Obama leads in Virginia and Maryland, polls say

Thank you Virginia.. Yes We Can. Thank you so much... Obama 08

Hold your horses.. this is a poll, not the actual vote. And we know how that can go.

Hillary can pull it out!! SW VA is for Hillary!! Either way we are set to get back the white house from the evil that is the GOP

I don't think Obama will be fit as of President of United States. Believe me, he will bring his Kenyan Vilages to US.

When McCain is being matched up with Clinton,the independents tilt toward McCain according to the TIME but once it's McCain vs Obama,independents tilt toward Obama.Obama is more electable in November than Mrs Clinton.

Vote Obama! voteobama2008.blogspot.com

obama is not the answer . You should be worried about a person who is such a good speaker. Look at George W. Bush. .

Oh no you did not say that Tracy! What kind of racist remark is that?! You should be ashamed of yourself! This is exactly why we need Barack as President now - to UNITE! HELLO! This is the kind of mentality that people like YOU need to CHANGE. This is what makes the UNITED States Of America so great now - we are a rainbow of colors and cultures. Stop looking at his skin color and see him (the person) for the great man that he is and every positive thing he stands for...including CHANGE!

Obama has not faced the Republican attack machine yet.

Wait until Obama gets attacked by the Republicans on a host of issues from the fact that he was ranked as the most liberal senator in 2007 to seemingly silly facts like his middle name -- "Hussein."

Watch them swift boat him. Watch his poll numbers and favorability drop. And then tell me that he was the better choice. He is the McGovern of 2008...GO HILLARY!

Obama preaches change yet is using the support of that old liberal,Ted Kennedy. Obama just doesn't ring true. How can he go after the younger voters with an old geezer like Kennedy behind him? This isn't change but just more of the same old politics.

Polls are not votes. Let me just say MA was said to be 50/50 on Tuesday, we saw Hillary Clinton win by double digits. Go Hillary Go. www.hillaryclinton.com

come on guys obama and clinton are both great, hillary for president only because she has experience and obama can bring his new ideas to the white house with the help of hillary. WHAT A GREAT TEAM......................

I've worked with young people for over 20 years, and suddenly they are engaged in politics and caring about serving our country for their future. I'm undecided personally, but I've noticed something different in my kids (majority are white) since Obama became a candidate. It's good to see young people inspired again.

Hillary would be a good Health Secretary...the best in history.

HIllary is the real deal. Not a big fairy tale. If i want to hear a preacher talk I will go to church. I want a president.

Fight the real evil with the Clintons. Vote Obama in 2008

Bush - Clinton - Bush - Clinton ??? Gag me with a spoon !!!

Nobody will unite the GOP like Hillary.
Nobody will inspire us like Barack.

i don't think this has anything to do with villages in Kenya. It is not Kenyans voting its Americans. 13 states cant be wrong. People are still giving money.The writing is on the wall.

So what if Obama brings his Kenyan relatives (one grandparent by the way) here. They would first have to get visas which is not likely. After all McCain is going to give amnesty to 12 million illegal immigrants who are already here.

Pretty obvious which candidate has the momentum here.

Feb. 9, 2008

The Best of Obama Lies Ahead

Barack Obama is still in the process of introducing himself to the world, and his first task has been accomplished: almost everyone who cares about these things now knows he is a magnificent speaker who can connect with people on an emotional level which is absolutely impossible for Hillary Clinton to achieve. Over the next few weeks, he will be rolling out the details of his plans for the Presidency, and they, too will be excellent: well thought out, competent, visionary. Obama is a brilliant diamond of a person, a once-in-a lifetime leader. And he's getting bigger-better-stronger-more developed every day. Hillary is maxed out, as good now as she ever will be. The best of Obama lies ahead.

Tracy, that is when people start calling for issues that are not in anyway related. If you deserved a response at all, i might add this as well, you need to get a little bit more smarter, a vote by a person who did his homework and a person who didn't don't be the same.

Tracy, that is when people start calling for issues that are not in anyway related. If you deserved a response at all, i might add this as well, you need to get a little bit more smarter, a vote by a person who did his homework and a person who didn't don't be the same.

Our time has come,our movement is real and CHANGE IS COMING TO AMERICA!
GO NEBRASKA,LOUISIANA,WASHINGTON!
YES WE CAN
Obama 08'

Tracy, that is when people start calling for issues that are not in anyway related. If you deserved a response at all, i might add this as well, you need to get a little bit more smarter, a vote by a person who did his homework and a person who didn't don't be the same.

we need a black man in the white house!!!! go obama!

we need a black man in the white house!!!! go obama!

" Hubert " you are right on the money. Obama has a depth and diversity of support that is unreal. Before he is done he will negate race and gender issues. he is the best candidate for the job.

Go Hillary! She is getting the states that matter in the democratic race. Obama has more states, but look at the ones he has- thay will turn red (republican) in the general election in November. He is NOT our best candidate.

