The Obama Delusion

Obama = Lincoln + Kennedy


without the bullets.

If this is all you know and see of this man called Obama , then I must say you are so very priviledged... to be in the public media and yet you are so parochial and masochistic in your perception of the political landscape of America. If this all you see then you better be ready just to take off your gloves and join the ranks of the KK who see no other race except theirs. If this is all you see then you are the venom that progressive and democratic nations need. If this is all you see then it is no wonder you hold to no moral standard at all to compare the hope people have with one who is touting "really free government" a government that is accountnable to the people not what we have seen in the last 20 years or so. If this all you see , sir , I regret to advise you that your vile is we indeed should be fighting against if this world is going to be a better place not only for America but for all human beings. If that is all you see then surely your eyes a re blind to facts , and should not be used to tell the world only your myopic mind.

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Please do your hojmework and research before writing an editoirial. Senator Obama has more political years of experience than Senator Clinton. Being the wife of the polician does not count in her record for years of public office. Would you let your surgeon's spouns operate on you? Of Course Not. You are entitled to your position, but please be reliable with accurate factual information.

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Posted by: zedi

This is the very reasoning that has the US where it is today! it is economically and morally down-spiralling into a rut and you are prepared to bash Obama around. For once look up and see America needs a new dawn and that certainly not the Republican rehetoric. Americans have learnt pretty well from teh Al Gore senerio

Ending the occupation of iraq prematurely would spell disaster. I would be like take a cancer patient away from chemotherapy right when the cancer is almost gone, but not quite gone. We are succeeding there. General Patreaus will spread the news this summer.

I will say that I appreciate the fact that McCain is willing to speak with voters through the informal town hall meetings he is most well-known for. All Obama does is speak at rallies where no one can ask the tough questions and get a response. I don't understand why he doesn't pursue direct interaction with the audience. What is he afraid of? It'd give him an even better chance to put ideas out there by communicating with actual voters instead of answering questions posed by the media and the ones asked during a debate.

Mr. Samualson reveals much about himself and rather less about Senator Obama. He is risk avoidance - he wants what has been around for some period of time. He likes those he "knows" - if Clinton and McCAin say it, OK. If Obama says it, it is boilerplate. He does not understand change and the poer of those who argue for it. Think Kennedy, Regan, FDR. He is a pundant and not a reportor; so one cannot expect too much from him.

I think it is probably true that Obama is more image than substance. But I hope he can keep it up at least until the Dem nomination and deny Hillary her shot at first female President! Once Obama is the nominee, he'll have to put up or shut up. At this point he might want to put a muzzle on his wife before she makes any more racist anti-white statements like, "For the first time in my life, I am proud of my country!" That is a very insulting statement to the white majority. I wouldn't want to see her as First Lady. She's just pure jive! In the general election, the right will have a field day with her and rightly so!

Let me first state that I'm an Obama supporter. What the author points out is not, in fact, that Obama's policies differ significantly from Clinton's, rather that hsi policies don't attain the level of his lofty rhetoric. The suggestion that he might have 'plagiarised' his platform from hers is ironic (it's been suggested that Clinton 'stole' her health insurance plan from Edwards, but I digress...) Change in these times of deep partisanship cannot possibly be anything but incremental and while I too agree that some revolutionary policies, polcies that look deep to the foundations and sources of our current problems are necessary, such change is difficult at the outset. What I see in Obama is, indeed, the *possibility* that we can attain these kinds of changes. Take hsi propoosal of $4,000 per year tuition with the REQUIREMENT that recipients engage in public service. That not only helps the students, it helps their communities, and it instills a sense of ownership in the society that has faded in the last two decades of BOTH the previous Clinton and the current Bush. If Clinton were to win the nomination, I would gurdgingly vote for her because the overall policy platforms of the Democratic Party are closer to what the country currently needs, HOWEVER, I firmly believe that Obama is better suited and better positioned to actually enact these policies, and if indeed he can turn a corner on the politics of partisanship, then perhaps he can move deeper to the root causes and push for faster, more revolutionary policy changes. Indeed, voting for Obama is voting on hope, but it's not voting on false hope. If his policies are similar to Clinton's, but he's better able to engage the country and bring citizens back to the table, and again feel that they SHOULD be sitting at the table of governance, then there is no delusion at work except the unfortunate belief that change is indeed impossible... I leave it to the voters to decide, and indeed hope they will, but I hope again in my lifetime to see an electoral map like that of 1984, a landslide of support from coast to coast for a single transformative figure. This time I hope to see the sweep of states fall to Obama as thy did to Reagan 24 years ago...

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Vote for Clinton.

IF YOU WANT IT SO BADLY ...IT IS YOURS! but then take the whole of it and all what comes with it.

IF YOU WANT IT SO BADLY ...IT IS YOURS! but then take the whole of it and all what comes with it.

Beware Welfare!

Vote for Clinton.

Clinton's supposedly more substantive planned programs are irrelevant. The republicans despise her to the point that any hand extended across party lines will be slapped or ignored. She will accomplish less than her husband without the tech boom. Obama at least will be given the opportunity to build consensus if that is what he decides to do.

Beware Welfare!

Vote for Clinton.