Democrat Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. was elected President of the United States on November 4, 2008. Prior to that, he had served four years as a U.S. senator from Illinois (2005-2008) and eight years as an Illinois state senator (1996-2004).arack Obama says he was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961, to a white mother from Kansas and a black Muslim father from Kenya. His parents had met when they were students at the University of Hawaii.If Barack Obama loses the 2008 election, liberal hell will break loose.Seven weeks before the 2008 presidential election, liberals are warning America that if Barack Obama loses, it is because Americans are racist. Of course, that this means that Democrats (and independents) are racist, since Republicans will vote Republican regardless of the race of the Democrat, is an irony apparently lost on the Democrats making these charges.
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Rose

I voted for Barack Obama because it is a moral imperative. I was raised in a Republican family in a Republican stronghold, but by the age of 14, I knew better. To quote, of all people, Isaac Mizrahi, "I am a Democrat because I am not mean and selfish enough to be a Republican." So many people operate under the fallacious assumption that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get, in order to excuse the horrendous inequities in our society and in the world. I don't understand how anyone can consider themslves a Christian, or an adherent of any other religion (except perhaps Scientology) and be a Republican. To be one is the the antithesis of religious teaching. Did Jesus not say, "Am I not my brother's keeper.?" In grade school, I was taught that the founding of Jamestown was based on "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need." That settlement was hundreds of years before Karl Marx.

I,m voting for Obama for 3 reasons mainly. Who-ever becomes President must deal with countries that have no love for us and that will take a cool calm level headed person thats willing to listen to both sides not a hot-head with a temper to get anything accomplised.

No.2 is McCain wants to privitize and do you young people realize what that means you will be responsible fully to now take care of your parents physically and financially. If programs are dropped that Democrats have worked so hard to acheive that leaves no-where for all the resposibilitys to fall but on the young generation.

No.3 To get his financing for his health care plan he intends to make cuts on social security and disability, again where will the costs go to the young people.

I voted early for Barack Obama for reasons many of you have mentioned in your blogs - for a return to participatory democracy, care for the environment, wanting to end the war in Iraq, and his steady, educated, well-reasoned demeanor and superior intelligence which will help restore the US's standing in the world.

Months before, I spent many hours outside in the humid, hot Georgia summer getting college students and low-income residents (many African-American) registered to vote. I'm too young to have participated in the voter drives in the 60s, but wanted to be part of helping enfranchise people to vote in this election.

Working as a poll worker, I had the privilege of aiding about 6 elderly illiterate African-American new voters to cast their votes for Obama. I'll always remember their pride and sense of satisfaction after voting.

I am voting for Barack Obama because I have hope that he "gets it".  I know that he is more centrist in his economic beliefs than I am, but I believe that he is the person who will make needed changes to the status quo of trickle down economics that was begun with the policies of Reagan in the 1980's.

I am voting for Barack because six years ago, Paul Wellstone and other Progressives in his family and employment lost their lives in a plane crash in Minnesota.  May they rest in peace.

I am voting for Barack because of the nastiness of John McCain, Sarah Palin, and the various Republican groups who are spouting hate in their tv ads as I write this.

Well, I need talked down this morning.  I woke up with this overwelming fear that this election might be stolen......again.  I know that the polls say that Obama is ahead, still, but I can't shake this nagging fear.  What is wrong with me?  I live in the USA.  We have a good system, a fair and democratic system, right?   somebody give me a reason to believe that this feeling of mine is unfounded.  I am really in need of some sane and rational thinking, here.  Thanks, if you can help me.!!

Here we are in the last few days of this interminable election campaign.

I’ve wanted to write about Barack Obama for a long time now. I’ve hesitated. What could I say? So much had been said already. Perhaps too much-people may have tired of hearing of him already.

But I’ve been profoundly moved, to tears at times, by him, by his run for the Presidency.
I grew up in a time when no one would believe that a black man could be President of the United States. In fact, I grew up in a time where black men fought, spent time in jail, and even gave their lives to be able to vote for a President of the United States.

The question of supporting Sen. Obama comes down to A) Political philosophy, B) Leadership style and C) Image (for lack of a better word).

I admire and respect Barack Obama's political philosophy. It speaks to inclusion and the raising up of the less fortunate in America. It is a politics of emotional and cultural courage that asks people to respect what they may not understand on the basis that we are all in the same boat together. That we all have a stake in seeing everyone succeed and that our collective fortunes as a nation depend on the chance for all people to excel. All boats rise with the tide, so to speak. The Republican Party doesn't seem to get that. They practice a politics of division, of fear; of smallness. And I’ve had enough of it.

It's simple:  http://www.barackobama.com/issues/