America's support for obama amazes and frightens me. Its great that this racial hurdle can be jumped but honestly why obama of all, He speaks great but his change message is the typical cyclical stump speech used by every new politician he just says it better. Im honestly afraid though as a foreign observer that the american's would intrust a novice to deal with the largest army and two wars one in iraq and the other in afganistan. Obama simply does not have the connections or experience to navigate the forign political mind field that awaits. Im really hoping for hillary despite my suspision but im tired of these aggresive republicans. i think though i would rather John to obama, we know what we are getting with him but obama, like bush, is an unknown.

As a Democrat I will never vote for the 2008 demagogue, Senator Obama. I will vote for a Republican should the hight priest of rhetoric be the Democratic nominee.

Chris,
I don't think Hillary will be fit as of President of United States. Believe me, he will bring her Irish, Scottish, German, Polish, French, English, and all her European ancestory Vilages to US. I hope this makes about as much sense to you as your does to me!

Please don't let the arrogant Obama and his corney supporters ("Yes we Can?!" God does he have them brainwashed) or his ugly ass wife take the white house!!! We will all be doomed.

Chris,
I don't think Hillary will be fit as of President of United States. Believe me, he will bring her Irish, Scottish, German, Polish, French, English, and all her European ancestory Vilages to US. I hope this makes about as much sense to you as your does to me!

Obama is brilliant, and a self made man who will make a good president. I pray that God will continue to protect him from racists like Tracy and others who think and act out of fear and ignorance. It is time for America to move beyone 19th century divisions between Americans, and reach our potential as a people. Vote Obama!

Hil 08! We don't need a slogan candidate, we need the real deal! Thanks for running hillary, we need you!

father, husband, son, wife. vote for change. obama 08.

obama is amazing

How can you vote for a person that does not say what he is? He is half white and half black, but he only states that he is black. So what does that tell you about him? Not a racist statement, just an observation.

I agree with you Hubert... too many Clinton negatives can be brought into the general election. A new face like Obama is what we need... also a uniter who has proved even as a "state" senator that he can bring Dem and Rep together. And my remark to Tracy's post.... get a life! By the way, I'm a registered Republican but will swing in this election to Obama!

Looks Like us Democrats are going to put the most liberal and most inexperienced guy up against their most experienced guy. Not a good match and I do have doubts about OBAMA myself and McCain is a moderate so i maybe be voting GOP for the first time. Democrats still time to Make Hillary the Nominee but we will do the wrong this as that is what our party always does. VOTE HILLARY now and pick the right nominee this time or there is 4 more years of GOP ...

He does mention his race. he says he was born to a white mother.
he talks about his mother and grandparents alot. he jokes about if hes black enough.
Plus he is not dumb. he was born to a teen mother, worked hard at school and got a scholoership to harvard,he was The frist black man to ever run the harvard law review, after graduating from the most well know college in the US what did he do? worked for 12k a year helping poor people. come on people this is a man that went form being nothing to being the frist black person have chance at being the president. we can learn alot from him. . obama is a good man, hes not a greedy elitest like everyone eles He is a uniter and even my republican friends like him. and he shut everyones mouth who belived the south is full of racists. Its not his speech that inspire me its his life.

Vote for Experience!!
Vote for Hillary

If your poll is right . voters like me do not have to vote for Obama to stop clinton.
We can write in Fred or some other real leader.

Eight years ago, Al Gore was portrayed in the media and accordingly among everyday people as being boring, dry and too caught up in the details. As a country just coming off some of the best years this country has seen and a national deficit surplus, Americans were pretty spoiled. We didn't want details or to be "brought down". Al Gore's statements regarding issues like global warming, international relations and domestic economy were not ones that we wanted to consider. Instead, we (or at least enough people to make him the president) liked George Bush because he seemed nice, funny and amiable. He didn't talk much about issues and most of the country seemed to recognize that he did not have the experience necessary to be the president and yet, he seemed to connect with voters and thus, his lack of experience was overlooked. Americans did this again in 2004 despite four relatively miserable years. George Bush spent his 2004 presidential campaign stumping for votes in front of large crowds. He drew huge audiences and said things like "9-11" and "terrorism" over and over with great applause each time. People seemed willing to overlook his mistakes because they were caught up in the emotion of what he was saying. Emotion seemed to carry him all the way to the White House for another four more years.

