Inside Obama’s Dream Machine

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  • Posted By: newswatching @ 01/06/2008 2:19:40 AM

    So Tom Pain who do you like?

  • Posted By: tom pain @ 01/06/2008 2:19:33 AM

    Have you talked to anyone about that stutter, eddiewhere? Certainly you're not reposting the same message over and over out of sheer stupidity. Or, are you a dispicable distortion-monger and are merely cutting and pasting that post from the Obama Field Guide for Minimally Intelligent Campaign Workers? I bet your Mom is sorry she ever took her shoes off.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 01/06/2008 2:11:27 AM

    "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: newswatching @ 01/06/2008 2:08:35 AM

    Attract more bees with honey -- his great speaking skills work. But his content, though not as defined as everyone wants to see it, is key. Positivity is what we need and is what Obama is bringing. Regardless of any lack of experience, he has given many of us a hope that things will get better. Positivity: thats what the older generations needs, thats what the middle generations need, and that's what the younger generations need -- It's what this nation needs. Sure Obama doesn't have the key nor does he claim to. But who wants to be lied to? I would much rather someone say "I don't know" than be sure about something knowing it's a lie.
    I hope to see him win the whole thing. His motivation has interested me enough to get involved in our politics as i am sure it's helped others.

    Bring it home Obama!!!

  • Posted By: tom pain @ 01/06/2008 2:05:30 AM

    Gustomaybe, with that comment you didn't even need to state that you weren't of voting age. Did Santa bring you everything on your list? Let me guess...you think war is terrible, global warming is melting the ice caps, and Britney Spears is talented, right? If it means anything, I was stupid enough to vote my George McGovern in my first election. You'll grow up, don't rush it. Shouldn't you be posting a Twitter about this?

  • Posted By: pdmack @ 01/06/2008 2:00:39 AM

    Obama passed the most significant ethics reform since Watergate. He can fix our government.

  • Posted By: Thinking Aloud @ 01/06/2008 1:58:56 AM

    President B.O. and an Omarosa look-alike First Lady. No, Thank you.

  • Posted By: tom pain @ 01/06/2008 1:55:16 AM

    One positive that could come from an Obama presidency: the end to blacks whining about discrimination. It's almost worth having a naive fool mucking around the White House if the likes of Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, and Louis Farrakhan were put out of the business of blackmailing America.

  • Posted By: Thinking Aloud @ 01/06/2008 1:51:38 AM

    What has Barack Obama done, for crying out loud, to convincingly and irrefutably demonstrate that he is the bona fide "agent of change"? From his tenures as a city council man and a state senator to a short stint at US senate, has he done anything to promote, facilitate and, more importantly, institute and accomplish the CHANGE???? Come on, he's been merely a member of the various "debating clubs" all these years, albeit an oratory and demogagueing one. Has he changed the dirty politics rampant in Chicago? Ironically, the notorious ballot-box-stuffing Chicago Daley gang actually endorses him and works for his campaign. Has he changed the quid pro quo politics as usual in his shady real estate dealings w/ a crimincally implicated Arab businessman? has he changed the race relationship for the better by ignoring his white side of family who was instrumental in what and where he is today and by joining an African-separatist-themed church for a while? The unwarranted and undeserved infatuation w/ Barack Obama by the press and ignorant electorates is simply ignoring the elephant in the living room, or more pertinently, is ignoring some serious B.O. in a packed and unventilated room.

  • Posted By: JayZee @ 01/05/2008 8:31:17 PM

    Hats off to Mr Obama, but more so to the people of Iowa who looked past color to do what they could to stop the Clinton Bandwagon. Sure it was a vote for a two year Senator with no experience, no bruises from tough decisions other than saying yes or no ... or present to a vote for legislation..and that's wonderful. However, I also think it was an "anti-Hillary" vote as much as it was for the slick orator from Illinois. If I was in Iowa I would have voted for Obama too...just to needle old Hill. Her message is old and tired; healthcare, end the war (withhout saying how), pro-abortion (as if anyone can get a judge on the Supreme Court that would abort Roe v Wade) .. and on and on ad nauseum... Obviously, Obama is not going to win in the racist eastern establishment democrat states...he is an outsider who is getting them peeved. Edwards probably comes out of all this a winner .. with Gore looking on rolling his eyes as the ice cap melts in the arctic and grows in the antartic.

    • Posted By: PatriotForObama @ 01/06/2008 1:00:53 AM

      I'm from Iowa and I voted for something. I voted for the intellectual. The idea of creating a strong majority through unity to fight corporate power moved me to volunteer, and work hard to elect the most inspiring leader I've ever known. Like Barack Obama, I believe in my country and in the idea that we are decent and good, and that when we join together, ordinary people can do extraordinary things!

      • Posted By: bpjam @ 01/06/2008 1:51:15 AM

        Can we presume then that as an Iowan that you are deadset against the corporate giveaways for those mega-ag producers in Iowa? Those guys who have more than doubled the cost of everything made with corn in less than a year and get 51 cents a gallon to subsidize ethanol which they still sell to you at the price of unleaded crude? I'll wait around for your anti-corporate answer. But I'll be hoping you keep your corporate hatred for your home state as well as those evil out-of-state corporations.

