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  • Posted By: TruckerChic23 @ 06/05/2008 7:37:26 PM

    I got a few questions to ask about. what is obama going to do to help out the middle class? we the middle class people need help here. I see so many people foreclosing there homes it is not funny we are doing the best we can do here and everything just keeps rising and rising. Trucker are like 95% of the countries transportation what you gunna do to help them out. this country is just falling apart it's not good people wake up and smell the roses. BRING OUR TROOPS HOME!!!!!!

    • Posted By: Nins @ 06/06/2008 12:50:17 AM

      Hey, Girl! Obama is planning to help the middle class with a series of tax breaks, giving rebates to people who are paying a mortgage on their primary residence, rebates for people who buy their own health insurance, and starting Federal scholarships so that your kids can attend college for free, as long as they work hard and get good grades. Obama will also help the middle class by getting rid of the huge tax cuts that Bush gave to corporations that ship their jobs overseas. Right now, those companies are actually being REWARDED with tax breaks, and the Treasury has lost all of that revenue. Instead, Obama will reward the companies who give their jobs to AMERICANS, therefore stimulating the economy here at home. Also, Obama wants to investing in job training for people who have lost their jobs here at home, allowing them to start over in a new field. Maybe most important, he wants to invest in renewable energy so we can become free of our dependance on foreign oil, which is costing us big time. I'm sure you feel it at the pump, being a truck driver.

      Where will he get the money to do all of this? First of all, he will get us out Iraq, where we are hemorrhaging cash to the tune of trillions. Secondly, by regulating business and making mega corporations pay their fair share of taxes. Thirdly, by increasing the tax rate on the highest 5% of income earners, who right now only pay a 15% rate -- which is probably less than what you pay on your income as a truck driver -- increasing their rate to 36%, which is where it was before Bush gave the super rich a super break. Why the hell should a truck driver have to pay a higher tax rate than a CEO?

      • Posted By: Shadoe01 @ 06/06/2008 5:02:27 AM

        Gee, that is kinda funny considering how everything he has voted on has been to make the upper middle class and rich better off. I guess you are saying he is going to change how he has voted and done things in the past?

        • Posted By: Alvy @ 06/06/2008 5:01:14 PM

          Duh...I'l just say something and not back it with facts...duh.
          Stupid sha-duh.

  • Posted By: Just Us Plz! @ 06/06/2008 4:45:43 PM

    Um...Arg.. PooF! Close Just doesnt cut it, Hillary fought a good fight and ended up 1st Place Loser. Anyone who votes McWar loves the current economy and would like to see it worse along with long and pointless years of killing!! thats war for our right wing friends!

  • Posted By: msbrena @ 06/06/2008 2:24:20 PM

    Great job Alterman. You said what many of us already know, The Clintons' sense of "entitlement" sent them down the wrong path. I admired the Clintons for many, many years. In fact, I was torn as to who to vote for. But as time went on, it was clear -- Obama was the choice. The way he's run his campaign is percisely the way I'd like to see the country run. And even whey Hillary, Bill and others took stabs at him, he remained cool, calm and collected. That's the kind of demeanor I'd like to see in my president. And all those who criticize him about Rev. Wright weren't going to vote for him anyway and are all too happy to try to make an issue of that. But I'm proud that the majority of Americans saw right through that and judge Obama based on the issues he stand on and the person that he is.

    • Posted By: SPORTLOCK09 @ 06/06/2008 2:43:16 PM

      He didn't tell you what you already know. He told you what to think and you followed like the sheep you are.

      • Posted By: LieDetector @ 06/06/2008 4:45:41 PM

        That's how losers win. They play down and dirty.
        Inciting folks to anger, feeding the politically inept
        Like Sean Hannity does.

      • Posted By: Alvy @ 06/06/2008 4:04:36 PM

        Bet you love the sheep huh sportscrap? They just back-up to the trailer window. Use the N-word today? Sorry, did you quote Chris Rock?
        Idiot.

  • Posted By: cbaker31222 @ 06/06/2008 1:28:25 AM

    I actually emailed Alter once on his ridiculously slanted bias toward Obama and the insults he hurls Clinton's way at every opportunity. He emailed me back saying (as the senior editor of Newsweek), he didn't have to be objective at all. Period.

    So its not surprising to see this latest hack job from him, frought with paper thinly velied worship of Obama and "kick-her-while-she's-down" insults of Clinton. I would love to go through the article word for word and explain why its a load of complete nonsense, but I don't have 6 hours to sit in front of the computer.

