There is nothing wrong with Obama, everything is fine! A voting guide.

1.It’s nothing wrong with Obama to accept favors from Rezko. Every politician does favors to collect favors, either for personal or a campaign fund and move on to get elected. If Obama bought land from Rezko less than 300k of market value, so what? Nothing has been proved that he knew it. He said he didn’t know it.

2.There is perfectly fine with Obama using drugs when he was young, he was just like one of many kids who have used, or will at sometime in their life. But at least Obama was honest to admit it. It was in the past, the law can’t convict him now. A very powerful, and smart message to connect to young voters when he could show he was like one of them, a brother, and an occasional sinner

3.It’s very naturally clever, and like any smart politician, Obama voted ‘present’ (neither Yes or No) when Obama didn’t want to create enemy on the record especially when his vote didn’t make any difference. That’s why Obama rarely has enemy ( except the Clintons). When enough people likes him, this tactic would prove as one of his most effective way to unite the country.

4.Obama opposed the Iraq war when he wasn’t yet a senator, and like anybody ( Joe & Moe on the street), and for any reason, one could opposed the war. His decision turned out to be much praised later on although no one has yet heard of why he did at the time. Whatever people want to label this as a lucky guess or a smart side-taking, Obama was right, wasn’t he? Don’t we all know that in sport sometimes a lucky team can win over a good team?

5.Although it’s against a tradition not to vocally praise your real opponent ( Republican in November) and talk down on your own team ( Democrat) before the competition begins, it’s nothing wrong with Obama when he praised Regan and discredited Clinton era. In fact, it was a very smart strategy when Obama sees the real opponent, at least for now, is Hillary, and the true friends are independent Reagan lovers. Obama will surely switch the tactic when an appropriate time will come. On the other hand, it would show Obama believes himself as honest, and a true uniter with a one-size-fits-all politics when he praised and embraced everybody… republicans, democrats, independents, minority, old, young, women, gays, lesbians, and even the ones who are not old enough to vote.

6.It makes feel so good to listen, and get excited by Obama speech every time one turns on TV because the speech contains of words rhymed one after the other, very poetic, it feels like the message of change being floating in the air. It’s so inspirational that one doesn’t even need a drink, nor drug to get high, that one can see bright future right away.

7.It is nothing wrong with 81 % of black voters, 300k more than 2004 primary who came out and voted for Obama in SC. Would you support to a Hispanic candidate if you were a Hispanic and think your candidate could win? But it would be racist if a white voter thinks about voting for a white candidate because he/she’s white.

8.It is nothing wrong with Obama campaign to stir up the race issue trying to win the SC; it was a smart campaign strategy to persuade black voters especially some of them have previously supported the Bill Clinton aka first black president.

9.It is perfectly fine, and not so hard to understand when the four biggest Gun, Tobacco, defense, and medical care industries have gone all their ways against the Clintons in the past, present, and future if you put yourselves in their shoes to comprehend how these billionaires feel. Everybody wants to make money, right!? So do they. The Clintons must have been very stupid to create such powerful enemies; they should have been quiet unless they really want more troubles… the lesson of being impeached once hasn’t help them to learn anything though.

10.There is nothing wrong with the fact that big media like MSNBC, CNN, Fox all hate Clinton’s, destroyed them in daily news reports, through New Hampshire’s mistaken polls… So what!? Imagine if one owns a news network and have nationally broadcast power, he/she would do the same unless one doesn’t realize having such power. Sorry Clinton’s supporters!, that’s life in America!

11.This was a very smart tactic when a current president (G. Bush), Karl Rove, and Newt Gingrich praised Hillary to be democratic nominee. It’s a common tactic which has been often used in politics, and military to first confuse opponents especially at the time some democrats don’t know who to vote for, then slooowly to enlighten them by pointing to polls that indicates Obama as the only one who could beat Mc Cain.

