Inside Obama’s Dream Machine

Is it true that in Iowa, 17 year olds that were too young to register to vote, but whose birthdays would fall before the required date for registering for the general election, were allowed to caucus?

Obama does not want to discuss any specific agenda for dealing with the cult of Robber Baron corporados that are crushing the Amercan middle sector and selling off America's technology to the highest foreign bidder. Obama will not discuss his specific plans for dealing with the key reality that locks US foreign policy into contradictions and folly: OPEC oil power. Obama will discuss the poetry of what he "wants" but he will not dare discuss on what he is going to do about US environmental destruction and the rising problem of immigration. Obama wants to be sweetie pie nice because the heat of substantive specifics will cause him to melt. American's eat up such Oprah-feed TV imagery. Obama's lack of experience and substantive detail on issues both domestic and global, stand in striking contrast to the one candidate that actually had both awesome experience and deep substantive program directions: Joe Biden. Obama is a Hollywood storybook.

We don't care who gets in office, as long as it's a democrat to straighten out all of Bush and his administration's mistakes. It's going to take a democrat to bring our country back.

vjg75235@msn.com said: Candidacies which are built on emotions clearly do not carry any substance! Obama is not substantive enough to fill the vacuum in Washington!

First, you are uneducated to his campaign if you think it is all about Emotions. As for emotions, you forget the why, and where those emotions came from. The youth showed up in record numbers for a reason. "HINT" Even Clinton consider to forgetting about them... Here's your sign!

do we know about politics more then Obama ? As far as we know he is a senator ! it is not about "what the country can do for you but can you do for your country"

As I read the negative comments about Sen. Obama's probability of success as a potential POTUS, I'm reminded of the opinion that Mr. Justice Chaney authored following the Dread Scott case. He said: "The only rights a black has are the rights that a white man gives him". Hope, change and belief in the U.S. constitution turned the Chaney opinion into an obscene anachrorism. Such will be the fate of negative comments on Sen. Obama.

what are you talking about Obama he is a senator ! do you konw more about politics than Obama?
like you have just said " I have watched the devates " is it the same between watching and being at the devates?

I will take my chance on someone with vision and that's clearly what Obama offers!

We need to realize that Obama oweds his Iowa win to Oprah Winfrey and to no other. It is unfortrunate that the poeple who have jumped on this band wagon have all been swayed by the emotions of the moment. There is no substance to be found, other than sheer emotionalism on the part of individuals who do not and cannot think for themselves. This nation sorely needs an intellectual giant to lead it out of the morass created by the Bush administration - an intellectual giant on the order of Colin Powell, if it were to be an African American, a true leader! - not a pigmy grasping at emotional straws in the wind!
Candidacies which are built on emotions clearly do not carry any substance! Obama is not substantive enough to fill the vacuum in Washington!

Wow, the Clnton machine is revving up the attacks on Obama today. Must have noticed that he's opened up a double digit lead on her. She just doesn't seem to get it that the more she smears him, the more she feeds his lead. This politics of bitterness and diversion turns independents off, and feeds into the impression of Hillary the b*tch that the GOP has been selling for years.
It was a teling mistake to fill the stage at her concession speech in Iowa with all the grey eminences of the old party: Albright, Bill, Clark, etc. It reinforces the impression that she is very yesterday. Incumbency doesn't sell in this political climate, especially when 90 percent of her so-called experience is suspect (first lady, bankruptcy bill, war vote, Wal-Mart, etc.). If you look past the smoke and mirrors, you can see that Obama's experience is completely adequate, and his ability to appeal to what's good in America is potent political medicine.
One last point on the so-called emptiness of his rhetoric: stump speeches and sound bytes do not lend themselves to a point-by-point explication of the minutiae. If you listen to HRC or JE, or the GOP, you'll not the same lack of details. Go to their position papers if you want detail.

Let us understand that the Obama impetus was ctreated by Oprah Winfrey and no other in Iowa! The Obama bandwagon is nothing more than one great big emotional outpouring by people who cannot and do not ever think for themselves. This nation needs an intellectual giant to lead the nation, such as a Colin Powell, if it must be an African American! Obama does not fill any of this! I am not pushing any candidate so no one can accuse me of bigotry or anything else.
America must wake up to the reality that this nation has been plundered by the present administration, which in my opinion, is something which we have not been willing to truly face. The next president and administration must be up to the task of bringing sanity and world wide respect back to the USA! We desperately need someone of great stature at the helm, not a pygmy!

I have watched the debates and Obama is still full of the "change" talk but nothing more. I think his voters are so taken with his "change" talk that they have lost fact of the FACTS! Yes I agree we need change in America in just about every single area but I don't hear WHAT change Obama will do. I'm in the two parties that "they" say Obama is getting support from the under 30 and Independent. I'm not enchanted by his talk of change because he lacks the ability to tell me what change. I would write in my own vote before I would vote for Obama. God help America if this man becomes the next President, it's going to go from bad to worse!!

I have watched the debates and Obama is still full of the "change" talk but nothing more. I think his voters are so taken with his "change" talk that they have lost fact of the FACTS! Yes I agree we need change in America in just about every single area but I don't hear WHAT change Obama will do. I'm in the two parties that "they" say Obama is getting support from the under 30 and Independent. I'm not enchanted by his talk of change because he lacks the ability to tell me what change. I would write in my own vote before I would vote for Obama. God help America if this man becomes the next President, it's going to go from bad to worse!!

He frankly sounds hollow to me. An all his rhetorics are just that. There is just no substance to this guy.