Is This The Launch For The DC Media’s Conventional Wisdom Touting Obama In 2008?

Brian Zick June 18, 2006

Charles Babington has a 3 pager in WaPo on Barack Obama and the prospect he'll run for the White House in 2008. It is a most flattering and enthusiastic account, quite similar to what several bloggers (this one, for example,) and their commenters wrote, like, two years ago, before he was elected to the Senate.

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