Inside Obama’s Dream Machine

That Pledge of Aligence email is complete garbage. Check out www.factcheck.com . He had is hand over his heart during the Pledge. But then put them at his side for the signing of "God Bless America" - when the picture in the email was taken. What a sin, I guess (sarcasm)?

The buzzzzz word is CHANGE. The answer comes down to ...Who can really achieve it. You must look at all the information you can find and decide who can get things done? What happens if in the coming years the Democrats loose seats in the House and Senate. Who is strong enough to deliver then? The answer is Experience....Hilllary is the answer.

it doesnt take a rocket scientist to see that "change" is not having someone named bush or clinton in the White House FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 20 YEARS!!!!!!! Take your experience and shove it! I dont want someone in the white house who has to scratch anybodys back but the American people's. and the only ignorant young people out there are the ones who ARENT participating in this election. say what you will but everyone over the age of 18 who's not a felon does get the opportunity to vote PER OUR CONSTITUTION. as for our percieved "ignorance", i dont see what is so ignorant about trying to get a say in a government that is spending OUR social security money into the ground, sending OUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY over to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan(Two of my friends are going over without M-4s or BODY ARMOR), polluting OUR planet to its breaking point(the list could go on) ALL THE WHILE PADDING THEIR OWN POCKETS. WE ARE TIRED OF A GOVERNMENT THAT IS PUSHING ALL ITS PROBLEMS OFF ON THE NEXT GENERATION (US) AND WE ARE FINALLY BEGINNING TO REALIZE THAT WE CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

Your comment has nothing to do with the Clinton team ability to deal with foreign policy and now they are on Obama's team. Why do you not comment on my statement on the cause and the failure of the team now working for him. Who does he have who can ensure a steadfast foreign policy so that we can stabilize our domestic policies? Poor attempt at switching the debate. Everyone acknowledges where we are at today and why. We got here over decades and Obama's team record is not heartening.

I'm a 48-year old Ph.D. scientist, so I think I have a bit of a brain in my head. I do have reservations about my choice, but I support Obama. Barack Obama is by far the most brilliant and intellectual of all the candidates, both Democratic and Republican. Does this translate into a successful presidency? That is impossible to know. Some smart people make great leaders, others not. At least your chances for good results are better with smart rather than stupid (i.e., Bush). The experience aspect is totally irrelevant. Some of Washington's most "experienced" have gotten us into the disaster we are now in. A person with the right mixture of vision, skill, understanding, and motivation can enter any position and do well, without "experience". That's my gamble with Obama.

This article clearly articulates the problem with politics in America today and why it is so important for us to elect Obama. We are a nation of jaded cynics. I know I am! I am almost afraid of supporting Obama because he seems too good to be true. He avoids negative campaigning, he hasn't sold out to corporations and he addresses issues with thorough responses instead of canned, focus group vetted quips.

What impresses me the most is how up front he is about the possibility of him being corrupted by the political system. Wow! Everyone knows it happens to the best of politicians, but I've never heard of one admitting that they are susceptible to the enormous pressure to cave-in to the belief that "things are the way they are". How many politicians have entered the game with naive intentions to change the way things are done in Washington, only to have their spirit crushed until they became the establishment they once rebelled against? Does anybody remember John McCain eight years ago? He launched a crusade against corporate sponsored politics, only to lose in the primaries to an imbecile puppet of Haliburton. Well, look at him now. He's puckered up to the behinds of corporate sponsors and the rigid religious right he once said he would never share a table with. A man who's character stood up to years of physical and emotional torture in Vietnam was brought to his knees by the far more insidious program of repression called American politics.

We lost an opportunity in 2000 to strike a blow against the entrenched corruption in Washington. We the People are to blame. Fortunately, we have another opportunity 8 years later in the person of Barack Obama. Let's not be swayed by Hillary's argument that he doesn't have enough experience to lead. Unfortunately, she's another casualty in the war against pessimism. Her will was turned long ago. She now embodies the sycophantic culture of corruption that she claims Obama doesn't have enough experience in. The attributes she references as to why Barrack Obama is not fit to serve are precisely the attributes that make him the best candidate. Let's not be swayed by the voices of crushed and cynical spirits! Let us instead dare to believe that it's not too late to alter the course our country has taken for the past century.

Is Obama a sure thing? Not at all. But he is our best bet. We just have to have the courage to give him a chance.

the fact that Obama won with more females voting that males says more about those females than it does about Obama. To say that Obama is a fresh face is foolish he has been a politician all of his life, not a servant of the people. The fact that he is a senator is not because of his spectacular performance in the Illinois legislature it is because he is part of the establiment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On his website he says that he helped pass the first major Illinois ethics law. Have any of you listened to the news of the ethics in Illinois's politics? We have more problems than Louisiana. You win election here (most of the time) not because you reach out to the people but because you have made the right connections, and that is exactly what Obama has done. He is not a fresh face, He is an empty suit with a pretty face , the right words, and the right connections, thats all, Just like GW, and where has that got us?.

By the way my last post was not an endorsement of McCain as actually I wanted to see Biden stay in the race.

One of the missed issues here is on why we are in the mess we are in. Carter took us down a foreign policy path that put us where we are today. A mess in the middle east. Reagan won the cold war. Bill Clinton did a great job of not screwing up the dot com era and every got rich and we rid ourselves of most of our deficit. However Bill had the same foreign policy team as Carter and allowed the build up of terroist networks. The current Bush over reached to correct the past sins of Carter and Clinton and now we have the clean up. Obama has no real plan for a far reach global foreign policy that stops terroism and brings in the Europeans who are in worse shape than we are.

All of you need to pull your heads out and take a hard look at what is needed fromour next president. Terrosim is a fact that needs to be dealt with and pulling out of Iraq is not an answer for the long term. Obama has not spoken to how he is going to reach out and build an international coalition to address the serios global issues we have.

McCain seems to be the only canidate with a real plan and grasp of the situation. I am an American leaving in Europe and I can tell you that it is going to get worse not better unless America brings in the Europeans and at the same time takes a stronger not weaker role in leading a new strategy to combat radicalism.

Obama will bring in the same old team that Carter and Clinton did. They are the one who got us where we are at.

Don't get me wrong, I will be voting for Obama. I believe that the only way to set our country on the right course is to put all of the marxists in charge and reduce our economy to rubles (or is that rubels?) and start over. Go Barack!!!

jperry2325 said: Why are we considering Obama, a congressman with only 2 years experience? Would a major corporation make a person who has been a management trainee for two years its CEO?

And the two people with the biggest resumes in Washington are Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Now that you mention it and the CEO reference, how many oil companies did Bush run into bankruptcy before he was governor of Texas?

Does he have what it takes to win? All he needs is a nation full of idiots who want the government to give them everything. Yep, he's got what it takes!

I can't believe that the country and the Democrats support Obama. He has, what, 2 years of federal government experience? How can he have the necessary experience to lead this country? It's like a major corporation selecting as its CEO, someone with 2 years as a management trainee. That just does not happen

Barack is nice enough but nice doesn't run a country. they say young voters have come out by vast amount of numbers. However, I question how much a young voter knows. Change would be great, however with the crisis that this country is in we need someone who has experience. Barack lacks experience, it shows repeatedly in his speeches but people are so caught up in wanting change they neglect the fact that you have to know what you're doing first. I pray Barack doesn't get elected. If he does we will all be kicking ourselves.