I can't wait. The Republicans are going to have Hitlery for breakfast!
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DEMS' '08 RACE IS HILL'S TO LOSE
By DICK MORRIS
December 8, 2006 -- The battle for the 2008 Democratic presidential
nomination will come down to two candidates: Hillary vs. the Un-Hillary.
Sen. Clinton is so polarizing and a female candidacy is so novel, that the
race for the nomination must revolve around her. Who will the Un-Hillary
be?
The early front-runner is Illinois Sen. Barack Obama. As a new
African-American face, he has the same sort of first-of-a-kind credentials
as Hillary and boasts genuine outsider status as well.
But Obama is very, very inexperienced. He was elected to Illinois' state
Senate in a one-party district, then won the Democratic U.S. Senate
primary
because his wealthy, spend-it-all opponent was caught in a messy divorce
scandal just as his candidacy was peaking. He won in the general election
of
'06 because Illinois is a blue state and the Republican who was to be his
adversary dissolved in a marital scandal of his own, whereupon the
talent-poor local GOP opted to im****t the aburdist candidate Alan Keyes -
making Obama's victory a foregone conclusion.
In his book "The Audacity of Hope," he confesses that in his Senate
campaign
"no candidate ran a negative TV ad about me." That's as close as you get
to
a political equivalent of virginity.
Can Obama weather a presidential race? He better ramp up his learning
curve
if he is going to try. His book is filled with feature-story fluff about
his
background, eloquent philosophizing on the state of our nation and its
history, and freshly scrubbed naiveté about the political process.
But it lacks any substantive ideas, policy innovations or even any
insightful analysis of public issues. Unless he can step beyond such
Oprah-level content, the national press corps will have him for breakfast.
The bottom line? He could grow into the role of a national candidate, but
don't count on it happening this year.
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