(Video) The hype behind Obama
On the syndicated weekend program the Chris Matthews Show, Time Magazine columnist Joe Klein and NBC's Norah O'Donnell discussed the appeal behind Barack Obama's message, and why his possible candidacy in 2008 might work:
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KLEIN: The hype is that he is really smart...and he isn't the kind of hyper-partisan bloviator that we've had...
O'DONNELL: ...Go back and read his speech before the Democratic National Convention. Of course there is that line: there is no red America, there is no blue America, there is only the United States of America...it kind of tracks with the language we have heard from President Bill Clinton lately about the common good...
One important thing: Obama can speak very well. So many Democratic politicians, whether former presidential candidates or current senators, act as if they take a podium around with them wherever they go. They lecture, not discuss -- and that hurts their cause. Only few, like Bill Clinton and maybe John Edwards, speak as if they are having a two-way discussion with whoever is listening to them. Barack Obama does it better than both of those two. Remember, before Clinton ran for president, many people thought he was boring. Obama has not even declared his candidacy and people find him so charismatic and interesting to listen to. That says something right there.
Somehow missed Jon Stewart on Letterman, so was pleased to be able to see it here.
Think Obama would be a good president....what he lacks in experience, he makes up for in common sense.
Posted by: Marcy | 2006.10.22 at 12:48 PM