    I hope those who haven't drunk the kool aid know that Alter is just another journalistic worshipper of Obama, thinking he is hiding his grossly obvious bias with red herrings and straw men "arguments" that have no basis in fact.

    • Posted By: Alvy @ 06/06/2008 4:24:16 PM

      Alter is not running for president. He likes the guy and will write about him. So what. Happens on both sides.
      Think about it. How is your love for Hills different than his presumed (assumed) love for Obama?
      Good thing you don't have a column. You'd kill him.

      Not too late though. There are broadcast schools on the back of matchbooks.

    • Posted By: marksgershenson @ 06/06/2008 2:18:19 AM

      See the movie Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media a real eye opener about the news media

    • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/06/2008 2:00:17 AM

      It was a sober and completely accurate analysis.

  • Posted By: RobH1954 @ 06/06/2008 6:05:13 AM

    Clinton lost simply because of one reason-the media painted a negative picture of her campaign,saying she was loosing,when she was winning.I dare anyone to look at this from this angle and disagree. I believe the media was saying "no way she could win" when she was hitting states like Virginia and Kentucky.Media should be there to report news no create it,and create it they did.Be proud social engineers-NOT

    • Posted By: mfs12345 @ 06/06/2008 4:21:44 PM

      Wow, how about this...

      >>>Hillary Clinton is a victim of the Democratic party's attempt to be absolutely fair to absolutely everybody with proportional allocation of delegates. If the Democratic party had a winner-take-all system like the Republicans do, Clinton would have won, and we would be reading articles about all the thing her campaign did so brilliantly. Hindsight is always 20-20 but rarely insightful. <<<

      So, the Democratic rules have been this way for how long??? Didn't Bill and every other Democrat that has run for the nomination, go by these rules? Didn't she know this since she was in the White house for 8 years? How is she a victim? Do you want someone that doesn't look at the rules and then when they lose blame the rules because they didn't read them? Come on!!! He won more states...oh, that's not fair because she won the big states. (as if the other ones don't count as much) How about the popular votes..oh...but only the primaries...don't count the caucus states....where she disregarded those voters. You can't have it both ways...oh...and how much in debt is she in? Would she run the country the same way? This is more directed to the Blind Hilleryites. I actually was going to vote for her until I saw Obama speak and saw the nastiness that Clinton displayed. She lost. Stop making excuses and move on.

    • Posted By: Factarereal @ 06/06/2008 7:56:11 AM

      How about your analysis. Did she do a campaign that is expected of a human being or that of an animal? She was campaigning like an animal and no wonder she could attract most dropouts and human-animals to her camp. Thanks to God that she lost.

    • Posted By: Factarereal @ 06/06/2008 7:52:29 AM

      How about you analysis. Did she do a campaign that is expected of a human being or that of an animal? She was campaigning like an animal and no wonder she could attract most dropouts and human-animals to her camp. Thanks to God that she lost.

  • Posted By: Tony C. @ 06/06/2008 9:15:57 AM

    Give us a break Jonathan.

    Two FACTS why he won and two FACTS why Hillary lost!

    He won becuase whites in Iowa came out for him in mass numbers. 1) Without them he would have been out of the race many months ago. 2) The vast majority of those who do vote in the black community, knowing little, if anything about where he stands on any of the issues or his policies, voted for him simply becuase he is "black"!

    Hillary lost because 1) Obama played the race card from day one, which he has denied all along, and still does today; and 2) beacuse the media, and you included, are so skilled at leaving out the facts, truth, complete information, are biased, partisan, sexist, and little more than tabloid journalists at best. One need only look at the entire media's, both print and television, in the run up to the Iraq war and the cowardice on everyone's part to see just how complicit you all were in holding back in giving the facts, truth and being honest with the American peeple, the men and women who were slaughtered (both American and otherwise), and their families by your silence, half-truths, cover-ups and participation in the Bush deception, lies and fraud. And, also because the media was so biased in giving Equal coverage to EVERY candidate rather than just some aging exPow, a smug ex-CEO, a woman and a bi-racial man. Perhaps if you could have done your jobs correctly we could have all been spared this freak show and someone like Joe Biden who has the knowledge and experience and would make a much more solid candidate agaisnt a McBush would have been the Democratic nominee long ago.

