Barack Obama, the Most Dangerous Man in America?

It's official! Senator Barack Obama MUST be running for president in 2008... because yesterday, a well-connected bellwether of ultra-conservative thought has declared the senator "The Most Dangerous Man In America."

Yup. From the very same folks at GOPUSA, who brought us Jeff Gannon, fake White House reporter turned pricey gay escort, comes a editorial by one of its writers who fearfully declares:

"Obama is smart enough to dance around (his) votes should he decide to run for president, cloaking his liberal positions in reasonable sounding rhetoric about a new generation with new ideas, etc., but he is also liberal enough to be the most dangerous man in America if he is elected."

Of course, as the world knows, Senator Obama admitted two days ago on NBC's Meet the Press that "Yes, it's fair" to say that he's "thinking about running for president in 2008."

President Barack Obama?
Is Senator Obama is running for the presidency in 2008? Yes. Definitely. Why not?

And he should. With his moderate, common-sense stances and religious-based moral sense, Barack Obama may well be the right person at the right time to heal our wounded country from the fiscally and morally bankrupt agenda of the Bush Administration.

And as a bonus, Obama is an inspiring leader with an uplifting story... and God knows the US badly needs some fresh inspiration.

Will he win the Democratic nomination for 2008? Probably.

Will he win the 2008 presidential race? It's too early to tell.

Republican Swift-Boaters haven't yet cranked up their ugly vendetta on Obama, and sadly, that will be factor in any race for the White House.

But with the newly-conferred "most dangerous man in America" moniker, the paranoid-loony wing of the Republican party has, indeed, started their usual smear-and-fear tactics.

Still Fighting the 1960s Battles: Hippies vs. Frat Boys
One remarkably insightful statement Obama made on NBC's Meet the Press captures my attention:

"MR. RUSSERT: You do write this, and it’s a very interesting observation, 'When you watch Clinton vs. Gingrich or Gore vs. Bush or Kerry vs. Bush'—so that’s ‘98, 2000, 2004--' you feel like these are fights that were taking place back in dorm rooms in the sixties. Vietnam, civil rights, the sexual revolution, the role of government - all that stuff has just been playing itself out, and I think people sort of feel like, Okay, let’s not re-litigate the sixties 40 years later.' Are you suggesting that those political players are, are the past and you represent a new generation that won’t get caught or bogged down in those kinds of debates?
SEN. OBAMA: I think, I think the categories we’ve been using were forged in the ‘60s. You know, I think the arguments about big government vs. small government, the arguments about, you know, the sexual revolution, military vs. nonmilitary solutions to problems. I think, in each and every instance, a lot of what we think about is shaped by the ‘60s, and partly, you know, the baby boomers is—are a big demographic... Our politics isn’t that different, and my suggestion is that—take the example of big government vs. small government.

My instinct is is that the current generation is more interested in smart government. Let’s have enough government to get the job done. If, if we’re looking at problems, if the market solution works, let’s go with the market solution. If a solution requires government intervention, let’s do that. But let’s look at what are the practical outcomes. And I think that kind of politics is what the country’s hungry for right now."

Obama is Dead-on Correct
Obama is dead-on correct. Except for us baby boomers, the US electorate is deeply tired of replaying the same old hippies-versus-frat-boys fights of the late 1960s and early 1970s. And that includes all the old Bush-Gore, Bush-Clinton, Clinton-Gore, Bush-Cheney and Bush-Kerry tiffs and brouhahas of the past 16 years.

Senator Barack Obama is ten years younger than the baby-boomer political leadership clan. And he's light years fresher and sharper, as evidenced by reports that his every campaign appearance this 2006 election season is jam-packed with enthusiastic youthful supporters.

Barack Obama in 2008? Yes. why not?

Does that make him the most dangerous man in America? To avid Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld supporters and those who long to continue fighting campus battles of the baby boom generation, probably YES.

For those in 2006 who yearn to hold onto the political past, Bob Dylan's 1964 words of warning still seem eerily applicable today:

"Come mothers and fathers all over this land
And don't criticize what you can't understand
Your sons and your daughter are beyond your command
Your old role is rapidly aging
Please get out of the new one if you can't lend a hand
For the times they are a changing... "

President Barack Obama? It has a nice ring.