The Obama Delusion

Thank you for this article. I don't think that Americans are really listening to him. They are so caught up in his ability to speak that they are missing the facts. I had one guy to tell me that he was voting for Obama becuase he is going to win and he wanted to vote for the winner. Come On, This is our future.

I will vote for McCain if Obama is the nominee.

Samuelson has done a terrific job with this article and I agree with his position on Obama. The press does not scrutinize Obama as they do Clinton. Since December, he has been presented in only extremely positive light. Yet, sooner or later the tide will turn. He is arrogant and full of himself. How is he going to handle the negative reports when the press turns against him ??? and eventually they will! How will he handle a national crisis? How strongly will he stand against Islamic extremists ??? when his paternal relatives are Muslim? He must have some sympathies that lie with Muslims! I don???t trust him and I don???t want his leadership for this nation. So I am defecting from Obama???s recent polls that he touts claiming that Clinton supporters will just move and slide over to him. I am a Clinton supporter who will vote for McCain if she is not the democratic nominee. The darkest hour is just before daybreak. I am sticking with Hillary.

Like many, I was riding the fence. After watching the debate(Obama will have my vote). I was so excited about it that I took notes. My ears and eyes don't lie. What I saw was the same ole, same ole from Hillary. She didn't seem to grasp that America is sick of the bull! Even when Obama respectfully said....'we shouldn't be fighting over plagurism, we should be working together" --Obama even explained that his FRIEND said it was okay to use his words. HIS FRIEND APPROVED!!!! That was her opportunity to show me that she cared more about this country than bickering. What'd she do.......she reverted to character, continued to nitpick. ((all that so-called experience she's got hasn't taught her to say YOU ARE RIGHT, LET'S MOVE ON TO MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS!) Is Plagurism all you got? --Hillary had to be forced to show her finances. Bill still hasn't let go of important documents during his presidency --(((what's in those that you don't want us to see?))) All her hateful little stabs won't win her the presidency. ((a president you can xerox huh?)) She did herself in even further with me at the end when they asked about the electorates. Would she be comfortable with it or something like that. Hillary said, "Oh I'm confident that it'll just all turn out well in the end" FURTHER PROOF THAT SHE AND BILL ARE OUT OF TOUCH. They have no idea of the damage that'll be done if Barak wins the popular vote and the electorates go against that. She's not us. She won't feel a sense of doom --the feeling that no matter what we do ---they still won't let us in. It matters not how many black churches you and bill attend, you still don't get it. The govenor of Richmond says when Bill was president they ran back and forth to the White House trying to get a plan about healthcare. For what (7?) years. THEY GOT NOTHING...NOTHING!!! --she likes to talk about all her experience, did that experience include being the wife of the president cuz that's all I can see. She takes lots of credit for her husband balancing the budget during his presidency but WHAT ABOUT her own campaign running out of money. What about BILL not fufilling his campain promise to do something about health care. I wouldn't be against Barak and Hillary being on the same ticket ---but could Hillary put the nonsense aside and really practice what she preaches.

Michelle Obama???s comment that, for the first time in her adult life, she feels proud of America helps crystallize who Barack Obama is. To be sure, the wife of a candidate is perfectly free to have views that are distinct from her husband???s. But on a matter that is so fundamental to one???s being as love of country, it is difficult to imagine that Michelle Obama would publicly twice make such a statement suggesting disdain for America unless she felt it comported with her husband???s views.

Equally important, her statement aligns perfectly with the hate-America views of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama???s minister, friend, and sounding board for more than two decades. On the Sunday following 9/11, Wright characterized the terrorist attacks as a consequence of violent American policies. Four years later, Wright suggested that the attacks were retribution for America???s racism. ???In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01,??? Wright wrote in his church magazine Trumpet. ???White America and the Western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ???disappeared??? as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.???

Wright has been a key supporter of Louis Farrakhan, and in December, honored the Nation of Islam leader for lifetime achievement, saying he ???truly epitomize[s] greatness.??? Farrakhan has repeatedly made hate-filled statements targeting Jews, whites, America, and homosexuals. To this day, Obama has not distanced himself from most of Rev. Wright???s comments. In a statement supposedly issued to address the matter, Obama ignored the point that his minister and friend had spoken adoringly of Farrakhan and that Wright???s church was behind the award to the Nation of Islam leader. Instead, as outlined in a Jan. 17 Newsmax article, he disingenuously claimed he thought the magazine bestowed the award on Farrakhan for his efforts to rehabilitate ex-prisoners. Neither Wright???s encomiums about Farrakhan nor the Trumpet article mentions ex-prisoners.

Those who think two of the closest people to Obama could publicly make anti-America statements unless Obama himself felt that way, are fooling themselves. To date, Obama has proven himself to be nothing more than a great orator, rendering the statements of those around him even more important in illuminating his true character and agenda. During his Senate career, he skipped 17 percent of the votes and sponsored only one bill that became law. That bill was to promote ???relief, security, and democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo.???

It's style over substance. Milli Vanilli running for public office. Experience counts for nothing these days. This will all come out if Mr. Obama wins the nomination. It is not about race, it is about qualifications. Mr. Obama does not have these. Sure, rousing speaches that appeal to the masses sound good and make those who hear him feel good, but in the end it's not about what sounds good or feels good; but what IS good. For America and those who share a common dream as they look toward the future and a promise of a brighter tomorrow.

In my opinion, there's an important element of life and humanity this article fails to acknowledge, or is unaware of.

With all due respect to science and smart guys like RJS; I have NOT (in my lifetime) seen a leader who has the intelligence and the power to move, and inspire the people of our great nation to do great things -- until now.

I love science, but science isn't everything.

Obama gets my vote.

- a 41-year old, white, southern, Republican and paraplegic

Barack Obama is a young impatient career politician who has not enen earned the right to run for president.
If the Democrates select him to run as President and not Vice President they will loose my vote. His real
followers are young people no experience voting and black people wanting their first president. He presents
no new solutionsfor any problems and does not have the friends in politicle circles to get anything done.
Washington will not change overnight for him.