(D-IL) Senator Bill Obama, 45 year old white liberal

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Naso, does your brain work at any point during the course of a day?

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Naso, does your brain work at any point during the course of a day?

Why are you on his case about this? You know he's right for once. Such a person wouldn't get this attention.

Phil, I would appreciate it if you didn't tell me what I know.

Ever think that perhaps most of Obama's popularity comes from his charisma, speaking skills, and the fact that he gave a well-written and well-spoken speech during prime time on national television? Combine those things, along with his story, and give them to this white "Bill Obama" and I bet he'll be in the same situation.

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Naso, does your brain work at any point during the course of a day?

Why are you on his case about this? You know he's right for once. Such a person wouldn't get this attention.

Phil, I would appreciate it if you didn't tell me what I know.

Ever think that perhaps most of Obama's popularity comes from his charisma, speaking skills, and the fact that he gave a well-written and well-spoken speech during prime time on national television? Combine those things, along with his story, and give them to this white "Bill Obama" and I bet he'll be in the same situation.

Yes, but what is his story?  He is 1/2 black and 1/2 white.  If he were not multiracial, his story would be of a privileged upbringing with his grandparents in Hawaii, not the "audacity of hope" nonsense we have in reality.

I didn't mean his exact story, just some story that people could buy into and raise his popularity, whatever that story may be.

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There are other people in this race with charisma and good speaking skills, Andrew, but Obama is obsessed over because he is black. If he wasn't black, he would never get this much attention.

This is pretty much what it comes down to. There's nothing to really debate over, it's just a disagreement: you think he gets attention just because he's black while I don't. There's nothing really more to it than that.

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Then why didn't John Edwards, a man with a similar life story (except...he's not half black), similar view points, similar charisma and similar speaking skills, get this attention in 2004?

He did end up getting a good amount of attention in 2004...but that may be more because he was the "anti-Kerry/Dean". Maybe that's also a bit where Obama's popularity comes from: he's not Hillary. Anyway, I don't believe that Edwards is half of the speaker that Obama is but that's just me personally.

I can accept that we'll simply disagree, Andrew. That's fine with me. You know how much I respect you. But because I respect you, I expect you to answer my question and not just go right into mocking Naso when many people feel that this is a legitimate point.

Naso didn't make a legitimate point though, as usual; he fed us a few of lines that he's probably heard from Hannity or Limbaugh or his father and then didn't offer anything else....other than some pictures of Alvin and the Chipmunks.