I hope the Kucnich endorses Obama that will give Clinton a big lift, but not as big a lift as a UFO.

OBAMA / KUCINICH 2008 ! Thats the team !

Senator Edwards, I would NOT vote for you because you are making your case only on of the expense of Hilary Clinton.

Gentleman?! What is it? On the debate you ware like a Hyena over her, before her suit… Is that a simple jealousy lire most of American women (surprise for me, even Pakistanis are more advance in this meter and Bhutto was killed from her enemies).

Second, do you deny that "Clinton's machine" work peaty well for americans for 8 years ?

It is partly your fault. Why didn't you win the Election in 2000? Now you are blaming Hilary that America is really in a big …

You still play your ego agenda, Sur! Obama will be chewed and spit from Republicans, because he has not very much to offer then word "Change" (He sounds to me like those communist leaders who had been feeding the people only with nice word and hopes of future almost heavenly life; UTOPIA, eh , worked for some period).

Americans , please, just do not compare him with JFK.

If you really are talking from your heard, it is not late you to make some REAL CHANGE- make sure Democrat to be in the Oval office this time even that is not you.

As I rite on a CNN goes a Braking New about Iranians? I imagine Senator Obama in the Oval office with pence full of..

Wake up Americans, it is very serious , do not blow it again!

Unfortunately this looks like nothing more than positioning for who he thinks will win; John Edwards is the only true progressive among the top three candidates - his fight is for what is right. Kucinich has sold out, as has Richardson who rumor has it has also told his people to support Obama if he doesn't make it in Iowa - but who as a clean energy advocate should be encouraging his supporters to go for Edwards, not Obama who caved to dirty coal long ago. It smacks of opportunism, not about what is best for his supporters.

Never underestimate the racism of the American electorate.
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Vincent, Tamaqua, Pa January 1, 2008 4:56 pm ET

If Barack Obama is our nominee I will be voting republican in 2008.

I don't like Hillary, but to listen to Obama's speech is just too hard to me. I once tried to listen what he had to say, and all was left in my mind after 20 minutes was his lazy face. I don't want to be mean, but what kind talents or ideas does he really have? Are his ideas originated from Edwards? He takes money from lobbyists and voted for funding the continuing war in Iraq, and his speech is so boring that it always gives you an impression that he probably needs a dose of marijuana! Come on, Barbara Lee is more likable and talks much fluent than Obama does.

If you really want a Black President this time, Barbara Lee is a better choice!

(CNN) ++> Clinton News Network

I have watched the situation room yesterday and CNN did everything to avoid the Demoine Register Polls for the democratic side but choose to show the demoine register poll for the Republican side.

If Dennis were backing Clinton it would have been the head line.

These are the same people who promoted the war without asking the tough questions.

At some point the people will reclaim the power.

Obama 08.

Why Obama and not Edwards?
Edwards is more aligned with Kucinich.
Obama seems full of passion but his rhetoric is empty and sometimes plain wrong.
Edwards has passion and gets specific, Edwards is the only one who talks about getting rid of corporate control of the legislative process. Almost makes me think Kucinich is being used as a pawn here by corporate interests somehow.
I don't get it at all.
Vote John Edwards !

GreyWolf, you need to get YOUR facts straight.

Carter was NEVER in Command of a nuclear submarine. He QUALIFIED for command of a diesel submarine. Every officer on the boat qualifies for command, in the event he needs to assume command, BIG DIFFERENCE. Carter did qualify to be an engineering officer on a nuclear powered submarine. Are you confusing a Nuclear powered submarine with Ballistic Missile submarine? SSBN's were not in the fleet until 1957, four years after Carter's resignation from the Navy.

Regardless, countless Naval Officers have commanded boats and ships, many more junior officers have led similar sized units in no less important positions in Marine Corps, Army and Navy. Does this qualify every one of those officers as leader of the free-world? If so, I thank you for your endorsement.

Oh, Dennis, Dennis, Dennis: why would you say something like this? I know you don't want Republicans running the country for another 4, possibly 8 years. (An absolute given if Obama becomes the nominee.) And the reason you gave, that he, like you, represents change.? I truly believe you have positive agenda and detailed plans for positive change, but Obama? Nothing there but empty rhetoric. Obama talks "change" but has never articulated any change that wasn't a warmed-up version of other candidates specific outlines of change they intend to implement.. Talking "change" without clear-cut plans for specific change doesn't mean a thing. It's simply a catch phrase that Obama is repeating over and over, ad nauseum, without anything to back up those empty words.

I really love how people criticize candidates for being stupid, or incompetent, or "rediculous" with run-on sentences, poor grammar, and terrible spelling.

Please make sure YOU don't look stupid while you're calling someone else stupid. It completely guts your argument and only makes supporters of YOUR candidate look unintelligent. Keep in mind that by posting comments in support of any candidate that sound careless and uneducated do not bolster that candidates image.

PROOFREAD!!!!!