    One other flaw I would like to point out in the media and press coverage is your total lack of coverage on all this crap and bogus headlines about Obama being treated as the Messiah and his nomination as the Second Coming of Chirst. First of all he is NOT the fisrt African American to be nominated to the presidency of a majpr party. He is the first BI-Racial man. What does it take to get throguh your heads and the heads of the ignorant American public that his mother was a WHITE WOMAN????? He was raised by his white mother and grandmother because as is so prevalent in the black community and has been for decades, his black daddy took off when Obama was a child.

    GET the facts Jonathan, tell your buddies to get the facts and then do everyone a favor and report them honestly or go write for the Enquirer. I'm sure they could use someone with your talents!

    • Posted By: ReasonedOne @ 06/06/2008 3:59:07 PM

      RESPONSE TO TONY C:

      AFTER OBAMA COMPLETED HIS UNDERGRADUATE DEGREE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, HE WORKED ON WALL STREET BEFORE MOVING ON TO CHICAGO TO BECOME A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER. HE THEN WENT ON TO GET A LAW DEGREE FROM HARVARD, WHERE HE BECAME THE FIRST BLACK EDITOR OF THEIR LAW REVIEW. THESE ACHIEVEMENTS ARE ON THE RECORD. THEY DON???T LET DUMMIES LIKE YOU, TONY C, INTO THE IVY LEAGUE, WALL STREET, NOR DO THEY SUCCEED AT ORGANIZING A COMMUNITY FOR POLITICAL PARTICIPATION???MUCH LESS, WIN A MAJOR PARTY???S NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT. PEOPLE OF ALL RACES (IOWANS, FOR STARTERS) RECOGNIZE(D) THIS AND HAVE VOTED ACCORDINGLY. GRANTED, NOT NECESSARILY BECAUSE OF HIS EXPERIENCE, BUT THAT HE IS A HIGHLY INTELLIGENT AND CAPABLE (BLACK) MAN IS OBVIOUS. YET, YOU REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT.

      FIRST, YOU AREN???T THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS VALID CONCERNS ABOUT UNDUE AND UNBALANCED MEDIA COVERAGE. I???M SURE ALL THE CANDIDATES, HAVE A CASE TO WHATEVER DEGREE THAT THEY WERE MIS- OR UNDER-REPRESENTED BY THE MEDIA. SO, I SUPPOSE BECAUSE BIDEN DIDN???T BECOME A FINAL CONTENDER AND IS NOT THE NOMINEE, THERE WAS A VAST RIGHT-WING AND WILD-EYED, LIBERAL CONSPIRACY TO KEEP THIS HIGHLY QUALIFIED, WHITE MAN FROM THE NOMINATION. NO. CITIZENS VOTED FOR WHOM THEY WANTED. YOU WANT SOMEONE TO BLAME, GO BOTHER YOUR NEXT DOOR NEIGHBORS.

      FINALLY, YES, OBAMA IS BI-RACIAL. LIKE MOST BI-RACIAL CHILDREN, THERE IS A PRESSURE TO CONFORM AND IDENTIFY WITH THE ETHNIC IDENTITY WITH WHICH THEY FEEL COMFORTABLE, AS WELL AS TO WHICH THEY HAVE A VALID CLAIM. SOME MAKE THIS CHOICE EASILY WHILE OTHERS HAVE A HARD TIME MAKING IT, IF AT ALL. OBAMA MADE HIS CHOICE LONG AGO AS A CHILD: HE IS A BI-RACIAL MAN WHO HAS CHOSEN TO IDENTIFY AS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN / BLACK MAN. THUS, SUCH IS WHY HE IS THE FIRST BLACK AMERICAN TO WIN A MAJOR PARTY???S NOMINATION. ???AND, PROPORTIONATELY, SINCE WHITES OUTNUMBER MINORITIES???PARTICULARY BLACKS IN THIS NATION???I???D SAY, THAT THE NUMBER OF DEAD BEAT WHITE DADS EQUALS IF NOT SURPASSES THEIR BLACK, ASIAN, AND/OR HISPANIC COUNTERPARTS.

      TONY C. ??? YOU GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT.

    • Posted By: Alvy @ 06/06/2008 11:58:29 AM

      Well you're mom was a streetwalker right? How do explain your lack of education and experience?
      Only real stupid can raise exceptionally stupid right.

      But I bet you think you're smart. You can demean whole races of people while not looking at the scourge your own society society has the greatest history with.

