Looking for any good input to convince the world on why he would be a great president
2007-02-06 08:09:13 · 11 answers · asked by 2008 matters 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Barack Obama is a first term senator from Illinois. He was elected in 2004. He became popular after his DNC speech.
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnclomrqi...
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56-m8wx1m...
Although some might call him inexperienced, I believe he has values and judgement to be a good president. He is a bright guy. He was the first black president of the prestigious Havard Law Review, worked as a community organizer, served eight years in the Illinois legislature, and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. He has pointed out that Rumseld and Cheney were the most experienced people in Washington...and we're now bogged down in the middle of an Iraq Civil War.
This is a good bio video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgttrxywl...
What seperates him from the other candidates is that he stresses coming together as a country and he has been known to be a good listener. For that, he is respected by his Republican colleagues. In the Illinois Legislature
"Obama developed a reputation as a very conservative poker player. He threw in many more hands than he played, said another Senate colleague, Larry Walsh. "I told him once, 'If you were a little more liberal in your poker-playing and a little more conservative in your politics, we'd get along a lot better.' ""
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/p...
In the Illinois senate race, he appealed to even the most conservative districts: "He recalled Sunday that when he successfully ran for the Senate in Illinois two years ago, he was well-received in downstate Cairo, Ill., a city which had been racially segregated in the late 1960s and which used to have a white separatist White Citizens’ Council.
“Southern Illinois is the South,” Obama explained to an audience of Yankees in Portsmouth, N.H. “It’s closer to Little Rock or Memphis than it is to Chicago.”
In the 1960s, Cairo was “the site of some of the worst racial violence of any place in the nation, as bad as anything going on in Mississippi or Alabama,” Obama said.
Some Illinois Democrats, he recalled, were worried in 2004 that a black candidate from Chicago named Obama was “not going to sell downstate.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16177866/...
I'd recommend you listen to his podcast.
http://obama.senate.gov/podcast/...
You'll discover a candidate that is intelligent and authentic.
When it comes down to it, I think Obama will be a lot more productive as president than any other candidate in both parties. He could really change the cultural of politics in our country. This excites a lot of people.
By the way, some conservative publications put out a report saying he was raised a radical muslim. That is political bullshit. He's a christian and wasn't raised a muslim.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/22/cnn-...
2007-02-06 09:51:29 · answer #1 · answered by Jake B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. Universal Health Care
2. Track record of improving poverty
3. Avoids Negative Campaigns
4. High Energy
5. Fresh Face for our country
2007-02-06 19:54:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's too early to say I will. But if things keep going the way they seem to be, I would vote for Obama because his speeches and writing give a sense that he's not just doing damage control. He seems to have an honest vision of America's future that jives with that of many, many loyal Americans, and he has the optimisitc viewpoint that we can actually make progress in that direction.
2007-02-06 16:14:32 · answer #3 · answered by Vaughn 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Convince the world that he is misleading. He just started frequenting the church b4 the last election & he's been in a laundering scam with MrRezko. Also look up Obama/mau mau on the net and see if he's the candidate you think he is, please.
2007-02-06 18:36:27 · answer #4 · answered by spareo1 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would vote for Obama because:
-I want the terrorists to win
-I want to be forced to pray 5 times a day with my butt in the air
2007-02-06 17:03:15 · answer #5 · answered by infobrokernate 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't. When I think I have a choice, I'll vote.
2007-02-06 16:11:32 · answer #6 · answered by vanamont7 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To ensure that Hillary doesn't win....that would be the only reason!
2007-02-06 16:12:58 · answer #7 · answered by rockinout 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because he is a trustworthy candidate who supports the same issues I do.
2007-02-06 16:12:27 · answer #8 · answered by michelle 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'de vote for him....Oboma give me your torch...vote for him to leave the island (Or go back to it)
2007-02-06 16:12:46 · answer #9 · answered by Bluegrass Redneck 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
he'll never make it.
2007-02-06 17:24:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