Insiders

Plenty of people have been speculating recently about what make Barack Obama so popular. Is it the fact that he seem sort of like a black JFK: Young, energetic, attractive, and extremely intelligent?

I think not.


The real reason Obama is now duking it out for the frontrunner position in the uber-crowded Democratic nomination run is one of the things his detractors list as a flaw: his relative lack of political experience. After years of autocratic rule by a man who got elected because of his name, and reelected because he started a war, the American people are ready for someone who doesn't have the Washington ties that most career politicians do. They want someone that they can trust to do what is right for them, or at the very least someone they can think will do what is best for them. Like I said before, Obama is an extremely intelligent man; he knows this. This is why he chose to make a pledge to not take lobbyists' money. He is keeping himself a Washington outsider, and in this election, he might actually be one. That is why he is doing so well with a name that the average American might mistake for that of a man preaching the murder of US troops in Iraq. And, ultimately, that is why he will pull ahead of Hillary, and take the Democratic Party nomination for the presidential ticket.