Would you vote for Hussein?
Posted by Moonage on 18 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: 2008 Presidential Race
Barack Obama has been the golden boy of the 2008 presidential election. However, that’s mainly because almost no one outside of Illinois has a clue who he is. With the media’s enraptured support, Obama has enjoyed almost every media angle there is with most just drooling over his presence. However, when the spotlight starts to bore of the mutual circle jerk, it starts looking for new stuff. When the media does find this new stuff, things tend to change rapidly for the candidate of the moment as we get to see how they handle their dirty laundry, rumors, innuendo, and stuff they can’t script. Barack Obama I think has reached that point two years before the election. To wit:
That’s right. His middle name is Hussein. How did he handle it publicly? "His middle name is no big deal, he says, "when you are already starting with ‘Barack Obama’."" Nicely done. He’ll survive this round. Some people are getting kind of stupid dealing with his middle name, Rush Limbaugh leading that pack. And, given he’s a member of a Christian church and his family is from Kenya, it does tend to make the Rush’s look that much stupider.
But, I do wonder, how much of this country actually could vote for a Hussein?
2 Comments »
on 19 Dec 2006 at 10:49 pm 1.mw
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I had a little different take on Barack on my blog. As a lifelong Chicago Bear fan, I’ll admit that his stock went up with his intro on the Monday night Bears - Dolphins game.
Politically it was a wash. He locked in 21 electoral votes in Illinois, but loses 21 in Wisconsin and Missouri.
Anyway - this is how I net out his ‘08 presidential prospects:What do we boomers have? Bill Clinton and George W Bush. Give me a break. The first impeached president since Andrew Johnson, and arguably the “worst president in history”. That’s it? That is supposed to represent the boomer generation? After these two clowns we are going to skip the Boomers and move on to Generation X? I don’t think so.
on 19 Dec 2006 at 11:15 pm 2.Moonage
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An excellent take on things. For once we really agree. But, this needs it’s own post as I could definitely go in depth as to why I think the Boomers have been a bust. Technically, we’re not quite ready to run Xers yet, they haven’t matured enough to be legitimate candidates. So, we’re faced with yet another election of either aging Boomers or ripening Echo-Boomers ( my age ). Quite frankly, I’m not seeing much optimism that the next president is going to be any better than the last two. I’ve defended Bush here a lot because most of the accusations have been conspiracy theories that don’t hold up when exposed to real facts. However, he’s not been an effective leader and IMO has been poorly served by the people he’s chosen to lead his charge. The poor caliber of support he’s chosen is what has allowed all these conspiracy theories to cling to life. Clinton, IMO, had the exact problem in that he micro-managed too much, which put too much of the blame when things went wrong squarely on his shoulders due to his wonking the hell out of any issue confusing people to the point they didn’t know who exactly to blame. Two polar opposite approaches, two results that will probably be poorly regarded when history has time to look at the big picture that was their presidency. But what I think it points to is that even though both were President of the USA, neither had the moral fortitude that some of the previous PotUS’s had. The Baby Boomers will have one more chance most likely starting in 2008, for the sake of that generation, I hope their leadership qualities are much, much better.