The Obama Delusion

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The Clinton campaign accused Obama of plagerizing the Massachusettes Governor. Your article makes it sound as if the Clintons are accusing Senator Obama of stealing their ideas. Talk about obscuration.

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Extra Extra read all about it!! The inexeperienced political novice known only as YES WE CAN has blown the grandma of politics aka Billary also known As SOLUTION BUSINESS Clinton and her 35 years Solution experience Company LTD out of the political water . Very soon Grandpa McCain will be proud of the Country that it rejected him yet again.

Is the solution flammable? what kind of concotion is that? Is it the kind that monica lewinsky had in the Big Oval?
Catch up with me next week for more leaks!!

Even if all of that were true...He's still at least the lesser of three evils...seriously!

You need to get off the fossil train and step into the 21st century. You really need to do more home work and quit being a corporate weasel. Do some research on how much money (Billions) is stolen from SS and the 2 MC's by congress every year. These programs would be solvent if not for the thefts. Also do some research on the fact that the rich and conservatives in this country preach capitalism and free markets but in all reality practice socialisim by securing government hand outs in the form of subsidies. I think sir, that you do not do your home work and probaly get most of your news from talk show host. Let us not be the ones to turn hope into an unbelievability and a dirty word. Let us be the ones who change the world with hope and physical action. Let us not be the ones who keep dancing to the rethoric of fear politics. We will have a new president and he will be a man and he will not be a republican! Can't you see that? Now call up your buddy Mush Bimbo drop some scrips, smoke some cigars and talk about how it used to be when you could fool most of the people most of the time. A new day is on the horizon, get used to it! It will become a reality. Better yet why don't you do something really racdial and do some real reporting? Real leaders are of the people not manufactured as Clint, Mac and GWB are. When most people are voting 2 - 1 democrate this year it is a far gone conclusion. Your time is over, our time is here. You had your chance at the wheel and you weighted it. It is now falling off its axis because of the unfair weight placed on the American people! The union must be saved. Get on the wagon!

Robert,
Look beyond your abacus at the real issue here...when the hard decisions need to be made...who will and who will not be beholden to special interest lobbists? The Senator from Illinois...that's who. And when it comes to social security...which is, it seems, your only point against Barack Obama, who do you feel will make the hard decisions to save social security...the "third Rail' of politics? Senator McCain? Heck...he already qualifies for SS. You think he's be willing to cut some of his benifits? Does he really need SS benefits? No...he doesn't. But will he call for a higher retirement age, higher SS taxes on wealthy reciepients? No...you know he won't. So let's play it straight here...Barack is the ONLY choise for Prresident.

Give the man a chance. Just like you give Bill Clinton. He might surprise you.

An ironic title, given that I found the column both rhetorical and unrealistic -if not downright amusing- in places. Who knows what subtle political-cultural streams influence the confluence of intellectual honesty, and Mr. Samuelson's next paycheck? The essay is laced with incendiary words, some of which are functionally inaccurate: (1) "By Obama's own moral standards, Obama fails" (i) Hello? Morality is quality, not a quantity. You then go on to summarize his ??????economic plan of at least 12 points???.??? And presumably I am to understand this is a moral violation given that he admonishes similar in your preceding paragraph. Heads up, Bob: this is simply campaign-politics-as-usual. Perhaps you might have considered (but rejected); (2) "By Obama's own practical standards, Obama fails". Whatever one thinks of these ideas, they're standard goody-bag politics: something for everyone. (ii) Mr. Samuelson could also have safely added (and perhaps was morally obliged to add) "Whatever one thinks of these ideas, they're standard goody-bag journalism: something for everyone."; (3) They're so similar to many Clinton proposals that her campaign put out a news release accusing Obama of plagiarizing (iii) Perhaps Republicans should have accused Bill Clinton of the same when he co-opted virtually the entire GOP platform. Heads up, Bob: this is simply campaign-politics-as-usual. It may get even nastier, you know, negative campaigns and all. This may be a foreign concept to journalists, but it is not unfamiliar to legitimate analysts. (4) A favorite Obama line is that he will tell "the American people not just what they want to hear but what we need to know." (iv)Attention wordsmiths: ???will??? is future tense. He is not saying ??? I am now telling the American people not just what they want to hear but what we need to know???. I believe most circumspect and intellectually honest listeners would interpret his meaning as referencing his future actions as president. Heads up, Bob: this is simply campaign-politics-as-usual. (5) Political candidates routinely indulge in exaggeration, pandering, inconsistency and self-serving obscuration. Clinton and McCain do. The reason for holding Obama to a higher standard is that it's his standard and also his campaign's central theme. He has run on the vague promise of "change," but on issue after issue???immigration, the economy, global warming???he has offered boilerplate policies that evade the underlying causes of the stalemates. (v) The latter half of twentieth-century administrations were essentially run on boilerplate policies. How do you think we got to where we are. Of course there are going to be inconsistencies in any campaign. Heads up, Bob: this is simply campaign-politics-as-usual. Sitting presidents have been impeached. Shall we impeach this candidate based on your boilerplate journalism? Of course not. That itself would be a rather poor moral standard. I

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This article misses the entire point of the Obama campaign and, indeed, the Obama movement. People are rallying around Obama not because his "10 point plan" is so new or original, but because they believe he has the leadership skills, charisma, and public support to actually get it done. That's the difference. If you don't believe me, see Caroline Kennedy's endorsement in the NY Times. She wrote a very credible, convincing endorsement of Obama while actually saying very little about his policies or political agenda; but then, she should know a thing or two about charismatic, credible leadership. Let's face it: there are only so many ways to run this country today, given the importance of a healthy economy and the fact that our forefathers intentionally (and brilliantly) built a certain amount of gridlock into our political system. The differences are really at the margins, on controversial social issues such as abortion and gay marriage, and on policy issues such as how much we???re going to tax people at both ends of the bell curve. If there is a defining issue in this election, it has to be the war in Iraq. On that issue, Obama has distinguished himself from both Clinton and McCain by consistently opposing the war from the beginning. And unlike Hillary Clinton, I don???t see how one can legitimately assert that Obama???s record and policies don???t match his rhetoric on this key issue.