Simon Says, Touch Your Barack

October 23, 2006 at 8:40 am

Sen. Barack Obama’s reason for considering a 2008 presidential run — “Given the responses that I’ve been getting over the last several months, I have thought about the possibility” — hardly seems compelling.  Yes, great press and publicity have landed him on the cover of magazines, commanded long-form newspaper profiles, and got him on the top talk shows.  But the history of presidential campaigns is full of folks who got great press — but failed as candidates.  Consider this other media-fave Illionois Democratic Senator:

Paul Simon button from NPR

Presidential Election  political junkie  2008 campaign

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  1. Billary said,

    October 23, 2006 @ 9:46 am

    “Simon Says, Touch Your Barack”

    Touch this, baby:

    http://www.justhillary.com/images/hillarywall.jpg

    Hillary Rodham Clinton at Jersulem’s Western Wall, 2005

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