Class Act! Very Presidential. Now, don’t you want to get busy fixing the problems we face? I do! And that’s called Leadership!

Thank you Barak! Way to be a UNITER!

This race is now turning dirty and dishonest, and that scares me. The last thing we need now is a divided Democratic Party so the Republicans have an opportunity to blindside us. Wouldn’t it be nice if both sides told the truth, without any exagerations or misrepresentations of statements made, and let the truth and issues unfold, and may the best man win?

I am a firm Obama supporter, and I was offended by Bob Johnson’s comment on his drug use then later his lie about its meaning. And now, though Obama was not behind this controversy over MLK (?) he certainly capitalized on the controversy. Any thinking person knows that Hilary Clinton is not rascist and does not diminish MLK’s importance. What she stated was true, especially at that time: King needed the support from powerful Washinton politicians to implement the change he wanted, since African Americans had very little power at the time.

I wish Obama came out and defended Clinton. I believe his is intelligent and under “normal” circumstances would have agreed with her.

This is just another example of how politics can corrupt the best people.

Great job, Obama.
You possess full qualities of real leader, uniter, and new hope for America.

This is why I’m voting for him. A leader leads. GO OBAMA!!!

This is what we call wisdom and leadership.He sets the standards and others follow.on change he did set the standard and Hillary followed,almost wanted to hijack.On this one too he has and HIllary has followed.Obama is a leader.I am impressed with his reaction.

Let no spinmeister claim that the Democratic Party’s Richard Nixon in pumps, Hillary Clinton, is also the party peacemaker and statesman.

It was Sen. Barack Obama–the multiple victim of the Clintons’ brand of the politics of personal destruction–who took the high road and sought to put the spotlight back on the issues, where it properly belongs.

It was also interesting that Hillary invoked the Democratic Party’s stand on human rights in her speech at the Martin Luther King event in New York.

Her craven pursuit of triangulation and focus group-driven morality even had her flip-flopping on the issue of torture–being the only Democratic presidential candidate who did not, from the beginning, forthrightly denounce the practice.

(See Ben Smith’s reporting on this: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/6050.html, or that of the New York Daily News, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2007/09/28/2007-09-28_hillary_flipflop_on_torture_inspired_aft.html.)

A word of advice to Sen. Obama, who America has come to love and admire.

Even the rough and tumble world of Chicago politics cannot prepare someone for the gutter politics played by a couple with no regard for the truth or minimum standards of fair play.

Atenti!

Martin Edwin Andersen
Churchton, Maryland

Thank you Senator Obama for moving the focus to higher ground….

Senator Obama is a man of great integrity, tremendous vision and if elected will build bridges to unite this country and restoring our image in the world. His leadership is sorely needed. Obama ‘08.

That is a really good stratgey..wow that is what you all leadership

Obama “08

Choosing Our Next President

In his books Barack Obama has told the story of the family into which he was born, about a father from Kenya whom he barely knew and about his young American mother who along with his father were college students in Hawaii.
By age 6 young Barack was already living in Jakarta with his mother and his Indonesian step father before abruptly moving back to Hawaii at age 10 to be raised by his maternal grandparents when his mother and her second husband divorced.
Over the years Barack Obama had bonding experiences with white and black relatives and with Asian family members amidst an understandable struggle to find his own identity. Through it all he developed a keen ability to understand and to resonate with people of various ethnic backgrounds and to easily move beyond differences in physical appearance and culture.
Barack Obama worked his way through the racial complexities into which he was born to graduate Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School and become president of the Harvard Law Review. He served in the Illinois State Senate for 8 years and in 2004 won a 70 % landslide election to become a United States Senator. Barack Obama has had 46 years of personal experience in understanding how perceptions of ethnicity and judgments about race can divide Americans, and he is uniquely qualified to bring a sense of unity and common purpose to all Americans. Unlike his primary democratic opponent he refuses to accept campaign contributions from lobbyists or political action committees. Winning the democratic nomination and subsequently becoming president of the United States will provide an enormous breath of fresh air to a country and a people badly in need of it.

