Barack will need to be more outrageous and correct in his statements, and a bit more enthusiast and clear in his statements as to what he will do as President, if he wants to win.
He's walking a fine line between being the thoughtful, educated, mild-mannered black candidate and the outrageous, over the top, black man....
He's in a position that if he does, he's damned, if he doesn't, he's damned. If he starts getting more enthusiastic and outrageous, people will stereotype him as one of "those black people" like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. If he doesn't, many people think he's weak or has weak ideas/plans.
He needs to be correct, and enthusiastic, not outrageous. Look at the current "black leadership" today, e.g. Jackson and Sharpton, they are outrageous and incorrect.
Obama needs to look at the big picture. He is inexperienced and would lose if he get the nomination in 08. He needs to develop his campaign infrastructure, hold on to a good chunk of his war chest, BE VERY VERY CAREFUL OF WHAT HE SAYS AND PROPOSES, get a cabinet postion if Hillary wins or a large policy PR firm if Hillary loses, and then run in 4 or 8 years.
With a little seasoning and smart play, he's dangerously electable, but he has to play his game right. (And this is coming from Republican) Being outrageous may excite the rabid leftists, but mainstream America is turned off by it. The next four years will be damn ugly for whoever is Prez, I wouldn't want the job.
so far most of what he said has confirmed his lightweightedness...most of his proposals have tended towards government solutions to problems and his foreign policy pronouncements have been rather scary for a party that purports to be against military adventures...
How about the idea that the American people need to pay less attention to outrageousness and more to thoughtfulness if they want the best candidate to win?
The fact that Obama went to a Muslim school, for two years only, was not a news scoop. Their suggestion that it was a Madrassa school is something outrageous and by not correcting a caller to the show that said Obama was a Muslim, was, I suppose, just ingnorance. His step-father at that time was a non-practicing Muslim. I don't think Obama's religion, Christianity, will have anything to do with his ability to govern.
University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll released today, October 29th, shows Obama gaining on Clinton. Did he say something outrageous? Perhaps it will rather be a slow turning of the tide.
Romney has firm lead. Huckabee is essentially even with Giuliani and Thompson in this poll.
This is a poll of likely Iowa caucus goers.
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/october/102907poll-candidates.html "....Clinton leads with 28.9 percent, followed by Obama with 26.6 percent, Edwards with 20.0 percent, Bill Richardson with 7.2 percent and Joe Biden with 5.3 percent."
Obama spent the day at Iowa colleges. That is one thing that Hillary cannot do - she cannot appeal to the idealisitc (naive) voting youth.
He is appealing to the young voters that I believe will turn out at the polling places in much larger numbers than ever before.... This is going to be a groundbreaking election, I think, no matter who wins.
He needs to let Hillary do the dirty work of mudslinging and he needs to really ramp up the whole "Politics of Change" thing. As long as voters see her as the same old, same old, he has a better than even chance of beating her.
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He's in a position that if he does, he's damned, if he doesn't, he's damned. If he starts getting more enthusiastic and outrageous, people will stereotype him as one of "those black people" like Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. If he doesn't, many people think he's weak or has weak ideas/plans.
Either way, on this subject, he cannot win.
Obama needs to look at the big picture. He is inexperienced and would lose if he get the nomination in 08. He needs to develop his campaign infrastructure, hold on to a good chunk of his war chest, BE VERY VERY CAREFUL OF WHAT HE SAYS AND PROPOSES, get a cabinet postion if Hillary wins or a large policy PR firm if Hillary loses, and then run in 4 or 8 years.
With a little seasoning and smart play, he's dangerously electable, but he has to play his game right. (And this is coming from Republican) Being outrageous may excite the rabid leftists, but mainstream America is turned off by it. The next four years will be damn ugly for whoever is Prez, I wouldn't want the job.
They LIED and said he attended a Madrassa School.
No I think Fox News wants controversy and a news scoop. The tip could have been fed to them by Hillary.
I think most conservatives right now would want OB to win the nomination. That would mean a MCGovern type landslide.
Hillary is the one they fear, because the media would genuflect in front of her.
The fact that Obama went to a Muslim school, for two years only, was not a news scoop. Their suggestion that it was a Madrassa school is something outrageous and by not correcting a caller to the show that said Obama was a Muslim, was, I suppose, just ingnorance. His step-father at that time was a non-practicing Muslim. I don't think Obama's religion, Christianity, will have anything to do with his ability to govern.
Romney has firm lead. Huckabee is essentially even with Giuliani and Thompson in this poll.
This is a poll of likely Iowa caucus goers.
http://news-releases.uiowa.edu/2007/october/102907poll-candidates.html
"....Clinton leads with 28.9 percent, followed by Obama with 26.6 percent, Edwards with 20.0 percent, Bill Richardson with 7.2 percent and Joe Biden with 5.3 percent."
He is appealing to the young voters that I believe will turn out at the polling places in much larger numbers than ever before.... This is going to be a groundbreaking election, I think, no matter who wins.
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