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To: tejek who wrote (314006)	12/5/2006 11:15:24 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576351

Obama has served two years in public office. He is half black which may someday be an advantage but is still a big disadvantage, especially when going after those white Reagan democrats and border state Republican lites who decide elections. His middle name is Hussein and his last name rhymes with Osama. We can only hope that doesn't matter. Like I said before the midterms, if Harold Ford were to prevail that would mean a lot for pushing up the schedule on Obama. But since Ford was pummeled by a single racist ad, you know what that means. SO I see Obama as right for 2016, not 2008. Plus, even fresh-faced CLinton in 1992 had had substantially more experience than Obamas has had. Obama is very bright, but he would have to be seen as a one in a billion genius to leapfrog from a first term to President. That said, Edwards is in the same boat. A good-looking one term senator. Second, what makes you think Kerry would lose again? He almost beat Bush in 2004 and may have even been cheated out of it. The cheating in Ohio was at least 40,000 votes, probably a lot more. Kerry needed 55,000 to win. And that was nefore the war was disapproved of by the majority, when Bush could still use his national security counter-terrorism club as a coup de grace. Howard Dean would have lost to Bush by a landslide. But he was leading Kerry by 30% in New Hampshire a month before Kerry came back and trounced him. Democrats like to blame Kerry for 2004, but he came very close, may have even beatan Bush, survived cancer surgery during the campaign, raised 150 million bucks in six months, had laringytis half the time, had to replace his original campaign team and was hit by one-use weapon smears which the MSM amazingly helped push. That will never happen again.