what about this...Barak Obama for Pres in 08...?

[imax2268]

good or bad idea...?

[RinaJ]

1. If the war's still going on...

...he'll be hammered on inexperience. He'd be another Edwards.

If we're somehow out of the mess in Iraq, and the focus is on the country itself, then maybe.

[Emboldened Chimp]

2. Too green...

And I don't think it's a good idea to run another senator. We need a governor.

[wuushew]

5. Richardson

We need more Hispanic votes

[settembrini]

3. the South

won't vote for anyone from the north, how do you think they'd react to a black guy?

[WI_DEM]

7. Fuck the South

There I said it. I'm tired of us in the north having no problem voting for Southern democrats but too many yahoos in the south (and I know there are many who don't meet that description) cannot support a Northern Democrat. I say we go West for our electoral votes if the south still wants to act like the civil war is still on.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. just asking

what big western state can we get that we don't already have?


there's some nice Electoral College prizes in Dixie and as more people come here it's going to get bigger....


hell, even Cali saw a net decrease in population the past year...

[WI_DEM]

15. we need to work Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona

they are winnable and more winnable than Alabama, Missisippi, Georgia and South Carolina. I'm not advocating ignoring the south, but all this talk about always needing to nominate a southern candidate to win is stupid. It is time the south grew up and got out of their anti-Northern attitudes. We in the North could vote for Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Why can't they vote for a Northern Democrat? John Kerry was no George McGovern and a war hero to boot and had a young and attractive southerner as his running mate and still not one southern state could support him. There is a breakthrough coming though. Virginia will one day be a democratic state and will support a "Yankee". I also think that Florida will continue to be a battleground, but not as long as a Bush is governor.

[Tweed]

4. Too young, we will run him, but not yet

[WI_DEM]

6. Vice President

is a possibility.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. If he does a good job in the Senate as a progressive, then I say go for it

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[Krupskaya]

8. If this country can't vote for a gun-toting Vietnam Vet now,

I fail to see how it will elect a black man in four years.

[iwantmycountryback]

9. Not enough experience

And maybe we should go back to governors. Ed Rendell, Mark Warner, and I saw Richarson's name. 1 Senator I might like to see run is Russ Feingold. He could appeal to midwesterners. Warner could win his home state Virginia, and maybe North Carolina, and probably Tennessee and perhaps Lousiana. He could also win states like Colorado, Arizona, and Nevada. We need a moderate Democrat in 2008, that is clear.

[blue america]

10. Warner

I keep telling myself there's no need to appease the south, but there really isn't any other way. I can't see the GOP making many gains in blue states in the next 4 years, not with what I expect from a Lame Duck Bush.

Warner might be the best possible choice. Doesn't thrill me. But might be quite electable, if he can take Iowa and South Carolina and be somewhat competitive in New Hampshire. Who knows.

[stpalm]

19. feingold

Would be a great prez (socially liberal, fiscally moderate) but he would never get elected.

Richardson... I like him. he's a governor, too.

[tritsofme]

11. He would start campaigning in his 2nd or 3rd year in the Senate

People starting declaring their candidacies for 2004 in 2002, and even posturing themselves in 2001.

Obama is the future, 2008 is way too soon to use him.

[Blue-Jay]

12. The fuckers wouldn't vote for

a "Massachusetts Liberal".

What makes you think that they'll vote for a "darkie"? My belief that the majority of the country are stupid bastards has been validated.

[ecstatic]

16. you "misunderestimate" the racism in this country nt

[TheWebHead]

17. I'd say 2012

if god forbid we lose again in'08... He'll be too green having only served about 1/2 his term by the time he'd have to declare.

[cire4]

18. AP article already speculating Obama might run

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=7&u=/ap/20041103/ap_on_el_pr/eln2008

<snip>

"Other Democrats who might run for the nomination in 2008 include Kerry himself, Sen. Evan Bayh (news, bio, voting record) of Indiana and Govs. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois and Tom Vilsack of Iowa. And, up and coming, the party's rising star, Barack Obama, of Illinois, who will be the only black member of the Senate when he is sworn in January. "

Seems like an Obama run isn't that far-fetched...

[grace0418]

20. I'm making a t-shirt already

[kerry-is-my-prez]

21. He can run for VP first.... He needs more experience.

n/t