Thanks so much.

I love the Edwards supporters, your "middle class hero" is just another pampered politician that is out of touch with reality and trying to establish himself to the far left just because it will get him more votes than his positions in '04. If there are two Americas like John says, he falls into the "filthy rich corporate slob" category. John Edwards is a trendy politician that will do anything for a vote similar to Hillary Clinton. Now to the Kucinich's Obama support. This is about as important as an endorsement from Bill O'Reilly.

Folks you need to hear yourselves here, whatever happens, happens, Just remember that the last elections polls were so wrong. We need to concentrate on the canidates and not the media and the hate blogs. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!

May the best canidate wins.

Vote for Hillary ! 2008 Hillary!

Hillary has a reputation of workhorse in senate.

How about Obama? just eloquent. no credit for doing a real things. you vote for this kind of person?

Gee xtina,

Did Rush Limbaugh teach you to say those things? How original (hardly). Should we cut more taxes for the wealthiest 1% during a time of war? Forget about the record deficits created by the Republican majority and let our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc. pay for it, right? Right? That is sadly the type of rhetoric we have come to expect from talk radio followers. It is a cowardly way to approach governing during a time of war and a country in need.

Bush had this nation ready to do whatever possible after 9/11 to retaliate against those who attacked us. I believe that would have included a financial commitment from our citizens at home to truly support our troops abroad. Did your Republicans do that? NO, they cut taxes for the wealthiest citizens, who do not need it, with zero efforts to replenish the funds other than borrowing the money from a communist country. If that is your side's definition of "experience," you can keep it. It is one of the primary reasons I left what has become the farce of the Republican Party. In fact, I will take the insight of Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Biden, etc. any day over that.

Dear Anne the Breadbasket:

My dear, you really should go back and study your history a little better. Johnson inherited Vietnam from JFK because JFK inherited it from Eisenhower. U.S. involvement in Vietnam dates all the way back to the end of WWII. Heck, we had people in Vietnam during the Korean War. Where do you think Ho Chi Minh first got his weapons to arm his followers? They were our stock piles that we left in that region after WWII!!!

And why would you think to criticize new generations who want to elicit change in our government and world just because previous generations have done the same?! Obviously the change that has been so sought after for all these years has never stuck. As the years go by more and more people have become apathetic towards politics and the government. Instead of criticizing this cry for change from the younger generations perhaps we should nurture it. In so doing, we may just be able to convince more of the young people in this country to break free from their apathy and pay attention to our government and politics!!!

Now, to turn to Kucinich, it is a shame that this man was not given equal press coverage during the campaign. Kucinich is the kind of person we need as our President. Unfortunately, however, he was railroaded out of the spotlight because his ideas and beliefs are too dangerous for those already in power. I wish him luck and hope that he can remain in the race if for no other reason than to ask the tough questions that need to be asked. As for his endorsement of Obama, I have to agree. After Kucinich, Obama is the only other candidate capable of creating change in our world. Perhaps there will be an Obama/Kucinich ticket in the future?!

WOW! His endorsment amounts to less than 1% of Iowa votes, and not even one delegate out of the 45 delegate available in Iowa based on the proportional delegate distribution for all competing delegates, and there are about 2500 delegates for the party nomination.

He must have seen another UFO

From one kook to another!

xtina, you should work for the fox network. Got a war to sell?

John Edwards could not handle Dick Cheney in the 2004 debate, has done nothing ever since, and now he claims that he will dictate to the ruling class in Washington, and change every thing for ever. When did he go through the pitbull backbone transplant surgery. Dick Cheney treated him like a timid poodle.

Do you believe in Fairy Tales.

Question for the liberal masses on this website, do you truly want a socialist government where the government makes all of your choices for you? Honestly, I want to know how the diseased mind of a liberal works.

Electability should be the top concern for Democrats

Clinton loses in polls on some of the match up against republicans.
That is based on a 1v1 match up with out a 3rd party candidate LOL
Obama beats all em with plenty of margin to spare.

Over Half of America will NOT vote for Hillary if she nominated
Clinton will even push a lot of middle leaning Democrats to vote republican or abstain or vote 3rd party.

That will also open a massive invitation for a 3rd party liberal candidate.

Now will we have 1 republican and 2 democrats running in the general election.
The 2 democrats will cancel each other votes for the republican to win

Obama has the most support from independents and cross over republicans. Which will greatly out do the 3 Hillary nut cases that will not vote for Obama.

Even if their is a 3rd party liberal democrat it will not effect Obama from beating the republicans in general election.

But if Hillary is the nominee for the democrats you are gona see a Third party candidate almost almost win the election, But still lose to the republicans because their still be enough of them to stay unified to push there guy to the office.

VOTE HILARY IF YOU WANT A REPUBLICAN IN THE HOUSE
VOTE OBAMA IF YOU WANT A DEMOCRAT IN THE HOUSE and to break the status quo, break the partisan bickering, break the grid lock, end the war and go back to statesmanship.

