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Barack Obama 'the new Jack Kennedy'
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| Last Edited | Eric Jan 14, 2007 12:53pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Daily Telegraph |
| News Date | Sunday, January 14, 2007 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Many Democrats are already eyeing him as perhaps their best hope for the White House in the 2008 presidential election campaign.
Now Barack Obama, the charismatic senator with near rock-star status, has won glowing praise from another, more unlikely source.
Frank Luntz, the communications strategist who has helped mastermind a string of victories for the rival Republican party, has singled him out as the politician whose oratory puts him in pole position for next year's presidential election.
"His whole message is one of hope and opportunity," Mr Luntz told The Sunday Telegraph. "He comes across as a real person, and 'real' is in for 2008."
According to Mr Luntz - whose recognition of David Cameron's appeal was a pivotal moment in the last Conservative leadership contest - Mr Obama's oratory skills contrasts sharply with the Republicans' "pathetic" utterances, which helped to consign them to defeat in November's congressional elections.
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In a book published last week, Mr Luntz predicts that the party of Ronald Reagan, who was known as the "Great Communicator", will also lose the White House next year unless its leaders raise their game to challenge fresh voices like that of Mr Obama.
Mr Luntz highlights Sen Obama's inspiring speech to the 2004 Democrat convention - in which he talked of coaching Little League baseball, having gay friends, worshipping God and pledging allegiance to the Stars and Stripes - as a striking example of his unifying communication skills. |
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