Who says this "rock star" business about Obama?

[underpants]

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill, speaks to a crowd outside the Texas Capitol Friday, Feb. 22, 2008, in Austin, Texas.
(AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)

[BeyondGeography]

1. B-b-b-b-ut Peggy Nooner wrote not-so-nice things about him in a column today

:scared:

[underpants]

8. Are they of it? ---what kind of crap is that?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120362912719783893.html

Oh I see Peggy is pissed because it turns out that Reagan is now a black guy and not theirs



Barack Obama's biggest draw is not his eloquence. When you watch an Obama speech, you lean forward and listen and think, That's good. He's compelling, I like the way he speaks. And afterward all the commentators call him "impossibly eloquent" and say "he gave me thrills and chills." But, in fact, when you go on the Internet and get a transcript of the speech and print it out and read it--that is, when you remove Mr. Obama from the words and take them on their own--you see the speech wasn't all that interesting, and was in fact high-class boilerplate

She is describing Reagan.

[BeyondGeography]

9. You nailed it

and, hopefully, Obama is about to start three decades of pain for the Republican Right like Reagan did for us in 1980.

[Cha]

10. Only their "pain" will actually

be good for the country and We The Peeps!

[BeyondGeography]

11. Well said, fellow cultist

:thumbsup:

[anigbrowl]

12. She is both right and wrong

Right - in that Obama measures out his eloquence on the stump, and doesn't fill his speeches with it, but is asking for votes when you get down to it.

Wrong - in that presidents' best speeches are made in office, not on the stump. 'Ask not what your country can do for you...', the immortal speech by Kennedy, was his inaugural address. Who remembers what he said on the stump?

I often disagree with Noonan but respect her opinions. You can be sure Obama and his advisers don't mind thoughtful reasoned criticism either.

[glowing]

2. Are people really making "O's" with their arms.. Any bics lit?

[Cha]

13. Yeah, and it took 8 years of nightmare

to percipitate this phenomenon.

I was at a Gore "Inconvenient Truth" slide show last April in New York and the adulation was stunning!

[glowing]

15. It bothers me that so many are looking for someone to save them or

favor them.. they are star struck.. and it bothers me.. The People are the Power, not the other way around. And Bush was 8 yrs of, "I'm the decider"... some of these children don't know any better. I've only seen a deterioration around me.

[Skip Intro]

17. omg

they are, aren't they?


yikes

[Political Heretic]

3. I love it.

You think you've seen it all, then you find Democrats BITCHING because a candidate for president is "too popular."

Then we wonder why we keep failing as a party....

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. Did he close with "Free Bird"?

[scheming daemons]

5. In two weeks, you'll be working FOR him....

...

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. Is that a threat?

[anigbrowl]

14. No need for threats. Resistance is futile.

Come to Obama...come to Obama....

[DJ13]

7. "Did he close with "Free Bird"?"

No, "Another One Bites The Dust".

[DemGa]

16. They're making "O's"? This is just embarrassing...nt

[JoFerret]

18. Obama's earmarks from The Favor Factory

Earmarks and campaign contributions.

Not bad for a short stay.
Clinton has way more of course.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/favorfactory/lawmaker.php?id=S4IL00180