From the Boston Herald October 2005:

Obama and Patrick met in the mid-1990s, introduced by then-White House counsel Abner Mikva of Illinois. Patrick contributed to Obama’s state and national campaigns. -Last week, Obama returned the favor. Big time. A charismatic, biracial speaker who brought down the house at last year’s Democratic National Convention in Boston, Obama praised Patrick at a Sunday fund-raiser that included some of Chicago’s political and business elite. As Patrick later joked, “You know your campaign’s on fire when Barack Obama is your warmup act.

I think you’ll be hearing Patrick’s and Obama’s names in the same breath in the next couple of years.

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I must admit, his stance on changing the tone of politics is appealing.

Dr. Gecko on December 2, 2006 at 3:13 PM

The primaries will be damned interesting. Imagine how fun it’s going to be watching Kerry, Edwards, Clinton and Obama go at each other. Geez….talk about the politics of personal destructon. It’ll be a bloodbath.

When he [Obama] is in front of a black audience he does not speak the way he does anywhere else. He is like Jeckyl and Hyde, you sometimes can’t even recognize him as the same person.

Must have been tutored by our first black president.

Did you ever hear Clinton speak in a black church? The guy sounded like Farrakhan. Gore played the same game, with his Tennessee twang thickening before a black audience.

Bunch of phoney pretenders. Sad thing is, their audiences lap it up.

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Jeff on December 2, 2006 at 9:19 PM

Some people have way too much time on their hands.

iNeXuS on December 2, 2006 at 11:48 PM

Suppose he won by a huge landside (90%) or better… Would we finally get past the race issue?

Sorry, but who frickin’ cares? Survival is the issue that trumps everything at this point. Can’t argue about anything if we’re dead in a nuclear blast.

Hey JammieWearingFool, I’m not going to let you get away with that. I thought of that a long time ago when Teddy “Make It A Double” Kennedy screwed up his name. After all, that song is from my era.Title
The Name Game

Artist(band)
Shirley Ellis

Album
zzz N/A

The name game!

Shirley!
Shirley, Shirley bo Birley Bonana fanna fo Firley
Fee fy mo Mirley, Shirley!

Lincoln!
Lincoln, Lincoln bo Bincoln Bonana fanna fo Fincoln
Fee fy mo Mincoln, Lincoln!

Come on everybody!
I say now let’s play a game
I betcha I can make a rhyme out of anybody’s name
The first letter of the name, I treat it like it wasn’t there
But a B or an F or an M will appear
And then I say bo add a B then I say the name and Bonana fanna and a
fo
And then I say the name again with an F very plain
and a fee fy and a mo
And then I say the name again with an M this time
and there isn’t any name that I can’t rhyme

Arnold!
Arnold, Arnold bo Barnold Bonana fanna fo Farnold
Fee fy mo Marnold Arnold!

But if the first two letters are ever the same,
I drop them both and say the name like
Bob, Bob drop the B’s Bo ob
For Fred, Fred drop the F’s Fo red
For Mary, Mary drop the M’s Mo ary
That’s the only rule that is contrary.

Okay? Now say Bo: Bo
Now Tony with a B: Bony
Then Bonana fanna fo: bonana fanna fo
Then you say the name again with an F very plain: Fony
Then a fee fy and a mo: fee fy mo
Then you say the name again with an M this time: Mony
And there isn’t any name that you can’t rhyme

Every body do Tony!
Pretty good, let’s do Billy!
Very good, let’s do Marsha!
A little trick with Nick!
The name game

Jeff on December 2, 2006 at 9:19 PM

Some people have way too much time on their hands.

She will ask him to VP probably.

A duo made in hell.

I must admit, his stance on changing the tone of politics is appealing.

Dr. Gecko on December 2, 2006 at 3:13 PM

Uh…Doc? How, exactly, has Obama’s fringe left vote against John Roberts for SCOTUS “chang[ed] the tone of politics”? And remember — Obama was editor of the Harvard Law Review, and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School.

Artist(band)
Shirley Ellis

Album
zzz N/A

The name game!

Shirley!
Shirley, Shirley bo Birley Bonana fanna fo Firley
Fee fy mo Mirley, Shirley!

Lincoln!
Lincoln, Lincoln bo Bincoln Bonana fanna fo Fincoln
Fee fy mo Mincoln, Lincoln!

Come on everybody!
I say now let’s play a game
I betcha I can make a rhyme out of anybody’s name
The first letter of the name, I treat it like it wasn’t there
But a B or an F or an M will appear
And then I say bo add a B then I say the name and Bonana fanna and a
fo
And then I say the name again with an F very plain
and a fee fy and a mo
And then I say the name again with an M this time
and there isn’t any name that I can’t rhyme

Arnold!
Arnold, Arnold bo Barnold Bonana fanna fo Farnold
Fee fy mo Marnold Arnold!

But if the first two letters are ever the same,
I drop them both and say the name like
Bob, Bob drop the B’s Bo ob
For Fred, Fred drop the F’s Fo red
For Mary, Mary drop the M’s Mo ary
That’s the only rule that is contrary.

Okay? Now say Bo: Bo
Now Tony with a B: Bony
Then Bonana fanna fo: bonana fanna fo
Then you say the name again with an F very plain: Fony
Then a fee fy and a mo: fee fy mo
Then you say the name again with an M this time: Mony
And there isn’t any name that you can’t rhyme

Every body do Tony!
Pretty good, let’s do Billy!
Very good, let’s do Marsha!
A little trick with Nick!
The name game

And this is the situation with Obama. He’s crazy if he falls for all the fawning and decides to run. And if he does decide to run, there’s just no way he’s going to get the nomination.

Right now, he’s just the flavor of the month…an empty vassal for everyone to project their good feelings on the guy.

Never sit it out, that’s how we got Nancy and her boys on the hill. Anyone except a democrat. At least a republican loser stands a chance of having a crack staff.

darwin on December 2, 2006 at 5:33 PM

We know that’s false. Turnout was incredibly high this past election.

If he runs in “08”, and the Repubs put up a real loser who has a last minute breakdown…. Would you vote for Osama I mean Obama, sit it out, anybody but Obama, or other?

Never sit it out, that’s how we got Nancy and her boys on the hill. Anyone except a democrat. At least a republican loser stands a chance of having a crack staff.

Suppose he won by a huge landside (90%) or better… Would we finally get past the race issue? To make this palpable to the right, the Repubs take back both the House and Senate in a big way (which would neutralize his leftist twistings to a fair degree).

To quote that great and wholly misunderstood American Rodney what’s-his-name; “Can’t we all just get along?”

He’s another Carol Mosely Braun, only in office because of yet another Total Illinois Repbulican Party Screw-up.