CNN

"The Illinois senator spent much of his speech moving back to his campaign message of hope and change, telling the group he is confident about the future of jobs for Americans, and though it’s a tough battle, he is hopeful to provide healthcare for every American.

“I know how frustrated people are,” Obama said. “Just because you're mad, just because it seems like nobody is listening to ordinary Americans, that's not a reason to give up hope.”

'You get mad and then you decide you're going to change it. If you're not angry about something you're going to sit back and let it happen to you. If you're only angry, you don't feel hopeful, and you won't get the energy to change it. I'm mad, but I'm also hopeful."

WHAT IS YOUR PLAN.....HOPE IS NOT A PLAN!!!

I am begging this guy to say something substantive!!!

He is very good at looking pretty and making a rousing speech and sprinkling the words "Change" and "Hope" into these speeches....but when you start to peel the onion back there are absolutely no concrete solutions to the issues America faces other than what ever Bush did was wrong.

What experience does this guy have when it comes to dealing with the persistent threat of Islamic terrorists? A two day trip to Iraq and another trip to Africa??? Has he ever served in a position of great responsibility in the Armed Forces or State Department??? Does serving 3 years on the Senate Foreign Relations committee qualify as significant experience???

Where is the substance?

"HOPE" is not a method....only a nice sound bite

Neither one of these guys understand economics. Our Foreign policy is spending us back into the stone ages.

Go get 'em Obama! McCain is still on page one in reading his Economy 101 book.

Will Obama raise taxes? Yes. He has too for those who make over $200,000 will see their taxes raised. George Bush (and now John McBush) want to reduce taxes. I have no problem reducing taxes but you can't reduce taxes and spend "like a druken sailor" and continually push the federal deficit up.

Case in point, McCain announced today he wants to reduce the gasoline tax during the summer to help Americans. Politically this smart, economically this is dumb. Gasoline taxes go into the transportation fund that is used to inspect and repair roads and bridges and to handle other national transportation issues. Cutting taxes without a way to pay for it only inflates the national debt. Or could McCain be telling us not to invest in transportation infrastructure improvements, so that we can have more bridge failures like the one in Minnesota?!?!

No more Clintons or Bushes (even McBush)....VOTE OBAMA!

Flip flop. Use it just as they did to take an election from Kerry. Its ok for them to do it but not ok for anyone else? CHANGE is good.

For all of you nay sayers out there, what have OBama and Clinton said that the are going to do for the economy? Other than tax the rich (they'll just move like they moved out of New York) or increase spending by a Trillion dollars each. That's right, I said a Trillion with a "T". Those 2 aim to completely destroy our economy by such acts, while McCain's plan will at least stimulate it. You can only get so much blood out of a turnip.

i am so sick of you people saying obama is our next president. Are you stupid or what? obama cannot win, period. he has had an easy ride so far. the media are in love with him and only show how smooth he is. the republicans are not gonna baby this moron. they will destroy him and reveal what a truly sleazy politician he really is. he will never be president, and after the general election he will never be elected to national post again, he will be lucky if he gets elected to be a dog catcher.

Everyone can see McCain is a total flip-flopper!
He'll change his views based on whatever's most politically expedient.
How can you trust someone that will do or say anything to get into office?

A man who so easily betrays his principles in pursuit of power will betray you too!

He is so supportive of big corporations! What a guy!

What is this "spar" nonsense? McCain has no plan! He proposes a suspension of all federal taxes on gasoline this summer?! Great, only one problem sir, you're not the President!!! It's great political theater and enough of a distraction for clowns like Blitzer and other pundits to jump on and say he has something to say. This guy is a worse candidate than George Bush could ever dream of being. Ridiculous

Maybe the Good Senator Obama can waive his magic wand of Hope and sprinkle some pixie dust of Change on the economy and it will magically be transformed. Or maybe he can talk it to death with one of his "amazing" orations and the economy will be so "inspired" that it will simply lift itself. Folks, to call this guy a lightweight, is an insult to lightweights everywhere.

