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Obama takes lead in delegates

VOTE OBAMA 08 !! the days of the RIGHT ARE OVER they had their 8 years in the power they done Nothing for poor or the middle class country in the brink of major Economic Crisis country had enough of the SCARE TACTIC ... if LIBERAL mean change then you can Call SO ... VOTE OBAMA 08 !!VOTE OBAMA 08 !!

Yawn! Could "Billary's" hopes be fading? Certainly seems that her campaign is faltering on several fronts.

Its time for a new kind of politics - not Reds states against the Blues states, Republicans against the Democrats. We need leadership who will represent all people, not just the 49 -48% who got them elected. We all have more in common than what divide us - lets work together to make our country great again.

I think that is a little over the top. Regardless, I'm one Republican that thinks that Barack is the man!!! Finally, a leader who will unite the country rather than such divisive people like John McCain and Hillary. With Mitt gone there is no other choice.

I worry about the government, because in the scriptures it says the government will fall from within.I sent a piece mail to the FBI that i recieved talking about Obama's days in al-Qaida training camp.I wish Romey Hadn't dropped out. I went to the primary to vote for him only to find out that in CT you can't vote if your an independent. I am replused by the bad rap that Huckabee has about the Church.The PBS channel has been showing negative people taiking against Church. I have been a member 23 yrs since joining my health has improve from following the word of wisdom.I use to take 11 pills in the am,now only take 4.

Yes, Vote Obama in 08 so Reps. will win back the White House in 2012. There are only Demos running on either side right now anyway. Obama will make us weak against terrorism, weak on the economy, weak within the family, weak at our boarders, big on taxes, and big on government. Vote Obama! Reagan conservatives will dominate in 2012!!

I am studying Obama. I like what I hear & see. I am a white, lower middle class male. (Now that is a true minority.) I want an improved economy. I want safer boarders from terrorists who just walk in with a pair of fingernail cutters and high-jack a plane. I want a real Washington watchdog over Social Security and other benefits for the senior citizens. I would vote for Obama if the election were held today. He has little real competition.

It is official now: Repubs have finally discovered that Obama is coming like that fast-speeding freight train and that he might pass up Hillary. McCain attacked him indirectly yesterday.

Well, more and more the stars are getting into alignment. McCain is trying to act more presidential by attacking. Yeah, that makes sense. No more positiveness from John, we have officially entered the attack period.

Obama, he is just speaking on. It is somewhat incredible how well he uses words. But of course Bush set the bar somewhat low (yeah right!) and so anyone who can put two sentences together without an "uh" looks like Socrates.

Poor Hillary. It might not be her year after all.

Speech classes listen up: do you hear that rhythm in his speeches? That lyricalness? Oh... the man must have hear King speak. It is so easy on the ears. And, based on the crowds, etc., the people of AMerican like it. McCain speaks well, but only when he is looking at the script.

Obama is the new King.

The Shadow Knows

Think, please. The liberals have never done anything for the poor or middle class. I am a conservative, but that does not mean I believe in McCain and Huckabee. I would much rather have Obama in the White House than Hillbilly Clinton (and maybe John McCain).
Give me proof that the Democrats will actually do what you claim they can. (Give me an actaul time when a government program, tax hike, etc. actually worked, not an Obama or Hillbilly campaign promise!)

I'm a long time republican seriously considering changing sides. Can anyone tell me why I shouldn't vote for Obama instead of McCain? On issues such as abortion and conventional marriage they are both to my left, but Obama may even be more moderate than McCain. The only major issue that distinguishes McCain is the war in Iraq. And I'm afraid he'll make a bigger mess of things by attacking Iran. I think it's time to give Obama a try. He seems to have those redeeming qualities that will unify this countries politics. Check out his website, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Obama is the only one I trust to get us out of Iraq. The republicans talk show types say this would be cut and run, well so be it. Even Regan was smart enough to "cut and run" out of Lebanon when he saw it wasn't in our interest to stay there.

Iraq has had long enough to get its house in order. We don't owe it to them anymore. There were no weapons of mass destruction, we should have never been there in the first place.

