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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Don Hurst who wrote (559643)4/8/2010 9:33:55 PM
From: Brumar892 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 1577422
 
Could have written his own ticket at any law firm

Which is weird .... whats the point of going to Harvard Law when one isn't going to pursue law as a career?

decided to be a do gooder Community Organizer in Chicago

You don't even know his biography well. He went to Chicago to become a community organizer BEFORE he decided to go to law school.

First after graduating from Columbia, he had a job for a year writing copy for a newsletter. Then worked for a lefty organization, the NY PIRG. Then he went to Chicago and worked as a community organizer. He gave that up because realized it was a waste or time and he'd never make any money doing it.

...went into politics and got his butt cleaned by someone who was a hell of lot more known and loved by the voters...could have decided to hang it up then but his desire and yes ambition said no...keep going...

Learned to challenge his opponents and get them thrown off the ballot. Easier to win when unopposed.

Somehow ended giving one of the most notable and remembered speech by all Americans not just Democratic types at the Democratic convention...

Hype. Though delivering prepared speeches is his most notable skill.

Decided to run for President of the United States, the most powerful political leadership job in the world...clearly too young, inexperienced and running against the already sure winner...

Yep, being inexperienced was no barrier for him.

Beat her with slavish media support, covering up his many weaknesses and attacking his opponents.

the vast majority of the country is so thankful that he is there and not his opponents...

Sorry, his approval level has fallen dramatically.

He has the potential to be one of our great leaders and has already shown us glimpses of it...

He exercised no leadership shaping the stimulus package and health care reform, farming it out to the dinosaur liberals who lead Congress and serving as marketer of whatever they produced. And he didn't do a great job of that. The more he talked of HCR the lower public support for it dropped. Spent a year trying to get enough members of his own party to vote for it due to its wild unpopularity.
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