Is Barack Obama the new Gordon Brown?

At the recent general election Gordon Brown's vile visage was noticably absent from a large number of labour candidates literature, presumably as even labour candidates could see how unpopular the great clunking fist was. So I was intrigued to read that:

'Al Gore failed to mention President Barack Obama at a campaign rally in Florida as Democrats extended their new tactic for next month's elections - ignoring the man who so inspired them in 2008.

Representative Kendrick Meek, the Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in the November 2nd mid-terms, also neglected to let Mr Obama's name pass his lips during an appearance with the former vice-president in a union hall.

Instead, the black congressman lauded "President Gore" - a reference to the 2000 election, when hanging chads in Florida and the US Supreme Court cost the Democrat the White House.

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Two years ago, every Democrat in the country was invoking Mr Obama's name as they hoped to ride on his coat-tails to electoral victory. This year, he is a near-pariah, with many of the party's candidates doing everything they can to distance themselves from him. '

I do hope that this upsets Barack Obama as much as it did Gordon Brown. Why? Because Barack Obama was elected, at least in part, because of a rabidly anti-Bush and pro 'a black President' media and that is not good for democracy.