OBAMA'S PAST, HISTORY, VOTE, EXPERIENCE ARE NOT STRONG AND SO HE IS THE MOST LIKELY CANDIDATE TO LOST AGAINST A REPUBLICAN NOMINEE!!!

WAKE-UP!

Obama has a track record of bringing people from all parties together to find solutions , and SOLUTIONS is what this county needs right now.

OBAMA 08

They are VERY carefull not to knock obama down – until he is the actual candidate of course.

Then they are going to tear him a new one on about 5000 different issues. Ranging from :

- His all black 'church' that proudly WANTS only black people .

-His drug use. His loyalty to the Koran

- His (non ) experience , and certainly LACK any tangible evidence he can RUN THE COUNTRY when he has never run anything . Not even a business.

Want more PROOF?

Go to FOX . A REPUBLICAN news outlet.

NONE of em are putting obama down. They all want HILLARY TO FAIL first.

If he was some REAL THREAT, they would be cutting him a new one and promoting hillary clinton.

Common, Obama. you've got to overcome your fear of losing the election and come clean. trust me, it will work.

otherwise, if you continue with empty rhetoric for another year until the election day, you have no chance of convincing enough minds and hearfs.

try and put as much substance (or at least point the direction) in your daily comments as you can. i know it's not easy to do in soundbites, and your ideas are probably evolving as you speak. that's OK. just say so honestly. not learning and changing would be a problem. not being aware of, and thereby not being able to own, your own truth would be a problem. we should know that from our experience with Bush.

we're waiting. but don't make us wait too long.

At the same time, let's keep in mind that there have been a number of other noteworthy history-making campaigns this election, including Hillary Clinton's, Bill Richardson's, and Mitt Romney's, as well as all the others who have put a lot of hard work into the race.

I favor Obama, because I believe he can work to unite the country and I'm impressed by a great majority of his policy proposals. I think that his resume is not one of inexperience, but rather of a different kind of experience that is unconventional, for better or worse.

Obama would crush Republicans. But I dont think he wants that. He's more about Uniting the country instead. Thanks Gov. A thoughtful comment!
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Pay attention people !

It's time for change and a fresh start.

We need America to lead the world.

We need Obama !

With Obama in office there is greater acceptance of American leadership to overcome the great challenges of mankind.

Great opportunity for USA to regain the leadership of the world.

Go Obama !

Lead us, no matter our race or homeland !

Olof
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Now, if you want to make the argument that he needs to make his plans more clear in his major speeches because not everyone is active on the internet, that's one thing. But claiming they don't exist at all is just a political mudslinging from the person running against him. There's no excuse for not finding out for yourself. Especially when you're on a comment forum, you obviously must know your way around the internet.

Hillary's husband Bill said in 1992, (That type of experience is irrelevant)

As president, It is your supporting cast that makes a good admin. Actions surrounding your agenda.

More on Experience, Bidden and others should be in the lead, if that were the case. (Long good records)

People want Authentic Change. Not a week to week change as Hillary has done to win the campaign.

Obama empowers each American as having a role in this Movement for Change.

Same old congress promised change last year. Very little has been done.

Change requires working together with both parties. I see that more in Obama.

Early in Hillary campaign, all she would say is the republicans are out to get her.

We do not need a paranoid president,

We need change.

Although Hillary is a good candidate, she is not a beacon for authentic change. Or uniting the Democratic Party

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Here's my simple synopsis re: change.

With John McCain, we'd get change, mainly in the 'truth' department, which would be a huge step forward. He's an honest man with high standards of integrity, which I admire. But, I'm not sure we'd see enough real changes in policy. I don't think he has the drive to enact the deep level change we need, on many fronts, to dig us out of the global and domestic hole we've dug for ourselves the last 7 years (but started on a decline well before Bush accelerated the pace).