Politically correct!

What a show of class! Thank you senator for your candor and leadership on this issue. You have my support!

If you guys think this is really the way Obama feels, then keep drinking the coolaid. He has to make himself look good, and since he has failed to nitpick the Billary duo effectively without harming his image, he has resorted to “calling a truce”.

You can keep dreaming about his nomination. Because if he is nominated to run for president alone or even if 2 dems are nominated, we will have another republican president.

I seriously doubt Billary could even win if she was on the ticket by herself…..there are still too many idiots who see race/gender as a reason for voting for someone else without any supported reasoning…..even if it means the ignorant voting for an idiot like we have now, they will.

Way to go Barack!
This is exactly what the Clintons are afraid of. This man is authentic, and they have no way to counter it other than to try and tear him down. Hillary and Bill are always trying to attack him, but whenever they do, their statements are ALWAYS dishonest. They can’t go after him honestly because he really is a good man, and his stance on Iraq as well as ethics reform has been entirely consistant. The Clintons have only been consistant in their dishonesty when characterizing his record. They also have enough surrogates in the establishment media, that they can create controversy out of whole cloth. Throughout this whole mess, it has always been the Clintons and their surrogates jumping into the gutter and trying to drag him down as well.
This all started when at the last debate, Hillary was dismissive of the power of Hope and inspiration. She said that Obama shouldn’t be raising “false hopes” in the American people. Obama the next day then changed part of his stump speech to show that JFK was using the power of Hope when he declared that we would go to the moon within a decade. Obama then juxtaposed that with what Hillary called “false hope” by saying that if JFK had followed what Hillary was saying about “False Hope”, then JFK would have looked at the moon and said, “The moon?…nah, Too far”. He also used MLK looking out over the 250,000 at the mall in Washington when he gave his “I have a Dream” speech. If MLK had followed Hillary’s advice about not raising “false hopes” then he would have said to the multitude, “Nahh, ..go home. too hard.”.
The thing that has driven the Clintons crazy is that they have no argument that they can win with Barack honestly because everything he is saying is the truth.
I pray to my heavenly father that the fix isn’t already in in South Carolina. SC is a state that uses paperless Diebold electronic voting machines. It may be possible that this election is already decided, and the American People just don’t know it yet.
I pray not.
Obama 08!

You are one classy gentleman, Senator Obama. Calling a truce means you are a bigger man than Bill Clinton. Get on with the people’s business They truly need you. You showed leadership. You are presidential. We here in Canada ae rooting for you. We are very proud of you. God bless.

I’m a Mexican-American republican and won’t vote for Clinton, Obama, or Edwards (vastly different opinions on substantive issues). That said, Barack did an awesome job in that speech and he is to be commended for all the reasons mentioned by the other commentors. Very Classy.

Very Nice Speech. However it does nothing to change my vote. My vote is for Hillary Clinton. I really have a problem with his demeanor towards Hillary during the debates, not to mention his choice of “theme music” during the Iowa caucuses. He choose to play Jay Z’s 99 problems. The Lyrics were an INSULT to women EVERYWHERE.
I still have respect for him, but not as much as I have for Hillary. Men have had over 200 years leading this Country and look what we are now facing after 8 years with Bush. Let’s see what a woman can do!

Go Hillary!!!!

Barack Obama is indeed a class act. This is who the county — nay, the planet — needs as our next President.

What we don’t need is more Clintonian self-obsessed baby boomer navel gazing and soap opera. Even if the Clintons manage to squeak into the White House, they will further divide our country at a time when we can least stand it.

It is, in fact, time for a change. As free people we should be ashamed of ourselves for electing royal dynasties over and over. We are like peasants who keep supporting Kings and Queens, constrained from doing so outright only by an ever-weakening Constitution.

May God help Barack Obama win!

