When It’s Head Versus Heart, The Heart Wins

To the poly sci student: Read Obama's book: Audacity of Hope. Then read Carl Berstein's biography of Clinton in which he talks about her difficulty in telling the truth. Both should be required reading for poly sci students. Then report back to us. Perhaps you should consider a different field because anyone who is narrow minded & ill-informed enough to judge someone on the color of their skin & say the essence of a person is solely what has been created by the media, should be in a different field. Maybe math, not a people science. Do some research next time before you embarrass yourself again.

Too many people vote with their heart and not their head- most of those people are Democrats- they vote emotionally - not intellectually.

Obama's cult-like following is bothering me. The irrational comments about Hillary Clinton are also troubling. My well thought out choice is Hillary Clinton. She is sharp, aggressive and I truly believe she will fight tooth and nail for the American public. Obama seems self-serving to me. Again, the cult-like feeling I get from his supporters is just creepy. I am not won over by speech-making and promises you an't keep. Hillary will get my vote!

If the media-- Newsweek among them-- only publish chirpy stories about a candidates' childhood, or career, or spouse, or pets, it's no wonder that the majority of voters use "character" as their yardstick, rather than a candidates positions, experience, plans, and acceptability (domestic and international).

There has been a marked dumbing-down of politics, and as a result declining voter turn out, and the increasing belief that candidates (and, in some cases, even parties) are interchangeable. That isn't surprising, when you look at what makes the TV news. Even Newsweek, which until this election at least could be counted upon to report on platforms, has now jumped on the personality bandwagon.

As a voter, I want to know their previous record, their experience, their platform, and their plans for what they want to do. I want to know if they are familiar with the leading issues, domestic and international. It doesn't matter if I'd rather do lunch with Hillary or Barack or Mitt or John, because it will never happen; from a Presidential candidate's perspective, I'm a nobody. What does matter is whether members of Congress can and will work with them, and whether the Presidents and Prime Ministers of Canada, Germany, Britain, France, Japan, China, Russia, etc respect and can work with them. I'm not electing a buddy, I'm voting for the head of state. So, stop underestimating me, and other voters. True, not everyone will bother to learn everything, but at least make it easy for them to find out the facts, and you'll be surprised at how well they use them.

Any one that votes for a Presidential candidate on the basis of their gender is voting for the wrong reason.
We have seen Hillary Clinton crying on television, if she can???t handle the pressure of the preliminaries how can she ever handle the pressure of being our next President?

Anybody who thinks Obama doesn't have the smarts to be President is truly clueless. He is plenty smart enough, just from his academic record--he graduated from Columbia undergrad, not Hawaii, and was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, graduating magna *** laude. Disinformation like this "B average from Hawaii" drivel does not serve anybody well, including Clinton.

Beyond grades and record, however, where he is at least the equal of Clinton, Obama is a much better writer and speaker--his grasp of the language is intuitive and powerful.

I see no evidence that Obama can't "think quickly", either. But that skill is LEAST important in a president. Rather it's much more important to think DEEPLY, and then to rally the electorate to follow your lead with words that inspire.

Obama treats us like brainless cogs who will follow his empty message of 'hope'. Hillary talks about the issues, the real stuff - not fluff!

I am an uninsured white female and am basing my vote on a single issue. However, that issue is not health care. What scares me the most is that Hillary Clinton and John McCain not only showed a lack of judgment in voting for the war in Iraq, but they steadfastly refuses to admit it was a mistake. In addition to the horrendous cost of human life and suffering, those several trillion dollars could have solved all manner of problems here at home. I don't expect my President to be perfect, so I know there will be mistakes. But you cannot learn from your mistakes if you don't even admit that you made one. We had three extra years of war because Bush refused to admit he made a mistake and changed course. McCain and Clinton are doing exactly the same thing.

I was a diehard Clinton supporter.
And then she cried.
She displayed weakness, and selfishness - to cry is a good thing, but to cry out of self-pity alone is not necessarily a good thing.
Especially not on public television, for a strong leader is one who is capable of showing emotional stability and restraint.
If Hillary Clinton was a man, and if she had cried out of self-pity on national television, she would have been burned at the stake.
If we do not hold women to the same standards as we hold men to, then we undermine the position of women in society and perpetuate gender inequality.
Hence, I have decided to cast my vote with the better human being, the better leader.
Go Obama!

I think that it is not as simple as the author states it. Remember, we are not only voting based on how a leader stands on today´s issues, we also are choosing who to trust to act on tomorrow's issues, whatever they might be. Most agree that the worst decision Bush made was to invade Iraq, but that was not an issue in the 2000 campaign. So we are looking for whom to trust, sometimes these little things matter and it is no "irrational" to pay attention. If Bush were as attentive to others in discussions as Clinton seemed to be in the debate perhaps he could have avoided some of the worst mistakes in US history.

Thankfully, we have a candidate that appeals to our minds and our hearts: Barack Obama,

The man taught at the University of Chicago. To say he is all inspiration (as some suggest) is just plain wrong and uninformed. He has had to tone down his wonkishness. I pray that people will see him for what he is - truly our greatest hope and a genius politician - in the best sense of the word.

Obama for President - because this time we can have it all.

P.S. As for the rush to get out???you can't. Not if you want American to have a shred of credibility on anything in any international forum for generations to come. Not unless you want the blood of millions of innocent civilians on your hands as Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, and others plunge into civil war on ethnic, tribal and religious fault lines. Not if you want to avoid giving a green light to all who hate America and want to attack America to go ahead and have fun. The situation was created by the fumbling, ignorant incompetence of a President who had never left the country before, ignored centuries of history, sneered at nation building, and was dazzled by blind ideology, but it's something that all Americans will have to wear for decades to come. The US is in Iraq and Afghanistan until you can nurture moderation in local leaders, build up civil society, support good governance and jump-start failing economies. Deal with it. That's reality. And EVERY legitimate candidate knows it, and will do it.

PHD for Hillary, I am so with you!!!! I am sick of stupid young people pulling down the rest of us. I study political science and I know better than to vote for Obama. He really is created by the media and it kills me!! But even more so because I am black. I am so angry and disappointed with young people like me and black people like me. We are too smart to be voting for someone just because he shares our race or he seems youthful. And Obama is not Kennedy or MLK!! It insults both of them to compare him to them.