OBAMA '08

Please educate yourselves. Watch the debates. Don't believe everything in the news and on the Internet. The candidates don't want this to be about race. They want to be elected on their positions on the issues. Obama is not dividing the races. He is the candidate about unity. The media is just trying to find a story, so they pick the path of least resistance...race, gender, etc. Read between the lines and make real judgements. What I have read on this web-site should make people ashamed of themselves. What happened to critical thinking? Oh...that's right...NCLB.

I am an independent that leans to the right. I dont know of ONE Indie or moderate republican that would vote for her and she will DEFINITELY need the indie and mod repub vote to win.

Let me say, the GOP is PRAYING that she wins as the Dem candidate! They know it is their only chance of winning running against her.

If Dems want even a slight chance of winning the Presidency they had better smell the coffee and select Barack as their candidate, FACT!

From former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young on why he supports Hillary Clinton – "For one thing, she's got Bill. And Bill is every bit as black as Barack Obama".

Now, just how absurd is that?!

It's pathetic – given how often Mr. Obama speaks of unity amongst all Americans that someone would stoop that low.

Everyone who shares my concern with the way this country has become needs to get out and cast their vote for the one candidate who is not a "Washington Insider".

Wendy
GO HILLARY

If Mr. Obama were the face of America to the world, our standing would immediately do a 180. When was the last time the U.S. was not represented by a white male? Try "NEVER"! Some would argue that Hillary also would be a change from that tradition, but not in the same way. My son recently returned from a 3 week trip to Europe and many people questioned him about how it is that we go around the world touting democracy, yet it's apparent (with the election of Bush, Clinton, Bush and now, potentially Clinton) that the vote of the people means nothing – it's the party machine that calls the shots. I, for one, will cast my ballot for Mr. Obama and try to prove them wrong!

Let's make one thing perfectly clear. Most of us are not Hillary haters. She is nery knowledgeable and can lend to improving many areas. But we can sense a worse scenario if she wins the Democratic nomination.

1. Her electability is questionable given her negative ratings.

2. If Hillary gets the nomination; a third party candidate (probably Bloomberg) will enter the presidential race and siphon votes.

3. If Hillary gets the nomination; two important developments regarding Democratic voters are Afro-Americans and younger voters will become disenchanted and not show up election day.

4. If Hillary gets the nomination; Republicans and Independents will vote for either the Republican or a third party candidate.

5. If Hillary gets the nomination; Republicans will flock to the polls to not only vote against her but also vote for Republicans for the House and Senate.

Hillary will only empower anti-Democratic voting blocs. We can't afford that.
Obama's message is to unite. Hillary cannot match his appeal in

Chris–
Well said. When I hear about people strongly supporting Obama I wonder if they've done their homework on his voting record or lack of one. Then on the issues he has voted on, what did they mean for the country?

This is DIRECTLY from Obama’s book:

“Although I was raised by my mother, I identified more closely with the race of my father” (who left the family when Obama was 2)
“‘I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites,” Obama’s DIRECT statement
“Although I spent various portions of my youth living with my white maternal grandfather and Indonesian stepfather, I vowed that I would ‘never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.’
Obama wrote that in high school, he and a black friend would sometimes speak disparagingly ‘about white folks this or white folks that, and I would suddenly remember my mother’s smile, and the words that I spoke would seem awkward and false.’
“As a result, he concluded that ‘certain whites could be excluded from the general category of our distrust.’”

Excellent — I wonder which whites in American politics, or even in America at large, are today excluded? Also, family-values Americans won’t be too thrilled that he identified with a father who left when Obama was 2, had multiple wives at once, sired eight children with several different women, and was an abusive drunk that was brutally abusive to the mothers of his children.

This is not a personal attack on Obama. With this kind of family history, it’s understandable he would have troubles dealing with everything. Sociological research has revealed that mixed-race Americans often end up identifying with one race or another. But Americans need a president without such issues. At the very least, he’ll have to convince America he’s past it by explicitly contradicting HIS published work….

What do you think will happen when Obama's OWN published words are brought out by the Republicans???

"There is a ridiculous assumption that somehow the black community is so unsophisticated that the minute you put an African American face on the screen, they say that's our guy"

Blacks in America see more to Obama than the "black guy" running for president. End of story.

