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Inside Obama’s Dream Machine

An icon of hope, he won't 'kneecap' his foes. But Obama knows what it takes, and how to win.

By Richard Wolffe | NEWSWEEK
Jan 14, 2008 Issue

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  • Posted By: mccallmsh @ 02/20/2008 11:50:05 AM

    Comment: In my opnion and that of healthy-minded people, the problem lies with the hate amd cynisism and the negative role these bring into our thinking. W e are all different. God made us this way for a reason, and I believe we can overcome our differences and embrace eachother in a human way that reflects that. I also Believe t Barack Obama is one of this kind of human . He is reflecting the way in which and also why his message and campaign is so successful. Ther is no deniying this fact.

  • Posted By: ClarDyp @ 02/12/2008 10:01:47 PM

    Comment: Obama offers to bring change, and I am sure he will, if elected president. He promises to take the pocketbooks of all working Americans, take out all of the money and redistribute it to the masses. He is biting at the bit to get control of everyone's money, so "every single American" can have "all they deserve". Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that we ALL deserve all things. We are the Land of the Free, not The Land Where Everything is Free. I am very afraid of this man. His "Martin Luther King" speaking voice is hypnotizing the multitudes. These people do not even know how Obama plans to do the things he promises. They just know he promises "change" and he promises to take care of them. Just wait till they find out how he is going to make these things work. Paychecks will be cut. Taxes will be so out the roof, there will be nothing left. But, you better believe it, there will be social programs out the roof, too. I say to Obama, "Leave my paycheck alone. I refute your tax plan. I do not trust you. " One more thing, Obama ought to be ashamed to have his allegience pledged to a racist church. He cannot deny that his church is racist. His church uses the word "blackness" more than the word "Jesus". He professes how we are getting past racism, yet he is one himself. God protect us from the likes of Barak Hussien Obama.

  • Posted By: dolsen @ 01/18/2008 1:57:19 PM

    Comment: Obama has no experience whatsoever. He ran for senate 3 years ago for the first time and has only halped pass one real piece of legislation and people want to hand him the most powerful position in the world? I think he is just the latest big fad in this country like walking around with a water bottle in you hand and talking about your gym membership. If someone says they like him, ooh! then it must be good to like him. He's so cute! WAKE UP! There is no substance to this man. He has no experience. He wouldn't know a good idea or solution if it hit him in the face. He has never had to come up with one before. He has never run anything. He has never managed people, had to meet a payroll, owned a business, or even raised his kids. He hasn't even begun to figure out what lifes about yet. Deal with his kids public school teachers for twenty or so years and then he'll start to clue in to that area of society. He needs to start with the PTA or city council and work his way up and get some experience before he should be taken seriously. He's got nothing to tell me at this point. I'm more experienced than he is! ! What a joke.

    • Posted By: chris.lima @ 01/24/2008 15:35:18

      Comment: white boy hating

      • Posted By: cyberella @ 01/31/2008 21:04:13

        Comment: Lost in all the hype about Obama is his disturbing history. He has said the Palestinians are ???the most oppressed people in the world???. He took a trip with Louis Farrakhan to visit Mohammar Qaddafi in 1984. He only ???converted??? to Christianity in 1996. There are many very disturbing facts about this man which clearly demonstrate he is not the person portrayed by a drooling media and who has mesmerized gullible primary voters. He seems to me a very, very dangerous man.

  • Posted By: greboo46 @ 01/15/2008 5:35:17 AM

    Comment: All that obama can offer us is a dream other than that he does'nt have much else...greg

  • Posted By: anniesmiles @ 01/13/2008 6:06:25 AM

    Comment: Well..i have read through the majortiy of these posts. I would judge by some of the rhetoric...that many of the Obama supporters were watching Saturday Morning cartoons when Senator Clinton was heading a task force in Arkansas to improve schools. Those changes are nationwide today. I dont care if the candidate is pink or purple. I remember the Kennedy years. He would"nt pass the test today. They would out his philandering...and wonder why Jackie stayed with him. Mrs. Clinton is right...Martin Luther King brought civil rights to the country's attention...but it took Lyndon Johnsons arm twisting tactics in congress to get the bill passed and law. I have gained some wisdom over the years. I want something something more than a fancy orator...who uses a tele prompter and has said anything new....for several months now.

    I check records...just like a check resume"s. So far ..I"ve discovered that Senator Obama hasnt been back to vote in the USA Senate since he started campaigning. He missed just over a third of his votes while he was there. He is the chairman of the sub-committee for European Foreign Affairs....which includes Afganistan...but has failed to call one single meeting. He passed a bill that prohibits lobbiest to provide sit down dinners to lawmakers. They are still allowed to have stand up buffets.

    In the Illinois Senate...he voted ..absent..over one hundred times. One was a vote to limit porn shops a certain distance from a school. He was the only one who voted that way. I dont know how that could be...a strategy to protect controversy. It sounds more like not wanting to take a stand.

    He voted present on a bill that would allow third trimester abortion ...that resulted in live birth...to allow a baby to die. This same vote came up in the USA Senate...and Senator Clinton voted no...insuring that the child would get medical care. He followed her vote in the Senate. He voted to fund the war everytime it came up. He states that his judgement is superior to everyone else. His speech that protests the war.....was the same one given by Dick Chenny after the Gulf War. Every intelligent report...from Great Britain...Italy...France...Germany...Israel....stated that Iraq had weapons. Colin Powell ,who I think most people believe has great integrity, stated the same thing. Hillary Clinton did not read the reports...but was briefed by others . Most of the time...our Senators are briefed about bills. Read her speech at the time of the vote. Even than...she said...last resort. I dont fault her for that vote. She has sponsored a bill with Senator Lindsay Graham to improve Tri Care...which improved the health insurance of our National Guard upon their return from the War. Senator Lindsay Graham is a Republican...who lead the attemtp to impeach her husband, I think that proves she is bi-partisan..and can work across the aisle

    • Posted By: adam in iowa city @ 01/14/2008 02:15:10

      Comment: You might read the "incremental revolutionary" article before you start regurgitating Hillary/GOP talking points. It addresses the tactical present votes, to prevent right wing anti-choice legislation. It also points out the disingenuous nature of Clinton attacking the "stand up buffet" lobbyist meals, after she was instrumental in blocking the more substantive lobbying reform Obama was supporting. If you review resumes like you review records, I'd question the person who reviewed yours.

