# The Tulsi Gabbard Presidential campaign thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 12, 2019, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tulsi-gabbard-presidential-campaign-thread/827665 "2019-01-12T23:59:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 70
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tulsi-gabbard-presidential-campaign-thread/827665/70 "2019-01-14T23:24:07Z")
> [@Lamoral](#): > > It’s not so much that Trump could do it but that Obama could do it. He came out of nowhere and ran a great campaign. Now, whether Gabbard could run a great campaign, that remains to be seen. But like Obama, she is basically coming out of nowhere. [2004 Democratic National Convention keynote address: Reception](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Democratic_National_Convention_keynote_address#Reception) “That is an amazing moment in history right there. It is surely an amazing moment. A keynoter like I have never heard. […] I have seen the first black president there.” - Chris Matthews “This is why you go to conventions, to watch a speech like this.” - David Brooks “A star is born.” - Mark Shields “If he wrote that speech, then he should be president, because it’s such a great speech. If he didn’t, he should be president because he found such a great speechwriter.” - Hendrik Hertzberg “He is a star…For Barack, the sky’s the limit.” - Michael Madigan “It was such a moving speech that I had tears in my eyes…It was electrifying. When I looked around the room, all across the people were so emotional, tears in their eyes. They’re crying.” - Emil Jones “I thought that was one of the most electrifying moments that I can remember at any convention.” - Hillary Clinton “When Obama runs for the White House, he will run not as a candidate for blacks. He has the capacity to run as a candidate for everyone.” - Artur Davis If Tulsi Gabbard had a moment like this in 2016, I must have missed it. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-tulsi-gabbard-presidential-campaign-thread/827665)._