Advice for Obama

The article is worth reading and observations worth noting. However, it is gushing with subjective praise of Obama. The world can't stand Bush, neither can most Americans. It is the Americans, however, who elect our next president. Obama is a brilliant orator and politician, and the thought of a black president is exciting. However, this super star status is beyond concerning, it is actually disturbing. As Americans, we alone have the responsibility to elect the next president. That requires research, thought, and anguish.
To say Europeans are more informed on our candidates is a tremendous underestimation of our citizens. It is the Europeans who are succuming to Obama's Britney Spears type appeal, not Americans. If you want to vote Obama, do so for the right reasons

I read the article and the comments. I'd like to make the following observations:
1. The amount of vitriol from almost everyone is absurd and doesn't address the article. People seem more intereseted in calling each other bigot, stupid, hack, etc than they are interested in any real discussion.
2. The implicit assumption that Obama will be the next POTUS is fundamentally wrong headed and a not so subtle ploy to tell us poor ignoramuses how to vote. Most of the commentary should just be directed at the next POTUS, whoever it is.
3. I see no evidence that Obama is a clearly superior candidate. He may have been right about attacking Iraq in the first place, but he was completely wrong about the medicine to fix the situation afterwards. The fact that Iraq wants us out in a year and a half is good news insofar as I'm concerned, in that it indicates to me that they think they can really start taking care of their own problems. By all means, let them! But if we had followed B.O.'s advice a year ago, we would be out and Iraq would not have been able to do this. And can anyone say that Sadam's dictatorial rule would be preferred to the stumbling attempts at self-governance in Iraq today? Those who would take such a position must base their view on the self delusions of false equivalence and moral inversion.
4. The charge that Obama is a Muslim is stupid and wrong. However, if Rev Wright constitutes his concept of Christianity, I would be happy to have him be a Moslem instead.
5. The Europeans didn't perform their fair share of the load in the Balkans and they aren't doing it in Afghanastan either. They seem to be more interested in feeling superior an dletting you know that in no uncertain terms.
6. Both candidates and parties have been pandering to both their respective party bases and to the illegal immigrant advocates, ignoring the fact that a nation's first responsibility is to its own citizenry. If they would have that understanind, we would have a rational proposals for energy, immigration and budgetary control, with economic benefits accruing. We would also have a no-nonsense, bluster-free and realistic appraisal of what we can and cannot do in the world, and a foreign policy to match. The Dems pepetuate the myth of Ameircan omnipotence to say that its actions are all wrong and the Repulbicans perpetuate the same myth out of a nostalgic self-delusion. Get real all of you!

The next President will have their plate full trying to undue all the damage from the Bush years. Bush comes across to other countries as arrogant and power hungary. Senator Obama is definitely the better candidate by far.

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NewsWeek once again is full of krap! (And yeah I know how to spell it...it just won't be printed if I spell it correctly). Hey I guess that pretty much is the mirror imagine of NewsWeek, if it's not truthful it's okay to publish but otherwise they won't print it. Obama is an anti-American rat.

obama is out of touch with the world and his no experience,this man utters falsehood.

Wow, it amazes me to see how far apart and how different our view in this country can really be. To the right, Senator Obama is a Muslim threat who will somehow subvert the government form the inside and destroys everything she stands for. To the left Senator McCain is a continuation of President George W. Bush, who started an ill conceived War and has caused the credibility of this great country to be destroyed. I wonder which one of these points of views is closer to the truth. For those of you on the right, you are absolutely correct in that only Americans vote in our election so these other countries have no say so; and maybe you???re correct in that just because we live in a global economy and rely on much of the world for assistance in everything from the global war on terror to global warming that we don???t need any of these stupid countries opinion???s.
They should all keep they???re opinions and any assistance to themselves.

I think American history will be really interesting in the next 4 to 8 years regardless which candidate wins the elections. Both candidates have great ideas but the important thing is if they can walk the walk, not just talk the talk, hmmm, I wonder...

I think American history will be really interesting in the next 4 to 8 years regardless which candidate wins the elections. Both candidates have great ideas but the important thing is if they can walk the walk, not just talk the talk, hmmm, I wonder...

Please remember this is an ELECTION not a CORONATION.

your not pres. yet. do not make promises you cannot make.

Obama your not pres. yet.

This is the comical moment of global history that has been written by the liberal media.

Obama's huge popularity in Europe is of course partly due to Bush's huge unpopularity. Had Hillary become the presumptive candidate, she would have reached high numbers than McCain as well, though perhaps not as high as Obama on account of her old baggage. Europe longs -- perhaps even more than America -- for change. And change they would certainly get from Obama. The only question is whether they will like it.

People have Bush fatigue and McBush fatigue and deregulation fatigue and war fatigue