  • Posted By: anniesmiles @ 01/13/2008 6:06:18 AM

    Comment: Well..i have read through the majortiy of these posts. I would judge by some of the rhetoric...that many of the Obama supporters were watching Saturday Morning cartoons when Senator Clinton was heading a task force in Arkansas to improve schools. Those changes are nationwide today. I dont care if the candidate is pink or purple. I remember the Kennedy years. He would"nt pass the test today. They would out his philandering...and wonder why Jackie stayed with him. Mrs. Clinton is right...Martin Luther King brought civil rights to the country's attention...but it took Lyndon Johnsons arm twisting tactics in congress to get the bill passed and law. I have gained some wisdom over the years. I want something something more than a fancy orator...who uses a tele prompter and has said anything new....for several months now.

    I check records...just like a check resume"s. So far ..I"ve discovered that Senator Obama hasnt been back to vote in the USA Senate since he started campaigning. He missed just over a third of his votes while he was there. He is the chairman of the sub-committee for European Foreign Affairs....which includes Afganistan...but has failed to call one single meeting. He passed a bill that prohibits lobbiest to provide sit down dinners to lawmakers. They are still allowed to have stand up buffets.

    In the Illinois Senate...he voted ..absent..over one hundred times. One was a vote to limit porn shops a certain distance from a school. He was the only one who voted that way. I dont know how that could be...a strategy to protect controversy. It sounds more like not wanting to take a stand.

    He voted present on a bill that would allow third trimester abortion ...that resulted in live birth...to allow a baby to die. This same vote came up in the USA Senate...and Senator Clinton voted no...insuring that the child would get medical care. He followed her vote in the Senate. He voted to fund the war everytime it came up. He states that his judgement is superior to everyone else. His speech that protests the war.....was the same one given by Dick Chenny after the Gulf War. Every intelligent report...from Great Britain...Italy...France...Germany...Israel....stated that Iraq had weapons. Colin Powell ,who I think most people believe has great integrity, stated the same thing. Hillary Clinton did not read the reports...but was briefed by others . Most of the time...our Senators are briefed about bills. Read her speech at the time of the vote. Even than...she said...last resort. I dont fault her for that vote. She has sponsored a bill with Senator Lindsay Graham to improve Tri Care...which improved the health insurance of our National Guard upon their return from the War. Senator Lindsay Graham is a Republican...who lead the attemtp to impeach her husband, I think that proves she is bi-partisan..and can work across the aisle

  • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/12/2008 4:43:31 PM

    Comment: Maybe I am black or colored? mulato? do YOU know me? Everybody can only see color, and this is the colorblindness, sometimes when you are colored, and have grown up colored you have a better understand of the manipulations used against white people.

  • Posted By: toijoi @ 01/12/2008 4:33:09 PM

    Comment: Just state what is really on your mind!! Your scared to death that a "BLACK MAN" just might really win this election and run this damn country.The Republicans had their chance and they F**** Up!!!! Big Time, by electing Bush!! Come on now. Think out side the box. This is the 21st century , not to mention year "2008" and anything is possible .....I love the "Motto" they are all using this year. "IT IS TIME FOR CHANGE". And you know it.

    • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/12/2008 16:59:19

      Comment: Not a blackman, just OBAMA, he is all FLUFF. I know much better black men, he is not our only one!! There will be others. Do we think sooo little of our black community and know so little of it, talk about ignorance!

      • Posted By: cyberella @ 01/31/2008 21:08:45

        Comment: A change to what? Educate yourself.
        Google "Freedom's Enemies, Barack Hussein Obama" by Beckwith.
        Massive file on Obama's past Islamic history and present connections with black supremacist radicals/American Muslim activists- backed up by at least two links.

  • Posted By: deanphoward1725 @ 01/12/2008 10:31:05 AM

    Comment: Check out this piece on Obama, very interesting

    http://www.newstatesman.com/200801100000

    • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/12/2008 17:17:52

      Comment: Thank-you. Very informative on his true political nature, and how the US is perceived by one of our strongest allies, Grat Britain. I had heard OBAMA supported more deployment into Afgahnistan as well, from his own mouth, in an offhanded remark, it was quite frightening. But Pakistan as well, that would really help now that they have assasinated a leader, I hope everyone understands this is sarcasm. I wonder why he is not a Republican., he does like the idea of war and invasion.

  • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/12/2008 2:59:49 AM

    Comment: Shoot I'll even go work on the campaign against OBAMA>I will not allow, this country to be lead by a person schooled by ISLAMO JIHADISTS, that will not speak openly about this reality, be accountable to it publicly, whether he be black, white,red, they are not off the hook of accountability. Childhood impressionism is the strongest. I LOVE MY COUNTRY> I AM NOT BLINDED BY ALL THE HOOPLA>

    • Posted By: adam in iowa city @ 01/12/2008 17:50:49

      Comment: Great, Tara, I'm sure any campaign would welcome a nut job like yourself. You do more damage to any cause you support than you could imagine.

  • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/12/2008 2:52:20 AM

    Comment: Honesty, like he cannot handle the job. He is too inexperienced for the job, Bush was too inexperienced for the job, we are in a jam. We have seen BEING PRESIDENT IS NOT AN ATTITUDE> BUSH THOUGHT HE COULD PULL THAT ONE OFF> IF YOU PICK OBAMA, I PICK OLD FART REPUBLICAN WHOOSE BEEN AROUND THE MAYFLOWER POLE AND SO WILL EVEYONE ELSE> we cannot afford more ineperience.

  • Posted By: Mwalimu @ 01/12/2008 2:05:11 AM

    Comment: Let's examine this one quote from your article: Obama's high-minded themes of hope and change???and not getting your hands dirty???can come off as earnest, even naive, in the world of hardball presidential politics" Obama's campaign is really a test of what of people Americans really are. If Obama loses the election because he plays clean - then America does not deserve a leader like Obama. And Americans do not deserve my allegiance either. Maybe we can get annexed by France. (which has the best medeical system inthe word according to the WHO)

  • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/12/2008 1:13:14 AM

    Comment: We just had s minor Earthquake. You guys don't know how often our life is challenged out here in CA we maybe home to Hollywood but we are tough hardy people that understnd REALITY>

    Well I saw Hilary today at a solar panel factory. In Commerce outside of Pasadena. This factory creates its own energy to manufacture solar panels and retrain workers to install solar panels. Hilary will require that all Federal Buidings be retrofitted with solar energypanels.

