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  • Posted By: gandalf42 @ 02/13/2008 8:10:09 PM

    I agree that the media has been light on Obama; the Republican machine will not. I am not convinced that I would vote Obama should he win the nomination, and I have voted Democratic since I could in 1972. As the media is light on asking Obama the tough questions, Obama's rhetoric is light - where are the solutions. I do not get it.

    • Posted By: liketotally @ 02/13/2008 8:24:06 PM

      The media has been extremely light on Obama and has not addressed the issue that a lot of people don't like him. He is fluff.

  • Posted By: rababid @ 02/13/2008 6:44:50 PM

    i THINK OBAMA IS THE REAL THING, HE IS INTELLIGENT, ARTICULATE AND A REAL VISIONARY. WHEN EVERY ONE WAS GETTING SUCKED UP IN BUSH'S MACHO FOREIGN POLICY AND TRYING TO FLEX THEIR MUSCLE INDISCRIMINATELY TO COUNTRIES HE DIDNOT LIKE AND TURNING A BLIND EYE TO COUNTRIES WHOSE RULER WERE AS BAD AS SADDAM OR EVEN WORSE. OBAMA WAS ONE OF THE FEW WHO HAD WISDOM AND COURAGE TO OPPOSE THE POLICY. IT IS APPARENT THAT HE WAS VERY RIGHT AS AFTER 6 YEARS AND THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN LIVES AND SEVERAL HUNDRED BILLION OF DOLLARS SPENT,THERE IS NO RESULT IN SIGHT. THIS EXPENSIVE WAR IS RUINING OUR ECONOMY. MOST EFFECTED ARE THE POOR PEOPLE WHO ARE PAYING WITH THEIR CHILDREN'S BLOOD AND ECONOMIC HARDSHIP AT HOME. I THINK OBAMA IS RIGHT CANDIDATE WHO CAN BE TRUSTED TO MAKE CORRECT DECISION. FURTHERMORE HE SEEMS TO EMPHASIZE ON UNITING THE COUNTRY FOR THE GOOD OF ALL AMERICAN AND NOT JUST REPUBLICANS OR DEMOCRATS

    • Posted By: dusav @ 02/13/2008 8:23:52 PM

      Why do some Obama supporters feel the need to shout? Oh right...he has the country under a spell. Change people Change....but what's changing? and how? No answers!

  • Posted By: rr038544 @ 02/13/2008 8:23:22 PM

    Maybe Hillary should cry some more. Seems like all she has to do is quiver that bottom lip and the votes come flying in. Personally I dont want a cry baby leading my country. Name me one King, Queen or Czar. Name me one leader that cry's under pressure. Why would America choose to be led by a cryer. I swear I'll move to Mexico before my country is led by a cry baby.

  • Posted By: interested @ 02/13/2008 8:08:48 PM

    I am worried about Senator Obama becoming president. Little to no experience and doing it on the color of his skin, which should have no bearing on things, but it does. The first black president or the first woman president, who cares! Enough!. We need a President that can bring the country back to the leader the US has always been. We have to mend fences with foreign heads of state and the people of other countries. Senator Clinton can do what this country needs to clean up our health care and bring the troops home from Iraq. The Presidency is larger than the color of ones skin. I do not take Senator Obama seriously and he will bring us into another war in Kenya and turn back the clock on civil rights.

    • Posted By: liketotally @ 02/13/2008 8:22:55 PM

      It is about time people start stating the truth. Obama is not qualified to be the candidate.

  • Posted By: Kissarmy @ 02/13/2008 7:54:02 PM

    If Obama won the presidency and bombed on lack of experience in the 1st term it could be the only thing that would revive the evangelicals and or republican party after Bush. I can't understand this get behind a new idea that really isn't new.. the only real thing that he could do after all the Pie in the Sky is be a huge flop or deemed less than successful.

    • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 02/13/2008 8:22:01 PM

      I'm afraid the word bombed might be very accurate indeed. He is a mohammed.

  • Posted By: swardssfhs @ 02/13/2008 7:06:19 PM

    I'm voting for Obama because I want the government to belong to ME (us, the citizens) and I feel that the Republicans have taken us in the wrong direction as a nation by pursuing a foreign policy that is based solely on the needs of individual politicians and financed by credit. In fact I will not be voting for any incumbent who was in office since September 11, 2001. Noone in Washington has been taking care of us the citizens as long as I can remember. For the most part they use us to get elected then follow their own agendas rather than representing the best interests of the residents of their districts/states. This is not what the founding fathers envisioned???people who want to cling to ???power??? at the expense of the citizens.
    If you notice, Clinton is the only remaining candidate who is of her party establishment. None of the other candidates is really owned by their party, so other voters besides myself also feel that they would like a President that is not owned by a political party. The only chance we have of getting any real change in Washington is to vote for Obama. No, there is still no guarantee since 90-odd percent of the incumbents will win again, but there is absolutely no chance for a meaningful shift in attitude on the part of our government with any other candidate.

