Obama was encouraged by no less than George Will to run for president

Imagine that!

December 14, 2006
This is the Time for Obama
By George Will
WASHINGTON -- New Hampshire was recently brightened by the presence of Barack Obama, 45, who, calling the fuss about him "baffling,'' made his first trip in 45 years to that state, and not under duress. Because he is young, is just two years distant from a brief career as a state legislator and has negligible national security experience, an Obama presidential candidacy could have a porcelain brittleness. But if he wants to be president -- it will not be a moral failing if he decides that he does not, at least not now -- this is the time for him to reach for the brass ring. There are four reasons why.
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...but hardly as slick as Buckley. Will and Buckley are quite adept at equivocation. This article is in no way encouragement, nor an indictment of Obama. Consider his summation:

"All life is a preparation for something that probably will never happen. Unless you make it happen."

I think he had a deadline, and he made it.

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Read the article and disregard the headline. There might be 50 different headlines for this article wherever it is printed. He didn't write the headline, and the headline has nothing to do with what Will wrote. As a matter of fact, I'd say the the headline and the article oppose each other.