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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MJ who wrote (2136)	5/13/2007 12:57:27 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

There is nothing wrong to have an ambition whether as a child or as an adult with a mentor. What is important is what a candidate would do to get there; find a safe Senate seat, switch baseballl caps and declare to have experience. Or just flow with the ordinary route and take things as they come. Also let us not take our eyes off the fact that we are electing a President and not a priest; pickles and sausages are OK, IMO.

To: MJ who wrote (2136)	5/13/2007 1:48:42 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

The next question, I ask is who were Obama's mentors in those early meetings. This I think is very imporant----------the power behind the decision other than his personal desire. I think iy would also be interesting to find out who were the powers behind the decision for granting only Obama, the Secret Service protection so early on in the campaign. Can you see a pattern developing here?

To: MJ who wrote (2136)	5/14/2007 11:43:48 PM
From: RMF	Respond to of 149317

MJ...I think Obama has a lot of very intelligent and well meaning backers. I think they see a very intelligent, charismatic fellow that could sort of reshape politics and national agendas in a way that they would want. The same was true for Howard Dean and John Anderson and Eugene McCarthy and Adlai Stevenson and a bunch of others. Maybe he CAN be that fellow, but he's gonna have to prove he can withstand the heat in the crucible of a Presidential Election against maybe the "best" run campaign in the last 50 years before we'll know.