OBAMA 2009

Trying to tap the popular ire over gas prices, Barack Obama told an Iowa crowd “Gas prices have never been higher, and Exxon Mobil’s profits have never been higher.”
He’s wrong on both counts.
Gas prices have soared this year, and so have the profits of Exxon Mobil and other companies. But in saying they’ve “never been higher,” Obama overstates the case.
Obama’s plan includes a mandate to insure children, but it does not include a mandate for adults, as the Clinton and Edwards plans do. That likely means not as many people will be insured, said Kenneth Thorpe, professor of health policy and management at Emory University.
So is it fair for Obama to call his plan “universal”? Well, not really. Even if you buy his argument that his plan will create the market conditions to make health care universally available, nothing in his plan guarantees it. We rate his claim Barely True.
Last year he cosponsored an ethics reform bill and was the Democratic point man for drumming up more cosponsors. Joining him in cosponsorship were Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd and Joe Biden. That bill did not make it out of committee, but another, less stringent, ethics reform bill did pass the Senate. That bill, authored by Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., passed, but Obama can’t take credit for that one. He didn’t even vote for it.
“Without a doubt,” Obama said in a memo, “President Bush can cite that language as authorizing him to maintain and use U.S. troops in Iraq for the purpose of containing Iran, curtailing Iran’s influence in Iraq, and, if need be, to expand our troops’ activities beyond Iraq’s borders to pursue and attack Iranian forces.”
In other words, Obama's sweeping claim to have long opposed Iraq is true. Opponents have attacked Obama's record of opposition on two grounds. They argue that Obama should answer definitively how he would have voted if were in the Senate at the time of the vote. Obama said in 2004 he can't answer that question fully because he doesn't know what intelligence the senators had access to.
Obama joined the U.S. Senate in 2005. He has voted several times to continue funding for the war, saying that troops in Iraq should be funded even if he disagreed with the overall war. (The measure passed 97 to zero.) In recent months, like other Democratic candidates, he has voted in favor of troop withdrawals and other measures to bring the war to a conclusion
The announcer says, "He's leading by example, refusing contributions from PACs and Washington lobbyists who have too much power today."
But his anti-lobbyist policy includes one caveat and a few loopholes that weaken his claim to be funding his political campaign in a way that's truly different from his competitors.

People who complain about money being spent for social programs are brainwashed. We could have have written everyone last man woman and child in Iraq a check for $40.000 and paid for universal healthcare in this country with the money that has been pounded down that rathole.

I know this will not make it past your moderators, but:

All Kuchinich votes go to Dr. Ron Paul. It is obvious if you are paying attention.

Recognize a man of integrity when you read his words. A wonderful citizen and statesmen of our USA. By many accounts a great person. Potshot all you want, he has his supporters. His qualified backing–while qualified–means something.

"ALWAYS FOR HILLARY in NYC, if you like Hillary so much, why don't you keep her. No need to push her on the rest of the country."

Great line! I have to remember this one. Hillary backers, please understand this: the rest of America HATES her.

The Edwards campaign workers deriding Kucinich and Obama and promoting their candidate at the head of this correspondence would be more plausible if they spread their comments out over time. To have their comments bunched together as soon as the topic opens is just too obvious.

Be assured if Obama wins the White House, the REAL president will be
HIS WIFE!!!! It is she who wears the pants in the Obama family.

Enemies of the United States couldnt be more ecstatic at the possibility of Barak Obama winning the White House. Barak is a girlie man dove in the likes of Jimmy Carter and his pretty little sweater. It is appeasement minded wimps like Carter and Obama that led Russia's Lenin to write long ago that "western socialists were his useful idiots" John McCain 08!!!!

The number one problem in this country is unity. If this polarisation is overcome, all other problems like healthcare, economy, Iraq, terrorism and immigration can be resolve. Any politician with over 15years of Washington experience of any level is not the best candidate. May be Ron Paul and Kicinich are exceptions but Obama is the best choice

What has the Bush or Clinton done that after 28years, they are asking for another four to eight years. For 28 years of Bush-Clinton, Clinton-Bush, and Bush again, there has been very little but devisiveness. We don't just need to change the wine in the bottle, we need to change the wine and the bottle. Obama is the answer

I believe our next president will come from the the Democratic side. I believe the Republicans and the American people in general want a Democrat to clean up the mess the current administration has created.

This current administration did not have the leadership or the EXPERIENCE to conduct our nations affairs. They have raided our country's treasury and delivered it to Haliburton and Blackwater (an organization rooted in the KKK). No one denies the incompetency of the administration and I am certain many are ashamed to have been associated with it.

I believe the media is thirsting for an historical event this election cycle. We will either have our first Black, or, our first woman as the next president of this wonderful country.

I believe the Republican party is going to realize that they must separate themselves from the religious fanatics who dominate that part today. More and more, they are beginning to present like one of those religious sects out of the Mid-East. There will never a time when this country will elect a religious leader to lead this democracy. NEVER!

