boy he sounds like jesse jackson and al sharpton. false hope and empty promises

I have never been so moved by a polical speech as I was last night. Obama made me want to be an American again. I have only flown my flag once since Bush has taken office. I have also thought about moving out of the country, due to the fact of the ignorance of this administration. WHEN Obama is elected president of these United States of America I will fly the American Flag everyday and once again feel Proud to live in this country. If he is not elected I will be moving far far away.

R.Mc, please don’t go!

In response to void, doesn’t an empty promise imply that it has already happened? To the best of my knowledge, Obama isn’t president yet.

Just a suggestion, but before enlightening us with your brilliance, wouldn’t a grammar tutorial be a better place to spend your time, and ours?

A promise is only empty if not fulfilled.

I feel sorry for void.

why isn’t anyone talking about the protests at the DNC?! pepper spray, riot gear, rubber bullets: isn’t this news worthy?

He talks about doing all this good, but he has no strategy. Anyone can blow smoke up the ass of America. What a fake

You can only go by a politician’s voting record. George W. was always a war-monger, polluter supporter. He took it to The White House. Obama is the opposite. If you are racist, you obviously won’t vote for a half-black man.

I was there and it was amazing!
Barack Obama is what we need, a president who will end the war, strengthen the economy, invest in renewable energy and restore the respect the world once had for America. He is a leader who can inspire people to take initiative in their lives. I am not usually that patriotic, but after last night I can say that I am proud to be an American and I have hope for the future. Before Obama I wanted to leave the country but now I have hope for the future

Bear40 – how might void go about spending our time completing a grammar tutorial? just guessing that you would not be teaching that tutorial…and besides his comment was not so much a lack of proper grammar but instead one filled with racism.

i will never be sold on obama. i have a major problem with the fact that he wants to tap my phone lines without a warrant. however i cant stomach the idea of four years of john mccain so it’s dumb for me not to support obama. as for mccain’s palin pick, yeah sure she stands up against corruption but she’s only a maverick to a certain extent. she totes a rifle, she spits on gay marraiges, and she wants all abortionists disemboweled. she’s really not to different from mike huckabee. the only difference is that she’s a woman, and i’m sure that’s the only reason mccain picked her.

I agree that speech was just what America needed, and after the last 8 years of Bush, I feel Obama is what we need, If he only makes a third of what he say happen, then I am still happy with him as our president, He is someone this country needs to improve our standing in the world, he is what this country needs to improve ours schools, SS, fuel crisis, economy, our homeless rate , jobless rate, income rates, he he does only one of these things he has succeeded in my eyes, how many presidents before him have made promises and how many of theses promises were upheld, I do not commit to a party except maybe green party, but I do commit to Obama, hes what we need, I have 2 children ages 6 and 4 and with Mccain I worry that a draft will be needed to supply our military needs in the future since the enlistment rate has suffered so badly with Bush in office fighting a war we should be in, and Mccain says he will be there 100 years in need be, I thought we learned a lesson in Vietnam, give them our money to rebuild, give them training to defend for their selves, but dont give them any more or our brother and sisters and possibly soon to be sons and daughters

opps typo. A war we shouldnt be in , this war has dissolved our image, has put America in the poor house, has made our dependency on foreign oil like heroin off the street buying it from dealers, this war have cost us too many lives of people we know and love and will continue to cost us those loved ones, why do i need to know his strategy, I do know he wants USA out of Iraq, mccain wants us to stay, wrong war, wrong president now, wrong president for our future.

First off, the economy is cyclical. As long as the government doesn’t try to do too much, it *will* fix itself. The person who takes the oath of office in January is likely to be a two-termer as a result.

For Obama, I’m not sold that he’ll be able to change politics as usual. Although he casts himself as a “post-partisan”, he cannot and will not escape the partisan acrimony that has been building the last 50 years. He has already stooped to the usual partisan tactic of misrepresenting what his opponent’s record means.

For McCain, I’m not sold that he’ll be able to change politics as usual, either. The Democrats have been on the attack against McCain since he sewed up the nomination. The lingering acrimony will not be productive.

In the end, neither candidate is what this country needs. But I will support McCain, because I can think of nothing scarier than having both the Legislative and Executive branches in the hands of the same party. The U.S. government works best when the parties split power, which was true for Clinton as it was for Reagan. When one party has both branches, bad stuff happens (see Clinton’s first term, Bush’s presidency).

what a freekin speech..moved me. 40 years ago today people…check what was happenning in this country…any parallels u notice?

well, in the end maybe he is really the Antichrist?!
OK that was a joke but still i kinda think he gives false hopes!

if you like barack so much why dont you marrie him!

Barack Obama is awesome! He nailed that speech. Look out, McCain, your going down.

McCain all the way Baby! Get Osama out the way and let Hilary run again in 2012…Ha!

False hope or hopeless, guess I would rather have the appearance of hope than none at all.

rd – nothing scarier than having both the Legislative and Executive branches in the same party so you will vote for McCain? The Democrats don’t enjoy large enough majority in the Senate to accomplish much of anything. A lot of Senate votes require a 60% majority vote not just a simple majority. Heck, usually the minority party seems to enjoy more power sometimes(except of course Democrats in the G.W. Bush administration – who never stuck up for their “beliefs”).

i dont like liars! | 8/31/2008, 12:11 am EST

if you like barack so much why dont you marrie him!

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

WE HAVE FOUND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION IN IRAQ

SADDAM HUSSEIN AND OSAMA BIN LADEN CONSPIRED TO PLAN 9/11

You’re right, I don’t like liars either.

Great Speech!!! But I still don’t think millions of Americans still dont’ get it & will never get it w/ him for a few reasons.

The media (TV, radio, & the internet) will spin & distort just about anything Obama says & stands for. My guess, half or 2/3 of Americans will get suckered to believing anything the media (& 527s) puts out there about Obama (even when a lot of it isn’t true & they overblow a comment he’ll make).

And Unfortunately, more than half of the voters out there won’t vote for him this Nov. for one reason & I hate to say it. He’s black.

I do hope he does overcome the odds & comes out the winner, but the mindset of a lot Americans nowadays won’t let that happen.

2008 – The year of the letdown!

barack hussein osama should go away and let the real politicians work

How can ANY American still want to vote for the republicans?! The last 8 years have been such a disgrace for America. After all the lies Bush gave you, you still can’t see the whole picture? But then again Obama is black, and the Bible CLEARLY states that that not all men are equal and that being black is a sign of cooperating with the devil, doesn’t it?

Unfortunately its all for not. The republicans are unbeatable. It doesn’t matter what they do or how obvious it is that they are the cause of Americas’ problems. Everything Friedrich Nietzsche said about democracy is true. People like to blame the republicans for the countries’ problems, but its really the fault of the people for being intelectually inferior enough to believe even the statements that are most obviously lies, and vote for those that say them.