Does anyone know what he has accomplished as a Senator in Illinois? No one talks about it, except to say he voted "present" the majority of the time. HAs things changed for the better in his district?

Anyone that believes this crap from Obama needs to go to the library and read a basic economics book.

Obama wants to raise my taxes because he thinks he can spend my money better than I can. All Democrats say that they will only raise taxes on the rich, but eventually it always ends up trickling down to everyone else.

Obama is a great speaker but I wish people would actually listen to what his policies are and how they affect the big picture before voting for this disaster.

Paul. You sound like a bitter old man.

The Recession....Liberal style

spoiled rotten Americans = Americans who think the government should bail them out from their SELF INDUCED financial problems = an "Entitlement" society = spending money on luxury instead of saving it = lots of debt = complaining that it is the government's fault that they are in debt = media fueled claims of a recession = looking to the government to bail you out = Barack Obama supporters = spoiled rotten Americans....

it sure is a vicious circle....it spins to the left in case you were wondering

America....if you think Obama will personally solve your economic problems because he makes a rousing motivational speech or will wave a magic wand if he is elected and all will be well....WAKE UP!

"HOPE" is not a method....just a nice sound bite

You know ... Obama should ignor Hillary and just focus on Mcain. He shouldn't call her on her negative attacks, just focus on McCain. After all, he is the Republican Nominee and Barack is going to be the Democratic nominee. But he needs to stop giving any attention to Hillary. The attention is what's keeping her going. She's behind. If he ignors her, she has no one to talk to ... or at. He is much better when talking issues. And it's really about him and McCain now.

Do you honestly believe these guys make up their own economic plans? They can say anything they want but they'll all have someone else telling them the best way to do things, you fools think the pres does everything...

Annie Oakley is going to win this election!! Remember Obama, with your sexist comment, that Annie Oakley was a very sharp woman. Hillary will get the nomination.

We are yet to know what Hillary meant by “real men are for Hillary” Is that sexist? I disagree with that statement. Sound divisive to me. Does that make me less of a man if I do not vote for Hillary?

John I think you are bitter. I would not want you as a friend. Please think and make your choices with facts. Do not be so anger. How would you feel if you job cut your wages to 1.00 an hour. Let forgot about all the rules that protect you. Hilliary know the rules so did Obama. It is not fair to change the rules in the middle of the game. This is not rocket science.

Vote Obama

Obama cant even hit the right voting buttons in his senate record let alone advise on economics.

He is so full of crap.

To Porter: The bitter Obama-maniacs don't understand a word you wrote; my goodness, you must be elitist! Are you rich too?

(I agree with you.)

Jeff which one of the 58 Obamas should be president?

"We do not need a President who slams the people"?

What do you think BUSHCO has done for the last 8 years? What do you think McSame will do? Represent YOU?

Obama will win POTUS easily.

If Clinton would just piss off we could actually get do having this debate on a regular basis...

Jeff, careful there, you may wet your pants. Does obama get you that heated up?

Oops! John McCain's suspension of the gas tax is not the solution!

Major issues include:

– Money for repair of roads and bridges
– Road safety
– Loss of jobs (approx. 300,000 jobs)

What are you doing?

Only telling the truth?

Give me a break!!!!!

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McCain should just wait for the real fight with Clinton. Obama has no chance of getting the nomination now. Even if he's ahead going into the convention the super delegates won't vote for him because he is unelectable in the general election. No matter how much mud he tries to sling on Senator Clinton now it will not distract from what he said and all the lies he's told. He is not qualified to be president and this was obvious from day one. The only change I want to see now is him out of the race. Vote smart and for for Clinton.

"Obama will destroy McCain. Picture them onstage together and think Nixon – Kennedy"

Ummmm, yeah... just like Kennedy "destroyed" Nixon by securing 34.2 million votes to his 34.1 million.

And then of course there's the problem that Kennedy favored huge tax cuts and Obama wants all of your money in Washington...

