have the drive and discipline to survive a wide-open presidential campaign?

Put more bluntly: Is he for real?

In this we can now say yes.

[Johnny__Motown]

1. He looks to be for real

[polpilot]

2. Ask Hillary. She'll say he's REAL real.