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When I mention Barack Obama to people most either don’t know who he is or comment that he is too young and inexperienced.

Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe provides some humorous perspective on the situation in her article published in the St. Paul Pioneer Press: Is Obama really too green, or are boomers mislabeling him?

A few snippets:

“Somehow I do not think that Barack Obama gets up in the morning, brushes his teeth, looks in the mirror and says, ‘Wow! A fresh face!’ It doesn’t happen at 45. At 45, you count the crow’s feet and measure the circles under your eyes.

If you are a woman, you start reading the fine print on the Oil of Olay Regenerist label. After, of course, putting on your new reading glasses. If you’re a man, you start swiping eye cream from your wife’s stash.

Is it possible that the same generation that famously didn’t trust anybody over 30 when they were 20 doesn’t trust anybody under 50 now that they are turning 60?

It’s a shock when the people you went to high school with start ruling the world. It’s another rite of passage to acknowledge juniors as your superiors. But boomers are now turning 60 with a life expectancy of 82. It’s an early sign of memory loss to forget that at 45 you were wise or foolish, or both — but you weren’t young.

It was bound to happen sooner or later. Former high school classmate, Eve Maler, dug up her old yearbook and shared Barack aka Barry Obama’s page with the world on her blog: Pushing String blog. Personally, I love the shirt!

Laters Barry!

CNN and ABC do some investigating reporting and corrects false reports by Fox News and Insight Magazine

Fox awards Obama “Oscar” for best Political Action Shot:

Watch Obama’s response to the 2007 State of the Union address on ABC News:

“The time has come for universal health care in America,” Obama said at a conference of Families USA, a health care advocacy group.

“I am absolutely determined that by the end of the first term of the next president, we should have universal health care in this country,” the Illinois senator said.

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There is no doubt that Barack Obama can appeal to white audiences —witness the huge crowds of people the Presidential contender has drawn in Iowa and New Hampshire, or his best-selling book. But one of the many unknowns about Obama is how black activists and voters will respond to a different kind of candidacy for an African-American hopeful. Jesse Jackson’s focus on the underclass and poverty didn’t win him the Democratic nomination in 1988, but Obama would surely like to win the 90% of the black vote in most states that Jackson did.

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