    • Posted By: dusav @ 02/13/2008 8:21:23 PM

      But sadly, if Obama wins, the government will not belong to YOU but to the other powerful democratic party leaders who are using him as a puppet to get things done their way. Can you not see that the Clintons are so powerful that they actually get things done? Obama has all these big democratic supporters who want to use him and get their agendas accomplished which they couldn't do with the Clintons.

  • Posted By: Thevern1962 @ 02/13/2008 8:20:43 PM

    I am just so amazed at the number of people supporting an inexperienced unpatriotic person. A man who cannot even look at our countries flag or cover his heart during the anthem and such. Why people? Why? Hillary is a strong woman and has experience and is devoted to our country.

  • Posted By: mrgimli @ 02/13/2008 7:54:26 PM

    Even if Senator Obama wins more pledged delegates (so far he does), wins more states (so far he does), and gets more of the popular vote (so far he does), Clinton campaign will stomach a win through the votes of "super delegates" and will also try to change the rule after the game is over, trying to legitimize Florida and Michigan voting, where Senator Obama did not campaign. How similar to how George W. Bush won the 2000 Presidential Election. Legitimate? Seems to be. Pathetic? You bet. Senator Clinton had claimed that she "embodies the change". Would you believe her after this?

    • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 02/13/2008 8:20:27 PM

      They may well happen, but if it does, Hussein Obama's radical followers will create violence and chaos. The SuperDel know this and will probably switch to Obama out of fear.

  • Posted By: The Dominican @ 02/13/2008 8:18:43 PM

    BARACK OBAMA HUSSEIN

  • Posted By: Cliff n WA @ 02/13/2008 7:58:16 PM

    Let;s calm the Muslim rhetoric down! Not only is it probably not true, but those saying it are probably republican operatives hoping Hillary will be blamed and/or gearing up for the general. Gee I feel like reposting my previous to respond to the HillBilary Bashing.

    • Posted By: HolyRoller @ 02/13/2008 8:17:54 PM

      You are so wrong. Obama is muslim. While I am far from pro-Hillary, at least I know she loves this country. I am a Repub. and my party is gung-ho for Obama to be nominated. They see an easy election victory if that is the case. They are not nearly as confident about Clinton. Me, I think that it is risky, as I'll take Hillary over Mohammed anytime.

      She had better use this on him before its too late.

  • Posted By: Tivoli @ 02/13/2008 8:17:22 PM

    First of all, I would never vote for Barack Obama. He supports the most vile form of abortion. I don't mean partial birth abortion, I mean post-partum abortion. He is a sick mind.

    Secondly, John McCain has a serious problem. If he debates Mike Huckabee one on one, he will lose every primary from here to the Convention. If he does not, he will look weaker and weaker against the Democrat.

  • Posted By: bg_politics @ 02/13/2008 8:16:11 PM

    If Senator Obama is really the stand-up visionary leader he is claiming to be,why did he not stand up and oppose anti-abortion measures inIllinois instead of voting "present"?Seems like there is a lot of eloquentrhetoric covering over serious misleading of the public....wakeup or people will end up with another set of empty promises. Hillary is truly committed to peoples rights issues.

  • Posted By: officerbob @ 02/13/2008 8:16:05 PM

    An epiphany of change is sweeping the nation. It's too bad though that we have waited until 2008 when 2004 would have been the time to read the tea leaves and make necessay changes in leadership. Now, as we find ourselves immersed in the greatest national crisis since the Civil War, we are preaching "change" as our mantra. With Obama, it may be too little, too late as another lightweight enters the ring, promising to change Washington. For Clinton, her grandiose political house of cards is flaking away, as young and minority voters embrace the hollow doctrine of change and desert the old school political machines. And McCain, whose time has passed, deservingly beats his chest about his POW days in Viet Nam, which the average young voter couldn't even find on a map, much less explain. If only we could merge the best traits of
    these capable Americans - the heroism and military knowledge of McCain, the exuberance of Obama, and the intelligence and political savvy of Clinton into an ideal candidate. But unfortunately JFK already had his chance. Clinton is through. Her campaign has entered a fatal tailspin while Obama,s continues to climb. So who, of this trio of non-electable candidates will prove "least non-electable" if you can forgive the expression.
    My guess is whomever big business, i.e., the defense industrial complex and big oil, want! Which will be McCain. Obama, the likely Democratic nominee will be undone by unachievable promises to bring the troops home. McCain will continue to give America what we really want - false hopes for "victory" in Iraq, more sabre rattling and tough talk, and an economy driven by and dedicated to big business.

