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Obama is just a human Rorschach Blot—a figure so devoid of definition and meaning that what his devotees see in him is more an insight into them than into him.

Barb, I think that is a little short sigthed on your behalf. Lets see how this plays out. Go read Barack's web site, go read McCains, familiarize yourself with their plans on the issues.

I guarantee when this thing is over, you will see the light on Obama. McCain is no better than having a third term of George W. If that is really what you want then stick by McCain. If you want someone who is really interested in helping this country to its power of pre-George W. then Obama is going to be your man.

I have been to his web site. He makes me sick. Lie after lie after lie. He tells people what they want to hear and changes like the wind based on who he is talking to. As for him being an African American, that is in skin color only. He is as much white as he is black. Race is not an issue. You should check his congressional record.

Tell me your kidding Barb and not really that brain washed by the republican spin. McCain has flip flopped all over the place.
Obama, hasnt had a chance to change his stance and if anything he has been the most consistent of any of the candidate, he has voted against the war from the beginning.
McCain says he thinks we should be there for 100 years, says things like Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb IRan as a joke, and then comes out with this ad now saying that he doesnt feel like he has to be tough on war. What ever. The guy is a joke.
He talked about not using lobbyists yet throughout this whole campaign he has had a bus load full of lobbyists with him on this campaign.
The guy is no better than George W. Bush.
Hes a hot head who calls his wife the C word, hes got serious anger issues. Im sorry but this is not the man i want in the Oval office.

I didn't say anything about McCain. He is just as bad, he is a politician as well. When you look at the cogressional record though you will notice a slight difference. Both have a more left wing tendancy, Obama more so but McCain is not a true republican he is more of a moderate. A word on spin...I think your site is loaded with it and it leans heavily to the left. It appears you have a closed mind or tunnle vision when it comes to politics.

And so the wind continues to blow...and blow...and blow

*** Becoming Hillary: The most striking thing about Obama’s economic speech yesterday was that he sounded a lot like, well, Hillary Clinton -- There was the focus on the middle class (“I'll use the money to help pay for a middle-class tax cut that will provide $1,000 of relief to 95% of workers and their families”). There was the dash of populism (“I'll make oil companies like Exxon pay a tax on their windfall profits, and we'll use the money to help families pay for their skyrocketing energy costs and other bills”). And there was the Clintonian theme of fairness (“We will save Social Security for future generations by asking the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share”). One of Obama’s more underreported attributes has been his ability flip flop as a candidate. What remains to be seen is whether Obama can own the issue of the economy -- at least rhetorically -- the way Clinton thought she did.

Well said

George, your mistaking Obama with the wrong Candidate (McCain)
Where and on what issue has he flip flopped? Point me to it, if you can Ill be fair about it, but until then, you gave no proof.
As far as the rest you brought up,
The middle class which includes myself and you over the past 8 years of George W. Bush has been getting pounded into the ground. It has been 8 years of coorporate greed, supported by Bush. McCain has a bus full of lobbyists with him which he said he would not take money from to support his campaign, yet there he is taking money from lobbyists from big coorporate interests.
Taxing oil companies I have no problem with either. It would be fair to have a problem with if they were using those profits responsibly, like developing alternative sorces of energy to get us out of this "addiction to oil" but they will not do the right thing. They have 100's of billions of dollars in profits every quarter, yet Exxon Mobil says they are only spending about $1 million a year on alternatives. So I agree with taxing them. Not to mention the tax breaks that the Bush administration has doled out over the years to these big oil companies has contributed.
The rich are not taxed equally. Warren Buffet has even come out and said it. His secretary is taxed at 30% where as he at 14%. Why is that? Why is the middle class YOU and I getting shafted?
So while you must not give a shit about the class that you are in, I Do, and everything that Barack has said about the economy while not perfect, makes good sense.
IF you can sit there and Say you want McCain in that office then we get at least 4 more years of Bush and that my friend will not help our economic state.

1st Flip-Flop
In the present, Obama talks about talking about big, bold ideas but he never quite gets around to offering any — unless you count his inspirational stand against American flag lapel pins. Otherwise he’s a biracial George McGovern, offering
the same humdrum, big government liberalism
pushed by the Left since the Great Society.
Even on the War in Iraq, his self-selected defining issue, Obama is awash in contradiction. He sponsored
legislation calling for complete troop withdrawal by the end of March 2008 but then recently refused to commit to complete troop withdrawal by the end of his first term — that’s 2013 — were he elected President.

Another Flip-Flop. Well not really a flip-flop but more evidence the guy is not honest.

What’s troubling, however, is that Obama’s record doesn’t match his reassuring persona.
The liberal Americans for Democratic Action rates Obama’s voting record in the Senate at 97.5 percent, near perfection for liberal Democrats. The American
Conservative Union, the ADA’s ideological opposite, rates Obama’s voting record at a rock-bottom 8 percent. Both ratings leave no doubt that Obama’s
actual votes mark him as a traditionally liberal Democrat, not a moderate. Obama typically talks like a
centrist but votes like a liberal

Obama’s record also raises another disturbing matter - his penchant for ducking tough issues. In the
Illinois Legislature, Obama compiled a record of voting “present” on controversial and politically explosive bills. However politically convenient, this isn’t
leadership. Obama’s three years in the U.S. Senate are similarly devoid of any leadership examples on legislation
of consequence.

Below are the top 10 contributors to the
Obama campaign, according to most
recent data on OpenSecrets.org, the website of the Center for Responsive Politics. (The organizations themselves did not donate, rather the money came from the organizations’ PACs

1. GOLDMAN SACHS — TOTAL CONTRIBUTED: $834,124
2. CITIGROUP, INC. — TOTAL CONTRIBUTED: $572,473
3. MORGAN STANLEY —
TOTAL CONTRIBUTED: $517,896
4. LEHMAN BROTHERS —
TOTAL CONTRIBUTED: $492,500
5. JP MORGAN CHASE & CO. —
TOTAL CONTRIBUTED:
6. NATIONAL AMUSEMENTS, INC. —
TOTAL CONTRIBUTED: $455,853458,728
7. SKADDEN, ARPS ET AL —
TOTAL CONTRIBUTED: $364,216
8.KIRKLAND & ELLIS — TOTAL CONTRIBUTED: $314,414
9. TIME WARNER — TOTAL CONTRIBUTED: $300,36010.
10. MERRILL LYNCH — TOTAL CONTRIBUTED: $269,442