Susan MO....careful now. You are showing your lack of ability to interpret words spoken. There was a clear meaning. Only the most twisted of minds could have screwed that one up.

Whose plan is Obama trying to take credit for now!

"John McCain voted against President Bush’s 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, but has recently said he is in favor of extending the tax cut through 2010."

FLIP-FLOPPER!!!!!!

More media misinformation about how unlikely it is that Hillary can catch up in popular vote – she is currenly only 94,000 votes behind Obama and will likely take the lead after Pennsylvania, Yes, Florida and Michigan count – popular votes were certified in those two states and the DNC cannot scrub those although they may not seat the delegates selected as a result of those votes. This still doesn't change the fact that there is a popular vote total that the media is hiding from the public.
It amazes me how one sided in coverage CNN and several other news agencies are. Slam Clinton, poor little B Obama….How about asking Obama….how much did Rezko actually finance for you and how much was related to your being elected? Your spiritual advisor makes Bin Lauden look as though they believe the same things, and what about your friendly neighborhood terrorist, Bill Ayers? Your campaign admittedly said you were friendly and on 9-11-01 this fool said he was not sorry for the bombings he started in the US. And he is a professor.. Please, only in a campaign….I believe Obama should get out before he gives this election to McCain

WE LOVE YOU BARACK!

KEEP FIGHTING....AND LEAVE HILLARY BEHIND IN THE DUST TO CLING HER "BITTER" AND DIVISIVE CAMPAIGNING!!!!

YES, WE CAN!!!!

McCain has a 25 year track record of supporting the wealthiest, most bigoted group of people in Arizona.
I know I lived there for 10 years. Thank God we elected Gabriella Giffords to the house. She actually answers letters with respect and honesty. McCains answers were all about telling me how wrong I was and we needed more war, the world was out to get us. They hate our freedoms you know.

Susan MO – go take your filthy comments and get lost... You are a disgrace you Billary supporter... Hypocrite just like Billary....

McCain, Hillary, Bush, Romney, F–kabee, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rove,
Rice are all elitists.You all can add to that list.

and this is exactly why John McCain has no idea how to run this country. EEDIOT.

I am a Republican and to be honest......I can not in my wildest dreams can I see voting for any of these hacks.......other than knowing McCain will give our military what they need and ask for. I reckon I will vote for him.
But come on guys,,,,,look at these folks Voting records....please

This is why I support Obama !!!! Hopefully MOST Pennsylvaians will get this message and STOP paying attention to Hillary's gutter politics of drinking, hunting Bambi and attacking peoples religion and race. Hillary supporters SHE IS WASTING YOUR TIME AND YOUR VOTES!! Please make your vote count for the next President of the United States and let Hillary go back to the SENATE where she is needed .

McCain sounds like he's reading right off a cue card – can't McCain and Clinton offer ANY personal views, or do their campaign manager have to write everything they say?

McCain recently voted against the GI bill !!! I guess the soldiers
will come home and be forced to re-enlist because there are no
jobs. And "earmarks"? The Democrats are blamed for not voting
for a bill that would exclude funds to fix bridges and infrastructures
that our citizens are driving across coming home from work and
driving into the sunset of Lake Superior. McCain will never win.
Obama is mad.

Now thats a leader america needs! Go Obama and hit on those issues..

Obama 08

Correction
He should not worry about hillary any more

God bless President Barack Obama and God bless this great nation of ours. I am glad to see he is ignoring Hillary Clinton he is in the right track he should worry about hillary anymore people are fedup with her. Mr. President my advice is consentrate to inform people on Mcsame bushes failed policy.

Finally something about the real issues facing Americans!!!

I can't wait until it is official, and we can trully let Obama loose on Mccain. He is going to rip him apart on the issues. Although those people poised to vote Republican will not change thier minds. It's going to be a showdown.