      You are pretty dumb. You sound like the newly poor, raised by the always poor. Hey, when someone took a dump at your house - did you idiot kids fight to lick the bowl?

    • Posted By: wyl5326 @ 06/06/2008 9:51:36 AM

      While it is a fact that Barack is biracial, traditional white society consider any child born w/ drop of a black heritage is considered black even if their skin color is white. Thus, we have lots of mixed race children who appears white who hide their true heritage to conform to this societal judgment. Biracial children with lighter color are even also looked down in the darker colored society and discriminated and puts them in double dicrimination.

  • Posted By: Hawaii08 @ 06/05/2008 11:21:33 AM

    Because this is STILL a very SEXIST & RACIST country, despite the phony joy. The delegates who were supposedly loyal to Hillary turned into the true rats that there are, attaching themselves to the flavor of the month. Bill Richardson is the filthiest, greasiest leader of the rats. Men who still think women should be barefoot & pregnant. And kids, more progressive, but won't turn out in November. Stupid, STUPID DNC.

    • Posted By: chindognyc @ 06/05/2008 11:56:35 AM

      Hawaii, you sound really silly. You feel blacks should still be sleeping in barns and eating in the ally way of a restaraunt and sitting in the back of the bus? I guess blacks did not fight for there right to vote. Funny how Obama is still leading in the National Poll. I guess since you are like you said, mixed and your husband is white, you don't know anything about being black. Keep your silly comments to yourself and don't say anything about how black people are. You sound like Harriet Christian. Why don't you make a video for youtube.

      • Posted By: Hawaii08 @ 06/05/2008 1:34:16 PM

        Sure, if you'll get on there and rap for me "Dog". By the way, Ally does not spell alley! Restaurant is also incorrect, and it would "Their" right to vote. I do know how to spell. Now, who did you say sounds silly, STUPID? I have a very blended family of many colors, NONE of us are prejudiced, and we all understand what it means to be black, even those who aren't and have been shunned because they don't see in colors. Obviously you only know 1 color, it's called "Ignorance". By the way, Obama is bi-racial and is called "African-American". So am I. I have NEVER been mistaken for a white person, and always treated like a person, because that is how I treat myself. Or in a term that maybe you can understand, "dats how i roll".

        • Posted By: Luridmoon @ 06/05/2008 4:20:36 PM

          Hawaii, you need to get a life and stop correcting grammatical errors. You are so busy trying to make others look like what you are (STUPID) that you are not getting the message! And your comments regarding the "rat" delegates is completely incorrect, and actually sound like something a SORE LOSER would say... The fact is, the delegates were tired of being cooerced and intimidated, and actually did the right thing, which was LISTEN TO THE VOTERS! Now, please power off your computer. No one is interested in your ostentatious dribble.

          • Posted By: Hawaii08 @ 06/05/2008 4:51:57 PM

            Obviously you were interested enough to read it and comment. But you forgot that right stupid? You must be one of chindognyc's baby mama's.... so you know where you can go, right? Do it Now, you won't be missed, except maybe at the welfare office every month.... or on the curb hustlin for your crack... nasty sucks, doesn't it? Or since you weren't raised any better, I guess it's all you know. Kudos to you for knowing how to spell.

            • Posted By: aprild @ 06/06/2008 3:43:56 PM

              Hawaii, I am really confused by your behavior. On one hand, you preach that we should all pray for our country. On the other hand, you belittle the bloggers that are your countrymen. Don't we, the citizens of the US, make our country? How can blessings and cursings proceed from the same mouth?

            • Posted By: mztay @ 06/05/2008 5:38:55 PM

              Hawaii, you are one sick puppy! Grow up, get a life and seek treatment immediately. The only interesting thing about you is how incredibly sick and twisted you are. Someone should pickle that brain of yours and let the scientists do a little research on it. Baby mamas? Really? Welfare office? Didn't you say in a previous post, that you were sitting on a "porch" talking about it? Pot meet kettle. You're a warped human being...and I use the term "human being" very LOOSELY. Did I spell enough words correctly for you, o' Superior One? According to the Hillary camp, Obama supporters were considered "elitist" and he won the "boutique states", right? According to you, your idol was completely wrong--we're all ghetto hoodrats and homies who can't spell. Be very proud and very happy to be spouting this hateful rhetoric on the web because that hateful crap can get you a ghetto slap anywhere you live.

