That hardly makes Obama a liar simply because other people are confused.

The same cannot be said for Hillary whose lies come directly out of her own mouth.

Posted at May 13, 2008 12:35 AM in response to Yes, We Can!

Hey Billy,
Before you go out and campaign for McCain, I feel the need to inform you what the republicans (not neocons) are talking about. This from a southern talk show host.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uFauzE_cqw

While this guy won't vote for Obama because of his "Liberal Stances" I am betting there are many many centrists who will.

Posted at May 13, 2008 12:29 AM in response to Yes, We Can!

I love how des's mind works.

I'm only concerned that he's competent enough to run a government, which is alarge sight different than a campaign.

That is true. Running a government is much, much harder than running a campaign. So you could say that running a campaign is kind of like a trial run on a small scale.

Let's see how "ready from day one" candidade ran her campaign. Oh better yet, lets make a comparison.

How Hillary ran her campaign like GWB ran the Iraq war:
1. Both were arrogant enough to think that they will just walk over the competition.

2. Both had the unfounded confidence that once they beat the so called opposition they will be greeted with flowers, no matter what it takes to win.

3. Both did not do any grass root work to find out what the ground reality is.

4. Both are adament that their strategy was sound.

5. Both never anticipated a long drawn out battle.

6. Both surround themselves with 'yes-men'and appointed incompetent loyalists to high ranking positions (solis doyle, mark penn, etc).

7. Both are reluctant to change their strategy because that would be tantamount to accepting that there was/is something wrong with it in the first place.

Give you chills, doesn't it?

By contrast Obama's was a lean, mean, well oiled machine:
From the NYT

But it’s the Clinton strategists, not the Obama voters, who drank the Kool-Aid. The Obama campaign is not a vaporous cult; it’s a lean and mean political machine that gets the job done. The Clinton camp has been the slacker in this race, more words than action, and its candidate’s message, for all its purported high-mindedness, was and is self-immolating.
The gap in hard work between the two campaigns was clear well before Feb. 5. Mrs. Clinton threw as much as $25 million at the Iowa caucuses without ever matching Mr. Obama’s organizational strength. In South Carolina, where last fall she was up 20 percentage points in the polls, she relied on top-down endorsements and the patina of inevitability, while the Obama campaign built a landslide-winning organization from scratch at the grass roots. In Kansas, three paid Obama organizers had the field to themselves for three months; ultimately Obama staff members outnumbered Clinton staff members there 18 to 3.

Any intelligent person, judging from how poorly and shortsighted the Clinton Campaign was/is compared to Obama's excellent organization, would choose the latter.

Posted at May 13, 2008 12:22 AM in response to Yes, We Can!

Ready,

This article might be of interest.
From Foreign Affairs Magazine back in July:
http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070701faessay86401/barack-obama/renewing-american-leadership.html

Posted at May 12, 2008 11:56 PM in response to Yes, We Can!

Yeah but you gotta love Freddie!

Posted at May 12, 2008 11:38 PM in response to Yes, We Can!

Sean, I agree.

The thing that I think people are missing is you don't have to trust. The thing I love about Obama is sunshine and accountability.

Check out his senate page for all of the legislation he has championed to provide an open government.
http://obama.senate.gov/issues/ethics_and_lobbying_reform/
From google for government, where we can look up what is going on, to broadcast via internet all committee meetings. Even giving the citizens a 5 day weigh in where we can comment on bills sitting on his desk waiting to be signed into law.

He has vowed to go over and even reverse GWB's multitude of signing statements and reverse and OLC opinion that does not strictly adhere to the constitution.
This is what Obama thinks about executive power. From the Boston Globe Interview:
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/specials/CandidateQA/ObamaQA/

That is a lot of sunshine folks, the best disinfectant. Even if you do not trust him fully, if you follow his IL senate record as well as his US senate record, you can see he is as good as his word.

This is 10000 times better than Hillary "Lobbyists are real Americans" Clinton or "100 years in Iraq" McSame.

Posted at May 12, 2008 11:35 PM in response to Yes, We Can!

The University of Chicago said he was a professor. And put out a press release saying so.
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/media/index.html
But I guess your criteria for a professor is much higher than what a prestigious law school has.
Man you are so grasping.

At least he didn't fail the bar, then follow the future spouse like a puppy all over the place, then finally get around to passing it. Then what does she do? Go to work for the crooked Rose Law Firm and sit on the union busting Walmart.

Yeah your gal is a real winner.

Posted at May 12, 2008 11:22 PM in response to Yes, We Can!

Des, you know you are being disingenuous. You have brought this up before and have been corrected. He never said his father was a goat herder. It was his grandfather.

Come on. I can see why you identify with your candidate.

Posted at May 12, 2008 11:15 PM in response to Yes, We Can!

For those who are not familiar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IWKhYQarJU

Posted at May 12, 2008 11:10 PM in response to Yes, We Can!

Like it makes a difference? She's toast, get over it.

Posted at May 12, 2008 11:00 PM in response to Obama Campaign Seeking Staff For General Election