If all these above arguments seems ok and normal to you with no questions asked…. Go ahead and vote for Obama!

For goodness sake, this country elected George W. Bush, twice! But we are willing to completely denounce one poet because she is supporting the candidacy of someone who is unarguably intelligent and thoughtful.

But black is the only characteristic you see in her choice. Why?

The truth is that the American public needs someone to answer complicated questions with (if it requires it) complicated answers, not a chauvanistic and overly simplistic 'No, I don't support giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants!' and other quick-fire answers to issues (whether they are ridiculous and media generated or not).

What the American public needs is a president who will deliver the complicated answers eloquently. None of the issues we face are simple, so get ready to roll up your sleeves. And the American public might *gasp* actually have to listen and think for once, instead of listening to 'bad guy/good guy' labels relating to foreign policy issues or simple 'let's just cut taxes, job done' or other rhetoric that politicians have resorted to because they just think the public is too stupid to understand complicated economic, cultural or historical issues.

GObama. He's the thinking person's candidate.

Obama is doing well primarily because he has the best position on the war and he has shown the ability to inspire young voters. It also helps that he won one lily white state (Iowa) and almost won another (New Hampshire). Race was never an issue until someone in the Clinton campaign accused him of "shucking and jiving" his way to the White house.

I mean why not hire two analyst who always support Edwards or Clinton. Where is the fair reporting? I want to know the issues. It's amazing how Obama has brain washed everybody. Leaders who can inspire like this are also dangerous – just study History.

I hear a new voice in Obama. He is proposing that the nation of America will pull together to heal the mess that our "great experienced leaders have us in at this time." He is speaking a message of unity. That is what is needed to get us out of this mess. Let the small minded people keep focusing on race, slander and insignificant stuff as the nation falls deeper into poverty and insignificance. This nation needs change. The change eminates from the mind of someone who has intelligence and wisdom.

Wake up America! It is later than we think. The old ways of thinking and prejudices have not worked here at home or abroad for our image or prosperity. I believe we have hit "rock bottom." How much lower can we sink? I belive change is the new direction that requires participation frpm all of us.

You have a point that his positions are getting lost in the rhetoric.

But so is yours.

And if you go to his site, you find his positions just like Time Magazine did, are very similar to Hillary's.

Tony Morrison's point was that, although he is younger than Hillary, he is still wise enough to make good decisions.

According to statistics 80% of Americans have both Black & White blood somewhere down the line. So should we all say we are mixed?

The only valid pro Billary comments I see here, is the fact that while Toni Morrison is very talented, her opinion means very little.

But you can tell a lot about the people making comments. Look how race was injected here in a negative light. It was only relevant in a positive way, with her statement about Bill Clinton. Obviously, some Americans are not ready for a Black president.

And this just in: Toni Morrison's support of Obama is not because of race. Just like the BET Channel founder's support of Clinton is not because of race.

Hillary is turning out to be unelectable on the national scale. Bill has taken over her campaign, and I believe that even if she could pull of a victory people are going to say that she didn't win, bill won again.

Hillary is getting votes from old white women. Lets not forget that Obama is getting votes from the young, old, black, white, rich, poor, educated, not so educated. I think the Republicans have torn the nation apart these last 28 years. It is time we put the country back together; and frankly I don't see Hillary doing that.

You won't find many republicans, or even independants, coming out for Hillary, but they are coming out in droves for Obama. With Hillary out of the race, he will be pulling all the democratic votes, plus some of the rep and Ind votes which would ensure a win.

Now just to touch on the race issue, I think you gals are all being petty. What is wrong with 80 percent of black people voting for a black candidate. That is something to be proud about. Do you know how many of my black friends who grew up with no hope of ever seeing a black man in office? Now that there is a serious candidate in office who has impecable credentials, is eloquent, smart, non polarizing, why shouldn't they vote for him. The 20 percent who voted against him were all idiots.

