I have not seen the kind of excitement and enthusiasm following the kickoff of Kamala’s campaign since Barack Obama started pitching himself as a Presidential candidate in 2008. And since both Barack and Kamala share the same racial identity, the question needs to be asked: Are we looking at another Obama campaign again?....CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE>>>
Because if there was one thing aside from his racial background which made Obama seem so unique, was the way he projected a sense of newness and hope in everything he said and did.
Kamala evinces some of those same qualities, even though neither being black nor being a woman is something new and different from what we have previously seen. Although you could argue that being black is one thing, being a woman is another thing, but putting them together in one political persona has never been tried before.
On the other hand, Obama may have been new and different, but his two opponents, first John McCain and then Mitt Romney, were as standard a pair of traditional political operatives as you could get.
McCain had been in the Senate for 21 years before he was the GOP Presidential nominee in 2008, and although he was considered a ‘maverick’ because he sometimes crossed party lines and supported initiatives that came out of the other side, he was also a judiciously careful and diplomatic personality when it came…CONTINUE READING>>