Kucinich is irrelevant.

Anne - the Breadbasket of America,
Well done and a good read. The apt comparison of Obama to the inexperienced Jimah Carter should force people into a reality check of the dangers of having a president with no experience. This is akin to making the new hire at the office president of the company. Handing over the presidency of the US to a completely inexperienced former professor is ludicrous when there are smart, deeply experienced alternatives.

Edwards won't be viable once the general elections campaign starts. He's not raised enough money, and he's accepting matching funds which will limit his spending when it really counts.

Hillary would draw more Republicans to the polls (and they aren't terribly enamored of any of their candidates at present) than she would Democrats.

Barack is the smartest choice, in my book. He tends to be very popular as a second choice, so he'll likely pick up a good many of the non-viable candidates' supporters in states that use caucuses like Iowa and Nevada.

"HILLARY CLINTON IS BATTLE TESTED"

Which battle may that be? I must have missed it on the news tonight.

xtina chicago IL, You are right, Kucinich's eyes and mouth are jut like Hugo Chavez, his mind is even more like Hugo. Nobody will care about Kucinich's speech except Obama, he may use Kucinich, but Obama's mind is someone else. Sorry Kucinich.

Well, there goes one of the two honest candidates in the entire race.

I'm still in shock that anyone is impressionable enough to be suckered into voting for Obama or Clinton. Just another two shills who never stood up against the Bush administration, and gave them all the room in the world to take away our civil liberties.

Thanks Dennis we need every vote we can get OBAMA 08

Barack Obama is continually downplayed by the main stream media and attacked by special interest groups pouring money into Iowa. Why?

Because he doesn't take corporate PAC money. He will take a sledgehammer to the broken system while Clinton would play ball with them like usual.

The media is attempting to throw the focus to Edwards because they know he has no chance of actually getting the nomination. Anything they can do to throw the focus off Obama helps Clinton, which is repeatedly CNN and other big media outlets goal.

Barack Obama is now clearly the front runner in the most predicitive polls. Yet they marginalize him. You really have to ask why and ask who it is that they really are scared of.

They're scared to death of Barack Obama, which is good for the American people, because he can actually win, and he can actually change politics as usual

Obama doesnt have a chance.

You Obama backers are preaching on and on about change…well, what has he already done for "change"? Showed up to say "present" for his senate votes? Yeah, that's change alright!

Hillary Clinton has been making positive changes in peoples lives for 35 years. Look at the changes she has made. She turned Arkansas schools from the worst in the country to some of the best. She helped kids in New Hampshire who weren't getting a chance at school because of disabilities. And in a Republican-dominated New York, she WON the same counties that G.W.B. won in the prior presidential election. "Republican" farmers in upstate New York LOVE her and are here in Iowa campaigning for her. If that's not change, then you must think Bush is the best president in the history of the U.S.

Do the right thing, Iowans, and caucus for Hillary Clinton, so we can take our country back!

FLORIDA WILL NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA ! NO HOPE HERE FOR YOU !

Why is it that Hillary supporters don't understand that someone who is despised, yes despised, by almost 50% of this country will NEVER win? It is one thing to not agree with a politician and therefore support someone else but when you feel such intense deep dislike, nothing is going to make you vote for that person. That dislike did not just start yesterday - it has a 14 year history and runs deep. People think the Clintons are corrupt and that they will do anything to maintain power. But at least Bill Clinton had a reassuring and mildly inspiring personality. Hillary is not Bill Clinton. She does not make people believe in the possibility of anything better than what we have today. She makes me feel quite assured that there will be just more years of Washington fighting with nothing getting accomplished. Have you seen anyone but Hillary mentioned so many times in the line "Anyone but candidate X in 2008″ on the blogs? And don't think that the Republican nominee will not drag out all her quotes this campaign season about fighting the Republicans and fighting the "right wing conspirary" to further mobilize their base. She has given them plenty of fodder with her combative comments. So please think before you cast your vote for Hillary. A vote for Hillary in the primaries is a vote for the Republicans in November.

And BTW, how pathetic to attack Kucinich. This was a man who as a child was homeless - his family of seven slept in a car - and he worked his way up to where he is today. He may be extreme in his views for many but he has always shown a tremendous amount of integrity. Those making fun of him need to look in a mirror and ask themselves what they have accomplished. The reason I respect him is not that I agree with him, but that he is not afraid of anyone's laughter.

Good for you Dennis, it makes a lot of sense. Sorry about your brother. God bless you and your family!

Anne Breadbasket: there are many subjective flaws or omissions in your selective history. For example, you forget that Carter was a commander of a nuclear submarine. That in itself brings some international experience (both dealing with Navy command, your mission, and responsibility of nuclear missiles. And Carter finished 59th out of his Naval Academy class of 820.
Also a possibly conscious connection by Kucinich to Carter was a reported UFO sighting by Carter!