Joslyn in Texas

1. Her electability is questionable given her negative ratings.

2. If Hillary gets the nomination; a third party candidate (probably Bloomberg) will enter the presidential race and siphon votes.

3. If Hillary gets the nomination; two important developments regarding Democratic voters are Afro-Americans and younger voters will become disenchanted and not show up election day.

4. If Hillary gets the nomination; Republicans and Independents will vote for either the Republican or a third party candidate.

5. If Hillary gets the nomination; Republicans will flock to the polls to not only vote against her but also vote for Republicans for the House and Senate.

Hillary will only empower anti-Democratic voting blocs. We can't afford that.
Obama's message is to unite. Hillary cannot match his appeal in that regard.

They both support the funding of the war and the Patriot Act. Obama "might" end the way by 2014. He is a coward like the rest of the democrats who won't take a stand against the war.
Funny how many people in NH voted for McCain because they thought he was anti-war. LOL!!!

There's no change with either McCain or Obama or Shillary or Romney, just the illusion of change that fools the naive.

Isn't he on Judicial watch's top 10 most corrupt politicians??

I gauruntee you half of the people endorsing him don't know half of his positions.

THese people are gonna vote for a guy that voted FOR THE PATRIOT ACT that allows the government to read all emails and listen to all phone conversations.

THis guy is like the ANtiChrist to black people. He comes talking about all this change; yet he will hurt more Blacks than he will help.

Has obama said anything about the RACIST DRUG WAR????

NO

Yet the only person who would PARDON ALL NON VIOLENT DRUG CRIMINALS BECAUSE THE DRUG LAWS ARE RACIST is RON PAUL.

Obama wants to give universal healthcare...

Yet anyone who actually researched HOW HE WOULD DO IT would know that he will get rid of the BUSH TAX CUTS...Thats $140 BILLION DOLLARS

So our economy sucks and we're going to RAISE TAXES...Yeah theres REAL CHANGE FOR YA

So let me make sure I have this right....

Our Economy is horrible; The Dollar is collapsing, the cost of living is Skyrocketing, our Empire is spread too thin, And we won't have the money to maintain Social Security and Medicare in the next 5 to 10 years, SO we should vote for the guy that CAN'T COMMIT TO BEING OUT OF IRAQ BY 2013, The guy that voted for the surge, the guy that will RAISE taxes, the guy that doesn't want to secure the border, all because he "SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT GUY AND HE TALKS ABOUT CHANGE"

WAKE UP PEOPLE

WASHINGTON NEEDS AN ENEMA AND FOR THAT YOU CALL A DOCTOR

WE NEED RON PAUL

Lower taxes
No more endless war
No more Govt spying on its own people
No more wasteful drug war imprisoning mostly minorities
No More PATRIOT ACT
No more NAU

You have the right to criticize any American politician, however until a few weeks ago Australia was run by a Prime Minister by the name of John Howard.

Compared to him, any , repeat any, Democratic candidate, including those that have retired from the Presidential race, is intellectually and politically "head and shoulders" above your John Howard.

No offence, intended.....

People need to think for themselves and not do what celebrities do.

If you are that obsessed with the behavior and actions of Hollywood stars on TV then you need to take you butt out the door and star gaze from outside because you don't have the capability to choose who runs this country.

Lets not choose another republican and send this country into a third recession caused by a group of people who don't have any interest of making this country better. Republicans are all about big business and they will stop at nothing to make their pockets heavier even if they have to "step on babies" to do it.

Excellent post – agree with much of your analysis – the Hillary haters we see here day in and day out are not democrats in my opinion but GOP people trying to stir it up.

I am disappointed though how negative this whole campaign has been – there really is not much difference bewtteen the main democratic canidates and in all honesty they are head and shoulders above most of the GOP nominees – McCain being the obvious exception.

The danger of attacking each other as constantly as Clinton and Obama have done is that it plays right into the hands of the GOP – I just hope that much of teh ill-feeling that has been generated is temporary and that they can put their diferences aside – a Clinton/Obama or Obama/Clinton ticket could be very successful one and if united could beat McCain.

One word as to why McCain could lose the election against Clinton – Iraq.

Although things have stabilised don't be surpriseed if the jihadists take action to try and damage McCain.