Do u think Obama Obama should have waited til 2012 to run/?

Question

If he wins now he would have to clean up too much stuff. Or is time for a new comer.

Answer 1

WASH—Jan 15—KIN-- He was born of a Muslim father and an atheist mother, who in his own words was "a lonely witness for secular humanism, a soldier for New Deal, Peace Corps, and position paper liberalism." She divorced when he was two years old and remarried another Muslim living in Indonesia, where the young man was educated in Catholic and Muslim schools in one of the most radical Islamic countries in the world. Though his father and stepfather were both Muslim, he tries to mitigate their religion by saying that by the time his mother married them, they had become atheists. After he was ten years old, he mostly was raised by his atheist grandparents.

The New York Daily News reports that he changed his life in his junior year of college at Columbia: he said he stopped doing drugs, ran three miles a day, and "He went to socialist conferences at Cooper Union and African cultural fairs in Brooklyn and started lecturing his relatives..." After graduating Columbia and then Harvard, he began working in Chicago supporting social programs. He recruited a local United Church of Christ Church on a government-sponsored community outreach. Around 1988, he joined the church because, he says, "that religious commitment did not require me to suspend critical thinking, disengage from the battle for social justice, or otherwise retreat from the world that I knew and loved."

The United Church of Christ is not to be confused with the "Church of Christ." The United Church of Christ, however, supports homosexual marriage, abortion, environmental justice, globalism, the International Criminal Court, the Palestinian movement and believes that Israel is illegally occupying the covenant land. The UCC seems to conveniently justify and legitimize his beliefs that social progressivism is equal to Christ and he writes in his memoirs that his own salvation was not an "epiphany." He reasoned after his daughter asked about life after death, "I wasn't sure what happens when we die, any more than I was sure where the soul resides or what existed before the Big Bang."

His name is Barak Hussein Obama. And he is running for President. He is courting evangelical Christians from the pulpit at Rick Warren's Saddleback church and by using public proclamations reported in the news media. Some Christians are saying he is a Democrat that evangelical Christians can support. Many have suggested that his Islamic and atheist upbringing combined with his social progressive membership in the United Church of Christ make him an outstanding presidential candidate. Others believe he may be a threat to the national security. Will the real Obama please stand up? Jesus said in Matthew 7:15, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."
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Answer 2

I think George Will said it best, "you kiss the girl when you have her on her toes".

Rather romantic for a old-school conservative like him but the point is well-taken. Yes, I would have liked to see Sen. Obama run for re-election in 2010 before trying for a WH run. I fear too many voters will use his "lack of experience" as an excuse to vote against him when they really mean, "lack of whiteness".

But I think Obama is smart to catch the wave when it comes, it might not come again, just ask Gen. Colin Powell or Gov. Mario Cuomo. And after all, 4 years in the Senate is still better than 6 years as the governor of Texas.

Answer 3

I don't think he should have waited if he thinks he can win now. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Plus, if a Dem wins he can forget about even running in 2012, and he'd be sitting out 8 years at least.

Answer 4

I will never be balloting for him however the respond is definite. think of if he have been Hillary's vp determination. that could have been a hard value ticket to triumph over plus in 8 years he might have a lot of journey and credibility to run on the right of the value ticket. If he loses now, it is going to harm his destiny presidential hopes. he will nevertheless have a destiny despite the fact that it would be extra problematical.

Answer 5

Americans dont seem to worry about his experience. The things that ignorant americans have against him: his race, his middle name, how black he may or may not be.. stupid things like that and none of those things will have changed by 2012. Think of the last president that won or lost by what he actually did from his experience..

Answer 6

This is one of the first wide open elections we've had in about 50 years. This would be his best chance now even though i don't think he'll win.

Answer 7

Yes. That would give him more years of experience. By running early he is rushing a half-cooked turkey to dinner.

Thank you, wingshooter!

Answer 8

Well he probably knows its unlikely he would get the nomination.
But he gets to raise money, money of which he gets to keep.
And that will give him more money the next tim around. Its a common strategy.

Answer 9

2020 would have been MUCH better. He will wind up a footnote to history like John Kerry. Un-electable.