I cannot believe that people on here are buying into the crap. Hillary did not say anything that should be considered disrespectful of MLK. On the contrary! She spoke of his courage and bravery and spoke to the fact that it was because of MLK that Pres. Johnson was able to pass legislation for the Civil Rights movement.

I really wish people would check the facts as they stand for themselves, instead of drawing unfair and biased conclusions that are laid out there for them on a platter, served up at convenience of the opposition.

And furthermore our national debt will double by the time we pay off all the sexual harassment claims from Bill being allowed to run amok in the White House.

Anyone want to send their daughter to serve as an intern in the Clinton White House Version 2 with Billy the Molester?

Kelsey no one is buying into the crap. Obama simply demonstrated yet again that he’s a class act whereas Hillary is a calculating shark who will say and do anything to get what she feels is hers by entitlement. Fortunately the free citizens of our nation have something to say about that.

I was leaning towards Edwards. I really like what he has to say about the unions. However, I am firmly planted in Hillary’s camp now. I think the Country is in dire need of a change that we can build upon.

Way to go Barack! Leaders lead.

I hope you come out strong, and the words really be in action.

People’s expectation is higher, Barack needs to work harder, but I believe he can do it.

Barack is the one.

America needs a woman President someday, but NOT Hillary Clinton. The Clintons already had their 8 years in the White House. Let’s move forward. Barack Obama is a leader with real integrity, and a straight talker. He can bring this country together in a way that Hillary will NEVER be able to do.

Obama in 08!!!

He gives too much credit to Clinton. The Clinton’s are not good people, never have been. They will do everything in their power to win. That’s all they care about, is power. Go Obama. (I’m a Libertarian so I’m going with Ron Paul, but still I don’t want Hillary AT ALL!)

Well done, Barack Obama.
As Wikipedians say: “Assume good faith”. If all the candidates, their supporters and the voterss start with that premise, we can stick to discussing the issues and the way forward.

I’m on the fence. I do know that I had not planned on voting for a republican again in the near future. I will vote the Democratic Nominee, especially if that Nominee is Hillary Clinton. I have to say, John McCain may get my vote. It all depends….We shall see. I’m just somehow not connecting with Barack Obama. He seems too contrived.

Thanks for your assessment of your position on this, in my opinion, stupid political crap. We don’t need to hear this junk over and over. We got one hell of a mess already to get some sort of handle on, damn well need solutions and get some bi-partisan action now.

It’s Hillary for me.

Senator Obama is an extraordinary person. He is emotionally stable and collected within himself. Because of that fact he is able to make sense to everyone. He is a remarkable class act with intellectual heft of the best kind. He gets my vote.

Great men think alike, but fools seldom differ. It si not surprising many have fallen for the Barack Obama sweet talk, after years of Bush-talk. Sure csn’t blame all these hungry Democrats yearning for someone, anyone, just as long as he’s not Bush-lite. Obama is all talk and I will not consider him unless he learns to show some respect to his more experienced and senior rivals. Trying to play the good guy now ain’t gonna deceive us. Hes a HYPOCRITE!

I read or heard that Obama parents were mix race,one white and one black. If this is true why is he talking black? Why not white? One reason he is banking on the race card……..

I Agree!!!!!!!! I never thought that in my lifetime, I would see the day when there is a viable female candidate for President! So many of the European Nations have had Female Prime Ministers and the equivalent, so why not America? I truly believe that Hillary has stepped out of the shadows of her husband and is her own person now.

ATTENTION INDEPENDENT VOTERS!!!

If you have ANY inclination whatsoever to support Barack Obama, NOW is the time to take that leap of faith and fully support him. America needs this man to defeat Hillary and Bill Clinton. America needs a Uniter, not a divider.

If you are leaning towards Ron Paul, or Kucinich, or any of the other candidates because of your ideals, you are to be commended…but at this point in our history, we need to beat the Clintons, and block Billary’s 3rd (unconstitutional) term.

The 8 years they spent in the White House were 8 of the most Partisan and divisive years in our history. And the animosity and dirty politics will only worsen if the Clintons win.