    Germany does this, they do not have the climate we do. This is the kind of connections and planning need to hit the ground running. Practcal infrastucture rebuilding needed, the enviroment has suffered from our president not being talented enough to handle enough issues.

    Wonderful that we can vote for a candidate that is talented enough, America's best. A product of the DREAM.

    No exporting of American jobs, it was great to smooze with the friends of my community. It was a deep breath in to see the issues of the homeless, vets and working people be addressed and meet the people working to meet the boys when they get home, No influx of vets to the street like after the Vietnam War. That was a big sigh of relief. We will be prepared, with Hilary and her supporters. I don't think people see how big this job is and how necessary an experienced hand is , just for this one issue. Reality can be difficult.

  • Posted By: stopthebitch @ 01/11/2008 11:38:09 PM

    Comment: Hopefully Obama wins the nomination.
    www,stopthebitch.org

    • Posted By: adam in iowa city @ 01/12/2008 00:02:57

      Comment: I'm definitely not pro-Hillary, as anyone who scans my posts can tell, but I don't support the sexist overtones of "stopthebitch".

  • Posted By: Sean1030 @ 01/11/2008 3:05:15 PM

    Comment: What I find is interesting is that Barack Obama is being touted as the first "african American" president. His mother is not "African American", thus neither is he. He is a bi-racial American. Why does American always want to label bi-racial people as "black?" If you have a child who is half Japanese and half Chinese, you don't call that child "Chinese" do you? Why then should a child wih a black parent and a white parent be considered "black?"

    • Posted By: adam in iowa city @ 01/12/2008 00:01:56

      Comment: I think it has a lot to do with history, the "one drop" standard for blackness under Jim Crow, etc.

  • Posted By: safipa @ 01/11/2008 11:04:26 AM

    Comment: In response to:
    Does anyone have any information about Kucinich' request for a recount in New Hampshire?

    checkthevotes.com

  • Posted By: 4truth @ 01/10/2008 11:59:01 PM

    Comment: Does anyone have any information about Kucinich' request for a recount in New Hampshire? I read that he formally filed the appropriate documents and paid the $2000.00 required. He said it wasn't a matter of questioning his votes, but the votes tallied for Obama and Clinton. The article stated that Obama won the precincts in which votes were counted by hand and Clinton won the precincts which were counted electronically.

  • Posted By: adam in iowa city @ 01/10/2008 11:03:30 PM

    Comment: LOL Patriot8, your post could serve as a perfect example of slanted and unreliable sourcing for any research and writing 101 course. For the millionth time, serious, competent, professional journalists have thoroughly debunked this right wing racist propaganda: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp.

    I hope the decent, reasonable people of America take note of the hatred and ignorance of the right in every such post by you and your kind. Obama is inviting us to step free of the legacy of fear, darkness, and hate that you and your kind represent, to embrace the values of truth and equality that this country claims to stand for.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 01/10/2008 9:58:34 PM

    Comment: Excellent comment, however this make OBAMA human. THat is what many YOUNG individuals experience. OBAMA WILL WIN THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION.

    Change is a verb not a platform @ 01/08/2008 4:39:43 PM
    Comment: This is what Obama said about himself:
    "Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final fatal role of the young would be black man," Obama wrote. Mostly he smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, Obama wrote, but occasionally he would snort cocaine when he could afford it.
    Drugs, Obama wrote, were a way he "could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory."


  • Posted By: patriot08 @ 01/10/2008 9:28:37 PM

    Comment: Educate yourself:

    Barack Hussein Obama:

    http://www.examiner.com/a-534540~Can...or_Obama_.html
    http://www.examiner.com/a-536474~_Tr...-article-obama
    http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm
    http://pedestrianinfidel.blogspot.co...tand-with.html
    http://www.geocities.com/northstarzone/OBAMA.html
    http://www.usvetdsp.com/dec06/obama_muslim.htm

    • Posted By: stopthebitch @ 01/11/2008 23:41:38

      Comment: Hillary would be much worse... www.stopthebitch.org

      • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/12/2008 01:22:04

        Comment: I am sorry that you did not love the women in your life. I hope you heal.

  • Posted By: 2thetruth @ 01/10/2008 9:20:49 PM

    Comment: Mr. Obama is young, true, however our concern should be that he has no applicable experience to show us that he is able to run a nation. Senators push bills around are continually running for office. When I look at Governor Mike Huckabee and what he has accomplished (going by the record and not what is recorded by the media) I'm impressed by what he accomplished. Look, Arkansas is primarily a Democratic state. I read that Mr. Huckabee was elected after being governor for two years. I think he was put in office by some circumstance of the previous governor, not really sure. What is interesting is that he is a Republican, that was elected as governor in a primarily Democratic state. When I checked into what he has done for that state
    1) Left office with a record budget surplus, when he started with a deficit
    2) Sponsored the largest broad-based tax cut in Arkansas history (including Bill Clinton's era)
    3) Cut the state welfare rolls in half
    4) Cut the states number of uninsured children by half
    5) Named one of America's top five governors by TIME
    6) Effectively handled the influx of 75,000 Katrina victims
    Then I did some looking at the faritax plan that he is endorsing and it makes sense. I read the book by Neal Boortz. I didn't realize that the Federal Income tax is actually unconstitutional. It puts more money in the hands of the people by giving all households a prebate check each month. I find it curious that most of the media coverage on the fair tax plan either misquotes the plan or actually lies about it. Pretty much across the board. You should at least look at the book. I'm excited about doing away with the I.R.S. and getting to keep all of my paycheck. Not paying taxes on my 401K money when I retire and seeing economic growth and jobs provided. He proposes energy conservation, and weening this nation off of petroleum based fuels within ten years. I don't know, Barak Obama seems like a nice guy, but Mike Huckabee seems to have way more experience in helping people like me, average middle class and supporting a family. Besides, I like how he got a state of mostly Democrats to vote Republican and elect him after two years in office, hands down. Read the facts, but be careful. The major media networks are not giving out the exact truth on this candidate and some of his quotes and stands on the issues. Especially their coverage about the candidate himself. You would think the guy never won the Iowa Caucus. As for Obama, he would be my next choice, if it weren't for his position on abortion. And it made me nervous to learn that he would not put his hand over his heart and pledge his allegiance to the United States. That and the fact that he was schooled in the middle east makes me nervous. How did he answer to this, does anyone know?

