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Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :

For those who are curious about Obama and want to know a little more, there's a Salon article that's generated some controversy for a couple of reasons. One is that an editor slipped in the word "uppity" to describe him (it's been changed to "presumptuous" now). But the other reason is that it paints a more complicated, but still positive, picture of this man who wants to be president.

I came across it by accident when I checked out Mike Miner's blog:

Obama - Uppity or Just Smug?

quote:
Edward McClelland, a frequent Reader contributor who's covered Barack Obama for this paper in campaigns gone by, offers a few stinging recollections in a critical but ultimately friendly commentary posted Sunday by Salon. DailyKos.com describes McClelland's piece as "incredibly negative," but if you think that, you've drunk the "Obama juice" McClelland writes about and believe the senator is beyond criticism.

Anyway, here's the article. Some of this is covers information I already knew (I do live in the Chicago area), but some of it is new to me and I suspect will be new to most people. Nothing in it changes my feeling that he's the Democratic candidate I feel most like supporting.

(Note: Salon article require you to be a subscriber or to click on a "day pass" button that will detour you briefly to an ad before accessing the full article.)

How Obama Learned to be a Natural

teaser:

quote:
As a correspondent for the Chicago Reader, I covered Obama's 2000 campaign to unseat Bobby Rush, the ex-Black Panther who's been a Democratic congressman from Chicago's South Side since 1993. It's the only election Obama has ever lost. As even one of his admirers put it, "He was a stiff." You think John Kerry looked wooden and condescending on the campaign trail? You should have seen this kid Obama. He was the elitist Ivy League Democrat to top them all. Only after losing that race, in humiliating fashion, did he develop the voice, the style, the track record and the agenda that have made him a celebrity senator, and a Next President.

[ February 12, 2007, 03:14 PM: Message edited by: sndrake ]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. [Smile]

Posted by Euripides (Member # 9315) on :

Printed for in-train reading. Thanks.

Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :

Huh? Since when has Salon not been free?

I get this:

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to read this article and all of Salon for free
Absolutely no registration or membership required for a FREE Site Pass. Now you can read this and all of Salon.com.

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Not a member? Join Salon today!

Note: I can't find any sponsor logo to click on!

Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :

Uprooted, are you using Firefox? It may be blocking the ad -- try again in another browser.

--j_k

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Or just temporarily suspend AdBlock Plus (or whatever).

Salon has been paid-for-by-ads for years now.

Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :

I'm on my mom's computer now, IE7, and I don't know of any ad blockers she has -- oh well, I'll try it on my own computer later.

I can't say I read Salon regularly, but I do from time to time, and I've never had any trouble getting in to an article before. I've probably just clicked on ads w/o even thinking about it.

Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :

So today I clicked on the link from my own computer, from Firefox, and the whole article is there, no "click on the ad" with a missing logo. Go figure. Anyway, interesting article, thanks for the link.