I WAS a John Edwards supporter…but with so much on the line, I am throwing 100% of my support behind Barack Obama. America cannot afford to elect Washington royalty any longer. Support Barack Obama and say NO to the Clinton 3rd term!!!

I have been watching very closely now for quite a few months. I do not get my opinions from a catch phrase or some media outlet’s opinion or spin. I decide for myself.

I am with Hillary all the way. Nothing will change my mind.

Further, as a responsible colleague and Democratic comrade of Senator Hillary, he should have defended Hillary from some of the more vile and unjustified smears thrown at her, right from the start. This he failed to do, as a gentleman he now pretends to be, which he is not. Iam extremely disappointed with this man who talks, and talks, and talks, and talks about hope and being positive, which as we can see is no more than smoke and mirrors. A BIG HOAX! Obama has committed the greatest disservice to the Democratic Party and he should be fully ashamed of himself.

Talk about Constitutional….How about the Hi-Jacked election in 2004? BUSH IS A CRIMINAL….

I agree John Silverstone! Thanks!

The Clintons have nothing on this man. Senator Obama is a real leader and has earned my respect. I won’t vote for someone just because of their race or gender, and I definitely won’t vote for someone just because they think it’s their turn to be president.

Barack wants to help people afford health care. Hillary wants to mandate health care.

Barack wants to negotiate with our enemies. Hillary thinks it’s “naive” to talk. She’s just like George Bush.

Real change and leadership will not come from a phony like Clinton. I’ve heard the arguments on both sides and I’m voting for Barack Obama.

Why is it necessary now to defeat Bill and Hillary? It is pointless and completely uncalled for to make such statements considering the past efforts and success of the Clinton presidency. Go Hillary and do not be distracted by some of the less than objective and wholly negative comments by Obama’s misled supporters.

Hillary Clinton’s election would extend to at least 24 years the period in which either a Bush or Clinton has occupied the White House.

Let’s move forward people.

Is it just me, or does it seem a bit too convenient that Barack Obama has now shifted his message into a more gentle nature regarding Hillary Clinton? Could it be that is because the majority of Americans are supporting Hillary and he has been advised of this fact? I think it may be.

Hillary is her own person. That’s the way I see it. I do NOT care what her last name is.

BARACK OBAMA WILL BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT!

What a class act and a true leader. I look forward to his inauguration in 2009! What a great day that will be for America!

OBAMA IS THE BEST CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT!

Change, change what and to what? The United Staes of America is more than 200years old. All the past presidents have only done what they believe is best in their view to be in the best interest of the nation. If Barrack Obama thinks he can do better let him lay it to us how he plans to do it. I have heard of nothing from him except to demand change for change sake but hardly offering any substance. Its high time he come clean and tell us what these change he is talking so much about really is, for what it is worth! Otherwise he should kindly refrain from continually trying to deceive us with all these empty talk of change!

Why does Barak Hussein Obama hides his muslim name? His father is a muslim and his step father is a muslim. And he does not used his full muslim name. I want to know when he was using drugs and coccaine, did he bought drugs for his pals or friends?

I had very high hopes for Barack Obama, but he lost both me and my wife with his performance in the last debate and his unfortunate choice of attack. If he were a true leader, he would have stepped up to the plate a bit sooner with the so called Truce. Not just when he is down in the polls.
Our vote will go to Hillary R. Clinton.

Also, I would like to add to my comment that Barack choose to deliberately misconstrue senator Clinton’s remarks regarding Martin Luther King. I have listened to her remarks, and never once did she state that LBJ was responsible for the Civil Rights Legislation that was finally passed. I would like to know how and why this got out of hand? Certainly, it’s due to the spin of the Obama camp. Unfortunatley. Very sad. The majority of us are not buying into it. That’s the true reason for the so -called ‘truce.’