And for those of you blaming all the race slinging on Obama, remember it all came out right after Obama won in Iowa. I guess Bill was scared that Hillary was going to lose so he had to do something to stop the momentum.

I don't want to see the republicans back in office, I am going with the person who can guarantee that. I am going with Obama. Mayb Hillary can regroup, take back her campaign away from her husband and run again in 2012. I would vote her then

First, I knew she was talking about Bill and not Hillary.

Second, you are asumming that I'm a Clinton supporter,. Not yet, still Independent, undecided. You know what they say about asumming anything?

Third, I'm better informed apparently than you. If you call a leader someone who changes his/her vote in favor of whomever won, because he hit the wrong button or didn't mean to vote that way. . Someone who votes "present" 130 times. Someone who votes NO on a cap of 30% to freeze credit card interests because IT'S TOO HIGH? Someone who changes his mind as often as he does is not a leader, but a follower of whomever is winning at the time. I don't follow trends or fads because they tend to run their course and end.
Clinton at least voted and takes responsibility for her votes. Right or Wrong.

Fourh, Pretty speeches don't a president make. Action speaks for me and he hasn't shown me any yet. As of today, all he's shown me is that the "Change" he's preaching, is him hooking up with the "old status quo" politicians who will walk all over him. I for one, am very happy that Kennedy and his son endorsed Obama. It puts another check mark in the Clinton and Republican colomn.

Finally, I'm voting for President of the US, not most popular. Tis isn't a beauty contest.

SPEAKING OF CLINTON LIES I WISH NEWS CASTERS WOULD CONFRONT HILLARY ON HER REPEATED LIES OF "35YRS OF EXPERIENCE". BEING MARRIED TO A POLITICIAN FOR 35 YRS IS NOT POLITICAL EXPERIENCE. BUT OBAMA'S LONG HISTORY OF COMMUNITY WORK AND POLITICS IS. HE IS YOUNGER THAN HILLARY SO HE CAN'T HAVE "35 YRS" EVEN IF HER STATEMENT WAS THE TRUTH. HE IS THE ANSWER FOR THIS COUNTRY. WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER CLINTON DINASTY. ONE WAS ENOUGH. P.S. I VOTED FOR BILL TWICE. WILL NEVER VOTE FOR HIS WIFE, WHO SHOULDN'T BE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

As far as I can tell he stands "for change and hope", but has no hope of making change. Without details, and he offers few, he really only stands for Senator Obama. He is still an unknown quantity, and an empty shirt.

In spite of her words to the contrary, I believe that Ms. Morrison looks at Senator Obama and sees an African American running for President. How sad that the other things she sees are visbile only to her.

Like so many Obama supporters she sees only that which appeals to her, and none of the faults or falsehoods. Would that we could wish hard enough and make it so, there is still no there there.

He is destined to be an asterisk in the history of presidential politics.

AMERICA, LETS NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE WE MADE TWICE ON THE LAST TWO ELECTIONS BY VOTING IN GEORGE BUSH, I DONT KNOW WHY PEOPLE DID, THE SAME PEOPLE ARE THE ONES WITHOUT HEALTH INSURANCE, MONEY IN THEIR POCKETS, DID U VOTE HIM IN BECAUSE YOU LIKED HIS LIES OR BECAUSE OF HIS PARTY OR JUST BECAUSE U LIKED HIS ACCENT(IN PROPER SPOKEN ENGLISH)?YES, U CAN NOT FULLY TRUST POLITICIAN, BUT LETS HELP OUR COUNTRY BY CHOOSING THE RIGHT CANDIDATE WHO IS AT LEAST CLOSE TO BEING HONEST, INTELLIGENT, SMART.

