We need a progressive, non-agressive and diplomatic leader. Let it be Obama.

I believe that Obama will be the next president, because he knows what he's talking about and is very promising.

I believe that Barak Obama will be the next president for a myriad of reasons. First off, he's more charismatic than McCain, and that holds more weight in modern politics than anything else- he's better looking, a better speaker, and comes off as a nice guy who you wouldn't mind shooting some hoops with or going to the movies with or whatever activity floats your boat- in general, people do indeed vote for the candidate they'd like to have a beer with. On top of that, the economy is so deep in the tank that it's very survival is in question- and on this issue, in poll after poll after poll, Obama is trusted by more Americans than McCain as the person with the best chance to do something to fix it. Why? Because they remember the last time a president named Bush brought the country to the brink of bankruptcy, it was a democrat who pulled us out of it. Add to that the inevitable mentions of the Keating 5 scandal and McCain's role as one of those five senators in these fiscally trying times. And then add Palin's curiouser and curiouser displays of ignorance and arrogance on nationally televised interviews to the mix. And to top it all off, add the massive voter registration of democrats that the Obama organization has run, and there is no way, in the current political climate, for McCain to win. Of course, something could happen- some new calamity or scandal could surface that changes everything. But until that happens, we can look forward to seeing an Obama White House.

Here is, briefly, Senator Obama’s plan on how to jumpstart the economy again (obviously he has never read Adam Smith or Ludwig von Mises):

Provide a Tax Cut for Working Families: Obama will restore fairness to the tax code and provide 150 million workers the tax relief they need. Obama will create a new "Making Work Pay" tax credit of up to $500 per person, or $1,000 per working family. The "Making Work Pay" tax credit will completely eliminate income taxes for 10 million Americans.

Why not a tax cut for everyone? Plus how can he give tax breaks to citizens if his spending is astronomical? What would make even more sense is to just cut the income tax and not give any tax credits. Basically what this means is that he will give another stimulus package. You pay into it, you get money back. That is an awful way to handle the economy.

Obama will be the next President of the United States because he and running mate Joe Biden stand for freedom and equality.

Our great nation was founded on the principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

His competitors seek to take away personal choice, do not favor equality, believe in global warming.

Obama seeks to move our country forward.

The GOP would like to return us to the middle ages.

I don't know how anyone can look at what has happened in the U.S. over the past eight years and NOT say ENOUGH. No How, No Way, No McCain.

The little blurb underneath the question is false and misleading. They are not polar opposites.

They both want to go to war with Iran and other nations coughPakistancough.

The following links are key examples that Senator Barack Obama is another war-mongering commander-in-chief, which the United States has had for several decades now:

http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=lnywcosoPuI&feature;=related

http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=uw2XTC1V4fk&feature;=related

http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=YuBVJ3dQHdw&feature;=related

http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=yyIHcokQaKw&feature;=PlayList&p ;=16A069216601F514&index;=15

http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=e2u7uCDGpjI&feature;=PlayList&p ;=16A069216601F514&index;=18

I sincerely believe that Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States. The American people were stampeded into voting Republican the last time based on an overwhelming projection of fear-mongering. We seemed to respond more to our feelings than our thoughts. I'm now hoping that more of the country has literally come to its senses. As President Lincoln said: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time." Pray God that we've finally reached this point.

Barack Obama is some fresh air we need in the white house! In the past 40 years in only 13 have we had a Democrat as president. In the past 40 years no Republican president has ever come close to balancing a budget. They all ran up massive deficits. That includes Reagan Bush and Bush! Clinton left a surplus!

Republicans have no agenda other than attack Democrats for what they have been doing for the past 8 years: Running up a $3 TRILLION deficit and getting 60,000 plus innocent people killed in a country that had nothing to do with terrorists not had anything to do with 9/11! Meanwhile those who are making out are those on Corporate Welfare and no bid contracts. Bush in 2006 cut VA Hospitals by 1 BILLION while giving tax cuts to the rich!

McCain is already getting senile and Palin in her speech provided no insight as to what they were going to do except more tax cuts for the rich! She also lies a lot. Her speech was riddled with lies. She supported the Bridge to nowhere. What the heck, it was BUSH'S speech writers who wrote her speech!

Have seen no plan from the Republicans except more of the same, and I guess that means them violating the constitution and torturing people, starting wars and bleeding the poor dry! O am sick of Republicans. And I don't want this ticket as that means the end of Roe V Wade!

Obama will get a huge lift from the choice of Palin for McCain's VP. The pregnant daughter will turn out to be the tip of the iceberg. In an attempt to energize his campaign McCain's mis-step wll prove to be his undoing. The best thing for Obama is that he can take the high road all the way to the white House as Palin packs for Alalska.

Right now Senator Obama is leading in the polls but by a very small margin. According to Real Clear Politics Obama is ahead 47% to Senator McCain's 45%. The polls may show that it is a tight race however, the American people will not choose a Republican for President for quite some time.

