The Obama Delusion

Finally some truths are coming out about the high and mighty Obama. This is the kind of stuff the american public needs to hear more of. Then maybe they'll reconsider their support of him

The job is as a US Senator is to write and pass legislation. If Obama really cared about anything he says he wants to do he could get it done in the Senate. He doesn't need to be the President to accomplish any of this. Also when he first took office he promised he would fulfill his full 6 year term before running for President. Why didn't he give it a shot and try and make a difference rather than serving only one year and then running for President. I need someone who has the experience. It also makes me sick that he hasn't actually stood up for any US "black" issues but because he is black everyone thinks he will solve the problems we have such as the disproportionate number of black men in jail compared to white men....

I am a concerned citizen. I am one of the many people who have voted for Hillary Clinton because there is too much at stake for our country to have an inexperienced guy, enthralled with himself as commander in chief. I am a small business owner and have donated as much as I could to the Hillary Clinton campaign. I donated to date close to a thousand dollars. I have done so, because we cannot afford any more mistakes and I support the one candidate with a proven record. I support the candidate who has numerous achievements to speak of. I support Hillary Clinton. My only "compensation" out of this is to be able to continue to pay my employees, my mortgage. My reward, as I speak with the public a lot in my business, is to not hear horror foreclosure stories anymore. I am in the top 3% income bracket, college educated, I am a democrat. I would like to invite you to take a look at this article: http://www.newsweek.com/id/113672

You're rapidly becoming a minority -- Samuelson.

Mr. Samuelson's article is breath of realistic air. TV reporters and other news personalities are falling over each other in the stampede to elegize Obama and not to be outdone by Oprah in their eagerness to say they were there and they reported on the Obama phaenomenon that is bound to be a huge milestone in Americal political life. It really is incredible to hear pundits on the Sunday talk shows and evening news reporters say that "..he doesnt have to have substance. He has energy and arouses voters and that is enough". Since when do we stop asking for substantive content from our leaders-to-be? I, too, find Mr Obaha highly fascinating and appealing individual. And i do find his foreign policy atitude especially as it relates to the Iraqi war the most attractive. However, the realistic question to ask is how much of it will he be able to accomplish through legislation? how much of a coalition would he able to put together after his 100 day honeymoon , assuming that he does win the Presidency, that will enable the appropriate legislation? Where is the track record to indicate success? Let us not be taken by emotion and sense of "it's about time" and ignore realism.

I think it's time for Hillary to step up to the plate! Don't just stand there in the batter's-box. And McCain? You must be kidding me! I think 8 years of George Bush -- by whatever disguise you call it -- is long enough. There seems to be a clear choice: Hillary who has (as yet) failed miserably (10-in-a-row) to get the public to buy into a dual-presidency and her belief of her SERIOUS shot at getting elected over someone that the press has demonstrated is a NON-contest between her and McCain; and someone who is telling the public what they want to hear -- "CHANGE." I think the public has bought into the change theory and icon if it amounts to nothing more than a change of FACES in the White House. At this point I'm about ready for a little change too. We can be assured of one thing -- some senator, from a partisan Congress, will be walking down the hill to Pennyslvania Avenue. Is it any wonder that "Main Street" has lost touch with Washington??

It is about time someone wrote the truth....It is not about pigment it is about history and slavery and such was a part of this country and there are many many blacks who r racist against whites, hispanics, latino's, etc....they are in to Black Power. Americans need to search deep inside themselves and eliminate all the impressive pull in tactics or speeches (just words) and realize Obabma is not the man for President at this time. He even chooses to worship without association to whites, hispanics, latinos, etc....Check out his church website and u will find u must be black to be a member,,,,no one else is accepted. We want that in the White House? NO OBAMA....

dewcooper, look up tribalism in the dictionary, extract the tree from your @ss -- and ask yourself, "Why not."

I will take the Obama "delusion" any day over the McCain/Clinton reality.

This article is right on!! Obama is all flash and very little substance. The Democrats really don't get it. It's a shame that the American people will have to endure another president who is learning on the job
CM in New Jersey

I agree Obama's platform has some lofty goals. This differs not one bit from every political platform I've seen in my entire life. No, he will not get most of it done. However Samuelson, and all Republicans, have been bankrupting our country for 8 years. Now we get to take you on a ride. Now we get to tap YOUR phone calls, now we get to hold YOU in prision without habeous corpus. The tables have turned, we warned you all. This is gonna be fun! Let the ride begin.

I am very dispappointed in how the media seems to have fallen in love with Barack Obama and in the process has thrown Hillary Clinton under the bus. I am a longtime Clinton supporter who will not be supporting Obama if he is the candidate. Obama will be food for the Republican party machine. They will chew him up and spit him out! When the glitter wears off you will see that he is just a man after all! Hillary whipped his butt at the debate last night, but the media will never admit it because they are so dazzled by the B-man that they refuse to see that he will not be a viable candidate come November.

Obama and Clinton each have already outperformed the entire republican party this primary season. Neither needs the other's votes to defeat Bob Dole. . . I mean John McCain. Republicans have damaged the country and the planet so profoundly in the past 8 years it is incredible, but add to that their inability to control their sexual deviancy and corporate pandering and you have a Nixon V. McGovern alright. Just flip the parties.

It is a very accurate statement that the Clinton supporters will not just slide easily over to Obama. I hear it every day from customers that come into our family business. We are in the Mahoning Valley(Ohio) one of the strongest democratic regions in Ohio and maybe the country for that matter. If Obama is the democratic nominee , get the Democrats for McCain buttons ready. This will be a repaly of McGovern vs Nixon.

Good article. Politicians are generally very compromising people, and that includes compromising their stated moral positions; rarely are they not corrupt in some way. One of the problems of a two party system is that politicians are expected to claim every line item listed on their party platform as their own. This is unrealistic in the extreme. A third candidate (even one with a good message) has no chance because the majority of Americans can't make an informed decision about an elected official because they don't care enough to find out. Have you ever watched Jay Leno ask people on the street who our VP or Secretary of State is? Those are exactly the sort of people that vote for someone because they sound good on TV. Obama is almost exactly the same animal as Hillary (sans the annoying cackle), and I have serious doubts McCain is much different. I can't in good conscience not exercise my right to vote this year, but I won't be voting 'for' anyone, I'll be voting against the candidate I dislike the most.