Charles,

You need to step out of the spin zone for a second. Obama never misconstrued Clinton’s remarks regarding MLK. Can you find an exact quote on that? You can’t because it didn’t happen. If you want to know how this got out of control, consider Clinton made a remark that the media and others (not Obama) ran with and then got worse when Clinton tried to apply damage control. Clinton’s comments WERE taken out of context. Obama was NOT the one who spun her remarks. It was the media and others. Clinton DID spin the issue by smearing Obama afterwards. Obama has remained clear of the comments, and, even now, seeing the damage that it has caused to everyone involved in the issue, is handling the issue with tact. Stop reading the campaign hype and try looking between the lines.

Go Obama, don’t let the Clinton hate machine smother your campaign!

Time to kick the nationruining babyboomers out of the whitehouse!!

Obama for president!!!

Some of you are missing the most mendacious aspect of Hillary’s statement about MLK. Not only was it demeaning to MLK, she proposed herself as the chief executive law giver, while relegating Obama to the role of do nothing talker. The fact the Obama is also running for prez and could also become prez (having just creamed her in Iowa) was utterly an alien and unrecognizable concept to her. Think about that. Almost 50 years after the “I Have A Dream” speech, we have a presidential candidate with a mindset like this. If a republican had made such a statement he would’ve been crucified. This tells me all I need to know about Hillary, and it ain’t good. I’m not saying Hillary is a racist. Maybe she was just tired and frustrated. If so, she should have said so and apologized. Instead she tried to shift blame to Obama, who didn’t make the statement and hadn’t even commented on it at the time. Again, a window to her personality, which is in no way good.

Integrity…Obama has it…the Clintons don’t.

“I did not inhale”…”I did not have sexual relations with that woman”. Remember the good ole Clinton 90s?

Now Hillary is saying she voted for the Iraq war because she thought her vote was only for UN Inspections…give me a break.

Now Hillary is trying to disenfranchise Las Vegas voters, just because the Union supports Obama.

Let’s get out of the dirty Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton cycle. If Hillary wins the nomination, she will LOSE to McCain, Huckabee, or whoever the GOP nominee is in November.

[...] Obama Declares Truce [...]

Naktak,
you need to step out of the spinzone. too.
“How race got into this thing is because Obama said ‘race,’ ”Mr. Rangel said on the NY1 cable channel. “I would challenge anybody to belittle the contribution that Dr. King has made to the world, to our country, to civil rights, and the Voting Rights Act. But for him to suggest that Dr. King could have signed that act is absolutely stupid.”
Obama admitted as much to being responsible for the whole storm when he called for a stop to this kind of ’silliness’ and tit-for-tat and back-and-forth. It takes two hands to clap.

Simple as this… Obama led, Hillary followed.

Come on people, use your head, why in the world would Obama go with this very dangerous and risky strategy of using race, so he could garner more black votes in SC, when he was already winning SC? As Bill Clinton likes to say ‘ that dog won’t hunt’ — What makes more sense is the Clinton’s were attempting to create a wedge issue, that might not damage Obama in SC, but it would on Feb 5th, by boxing him into a corner… of the ‘black candidate’ pushing the same ol divisive race issues, that all the other so called ‘ black leaders’ like to march out - Hillary Clinton, is a seasoned politician, she knows better to make a statement that even walks the line of lessening the accomplishments of MLK… so if you think what she said was an innocent mistake, you are living in a ‘fairy tale.’

And as for the ‘fairy tale’ remark, PLEASE PLEASE pay attention, that got all blown out of proportion, when this Clyburn, a black congressman from SC, decided to drop a few hints in a New York Times article that he might endorse Obama, because he was offended by the statement — when everyone knows, that despite the fact Clyburn says he’s remaining neutral, he’s a member of the Black Caucas…a group that has heavily favoured HRC - Hillary even said she talked to the guy this weekend… and Bob Johnson, that was just beyond words.

