I marched and was very active in the anti war movement of the sixties and seventies. I did it for my children. I'm active again in the Obama campaign for my grandchildren. When will the madness ever cease!!!???

Vietnam is now a trusted trading partner. Why didn't we just skip the war?

I marched against the Vietnam war, and I have opposed the Iraq war from the start. I have struggled to survive the Republican years of Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush. If we don't get a real Democrat into office soon, I fear for the survival of the country.

We need a Roosevelt, but it looks like we will have to settle for a Kennedy. When Chris Dodd dropped out of the race, I switched my support to John Edwards. With him gone, Obama is all that's left.

I wish the best for him and his administration. I wish the best for America. I will try to keep the pressure on to make him the best president he can be.

I am voting for Obama - Some reasons ...he movtivates people to be responisble for themselves and to participate in the community as all citizens should do. He gives hope and a vision of the future.

Here is a great Pro Obama Music Video at Youtube...a feel good hopefully video and song that shows our progressive histoy and our willingness to stand togther for change. We arethe America the World once looked to for hope and honor - be active and drive the engine of our destiny!
Peace,
Robert

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FXkkabF649M

It's worth the time....pass it on!

I'm voting for this candidate because 1. He is a Democrat, and 2. He promises to extend the model of the Harlem Children's Zone into 20 more cities, and I'd like to work with minority kids again in an effective school in one of those. 3. We need to start caring about each other again in this country, and he and his family can model this for us. 4. The man can read and write and speak, and he has inspired young folks to care about politics again. It's been amazing. 5. He is the natural extension of Dr King's dream.

The reasons are almost too many. His values are fundamental and duplicate mine: restoring the Constitution, expanding social services to create a level playing field, recognizing the importance of public education, restoring our position in the world from bullying to co-operating with all freedom-loving nations, etc. etc. He will undoubtedly be more centrist than I would like, but on the other hand he is a realist who knows better than to try to ram through programs that will receive too much resistance, e.g., single-payer health care.
There is no question that Obama the politician is far superior to McCain. But he is uncommon by any standard. Jonathan Alter noted that, unlike FDR, Obama has a first-class temperament AND a first-class intelligence. I have been watching his campaign with fascination for over a year and can say he is the most impressive candidate I have seen in 40 years of voting, and I would venture to say he will rival FDR himself, and perhaps also Lincoln, whose literary acumen he equals.
Finally, as the first serious biracial candidate this country has been offered, he will epitomize a nation that has grown beyond the white/European model of governance to embrace a postcolonial, internationalist and rainbow-hued world. It's become obvious that world will rise to welcome him as our president.

I am voting for Senator Obama because I am deeply concerned for my grown children and my grandchildren and also myself with the health care and medicare problems...I am also very concerned about our relationships NOW with the rest of the world....the past 8 years have hurt us more than helped us in the world's eyes...WE NEED OBAMA to help with all these issues and I BELIEVE HE CAN.

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I am voting for Barack Obama because he is an intelligent, reflective thinker who grows as he learns; because he understands that the work of middle America holds up the system; because he understands the concept of and need for equal access to resources for the most vulnerable among us in order for us to be a truly great nation; because he sees the United States as a collaborator - not dominator - in the global community responsible to and for the planet and all of its peoples, and because he believes in the innate goodness of people challenging us to grow in wisdom, justice, compassion and strength based on vision, creativity and the common good.

I was a John Edwards supporter but that's all I'm gonna say about that. I live in Florida and that said, there seems to be alot of rabid Rethugs living in my neighborhood. Thank you for this place to be a proud Democrat and actually feel a sense of community with other proud Dems. OMG I feel so alone sometimes. Anyway, I have been getting to know Barack Obama and his family since the Dem National Convention and I am totally inspired by him. He makes me feel comfortable, hopeful, inspired, all at the same time. I haven't felt this way since Bill Clinton was running and won in 1992. I pray that Obama wins this election, because I don't see how this country can survive 4 more years of GOP control. Thank you fellow Democrats for being here for me. Get out and vote like our future depends on it.!!!!!!!

I believe that the President is given too much credit, that is to say, that the President is not as powerful as made out to be. That being said, the reason I voted Obama, is because he is creating a wave of change that is far more powerful that any President.

He is motivating people, inspiring those who have already sat on the sidelines of the political process. Generations ago, when the people were unhappy about the powers that be, they took the streets just like in the sixties, and for a while it seemed that we had lost that. We had become generation x-nay. A generation that loved to complain but never got up to do anything about it. That seems to be changing and that to me is exciting.

I am voting for change, whether or not Obama brings it, I believe he is inspiring the PEOPLE to create the change.

moron, idiot, Racist, gullible person, Fascist, Nazi, sheep, an unfair evil person pretending to be a Christian like palin, stupid person, bullsh**er, untruth teller, liar, oil company executive (Satan), Wal-Mart executive (Satan), War Profiteer (Satan), Outsourcer, greedy person, etc., etc.

Basically all of the above words are interchangeable with Republican, WHICH I'M NOT!

GOD BLESS BARRACK and take care of yourself!!!!!

*P.S. Dear Barrack, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make a nationwide INFALLIBLE verifiable voting process as one of your first actions as President, it was unbelievable to me that fascist bush didn't do this! Our votes are the fabric of our democracy, and die-bold and the other fascist repukelicans have made a mockery of it. THIS MUST END NOW!

*IF ANYONE READING MY P.S. statement agrees, please also add it to your posts, or re-interate it! Thank you!

I trust Senator Obama's heart, mind and intentions. Obama-Biden and their lovely families will help bring together the United States of America. Our country and our world needs intelligent leaders.

In short, because I think he has the potential to be our best president to date. Why?