  • Posted By: kimmygal @ 02/13/2008 8:13:52 PM

    Obama is not a Muslim; however the church he does belong to (see link below) is not exactly your normal religious faith. If a white person were going to such a church I would never vote for them. I don't think they would have the best interests of all its people in mind and I would call that person a racist.

    http://www.tucc.org/black_value_system.html

  • Posted By: The Dominican @ 02/13/2008 8:13:40 PM

    I think repubicans are inflating Obama nomination, because he is more easy to defeat than Hillary, I think it's a good strategy... If young voters think with the brain than their hearts will see the what is the truth and vote correctly... Just analyse the facts!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: dixibleu @ 02/13/2008 8:13:22 PM

    only in america do voters feel that having been married to a sitting president while he served in office qualifies a candidate as having the experience needed to serve as president herself. great -- i can now become a police office by virtue of the same logic. what experience does senator clinton have with foreign policy? how is obama going to PAY for universal healthcare??

  • Posted By: steverose @ 02/13/2008 8:00:08 PM

    You young people, you just woke up to somebody telling you there is a fire ,while there somebody else is in the process of putting the fire out . That is the case of Obama and Clinton . while Hillary is having a plan for the fire Obama is just telling you about it .Sorry he does not say how to fix things,even his best explained(his health care plan):if he lowers the cost of health care what is gonna happen to the quality(will be like a commenist health care). at least in Hillary's health care when mandate ,you force health care companies to compete in prices and quality.

    • Posted By: soundscene @ 02/13/2008 8:12:54 PM

      I'm not that young. And I do my homework on the candidates--I research, watch speeches, watch debates, look at their particular policies (not that different). And I really can't see your point. Idealogically, Clinton and Obama are about the same. Obama isn't offering any more promises than Clinton is--and really, all any candidate can do is promise. They're not elected yet. Clinton's camp is doing its best to spread the idea that Obama lacks on solutions, but even a cursory look at his website belies that assertion. It's just not true.

      What I can't understand is why those who support Clinton insist that Obama's support is somehow illigitimate because many are younger. They are the demographic most open to change and most open new ideas. I'm not sure, with the way this country is heading, how that is a bad thing.

  • Posted By: ihaveavoice @ 02/13/2008 7:30:52 PM

    No Obama has one very big thing going against him, his supporters feel that any Clinton supporters have forfeited their right to vote for anyone but Obama should she lose. A ridiculous assertion they consistently make when a Clinton supporter says just because she lost or might lose doesn't mean they suddenly believe in Obama. considering they do not feel the same way if the tables are turned. Don't expect support you yourself would not give.

    Everyone is forgetting despite alot of bias against Clinton for anything but her record she still has at least half if not more then half of the dem base ( causcus numbers are skewered ) convinced Obama is the wrong canddiate, couple that with the republicans urging their supporters to vote for Obama in the early primaries where they could and Nov could be a very big surprise to everyone.

    • Posted By: col55 @ 02/13/2008 7:48:32 PM

      The reason most/many Obama supporters would not throw their support behind Hillary Clinton should she be the nominee is that many oppose her candidacy on the grounds of principle/ethics, not policies. She and her husband have proven themselves to be dirty politicians and people are sick of them. Many Obama supporters don't feel right about sacrificing their ethical stand just to get any old Democrat in office. Yes - I am biased - but that seems to me a noble stance.

      On the other hand, the opposition to Obama from Hillary supporters does not appear to be an ethical issue - most seem to object to his lack of experience - they don't seem to have a moral/ethical problem with him nor a major problem with his stance on the issues(which are pretty much the same as Clinton's). If Obama is the nominee and come November, the Hillary supporters who decide they will stay at home or vote for McCain would simply be cutting off their nose to spite their face. Not a very commendable.

      • Posted By: dusav @ 02/13/2008 8:11:28 PM

        And incidentally, the opposition candidate, McCain is very rich in the area of experience. The other reason I don't like Obama is that he is an excuse for all the democrats like Kennedy to run things. It is so obvious that I cannot believe Obama supporters cannot see it. The reason Obama is getting some of these big named endorsements is because they know he is still a rookie and if he is president, they can get whatever they want. As a Democrat, if Obama wins, I am voting for McCain.

  • Posted By: dixibleu @ 02/13/2008 8:09:34 PM

    only in america would voters declare a candidate as their choice because she was married to the president during his time in office and that counts toward her experience. good -- that means i can become a police officer by virtue of the fact i've been married to one for 13 years.

  • Posted By: edithloveschrisbrown @ 02/13/2008 8:09:18 PM

    hey.i love chris brown!!!!

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