OBAMA is now leading among all republican candidates. Watch out this November…whoever is the republican nominee will surely cut down his lead and even cost him his dream of getting to the white house. Obama said that he will change the washington playbook and players. Tell you what…the republican nominee will use the same washington playbook and even beat him this november.

Coporations have almost taken over.
Hillary is Corporate America.
Obama will compromise in ways that will effect no change.
Edwards is our only hope (i'd take Kucinich but he just quit).
Why the Obama endorsement? I don't get it.
Bring on the cuacuses. If it's not Edwards I think
I'll move to another country 'cause I don't want to
pay the accumulated debts….

If you squint your eyes , Kucinich looks like Hugo Chavez after a makeover

Thanks for the Iowa endorsement Kucinich but you need to make it official and drop out of the race and endorse Obama. Notice that Kucinich could have endorsed Hillary, Edwards, Biden, Dodd or Richardson, but he chose Obama. Kucinich voted no to the Iraq War and no to the Patriot Act so he does have some good political judgement.

Now we just need Dodd and Biden to drop out and endorse Obama. Richardson was a Bill Clinton appointee so he'll never betray the Clinton organization.

Obama in '08!

Kucinich was never really going to get far enough to make a difference. The fact that he is telling people to caucus for Obama if he doesn't make the first round is an edorsement. As much as Kucinich really claims to be following the constitution, I don't think that anyone in the race is really going against the constitution.

I have to admit that I would love to a debate between Kucinich and Ron Paul. Which one would sound sillier in their boasting about being more for the constitution.

What a weasel.

Enough said.

ALWAYS FOR HILLARY in NYC, if you like Hillary so much, why don't you keep her. No need to push her on the rest of the country.

"Obama will win in a landslide.?!?" Will leave the person's name out in FL who post this so it will not be censored, but I have to comment on this, simply, not in this Universe! An Obama nomination, which isn't going to happen, will be a cakewalk for John McCain. Democrats will jump ship faster than half dead rats.

Hillary will win in '08

Thanks Dennis. I always respected you, but now I have become a real fan. Obama is the way to go.

Obama will not win this November, Trust me…if the republican can put down gerald ford last year, and even came up with an ad about mccain during the 2000 primary, it is easy for them to put Obama down. They hate Hillary coz they are going to have a bumpy ride this year for the presidency.

HILLARY '08

CHANGE = The younger generation always seems to think THEY are the only ones who ever dreamed of change, of getting rid of the "outdated" ideas of all the generations who have come before them…

In 1960 - America was moving into the suburbs, leaving the scars of WWII & the Korean War behind them. It was a time of renewed hopes and the America dream. John Kennedy & his wife Jackie, offered the fresh new faces & optimisn of a younger generation, sweeping out the past establishment.

Those who like to compare Senator Obama to Kennedy by pointing out that he was only a 1st term Senator, somehow fail to see that JFK had spent 6YRS in the US House of Representatives, AND 6YRS in the US Senate, after having served as a Naval Commander in the South Pacific WWII. Still at 43, he was the youngest President ever sworn into office (as well as the first & only Catholic) and hailed by many as a celebrity. In Kennedy's 1961 inaugural speech, he declared that "the torch has been passed on to a new generation of Americans". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

HOWEVER America was fiteen years into the cold war in June 1961, when the Soviet Premier met the NEW American President in Vienna to discuss the east-west confrontation and the Berlin situation. Kruschev carefully assessed the new President, and left the summit THINKING KENNEDY WAS WEAK AND LACKING IN EXPERIENCE. As a result Kruschev felt embolden to ignore Kennedy's demands to stop the Russian military build-up, eventually leading up to the CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS. (for more details google)

When John Kennedy was struck down by an assassins bullet Nov. 22, 1963, the whole world mourned with his young widow & children. They remember JFK (not for his weaknesses nor his many indiscretions in the White House) but for his youth & energy and courage in the face of adversity as well as the Space Race and the early Civil Right's Movement.

But while the Nation had always admired Jackie for standing by her husband (despite the numerous public humiliations) - the American public was outraged by the perceived audacity to strike out on her own and marry Ari Onassis. Sadly it would seem that Our Great Nation has not come much further in the past 45yrs.

Lyndon B. Johnson stepped into the Presidency - (VP)Johnson had been a Texas Senator and had a long illustrious career in Congress. Yet despite being a part of the ESTABLISHMENT his strength in the South was needed to win the Kennedy White House. LBJ continued the Space Race and enacted Civil Rights Laws, Medicare (health care for the elderly), Medicaid (health care for the poor), aid to education, and the "War on Poverty." Although he won election in 1964 , his downfall was the Vietnam War (which was actually inherited from JFK!)