  • Posted By: yesyoucan2008 @ 06/06/2008 3:35:09 PM

    Why Obama won: 1) Better management of his campaign 2) Better strategy w/ caucus states 3) Grass roots and online contributor support (a new age politician for an new age world 4) Impression of him was won over by millions because of his message of change and presedential appeal in his delivery. (Clinton always seemed to be condescending when speaking as was her husband) 5. Sticking to issues that face Americans rather than dwelling on smear mongering responses by the competition.

  • Posted By: Mkhuntufela @ 06/06/2008 9:46:37 AM

    No doubt about the analysis, right on target. There are lessons for all of us, especially here in Africa. Our chalenge here is not organisation, or Candor, etc, is simple respect for the opposition and voters. African leaders thrive on throwing the opposition into jail for whatever reason. Meanwhile the West never seem to find similar reasons since 18th century. The internet and T.V. are playing a huge role in making young African generation understand the role of the opposition and how the whole thing benefits voters. Thumbs up to both Hillary and Obama, even the GOP. We marvel at your politics.

    Cool

    • Posted By: leets @ 06/06/2008 2:51:06 PM

      Thanks for a little perspective.

    • Posted By: leets @ 06/06/2008 2:50:20 PM

      Thanks for a little perspective.

  • Posted By: jspadgi @ 06/06/2008 2:11:50 PM

    A very perceptive article. Contrary to many of the postings here which allege media bias, an objective analysis of the evidence will reveal that the media was not sexist or biased against Hillary and for Obama. I remember the early primary debates that the media characterized as Hillary and the seven dwarfs, which is hardly sexist. Muskie was vilified as too weak to be President when he teared up, but not Hillary. Romney was ridiculed when he pandered to the gun lobby by telling how he hunted rabbits with his dad as a kid, but not Hillary. When Hillary was in floundering, she got on every Sunday morning news show for two weeks. She was largely given a pass when she misrembered being under sniper fire. If elected, how could we be sure she would accurately remember basic facts while trying to handle multiple issues under even greater pressures than the primaries pose.

    A year ago, Hillary had everything going for her. She had a 2-to1 lead in the polls, all the name recognition one could hope for, all the major endorsements, all the money. She managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by her mismanagement and the nature of her personality. I don't believe the Clintons ever have or ever will put the party's interests or the nation's interests above their own, and I believe there is AMPLE evidence to support that conclusion.

  • Posted By: fire for effect @ 06/06/2008 12:19:27 AM

    There is absolutely NO chance that we will elect a negro for President... this time! In the ever darkening society known as the USA, driven by an urban subculture, we will, eventually. The defeat of Clinton was brought about by Bill's stupid remarks and his very presence in this race... to our benefit. The Democrats still look very disorganized to all of America. John McCain will win!

    • Posted By: troyola @ 06/06/2008 2:02:22 PM

      and you wonder why rev wright says what he says. ignorance begets ignorance. could your neck be any redder

    • Posted By: marksgershenson @ 06/06/2008 1:27:56 AM

      I haven't heard anyone called a negro in 40 years or more...where are you from? What a bigot

    • Posted By: adtravels @ 06/06/2008 12:25:59 AM

      Well I guess God ruled out negros from becoming presidents. I cannot even believe anyone, especially in this country could even dare to make a statement like this, but then there is freedom of speech even
      though it is ignorent.

  • Posted By: Wise Person @ 06/05/2008 4:29:05 PM

    Obama won because of the 2 minorities, women are far more HATED in positions of prominence than minority men. She had far more "WORLD-HATE" of females to overcome, than Obama had of being a brown-man. As the world sees it, ....at least Obama is a MAN. ALL USA PRESIDEWNTS have been MEN. At least Obama's Mom was White. So, he favored superiorly to Hillary. Hopefully, in the NEAR FUTURE, the world will begin to respect women as leaders too. Hilary was SO ABUSED, DISRESPECTED, etc. In fact, people expected her to "run-away little girl, and go play with your dolls". When she did not quit the race after losing Iowa, the ABUSE by the media and others got SO SEVERE!!! It is a MIRACLE she did SO WELL!!! THE FIRST CHANGE THAT THIS WORLD NEEDS, is to BEGIN RESPECTING WOMEN!!! After-all, no human being is on earth without being birthed by a WOMAN. Something to think about. And you women, who are women-haters, shame on you!! Women need to re-unite and rally for POSITIVE CHANGES that gives women respect, dignity, and great chances for leadership roles!!

