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Axelrod is a good man and a brilliant man.

The only reason many like Palin is because she is a known racist and speaks the language that haters of blacks love to hear. She is the one that spewed hatred along with Rove and Limbaugh.

That indeed was a great speech. Very great. I didnt have a chance to hear it before I read it here on the news, but I was deeply moved. Race is indeed America's most challenging issue. There is so much misunderstanding between the races and that became apparent with the Wright situation. One MLK observance I went to, the room sang out with gusto this wonderful song...everyone seemed to know it. I'm white and I had NEVER heard it. There is a great cultural gap in understanding. Blacks tire in trying to explain it, and whites get defensive and dont listen...I'm glad Powell spoke out too.

this comment is SPOT ON!!

I don't know who was not amazed after the race speech (democrats and republicans alike)

I was just like "WOW" after that speech, and I am so proud he is our president!!!!!!!!!!!!

When I listen to the Glen Becks, the Limbaughs and the saddlebacks I cant help but hear the anger in their voices. The time of their divisive, narrow views is coming to an end. Obama represents that which they fear most ... change.

TO--JM December 11th, 2008 7:30 pm ET
The party needs to stop listening to all the self aggrandizing types, the Glen Becks, the Limbaughs, the Saddleback church types, all of them. Powell is spot on. Polarizing social conservative rhetoric gets them everywhere with their base…we saw last month that the base got them exactly NOWHERE!! They need to wake up. The Sarah Palin pick was a great thrill for the base, and a disaster for the party. Unfortunatley, they still don't get it. This isn't American Idol, it's the country's future at stake…..they will become irrelevant in the near future barring major shifts in philosophy and aims.
****You are Sooooo RIGHT ******

General Colin Powell is RIGHT ON.
And Obama does have the RIGHT INSTINCTS!
The current Republican brand, featuring the likes of Failin Pailin and Rush Limbaugh, is nothing but totally destructive

Obama is President because Axelrod made sure he would be, just like Rove got Bush to the presidency. It is all about marketing. . Axelrod's own firm touts its main focus is to ensure getting blacks elected to office. So now he can add one more notch to the list of those African Americans he has put in office and now has a job at the White House for his accomplishments.

Amen ! I felt the same way when I heard the speech. It brought tears to my eyes and I am glad that we will have the opportunity to hopefully listen to more speeches of this caliber.

Here is what will happen in 2012......About 40% of the people that voted for McCain will end up voting for OBAMA + the ones that Voted for OBAMA in 2008 (the first time) ...... In essence, Obama will get re-elected.....enough said...

Larry C.
Houston Texas

Right as always Anthony. It's not like the Obama campaign wallowed in the mud calling everyone and anyone who disagreed with Obama a racist. Yes, what a wonderful day it is. America has sent a message, and Russia, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Hamas, an Hezbollah share in your joy.

Sleep tight.

My goodness - the newspapers are going broke and the internet news sites pay abolutely no attention to initial caps, spell-checking or even sentence structure. Our grandchildren will be illiterate! This Axelrod piece is one of the worst examples of journalism I have ever seen - and I taught high school students newspaper production! Take the extra three minutes, please. It's not breaking news.

I have listened to Obama's speech on race twice now. That speech saved this election for him in my opinion. It was simply amazing. Not only the writing but also the way it was delivered. It will be remembered for a very long time.

The Republicans and the press continue to move along the same sorry road with this whole Illinois fiasco trying to paint PE Obama as some sort of conspirator while once again clear minded, patrotic Americans will see through it and continue to support the man who really does have their lives and their country at heart.

Obama is what this country needs, we have been divided too long. We are all human and Americans, we have anxieties about other races, because of the negative racial history of this country. If we always sweep the issue under the rug, we will never clean up the mess, and the dirty and filth will pile up. I was so happy when Sen. Obama spoke about about the race issue. I thought finally someone said it. We still have a problem, and we have to continue to fight. I hope the GOP learn from their mistakes.

After that speech, I too said, "This man will be president"

Obama, NEVER, EVER, would have won without the Liberal Jewish machine (other Liberals just don't have it.) Obama is nothing but leverage and he knows it. Some things never change – they just get a face wash, and this election proves it. No wonder these folks were so keen to bring in multiculturalism and diversity, whose main objective is to destroy, if possible; if not, debilitate Western culture and values... and the results are all around for us to see.

Are we better off today, with tdaily debauchery? Of course, not.

Santayana said: Those who ignore History are bound to repeat it.

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mr President

And he is our next President.

And this is why he will be President in just a matter of 5 weeks...I cant wait.

Sounds like Bush has already given up.

Please tell Fitzgerald to stop his comedie,and leave Rod alone. My problem is not the Governor, but unemployment. Can Fitzgerald find me a job?

woww

Blah - blah – blah Axelrod!!!!!!!!!!! Blah-blah-blah Obama!!!!!!!!!!!

America was build on lies and the backs of slaves. This land was taken from the Indians and will never be the same. It is up to the younger generation now too make things right and they have. (They voted for Obama.) The time for healing is now and if we don't start we will be sorry and the rest of the world will hate us more then ever.

The far right is just that. FAR RIGHT ALL BY THEMSELVES. Maybe we should give them a couple states for themselves. idiots

Bigots! Irrelevant! You are so mislead. The future will be the past! The party rules. What I see in all the posts is the agonizing of the left who turned it's back on the church, and fundamental principals of life. That with in the heart everyone knows that the church established the original law, that nature is not ours but belongs to GOD. That human and mankind worship falls way short of fulfilling. And that the states with the largest most grievous debts N.Y. and California are Democratic havens exploding with failure.

