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To: techguerrilla who wrote (694)	1/4/2007 4:14:09 AM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Bill O'Reilly Uses Mike Tyson To Smear Barack Obama newshounds.us

To: techguerrilla who wrote (694)	1/4/2007 4:20:45 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 149317

John Edwards' new quest: He's older, wiser, more experienced and still ambitious fortwayne.com

To: techguerrilla who wrote (694)	1/4/2007 12:05:05 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 149317

Obama the "stud" is exactly what will scare off middle America. Do the math.

To: techguerrilla who wrote (694)	2/3/2007 3:01:58 AM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 149317

Obama is the Clintonian candidate _____________________________________________________________ BY RUTH MARCUS Columnist Washington Post Posted on Fri, Feb. 02, 2007 The truly Clintonian figure running for the Democratic nomination is Barack Obama. The senator from Illinois seems in many ways more like Bill Clinton than does the senator from New York. When it comes to Obama and Bill Clinton, there are superficial similarities -- the absent father, the humble roots combined with Ivy League pedigree. But there are deeper ways -- in intellectual approach, message and personal style -- in which Obama evokes Clinton. Like Clinton before him, Obama presents himself as a new kind of politician who can rise above and bridge partisan differences. And like Clinton, Obama has a homing instinct for the middle -- maybe too much of one. In fact, Obama fits himself explicitly into the Clinton mold. "In his platform -- if not always in his day-to-day politics -- Clinton's Third Way went beyond splitting the difference," Obama wrote in his book "The Audacity of Hope." "It tapped into the pragmatic, nonideological attitude of the majority of Americans." Obama has yet to demonstrate the capacity, in his own "day-to-day politics," to put his brand of Third Wayism into action. It's hard to name a prominent moment when, like Clinton pushing welfare reform, Obama deviated from party orthodoxy. Obama's book features an erudite discussion of the folly, and futility, of resisting globalization -- at which point he summarily announces that he voted against the Central American Free Trade Agreement nonetheless. His signature divergence from the other leading candidates in the Democratic field comes from the left: He opposed the Iraq war from the start. Obama is like Bill Clinton in his natural ease with people and his ability to win them over. A New York Times story about Obama's Harvard Law School days described how Obama "cast himself as an eager listener, sometimes giving warring classmates the impression that he agreed with all of them at once." As they debated whether to use the term "black" or "African-American," students on each side thought he was endorsing their side, the story said. "Everyone was nodding, 'Oh, he agrees with me,' " said professor Charles Ogletree. Sounds like everyone who's ever emerged from a meeting with Bill Clinton. If Obama is the Clintonian figure in the race, Hillary Clinton may be Al Gore, more disciplined policy wonk than natural politician. Like Gore, Hillary Clinton can be more adroit intellectually than politically; both face the challenge, fair or not, of convincing voters of their "authenticity." It's hard to know whether the tempered Clinton or the untested Obama will prove the stronger candidate -- or would be the better president. But with both of them in the race, the 2008 campaign presents a twist on the 1992 offer: two Clintons for the price of one. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ruth Marcus writes for the Washington Post.