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12/14/2006 10:28:58 PM

Barack Like Me

 TCF has a history with the current junior U.S. Senator/ Dem rock star from the great state of Illinois, Barack Obama. I worked on his successful Senate campaign back in 2004, but he also helped launch this fledgling little blog of mine in return. I had a photo, endorsement and link to his campaign blog site posted in the right column, at the time. And, mere hours after his keynote speech at the ’04 Democratic National Convention, this blog was well on its way to clocking in over 5,000 hits in the coming days.

 But, let me make my prognostication very clear here – Obama is running for the Vice-Presidential nomination of his party in ’08.

 And, why not? I’d bet Obama’s very wise fellow Senator Dick Durbin has urged him to strike while the irons hot. Suck up the oxygen of American voters craving for responsible, ethical leadership while John McCain sucks up to the Evangelical Right and former donors of George W. Bush. The recent Blue-state wave has now put New Mexico and Colorado in Electoral College play for 2008. Does that thus make a Sam Brownback the heir to Ronald Reagan’s legacy for the evangelical Right that has a stranglehold on the Republican Party Presidential Primary process?

 The current media obsession with Obama will do nothing but dry up all Democratic funding from also-rans like John Edwards and Tom Vilsack, and never-should’ve-rans like John Kerry and Evan Bayh. And, a Hillary/Barack ticket will probably solidify by the time (ironically) the process hits Illinois in March 2008.

 Republican operatives appearing on Chris Matthew’s Hardball can sneer about Obama’s middle name being Hussein, but remember he has vastly more legislative experience than the Govenator and Condi Rice they’d prefer to put on the Presidential ticket.

 This is why TCF believes that the coming two years of Democratic rule under Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid is of the utmost importance. If the Democrats can provide effective oversight (as pledged), thus leading to a salvageable resolution to the Iraq problem and economic fairness to American workers, the scare tactics of the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee will fall flat.

 Guess you can call it the ‘Audacity Of Hope’.

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