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Originally Posted by Mike33
You may be right, but what's your reasoning for this?
From a strategic standpoint, it seems now is better than ever. We're coming off what most Americans believe are two consecutive failed Bush administrations. If a Dem is going to get the nod, it'll be this time around. What would waiting achieve? If Americans aren't ready for Obama now, I don't see why they would be 4 or 8 years from now either.
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My reasoning behind it was/is that without the experience of the senate and being on some committees his resume is lacking and sets himself up to be beaten in the GE and also my fear is/was if he got in by some chance that his lack of experience and learning on the job would cause a series of missteps opening the door up for being outed after 4 years and ruining what I thought would be a sure lock for two terms and strong legacy when the time was right.
Honestly I didn't think he would get this far, and thought he would get beat up on his lack of record and a few various things like voting present and such and thought it also would be stupid to go thru that just for the sake of doing it and therefor potentially jeopardizing his potential in 4 to 8 years.
Now he hasn't been beaten up bad at all so far, but its coming from the Right soon enough and I am not sure he has enough to fight it. Again we'll see.
I'd hate to see him fail in his bid and get beaten up or get tossed in 4 years and waste the potential he had to lead for a strong 8 after a solid bid in the meantime as a potential Vice.
In some ways I was kinda hoping Edwards would win the primary and ask Obama to be his Vice.