The American people are not looking for substance; they are looking for a positive message, which is not a good thing, in my opinion. Both the Republicans and Democrats are not giving detailed plans and if they are, it is more of the same.

What is more amazing is that the media, and Obama supporters, let Mr. Obama off the hook with every single negative point to Obama's record and past. This just proves the point that the Illinois Senator will be elected based on the "hope" and "change" ad nausem.

Does charisma help a president? Yes. Charisma helped presidents like Kennedy and Reagan, who put it good use (though I don't agree with Reagan's policies). Charisma also helped presidents who abuse it, like George W. Bush, who has used his charisma to get thousands of Americans killed in two wars, inspire the entire world to hate America, and drive the economy into a credit sinkhole. The criticism against Obama regarding his charisma has denigrated him as nothing more than a law professor who can speak a good speech but has no experience in foreign policy. Excuse me, but the whole world loves Obama. His charisma is already turning the world's hatred for America into love. When he was in Europe, he got the Germans wishing they were African-American, at least for a day. I think we'll be hearing a lot more rap and hip-hop in German in the near future. Candidates in Brazilian elections are renaming themselves, "Obama." Can they do that? Who cares. Barack Obama is his own foreign policy. Once Obama becomes president, the world will come back on our side. McCain, on the other hand, wants to bomb Iran. He talks about all the Middle Eastern countries he's visited, but I actually lived in the Middle East. The apartment I lived in was down the street from an Iranian high school in Ankara, Turkey. Yet, I never met a Middle Eastern person I wanted to bomb. Even though it was necessary to go after the Taliban, I'm not willing to bomb Iran just because Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says crazy things. McCain can't even pronounce, "Ahmadinejad!" I have a Persian American friend who tells me that everyone in Iran likes America and is fed up with their own insane government. (Watch Persepolis and you'll get a clue about the Persians.) McCain has tried to brand himself as a maverick, but that's really just a way for him to put a spin on the fact that he's a flip-flopping political opportunist who uses political theatre to draw attention to himself. McCain tried to one-up Obama last week by allegedly suspending his campaign and air-dropping himself into the bailout negotiations, as if to say, "Here I am to save the day!", but yesterday his buddies in the House of Reps sent the bailout down the toilet ... and now McCain blames Obama! What the hell??? McCain might be better off bailing Sarah Palin out of interviews that give away the limits of her brain power. As Mr. McAllister recently predicted, Palin has become a rock around old man McCain's neck. Even conservative Republicans like George Will are saying the same thing. And now that McCain's theatrics have only proven his ignorance about the economy, Americans are started to wise up about which candidate will get us out of this mess: Barack Obama.

"Amend the North American Free Trade Agreement: Obama believes that NAFTA and its potential were oversold to the American people. Obama will work with the leaders of Canada and Mexico to fix NAFTA so that it works for American workers."

Several things are wrong with this plan and contradictive at the same time. One) He will not end NAFTA, even if he believes his own rhetoric, it will not be allowed because of special interests. Two) His wife is part of the Council on Foreign Relations, and he, himself, is a member. Three) The North American Union is being implemented. Four) He stated in a town-hall meeting that he has never even heard of the NAU that, in itself, is grounds for not being President.

Recently another move to make the United States part of a one-world government occurred in the United State Senate when the bill “Global Poverty Act” passed, which was sponsored and or created by Sen. Obama, Sen. Hagel and Sen. Cantwell.

This bill would do the following:

• Declares it official U.S. policy to promote the reduction of global

poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the

achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of cutting extreme

global poverty in half by 2015.

• Requires the President to develop and implement a comprehensive

strategy to carry out that policy.

• Includes guidelines for what the strategy should include - from aid,

trade, and debt relief, to working with the international community,

businesses and NGOs, to ensuring environmental sustainability.

• Requires that the President’s strategy include specific and

measurable goals, efforts to be undertaken, benchmarks, and

timetables.

• Requires the President to report back to Congress on progress

made in the implementation of the global poverty strategy.

I think that the American people at this point in time have decided that things need to change. I think this election will see things change as often and in as many ways as the voters can have influence over. For example, here in Provo, Utah, the incumbent republican candidate for the house in my district actually lost, and will not be on the ticket as the Republican candidate in the actual election. Since this is Utah county Utah, a Democratic candidate doesn't stand much of a chance, but the people still spoke and their voices said "we want change." For that reason, regardless of platforms, positions or performance, I think that Obama will win. Also, he has a huge following in popular "hip" media, which I really think is going to bring out the College kids in droves.

I believe that Barack will provide the change we need.

How come no one ever discusses his ties to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac when he was a lawyer promoting Government to give loans out to people who couldn't afford them? Giving loans out to people with little or not credit. Obama is a fraud and should never be trusted.

