a) A president who is afraid to meet with other nations because he or she is afraid of ruining/tainting his or her reputation in that nation (Hillary)

2) A president who would do nothing but preach peace and basically make the United States a sitting duck (Kucinich)

3) A president who would prolong the current mistake of a war (or start a new one) because 1) to get more oil and 2)to prove that america is too powerful of a country to lose a war in a middle eastern country (any republican)

4) A President who is not afraid and willing to do what America SHOULD have done after 9/11, and occupy those ungoverned regions in pakistan (and probably afghanistan)...(Obama)

Many are critizing Obama for not having enough experience. However, we elected a president for two terms who [we] thought had enough experience for the job. Look at what has progressed since.

Experience does not imply good judgment.

Just... go... away...!!!

The truth hurts, but at least there's one candidate that is willing to tell it, and with the power and charisma and hope to actually not only make us believe it but, but actually force a change, blessed, fresh, real air into the debate...glorious, wonderful courage, what a rare and beautiful thing to see in politics. I get the chills just thinking about all the good this man Barry Obama is going to do for this country. Hell, for what he's done already by exposing the sheer amount of donkeys out there in this race already.

Every way you look at it, Obama is the big winner here. The more they try and twist his words and underrate him, the more he's climbing in the polls and these fools like McCain, Rudolf and Romney the dog hanger are falling behind.

I am so disgusted and angry at every one of these repubican candidates as well as with the administration currently. I've never been political before and my family are all republicans. Not me, not anymore. No way. Obama is the future, these guys are the past.

I love Senator McCain but wrong on this issues just like those who seek to earn "political" points from bashing Senator Obama are too.

There is no way to bring all of the troops out of the Middle East. At least Obama has a plan to redeploy them to where they should be, fighting the terrorists who attacked us.

And to those who continue to say that Obama is obviously "naive" and "inexperienced" because he wants to "bomb our ally, Pakistan", please get a life and educate yourself because you are the ones who are bringing down our country with you ignorance. If you actually take 5 minutes to read his speech instead of listening to spun headlines and soundbites, you would know that he never ONCE said he would bomb Pakistan.

Keep the pressure on the rest of the candidates Obama, maybe they will get a spine and tell us what they really think...not what they think we want to hear.

The citizens of the United States are smarter than the politicans think. When we hear stupid comments from them, it only helps us to turn from that nut and look serious at another candidate.

GO BARACK...you will make a great President!!!

Didn't Bush go ahead and announce his plans before he sent our troops to Iraq?

They rarely say anything about Dennis Kucinich or Bill Richardson, despite some hot positions taken by those two.

That is because they konw that Senator Obama is well-positioned to win the nomination and general election.

...talk about spin... geez... but judging from the comments here it seems that the American public can see through the media's beautifully boring frame of Obama.

Obama '08

Unless, of course, the GOP is doing the attacking. What a disgusting blatant hypocrite.

None of them have anything brilliant other than the same philosophy. You all need to quit being influenced by TV and think about truth and whats right. You are going to send us straight to hell arguing about "1st" runner candidates. You all are already forcing many of us to move our business and families to other countries. Unless you Americans can reverse your trends, you WILL live in poverty as the INFORMED ones will be gone with their money and jobs.

His approach to situations is fresh, not naive. When you have most of the other canidates, both Democrats and Republicans, agreeing on topics and going after Obama then it should show the American public who has the fresh perspective on things.

We need someone in the White House who is thinking outside the "Beltway Box". We need someone who will tackle things in new and exciting ways because what we have cultivated over the past 15-20 years is a group of policies that have us viewed as one of the most hated, most isolated nations on the planet.

It is time for some change and Obama is the man!

And Mr Obama, you need to think befoe issuing statements like these which only elicit comments like Mr McCain's.

Given the rampant and all pervasive state of racial prejudice in THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON THE FACE OF THE PLANET, Mr. Obama’s chances of being elected to the presidency are slim and none. And, as we all know, Slim has left town. So, at the end of the ’08 election, Mr. Obama will have collected your money, raised your idealism, embolden the Jesus people, and pressed the flesh – only this and nothing more…

Mr. McCain is nothing more than an irrelevant, war-mongering, conservative and Bush sycophant. I’m sorry, that’s redundant: war-mongering and conservative is the same thing. The conservatives enjoy the same modus operandi as the Mafia: If you don’t understand it and can’t control it, kill it! Mr. McCain will soon simply fade away, as well he should.

What we as a nation should be doing is dissecting to the nth degree all of the viable candidates in this race. That, however, is probably too rational an approach for Americans who always are driven by emotion/religion to vote against their own self interests…