    • Posted By: adam in iowa city @ 01/10/2008 23:11:57

      Comment: Accidentally posted my reply on the comment below.

    • Posted By: adam in iowa city @ 01/10/2008 23:11:13

      Comment: He wasn't schooled in the middle east, he was schooled in Indonesia and the U.S. And sometimes he puts his hand over his heart, and sometimes he doesn't. To judge someone based on such a juvenile and fetishistic symbol of patriotism, over the substance itself, is pretty silly. After all, any selfish and lazy jerk can put his hand on his heart, salute, etc., but it's far more patriotic to actually commit your life to serving your community, as Obama has done as a community organizer.

  • Posted By: bharvey @ 01/10/2008 12:22:34 PM

    Comment: it's not logical to deport 12 million immigrants.

    mccain has horrible experience: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrJKB22PITs

  • Posted By: bharvey @ 01/10/2008 12:20:52 PM

    Comment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrJKB22PITs

  • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/10/2008 1:08:03 AM

    Comment: WE did not during Reagan' s time elect ever think of electing a MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE!!!!!

    • Posted By: adam in iowa city @ 01/12/2008 00:14:15

      Comment: Tara is just a bigot and/or nuts, spreading false and ugly stories that everyone knows are lies. In addition to the snopes cite, Newsweek, itself has an article on this: http://www.newsweek.com/id/91424/page/4.

      • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/12/2008 00:37:44

        Comment: I was not comfortable with communism while we were at 'war' with it. Why will Obama not speak openly about his childhood exposure/experience around Radical Jihadist Islam, yes I am aware in Indonesia, not any less dangerous. Maybe his experience will serve the United States well while he is president. Obama has written openly about his drug and alcohol use. Is it some secret that he went to this school, no because I am telling you., Now. When I get back to you. I will have the name. He is a Manchurian Canditate, He is not our DREAM> We can ask for more. Don't believe Hollywood, You are being Snowed, infiltrated. USA>

  • Posted By: herbiemax @ 01/09/2008 9:53:16 PM

    Comment: I have a problem with both Hillary and Barracks attitude on Illegal imigration, are all of you in support of it? please answer

    • Posted By: DenaSilver @ 02/20/2008 11:28:29

      Comment: Obama is in favor of respecting the rule of law and protecting our borders, HOWEVER he understands the plight of MOST immigrants, the ones in search of a decent, better and safe life for their children, which is what (he points out) those who came before us (without the rigamarol imposed on immigrants today)
      were in search of.

    • Posted By: DenaSilver @ 02/20/2008 11:27:13

      Comment: Obama is in favor of respecting the rule of law and protecting our borders, HOWEVER he understands the plight of MOST immigrants, the ones in search of a decent, better and safe life for their children, which is what (he points out) those who came before us (without the rigamarol imposed on immigrants today)
      were in search of.

    • Posted By: DenaSilver @ 02/20/2008 11:26:42

      Comment: Obama is in favor of respecting the rule of law and protecting our borders, HOWEVER he understands the plight of MOST immigrants, the ones in search of a decent, better and safe life for their children, which is what (he points out) those who came before us (without the rigamarol imposed on immigrants today)
      were in search of.

  • Posted By: Voice-from-the-Grandstand @ 01/09/2008 5:51:03 PM

    Comment: Change is also about running a positive, optimistic and futuristic campaign. If this great man can sustain these attitudes of integrity throughout the rest of the year, it just might land him in the White House come November. Everyone is tired of the negative attacks, especially on each other. When we say we want change, let it begin with campaign strategies! GObama, GO!!!

  • Posted By: av3who @ 01/09/2008 1:41:07 PM

    Comment: ............what doesn't it have to do with obama?

  • Posted By: av3who @ 01/09/2008 12:22:48 PM

    Comment: CHANGE IS HAVING RECORD VOTING TURNOUTS. CHANGE IS COMMANDING FAIRLY CIVIL CAMPAIGNING FROM AN ENTIRE PARTY (until recently). CHANGE IS HAVING YOUNG VOTERS CARING ABOUT AN ELECTION. CHANGE IS TAKING MONEY FROM INDIVIDUALS, NOT SPECIAL INTERESTS AND LOBBYISTS. CHANGE IS BEING THE ONLY CANDIDATE (besides ron paul) HAVING A CONSISTENT MESSAGE THROUGHOUT AN ENTIRE CAMPAIGN. CHANGE IS HAVING DEMOCRATS, INDEPENDENTS AND A FEW REPUBLICANS CHAMPIONING YOUR CAUSE. CHANGE IS HAVING THE ENTIRE WORLD EYEING AN AMERICAN ELECTION, EAGER, NOT WORRIED, ABOUT THE OUTCOME. CHANGE IS HAVING HOPE, NOT FEAR.

    how can people not see the change that Barack Obama has already brought to this election?

  • Posted By: mjosephadm @ 01/09/2008 12:08:10 PM

    Comment: Let's keep our eye on the ball. The complexion of this election can turn on a dime when we have a national or international incident before the summer conventions. At that time, experience will dominate.

  • Posted By: Micky Marsh @ 01/09/2008 9:59:14 AM

    Comment: Democrats we're the optimist
    Lets stay ahead of the critics
    Lets build the economy
    Join Barack Obama the Economist
    Look to the head of class
    Senator Barack obama is here at last
    Thanks to the American Lads
    Democracy spell victory in USA Land.

  • Posted By: hafees @ 01/09/2008 6:20:35 AM

    Comment: Obama can only win if America and Americans are ready for change. This man transcends race, political experience, and what ever you might think is a disadvantage on his part. I hope America can choose a president that will make the world safe by not throwing the world into war. Please America embrace the freshness of this man and launch a new America. Lots of people here in Nigeria are actually monitoring your election, we hope there would be no 'unmentioned' rigging as witnesed when Bush came in the first time. .

