‘Ich bin ein Commander’

Appears Hussein is a man of character, after all. I just picked up this thank you letter due to be released across the country, to all his supporters. I apologize for all my negative comments. He may well be the Messiah...........

My fellow Americans:

As your future President I want to thank my supporters, for your mindless support of me, despite my complete lack of any legislative achievement, my pastor's relations with Louis Farrakhan and Libyan dictator Moamar Quadafi, or my blatantly leftist voting record while I present myself as some sort of bi-partisan agent of change.

I also like how my supporters claim my youthful drug use and criminal behavior somehow qualifies me for the Presidency after 8 years of claiming Bush's youthful drinking disqualifies him. Your hypocrisy is a beacon of hope shining over a sea of political posing.

I would also like to thank the Kennedy's for coming out in support of me. There's a lot of glamour behind the Kennedy name, even though JFK started the Vietnam War, his brother Robert illegally wiretapped Martin Luther King, Jr. and Teddy killed a female employee with whom he was having an extra marital affair and who was pregnant with his child. And I'm not going anywhere near the cousins, both literally and figuratively.
And I'd like to thank Oprah Winfrey for her support. Her love of meaningless empty platitudes will be the force that propels me to the White House.

Americans should vote for me, not because of my lack of experience or achievement, but because I make people feel good.
Voting for me causes some white folk to feel relieved of their imagined, racist guilt. I say things that sound meaningful, but don't really mean anything because Americans are tired of things having meaning. If things have meaning, then that means you have to think about them.
Americans are tired of thinking. It's time to shut down the brain and open up the heart. So when you go to vote, remember don't think, just do. And do it for me.

Thank You.
Barack Hussein Obama,


NOBAMA!!!

Vern Morton Richmond, Va
I wish people would stop judging Sen Obama before they really get to know him.. I do believe that the writer of this article is correct. The Senator needs to show the nation that he can lead and that he needs to pull out all the stops to show that wtarting now. However I am tired of these bigots and right wingers judging him semply becuase he is of African American deceint, or because his name sounds midlle eastern. I've said it before and I'll say it again, a name that sounds middle eastern does not make that peron a Muslim. Nor does the fact that a person is a person of color make him incompetant. If you want more of Bush leadership, by all means votte for Mcain, but if you really want what is best for this country, Vote for Obama.

@sportlock09

I would hire the guy who came from a poor background and worked his way to the top of the Harvard Law Review, not the guy whose dad was an admiral and who coasted to finishing 894/900 at the Naval Academy.

John McCain is lazy, opinionated and occasionally funny. Definitely a fun guy to have a beer with. But I want the smartest, hardest working, accomplished person. And that's Barack Obama.

"German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed doubts about an Obama appearance, reminding everyone that this was principally a political, not a diplomatic, visit by a man who is not yet president"

Seems that Angeal Merkel understands more about the purpose of this trip than the networks sending anchors to cover this.

Obama wants the Brandenburg Gate because Kennedy spoke there, and the press has already called him Kennedy like. Trust that he speech, if does get to deliver it there will be " Kennedy " in words and feelings to be communicated.

Obama is going for the visual again to make himself seem presidential. Count on TV coverage that show the masses fawning over someone just like them. Liberal to the max, with leanings toward giving the US socialist style leanings.

Anybody ask the question just why Obama voted with Bush on FISA? He is planning for the future. A future that could include suppression of any opposition. Remember, now our government can access what used to be private, and the includes this blog.

Since when did americans give a *** about the rest of us? USA has let their leaders run criminal policies on the world for decades, and now it starts to cost - both in money and civil libertise of all. Bush, McCain and Obama - they are actually all the same - which is why the election means less and less for every four year.

I would like to know why if McCain is taking all the credit for the surge in the war, why hasn't anyone mentioned that if the war was handled in the right way there would have not been a need for a surge ?

When Obama is over seas the Clintons will be here! And looking for live microphones to speak into! Obama may be calling his grand trip short!

This article is unmitigated hype and misinformation. What does anybody learn in the Green Zone?

"the Democratic senator missed witnessing the sectarian violence that roiled Iraq for more a year, and he has not had a firsthand look at the surge's success even as he has continued to say he would withdraw troops within 16 months of his presidency"

The Democratic Senator missed nothing! Did John McCain learn something about Iraq when he took a vanity tour of a marketplace, claiming that everything was normal in Iraq, while hiding the five attack helicopters and over 100 soldiers that were turning a dangerous part of Baghdad into Disneyland for 30 minutes? Does Hirsch mention that it was a dangerously misleading stunt that was followed by a murderous suicide attack in that very market within 48 hours? So McCain was there. What did he learn? Nothing!

Does Hirsch mention that steady stream of five years of idiocy that McCain has spouted on Iraq while we've spent five years and a trillion dollars on an optional war? Did he mention that McCain doesn't deserve his standing in the polls on this issue?

No, he just hypes up McCain as Commander of Chief - pure propaganda for the man who can't tell Shia from Sunni.

Hirsch - bozo.

Why is so much at stake? Why hype it so much?

1.) Who's paying for Barack's national Lampoon's European Vacation photo-ops? Taxpayers?

2.) I "hope" thousands of paparazzi flashbulbs go off. Over-the-top rockstar media coverage; which is already happening.

3.) I "hope" the screaming, cheering and sobbing crowds are huge with all of them waiving their national flags. Next day front page banners across Middle America newspapers...

FRENCH LOVE BARACK!
PALESTINIANS PARADE FOR BARACK!

Love it!!

--sun

Senator Barack Obama passed the "3-o'clock-in-the-morning test--Hillary Clinton's dig at Barack Obama's commander-in-chief credentials" by winning the Democratic Party Presidential primary. I am shocked that this author has not moved on to more serious issues like energy efficiency in which Europe is leaving America behind or alternative source of energy,which could pave the way for a more peaceful and secured world. The global leadership needed now for children woken up by 3am may have more to do with sound education system that leaves no one behind than waking up in the night to change daiper in the middle of the night. The reason for this exchange of views is for proper understanding of contemporary issues directly affecting American citizens and the rest of the world. If that is true, then we must think deep about how to prepare younger generations for competition in the rest of the 21st Century. Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama are already united for a common cause. Forget about 3am call and move on sir. Goodluck Diigbo, New York

In the meantime, everyone forgets about the atrocities continuing to occur in Africa. Another case where oil trumps the cost of a human life. Picture your child being hacked to death with a machete while other countries turn their backs and look the other way.