Poll: Obama still has work to do on commander-in-chief test

Did Bush pass the commander-in-chief test?

Barack = world war 3

Everyone knows that Obama is the least qualified Presidential candidate, EVER.

I expect to see him (and the media) humiliated in the coming election. America is ready for a President that is black or a woman. They are not ready for a communist President of any kind. Even the metrosexual, the world is a video game, gen Y'ers aren't buying into Barack's "I'm for change" anymore.

Obama's economic policies is just bigger government and more socialism, I can't see how that fixes our problems anymore than his juvenile antics with foreign policy and handling the reigns of Commander in Cheif.

I care a whole lot more about what's going to happen when I have to find a job. My friends, recently graduated from college, are telling me there's just nothing out there. You send out dozens of resumes and you *might* get a call back. But no interview. Everyone I know is living at home because they can't find a job. Shoot, even Starbucks is firing people.

So who the hell cares about this "commander in chief" baloney? Right now, I care a whole lot more about my (lack of) economic security than I do about some fake @ss debate on who's a better "commander in chief."

Obama has a golden tongue, lofty words and a great smile. Obama lacks substance and deeds. What has Obama accomplished in his political life while he has been in Washington? Nothing that amounts to much. Obama has a good PR team and a news media that lifts him higher than he deserves. I would like to know why the the news media is doing this? Obama is the chairman of the subcomittee on Afganistan and he has never held a meeting, he is the most liberal voter in the Senate and when it is a controversial bill he has not voted just marked present. Are we crazy for following a hollow man? Obama has no track record so his PR team has to make him look good, like a rock star, if not maybe we (the American People) will come down out of the clouds and see the real Obama a man who has accomplished nothing and now wants to lead the world. CHuck Hasker

I haven't forgotten the SnL scandal nor do I believe Senator McCain came out smelling like roses. He is not an asset to United States when it comes to foreign policy., it will be more of the same. He will get us deeper into debt without any remorse as usual. As for commander-in-chief issue, right now a jackass can do a better job. Wait a minute there is, lets not go there. I withdrew my support for the Republican party after the first 4 years of Bush in the office and I definitely wouldn't want another Bush term. I am still a conservative and hope some day Republican party will go back to taking care of US and win back support of people like me.

When the Obama campaign insults our intelligence by thinking a couple of photo ops in Europe suddenly qualifies him to be Commander In Chief, it makes things worse for Obama. We are all not the teeny bopper followers he seems to enthrall.
Or the racists that he seems to think we all are.

Barrack Obama is capable to leard America to successful Economy,and able to see ti it that the dwar between iraq and America be stop.

Just what is McCain's so called experience? You say military yet he will not release his records from the military. I think it is because he has a lot to hide. Also it seems to be implied that McCain has foreign policy experience. Where and when did he get this as a Senator? Obama is a senator just like McCain. Is it because McCain has been in the Senate for the past 30 years or so? Well just exactly what has McCain done over these 30 years about energy, foreign policy, the economy, veteran issues, women issues, torture, mass transit, and a host of others. Outside of supporting torture the answer is nothing. From everything I have seen so far it looks like if McCain gets elected we are going to get more of the same nothing. While Obama is not perfect and has not been around very long he looks like he has positions on tax cuts for the middle class and elderly, programs for alternative energy, programs to support education from pre K to college degree, and host of others that make me believe he is the guy I think I will support.

a person is only as good as the people he has around him....thats what i would like to know, who is "advising" obama ? and mc cain ?? who will they surround themselves with, when they become our leader ?? i don't think being president should be "on the job the training"... to me, so far, obama gets to offended on everything, how is he going to handle pressure, if he can't handle a little criticism.....thank you

What is the deep experience of John McCain? His Senate votes? His misjudgments about the war? His stumbling around with Joe Lieberman, who has to correct him? His rotten votes on military tours and benefits?
His sacrifice was great, but his command experience is nil.
General Clark was right: Being a prisoner of war confers no special knowledge.

Enough of polls talking about whether Obama looks like a "commander in chief." I don't recall any other candidate who became president having to pass that test., But at least they looked like all of the men on our currency.

Obama Energy Plan: Levy a 65-billion dollar tax on "big oil." Who will "big oil' pass the increase to? Correct.

Obama Economics: Increase taxes on Americans and American businesses.

Obama foreign policy: Surrender - now!!!

Example of Obama cultural diversity: Reverend Wright - a known racist and bigot.

Obama the patriot: Okay, allright. I'll wear your stupid fladpin if it will help get me elected.