    • Posted By: Daniel P @ 06/06/2008 1:48:38 PM

      Women are a minority ? ! Check your almanac. Women have been a MAJORITY of the population for more than 100 years. They are the MAJORITY ! Males are the minority, dimwit.

    • Posted By: Factarereal @ 06/05/2008 4:48:57 PM

      Another stupid person is coming out. If the woman is not a better candidate do we still have to vote for her? Obama has demonstrated beyond all doubts that he is better than the 2 Clintons. You can go to hell if you still can't accept Obama as the winner. Stupid person!!

      • Posted By: zbaby2 @ 06/05/2008 5:33:47 PM

        Not true. Lest we forget that women could vote in 1920 and black people didnt get that right until 1964. There is glass ceiling for both races. Hillary didnt start this sexism mess until she was losing bad and things werent going her way. She's a pseudo-feminist that is ruining the Democratic party.

        • Posted By: Mimi13 @ 06/05/2008 6:47:58 PM

          Actually all men regardless of color got the vote with the 15th Amendment in 1870. If followed that little skirmish called the Civil War.

          • Posted By: Daniel P @ 06/06/2008 1:45:39 PM

            Not True ! Native Americans did not get the right to vote until the 20th Century and they were here first !

    • Posted By: Factarereal @ 06/05/2008 4:45:13 PM

      Another stupid person is coming out. If the woman is a better candidate do we still have to vote for her? Obama has demonstrated beyond all doubts that he is better than the 2 Clintons. You can go to hell if you still can't accept Obama as the winner. Stupid person!!

    • Posted By: Jaxs @ 06/05/2008 4:36:36 PM

      Hillary wasn't disrespected anymore than Obama and yet you don't hear him or his supporters constantly complaining about it - it's constant. It almost seems like their were two different races going based on how some HRC supporters keep projecting it out there. There is a winner and a loser - it's very simple. I don't know some people aren't getting that., Again, it's simple. As a woman, I am getting very tired of heraing how poor Hillary was treated. Can we move on already - please. This is very getting old.

  • Posted By: Ganpat @ 06/06/2008 1:10:12 PM


    Obama's failure is certain.

    All that remains to be seen is whether it happens in 2008 or 2012.

    To placate his get-out-of-Iraq-now supporters he will have to do just that: scram out fast and leave Iraq to bloody chaos.

    That will pin him with a shamer-of-America label and will doom him politically.

    But - poor wretch! - what is the alternative? Stay in Iraq and completely disillusion all the brain-dead folk who have voted him into office.

    Ahem ! Some choice.

    Next problem: the economy.

    To please his followers he will have to spend spend spend, in a dire econoimc situation.

    That will send the economy into a deep deep mess of overspending and deficit.

    But if he doesn't - again, he loses his supporters.

    So talk-your-way-out boy Obama has had it.

    All Hillary has to do is keep cool and wait for 2012.

    There is a short-term way of analysing things and a longterm way. I am opting for the latter.

    • Posted By: MiamiMike @ 06/06/2008 1:40:37 PM

      Hillary and Obama have nearly identical positions on all of the issues you just raised. Please explain how a Hillary term would play out any different in your universe.

    • Posted By: CalexanderJ @ 06/06/2008 1:39:23 PM

      It's interesting that on the war and the economy, the two big problems you claim Obama has, he has the exact same positions as Hillary. So I'm not sure, why you think that she has some magical solutions to these problems that Obama doesn't.

      Second, on the economy. The spending that he wants will depend to a large degree on slowing the spending on the war. If he can spend of fraction of what we're spending here on domestic projects, he can stimulate the economy without increasing our deficit spending.

  • Posted By: CalexanderJ @ 06/06/2008 1:33:57 PM

    Great article. Clinton could have and perhaps should have won were it not for her strategic mistakes. Any one who chalks her loss up to sexism, or the media, or Obama "stealing" it from her, hasn't been paying attention.

  • Posted By: vakosh @ 06/05/2008 3:50:23 PM

    Stolen election
    Stolen election
    Stolen election
    Stolen election
    Stolen election

    • Posted By: Oddy @ 06/06/2008 1:18:29 PM

      Stolen, .....give me a break. How do you say mismanaged campaign, pissing off "black voters", super delegates, and the Clinton years BAGGAGE!! She would been a poor president!!! Do you remember, TRAVELGATE!!!!