AMERICA, WE DONT WANT OUR NEXT PRESIDENT TO BE AN ARROGANT ONE OR DOES NOT HAVE RESPECT FOR HUMAN LIFE. I TRAVEL A LOT OVERSEAS, THE WHOLE WORLD DOES NOT LIKE AMERICA BECAUSE THEY FEEL LIKE AMERICANS ARE ARROGANT AND BULLIES, THATS WHY ON THE LAST ELECTION A BRITISH NEWSPAPER ASKED "' WHY ARE 50 MILLION AMERICAN SO STUPID" AMERICA LETS NOT SHOW ARROGANCE AND STUPIDITY ANY MORE. I THINK THE RIGHT CANDIDATE IS OBAMA" 08 FOR UNITY AND WORLD PEACE.

Absolutly amazing.

There is a bill in the House right now, HR 25, proposing the fair tax idea.
First of all you should read the bill. It calls for a 23% inclusive tax for 2007.
This means for every 100.00 spent the government gets 23.00. In order to get items to the 100.00 level you have to add 30% to its cost (ie 1.3 times 77.00 = 100.10). The sales tax rate would be 30%; not the 23% Huckabee touts.

Then years after 2007 the 23% goes to 14.91% plus Social Security and Medicare which now is 15.3 % for a total of 30.21% inclusive. The means the sales tax rate would have to be 43 plus percent.

The prebates that Huckabee talks about are based on the poverty level which right now in the neighborhood of 16000 per year. This is far less than most of us spend on goods and services. Consider this. Under his plan a gallon of gas would increase from 3.00 to 3.90. How is that going to affect your commute costs?

Don;t be fooled in to thinking the fair tax is anything other that a scheme by the upper income elite to avoid paying taxes.

Age and Citizenship requirements – US Constitution, Article II, Section 1

No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.

Term limit amendment – US Constitution, Amendment XXII, Section 1 – ratified February 27, 1951

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

When has Barack Obama pandered to the black vote?

I know Hillary has, it has happened twice here in Nashville in little over a week. Bill Clinton stumped for Hillary at Fisk, a historically black college, and days later Hillary did the same at Tennessee State University, another historically black college.

But that is okay and Obama is the one using race to his advantage?

Look, Obama got about 20% of the white vote in SC, the same percentage of the black vote Hillary got. White voters have the advantage of voting for a plethora of white candidates, they have never known what it was like to not have that option.

1- most often when a politician votes 'present' it is part of a complex GROUP dynamic involving agreements and deals reached with other representatives regarding legislation. There is a legitimate reason that representatives are even allowed to vote 'present'. The fact that Senator Obama has made this vote so often is simply a sign of his maturity as a politician, his ability to use every tool of the legislative process

2 – Obama lacks experience? He's got more actual experience as an ELECTED public servant than Clinton and more than Bill Clinton had when he became president. Citizens have actually chosen him repeatedly to represent their interests more than Hillary has been chosen. Hillary is a decade and a half OLDER than him, if that's what you mean by experience?

3 – the supposed connection with Rezko is a joke. Would you consider yourself guilty if you bought a car from a friendly neighbor and then found out several years later that he had been cheating on his taxes? Of course not. There is no story here...except maybe the sad story of Democrats turning to nasty Republican campaign techniques as they tear into one another.

4 – Obama can't win because he's black, too nice, the country's just not ready yet, etc. History is full of people doing what supposedly can't be done. I urge you to vote your conscience in this election, not from a supposed sense of 'electability'.

Race may be an uncomfortable dialogue for many of us but I really hope we don't have to go to civil war over it. It's sounds ignorant that we have to attack every black person who supports Obama, or be mad at Obama for gaining endorsements.

Racist
The theory that distinctive human characteristics and abilities are determined by race. (see terms like "the black vote")

Institutional racism
(also known as structural racism, state racism or systemic racism) is racial discrimination by governments, corporations, educational institutions or other large organizations with the power to influence the lives of many individuals. Stokely Carmichael is credited for coining the phrase institutional racism in the late 1960s. He defined the term as "the collective failure of an organization to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture or ethnic origin"