At least McCain is actually giving an exact plan of action on the economy. Obama just says he has hope and he thinks America can change...that is not a plan sir!!
For all you air-heads that think Obama can beat McCain in a debate you are really out of it. Obama did nothing but agree with Hillary or umm and stutter through his answers. Then uses the next 3 weeks to back track and flip flop on what he said in the debate. McCain knows what his plans are and has always done what he has said he wanted to do. the fact is you know what you are getting with McCain: Leave Iraq in a successful democracy, turn our economy around, really unite republican and democrat politicians, and protect our country from attack. Believe it or not McCain is the only one who has a 25 YEAR track record of doing these things!

Keep on track Sen. Obama, you are doing a superb job!
Frankly I don't know how you can stay focused, with all the underhanded tricks and garbage coming from the Clinton camp.

CNN, please is it true that Sen. Clinton had to reduce her usual hour long speech, given to the Philadelphia County Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson event, to a mere five minute talk because of rowdyism and heckling aimed at Sen. Clinton?

We aren't all angry red-necks with guns, people don't have to get mad to make change, nothing out of anger has ever accomplished much. We want change because we are an intellectual and insightful people and want to do better. Thats not anger its inspiration, please stop telling Americans we are angry, acting out of anger is ignorance, and we aren't ignorant.

Joe, Gloucester, Va.

I cant wait for a head to head debate. John McCain will lose and lose badly. All of the negative campaigning wont help him at all!!

Obama 08

thats right OBAMA worry about Mccain and not hillary ....she is tost

You will be the next president

Obama 08

What did McCain mean? Honestly? Who is McCain protecting – certainly NOT the American people! Tax cuts to the wealthy are doingi NOTHING for the American people as a whole...the rich are simply getting richer and the poor...poorer.

McCain cannot win...and if he does, 4 more years of heightened terrorism AND a bad economy.

I too am glad Obama is taking a step away from Queen Hillary to take a few jabs at McCain.

Obama is just repeating what everybody knows! McCain, is inexperienced and clueless on the economy the American public knows it, he is only a decorated “Warmonger”.

Our President Obama 08’ & 12’

Brandon – "I loved that line. Obama will destroy McCain. Picture them onstage together and think Nixon – Kennedy"

Amen! I am so looking forward to watching Obama show him what's up.

Hillary has become a distraction with her guns and liquor and accusations. She needs to step aside and let the adults discuss the business of running this country.

(That sounds like a very chauvinistic statement but I'm a white middle-aged woman. I just don't believe Hillary is the right person to represent me, either as a woman or as an American.)

What do either Obama or John know about the economy? Maybe they are sparring to find out if either one of them knows what Hillary knows.

Then again maybe it is because they have nothing better to do then try to catch a TV camera's eye.

Just use Hillary's plans,boys,but make sure she tells you everything about them. Otherwise it will be a "bitter pill" to swallow, and might forget and lose your temper.

Go Obama, speak the truth. That is what America needs.

I can see it didn't take too long. I am so proud of my fellow americans.

Interesting Obama. Care about American??........after you insulted the people of Pennsylvnia......& to top it off.....you 'made light of it'.........that's like laughing in their faces.

We do not need a president who slams the people.

Nothing that OBAMA says interests me. It is difficult to believe anything he says because in my view he has no CREDIBILITY. He also lacks good JUDGEMENT as witnessed by his support of his mentor and Pastor, the Rev Wright. All I hear and the majority of American will show in the upcoming elections is that he is full of HOT AIR.

Listen to him is the same to me as watching paint dry and so I have tuned him out.

truer words have never been spoken. barack is right on the money again. thia man is brillant. once in a lifetime do we have some one like him
i am a w-woman in arkansas

It will be a hell of a fight. But Obama will win. We cannot continue
the Bush era. We just can't. There will be nothing left of our Country
if it not already too far gone. China owns us.

