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Politics, especially national politics, is a business and it is run much like professional boxing. You don't get a title shot on your own or through your managers. There are people, interests if you will, that exercise a tremendous amount of control over national politics. This is not to suggest that there exists a shadowy cabal with secret handshakes and midnight meetings in secluded chambers. But there are powerful movers and shakers who form alliances to sponsor politicians for their own purposes. These groups sometimes work together and sometimes work in opposition and sometimes have the same short term objective for opposing reasons. I know that this sounds like conspiracy fantasy, but bear with me a moment, please.

The political parties in this country do not represent the People. They represent, in fact have always represented, special interests. Why, because that is where their money and power come from. A case in point is young Mr. Obama.

Here we have a young man who is a poster child for political championship, for all of the above stated reasons. He is lucky in that he comes to the attention of certain interests based in or near Chicago Illinois. Through their efforts, he is assured a seat on the Illinois legislature. When a U.S. Senate seat became available, Obama, a candidate with far too little political experience [and unlike politicians such as Ted Kennedy who had name recognition] to even have a significant chance to attract enough votes to defeat the experienced politicians vying for that seat, suddenly is running virtually unopposed as sealed divorce papers are made public, destroying his opposition. Now, two years later, he is running for President. Not even JFK moved that fast in his political career. So how does an obscure Illinois politician, with little personal wealth, position and name recognition get to this point?

He is the center of a political Perfect Storm. There are a variety of groups supporting him for various reasons, many of whom we may never identify. There are obviously groups who want him to occupy the White House; some because of who he is and some because of who he isn't, Hillary Clinton. Some want him in the race because of his opponent, John McCain. These groups see his candidacy as less likely to defeat McCain than a Clinton candidacy. The evidence that supports these theories is out there and can be readily found by anyone interested looking for it [hint: lack of MSM scrutiny of Obama, media ignoring John Edwards affair story as he siphoned off Clinton voters in the primaries, and even Limbaugh's Operation Chaos].

p>No one gets a title shot without sanction from one of the controlling organizations in the business of national politics, the Democrat and Republican parties. And, as I pointed out earlier, these organizations are controlled by special interests. So, is Barack Obama's rise in national parties a result of talent and luck? Yes, that and a group of powerful rabbi's; the political kind, not the religious kind. br> -- Michael Tobias /p>

I must take issue with Mr. Cline, who calls Mr. Obama "one of the most naturally gifted American politicians in the last half century." After reading the circumstances of his elections, I see only luck, and a healthy dose of chicanery.

As for Mr. Obama's alleged oratorical skills, it has become abundantly clear that he is fine when he is reading prepared speeches, which I firmly believe are written by other people, and abysmal when he has no script in front of him. Furthermore, to my ears, his manner of speaking becomes ever more infused with an arrogance that reminds one of the execrable Mr. Kerry. Mr. Obama "talks down" to all of us.

p>Mr. Obama's positions on taxes, the economy, and on how government should work, would make Karl Marx smile in approval. He tells us what we cannot do, and his loathsome wife tells us that he will "require" us to do this and that, in total ignorance of the fact that our elected officials are subordinate to the people who elect them, not the other way around. Mr. Obama does not want to be our President, but our Ruler. A bas Obama! br> -- W. B. Heffernan, Jr. /p> p> What talent does Obama have other than the ability to read a prepared speech on a teleprompter? He is ignorant of American history, world history, economics, foreign affairs, and geography, just to name a few subjects.

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