Richard M. Nixon won back the Oval Office in 1968 for the GOP, promising to end the long dreary War quickly - which he & his Secretary of State Henry Kissenger did. Nixon should be remembered for his brilliant foreign policy with the USSR and China, in addition to his disgrace from being corrupted by power (coupled with his continuous bouts of paranoia) which led to Watergate.

His successor - Gerald Ford had slid into the VP position as Minority Leader of the House after Spiro Agnew has been forced to resign because of criminal investigations. Ford was left to withdraw the final US civilians from Vietnam - sparking the ensuing chaos and mass murders of American sympathizers who had no time to escape the collapse of South Vietnam. He will always be remembered for his Presidential Pardon of Nixon and his forthright honesty, decency, AND for being a klutz

Thus in 1976 with Nixon's Watergate Scandal still fresh in the voters' minds, the Nation was ready for YET ANOTHER CHANGE - out with the old establishment guard - in with the new non-Washington crowd. Hence, JIMMY CARTER'S position as an outsider, distant from Washington, D.C., became an asset. The centerpiece of his campaign platform was GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION. He & his wife Rosyln offered firm family values and refreshingly humble untarnished appeal..

Unfortunately for America (although maturing into a great elder statesman) CARTER'S LACK OF EXPERIENCE RESULTED IN SEVERAL MAJOR CRISES: including the take over of the American embassy and holding of hostages by militants in Iran, a failed rescue attempt of the hostages, serious fuel shortages, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan!!!

"CARTER advocated a policy that held other countries to the highest moral standard possible, a standard by which, he believed, Americans would want themselves to be judged. His Presidency was dominated by the IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS, during which the United States struggled to rescue diplomats and American citizens held hostage in Tehran for 444 DAYS! By 1980, Carter was so unpopular that he was challenged by Ted Kennedy for the party nomination - and although Carter received the Democratic nomination, he lost the election to GOP Ronald Reagan." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter

ONCE AGAIN THE NATION CLAMORED FOR CHANGE, sweeping in 8yrs of Ronald (Nancy) Reagan!!

In 1988 as the incumbent VicePresident George HW Bush defeated Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis to keep the White House GOP for another 4yrs. But the 1980s economic recession plagued most of Bush's term in office and was a contributing factor to his defeat in the 1992 Presidential election to Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas.

THE WINDS OF CHANGE HAVE SWEPT THROUGH AMERICA SINCE ITS FOUNDING. Yet the younger generation has no memory of the same changes sought by the older generations.

IN COMPARING BARACK OBAMA TO PAST PRESIDENTS - PERHAPS IT WOULD BE MOST PRUDENT TO SEE THAT HE MOST CLOSELY RESEMBLES JIMMY CARTER - THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE WHO RAN ON A "WASHINGTON OUTSIDER" PLATFORM, WHO PRESENTED SOLID FAMILY VALUES, WHO HAD NO FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIENCE, WHOSE "ON-THE-JOB TRAINING" BROUGHT 444 DAYS OF THE IRAN HOSTAGE CRISIS.

Where will the dreams of change in America take our Nation in 2008?? Perhaps PAUSE FOR THOUGHT…

All of the democrats should be united behind Obama. I cannot wait for the Presidential elections. Obama will win in a landslide.

A long resume as Hillary,Biden, Dodd,Romney and others would like us believe is not enough. CHARISMA IS AN INTRINSIC FACTOR OF LEADERSHIP.

IN 2000 ,Then 2ND TERM VP Al Gore LOST TO THE MOST INEXPERIENCED 1-and-a-half Term Governor George W Bush from Texas.!!
WHY DID AL GORE FAIL TO SELL IS EXECUTIVE AND FOREIGN POLICY EXPERIRENCE ?? GORE COULDN'T EVEN WIN IN HIS HOME STATE OF TN !
…ONE WONDERS .

OBAMA HAS CHARISMA.
FIRED UP, FIRED UP !
READY TO GO , READY TO GO !

FIRED UP, FIRED UP !
READY TO GO , READY TO GO !

Dennis you have been honest throughout your campaign and I have alot of respect you. I think you see what alot of American are seeing and that Obama can make us proud again that we're Americans.

"Thank you, Dennis Kucinich. You certainly are a man of principle. You certainly have many good ideas. SOMEHOW IT DOESN'T SEEM TO STICK TO THE MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE." Thank you, Trang in CA! You could not have summed up the importance of this story any better. This is the kind of endorsements I would want…hey Bama?!?

Hillary Clinton '08

We knew you NEVER viable so why declare your true loyalties NOW. You can not as a fringe candidate affect the outcome on Super Duper Tuesday. Its a lost cause. Hillary will be the nominee.

Go Hillary44 08! http://hillaryis44.org/

Yeah well, Dennis… yop always were a screwball so who really cares?
Why don't you just endorse Ralph Nader, he has about as much experience as Obama and wears better suits.

