Advantage, Obama

I think race shouldn't have a place in this election at all...but it appears that both sides are using race in their own way....Oprah saying we can make that dream possible now(or something to that effect)...what dream do you think she was referring to? I thought her speech was very MLK Also Obamas wife commenting on a little black girl from south side Chicago being the next First Lady....Bill Clinton isn't the only one using race.... We must hold all parties to the same standard...Don't get me wrong Clinton is wrong on this but Michelle Obama has played the race thing as well.

Following the way Bill Clinton has been campaigning for Hillary, I can't help it but think that he is running for a disguised third term. Shouldn't hillary rise up to the challenge herself to prove that a woman can win based on her nerrits?

The conventional wisdom is that Mr. Obama???s overwhelming win in South Carolina, where he won about 55% of the Democratic vote in the state with about 50% of Democrats being black, will help him.

Apparently, most black in South Carolina voted for Mr. Obama because of their racial pride, which of course they have the full right to exercise. Sadly, the fact of black solidarity behind their race has also released the demon of white race consciousness from its hibernation.

White can now openly reason that if black vote out of their racial pride then white can also, and the harder black try to support Mr. Obama, the more remote Mr. Obama???s chance to win the fall election if he were the Democratic nominee. America has indeed been pushed back to her former self.

It is likely that if Mr. McCain is the Republican nominee, a large number of Democrats, particularly in the South, will vote Republican this fall. There is a word for this type of victory Mr. Obama won: Pyrrhic victory.

Go Hillary!! I'm tired of the media bashing Hillary and giving the inexperienced, empty suit Obama a free pass.

I am really sick of this double standard which praises Obama for attacking Clinton and criticises Clinton for attacking Obama!! Race is not the issue in this competition - gender is!
You really seem have a free pass on all behaviour as long you are a male.

Richard, I am so sick of the media kissing Obama's butt. He's going to get KILLED in the general election by the far more experienced John McCain and all that talk of "hope" and "new ideas" (what new ideas, btw? Does anyone ask for specifics with this guy?) will be left by the wayside as he struggles to defend himself against the full-force of the GOP. The media are too in love with this guy to stop the suprulatives and ask the hard questions. This includes you, Richard.

IF ANYONE WITH A GOOD MIND CAN BE OUT THERE,YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO KNOW THAT ,BLACK PEOPLE ARE CHANGING THEIR MINDS TAWARD HILLARY CLINTON AFTER THE DEBATE,THAT ' S BECAUSE THEY DON'T LIKE FOR NOBODY TO OFEND THEIRE BRO'S SPECIALY ON TV. THEY ARE NOT BUT JUST TWO FACE PEOPLE OUT THERE. No wonder this country is like it is until today ,they don't want to give women a chance to run this country ,because I belive a woman can do a better job than a man can,and they don't want that, and that's an example of the people that don't want that ,TED KENNEDY AND THAT LARGE FACE KERRY,in stead of supporting Hillary,they're supporting OSAMA or obama who is supporting a lider Muslim in Africa,those peple that mess this country up,by bringing terrorism in .I REALLY HOPE THAT ALL THOSE BLINDE PEOPLE OPEN THEY'RE EYES AND SEE WHO OSAMA REALLY IS , AND WHT IS GOING TO BRING TO THIS COUNTRY,IF NOBODY CAN SAY NOTHING TO BLACK PEOPLE RIGHT NOW WITHOUT MAMA CHICKEN COMING TO PROTECT THEIR CHICKS(sharpton and jackson)CAN YOU IMAGEN LATER? OPEN YOUR EYES AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!I'M A SUPPORTER OF HILLARY CLINTON NO MATTER WHAT AND IF SHE DON'T MAKE IT ,I'LL SUPPORT MC KEIN IN STEAD OF OSAMA i mean obama.SUPPORT H I L LA R Y C L I N T O N FOR PRESIDENT 2008

I agree with you that Hillary has many positive attributes. I also think President Clinton was a good president. Having said that, I support Obama for one overriding reason. I believe he is the only candidate who has identified the cause of the federal government to get anything of any substance done, and that is the preoccupation of most elected national officials with the political paradigm of the past.

I think, looking back on it with some perspective now, the Democratic party began to come apart when Lyndon Johnson, realizing he was unelectable in 1968, bowed out of the contest. This, coupled with Hubert Humphrey's defeat in 1968, created a vacuum that enabled the left-wing extremists of all stripes and all causes, led by George McGovern, to seize control of whatever was left of the party. Hence the Reagan revolution, following a miserable four years under Jimmy Carter, who certainly was a smart man but who never understood that it is the job of the President to LEAD; to INSPIRE the nation and the citizens.

And ever since, we've had so-called "gridlock."

At this point in history, this nation needs a leader, not a tactician with a strategist in the residence. I am 61, quarter-century in law enforcement, from a military family, son fought in Iraq in the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States Army. I've lived through a lot, and I know in my heart that Obama is the real deal and probably the only chance we get this time.

Comment: White oppression continues to this day, just as our forefathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters were when they were ripped from the bosum of our culture. We, solely, my fellow African kings and queens built this nation but have not shared in its wealth. Obama represents an opportunity to right wrongs, distribute wealth fairly, and make reperations from the heirs of slave owners to the only heirs of the people who were forced to build this country. To characterize the honorable Ms. Michelle Obama, it is time to take care of one own's house.

This is not about race - but very much about the past vs. the future. We can respect the past, but it is indeed time to move on. Obama won with his positive message of hope for the future, he inspired the young voters to get out and get involved, and he does indeed have a good set of ideas on economic stimulus, taxes and the economy, education, etc. That's why he won. The anger came from what the voters saw the Clinton's doing - and it turned them off. Obama proved to them that this is not race against race, poor against rich or young against old. This is OUR future he talked about...OURS, not the Clintons!

I've been watching politics for over 40 years now. Barack Obama is, to my eyes, the best presidential candidate to come along since Jack Kennedy. Let's not forget that JFK was too young, too inexperienced, and was a Roman Catholic. Who in their right mind would vote for HIM?