The odd choices in Barack Obama's career

[m42]

NOTE: The predictions are likely completely off, but the remaining observations are quite informative. :)

It's time to throw my hat in the ring as regards predicting the election results. So here it is: Barack Obama will be defeated. Seriously and convincingly defeated. Not due to racism, not due to the forces of reaction, not even due to Karl Rove sending out mind rays over the national cable system. He will lose for one reason above all, one that has been overlooked in any analysis that I've yet seen. Barack Obama will lose because he is a flake.

I'm using the term in its generally accepted sense. A flake is not only a screwup, but someone who truly excels in making bizarre errors and creating incredibly convoluted disasters. A flake is a "fool with energy", as the Russian proverb puts it. ("A fool is a terrible thing to have around, but a fool with energy is a nightmare".)

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/the_odd_choices_in_barack_obam.html

Props to Jerry!

[Anenome]

This article makes one particular point I find very interesting: Why did BHO go to Chicago instead of back to Hawaii where he was from? Chicago, of all places?

His big break was becoming editor of Harvard Law Review, due - ironically - to the support of the conservative faction who's candidate had lost for sure and hoped BHO would at least give them a fair shake. This got him not only national attention, but a book deal with an advance of about $400,000, though he turned it down in order to finish his degree (and probably because he knew his writing wasn't up to par - the same reason he didn't produce a single article for the Harvard Law Review journal). So on the strength of this national spotlight he attracts the attention of prominent liberals countrywide. Let's posit that some of them contact him and dialogue about his intentions for the future. The one offer he finds most intriguing is the one coming from William Ayers. All supposition of course, but logical enough.

Probably he went to Chicago because he was been identified by that point as an up&comer future politician by political players in Chicago like Ayers, etc, and had offers there. Ayers wanted him to run their non-profit, he got involved with the socialist New Democrat Party, and of course ACORN. When he ran for Senate he was introduced as the heir apparent to the retiring former senator. Furthermore he moved into a neighborhood full of leftist radicals, where Ayers and other radical leftists live down the street. Well, it wasn't by accident that Obama ended up living in Ayers neighborhood, IMO.

Does he go all the way and become president? We'll know in two days >.>