  • Posted By: Thinking Aloud @ 01/06/2008 1:51:13 AM

    What has Barack Obama done, for crying out loud, to convincingly and irrefutably demonstrate that he is the bona fide "agent of change"? From his tenures as a city council man and a state senator to a short stint at US senate, has he done anything to promote, facilitate and, more importantly, institute and accomplish the CHANGE???? Come on, he's been merely a member of the various "debating clubs" all these years, albeit an oratory and demogagueing one. Has he changed the dirty politics rampant in Chicago? Ironically, the notorious ballot-box-stuffing Chicago Daley gang actually endorses him and works for his campaign. Has he changed the quid pro quo politics as usual in his shady real estate dealings w/ a crimincally implicated Arab businessman? has he changed the race relationship for the better by ignoring his white side of family who was instrumental in what and where he is today and by joining an African-separatist-themed church for a while? The unwarranted and undeserved infatuation w/ Barack Obama by the press and ignorant electorates is simply ignoring the elephant in the living room, or more pertinently, is ignoring some serious B.O. in a packed and unventilated room.

  • Posted By: tom pain @ 01/06/2008 1:51:10 AM

    I'm accepting any and all wagers that Obama will not be the next President. Put up or shut up.

  • Posted By: GustoMaybe @ 01/06/2008 1:49:04 AM

    I'm not voting age, but I was thrilled to see Obama win in Iowa. He was about change first, before everyone else stole it. He might not know everything, but he doesn't claim to. What matters to me is the way he actually cares about the American people think, and how he really seems to want to change the insane way the government works anymore.

  • Posted By: tom pain @ 01/06/2008 1:47:49 AM

    I think anyone who believes that any major Presidential (or Congressional) candidate has altruistic motivations is an idiot. Since Obama's entire campaign exactly centers on the fantastical concept that he just wants to "do good" for America, and isn't just another power-mad ego maniac, that means that anyone who believes him is an idiot...just as anyone who thinks idealistically about any other candidate is an idiot. He's just as fake and insincere as Hillary and GW.

  • Posted By: scottked @ 01/05/2008 8:41:56 PM

    Obama is an intellectual midget..

    • Posted By: shopton @ 01/05/2008 10:12:14 PM

      all these cynics living in the past. lets move forward. Calling Obama an intellectual midget is ludicrious! He was a law professor and President of the Harvard Law Review. You can't be serious! Im sure you're a Bush supporter too, who was a career C student. some of you people amaze me!

      • Posted By: bpjam @ 01/06/2008 1:47:09 AM

        So, being a Harvard law grad is his qualification to be president? Why didn't you vote for Biden then if just being an egghead is your turnon? Obama has yet to DO anything which anybody can point to. Its the DOing which tends to tell us what a candidate will DO in the future. Apparently, liberalism only requires that he BELIEVE the right things whether or not he has or can DO any of them. Thank God we have more than one party.

    • Posted By: shopton @ 01/05/2008 10:09:18 PM

      all these cynics living in the past. lets move forward. Calling Obama an intellectual midget is ludicrious! He was a law professor and President of the Harvard Law Review. You can't be serious! Im sure you're a Bush supporter too, who was a career C student. some of you people amaze me!

  • Posted By: tom pain @ 01/06/2008 1:47:01 AM

    I think anyone who believes that any major Presidential (or Congressional) candidate has altruistic motivations is an idiot. Since Obama's entire campaign exactly centers on the fantastical concept that he just wants to "do good" for America, and isn't just another power-mad ego maniac, that means that anyone who believes him is an idiot...just as anyone who thinks idealistically about any other candidate is an idiot. He's just as fake and insincer as Hillary and GW.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 01/06/2008 1:46:58 AM

    "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: bpjam @ 01/06/2008 1:42:51 AM

    Obama is basically a motivational speaker. He could be pitching weight loss or get rich quick schemes and he would sound the same. How exactly is he going to 'bring everybody together' when he is about 97% partyline liberalism?? Where is the 'everybody' else going to come from? Do you people believe that somehow, magically, non-liberals are just going to sign up for amnesty, socialism and foreign policy of capitulation because Obama asks nicely or because the media seems so enthralled with him?

    Nobody - and I repeat - Nobody - has yet to actually take this guy on about anything. Hillary is afraid to attack the black guy but she will have no choice shortly. But even better. Do you think Hamas, Hezbollah and Al Qaeda will be happier with an Obama presidency than any other candidate? Don't tell me what you think they would want, who would Osama Bin Laden rather see elected? The same guy Newsweek wants.

  • Posted By: bpjam @ 01/06/2008 1:35:52 AM

    Wow, Obama couldn't have written a more glowing article if he has commissioned it himself. Hard to run against a guy who gets such flattering press everywhere he turns. It doesn't matter that Obama is a complete unknown even to his own supporters and has virtually no credentials or experience whatsoever. Apparently, his motivational speeches are enough to keep the media working for his campaign.

  • Posted By: barthd @ 01/06/2008 12:48:40 AM

    We, the next generation, deny your cynicism, fear, and hatred. Obama in 2008!

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