Why Barack Obama is making some people lose their damn minds
He burst upon the scene in July of 2004; prior to that Barack Hussein Obama the second was a little known individual who had recently won a seat in the Senate. After that speech, many begin to see him as a potentially rising star in the Democratic Party. They saw him as someone who could motivate and capture the imagination of many. They saw him as a connection to that base of Democratic voters who had been feeling disenfranchised for so long and a bridge to bring them back into the fold. They saw him as an advantage to stand on stage with and hold arms with for no other reason than to advance their own cause. For those who were not of the Democratic Party, they only saw a black man who was articulate, well-groomed and would make a good preacher. What none of them saw, except a few, was a man who stood for something, had a pretty good idea how to obtain it and was not going to let anyone or anything be the reason he did not achieve. The only ob...