This is the true Obama, all talk no action. He just tells people what they want to hear. You know what, i say let him be preisdent, because when he screws up the country even more, its going to be funny. Why, because every single liberal and democrat is going to turn against him and say I didn't vote for him. Obama, what a joke.

"For the last twenty-four hours headline news have been the New Yorker front cover" but not the recent passing of the FISA Bill Amendments Act of 2008 or the HCON Res 362, which is a blockade and sanctions against Iran.

Mr. Obama had flip-flopped and actually voted for the FISA Amendments, which would give past, present and future immunity to telecommunications companies of wiretapping citizens of the United States, both foreign and domestic. This is unconstitutional and strictly goes against the fourth amendment

Connect the dots please:

Top 10 Corporate PAC Contributors:

Obama:

Goldman Sachs $739,521

UBS AG $419,550

Lehman Brothers $391,774

Citigroup Inc $492,548

Morgan Stanley $341,380

Latham & Watkins $328,879

Google Inc $487,355

JPMorgan Chase & Co $475,112

Sidley Austin LLP $370,916

Skadden, Arps et al $360,409

For so many reasons I think he will but a few:

1. He exhibits great leadership qualities.

2. He's not GWB

Oh and I like that he's not older than William Harrison was when elected and then died 30days later.

Richard Nixon got elected as an anti-war candidate.

"Create Fund to Help Homeowners Avoid Foreclosures: Obama will create a fund to help people refinance their mortgages and provide comprehensive supports to innocent homeowners. The fund will be partially paid for by Obama's increased penalties on lenders who act irresponsibly and commit fraud."

Isn’t buying a house up to the homeowner and not the Federal Government? Will we have any money left over at the end of Senator Obama’s first term? Why am I paying for someone else’s mortgage?

"Raise the Minimum Wage: Barack Obama will raise the minimum wage, index it to inflation and increase the Earned Income Tax Credit to make sure that full-time workers earn a living wage that allows them to raise their families and pay for basic needs."

I always wondered why we had a federal minimum wage. Aren’t spending, the economy and jobs different in New York than it is in Utah? Leave it up to the States (see 10th Amendment).

"Expand High-Quality Afterschool Opportunities: Obama will double funding for the main federal support for afterschool programs, the 21st Century Learning Centers program, to serve a million more children. Obama will include measures to maximize performance and effectiveness across grantees nationwide."

This may give you a nice feeling in your stomach however, again, this is up to the States (see 10th Amendment) and former Senator and Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater warned of this in his book The Conscience of a Conservative.

your getting a cok sucker thats identical to Bush..But ohh i guess since your one of those retarded americans your still going to vote for him..GL with the presidential elections. from our views your country is going to shit =)

When you look at the break down of tax cuts, Americans that make less than $200k don't have to pay as much as those that make more than $200k. Doesn't that make more sense? Why should the person making the most pay the least?

obama is going to be president because he is lowing down tax fairs and gas prices

Honestly I have not payed much attention to the debates and I know nothing about either one of these men, but if Obama were to win the race card could almost be appealed and the nation could be stronger in years to come because of this election.

Obama is young, energetic, a great speaker with big ideas. He's exactly the man (or woman, but this just happens to be a male presidential race) that we need to bring change to this country. He's got all the right ideas, form the Global economic crisis, to the war in Iraq, he's just a guy bursting to get his ideas into the playing field. He's a great man for the job, and he beats out McCain by a mile.

Presidential Candidate Barack Obama never states an actual timetable. When the surge was first enacted President Bush stated he would increase troops by 30,000 but would only take out 5,000 by summer of 2008 (that still has not happened).

The supposed anti-war party, the Democrats, won the election in 2006 on promising removal of troops in Iraq, which was a complete lie. Democratic officials keep claiming that their bills keep getting vetoed. All they have to do is not supply the troops with funding and that would end the war.

Every week a new meeting is held in either Afghanistan or Iraq to discuss future long-term deals when a week before a public official says the war will come to an end soon. No progress is being made in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The only reason why there is less violence in Iraq is because the U.S.-led coalition is paying off insurgent groups. Not to mention any time a soldier or civilian dies, that is not a win in my book. What are soldiers dying for in Iraq? Proponents of the war cannot give the same precise answer because no one knows why we have 4,000 dead Americans.

Mr. Obama was in Afghanistan last week to; once again, discuss long-term initiatives with President Hamid Karzai. Mr. Obama wants to redeploy, at least, 10,000 American troops from Iraq into Afghanistan.

americans are fucking retarded they made the mistake by voting for bush the second time. if you were educated enough to understand the economic disasters and depression and struggle this country is going threw we should have made the fucked up mistake by voting bush in for the second time. But the past is the past. This is the present and people seem to be making the same mistake by voting for McCain. That cok sucker is the same as bush. If you were a smart american you would vote for Obama...you should open up your eyes and see what other countries are saying about us..and ohh im not american.

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