Obama Running
Barack Obama has made it official. He has filed the paperwork to form an exploratory committee. That will, undoubtedly, lead to the full monty in a short while.
Obama filed papers creating a presidential exploratory committee, a move he announced on his Web site, (barackobama.com). He said he would announce more about his plans in his home state of Illinois on Feb. 10.
"I certainly didn't expect to find myself in this position a year ago," Obama said in a video posting. "I've been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics. So I've spent some time thinking about how I could best advance the cause of change and progress that we so desperately need."
Obama, a 45-year-old with little more than two years into his Senate term, is the most inexperienced candidate considering a run for the Democratic nomination. He quickly rose to national prominence, beginning with his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and his election to the Senate that year, but still is an unknown quantity to many voters.
Personally, I don't think he's going to win this. He's up against some very experienced politicians and he really is very new to national politics. On the other hand, being new may make him more attractive since he carries less baggage, so we'll see. I imagine that there is a certain amount of mad scrambling going on right now in some of the other candidate's camps.
By TC@LeatherPenguin, Tuesday, 16 January , 2007 @ 5:08 pm
Somebody’s really gotta explain to me what, exactly, in that damned speech turned Barack Obama into a star. It was pablum! It didn’t come close to the soaring rhetoric Mario “the Douche” Coumo unloaded back in 1984.
By Gaius, Tuesday, 16 January , 2007 @ 5:12 pm
That would be media fawning.
By Quilly Mammoth, Tuesday, 16 January , 2007 @ 6:17 pm
I like Obama. I think he is genuine. I also think his politics are terrible, but I think he really does want to make things different.
He’ll get crushed by the the Hilda-Beast