# Barack Obama **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 28, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama/257207 "2004-07-28T02:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 63
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama/257207/63 "2004-07-28T19:35:30Z")
**PaulFitzroy** , you are _way_ off base, and out of line. Your posts are on the borderline of a well desered pitting. This man is damn impressive, and would be regardless of his skin color, and regardless of what _you_ think of Jackson and Sharpton. His oratory, the strength of his ideas, his intellect, the rightness of his idealism: all are on the highest level. That combination will win him a lot of support, regardless of skin. He has mine from that one speech alone. A man to watch. I agree that there doesn’t seem to be any real debate here, though. There’s a MSPIMS thread with virtually the same content. Maybe the debate is, is there a reasonably good chance that Obama could become a leader of National significance in the near future? If Bush returns to office (God help us), I’d throw my support behind Obama for 2008. Sorry, Hillary, but you’re too polarizing. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/barack-obama/257207)._