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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 442299" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>In the case of Republican Jack Ryan, Obama did not have him disqualified. The fact is, Ryan's morals or lack there of especially concerning his wife, actress Jeri Ryan of Star Trek fame (7 of 9 character) imploded his own campaign. Carol Mosley Braun who held the Senate seat prior to the 04' election read the handwriting on the wall that re-election was most likely not possible and thus the door opened for Obama. Good money bet that Ryan was going to take it all and thus potentially make Obama just a footnote in history but fate has a funny way of working out.</p><p> </p><p>When Ryan imploded, Republicans were left scrambling and the only hope they had because at that point they had no real message anymore was to pit a black dude against "the black dude" and thus the republican party made the major mistake of bringing in Alan Keyes and Obama walked into the Senate as if on a Sunday afternoon stroll. If Obama rose to the national stage it was more on the back of republican party ineptitude IMO more than anything else. </p><p> </p><p>I personally think that Obama like Mosley Braun before him could see the handwriting on the wall in that if he stayed where he was, he may very well have been a 1 term Senator because like Braun he'd done very little in the Senate. Some argue even less than Braun. His running for President had he lost either in the primariies or the general I believe was a strategic hedge to at the very least salvage his Senate seat for one more term by making himself relevent on the national stage, something he never did in the Senate itself. Some even believe and it makes sense in some respect that Obama was also brokering for a position somewhere in a Clinton adminstration because at the time Hillary was all but crowned the Queen of America.</p><p> </p><p>Funny how politics and history play themselves out because when Obama went public on his desire to seek the highest office, nobody gave him a chance in hell. That alone is what makes his election remarkable and an interesting historical and political study.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 442299, member: 2189"] In the case of Republican Jack Ryan, Obama did not have him disqualified. The fact is, Ryan's morals or lack there of especially concerning his wife, actress Jeri Ryan of Star Trek fame (7 of 9 character) imploded his own campaign. Carol Mosley Braun who held the Senate seat prior to the 04' election read the handwriting on the wall that re-election was most likely not possible and thus the door opened for Obama. Good money bet that Ryan was going to take it all and thus potentially make Obama just a footnote in history but fate has a funny way of working out. When Ryan imploded, Republicans were left scrambling and the only hope they had because at that point they had no real message anymore was to pit a black dude against "the black dude" and thus the republican party made the major mistake of bringing in Alan Keyes and Obama walked into the Senate as if on a Sunday afternoon stroll. If Obama rose to the national stage it was more on the back of republican party ineptitude IMO more than anything else. I personally think that Obama like Mosley Braun before him could see the handwriting on the wall in that if he stayed where he was, he may very well have been a 1 term Senator because like Braun he'd done very little in the Senate. Some argue even less than Braun. His running for President had he lost either in the primariies or the general I believe was a strategic hedge to at the very least salvage his Senate seat for one more term by making himself relevent on the national stage, something he never did in the Senate itself. Some even believe and it makes sense in some respect that Obama was also brokering for a position somewhere in a Clinton adminstration because at the time Hillary was all but crowned the Queen of America. Funny how politics and history play themselves out because when Obama went public on his desire to seek the highest office, nobody gave him a chance in hell. That alone is what makes his election remarkable and an interesting historical and political study. [/QUOTE]
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