AlwaysforHillary, NYC said:

OBAMA WOULD NEVER STAND UP FROM THE REPULBICAN ATTACKS AND THERE IS NO WAY HE COULD EVER WIN THE GENERAL ELECTION!!!
are you serious? if you really want to talk experience, and qualified, the Biden is the man, or Richardson. Hillary has nothing on either of them, and she has nothing on Obama, hence she won't be part of this election.

Thank you, Dennis Kucinich. You certainly are a man of principle. You certainly have many good ideas. Somehow it doesn't seem to stick to the majority of the American people.

The first in a series of endorsements to come…when will Hillary and John follow suit?

Obama08

This is the guy we REALLY need!

Read the whole story. His offer ONLY applies to Iowa. Hey "Denny" (quoting John Edwards), what if you meet the criteria? Are you going to take this back? Your just ticked off because you don't seem to have an invitation to future debates and pointing the finger at Edwards and Hillary for the reason. Wow BO, now you got to talk for you and DK. Awesome!

Hillary in '08

And it begins!!! Soon, the other candidates will follow Dennis's example, because they are all positioning themselves as the "anti-Hillary"……except maybe for Richardson.

They know that their voices have a better chance of being heard by an Obama administration, then a Clinton one, so it only makes sense!

Thanks Dennis!

WOW!! My hat goes off to you Mr. Dennis Kucinich. You are truly a man for democracy. The country is grateful to have men like you serve in the House. That is a noble move I'm not sure many politicans could do. You have transformed how I once viewed you. God Bless

that is awesome dennis, you are truly a great man.

Wow. Great news for the Obama campaign, even if it is just a "quasi-endorsement"

Hillary has the most theatrical campaign.
We have Nancy Polosi as Senate leader and my rule is only one cat in house.

Mitt Romney will probably be president anyway he seems to have the most momentum and his passion for America shines through.

Obama could use Kucinich in his administration….maybe as a presidential coaster?

Thank you for encouraging people to support Barak Obama. You are a wise man who knows what is best for this country and the problems all over the world. I hope Bill Richardson and Joe Biden would follow your step.

Well, that's about it. I bet/think that's the sentiment of every Dem. candidate with the exception of Hil. "If not me then Obama". Think about that for a few! Has anyone posed that question to the other candidates?

Thank you Dennis you are one class act

How sad. After the campaign help that Hillary Clinton gave to help Dennis Kucinich get elected in 1996, this is how he thanks her. Guess we know what Dennis cares more about who can help him at the time than who is best positioned to win back the White House.

I'm glad to see another candidate recognizes the candidate that is espousing real change and not just lip service to it. The inevitable candidate and the Clinton News Network (CNN) candidate only play lip service to change.

I wish Obama hadn't voted to fund the war all those times, and hadn't said that "nothing is off the table" in regards to Iran. These things make his anti-war stance not very credible.

Another boon for Obama…this is great.

CNN - by the way, you are the only news organization not reporting the DMR poll - trying to help Hillary again? No respect for CNN after all the Hillary stunts they have pulled this campaign season. Just as bad as Fox News.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080101/NEWS09/301010015/-1/iowapoll07

I hope Dennis does reach viability. He needs to be listened to.

I hate to see Kucinich back Obama. That is like taking a flight with someone with a learners permit for your pilot. There is just way to much turmoil to take a chance on Obama with his lack of foreign experience. He needs to get more involved in foreign policies. Just to wet behind the ears right now. Then he hasn't really came around with any real ideas other than "vote for me for a change". But what real changes can he make with out the background and education. This is no time for an "on the job training" for our President. We have on of those now.
I am a Joe Biden fan.
I have family members that have been and one is in Iraq.
68 year old
Great grandma
in Idaho

Kucinich's encouragement makes sense. Without doubt Obama is a right choice for all American people. Congratulation dennis Kucinich….

Go Obama in 08

I think this hurts Obama more than it helps him. But anybody but her is a better alternative I guess.

That's an honorable thing to do.

This message from Denis is a killer for Hillary and Edwards. Quote me on Friday Morning

Good man Kucinich.

Barack Obama for President.

Good for him! I have heard almost every other candidate on the campaign trail bash Obama over and over again, without mentioning him by name, by touting their "experience" and saying that the President "has to be ready on day one."

Sounds like someone's scared! It's good of Kucinich to actually say something positive about Senator Obama.

wow

You haven't been viable for some time outside of the Mistake on the Lake, but neither is Obama or Hillary. It's wakeup time this week for the American electorate, and both "frontrunner" campaigns have already discounted Iowa results, knowing that Edwards may well win, if only by a thin margin.

"If?"

This one word will go down as the most classic understatement of the year.

HAHAH Kucinich is still in this race - Clinton 08

"Kucinich did not fully endorse Obama"
Ha ha!

The pro-war media morons here are trying to state, and then deceptively brush aside a congressional ENDORSEMENT OF OBAMA, which their preferred candidate(s) did not manage to get. LOL

Dennis realizes Barack IS THE ONLY OTHER CANDIDATE that predicted disaster in Iraq.