It falls short of a conspiracy, but look at the timing, two weeks out from the vote - where they have time for damage control when their race baiting wedge issue strategy blew up in their faces… which it was about to do - If you follow the news, you’ll notice toward the end of the news cycle today… the story started to turn on Hillary because everyone knows it not only was much ado about nothing, but it was all a creation of the Clinton campaign - so I just hope people take a minute to think about this for a minute — I’ve always said I would vote for HRC IF she got the nomination, but I’m not so sure now, because she proved this weekend, that the Clinton’s would do anything to win… the consequences of what they were trying to do could tear the democratic party apart… and yes, it might win her the nomination, but it very well might hand the republicans the general election, and tells me she cares more about her own ambitions than she does about the party OR this country

Obama released a very interesting economic stimulus plan this weekend, ya know to coincide with his ‘get whitey’ strategy in SC - that got absolutely no press, I’m sure that’s exactly how he wanted it — so all the nay-sayers could go on saying he hasn’t said what he was going to do - yeah, I’m sure he planned it that way…because that makes a lot of sense.

Times change, beliefs change and yes even people can change. Now is a time for change that we can all agree on. So why? Why to we persist in acting like we have in the past, name calling, dirt slinging, accusing…this is exactly why so many people have been turned off by politcians and the political process as a whole. I am a child of the 60’s big hopes and big dreams. I did things at that time that reflected that time. But I have changed as time is the best teacher of ALL. We have two people of which A change is apparent. The question is WHICH one do YOU believe in? Which one inspires you to get involved, dream, aspire for a better America? Which one will best represent the BEST that America has to offer? I choose that one that I believe can best make me PROUD to say that I am an American again, Class and dignity, Respect for all Nations and People regardless of the color of their skin or how they spell their name. As MLK said “Judge my the content of their characther and not by the color of their skin.” Continue to stand tall Barack regardless of how others will want to drag you throught the mud. Rmrber you can’t throw mud without getting some on you. Peace

Can somebody explain me why Hillary was not running in 2004 ? If now she is close to crying , why not in 2004 ?

Some of you may not see it now, but Obama is not a wise choice. It just shows how easily it is to be mislead by charisma. A lot of you don’t know the track record but Obamas offense was how he jumped the gun to become president and his defense is that he is partially black.

He played the race card, make no doubt. Not all ‘white’ folks are republican crooks but he knows there is a growing hunger for a black president. The thing is, he knows how the system works and he will rally the younger people who are blind sighted by the ‘change’ for a black president.

Being racist has no race, please learn this. Racist is what racist does, black white brown whatever. I understand the novelty of voting for the first black president but, when you really put race aside and look at character, is this the person you want to vote for?

She promised that she would complete one Senate term as NY Senator… ya know, since they elected(and at the time I lived in NYS, so I was guilty of voting for her) despite the fact she was a carpetbagger and moved to NY with her only intentions being to become Senator, which was a road to becoming President — she would have done a lot worse than Kerry in a general election anyway…

Obama is good but the problem is he’s not a good policy maker. Most of the time, he just follow Hillary’s policy… Which bring a important conclusion that he can’t make be a good decision maker, just like Bush…

As a South African watching your politics i am in awe. Barack seems to be the man that your country needs to heal it self. He is the one that does not spu venom and talks straight. Your countries reputation outside the US is real bad. Obama is the only one that can set that right.
Go Obama Go.

Kelsey,

It seems that you belong to the Hillary Clinton attack team.

So, there is no need to argue with you or to try to pursuade, since no sensible person would join that organization of stinking putrididy.

But I want to clear Obama’s name for other people in case they might by chance see and be swayed by your insidious slander.

Obama did not start this. It was a public blunder made by Hillary Clinton and she was trying to pin her own mistake on Obama. She wanted to blame Obama who did not have anything to do with it for her own patronizing and racism.

She is the most lying, hypocritic, evil, venomous, base, and despicable person in modern American political history.

quote Clive Mitchell

“As a South African watching your politics i am in awe. Barack seems to be the man that your country needs to heal it self. He is the one that does not spu venom and talks straight….”