    • Posted By: Factarereal @ 06/05/2008 4:10:34 PM

      LOL..............................Obama all the way! Hillary is going home.

  • Posted By: J.Richter @ 06/06/2008 1:15:34 PM

    Very insightful article, Alter. I almost read some of my analysis in it too. But very good and true, really.

  • Posted By: Nins @ 06/06/2008 12:30:45 AM



    Sharenews writes that the supposed tape of Michelle Obama calling Bill Clinton "Whitey" way back in 2002 is being discussed on FoxNews. Oh, yeah, that's objective journalism! Geraldo Rivera, FoxNews, and a tape that "is in network hands" but is not being shown, because they are saving it to kill off Obama in October. What a load of stinking manure. And if they really were saving it for October as a "surprise" why would they leak it now, which would give Obama time to prepare? None of it adds up. Just one more smear job by Karl Rove, who is working overtime trying to make the Clinton supporters hate Obama. Thank you, Karl, for some more TOTAL BULL. What you don't know, Karl, is that we want all the crap you can shovel. Obama's Energy Plan includes a way to turn Sh!t into Methane, and POWER AMERICA.

    Obama '08

    • Posted By: Shadoe01 @ 06/06/2008 4:39:14 AM

      He voted to give the oil and gas industry a lot of money in subsidies. Why don't you check to see what your almighty has voted on (that is when he did vote and not just show up).

      • Posted By: Alvy @ 06/06/2008 12:08:01 PM

        Stupid shadowpunk is back.
        We all know how he voted. He voted better and more humanely then Mc.
        Why don't you go compare instead of being the typical Rep idiot and just throwing something out there. Idiot.

  • Posted By: oluaigbogun @ 06/06/2008 10:53:23 AM

    It is a shame that Newsweek can not see past Obama to understand the challenges that Ameriac faces- The future of Amreca, the economy and the ability of Amrecia to defend he values deomestically and internationally id fading because of bade economy. Therefore to be cool and respect the voter will not cut it for a present who is to inherit the most national thereatening situation in the history of America.
    Newsweek is so blindfolded by their hates for the Clintons that I say God help us , if Obama fails a black man will never have the opportunity again.

    • Posted By: The "O" Team @ 06/06/2008 11:19:39 AM

      TO BAD THAT THE ABOVE MORON'S MOTHER DIDN'T STOP HIS DAD FROM ENTERING... NOW WE HAVE TO SUFFER THROUGH THESE STUPID AND UNINFORMED COMMENTS...

      OH WELL, I GUESS FREEDOM OF SPEECH PROTECTS IDIOTS AS WELL AS OBAMA SUPPORTERS...

      NEWSFLASH: HILLBILLarY LOST, AND FINALLY ALLOWED HER CLASSLESS SELF TO CONCEED... YOU DUMB CLINTONS SUPPORTERS SHOULD TAKE YOUR, LAMENTS TO EITHER:

      LOSERS.COM

      SCUMBAGS4CLINTON.COM

      OR

      WHOGIVESAPHOQ.COM

      • Posted By: Alvy @ 06/06/2008 11:53:43 AM

        I think she did try to stop him - he appears to be residually born.

  • Posted By: The "O" Team @ 06/06/2008 11:39:37 AM

    NOW IF BARACK PICKS THAT B!%(# TO BE HIS V.P......... I WILL VOTE 4 THAT GOOD OLE' PHART JOHN MC'CAINT...

    HILLARY, SLICK WILLY & THAT WEASELLY LOOKIN' DAUGHTER OF THEIRS CAN GATHER UP ALL OF THEIR LAME-BRAIN SUPPORTERS AND GO POPULATE MARS, VENUS JUPITER, YOU PICK JUST GET THESE HILLBILLIES AND TROGLODYTES, OUT'TA HERE...

    • Posted By: Alvy @ 06/06/2008 11:51:11 AM

      You type like a crazed Hills supporter.

  • Posted By: The "O" Team @ 06/06/2008 11:26:03 AM

    NEWSFLASH: HILLBILLarY LOST, AND FINALLY ALLOWED HER CLASSLESS SELF TO CONCEED... YOU DUMB CLINTONS SUPPORTERS SHOULD TAKE YOUR, LAMENTS TO EITHER:

    LOSERS.COM

    SCUMBAGS4CLINTON.COM

    OR

    WHOGIVESAPHOQ.COM

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