All You Fascists Bound to Lose

All You Fascists Bound to Lose

Obama on the Hotlist

Phoebe Connelly June 16, 2004

Having saturated the usual outlets, Barack Obama hits big time with a mention on the Elle "Hotlist": "He's the It Candidate of 2004. Illinois twentysomethings throw fundraisers for their would-be Democratic U.S. senator, Bill Bradley has appeared with him […] Obama, 42, campaigns with the charismatic zeal of the community organizer he once was […] If Obama wins, he'll be the nation's most prominent elected African-American politician -- and it will be only a matter of time before people are talking him up for an even higher office." Fashion magazines?! Who can stop him now?

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Phoebe Connelly, a former managing editor at In These Times, is Web Editor at The American Prospect.

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