Messiah reappears, forms presidential exploratory committee
posted at 10:38 am on January 16, 2007 by Allahpundit
Send to a Friend |
Share on Facebook | printer-friendly
He planned to do it by video on his website. What he somehow didn’t plan for was the inevitable Drudge link. The site’s down as of 10:24 — although the video section’s still working. Click the image to watch.
The theme? Healing.
I certainly didn’t expect to find myself in this position a year ago. But as I’ve spoken to many of you in my travels across the states these past months; as I’ve read your emails and read your letters; I’ve been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics…
[C]hallenging as they are, it’s not the magnitude of our problems that concerns me the most. It’s the smallness of our politics. America’s faced big problems before. But today, our leaders in Washington seem incapable of working together in a practical, common sense way. Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can’t tackle the big problems that demand solutions.
And that’s what we have to change first…
And that’s why I wanted to tell you first that I’ll be filing papers today to create a presidential exploratory committee. For the next several weeks, I am going to talk with people from around the country, listening and learning more about the challenges we face as a nation, the opportunities that lie before us, and the role that a presidential campaign might play in bringing our country together. And on February 10th, at the end of these decisions and in my home state of Illinois, I’ll share my plans with my friends, neighbors and fellow Americans.
Exit question: why didn’t he wait until tomorrow, when he’s on Oprah, to announce?
Second exit question: what god did he please to get Al Sharpton acting pissy towards him? It’s a Sistah Souljah moment times a thousand — which the Times of London, inexplicably, spins as possibly costing Obama votes among blacks instead of gaining him votes among whites wary of Sharpton’s race-baiting and demagoguery.
Civil rights leaders who have dominated black politics for much of the past two decades have pointedly failed to embrace the 45-year-old Illinois senator who is considering a bid to become America’s first black president…
“They are basically jealous,” said a Democratic strategist who has not yet decided which candidate he intends to support. “They’ve been toiling in the trenches for decades, and along comes this son of a Kenyan farmer and suddenly he’s measuring the drapes in the Oval Office.”…
When asked about Obama’s likely candidacy, [Sharpton,] renowned for outrageous self-publicising antics, shrugged: “Right now we’re hearing a lot of media razzle-dazzle. I’m not hearing a lot of meat, or a lot of content. I think when the meat hits the fire, we’ll find out if it’s just fat, or if there’s some real meat there.”
Update: Watch out, North American Union illuminati — the Tanc’s running for president, too.
Update: Hillary had scheduled a major foreign-policy press conference today. With Obamamania splashing down in newsrooms across the country, she’s now unscheduled it.
You must be logged in to post a comment.
Blowback
Note from Hot Air management: This section is for comments from Hot Air's community of registered readers. Please don't assume that Hot Air management agrees with or otherwise endorses any particular comment just because we let it stand. A reminder: Anyone who fails to comply with our terms of use may lose their posting privilege.
Trackbacks/Pings
Trackback URL
Comments
Comment pages: « 1 [2]
Heh. “SeeJaneMom” = Mom.
Jaibones on January 16, 2007 at 3:38 PM
Another View.
Jaibones on January 16, 2007 at 3:55 PM
So you have never been to my site. Have you ever heard the term “Hot Mom” or…well, MILF. This was a NEW term to me..I’m not even forty. I was actually called a MILF by my a nephew’s buddy.
It’s not that I’m all that…I am just SO NOT A SOCCER MOMMY…..I wear Doc Martens. Well.
seejanemom on January 16, 2007 at 3:56 PM
What does TMI mean?..
I have a feeling I am about to be sorry I asked that…like when I said, “What’s a MILF?”…so what is it?
seejanemom on January 16, 2007 at 3:59 PM
TMI - Too Much Information.
Slublog on January 16, 2007 at 4:01 PM
MILF = The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) = a Muslim separatist rebel group located in Southern Philippines.
hrm…
lan astaslem on January 16, 2007 at 4:04 PM
Jaibones, thanks for the link to Powerline. How true and, if materialized, how deserving:
Entelechy on January 16, 2007 at 4:04 PM
Yes, I answered that before I got the submit button clicked good. Sorry.
