The Barack Obama Dilemma  in Election  With an advertising
flourish that would grandly and profitably project any new
industrial product into the public limelight, the media has
latched onto the first term Illinois senator, Barack Obama,
labeling him a tasty political commodity much like a bottle of
Paul Masson wine. It was Paul Masson who had first introduced
his wine to the world in the 1980s with the aphorism, "we will
sell no wine until its time." In much the same way, the media is
pushing the Obama presidential image as one whose time has come,
whose charisma will sell well in the 2008 election.  Perhaps
converting a new unfamiliar face in American politics into an
icon, through the use of mass electronic media, is too much like
pushing an untried and untested product onto center national
stage, proclaiming its superiority over existing products. At
any given time, you will probably find close to a million
capricious people in the United States who are unfailing,
undying binge lovers. These people are th