The Obama Delusion

I am a black African. living in the UK. I believe that America needs change, but I also believe that America needs the most competent and experienced person for the role of President, to effect that change. If I was an American, I would have at least 3 questions for Obama. The answers he gives would help me decide whether to vote for him or not.

1. Precisely what does he mean when he says "change is coming to America"?

2. If the Senate and House of Reps fell into Republican hands in November, is there anything he can do as President to force their hands to go along with his agenda of "change". If there isn't, then he is fooling the American people.

3. If after 16 months of being President, his Generals in Iraq came to him and told him that the artificial deadline would undo all their good work and lead to chaos in Baghdad, what would he do?

Instead of just accepting Hillary's experience as fact, maybe you could do some investigating and list her Major accomplishments. After 35 years, she should have so many, that should be easy but its not.
1. Universal Health Care - Failure due to your inability to compromise.
2. Children's Health Care - Yes, she gets partial credit along with Kennedy and Hatch who wrote the legislation.
3. Iraq War - One of the worst foreign policy decisions in our country's history. You should have voted for the Levin Amendment. You were wrong and won't admit it. Lack of accountability is why you should never be Commander In Chief. A woman's perspective would be valuable for civilian oversight to the military. Unfortunately, it appears that you think you need to prove you are tougher than a man, which provides no oversight at all.
4. Declaring Iranian National Guard as terrorists - Poor Judgment. This is the same group of Senator Hawks who voted for the War. Does this make you tough enough yet, General Clinton? Do I really want to place more American lives in your hands?
5. The Economy - How many mortgages, jobs, healthcare and education improvements could we have made with the $1 Trillion that was wasted on the War?

I spent three years serving this country in the Army. In a moments notice, I could be sent to fight in a conflict that I did not support, it was not my place to question right and wrong. But it is your job as a Senator, or the higher office you seek, to question right and wrong because, the job of the military is to fight and defend, not decide if we should fight and defend.

You claim, only you, among Democrats, are qualified to be Commander In Chief. I respectfully disagree. You lack the understanding of what it is like to put your life on the line, your husband???s life on the line, or your child's life on the line. Yes, Commander Clinton, Words are Cheap, especially when they are cast from Ivory Towers with no personal risk. Your lack of military experience could be offset by good judgment but in order to demonstrate that you will need to accept accountability for your past errors.

There is an old political trick. If I repeat the same statement over and over again, and nobody challenges it, then it becomes universally accepted as truth. You have lots of experience Senator Clinton, but you do not have the right kind of experience or demonstrated judgment to make the claim of superiority to be President. I will grant that you are as smart and talented as any current politician, but there are lots of smart and talented people in the world.

We need more from our President. We need leadership.

What gave Abraham Lincoln one of our greatest presidents the experience to be president after so little time in congress.

Obama: "Change, change, change!" Huh? Where's the change?
Hillary: "Experience, experience, experience!" Huh? Where's the experience?
Earth to Al Gore: Where are you? Pull that sword from the stone now!

You stated the following observations;

"If you examine his agenda, it is completely ordinary, highly partisan, not candid and mostly unresponsive to many pressing national problems."
By Obama's own moral standards, Obama fails. Americans "are tired of hearing promises made and 10-point plans proposed in the heat of a campaign only to have nothing change,"

Don't they all say this? The only way we can judge \ access a person is by their works and it's very difficult to call anything before time; we must always be in a wait and see state.
I don't recall President Bush promising anything and he certainly did not deliver anything; maybe that was what he had promised. We can certainly see what eight years of his leadership has produced. Did we have any idea that this would be his end results? Some of us had an idea.

I feel like if you think Obama speeches are rhetoric and if you have the solutions to this country problems then why aren't you a candidate. Obama offers hope. Just because he does not explain how he is going to do it (for everyone else to copy his plan) does not mean that he does not have a plan. For years others were given a chance to change this country and to bring the people of this country together where the constitution that this democracy declares it to be, but have not done it. What better person to do this is a man who's background, his intelligence and his heritage can fit into any community than Obama himself. Obama realizes that before America can be the greatest Nation of all Nations on this earth we as American people must come together as one. Because together we will accomplish all things, divided we are nothing. If we from every walk of life in this country, ever had someone who can identify with the needs of the people, it is Obama. As one of the failed leaders of this country once said "READ MY LIPS". If anyone can bring this country together in order to CHANGE the "Old America" into a "New America" where the goverment can work together with the citizens because they understand them, "IT IS OBAMA!"

Missouri, Kansas, Wisconsin, Iowa--these are not the heartland? How is it that the 30 or so state Obama wins are not as important as the 18 won by Hillary. He leads in the total popular vote and won-delegate count. Oh, right. Those aren't as important as narrow wins in CA and NY

USAToday, 6/2/06: Clinton dismisses talk of a 2008 presidential run, saying she is focused on winning in New York this year.

Sure sounded like someone committing to serve a full term as a Senator to me.

You the media are trying to impose your choice on the public. Could McCain be trying to have the Democrats eliminate Obama so he won't have to debate with him, who is the strongest of the two.