And I do apologize. But isn’t that what we are about here?
INFORMATION?
seejanemom on January 16, 2007 at 4:04 PM
Slubog barely tolerates me and nobody really cares about anyone’s choice in lingerie. Sorry. Again.
seejanemom on January 16, 2007 at 4:09 PM
This is turning into a Mommy issues thread.
But picturing seejanemom in a thong is intriguing…
infidel4life on January 16, 2007 at 4:10 PM
You should see how much the liberals are fawning over him here at digg.com.
Man, it just makes you want to vomit. Many of them really, really enjoy the fact he has no experience.
armyvet on January 16, 2007 at 4:10 PM
I so don’t blog Mommy issues, except with regard for the future of our country.
And what precisely is matronly about a THONG, infidel????
seejanemom on January 16, 2007 at 4:12 PM
That’s not true. I enjoy your comments. But I don’t want to know what anyone on this blog is wearing, ever.
That, for instance, cracked me up.
Slublog on January 16, 2007 at 4:15 PM
JANE, YOU (what was this word?) SLUT…. I loved that SNL skit!
I think MESSIAH is EXACTLY what they think of him as.
I think he was born of a virgin…
seejanemom on January 16, 2007 at 4:16 PM
SLUBLOG, honey, I know. I am sorry. it just slipped out.
(It always does that…)
You might need to get(whisper: laid), there Slublog. Just a thought, baby. ;)
seejanemom on January 16, 2007 at 4:18 PM
Shhh…we’re conservatives. Remember, we’re supposed to be puritans and stuff.
Slublog on January 16, 2007 at 4:20 PM
You should saying this. Scare tactics does not work.
Somebody needs to engage him in a real debate about the affairs of this country. He has been making single statements. He is just like Hillary Clinton who make statements to earn them newspaper quick quote. He is not like Rick Santorum who picks an issues and rips it into pieces. This would be exposed soon during the debates.
Ouabam on January 16, 2007 at 4:23 PM
Slublog: You can do it Missionary style, I won’t tell a soul.
seejanemom on January 16, 2007 at 4:23 PM
Absolutely nothing sjm.
I love thongs. Really.
Thongs get my ‘attention’
Thats why I’m intrigued, interested, riveted!
Is yours light blue, by any chance?
infidel4life on January 16, 2007 at 4:23 PM
No comment, except to say I’m a happily married man.
I will add, though, that the activity in question is a hell of a lot more difficult to find time for with a nine-month old in the house.
I’m beginning to wonder if my daughter will ever sleep.
The tooth fairy is a heartless b’stid.
Slublog on January 16, 2007 at 4:26 PM
President Obama? The left is getting desperate. They have no viable plan, no viable options, and no viable candidate. What they have is a “pretty face” and a hope that there’s enough hatred of Bush to swing things in their direction. Thus begins the “‘08 Anti-Bush Presidential Campaign”.
At the very least, now we get to watch the leading democratic candidates skewer each other relentlessly over the coming months. At least that part will be fun.
jasnell on January 16, 2007 at 4:28 PM
The color of said thong is “TMI” for this thread, infidel.
But blue is my favorite color.
And Slu, honey, didn’t your Mama tell you that CHILDREN were the OTHER terminal condition that results from unprotected sex?
MY SYMPATHIES on the tooth thing…TRULY. I was PSYCHOTIC without sleep. You have my unending pity.
HERE ENDETH ALL MOMMY BLOGGING…
seejanemom on January 16, 2007 at 4:30 PM
Oh baby……
infidel4life on January 16, 2007 at 4:34 PM
So who’s this Obama guy? Am I supposed to have heard about him?
