The Theater of Big Change

I have to wonder about a man who votes against a war that our gov. led us to believe was imperative to world peace and american safety. I am confused at our idea of leadership. A man who claims he is the future. Yet we need someone to clean up the past and our present. Both of wich we caused with our horrible decision as a collective to bring in such a bad president for 8 years. We need to say we are sorry and beg Hillary Clinton to give us a chance. We need her know how and strong mindset for fixing what we the people did to our great nation. WE should be grateful she even wants the job!! We voted for an idiot now lets vote for greatness.

"Change - not as aslogan, not as a bumper -sticker, but change we can believe in!" (from Mr. Obama's Saturday Virginia speach): indeed this goes way beyond bumper-sticker politics, this is demagoguery at it's worst ( best?).
Ileana Gheorghiu,M.D.

Boy, did you take your lips of Obama's ass to write this article? Anyone who believes the Senator's rhetoric, unsubstiated claims of glory and a "renewed future" must have the same blinders on that you do. Wake up. The man is nothing more than a charlatan whose words from the "mount" are growing more ridiculous each day. For those of you who are falling for this, it's like lambs being led to slaughter. It's on your heads... I only hope that you can deal with later on. Don't say you weren't warned.

Congratulations, Jonathan, on your new job as Obama advisor.

Good to know anything you say about HRC will be completely biased.

" This is uncharted territory in a legal sense, and it is a cause for concern for anyone that cares about the Constitution."

This nation is still young and in uncharted waters in so many ways. Like a woman president or a black man running strong through the South. I bet our wonderful forefathers would never foreseen a woman running or a black man? heck my hero is Washington but those boys were slave owners and it just goes to show that history has a selective focus and memory. I know they would be scarred just like the old guard is when they see Hillary coming and everyone is calling unfair - wait a minute you can't do that. UNFAIR no no all is fair in love and war and this is both to the very highest levels. Go Hillary we love you as you war for us, war with whatever it takes, don't mess with mamma she knows what is going on, now pappa may be out chasing tail or polo balls but mamma is cooking up something fresh and will run things like only a woman could - Go Hillary cook up one of those smoking plates of freshness - DELICIOUS!!! Who would have thought that a woman would be running the blue union troops and the south would be running with a black man - fly your flay babby and let the games begin. God bless America she is a lady that is always up to something cool.

Jon, it's true that Hillary is an amazing policy wonk, but Obama proved in the last debate that he could hang with her. This "he's all style but weak on details' business is just another mainstream media talking point; he's put proposal after proposal out there (just look at his website); and in his time in the Senate, he has sponsored substantive legislation such the Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 (became law), The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act, (became law), and the the 2007 Government Ethics Bill. Obama has plenty of policy chops, but that's just not an exciting media line. If you want an exciting media story about the Clintons, what happened to Kathleen Willey?

Leaving Iraq is not the big item. That's too narrow a description. The first big item remains winning the War on Terror.

Obama has a big opportunity. He can remind Americans that Cold War is a War of Economic Attrition, where we win when our enemies people get sick of them and throw them aside. It doesn't cost us anything -- just resolve.

We were willing to exterminate all the peoples in the Soviet countries if they nuked us. And that willngness is what held them at bay.

It's not pretty. It's not fun. It's pretty horrible.

But Cold War does have one nice thing going for it. It works.

Obama tells the Muslims that, if nuked by a state, he will decimate that state and anywhere it's elites may be rumored to have other holding. If nuked by Islamic terrorist, he will decimate all Muslim majority lands from Marocco to Indonesia.

Has any one had the courage to honestly say what we'd do if one of our cities got nuked? The above paragraph, horrible as it is, is a very good approximation of what any American President would do.

Therefore, for the cost of making a speech that only the Ralph Nader voters of the Bay Area would object to, Obama would position himself as the Man with the Plan to Win the War on Terror.

The failure of Bush to define the War on Terror as another Cold War, again backed by "Assured Destructon" of our enemy is the biggest failure. Guessing that Saddam had WMD's or a Cakewalk were judgment errors by Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and Powell.

But allowing the Terrorists to set the terms of War -- Hot War -- when we faced down the Soviet Empire and its thousands of missles faced at us by Cold War?

By not clearly defining Cold War on our terms, our leaders have left us at unncessary risk. So much for Republican competence in national defense.

And they have left a great opportunity for Obama to leave John McCain's eagerness to run off to more wars as a clear example of bad judgement.

You start your article by giving Hillary a "pass" on her weakest subject, the war. Iraq is not, as you say, "a wash", it is far from clear that Hillary would be effective in removing our troops from harms way, in light of the fact that she was in lockstep with Bush in authorizing the war, and is thus partially responsible for them being there in the first place. How can she properly skewer the Republicans in the general election when she sided with them on the war in the beginning? How can she return our standing in the world by refusing to talk to leaders we don't like? We should talk to the leaders of enemy nations, but in Hillary's case she will have a lot of explaining to do, such as why shy voted to authorize a war that should have never been waged. By not talking to these leaders, she is effectively running away screaming from the worst policy decision of her career, her vote authorizing the Iraq war.

"divided we fall"

If that is true is it all inclusive??? How about the millions working next to us who own houses, have jobs, have been here for years and served in countless roles to build this country???? Or are we ok to divide them and call them ILLEGALS and push em down to the floor and treat em like slaves, property that we can reject and send back to saint Elsewhere whenever we want to?? I admire the spirit of a person who comes over against great odds and pulls the line without grumbling and only askes which way to the American dream and hears instead
"WHAT YOU!!! Divided that's the office you need to report to."

As a recently retired school teacher from an inner city high school in South Los Angeles, I have one question - why MUSt we choose one and not the other? Why can't we choose both - or better all three (I"m including John Edwards here)? During my tenure as teacher, I was pressed into service several times as senior class sponsor or co-sponsor. I always preferred working with two or three other teachers as co-sponsors - simply because we could complement each other's strengths and weaknesses. The same applies to this country. I am totally aware of the structure stipulated by the Constitution, but regardless of the titles, our country really needs a Clinton, an Obama, and an Edwards working together, for united we stand, divided we fall

I still dont truest the Republicans . I think they are trying to take down Hillary first, because she can neutralize Mccain on national security and blow him away on domestic issue's, Then once Obama is the candidate they will start to smear him , and dont be surprised if an event happens in the "war on terror" when Americans start asking themselves who can protect us better a young Obama , or an experienced Mccain. If they could get George Bush elected "twice" I would underestimate them.

why my previous posting has disppeared?

Barack,Hillary, Hillary, Barack. The main stream media is having their love fest. Mike Huckabee is the candidate of real Americans. Can't find any of them in the bicoastal world of the msm.pset the media-vote for Mike Huckabee.