Rev. Wright served our country as a US Navy Corpsman. Did hannity, rove, limbaugh,cheney, o'reilly,beck,and the other republican chicken hawks serve in the military? Nah.

Well, Palin will never be President, neither will any GOP within the next 20 years and by then, noteven the Church will help the GOP unless of couse the candiate in 20 years is a person of color!

Truth be told!

We're all American and yet the others want to say because we disagree with them, that we're not. This country has many diverse cultures and we are the better for it.

Barack is an example of the power of our convictions. Out of many one, and what a wonderful example he has shown. My prayers are with him every day, that he will be safe and sound and lead this country out of this quagmire.

God Bless America.

As I look back at my party ( Republican). I just can not forget the anger I felt towards George W. Bush and for that reason, I so wished that my party would loose the White House.
I said at one time that my Party would loose the Senate and the Congress and most likely the White House, I I guess I was not wrong.
Can't my fellow Republicans see what George W. Bush did to it?
Can't my fellow Republicans see that Cheney and Bush destroyed it?
Can't my fellow Republicans see that the Democratic Party had already won the White House, with or without Obama? With or without Hillary?
For the simple reason that there was to much hate towards our party?
I was sick and so angry towards my own Party I hoped and knew we would loose the White House.

WE need more moderates ... more common sense...

The U. S. has more than enough politicians. In Barack Obama we
may have, dare I say it, a statesman. That's what this country has needed for a long time.

Chief McCain pollster Bill Mcinturff had figured out that if McCain used Wright he would win 273 electoral votes and lose the popular vote by 3 million?? Wow, pretty audacious for a guy who thought McCain could win Pennsylvania.

How many of you people would continue to go to a church every Sunday for 20 years to hear a preacher preach about hate and against the country that that you live in and the White race. There is a problem here folks. Did Obama not know what he was hearing? He must have agreed with it to sit there for 20 years. Maybe this is why Michelle, after leaving the church, said that she was proud to be an American for the first time in her life. Their actions are not in line with their words. I never sat in a church and heard a white preacher preach against Blacks. Now who is racist?

i agree with JM!

If you want to understand corrupt Chicago politics, google David Axelrod (Obam's brain).

Gen. Powell was spot on. I never understoon how they could spew such negative, abusive and demeaning rhetoric and then accuse others of being un-American or worse. I never understood the logic that said you are not good enough to be American. I am so proud that Americans sent a clear message that this is not who we are. There are still quite a few of them left but hopefully after 8 years of the Obama Administration, the remaining hopefuls will move away from the slime of Hannity, Rush, and the rest.

Peace
Obama08

What would the election look like if Axelrod was McCain's advisor? Palin was McCain's downfall. Axelrod with all his sleepless nights couldn't build up that house of cards destined to fall.
You picked the right team to be on and helped a "community worker" become the 44th President of the United States. Well done Maestro.

BB and JM – absolutely right. I think we should also be realistic about Obama. He didn't win because he was a liberal. He won because he's intelligent and an exceptionally good strategist with a vision. So, if he tackles the economy before education or health care or ending the war, please remember that he has a duty to serve ALL of the country, not just the liberals (of which I am one) who haven't gotten their way for so very long. Continue to trust this guy the way you did during his campaign.

I will sleep a lot better at night knowing Obama has my back. I totally trust his judgement. If he runs this country like he ran his campaign, we will have a great 8 years.

Obama spent the last twenty years in Illinois with strong ties to all the corruption in the poltitics in the state. He had ties to most all of the unsavory characters in the state, most of whom preached hate of America and he bought the votes,with the help of the news media, to the White House with funds form sources he will not identify. Then he promises change. A man that we can really trust,right?

I agree. I am 40+ and this is the first time in a long time someone has inspired me. I am not one of those people who thinks that Obama is God who walks upon this earth. Of course not. He is a politician. Of course he has his faults – who does not?

But there is something at the core of this man that is decent, that is intelligent and that is inspiring. And that is why I think that he will rise above all the smallness of our politics and be a force for good around the world. He will succeed in some areas and probably fail in some. But it is because of his core decency that he will move us forward and move us away from the direction that the neo-cons and the Limbaughs and the Karl Roves were taking us.

We'll see. I continue to have very high hopes.

"Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen." — Winston S. Churchill

"This is why you should be president"–David Axelrod

I agree David, I agree.

leave sarah under the snow in 2012 please, she's not the one.

Excellent. The two parties rose above raise. The country is getting better, thanks to Barack's candidacy.

this is why we voted obama not mccain to lead this country back to glory. God guide and protect u Barrack

The bigots on the far right that are still trying to dictate our morals and principals with hate and divisiveness will never get it.

They put W in and look at the last 8 years. He tries to dictate democracy to countries that don't want it.

The party needs to stop listening to all the self aggrandizing types, the Glen Becks, the Limbaughs, the Saddleback church types, all of them. Powell is spot on. Polarizing social conservative rhetoric gets them everywhere with their base...we saw last month that the base got them exactly NOWHERE!! They need to wake up. The Sarah Palin pick was a great thrill for the base, and a disaster for the party. Unfortunatley, they still don't get it. This isn't American Idol, it's the country's future at stake.....they will become irrelevant in the near future barring major shifts in philosophy and aims.

David, you're fantastic. And you will serve PE Obama very well. These are two very intelligent men!! Can't wait til 20 Jan 09.

Speeches to handle crisis? This is why someone should be President? Give me a break.

The man who took the high road won. As it should be. It's going to be a great four (hopefully eight) years.