Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [POLITICS] Biden is screwed

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Jerry Gamblin wrote:
> > What are these skeletons?  Do you mean that he actually exposed his
> > skeletons in his memoir?  That is surprising.
>
>
> Yes.  Maybe if you want to run for president and not get a bunch of
> mud thrown at you shouldn't dedicate a chapter of you memoirs about
> your college and HS partying:
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/02/AR2007010201359.html 

I simply don't see how this is a liability for Obama.  It shows that he 
has faced the hurdles that many youth in this country face, and has come 
out the other side battered and bruised, but stronger for having faced 
his failings.

Actually what I think the swing voter really hates in a politician is 
disingenuousness.  Kerry and Clinton have this in spades.  I mean, Kerry 
really was the flip-flop candidate - I don't think that was mere 
electioneering, and Clinton with her many stances on the war is heading 
the same direction.  Obama, on the other hand, comes across, at least on 
first impression, as a man who says what he believes and believes what 
he says.

I know very little about Obama, but when I heard him speak at the 
Democratic Presidential Nomination, I was extremely impressed.  Right 
now, all I have against him is that he speaks unfavorably of Bush, but 
then again so does practically everybody else, so it is a mistake I can 
easily forgive.

Stephen

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