  • Posted By: DeFalcon @ 01/09/2008 2:47:12 AM

    Comment: Oh one more thing, meeting and sitting down with your enemies and working things out is not a sign of defeat or weakness. look at what Reagan did with Gorbachev. in reality there will always be those who would like to destroy you but wouldn't it better if you work towards making those who do fewer. my point is to take a time out and meet face to face with the Binladen"s and otheres who want to destroy you and come to some agreement. don't always expect them to surrender so you can look good to the nation. but lay everything out as where you both stand and if after these efforts are made and they still insist on your destruction them by all means you would be in your right to defend yourselves even if it may mean taking the fight to them. i know just as they would have warmongers among them, you too would have. but please, for peace sake try the former. for your actions are felt globally in every way

  • Posted By: DeFalcon @ 01/09/2008 2:27:26 AM

    Comment: america is sooo devided one can only think maybe your democracy is starting to work against you and this is seen by the rest of the world that has look to the US for leardership for a very long time. and the devisiveness is also telling on your foreign policies and there by creating more enemies than you need. changes would not be easy or fast but definitely necessary because the global landscape is changing and you are seen as a bully in trying to keep the landscape favorable to yourselves. it's with great urgency that your politicians start a positive change with immidiate efect that in the following years when you are again preparing to elect another president the ground work for peace and renewed prosperity would be already there instead of the situation you have now trying to decided which war to end or which one to carry on. i know wars may always be there but take an example from japan, they have been in peace time now for 60years and is the second largest economy and leaders in science and technology and many more things that the rest of the world can benifit from.....time for that change america...it would benifit you in the end.

  • Posted By: DeFalcon @ 01/09/2008 1:48:25 AM

    Comment: It is an instinctive thing to be afraid of change, something like being scared of the dark when you're a kid. but america do need change. both in it's domestic and foreign policies. now it would be foolish to think that this change can all happen in one term of any president but it would be wise for the american people begin the change because it's necessary. america was built on change by those who came because they believed it was a place that would change their lives but somewhere between there and now, the politicians and business have blured the vision of true change and that has helped to push the country into a place that is now seen as " the great satan" as global hatered is now at it's peak. so i say to you americans put aside the things that have kept you on this devided edge for so long by those who have and are still benefiting from it come together as a nation and make that change even if the Obama guy is young. most of your ancestors were when they did so and look at what a country they built.

  • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/09/2008 1:24:11 AM

    Comment: Vinnete Biter looser.

  • Posted By: Vinette @ 01/09/2008 12:58:06 AM

    Comment: You know...several of us have mistaken this 'tarainla' person for someone with sense. Her posts are incoherant ramblings! Make this mistake no more. I certainly sha'n't!!

    • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/09/2008 01:00:17

      Comment: Kind of pissed you off, must be human after all.

  • Posted By: lxstw @ 01/09/2008 12:55:14 AM

    Comment: I've come back to this article and passed it on many times. So well-written. Today it resonated even more as Obama took the high road after being almost ludicrously (and falsely) smeared by a suddenly-bitter and whiney Bill Clinton. The audience wasn't too happy as Obama magnanimously--and genuinely--gave respect to ALL his opponents in his remarkable speech. We'll see whose attitude gets them further...

  • Posted By: edcooper @ 01/09/2008 12:21:38 AM

    Comment: I have voted Dem for the past two elections. If Hillary Clinton gets the Nomination I will vote Republican. It's Obama or bust for me. Houston supports Barack Obama. I support Barack Obama. For some reason I do not trust Hillary Clinton. Loved Bill but she is no Bill Clinton.

  • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/09/2008 12:17:52 AM

    Comment: Check out Iowa, voted for a strongly evangelical candidate, Huckabee, and then a questionable Christian/Muslim Obama. Who would win? HUCKABEE. Hands downs. Mc Cain vs. Hillary that is a real challenge. A challenge of experience against experience. We have had 7 years of ROOKIE work, look where we are at. In debt..... sooo in debt.

    • Posted By: hawkindependent @ 01/09/2008 00:50:39

      Comment: "A questionable Christian/Muslim"? Why can you not accept that Obama's religion not a question among any reasonable, rational people? Do you for a second believe that the media would miss this story if it were true? Or are you just churning this up over and over again because you are so bigoted and brainwashed that you are hoping to scare people into voting against him?
      Answer me straight: how does Hillary's time as first lady, and as a director of Wal-Mart, qualify as desirable experience for president?

  • Posted By: Vinette @ 01/09/2008 12:00:07 AM

    Comment: You know... a woman will always know how to be a woman. All women know how to cry crocodile tears at just the right moment. I guess today, Hillary cashed in with those fake tears!

    We are not discouraged. We are putting our war-clothes on, and gearing up for South Carolina - my state!!! Bring it on Obama - we're ready to work! South Carlina is fired-up and ready to go!! Woo hoo!!

    • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/09/2008 00:20:34

      Comment: Are you a woman? Should your emotions make your words be questionable and not valid too? Thern nothing you just said means anything, you are not human for being human. Maybe we need a Human head to solve a very human crisis called WAR>

      • Posted By: Vinette @ 01/09/2008 00:44:55

        Comment: Respectfully, this is a country of free speech. However, your post regarding 'heads and war' is perhaps written in a code or language I haven't the key to decode. I am a woman. That's why I can see through Hill and her sensitivity tactic.

  • Posted By: bharvey @ 01/08/2008 11:19:30 PM

    Comment: That crying incident was solipsistic and narcissistic. It wasnt the crying that bothered me. It was the self-pity.

  • Posted By: hawkindependent @ 01/08/2008 10:43:23 PM

    Comment: So it's 1:1. Kinda disturbing how effective the Clinton hate/tear machine was with NH women voters...

  • Posted By: bharvey @ 01/08/2008 10:30:43 PM

    Comment: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/8/185438/7845/186/433066

    RON PAUL'S RACIST NEWSLETTERS REVEALED. and he ADMITS IT!