Tens of thousands of our citizens are injured for life and thousands are dead, for what? Our national treasury is going up in smoke. We could be using this money instead to shore up Social Security, instead of getting to retirement age and then being told that benefits will be cut, this because we entered into a stupid war.

To bad for the Democrats, because this Republican would vote for Hillary, but not Obama

Are we really going to see an election between Obama and McCain? That has to be some of the saddest news EVER for our country. Neither man will say much of anything about what they will do or what they believe in. McCain wants to make every thing about the troop surge he supported and Obama wants to say everything in a loud booming voice and talk about change, yet he has never done anything.

Obama is too naive. Many are excited about him because he's not in the same party as Bush and he doesn't generate the huge negative feelings that Hillary does. His only message is "a vote for me is a change from Bush and Hillary", but we don't really know what it's a change to, and he's clever enough not to tell us. If you're slowly being poisoned by low dose radiation, you want a change, but you should know whether the change is to high doses of cyanide, a placebo, or to an antidote. I think the best we'd get from Obama would be a placebo, but I think he'd be more akin to the cyanide.

OK..we all know he is for "Change." Here are some of his ideas...Government run health care...Fact is this, whenever you give something to the government, they take a piece of liberty along with it. I'm not ready to give government anymore, and nobody "gives" anybody anything. What government "gives" it takes. His PRO ABORTION position is beyond the pale to the point of killing the innocent and defenseless.

While he might sound like a preacher, the words he spews amount to the devil in disguise.

McCain is old, angry, and very temperamental to anyone he runs into (as long as cameras are not running). He would simply extend the Bush policies and continue to create a terrible foreign policy -- destroying what good will we still have with other countries.

OBAMA is a bit of a wild card - well spoken, well educated, great foreign experience, etc. The fear is that he will create more burdens on the middle class and suffocate small business. However, Clinton and McCain don't offer any relief . . . so I think OBAMA is the right person to try and get us going in the right direction again.

He is Presidential with the ability to inspire people. Clinton and McCain don't offer anything even close.

Too bad OBAMA won't consider choosing ROMNEY as VP.

I'm one Republican very angry with the Republican ways of the last 7 years - of course, Congress hasn't gotten better with Pelosi . . . hopefully, we can have OBAMA as President and get the Republicans back in Congress - having learned their lesson to serve the people.

Is it possible for them to serve the people, and not just themselves?

Obama is sweeping the dems' primaries and caucases so that Hilbill does not get re-elected. many independents and even repubs are crossing over to ensure HilBilliary does not win the dems' nomination. McAint is not much better in some areas but he is better for the USA than the dems' ideas. Retreat and defeat in Iraq is not the appropriate course as advocated by Obama and Hilbillary.
In either case 2012 comes awfully fast and Romney is the next Reagan to bring our country together.
The poor and middle class need to learn hard work, self mastery and self reliance rather than government reliance and "working for welfare."

Don't believe anyone who says, "We want to see change in America!" That change could be a change for the worst, especially considering revelations about our country in these last days, and the world seems to be getting worse by the day. If Obama wants change, I'd rather see him try than back-stabber McCain. I moved to Democrat haven Minnesota a year ago as a Republican, and after learning about Democrats I've realized I'm now independent. Each party has good and bad but it's the character of the person that makes one noble. No candidate is perfect in anyone's eyes, but I'll NEVER vote for a low-character man such as McCain, and all that I know about Obama is much more desireable than Clinton in. Clearly, the nation is realizing she is not all she's cracked up to be. I was glad to see Minnesota doesn't like her.

Talk to the millions of Iraqis who are now free from tyranny and a horrible horrible horrible horrible leader, and the troops who are watching that country and people do a 360. While serving a mission in Sweden, I talked to dozens of refugee Iraqis who left because of Saddam and how everyday they feared he would kill them and their families. I too mourn for all the dead, but if no country takes a stand against evil men, they will take over the world and it will be a Lord of the Rings era. If Bush hadn't attacked, many other cities would have been blown up by now. Men with evil hearts don't care about anyone but themselves and their power...read up on your history.