What are your views, with election results swinging in either direction for a while now - do you foresee Obama coming out victorious over Hillary C now? Who do you think would take oath for The Post !?!
I think he will beat out Clinton but it is sad. This is just another example of how "dumb" the majority of Americans are. Most Obama supporters know nothing about him yet they vote just because he says hope and change. Americans need to wake up and realize there is more then that to an electee.
No, not at all. I don't see him winning the election, i do support SOME of what he says.. but he is defiantly NOT presidential material (regardless of what anyone says). Maybe a few more years and more experience he will be fine.
That is what worries me about Obama as well. Most people supported him before they knew anything about him. Everyone already knew Hillary and knew her negatives. McCain's obviously been around a while and already went through a brutal primary against Bush in 2000 so he's already gone through political adversity. Obama didn't have that adversity until the Wright controversy came out and by then it was too late for Hillary to overcome her deficit to Obama. Obama had a very vanilla, very generic change message early on in the campaign. And while it was very popular, mostly due to the fact that he was always against the war, it revealed very little about Obama. Americans were hypnotized by Obama because they wanted to believe that someone could really get elected that wasn't a typical politician. But the longer that this campaign has gone on the more Obama has looked like a typical politician, IMO. Obviously there's the Wright controversy, but there's also comments like "typical white people" and "bitter people clinging to guns and religion" and he's gone negative when he kept saying he was going to be above that type of politics and even blamed Hillary for the fact that he went negative. He was a little whiney at the most recent debate. And aside from sponsoring an ethics reform bill there really isn't anything about his time in Washington that suggests that he is really a middle of the road candidate that will unite the country. Obama is going to turn out like the Wizard of Oz. The image that he presents is great and appealing but if you pull back the curtain and see the real Obama you'll find that he isn't all that he's cracked up to be.
Obama will be the Democratic nominee. I think he will beat John McCain but certainly a lot can happen between now & November. There will be many smear attacks and diversionary tactics used to distract voters from the issues. And as we've seen in the past such tactics often work. I'm hopeful that due to the seriousness of the situation they will not work this time around. If the election is on the issues - it will not be close - Obama will win in a landslide as McCain represents a continuation of George (71% Disapproval Rating) Bush's policies. It'll take some seriously slime ball tactics to get Americans to vote for a 3rd Dubya term.
I think Obama has a good chance of winning the election and not much of a chance to fix any of the real problems in the American economy & political system. The best solution at this point isn't necessarily the popular one, so I imagine things will get worse before they get better.
Its not like McCain has tons of support either. His campaign platform contradicts his entire record & the republican brand is at an all-time low.
I don't know much about Bob Barr. I know that he is ostensibly a Libertarian, but after reading a bit more, personally, isn't he just a mess? I ask, because what I do know about him is that he led the charge to impeach Clinton. I'm not a fan of Bill Clinton, but neither am I a fan of spending the time and money to investigate the private sex life of someone, President or not. Reading further: He led the charge against legalizing medical marijuana (See Initiative 59). He authored the Defense of Marriage Act, which states that only a marriage between a man and a woman is federally recognized, while he didn't support the Federal Marriage Amendment - essentially the same thing, in spirit. He doesn't support the FMA, on grounds of states rights, yet feels it is federal purview to make just such a declaration. He proposed the Pentagon ban wicca from list of recognized religions for servicemembers. In other words, he's a "Libertarian" in name only, from what I can tell, concerned with the private sex and religious lives of people. I'm not a Libertarian, but I don't understand how one can be a Libertarian and take some of the above stances on things. Perhaps others can chime in.
I'm not a big fan of Bob Barr. It seems like his beliefs change with the wind: When he was in Congress, he acted like a pure neo-con - as soon as he loses his seat he goes with the organizations that helped overthrow him. I'd probably write in Ron Paul or John Galt first
McCain has the solid 100% of the republican vote Obama is a Muslim, he is not even really black, just MUSLIM. It would be the first time a non-christian was allowed into office, I highly doubt it. CM
Ugh. BARACK OBAMA IS NOT A MUSLIM. It seems like the one good thing that would come from having the ridiculous Jeremiah Wright story in the press would be that at least the stupid ignorant rumor that Obama is a Muslim would dissipate. Furthermore even if he were a Muslim - that shouldn't matter. We are voting for a President, not a religious leader. Religion shouldn't even be talked about when considering who to vote for president. One hopes you are just trolling, but I really fear for people who actually think like this.
McCain lost 27% of the Republican vote in Pennsylvania. If Huckabee was still in, McCain would be lucky to pull 50%. Obama is not a Muslim (not that it should matter anymore than Romney being a Mormon, or JFK being a catholic). And his color is also irrelevant. What should worry you about Obama, is that his social program might really be his agenda.
What really blows me away is that in a nation of 300 miilion citizens, these are supposed to somehow represent the best of all possible leaders. It's nice to see diversity in the race, but both Hillary and Obama are disappointments as candidates. We need more choices, and it's quite clear that nothing substantial will change in this mockery of democracy until the rules open up to allow multiple party participation. Most modern democracies have several thriving factions, and unless there is a real challenge to the control of the major parties, we have more to say in the fate of kareoke stars than politicians.