Enrique on January 16, 2007 at 4:47 PM
No, Enrique, my liberal friend…you are NOT supposed to have heard anything about him. That is the stealthy beauty of it all.
seejanemom on January 16, 2007 at 4:50 PM
What must really annoy the heck out of the black community is that while Obama is technically African-American, he’s not really Black, as in being entitled to the whole white guilt-trip thing. (His father immigrated.) The same problem is happening at, for example Harvard, where the African-Americans are doing well and the Blacks are not. It just shows the depth of the problems with the Black culture, which is not what Sharpton and Jackson want to be reminded of.
pedestrian on January 16, 2007 at 4:51 PM
I have praying for this for a long time. Africans should replace all Blacks. Africans severely hate blacks because they believe that they squandered their opportunity to be part of the ruling class. Real Africans will tell you that there is no racism. To them, it is feeling, not a fact. And they are die-hard social conservatives, unlike blacks. This does not mean that they will ever vote republican.
Ouabam on January 16, 2007 at 5:01 PM
The ink isn’t dry and Sharpton has his hand out. It is not “what has Obama done for the cause”, it is “what can Obama do for me”?
Sharpton’s meat is in Jefferson’s freezer.
right2bright on January 16, 2007 at 5:26 PM
I’m curious.
If Obama were to win the Democratic nomination, and Rice were to decide to run and win the GOP nomination … who do you suppose Jackson, Sharpton, and the rest of their filth would stand behind for their election year photo shoots?
Gregor on January 16, 2007 at 5:37 PM
I can’t get away from Obamamania. Even ESPN is talking about him. Talking trash to the N.O. Saints.
JammieWearingFool on January 16, 2007 at 5:37 PM
Relax folks, just remember, Obama can’t be the first black president. Bubba Clinton was the first………
ritethinker on January 16, 2007 at 5:46 PM
What?? Obama wears light blue thongs when he hangs out with his mom, the infidel?? What are we talking about here? I’m confused.
Rick on January 16, 2007 at 5:47 PM
Ahh, a riddle. We must ponder…hmm, Democrat. They would vote Dem because those two have no influence in the GOP.
Rick on January 16, 2007 at 5:51 PM
Hey you other guys, HUSH UP! Mom and the boys are really into something much more interesting than OBAMA ODAMA or whatever..
Sooooo, where were we? Blue thongs?
shooter on January 16, 2007 at 6:15 PM
It was “Jane, you ignorant slut”
Just a pirate’s eyepatch and mismatched socks. Thanks for asking.
mikeyboss on January 16, 2007 at 6:15 PM
.
Pretty face? Some people really need glasses.
R D on January 16, 2007 at 6:15 PM
Shooter, mom said no more “mommy blogging” - fun’s over.
Rick on January 16, 2007 at 6:19 PM
Shirley you jest! Even tho Condi is more ‘black’ than obama, twice the American, and shows more GUM_____s than most, the death by chocolate dessert-ers will back the far left, always.
But I think you knew that, G.
shooter on January 16, 2007 at 6:21 PM
.. ‘mommy-blogging’ kinda has a certain ring to it.
Damn, I always miss out, get sent to my room, grounded, etc.
I’m gonna run away.
shooter on January 16, 2007 at 6:24 PM
Oh most definitely. I was just trying to point out how hypocritical they are. They have to be careful how far they go in bashing Obama though. They hit too hard and they’re likely to refused access to the photo ops if he should win the nomination.
Ahhh … if only Jesse Jackson could bless us with another run. I’d love to see them all destroy each other.
Gregor on January 16, 2007 at 6:39 PM
“I went to bed that night and slept the sleep of the saved and the thankful.”
- Winston Churchill, upon learning of America’s entry into WWII.
It’s a revealing indicator of just how shallow the donks’ bench is that they and their media mouthpieces are getting so excited about a “rock star” whose notable qualifications are:
1. He’s black;
2. He’s photogenic;
3. He’s articulate; and
4. He has virtually no experience in government.
Hallelujah! Who needs the second coming of Jesus Christ, when we’ve got Barack Obama right now?
Spurius Ligustinus on January 16, 2007 at 6:41 PM
Is Barak Obama black? I heard he’s black, is this true?
JackM on January 16, 2007 at 6:44 PM
For real? Or like DRiFTer did (for just a little while)?
Rick on January 16, 2007 at 6:48 PM
Precisely. Because that means he can claim that he hasn’t been tainted by working too long in the field of politics, and every Dem in America will think that sounds convincing.
mikeomatic on January 16, 2007 at 6:50 PM
But I don’t want to know what anyone on this blog is wearing, ever.