Many of us felt sick after the election in 2000 and the same number contemplated moving out of the country in 2004. However, hopes of a new begining in 2008 kept us from jumping ship. Now, four years later, I look at what is happening with Obama and Clinton and I can't believe that it's actually happening again. This time around, the Republican seem to have it straight in that they have finally found value in John McCain (who has been their valuable candidate all along). What McCain brings to the table is experience and in a country that is so out of whack, we need his experience. On the Democrat side, we have one very experienced candidate who has a long history of being successful in the government. On the other side, we have a candidate who, like George Bush, is great on the stump, but lacks experience and has yet to lay out any real plan as to how he plans to initiate all this "change" that he talks about. He draws large audiences who cheer wildly as he repeats words like "change" and "new era". Again, Obama seems like a very nice, funny and charismatic guy. But, once again, he lacks what I want in a president. Most importantly, he lacks the experience he needs to take on one of the most challenging presidential offices in the history of this country. He has very little experience working for the government and if you think that doesn't matter, consider that George Bush came to office with more experience than Obama.

While Obama's idealism is nice, it's unrealistic. This is the very reason why he appeals to young people and highly educated college graduates. These two populations are no doubt the most idealistic of the bunch. Young people find their idealism fueled by the very simple fact that they haven't had enough life experience to make them realize that if it were really that easy to make things great, it would have been done a long time ago. However, the reality of the "real world" is that it's hard to make things work and it takes an enormous amount of dedication and commitment to be successful. Obama's other large group, successful college graduates are also known for being realistic. I remember working in social services armed with all the book knowledge necessary to solve the problems of the poor and down trodden. It didn't take long for me to realize that all that book knowledge wasn't going to do a bit of good, as the problems are a lot more complex than can be outlined in a book. Well off college graduates are likely not working in social services, as they wouldn't be able to fall in to that $100,000 plus category. On the other hand, we have Hillary Clinton running as the experienced candidate who, unlike Obama, has outlined all of her plans when she becomes the president. She has a long history of being successful and has actually been in the White House before. These would seem really beneficial qualities considering the mess that the next president will inherit. She's not the rock star that Obama has been portrayed as and neither was Gore. Instead, she's solid, dependable and says the things that need to be said versus what we all want to here. She's pragmatic and appeals to the seasoned adult and those living without the fringe benefits of privelage in society. Unfortunately, she has lost the Black vote, which was always a steady for her until she ran against a Black person. In this society that is controlled by media hype and a fundamental need to be attached to glitter and glam, it seems that many people can barely stomach the idea of going with a candidate who will actually solve the problems of this country. It's like this need to be on the side of fun and cool is a drug for Americans. Even if it drags us into the gutter, we're going for it over and over because at least we don't have to face reality in doing so. Meanwhile, our ship is sinking and we are about ready to drown, but at least we'll do so without knowing it's going to happen, right?

For those of us who don't want to be on the sinking ship, we are working desperately to get people to wake up. We all want to hear about how great things are going to be, but the reality is that we need to know how that change is going to occur. I saw this advertisement by Obama saying something about how people weren't voting for him to make a difference, they were voting for themselves to do so. I thought, "But I don't know how to end the war in Iraq. I also don't know how to address the tanking economy or the skyrocketing national debt. That's why I'm voting for a president who can do that. Please don't put this on me, I'm not ready to be the president." I appreciate Obama's attempt to make people feel personally responsible, but he's the one who would need to do whatever necessary to make the changes. Maybe he needs to stop living in a fairy tale and get real. Oops, did I say fairly tale? For the first time in my life, I will vote Republican if Obama wins the Democratic ticket and for me, that is not easy to do. I am a lifelong Democratic voter. However, I don't want to suffer for four more years because we voted in another person who has no idea how to run a country. As a mixed ethnicity woman, I can say firmly that I'll vote for McCain if the alternative is another four years of incompetence in the White House. I just hope it doesn't come down to that because Hillary Clinton is still in this race and she has everything we could possibley want in a candidate and a history of not letting her constituents down.

You'd have to be 42 years old to have voted in a Presidential election not won by a Bush or a Clinton. You'd have to be 50 to have voted in an election without a Bush or Clinton as VP. Get rid of the aristocrats! Obama/Edwards '08!

I am totally disgusted with Tracy's racial comments. Wendy

I support Hillary Clinton. If Obama wins the nomination in part because of media bashing of Hillary I'll take my democrat vote to John McCain. It is arrogant to believe Obama supporters won't support Hillary but Hillary supporters will support Obama

This Obama Hussein character is all we need. Lets vote someone in office with even less experience than George W. Common people wake up! What has he done or ran so far...Nothing...This whole thing IS the biggest fairltale.

This Obama Hussein character is all we need. Lets vote someone in office with even less experience than George W. Common people wake up! What has he done or ran so far...Nothing...This whole thing IS the biggest fairltale.

This Obama Hussein character is all we need. Lets vote someone in office with even less experience than George W. Common people wake up! What has he done or ran so far...Nothing...This whole thing IS the biggest fairltale.

I agree with Keisha about Obama. I am also concerned that if Obama wins the Dem. nomination, he will lose the election to McCain. People will come out of the fog and realize he doesn't have a plan, he is pretentious, and he lacks experience. If he cared about this country, he would sit this one out. What Obama has going for him is skill as a public speaker. That said, O please, stop with the pointy finger thing.