Man, Hillary brings up a fact of history and the guy calls her racist? Read the whole story, initially HRC was out to down the GOP machine and he condemned her for it. Judge someone on character. That’s almost like saying Al Sharpton isn’t racist.

Racism is a race of its own. Judge by character.

and don’t confuse charisma with character. Charisma got the US where it is today.

Senator Barack Obama leads America by magnificent example! He will be an amazing President!

Sounds to me like he’s got a lot more party-time in his past than we yet know about, and that’s going to come out with a vengence before it’s over if Hillary has anything to say about it.

How much of a druggie are we excusing these days?

Bill denied inhaling, and it worked, but is BO going to have to deny that he smoked-crack… ?

How far is this going, I wonder… ?

Chris:
The change America needs is to change divisive politics in Washington and unite to overcome the problems of our country.

It is not about race.

quote Katy
“Senator Barack Obama leads America by magnificent example! He will be an amazing President!”

Baby, I feel ya. But not now sweety. I’m a black man and he is not the example. Maybe I know to much but we got to get this country together. We need that healing agent. One day this country will have a black president. Vote for who you will but please, consider the persons character.

I’m hungry for a black president but, he is not the one. MLK sweety. Read.

quote Katy

“The change America needs is to change divisive politics in Washington and unite to overcome the problems of our country.

It is not about race..”

It is about race, it is not about racism. America was born on the notion that we hear each other in a dark room, no lights. Evil sees evil.

MLK opened people up to the idea that there would be no retribution, that humans make mistakes.

just want to say: jo blo your name says it all.

WHAT IS ALL THAT ABOUT? REWRITING THE HISTORICAL EPIC OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS

The lashing furiously out by Bill Clinton at Obama before the NH caucuses in labeling him Obama too green, could send people back to his vicious attack prior to the Iowa caucuses was nothing but openly racist attack from a person who twice was consecutive USA president. At the time many people did not discover the hidden racist and heinous nature of the Clintons couple. With the NH caucuses it took no long for reporters and the Nation’s to finally uncover who this couple, ready to do anything just to satiate their ambitions really is. Now it is compelling to briefly expatiate on such behavior. Prior to the Iowa caucuses, by saying that Obama is green, Bill Clinton did not mean that Obama is not ready, unripe or too young, incompetent to become president, but he used the metaphoric racist bigotry, a glass ceiling for black person who would never become mature to be allowed to confidently stride toward a promising future in the United States of America.

A retrospective looking at the entire campaign process, would allow the common citizen to see that the Clinton couple had, from the start been engaging political campaigns that are long on sleaze and short on substance. Today, the Clintons called him the ‘kid’ and described the Obama’s policy as a ‘fairy tale’ while continuing to pretend publicly to be “blacker than the Blacks (African Americans) themselves”, as if during the antebellum era or even before the 1960s and 1970s they could have portrayed themselves as Negroes.

This call to memory the time when in Hollywood’s film industry, for racist reasons white US’ citizens daubed their faces and bodies with soot for playing black characters in lieu and place of available skilled Blacks. Curiously, some of today’s African Americans, descendents of the mentally enslaved Negroes are wholeheartedly not only supporting but also attacking Obama and claiming that the Clintons are their choices because they “are” black? All along Clinton’s campaign it was from the archetypal black drug dealer to the derogatory labeling “kid” and now to a ‘street hustler’, on whom when, on the blow of the quarry by the Clintons the African American Old guard fall upon the Barack Obama.

Let us once admit that Barack during his juvenile age just escapes from the evil of drug that had been ravaging generations of American youth, and went through stark experiences and prevailed. He became highly educated and best achiever. He emerged as a visionary for young generations of Americans. Instead of being lauded, he is considered opprobrious. Here, again is the climax of the perpetual derision! Who best than Bill Clinton knows about telling fairy tale. In their desire to re-write the history of the African Americans’ achievements, now all the civil rights achievements are for LBJ the “massa”, little to MLK!

