Oh my. As I was searching the Internet for a “Kenya Facts” page I’m composing, I happened to come upon Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga’s 2007 presidential campaign page. Check it out and scroll down! The question: did Odinga ‘jack his Cousin Obama’s shtick or vice versa? Considering that Senator Obama has been known to borrow with consent a few lines from his friend Governor Deval Patrick (D-MA), I'm guessing the latter.
RELATED: At WSJ, Daniel Henninger says that the Clinton camp betrayed its desperation when it made a big deal out of the words that Obama and Patrick seem to willingly share with each other. The real story, according to Henninger, is "the greatest seismic shift since Bill Clinton came out of Arkansas in 1992"--the roll-out of the new generation of Black American Politician.
[W]hat you have is Sen. Barack Obama, who is 46, and Gov. Deval Patrick, 51, as but two of a generation of black politicians cut more or less from the same mold. Add to the list Newark Mayor Cory Booker, 38, who first lost to and then defeated the Sharpe James machine there; Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, 37; and Harold Ford Jr., 37, who lost a 2006 Senate race in Tennessee by three points. From the GOP side, let's include former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, 49, and former Oklahoma Congressman J.C. Watts, 50. All are well-educated, very smart and able to articulate ideas with clarity and power.Cory Booker embraced Obama's candidacy in the New Jersey primary, as did Adrian Fenty in D.C.'s. Both are virtually political, even personal, duplicates of Obama. Political scouts had identified Obama, Patrick and Booker as presidential prospects off in the future. Barack Obama jumped the gun. He is like a qualifier at Wimbledon. Now he's in the semifinal and one win from the final match of his life.
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