Talk about God? in Washington ? the most immoral place on earth! What a bunch of phonies. They certainly don't even listen to the people anymore. Elitists!!!
None of these canidates remotely represent "We the people" They certainly don't live in our communities. We are stuck with the lesser of 3 evils. Again!!! The big billion dollar corps weed them out 4 us by funding their favs' airtime.
I hate to say, the picture portays gloom 4 everybody. There will be more people every year,requiring more demands of all resources, infrastructures,fossil fuels everything! The only one's you can't tell this to, are People. We just keep on stripping the earth of all it's resources & creating hunting seasons for everything that gets in our way(as we expand our concrete & asphalt jungles into all rural areas abroad).
Washington (a large portion of the worlds problems) & everything around it is consumed with "self serving pompous gods", who'll line their pockets at the expense of "We the people" with their exploits of wasteful distastefull spending. Self endulged greed. They are all selling our futures down the drain for the "pity the next guy maintenance program" We aren't fixing any of our problems. These new corporate backed campaigns are getting progressively worse,as they make record billions gouging "we the people out of our dreams". Add to this: a food shortage crises lingers in the very near future ( expected increase in floods & droughts ) due to a small climate (global warming) change. The forcloseurs will get worse since the real problem is not addressed. Come on ! bailing out a "pocket lined" ceo at bear stearns... he'll just buy more mansions & yaughts. Hello govt!!!! wake the up you have outsourced, entered Nafta free trade, ignored the borders & the laws that govern work,spent money like mad lunatics,etc etc etc... America can not change without campaign reform take corporate funding out of politics immediately b 4 it's too late!! Only money runs! only money wins! The only view we get is from the top 2 % of the richest spoiled brats in the world. Nothing is being run with any fiscal sence , including the (dishonest)market. This market has progressively become the most corrupt & loosely guarded place a person can put money. The SEC is another prime example of government waste!! Ok I typed too much so I'll skip the spell correct ps u do not want to hand te world over to the next gen. Lazy gen x2

I'll take someone who tows the free market line over someone who strongly believes the socialist ideal that's been a proven catastrophic failure in U.S.S.R., Nazi Germany, Communist China, Fascist Italy, North Korea, and South America. Not to even mention the more subtle failures in places like France and Canada, even here at home in the form of Social Security and countlesss other fed failures.

I do know this? Obama will put up a great fight against McMouse
who voted against the GI bill to educate Soldiers when they come
home from the war. If they can't get an education, they will be forced
to re-enlist!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Vote Democrat for Obamaman.

The Illinois senator spent much of his speech moving back to his campaign message of hope and change, telling the group he is confident about the future of jobs for Americans, and though it’s a tough battle, he is hopeful to provide healthcare for every American.

“I know how frustrated people are,” Obama said. “Just because you're mad, just because it seems like nobody is listening to ordinary Americans, that's not a reason to give up hope.”

"You get mad and then you decide you're going to change it. If you're not angry about something you're going to sit back and let it happen to you. If you're only angry, you don't feel hopeful, and you won't get the energy to change it. I'm mad, but I'm also hopeful."

That's great... three paragraphs and you said NOTHING! Typical...

Maybe you should worry about getting your nomination first...

HRC vs BHO... let the battle continue... all the way to November...

Obama will get his chance to "spar" with John McCain during debates over their economic policies and John McCain won't remember a word he said because he had to read it all. John McCain is scripted and will get angry if taken off script, I can't wait for the debates.

Go Obama! It's good to see you and Mc Cain get back on the issues and leave Hillary out of it! Another way to back-slap her!

Mr. McCain's economic policy is to marry rich. He is a poor example of a human being. When example are we setting by making an adulterer president?? What coulld be more humiliating?

How many favors did he have to call in to get his new wife off of her drug abuse charges and how much in goverment money are they being given nowadays!

Disgusting! No character in this man whatever!

Nice to see Obama focusing less on HRC and more on the issues and, unfortunately George Mccain.

GO OBAMA!!

HE IS JUST HITTING EM LEFT AND RIGHT (ON THE ISSUES!!!)

WHOEVER SAID HE AINT A FIGHTER?!?!?!?

CNN, Thank you! You've managed to sneak something important in between the bowling, farfalle and Crown Royal. I was about to give up on you.

Wow finally, an adult exchange. How long will it take to get into name calling and be in the gutter?

John McCain is a useless hack.