  • Posted By: bharvey @ 01/08/2008 10:30:34 PM

    Comment: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/8/185438/7845/186/433066

    RON PAUL'S RACIST NEWSLETTERS REVEALED. and he ADMITS IT!

  • Posted By: hawkindependent @ 01/08/2008 10:09:57 PM

    Comment: Watch for a BIG push to get Edwards to withdraw from the race fast after tonight (I'm calling it for Hillary now that he only took Concord county by around 500 votes). If he's serious about this being about his cause, and not him, he can't in good faith keep splitting the vote and handing Hillary her spread, given that he's not really viable at this point.

  • Posted By: adam in iowa city @ 01/08/2008 9:22:17 PM

    Comment: Interesting to note that if the 70% of Edwards supporters who strongly disfavor Hillary would swing to Obama, he'd be ahead by around 6,000 votes. That's not even counting Richards. When/if Richardson and Edwards withdraw from the race, this suggests a boost for Obama. In the meantime, Obama up 500 or so votes in Concord, now 2,300 votes behind statewide, with most of the more liberal counties out statewide, and the college towns still out...

  • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/08/2008 9:15:51 PM

    Comment: Yeah for the women of the United States, New Hampshire, keeper of Home and Hearth. It is we who ultimately bear the burden of worry for our children, in the armed services and in other forms of public service in foreign lands!!! Lets keep this weirdness out!!

    • Posted By: hawkindependent @ 01/09/2008 00:18:10

      Comment: Bizarre post... Men don't worry for our children or serve in the armed forces or other public service? Especially given your earlier xenophobic posts, who's showing the weirdness?

  • Posted By: adam in iowa city @ 01/08/2008 9:01:02 PM

    Comment: 60% of Concord, the most liberal large urban center, reporting, and Obama is only up by a couple hundred votes. If Obama can't get it within 2,000 votes, at least, in Concord, he better hope for a large turnout in the more rural, Western counties...

  • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/08/2008 8:53:42 PM

    Comment: Maya Angelou, Oprah's mentor supports Hillary Clinton. Quincy Jones supports Hillary, as does Magic Johnson, surprising, isn't it?

    • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/08/2008 20:57:59

      Comment: Why not Obama you think maybe they know him? Well, they know Hillary and personally endorse her.

  • Posted By: adam in iowa city @ 01/08/2008 8:24:47 PM

    Comment: Interesting numbers so far in NH: Clinton leading, and polling stronger among women, who are turning out in significantly larger numbers tonight: http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/epolls/index.html#NHDEM

  • Posted By: Change is a verb not a platform @ 01/08/2008 7:20:58 PM

    Comment: Saltydog: That is all well and good if you are running for Homecoming Queen. This position needs, requires much , much more. Obama should learn more, gain experience and then come back to this race, after he matures. At this point, Obama is just another Jimmy Carter only with a tan. A one-term President at most who will delay any real progress in this country. Or as the republicans want...someone who is beatable!

  • Posted By: Saltydog_0 @ 01/08/2008 7:04:35 PM

    Comment: Yes. Obama admitted to using drugs. Hard ones. And he didn't try to soften the truth by saying he didn't inhale. He also admits that he could be disenfranchised with politics after a few more years in Washington. Furthermore, he admits that he can be arrogant and often needs his wife to keep his ego in check.

    That impresses the hell out of me. Barrack is a human being in touch with his humanity. He doesn't claim to be perfect. He doesn't try to hide his imperfections. He doesn't make excuses for his mistakes. How the hell did he ever get into politics? If politicians had a union, they surely would have revoked his membership card by now.

    Folks, integrity doesn't mean you don't make mistakes. Integrity means you stand strong in the face of the truth. You don't lie. You don't downplay. You don't try to manipulate the effects that result from the truth being told.

    I would much rather see Obama run a campaign with integrity and lose, than see him manipulate his way into the oval office because he thinks the ends justify the means. They don't.

  • Posted By: hawkindependent @ 01/08/2008 5:22:50 PM

    Comment: Is anyone else bothered by the Clintons' nonsensical attack on Obama's votes in support of the bills funding the war? Once the troops were in the field was Obama supposed to vote to cut off their lifeline? How is it inconsistent to oppose a war, but when one is started notwithstanding your opposition, to give the soldiers what they need. Again, as someone who caucused for Obama but would want to be comfortable supporting Hillary should she win the nomination, this bothers me.

    Still waiting for Hillary or her supporters to explain her service on the Wal-Mart board, or how her vote for the war is the kind of foreign policy experience/judgment we need...

    • Posted By: herbiemax @ 01/09/2008 21:48:35

      Comment: Don't know what this Wall-Mart board is about unless it is because of the imports Wall-mart has= Wall-Mart was not always the big importer they used to advertise Made In America

    • Posted By: Specialist_Andujar @ 01/08/2008 19:42:10

      Comment: Thanks hawk! I posted the same thing on another article, no one's listening.

  • Posted By: Change is a verb not a platform @ 01/08/2008 4:39:43 PM

    Comment: This is what Obama said about himself:
    "Junkie. Pothead. That's where I'd been headed: the final fatal role of the young would be black man," Obama wrote. Mostly he smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, Obama wrote, but occasionally he would snort cocaine when he could afford it.
    Drugs, Obama wrote, were a way he "could push questions of who I was out of my mind, something that could flatten out the landscape of my heart, blur the edges of my memory."

    • Posted By: Specialist_Andujar @ 01/08/2008 19:40:12

      Comment: "I did not inhale"

      • Posted By: Change is a verb not a platform @ 01/08/2008 21:34:16

        Comment: Why not? Were you thinking of running for president or getting laid like Obama?

  • Posted By: Change is a verb not a platform @ 01/08/2008 4:31:48 PM

    Comment: What drugs did Obama admit to using? Crack, pot, alcohol, cocaine ?

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 01/08/2008 4:20:33 PM

    Comment: Posted By: eddiewhere @ 01/05/2008 5:40:37 PM
    Comment: "There are hints that Obama in a general election campaign would be ill-equipped to withstand the inevitable GOP barrage of attacks on his admitted past drug use, his left-of-center record, and his exotic ethnic background." These are very, very weak arguments.