Barack could have been more direct and acknowledged that much of the tit-for-tat back and forth is fuelled by media cycle editors looking for new ledes for their stories. The problem is not an immature electorate but an immature and lazy media who don’t want to read the fine print of platforms or proposals. My eyes glaze over, MEGO, is the mantra of journalists today, BUT the voters are hungry for REAL debate. Real contest examination is not too inside-baseball, it’s what we want to hear.

What is the difference between Obama and Hillary on health care? What is the difference between Obama and Hillary on withdrawal from Iraq? Does Obama have a student loan reform programme? What will be the role of The Big Dog (Bill) if Hillary wins–and is this a way of skirting the constitution limit on terms? Do Obama and Michelle see themselves as a co-Presidency the way the Clinton team does?

Give us some beef and stop misquoting aides to fuel skirmishes that waste our time. You’re losing viewers, bozos.

In fact, Barack is over-estimating the intelligence of his audience of reporters, excepting maybe Mark Halperin–your reporters seem incapable of addressing the issues, themselves racing around in circles to meet four or five deadlines a day. The pollsters get it even worse.

I’m voting for Obama and so is my son. BTW, Michigan has no delegates to the convention but the Global Expat Primary among Dems will be sending 22. BUT NO COVERAGE OF THAT????? Is it true that Fox News doesn’t know what lies beyond America’s borders….more Americans, that’s what.
ALEXANDER HAYE, GENEVA SWITZERLAND

How can anybody / anyone call someone a leader in a running stage? No one has proven they are a leader, yet! They are still trying to win to be the leader. I’d really like to see the resumes of the 3 democratic runners compared side by side of their accomplishments. Knowledge, experience, positive accomplishments, economic plans and goals in domestic and international.
Just a reminder people that anyone can sound like a leader on a platform with practice. Just look at the actors!
I wish people would make decision based on the candidates qualifications (incl. education(s)) and accomplishments.

Ok, now, that I’ve called the truce. I probably, sound like a great leader now, huh? I guess, you all can vote for me now to be the next great leader.

Remember, Bush vs Al Gore? Al Gore had a resume filled with accomplishments and educations. Bush, had none!
But, you all voted for Bush because he looks like a down to earth kind a guy.
Haven’t this country learned anything in the last 8 years?!!!

Also, politicians that has a squeaky clean record….doesn’t have the GUTS to make a mistake. A SOFTY.

Way to step up Senator Obama. The bigger man or woman always does. For what ever reason people are choosing to believe that Senator Obama was the first to make any comments on the Clintons comments over the past week. He was not. The Clintons were all fine with what they said until others(not the Obama camp) started speaking out against it. You know you are wrong when the first place you run to try to fix or explain your actions is Al Sharpton. Say what you mean and mean what you say. Stand by what you say and admit when you are wrong and do not try to place the blame on others. The political world is a harsh one and if you can’t take the heat, then that’s not the arena for you.

Hmm. Let’s see. Obama lets a phony charge go for a few days so that he can try to convince Afro-American voters in SC that Clinton is a racist so that he can win the primary. Now that the damage is done and he won’t need their vote for the rest of the primaries, he decides that it is time to stop playing the race card. Pretty clever. I guess he learned a valuable lesson from his pal Karl Rove.

As a Briton watching from the other side of the ‘pond’, I must say how impressed I am by Senator Obama. He speaks and behaves with such intelligence, dignity and gravitas……qualities that have been missing from British and, to my knowledge, American politics for a very long time.

His thoughtful and diplomatic rhetoric is just what the White House needs in this time of international strife. The US and the UK have lost any moral high ground we may have had in international politics and have the blood of thousands of innocent Iraqis on our hands. Far fewer people in developing and third world countries look up to the US as a symbol of hope.

It would take a very special leader to be able to turn this around. Could that be Clinton, Edwards, Romney, Giuliani, Thompson? From the outside looking in, Senator Obama is the only one who could restore the reputation of the US in the eyes of those who have suffered directly or indirectly from recent US foreign policy.