1. He's brilliant - that's neither necessary nor sufficient for greatness, but it certainly helps. Think Ben Franklin.
2. He's pragmatic - He's an information-based rather than an ideological decision-maker. Reality trumps ideology every time as we've seen repeatedly through history, including Fascism and Communism on one side, Libertarianism on the other. People just don't conform to ideologies.
3. He's an excellent decision-maker - He surrounds himself with quality people of diverse views and listens carefully to what they say. Combine that with his brilliance and pragmatism and you get great decisions
4. He's inspirational - We live in a cynical time, but his ability to inspire shouldn't be underestimated
5. He's temperamentally well-suited for the job - These a deeply troubled times and we need a steady hand on the tiller.
6. He will change the way the world things about America - boy could we use that.
   

Once Senator Obama is elected we must continue to demand an end to the killing.

"Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved through understanding." Einstein

Very simple. I trust this man and I want someone SMART in the Oval Office. We've got to stop electing idiots (Palin comes to mind here) simply because we "want to have a beer with them."

God bless you, Barack Obama.

I lost my home and business after the 9/11 fiasco under Bush NON-LEADERSHIP "plan". I lost my insurance and savings also. While suffering a brain injury, my wife & I moved from state to state seeking employment. I can walk better now and PRAY for a new, smarter, more caring PRESIDENT !
These phony - republicans ( NOT LIKE IKE ! ) are RUINING our country !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If we wanted CORPORATIONS to run the government, Well--- we should have been warned of the consequences.

God Bless, Let's GO FORWARD !!!

As a social Worker I have seen too much suffering,these past 8 years, particularlly with Seniors who are loosing their homes in order to pay for medications. I had one senior offer to commit suicide so that his wife would be able to buy the prescriptions she needed to survive. If I heard it ONCE,I heard it a Million times "We scrimpt and saved to build funds for retirement, we thought we were going to be alright, but everything went up too far, too fast". It will be good to see INTELLIGENCE,real COMPASSION and EMPATHY in the White House once again. Rita DiVEnti, MSW

I'm voting for Obama because his wife rocks, his family is a model for us all, and because he is a true statesman and a real orator. I believe he will indeed send this country in a good direction; I believe he will do what needs to be done, and in so doing, do right by Americans from every walk of life. A better world awaits, and it's been too long that we Americans have been hopeless. Obama gives me hope I can believe in.

I'm voting for Obama for the sake of my children, my grandchildren and my greatgrandchilren.

Diane
Larkspur, Ca.

*Of our choices he is, without questions or rhetoric, the best candidate.
*He will work to end the war & be open to pressure to do so.
*He may, again with input & pressure from progressives, end welfare for corporate America & give middle America & those living in poverty the means to own homes, get an education and be respected no matter their lot in life.
*Replace the fear the Bush regime & McCain campaign have used to control our citizens with hope & commitment to making America a true democracy that is sensitive & informed to & about the rest of the world.
*Pull out covert & finacial support for dictators & countries who abuse their citizens, send us flawed & sometimes deadly goods & destroy the environment.
*Work diligently toward finding solutions to our enviromental diasters.
*Set up a program in which all kids getting out of high school do service for the country. Choices will include military service, rebuilding the infrastructure, implementing alternative energy programs, assisting in schools, etc... For this they will be offered a college education, technical training or,if they are successful, a job in the field they have been working in.
*Reduce the national debt.
*Bring all political factions to the table & do it with public visibility so citizens can support what proposed program they think will work.
*Deal harshly with the hate crimes against the gay & lesbian community (trans-gender, etc.. included)
*Establish programs that reward equal pay for women & minorities.
*Return our constitutional rights immediately.
*Find new & do-able solutions for national security.
*Make peace with Cuba.
*Illustrate how unproductive & unamerican racism is.

Barack Obama is a transformational leader, and very inspiring. I feel privileged to have the opportunity to vote for him! His early opposition to the tragic war in Iraq was the single most important issue for me!

I'm becoming increasingly upset over all the references to John McCain being a "genuine American hero". POW's endure abuse and deprivations I can't imagine; but those who survive, are survivors. As an American citizen I want our government to do right by all veterans, including POW's, but I know of nothing about being a POW that confers "genuine American hero" status on an individual. The phrase is applied so readily and indiscriminately that it means very little to me. I certainly would take no comfort whatsoever in the fact that John McCain was a POW were he to somehow unfortunately become our next President.

The alternative (to state the obvious, we only have a choice between 2 candidates in this "democracy") is so frightening and horrible, I HAVE to vote for Obama. He's not a progressive (the American people would never elect one and the Democratic Party is way too middle of the road corporate to zealously back progressives) and he voted for the FISA Amendment; he's flip-flopped on several issues, probably to gain votes. So I really don't know what we're going to get if Obama's elected. But as I implied, a McPain-Palin reign would definitely be a nightmare.

There's an old adage which states that, if you have a heart, you'll be a Democrat, and if you have a brain, you'll be a Republican. 1960 was the first Presidential election where I was old enough to vote, and I had always considered myself an Independent. Luckily I was able to vote for a candidate who had both a heart and a brain. John F. Kennedy. Plus, he was an great inspiration to Americans.

Since then, we've seldom had a candidate that had both a heart and a brain. In fact, the past eight years we've had a President who has neither a heart nor a brain. But luckily for America in 2008, we have another candidate who has a heart, a brain, is an inspiration to Americans and who will restore our standing throughout the world. That man is Barack Obama.

I'm voting for Barack Obama because I want somebody up front that will act the way I want to act. I want somebody driving the bus that wants to lead us where I want to go. I want this nation to be for the people & by the people. I want this nation to work to make people's lives better. That's why I'm voting for Barack. I believe he will guide us, as a nation, to treat others the way we want to be treated.