Wow..lots of bitter McCain supporters out today, throwing out the same old arguments and distortions of facts and events. They really have no other strategy though. Their argument has always been and continues to be "Hey, we're not excited about McCain either. We realize he's old, stubborn, inept at dealing with other countries, behind the times, lacking of vision and really, despite his long and stale tenure in washington, hasn't accomplished much more than Barack Obama. But come on...B-a-r-a-c-k O-b-a-m-a instead of another old white guy?"
People don't seem to understand that (perceived) experience does not equal intelligence, talent or good judgement, all 3 of which Obama displays and McCain does not.

McCain is a proven hothead, pure and simple. It is a documented fact that he loses control and "goes ballistic" on people. We simply cannot elect such as person for our Commander in Chief, not now, not ever.

John McCain does not have any commander in chief experience. Only Gorge W Bush and ex-Presidents do.

Except John McCain is telling us he is already the President.

I think Senator Obama's overseas trip did more harm than good. It highlights his thin resume and subjects him to the perception that his campaign is all about glitz and not substance. He is trying too hard to look presidential. George W. Bush had a thin resume when he campaigned for the presidency. He was elected before 9/11 and before the current economic and environmental crisis. We need a president who can lead on day one. I am very concerned about Senator Obama's huge learning curve if he is elected to the White House. I am not too thrilled about Senator McCain either. Once again, I find myself in this election picking the lesser of two evils, rather than voting for a candidate that I think is well qualified for the job.

The most astounding result of this poll is the fact that 52% of respondents still believe Obama is qualified to be Commander in Chief of our military. An
average high school ROTC student probably possesses more comprehension of military science than does Obama.

Obama isn't senile. He knows that there is no Czechoslovakia. He knows the difference between the Sunnis and Shiites.

Do you want a man who seems to be losing his mind with a finger on the nuclear button? If so, you are insane.

McCain experienced? Let's see, he was for invading Iraq and even chaired the Senate Intel. Commitee. Yet he was hoodwink by Bush, Cheney, et al. Obama was not even in the Senate yet he understood that Iraq was not threat and didn't have anything to do with our security.

Obama - talk to Iran, N. Korea, etc. McCain said that was a naive postion and shows inexperience. Yet now Bush (our most experienced Commander and Chief along with Bill Clinton) and Rice have decided that's the way to go. Hmm.

Obama timeline for withdrawl from Iraq. McCain - no that would be defeatest. Yet now the Iraq's Govt and Bush both are talking timelines similar to Obama's.

Just because you did something for a long time doesn't make you good, only experienced. McCain proves that. Obama has a good head on his shoulders when it comes to dealing with people and is able to extend that to dealing with other countries and foriegn policy. Some people just have a nack for it.

McCain according to his ghost write and people who know him all agree he is very emotional. He cries, he flares up, he has a bad temper. Just what we need at the helm, a person who needs anger management.

Lastly, McCain like Bush, et al believes that the pill and IUD's are forms of abortion and should be outlawed. Just what we need, a dinosaur in the Whitehouse. We may as well elect Darth Cheney instead of McCain.

Obama is the intelligent and stable one. He is the one with a good head on his shoulders. Don't be hoodwinked by Karl Rove et al again!

Hmm. McCain's claim to fame is that he is a war hero? So what did he do that's heroic? He got shot down. That means he went to war and got beat. So all those Al Queda that we beat in war are heros? Interesting logic.

Or was it that he was captured (defeated again) and spent time as a POW. That makes you a hero? So all those prisoners at Gitmo and Abu Grahib are heros? Interesting logic. And by extension then everyone in the U.S. prison system are heros? Hmm

Like Gen. Clarke (who actually is a war hero and has the command experience needed to be Commander-in-Chief) has said, McCain was a jet jockey and has no experience running a war. And neither does Obama. And Bush didn't have any either. Nor did Cheney, Rumsfield, Bolton, Bemer, Wolfalwiest.

We need a smart cool hand on the trigger who thinks logically and methodically. Not Mr. Wilson from "Dennis the Menace". Grumpy old men do not belong in the Oval Office. Obama is smart, has been right on most foriegn policy issues and will listen to Gen. Clarke and other the Generals.

Obama is a nutjob.

He believes there are 57 states.

He thinks he's on a committee when he's not.

Obama wants to inflate our tires to save gas. LOL.

Obama is either stupid or on crack again.

Either way, Obama is ghetto trash.

