posted November 04, 2006 06:11 PM              

Obama considers presidential run
POSTED: 9:04 p.m. EDT, October 22, 2006

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama said Sunday that he may run for president in 2008, despite previous assertions that he would complete his current six-year senatorial term, which ends in 2011.

"I would say I am still at the point where I have not made a decision to pursue higher office, but it is true that I have thought about it over the last several months," the 45-year-old Democratic senator from Illinois told NBC's "Meet the Press."

In January, Obama told NBC that he would not run for president or vice president in 2008.

Asked Sunday about his earlier stance, Obama said, "That was how I was thinking at that time."

"I don't want to be coy about this, given the responses that I've been getting over the last several months," he said. "I have thought about the possibility, but I have not thought about it with the seriousness and depth that I think is required."

Obama has given a slew of interviews in recent weeks to television shows, magazines and other publications to promote his new book, "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream." The book, published last week, touches on themes of race and identity. (Watch Obama talk about his plans on Larry King Live -- 11:37 )

He wove many of the same topics into his 2004 Democratic convention speech. The speech, and his election to the Senate that same year, helped propel the attorney and father of two to an overnight political sensation in Democratic circles.

"He is so appealing because he has escaped some of the normal, you know, bad stuff that happens to people on the campaign trail," Lynne Sweet, a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, said Sunday on CNN's "Reliable Sources."

"And here's the realization I think his people and Sen. Obama is coming to, and it's this: you can't time timing."

Other columnists have hailed Obama as the solution to the Democratic Party's woes in winning elections.

"The next Democratic nominee should either be Barack Obama or should have the stature that would come from defeating Barack Obama," David Brooks, a conservative op-ed columnist for The New York Times, wrote in his Thursday column, entitled, "Run, Barack, Run."

Frank Rich, a liberal op-ed columnist for the same newspaper, wrote in his Sunday piece that much of the Democrats' long-term success will depend on whether "Obama steps up and changes the party before the party of terminal timidity and equivocation changes him."

Political analysts have also speculated that another Democrat, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, is gearing up for a presidential bid in 2008. In a Sunday debate with Republican challenger John Spencer, the junior senator from New York wouldn't say definitively if she would complete her six-year term if re-elected.

Spencer accused her of using New Yorkers' time to run for president. Clinton would make a "tremendous candidate for the president of the United States but not at the expense of New Yorkers," he said. (Full story)

This month, former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, a man many saw as another possible Democratic presidential contender, ruled out a 2008 bid.

Any thoughts?

posted November 04, 2006 07:13 PM              

I actually happen to be physically compatible with his data, which isn't surprising since i'm saturn/5th/capricorncusp and my natal stars are connected mostly to my Saturn and Venus.

11/26/1990 Aspect 08/04/1961 Orb/Value
Sun Square Pluto 2.58 -73
Mercury Square Mars 0.54 -170
Mercury Trine Uranus 2.29 60
Venus Trine Sun 1.13 163
Mars Square Pluto 1.04 -88
Jupiter Conjunction Sun 2.11 179
Saturn Trine Mars 0.05 79
Saturn Conjunction Saturn 3.31 74
Uranus Sextile Neptune 0.55 44
Uranus Trine Pluto 0.45 48
Pluto Opposition Moon 0.44 -73
647 -

Why does jwhop have such a negative attitudes toward democrates? Someone should educate me on this because i'm rather conservative...

posted November 04, 2006 07:30 PM              

that hides things..so you can't SEE them... .

twisting and turning making things upside down and illogical..and lacking common sense. . .

if you fail to plan..you plan to fail..
we must SEE the big picture..what different
outcomes will become...

posted November 05, 2006 12:55 AM              

I have heard the guy talk and I have read a lot of the things he has written.

I like him very much and like what he has to say. He has my vote.

A vote for Hillary Clinton will maintain the status quo. She is just another corporate owned politician. She is in favor of the Iraq war. Nuff said.

posted November 05, 2006 08:45 AM              

Of course, Dulce Luna, a lot of people like him, whats your reason?

posted November 05, 2006 06:49 PM              

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"WHATEVER the soul longs for, WILL be attained by the spirit"-Khalil Gibran

posted November 05, 2006 06:55 PM              

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"WHATEVER the soul longs for, WILL be attained by the spirit"-Khalil Gibran

posted November 05, 2006 10:01 PM              

What experience did G W Bush have to become president? He was the governor of Texas is all and his dad was the president. But he himself had no prior experience in Wash. D.C. At least Obama Barrack has experience as a senator.

posted November 06, 2006 02:57 PM              

right, "and"?

posted November 07, 2006 03:39 PM              

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"WHATEVER the soul longs for, WILL be attained by the spirit"-Khalil Gibran

posted November 07, 2006 06:44 PM            

Neptune,

You will also have to add a few others to your list of those that let down Katrina Victims- namely the Governor of LA as well as the mayor of NO. Mr. Kayne West is racist towards whites in general. I doubt I would be touting his music.