Does NOT make my thong image so intolerable, now does it?
OK…nobody’s getting their peepee spanked for continuing a very VERY unfortunate thread, I just figured nobody was interested.
You guys are so much more relaxed than SOME folks over there at that other endless thread place.You say “mom” and the whole place is on you like stink over there.
And to steer us back….I think Obama is just what the people want …..VANILLA.
seejanemom on January 16, 2007 at 6:54 PM
OH and thank for filling in that SNL skit for me…I love it , but my brain was farting in the middle of it….I LOVE IT….THANKS!!
seejanemom on January 16, 2007 at 6:55 PM
JAMMIE—Its “Obamarama”….Jeez…get it right. :)
seejanemom on January 16, 2007 at 7:01 PM
I do believe that’s the first time I’ve ever been compared to a drive-by or a troll or a drifter.
shooter on January 16, 2007 at 8:41 PM
After reading their policies, I hereby announce:
(D)Zod
(I)Cthulu
Reaps on January 16, 2007 at 9:05 PM
He’s Halfrican-American! Get it right! ;-)
SouthernGent on January 16, 2007 at 9:14 PM
Although Dan Akroyd used this “reader’s digest version” most frequently, my collie says that the unabridged nomenclature was actually
“Jane, you hagged-out, used-up, ignorant, misguided slut.”
How DOES he remember stuff like that?
CyberCipher on January 16, 2007 at 9:38 PM
Alan Keyes is a fine debater, maybe the best, and he was in great form during the Keyes-Obama debates. It didn’t matter. Obama speaks to the 85 IQ crowd who get confused once an issue is “ripped into pieces”. It’s a huge voting block.
Perchant on January 16, 2007 at 9:45 PM
Well, I’m not sure that’s relevant. Citizenship is not a matter of holding elective office. It is a matter of being seriously concerned about the future of the nation, the problems that we face. As a matter of fact, some of the things that are involved in holding elective office up to this point seem actually to corrupt the will in such a way that you become incompetent in serving the people. The notion that somehow politics is a professional business ought to be anathema in a representative government. Politics is the business of the citizen; that’s literally what the word means. And any citizen who feels in their heart of hearts that they have something to offer to this polity ought to be able to stand up for any office in the country, and should be judged thereafter on the basis of their merits, not on the basis of questions about where they have been or what they have been doing. If those had been the most important questions, we would have been deprived of the leadership of a lot of the important statesmen in American history, including, of course, our first statesmen, who were elected to nothing at the time they put this government together.
—
Apologies to Alan Keyes. After referring to him in the previous post I felt the desire to inspire myself with some of his words and stumbled upon the perfect response to your post.
Perchant on January 16, 2007 at 10:05 PM
How very perfect; a Keyes fan. You couldn’t have picked a better example of what I mean. Keyes is a great orator, but so full of hyperbole and extremism without relevance, that he can’t get elected dog-catcher, so to say.
Speaking as a conservative in Illinois — where Keyes was used to serve up a 70% to 27% victory to the worthless Obama — I know whereof I speak.
We’re not talking about citizenship, but governance of the greatest country on earth. Reagan’s governorship of a large, diverse, and economically huge state sure as hell is relevant. He demonstrated that he clearly knew how to run an enormous organization, and do it very well.
Your choice: running California and getting re-elected in a landslide, or running a junior high meth class. Pun intended.
Jaibones on January 16, 2007 at 10:31 PM
My recollection is that it got wilder every time they did it. I certainly recall “Jane, you magnificently ignorant slut. You would have the United States conduct foreign policy the way you conduct your sex life, hopping from bed to bed with whomever you think can do you a little good today.”
Jaibones on January 16, 2007 at 10:39 PM
Did you vote for him?
Schwarzenegger is qualified to be a Mapplethorpe model but I wouldn’t vote for him for president.
Perchant on January 16, 2007 at 10:58 PM
Heh.