    THESE ARGUMENTS WILL NOT BRING HILLARY VICTORY. OBAMA represents a movement that is positive. The Hillary camp needs to keep their gloves on and open their minds to reality. Americans do not like your style of politics. . If the American people do not like you, they will not vote for you. They just don't get it. These are the issues Hillary needs to address, security. foreign policy, and the middle class. Handling GOP attacks is nothing for OBAMA. If you CAN HANDLE HILLARY YOU CAN HANDLE ANYBODY.

    THE HILLARY CAMP is in denial. They need to listen to the PeoPle. Look how the HILLARY CAMP Have already began talking negative about Iowans. THE HiLLARY CAMp TURNED ON IOWANS.Trying to insinuate that they rarely Pick a President. Iowans are smart and never trusted the Clinton CamP that is why she came in Third. After all the TIME AND MONEY they spent in Iowa, the Hillary camp is now denying the importance ot the IOWA. They should been more humble and thank IOWA for teaching them their first lesson in the new .politics of change. Although the MESSAGE was sent loud and clear, The Hillary Camp did not hear it. They have insulted every Iowan that voted for them with those comments. This is the divisivness that democrats are tired off. There is a lot of bitterness in the Hillary camP, they refuse to recognize the movement behind OBAMA. They should embrace it. If Hillary had a good relationship with Al GORE WHY has he not endorsed her. If your own former vice president does not endorse you, that means you have "relationship" issues. Obama has not flip flopped, he has run a focus and postive campaign. He does not keep flipping the script. His speech was from the HEART In Iowa and Americans believe him. Hillary's camp does not understand that people want a new kind of politics. Her tactics might have worked in the ninety's but it does not work now. THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT OBAMA WILL BE THE NEXT president.

    • Posted By: Change is a verb not a platform @ 01/08/2008 16:28:51

      Comment: What drugs did Obama admit to using? Crack, pot, alcohol, cocaine ?

      • Posted By: Specialist_Andujar @ 01/08/2008 19:37:48

        Comment: Bill Clinton and Bush used some type of substances, and we can only guess how many of our elected officials are getting high right now..... Good attack though, that might work on some of the other idiots with similar views.

  • Posted By: bharvey @ 01/08/2008 4:18:25 PM

    Comment: to the comment about the backdrop of white supporters.... HIS LAST SPEECHES WERE IN IOWA AND NEW HAMPSHIRE... WHICH HAVE A 95% WHITE POPULATION... WHAT DO YOU EXPECT

  • Posted By: bharvey @ 01/08/2008 4:16:44 PM

    Comment: JESUS. people please educate yourselves.
    it seems the clinton's talk about fairy tale politics that they claim obama is preaching greatly overshadows the policy decisions that obama has actually been developing for quite a while now.

    hillary's camp keeps saying that all obama speaks about is "change change change" and that he is inexperienced in foreign policy. go watch the debates and interviews especially with russert. he's made clear distinctions on health care, yet clinton continues to mischaracterize it as misleading. if you want to see the "judgment" he always talks about, watch this interview with charlie rose and three foreign relations experts who all have praised barack for a distinctly nuanced and broader approach to the problem of al-qaeda, pakistan and iraq:
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9096494510369193024

    and by the way, Obama has a lot of black supporters:


    • Posted By: Change is a verb not a platform @ 01/08/2008 16:20:38

      Comment: Obama is purposely keeping his Black supporters "at the back of the bus" shall I say, for photo ops and I think it is disgusting!

      • Posted By: DeFalcon @ 01/09/2008 00:42:28

        Comment: semms like you've missed the bus with a comment like that!!!Enter Your Comment

      • Posted By: Vinette @ 01/09/2008 00:37:29

        Comment: I have been to a rally. Those who are visible behind him as he speaks are those persons present at the rallies. I don't think you could expect to see the Black Panthers standing behind him in IOWA, hello?

      • Posted By: DeFalcon @ 01/09/2008 00:11:18

        Comment: i think you've missed the bus....with a comment like that. even though there is still the question of race and may always be, you are totally out of sinc with the message from obam's camp.

  • Posted By: Change is a verb not a platform @ 01/08/2008 4:05:56 PM

    Comment: Ever notice how in all of OBAMA's speeches he is surrounded by mostly white people, maybe one back and two Hispanics? Seems odd if that is in fact th majority of his supporters....

    Where are Obama's black supporters? MIA for the moment?

    • Posted By: DeFalcon @ 01/09/2008 00:20:12

      Comment: get your math right. if these two states are both about 95% white what do you expect to see. and pleasssseee. get the picture that this guy's message is not on any racial borderline...wake up man.

    • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/08/2008 16:50:16

      Comment: Maya Angelou, Oprahs mentor, backs Hilary Clinton. Magic Johnson, backs Hilary. As does another major record producer community advocate,Qucy Jones. This is where Obamas would be community is, they know the real thing when they see it. Oprah back killer surgeons and false book writers. Oprah is not yet a wise one. Can we listen to the wise one of one's own community????

    • Posted By: AphiA12 @ 01/08/2008 16:44:37

      Comment: Iowa and NH have very very small black and latino populations. The people in the background reflect the demographics of those 2 states....

  • Posted By: Change is a verb not a platform @ 01/08/2008 4:00:41 PM

    Comment: a

  • Posted By: anitamla @ 01/08/2008 3:15:45 PM

    Comment: Everyone is on the "change" bandwagon. Hillary talks about producing 35 years of change--not really. What she did was do her job. And effectively and competently. I'm sure she will be an outstanding senator in the coming years. The change that Obama is talking about comes from the inide out. Look at the grassroots campaign he has put together and the tone that he set in the trenches of the campaign. The Clintons, Bushes, Nixon, all practiced the down and dirty, ball busting politics. Be alert to the phony Mitt Romney's "change" with these tactics also. I think how the campaign is run, gives an indication of how the administration will be run

  • Posted By: av3who @ 01/08/2008 3:09:00 PM

    Comment: the only beating i've seen is FROM the clinton camp. WE HAVE HAD A BUSH CLINTON DYNASTY THE LAST 20 YEARS. THIS TYPE OF INCUMBENCY BREEDS COMPLACENCY AND CORRUPTION. GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW THIS, HE TURNED DOWN A GUARANTEED THIRD TERM. IF THE CLINTONS LOVED THIS COUNTRY SO DEARLY, AND IF IT WASNT ABOUT POLITICS, THEY WOULD SEE THIS AND DO LIKEWISE. THE EXPERIENCED ESTABLISHMENT IS RUNNING THIS COUNTRY INTO THE GROUND WHILE PADDING THEIR OWN POCKETS.