With Clinton, we'd get changes in policy, but we wouldn't see a change in something I think we're hearing loud and clear from Americans – that we're sick and tired of deeply divided partisan politics. Do we want 4 or 8 more years of that, with the pendulum having swung too far toward the traditionally hard-line Democratic platforms, after 7 years of hard-line Republican policy?

With Obama, we'd get change – in policy certainly, his website clearly spells out new thought processes, rooted in both capitalism and humanism. And we'd see change in how work gets done in Washington, by building coalitions and consensus across party lines. Not a moment too soon.

Thank you, Mark Sanford, for demonstrating the kind of leadership that we need more of – speaking from heart and mind, and not just what the party puppeteers want you to say. I hope Sanford does have aspirations in DC. He'll do well for our environment and our economy. I don't entirely agree with his approach to education, but we can't agree on everything!! And to borrow a phrase, we can disagree without being disagreeable.

Your views are the embodiment of one of the most twistest forms of fear mongering practiced by the Democratic party. It is head and shoulders above the supposed fear mongering by the Republicans on National Security. It is truly sad that the Democrat party thinks that they need to use fear of the Republicans to keep the black vote when in the end it is the Democrats teach self pity while the Republicans teach the attainability of anything through hard work and dedication regardless of race, sex, or sexual orientation.

However let's face the fact that the Democrats have always been better at fear mongering. Even now they talk about Bush's consolidation of power (which does in part exist) while ignoring the fact that the power of the purse reigns supreme and the Democrats have done more in regards to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the attempt at Universal Healthcare, attempts to punitively tax the oil companies, and other attempts to further empower the legislative branch of this country. If anything there foul cry against Bush is just the whining of jealousy and not true concern. But when was the last time we actually had politicians more concerned about the general welfare of the people and less about their own personal power..

Anyways, the comments by the governor show a level of class found more abundantly in the Republican party then in the Democrat party. The Democrats promised integrity and civility and all they have brought is a racheting up of the rhetoric on capital hill.

I don't think Hillary will win in the general election either, but my bet is that it will be less of a defeat than with Obama and will at the very least maintain a Democratic presence in the Congress and state legislatures.

My heart sank when Mark Warner announced he was not seeking the nomination – I believe he is the only Democrat who could win in 2008. I hope the reasons for this decision come out eventually.

I swear, it's like listening to a bunch of high schoolers getting riled up about their crosstown rivals. They're incapable of seeing the world in terms other than "us against them."

Obama appeals to a wide array of people of all political stripes. He's talking about a worldview that gets beyond partisanship. I was stunned to hear a relative who voted for George friggin WALLACE in 1968 say that of all the candidates this year, he'd prefer Paul, but he'd also be open to considering Obama if he were the nominee.

Oh, Gloria Steinem and those who say that "women have had it just as hard as black men" need to have their own reality checks. White girls in Park Ridge didn't exactly grow up having to be afraid of being lynched for whistling at a white woman, or wonder if their court-ordered school bus was gonna get hit by rocks thrown by their white friends and neighbors standing outside the school. The two concepts – a white woman from the suburbs being elected vs a man of African descent being elected – aren't even remotely on the same scale.

Because Obama is speaking of being a leader of the 'United States', and that includes, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.

I really doubt they are afraid of Hillary. They have spent years preparing attacks for her because they assume that she will be the Democratic nominee. The General Election with her will be ugly. The Republican Attack vs the Clinton Attack.

With Obama – most attacks aimed at him has backfired. His message has been mostly aimed to lift people up, to give people 'hope', have a 'can do' attitude despite the odds. Most people wants this, even the cynics – but the cynics don't believe in it.

He has provided a great service to the American people. He has demonstrated his ability to bring people together ... well, most of them. The cynics will be slow to come because they don't have faith based on what they have experienced in the past – the party of division.

This is a window of opportunity for America when such a great man comes forward to serve the country, and I hope they choose wisely. Words can be powerful. They can inspire the mass. Once the mass gets engaged and put their minds toward some activities, they can really change and transform things.