Did I vote for whom? Keyes? Of course I did. Obama’s a dickeater. But I sure as hell would not have voted for Keyes in a primary. I voted for the multimillionaire guy who liked to take his super-hot wife to sex clubs. Family values, and all that.
Jaibones on January 16, 2007 at 11:19 PM
All right, back to Osama. Look at the picture again from Allah: the guy’s a first class dork. I simply cannot wait for videos of this dork on YouTube smoking a fag outside the hotel.
Jaibones on January 16, 2007 at 11:21 PM
Heh.
Allah, if I remember right, you had some great potential campaign posters for Jack Ryan. Any chance we’ll ever see those again?
Slublog on January 16, 2007 at 11:30 PM
Your boy dropped out of the race and Keyes tried to fill the void and gave it his best effort rather than see Obama run uncontested. I don’t understand how that angered you.
Perchant on January 16, 2007 at 11:35 PM
Yeah, sorry about that. If it makes you feel better, there are a couple of drive-by commenters here that have gone off on me and accused me of being a troll (when I’ve made sarcastic remarks).
Rick on January 16, 2007 at 11:49 PM
Obama is a smooth talker who is a lightweight in terms of substance.
Phil Byler on January 17, 2007 at 12:00 AM
P,
I wasn’t angry at Keyes, necessarily, although his move was one of breathtaking political opportunism. HE LIVED IN MARYLAND, FOR THE LOVE OF PETE.
But you dragged Keyes into this, not me. We started off with Tancredo being a junior high teacher before blessing the good people of Colorado with public service for the last 21 years. Now, he feels that we will all benefit from his running for President of the United States.
I profoundly disagree. He seems like a good Representative to the House, except when he starts talking about NAU conspiracy nonsense, but let’s please not go there.
To the point: he’s not Presidential material by any measure, and he’s messing with my argument that Obama is laughably unqualified to run the country. But if your point is that he’s immeasurably more qualified than Obama, fine, you win. It’s true. But few will agree, ’cause the people just love that Harvard Law Review/Senator combo.
Jaibones on January 17, 2007 at 12:17 AM
By the way, if you ever need to use the word “mapplethorpe” in a post and you’re not sure how it’s spelled so you go to google and type it in the search to see if it’s correct…just don’t do it. For some reason they feel the need to show you his “art” before giving you the text results.
Perchant on January 17, 2007 at 1:06 AM
Heh
Jaibones on January 17, 2007 at 8:44 AM
Might want to use dictionary.com instead.
Jaibones on January 17, 2007 at 8:44 AM
Hey, AP, how about a look at Obama’s off-the-charts-leftist stance in the Illinois Senate against the “Born Alive Infact Protection Act”?
Google Obama+”Born Alive Infact Protection Act” for a fun look at this nutjob in action. The legislation was designed to end a procedure whereby physicians delivered babies and then killed them outside the womb, ostensibly in the context that they “were supposed to have been aborted” but weren’t. Obama stakes out a position that NARAL was afraid to take because they thought it would make them look “extreme”.
The conspiracy line: he did it because his pastor/advisor sat on the board of Advocate Health Care, where these birth/murders are being conducted. Apparently his UCC Church (these are the lefty nutjobs behind the Clinton-era “Church Burning” crisis that turned out to be BS; they are into all sorts of race-baiting leftism).
Obama — left of anyone that is in national office today.
Jaibones on January 17, 2007 at 9:44 AM
(oops, incomplete)
Apparently his UCC Church (these are the lefty nutjobs behind the Clinton-era “Church Burning” crisis that turned out to be BS; they are into all sorts of race-baiting leftism) holds half of the controlling interest in Advocate Health Care, and some board seats.
Jaibones on January 17, 2007 at 9:45 AM
I can hear the sound of knives being unsheathed in the hamlet of Chappaqua.
bloviator on January 17, 2007 at 10:32 AM
And what about Obabam being born to a Muslim father, which makes him a de facto Muslim, who, through chance, has become an apostate (Christian). Which, according to those in the Islamic world who fulminate over such things, would require Obama to return (revert) to Islam, or face their penalty for apostates: death.
