Reply #22: Obama's Created His Own Box [View All]

[KharmaTrain]

Witness here all the "disenchantment" with Obama when he didn't appear to be the reincarnation of Martin Luther King Jr./Bobby Kennedy they dreamed for. He never was. In the Illinois legislature he was a relative unknown that moved up the party ranks in the rough and tumble of Chicago and Cook County politics. Liberals need not apply. He was a "moderate" in the state legislature and his relationship with Rezko...a big party donor who is facing criminal charges could put some real tarnish on that armor.

Personally, I'd love to see my senior Senator, Richard Durbin, as a future nominee...but, even moreso, as the next Democratic Majority Leader in the Senate. Obama is still a neophyte and really has no accomplishments to his name, just the press clippings.

As we've seen with Harold Ford, certain parts of this country are not ready to accept a black in public office. They may smile and say it's pretentious to say that's the case, but then in the privacy of the voting booth, they'll vote their fears. The Repugnican party has built its base on a pilar of racism and don't mind when the blacks play a support role, but would never accept one in a true leadership one.