"A new poll suggests that Barack Obama's much-publicized overseas tour has not paid immediate dividends in Americans' perceptions of whether he is ready to be commander in chief and the nation's chief diplomat."

Has not paid "immediate" dividends? When can we expect those dividends to kick in?? Seems to me we're already seeing the payoff from his boffo tour of the ME and Europe and it's a net loss. Losses don't pay dividends.

i know these are just opinions, and like assholes, everyone has them, but unfounded, fact-deficient declarations of 'how things are' are a waste of everyone's time. At least #13 gave examples of his opinions:
1. I agree. Punishing big oil is not the solution. Americans for the most part are greedy consumers, it's not the oil companies' fault that they give us what we want. What we need (and what Obama has also suggested) is incentivizing the business community to come up with our own energy solutions that we can sustain ourselves.
2. Increase taxes on the people who make the most money, not the middle class who girds up our society. Rich people pay a much lower percentage of their money. They should pay the same percentage, and not allowed to use that money to exploit loopholes. You benefit the most? You pay the most.
3. Surrender to whom? We're not fighting an army. We can no more prevent terrorism there than we can prevent anthrax attacks or federal building bombings here. No one will say what 'winning' is.
4. I've known and associated with lots of bigots and racists in my life. Some by choice, some not by choice. That does not reflect on me, nor should it reflect on Obama.
5. I guess there was a commander-in-chief test, but is there now a flag pin test?

Obama must "work" at his Commander in Chief Image? This statement leaves out the obvious. White Americans, for the most part, will not accept a black person as Commander in Chief any more than they would accept a homosexual, an atheist, or a woman in such a position.

The press constantly talks about the issue being race and inexperience. The issue is not race or inexperience, the issue is racism, pure and simple.

JF Kennedy was younger than Obama when he became Commander in Chief, and was completely inexperienced. In fact, JFK made decisions that almost drove the nation to the edge of nuclear war. But JFK was white. Therefore, there was no problem for him to get elected, and there were no negative consequences from his mistakes. There were in fact no negative consequences from his womanizing, his ill health or the shady dealings of his family.

The only way a black man can ever be elected president is for blacks to become the numerical majority of the voting population. In the distant future this might very well happen, just as it happened in South Africa, but not in the lifetime of anyone alive today.

Okay, so when "lofty rhetoric" is put into action, what is it then?

For those who look very closly, it is quite easy to see that Barack Obama posses a level of extraordinary intellect and quality of leadership that we have not seen in a presidential race, in this country, for ages.

Folks, this man represents a truly great opportunity for this nation of ours to finally get back on track. DON'T MESS THIS ONE UP! If Obama is a little out of your comfort zone for whatever reason, then consider this: WITH GROWTH, COMES RISK.

If there is no risk, there is no reward. PERIOD. But of course blind risk is usually the hallmark of suicide, so I would only ask that you open your eyes and read-between-the-lines of absolutely everything you see and hear between now and November.

But above all, fellow U.S. citizens, don't allow yourself be swayed by the corporate greed, fear mongering, false accusations, and otherwise by the politically motivated distortions issued forth from the McCain camp. We all deserve better than this! And we deserve far-and-away better than the slow motion decay of the environment, our economy, or military, the U.S. Constitution and of our reputation around the world via this current shameless administration. Make no mistake. McCain would take us down the same path, but at ever increasing speeds!

It's in our hands right now. We owe a tide of very positive change to ourselves in a very big way. Let's put some real leadership on capitol hill this time. Then let's continue to make history, a history that every last one of us can be very, very, very proud of.

Domingo is the typical moronic Obama supporter. If you're not in love with Obama you must be a racist.

People are getting very tired of being called racist because they want to examine who Obama is and what he is all about. If Obama and his minions insist on continuing to imply all opposition is based on racism it will most definitely cost him the election.

Obama must still be doing something right. The National polls have tightened, but if you look at the numbers state by state, as the electoral votes are counted, you'll see that things aren't really so close at all. Pollster.com gives Obama a solid 231 electoral votes plus another 53 leaning Obama for a total of 284. Those numbers don't include Montana, Colorado, Virgina or Florida where he is ahead for a total of another 52 electoral votes. They also don't include Nevada, Arizona, North Dakota, Missouri, Indiana or North Carolina where he is within approximately 3 points for a total of another 55 electoral votes. He only needs 270. Pollster.com has McCain down for 112 solid electoral votes and another 35 leaning McCain for a total of 147. He doesn't have to take any state by any greater margin than 0.1 more than McCain. I'm not too discouraged yet. I think there's reason for Hope and Hard Work!