That might tend to complicate the diplomacy of our country a bit (while we struggle in the first phase of a global war against militant Imperialistic Islam) to have such a major Muslim terrorist target in office, either as Prez, Veep or even a Secretary post.
Best let Obama work out his luckless quarrel with radical Islam on his own dime.
profitsbeard on January 17, 2007 at 10:34 AM
The word was ignorant.
Mmmmm… thong….
Ringmaster on January 17, 2007 at 10:37 AM
profitsbeard, gotta disagree with you there. I’ll take up arms to defend this fellow American and Christian against the Islamists any day. Any day…
Jaibones on January 17, 2007 at 11:52 AM
And since we’re on the righteousness meme, if he’s elected President by the ignorant and misguided among us, he’ll be Your President and My President, and not just the leader of the Moonbats.
That’s how it works here.
Jaibones on January 17, 2007 at 11:54 AM
No more than American Jews would be obligated to accept David Duke as their President or for that matter, German Jews accepting Hitler as “Mein Fuhrer”. Particullarly if they were a majority and had the power to revolt against it.
Perchant on January 17, 2007 at 12:38 PM
No, it’s messiah with a little “m.” And I’ve renamed him Man from Glad.”
Webutante on January 17, 2007 at 12:55 PM
Obama seems to be popular, at least for now and two years is a long time for someone to remain popular in this country, but since when does popularity guarantee success in an election?
Wasn’t Gore a popular candidate and didn’t he lose? Wasn’t Kerry a popular candidate and didn’t he lose as well? And Kerry was supposedly running against a very unpopular President, from what the press and the reported polls were telling us, yet he still lost. Just how much does popularity assist a candidate in the actual voting?
The American people aren’t as dumb as some believe and do not elect a President based solely on his popularity. Experience is the biggest factor. That’s why governors and former governors have a better chance than any senator, just ask Gore or Kerry.
This man just announced that he’s ‘exploring’ the possibility of running for the presidency less than a month after becoming a senator. I wonder how he’ll explain to his supporters why he is already campaigning and is on another funding drive despite the fact that senators are suppose to serve for 6 years. That says a lot about his commitment to his constituents and to his office.
The press may love this man (at this time), he may have millions of supporters (at this time), the Democrats may actually select him in the primary (not very likely), but I doubt that any first time Senator with less than two years experience will actually be elected as President. I don’t think most Americans are that foolish, or that stupid.
RedinBlueCounty on January 17, 2007 at 2:01 PM
Obama….God of the Godless………..(from Rush)
robo on January 17, 2007 at 3:03 PM
How can anyone be serious about a guy who said he would finish his term as a Senator before running for President and barely two years later has reneged on that?
Obama is the epitome of the dem party. All fluff and no substance.
No matter what the candidates says before their primaries, the two left standing will start to move to the center and use more fluff in order to fool the ignorant undecided. Obama is speaking to the fools of this country and in a general election would probably do very well. His problem, thankfully, is that his centrist facade is not going to get him through the dem primaries.
Also, I think he is too popular to be brought in as a VP. NO President wants a VP with a bigger likability factor than he/she has, so it looks like obama will have to complete his term as a Senator. Poor, poor, Illinois!
csdeven on January 18, 2007 at 8:40 AM
I’m looking forward to clinton eating obama alive. I don’t think she stands a chance of winning the presidency, especially during a threat of wartime. I don’t know anyone, even liberals around me that would vote for either obama or clinton. At this point they are serving a purpose of selling news stories and that is about it. Why else talk about it THIS early? My tv will be turned off most of 2008 and maybe even earlier lol. Thank god for DVR! (cable’s version of TIVO)
I wish Newt or Santorum would run. Both of them are good candidates imo.
Highrise on January 18, 2007 at 2:47 PM
You’ve been coolin, baby, I’ve been droolin,
I’m gonna send you back to schoolin’,
Wanna whole lotta nothin’?
Wanna whole lotta nothin’?
Wanna whole lotta nothin’?
Paid for by the Committee to Elect an empty suit.
Teddy on January 18, 2007 at 4:43 PM
Comment pages: « 1 [2]