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Obama: 'To Know Me Is To Love Me'
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ABC News' Teddy Davis and Leigh Hartman Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Il., brashly played up the likability factor while campaigning in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.
"To know me is to love me," said Obama when asked by the AP's Nedra Pickler about how he will overcome Sen. Hillary Clinton’s, D-N.Y., advantage in national public-opinion polls.
"By the end of this campaign everybody before they vote will have a pretty good sense of where the various candidates stand on the issues and who they are, and what kind of people they are,” said Obama after picking up the endorsement of Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty. "And we feel confident that once people know my background as a community organizer, as a civil rights attorney, as somebody who taught constitutional law, as a state legislator, as well as a US Senator we will do well."
In "Microtrends," a forthcoming book by Mark Penn, the Clinton pollster and strategist includes a chapter arguing that elites pay too much attention to personality. Penn believes that the bulk of voters – who are not as economically comfortable as members of the national press corps - focus more on bread-and-butter issues, an instinct which he hopes will rebound to the advantage of Clinton.
The Obama camp, of course, thinks the Illinois Democrat can go toe-to-toe with the former first lady on both style and substance. Obama was reluctant, however, to spell out how he would differ from former President Clinton.
“I’m not going to re-litigate what happened back in the 90s,” Obama told ABC News. “I’m talking about what’s going to happening going forward. Bill Clinton isn’t on the ballot . . .”
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More and more, it would seem that "to know" Obama, is to see through the veil of lies and puffery that the liberal media has created, and see yet another ethically challenged, money-dependent, self-promoting politician, in this case with core socialist beliefs.
Posted by: Jerry | Jul 17, 2007 6:40:23 PM
Obama "08!!!!
Posted by: Waleeg | Jul 17, 2007 9:32:48 PM
You have to be kidding. Is he running for "Prom King" or president of the U.S.? How immature can you get.
Posted by: cliff jones | Jul 17, 2007 9:50:04 PM
Obama is a joke He can't possibly be serious. He's taking America for a ride, especially the suckers who are helping him to campaign.
Posted by: Adrian West Sr. | Jul 17, 2007 10:44:58 PM
Supporting Barak Obama is merely the liberals' way to prove their progressive bona fides. If he were white, at best he'd just be another average, first term U.S. Senator with "great promise". The notion that he's currently ready to be President of the United States is absurd.
Posted by: sps91158 | Jul 17, 2007 11:04:54 PM
General Scott Gration not only says Obama's ready to be Commander in Chief, but the General is touring Iowa with fellow vets to tell them and everyone else why they support Obama. Of course, anyone who takes the time to hear what Obama has to say will support him-but the support of military members means a lot to me. Apparently, the General's support of Obama doesn't register on The Radar.
Posted by: Cat | Jul 18, 2007 12:06:04 AM
One General does not make for "military support" Here are just a few of the retired military that support HIllary Clinton:
U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye (Hawaii)
Veteran, World War II Combat Veteran, Recipient: Medal of Honor
U.S. Congressman Charlie Rangel (New York)
Veteran, US Army, 1948-52
U.S. Congressman Joe Sestak (Pennsylvania)
Veteran, Retired US Navy Admiral
Commanded Aircraft Carrier Battle Group, Afganistan
U.S. Congressman Ed Towns (New York)
Veteran, US Army, 1956-58
U.S. Congressman Jose Serrano (New York)
Veteran, US Army, 1964-66
U.S. Congressman Maurice Hinchey (New York)
Veteran, US Navy 1956-59
Honorable Togo West (District of Columbia)
Former Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Former Secretary of the Army
North Carolina Native
Honorable John Dalton (District of Columbia)
Veteran, United States Navy
Former Secretary of the Navy
Lt. General Claudia Kennedy, Ret. (South Carolina)
Veteran, Three Star General, Highest Rank Achieved by Female
Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence
General George Buskirk, Ret. (Indiana)
Veteran, Adjutant General, Indiana Army and Air National Guard
Honorable Vernon Weaver (Florida)
Veteran, World War II and Korea
Former Ambassador to the European Union
Former Naval Academy Board of Visitors
Larry Romo (Texas)
Veteran, US Air Force Reserve, DNC Veterans and Military Families
Texas Democratic Veterans Chair
Joe J. Bernal (Texas)
Veteran, World War II
Former Texas State Senator, Member State Board of Education
Kate Wilder (Virginia)
Veteran, Female Green Beret
Lanon Baccam (Iowa)
Veteran, U.S. Army National Guard, Afganistan 2004 - 05
DNC Veterans and Families Advisory Council
Chuck Fulkerson (Nevada)
Veteran, Two Vietnam Tours, NV Distinguished Service Medal
Founded Veterans Guest House, Served as E.D. of NV Office of Veterans Service
Wayne Smith (Nevada)
Veteran, Air Force Master Sergeant,
Southwest Asia Service Medal 1991 (Married in USAF over 18 years ago)
Val Smith (Nevada)
Veteran, Air Force Staff Sergeant, Member Disabled American Veterans
Southwest Asia Service Medal 1991 (Married in USAF over 18 years ago)
Phil Lisagor (Nevada)
Veteran, Officer, Army Reserve, Two Tours in Iraq
Chief Surgeon
Bob Hannan (New Hampshire)
Veteran, Airforce Captain, Vietnam, Bronze Star
Eleanor Kjellman, (New Hampshire)
Veteran, US Air Force Officer
Son served in Iraq
Joe Wynn (District of Columbia)
Veteran, US Air Force, Viet Nam
Leader of National Assn of Black Veterans, President Vets Group
Bill White (New York)
President, Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund
Posted by: veritas | Jul 18, 2007 10:02:04 AM
Re-litigate what happened in the 90's?
Someone should remind Mr. Obama that he has never litigated a case.
So how can he re-litigate anything?
Posted by: EricD | Jul 18, 2007 7:58:11 PM
I see a lot of REMF's on the list, a few respectable combat vets, but not many.
Posted by: infocyde | Jul 18, 2007 11:35:34 PM
Actually, the more I get to know Obama the less I like him. Just this week he's proposed universal health care that will pay for abortions, and teaching sex education to kintergardners. He opposes a ban on partial birth abortion EVEN WITH the exception added for when the mother's life is in danger.
The fact is, Obama, just like every other Democrat Presidential candidate, is about as far radical to the left as you can possibly get in this country.
Do you doubt me? Can you point to any of them that don't have a 100% approval rating from the baby-killers at NARL? Do any of them have plans other than surrender in Iraq? Do any of them want to lower your taxes? Do any of them promise to do anything to lower gas prices?
Democrats won't be picking their candidate based on the issues. They'll just be choosing their candidate American Idol style. At least we Republicans have a variety of stances on the issues to consider when choosing Fred Thompson.
Posted by: Tony Pistone | Jul 19, 2007 9:34:16 AM
LIBERAL MEDIA LIBERAL MEDIA LIBERAL MEDIA. Apparently everything that isn't Fox News is the "liberal media."
Anyway, I completely agree with Obama. Once more people learn more about him, besides the negative things we hear repeated over and over, he will get even more support. He definitely has my vote.
Posted by: Alexa Gilliland | Jul 19, 2007 11:13:38 PM
Obama 08!!!
Posted by: Kari | Jul 21, 2007 1:18:45 PM
To know him is to love the Wahhbis who fund him via their proxies. The ultimate manchurian canidate always doing his best to ensure terrorist have a free hand. Abstaining from John Doe terror informer vote is the most recent example.
He truly is slick, terrorist lover.
Posted by: Peter | Jul 21, 2007 6:33:56 PM
He wishes.....LOL.....how conceited of him. I think he's gotten a big head.
Obama is just another version of Joe LIEberman, a Republican in sheep's clothing, a warmonger. In fact, he supported and recommended Joe Lieberman in the election last year.
Posted by: Kristen | Jul 21, 2007 11:37:07 PM
A light will shine down, from somewhere, you will experience an epiphany...
...I have to vote for barrack obama.
WAKE UP
thats hypnotism. Ive performed it myself.
Take YOURSELF back. Its your SELF, not his.
Webster's definition of ones self:
b: the realization or embodiment of an abstraction
Posted by: Billy | Nov 13, 2008 7:34:43 AM
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