And Dennis realizes Barack can roll to victory next November.

And Dennis was right about Iraq too!

Dennis you're a class act, it's quite unfortunate you weren't given equal opportunities to demonstrate your stance. Thanks for supporting Obama

This is a joke…from "the joke".

Nobody took his campaign seriously, does he really believe anyone will take his endorsement seriously???

Fact is. Out of all the candidates running..the only "new" ideas and the passion, record, and persistence to try to make the changes—is John Edwards.

Obama…is catering to everyone…Clinton is business as usual, just new management.

The only genuine article representing any partiy right now is John Edwards. He has the grassroot support from many the "majority" of Americans whose voices have been completely left out of the Washington convsersation for more than 20 years. It's time for change…and John Edwards can lead it.

Let's return to majority rule…not the rule of the elitist's and the wealthy. But a real place at the table for the working men and women who have seen their quality of life deteriorating–while the broken promises have continued.

As a career military veteran–I served under six Presidents–Edwards is the most genuine item I've seen in over 30 years of voting. He can turn our nation into a positive and new direction–that will be consistent with our leadership on the planet–and our status as a benchmark for the rest of the world.

Elect Edwards–let's have a President who represents every American and every corporate entity–fairly, with an agenda to improve quality of life!!!

Lead the charge–vote Edwards!

It's disappointing that a candidate with such a great progressive background would choose to back Obama, who is nothing more than a blander version of Hillary. John Edwards' message is more in keeping with the progressive campaign of Kucinich. Vote Edwards, Iowa caucus goers!!!

This is nice news for the Obama campaign and hopefully many of the Kucinich supporters and other nonviable candidate supporters will caucus for Barack Obama. I have been very impressed with Obama's ability to run a remarkably well-organized and well-funded campaign. Clinton has so much backing from the Washington insiders and corporate/lobbyist fund raisers it is no surprise that the news media annointed her as unbeatable. Edwards has campaigned so long and so hard in Iowa, that he would be difficult even for Clinton to beat. And yet Obama, through political skill, has shown the organizational and leadership skills to put him in contention against all odds.

Only 4% of people actually choose to inform themselves and make up their own minds. Go to the campaign web sites and learn about the candidates. Learn about their stands on the issues. As people educate themselves about the candidates I am very confident they will be more and more confident that Barack Obama will make an outstanding president.

Well, that's 3 more votes for Obama.

I'm very surprised he didn't choose Edwards

Thanks Dennis!! We appreciate your support! Maybe we can give you an ambassadorship or something… Of course, your wife can be in the cabinet - she is brilliant!

"Let's Go Change the World!!" ~ Barack Obama

Dennis, you ROCK! Thank you Thank you Thanks You. I always knew you were awesome!!!

Dont vote for Obama vote for Edwards. He will take on the big multinaltional corporations who are destroying the American dream for the middle class.

If Kucinich is not viable vote for John Edwards. He is my personal favorite and the only one who will take on corporate greed and fight for the middle class.

I always thought Kucinich was a JERK and now I know it is a FACT!!!

If people have any common sense, they will vote for HILLARY CLINTON!!!! SHE IS THE MOST QUALIFIED, EXPERIENCED AND INTELLIGENT CANDIDATE. SHE HAS THE STRENGTH AND WISDOM TO LEAD THIS COUNTRY BACK ON THE RIGHT TRACK!!

HILLARY CLINTON IS BATTLE TESTED AND WILL BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN ALL THE ATTACKS BY THE REPUBLICAN ATTACK MACHINE!!!

OBAMA WOULD NEVER STAND UP FROM THE REPULBICAN ATTACKS AND THERE IS NO WAY HE COULD EVER WIN THE GENERAL ELECTION!!!

Mr. Dennis is very smart man.
Mr. Barack is the best chance for America.

If Barack Obama is our nominee I will be voting republican in 2008.

Kucinich knows that in few caucuses will he be viable, so this is as close to an endorsement as he can give short of "I'm ending my candidacy now go vote for Obama." I understand he won't even be in Iowa on Thursday instead he'll focus on New Hampshire where his state coordinator just stepped down for "personal reasons."

Bravo Dennis !

Why not just drop out fo the race if you are going to make concession speeches endorsing another candidate? I am not sure if this is a plus or minus for Obama.

you see this is why OBAMA will win in Iowa because the CNN spin won't prevail and you highness Hillary is in her palace crying on SLICKS shoulder .

OBAMA 08,12

Obama 08!

If Iowa becomes a reality…he will build some momentum……

Awesome.

Obama '08

Bet he has been seeking that endorsement. The extra 2 votes will put him over the top.

Since when did "standing up for yourself" mean the same thing as the government ripping us off for more taxes ? After all, that's what Democrats will do is simply raise taxes to pay for more "social programs" for able-bodied people who don't particularly care to work.

Obama's going to need more than a 1% boost if he plans to win this thing, Dennis.