Here's an interesting article about Obama & Deval Patrick...

Here’s a quiz: Which prominent African-American politician famously said: “The politics of fear is no acceptable alternative to the politics of hope.”

If you answered Barack Obama, you’re wrong …


Just two years after Obama’s now-famous Democratic National Convention speech in Boston where he asked: “Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope” --Deval Patrick uttered the aforementioned phrase in a statement to the press.

Barack Obama went on to serve in the U.S. Senate in 2005, and Patrick was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 2006. And while Obama’s impact as a senator is harder to evaluate, Patrick’s already disastrous tenure in the executive branch may serve as a microcosm of things to come if Obama were to be elected president. Regardless of their racial similarities, the politics of hope is not the only thing that the junior Illinois senator and presidential candidate and the then-future Governor of Massachusetts have in common.

Barack Obama’s campaign for the presidency and Deval Patrick’s campaign to become Governor of Massachusetts in 2006 share many remarkable similarities. And as someone who lived in Red Sox Nation during that campaign, I can attest to how the Deval Patrick playbook is now translating into Obama’s campaign and how that playbook ultimately translates into action or lack there of.



http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/JohnHanlon/2007/11/23/barack_obama,_deval_patrick_and_a_$46,000_cadillac

some nice Vince Foster articles to post if that's the standard.

:wtf:

but the facts included in it...but that's just me...I could probably find a better source if you like...

If it's true, then there's a source for it that is not right wing. Use that one

Yes there are superficial similarities in style and race.

But they are -- gasp -- two different people. Patrick grew up in a disadvantaged environment in Chicago surroundings and worked his way up in the corporate world. Were the author not racist, he would not have drawn such a limited and stereotypical comparison of two rising politicians who happen to be Black.

Also, Patrick did have a lot of freshman missteps as governor. He also was dealing with personal problems, with a wife suffering from depression.

But he seems to be getting his footing, and his tenure has not been a disaster -- and shows signs of potentially being a success.