    TO THIS THERE IS NO DEBATE.

  • Posted By: Belker @ 01/08/2008 3:03:08 PM

    Comment:

    Obama has faulted Hillary for "ambition". Yet here in this site we see that he has planned on being president for most of his lifetime. The real question is why does the Frankenmedia allow Obama to beat up on Hillary without question when Obama is a hypocrite on the issue? Is the media afraid of being called racist if it even dares to ask?

    Or is the mostly male media afraid that if Hillary is elected, she'll push for a law requiring the neutering of obnoxious "journalists"?

  • Posted By: Belker @ 01/08/2008 2:49:27 PM

    Comment:
    The Vietnam War energized the younger generation like those who pine for OBama now. The Deomocratic Party nominated anti-war McGovern. The engergized had already moved on and let McGovern go onto one of the worst election defeats in history. A history lesson for the Obamanuts.

  • Posted By: hauptma2 @ 01/08/2008 1:49:11 PM

    Comment: As a college student I first hand witnessed the apathy surrounding political discourse particularly when the 2004 election came around. Despite voting in 2004, I still felt as if i was voting for the lesser of two evils. When i listen to Obama and I read about his policies and ideals I feel for the first time in my life that here is a candidate whom I truly want to vote for. He has shaken me out of my political apathy and his message resonates with my generation. Iowa proved that Obama can instill a sense of purpose in younger voters which no other candidate democrat or republican has done (or i think can do).

  • Posted By: hauptma2 @ 01/08/2008 1:47:38 PM

    Comment: As a college student I first hand witnessed the apathy surrounding political discourse particularly when the 2004 election came around. Despite voting in 2004, I still felt as if i was voting for the lesser of two evils. When i listen to Obama and I read about his policies and ideals I feel for the first time in my life that here is a candidate whom I truly want to vote for. He has shaken me out of my political apathy and his message resonates with my generation. Iowa proved that Obama can instill a sense of purpose in younger voters which no other candidate democrat or republican has done (or i think can do).

  • Posted By: William.king1 @ 01/08/2008 1:16:41 PM

    Comment: Hillary's problem is obvious. Obama is seen as the next RFK...she's seen as HHH.

    • Posted By: SickofElectonAlready @ 01/08/2008 16:11:54

      Comment: I look at Obama as the next Jimmy Carter, good guyt, bad president, great ex-president.

  • Posted By: adam in iowa city @ 01/08/2008 10:50:20 AM

    Comment: Why won't Hillary address her years on the board of Wal-Mart? I want to be comfortable supporting the Dem nominee, whether it's Obama or Clinton, but this makes me uneasy.

  • Posted By: Marshallm @ 01/08/2008 7:34:01 AM

    Comment: Senator Obama is on a journey
    For sure he's carring a burden
    but he's on the "REVIVAL TRAIN"
    Don't miss this ticket
    Revival time is here again
    The tide is high but we're moving on
    Americans; lets ride, lets ride
    Revival time is here again.

  • Posted By: Marshallm @ 01/08/2008 7:20:06 AM

    Comment: Senator Obama is on a journey; His mode of transportation is the "REVIVAL TRAIN" , be sure to get a ticket for this train;
    Americans lets ride, lets ride; the tide is high but we're moving on; it's revival time again.

  • Posted By: sedat @ 01/08/2008 3:08:15 AM

    Comment: As an european union citizen , I would be glad to see Hillary running for presidency despite the fact that Obama seems like a better candidate than Clinton considering american domestic politics (Obama's policies regarding health care issues seem promising and He is a really convincing). However, I do not think that Obama has the enough experience to be a president of the USA when it comes to international politics. My fear with the probable election of Obama is that USA will lose its central position in world economics and politics and will much focus on its internal issue. Such a drastic change might unbalance the world dynamics.

    • Posted By: SickofElectonAlready @ 01/08/2008 08:06:26

      Comment: What you see here is a divided democratic party and there is no chance of a democrat winning with a divided party. A republican will win. Too many Obama supporters bashing Clinton. Hard feelings have developed.

      • Posted By: av3who @ 01/08/2008 13:01:56

        Comment: obama supporters bashing clinton? oh yeah thats a one way street. since iowa all hillary has been doing is bashing obama. it goes both ways and you know it. and it needs to stop

  • Posted By: sedat @ 01/08/2008 3:07:52 AM

    Comment: As an european union citizen , I would be glad to see Hillary running for presidency despite the fact that Obama seems like a better candidate than Clinton considering american domestic politics (Obama's policies regarding health care issues seem promising and He is a really convincing). However, I do not think that Obama has the enough experience to be a president of the USA when it comes to international politics. My fear with the probable election of Obama is that USA will lose its central position in world economics and politics and will much focus on its internal issue. Such a drastic change might unbalance the world dynamics.

    • Posted By: ishmael @ 01/08/2008 17:58:53

      Comment: For friggs sake - even George W. Bush became president. Need I say more?

  • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/08/2008 2:04:54 AM

    Comment: Hopefully Obama will speak to these when the camera is on him, he has not had a very long career, and then expects to lead this country, hopefully he can cease more than just his devoted fans. So far I have heard him only speak of winning. Looks a little ego-maniacal. Like he likes to hear himself talk. God help us, We have suffered through 7 years of George W> So 4truth can u counter my personal opinion with your truthful sounding voice and counter me again?

  • Posted By: tarainla @ 01/08/2008 1:27:09 AM

    Comment: When I see Barack speak he only talks of winning, what then, no talk of service,or health plan, You know the most under-insured population is the young minority male. I am speaking up for them Give them a chance, thier sweat builds the infrastructure of this country, not us comfy muffins sitting here typing.

    • Posted By: djwiz1 @ 01/08/2008 08:46:03

      Comment: Tarainla is only listening to the sound bites on television and not doing any independent research on his/her own. You are not going to get a candidates stand on the issues be only watching the news. Do your research! Go to a rally. Google their speeches. Visit their websites. Educate yourself!