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Tony2001,
Your post gives us an idea of really what is the brains of Obama???s supposedly educated supporters: absolutely nothing. It unfortunately makes me realize that today, four years of college don???t necessarily make the majority of our young adults bright. This is sad: the future of this country does not look good. Therefore, as a responsible democrat who loves this country, if Barkus Obwamussama is the democrats' nominee, my financial contributions will go to John McCain and he will also have my vote. I have never done that before.

all of these men had experience, do you honestly feel martin luther king just walked into the limelite, of course not, he suffered at the hands of cruelty for many years, he was experienced, as was john kennedy who grew up in a family of politicians and was being groomed for the presidency by his father joseph for years since the death of his older brother joseph jr. in world war II, he had many years of experience

one need not sit and be crowned the king, and be deemed not to have experience

no one steps into this position, including mr. obama unless there is motive to have him there, this is the highest office in the land, and only those who wish him to sit atop the throne such as the carl roves, will make sure he attains it

has nothing to do with experience, has all to do with political affiliation, read into that as you wish

anyone who thinks the president controls this country, better think twice about mr.obama, just another puppet on a string to do the will of the people, oops, sorry, the will of the plenty, and the plenty is "follow the money and that translates into power, and unfortunately, the people are not the power

You are living in the past.This is 2008 and most americans are ready to elect the most qualified person no matter what color he or she is. Someone who can sit down and talk to people instead of at them.Someone who knows how to run a campaign instead of having to use their own money(hillary/romney).

Now you are on the right track, buddy !

Please see comments from Dianness: You must be very young , need to do your homework , get some experience, and have an open mind, before you think you know enough about giving an opinion.

Do your homework. Hillary has done the same kind of thing......and much, much, much more She ran programs for the poor, Afro-Americans, Disabled. She did this when she was younger before knowing Bill and after. As First Lady in Arkansas she developed an improved education program, healthcare, you name it. The Obamas are small stuff and are being given a free ride. I appreciate that you support them but real, you can't comment until you know what you're talking about. Internationally, the Clintons drew crowds larger than the last Pope. She, and they ,were respected and LOVED by the world. Obama is out of their league. The reason young people and perhaps you don't know all of this is either you are too young or haven't taken the time. May I suggest Carl Bernstein's latest book A WOMAN IN CHARGE. Remember him,, as half of Woodward and Bernstein's ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN about Watergate.

Not about race"???? Then how do you account for Obama consistently getting 80-90% of the African-American vote??????

Everyone knows state senators are a step above local city council. I can say that I have more experience than Obama on this and for over 40 years I have worked to make other peoples' lives better. This morning one of O's state Senators from Texas was asked to name One thing O has done for his experience. Like so many he could name NOTHING when asked by Chris Matthews. The same thing happened when Pollster Lutz asked leaning O supporters to name ANYTHING they could about what he had done. Of the group of about 30 they could name NOTHING. Not even one could tell us why they would vote for him until one stated he gave such inspirational speeches. Hello is anyone using their brains. This country is in a real mess. If we don't get our acts together we're going to go the way of a hasbeen country. When I referred to Civil Rights I was referring to Afro American votes as high as 90% for O inSouth Carolina and elsewhere. This lowers their credibility when one considers what the Clintons have done to forward rights for Blacks {this weeks term for Afro Americans} NAFTA would never brought on the mess it has if "W" had been a responsible leader. The Clintons had a good idea but a poor executor {GWB}. I suggest you do some really intelligent research listing the Accomplishments of O and C before you generalize to give credit for O's years and years in the trenches helping people with no voices and no hope. Upon doing real research you'll see he really has done much, much, much less than Hillary. It is apparent you haven't noticed the attacks the O campaign that took Bill's comments that led to Blacks abandoning C and voting against her. How sad that they would abandon a real friend to vote almost lockstep. I must credit the 10% who still voted for C. They know what is important. For anyone to think O will be a joiner, not a divider has forgotten who else said this--GWB.

"He has ample experience and, more importantly, ample compassion and astounding intellectual brilliance."

You must be related to him or working for his campaign, because that is a pretty personal and specific assertion. If you plan to defend or support Barack Obama, at least pay respect to his track record, not how "compassionate" or "brilliant" he is; I actually think you're offending him. In other words, anyone can be compassionate, anyone can be brilliant, but it is how and what you do to prove those characteristics. Obama has failed to accomplish that essential part, and I think people are being mislead around that.