Comments on: Analysis: Obama Ahead; GOP A Headache

Obama Attains Front-Runner Status; Huckabee Win Roils GOP Race

[clestes-2009]

After months and months of speculation, it is very satisfying for me to see what I expected to happen, happening.

I have felt for the last year that America was and is very concerned about the future. The consistant result of 70% plus saying we are on the wrong road. 65% to 75% think the war was wrong and want the troops to come home. The disillusionment with washington and the rep party. Nov 2006 was a just a preview of what is going to happen in Nov 2008.

I kept waiting to see if any of the rep candidates would wake up and retool their message to try and recapture the rep voters. The average rep voter was dissatified, they felt alienated. The shrub WH had taken them on a ride that they did not like. They are dispirited and have no enthusiasm for any candidate. Each one has captured a certain segment of the rep voter, but no one has captured them all or even most of them. Ron Paul was the only candidate to realize this and he was sneered at.

Now the election is still months away and anything can happen, but I don''t think it anything will change. The WH has dug a deep hole and it is dragging the rep candidates down with it.

It is far too late for the message of small govn, low taxes, low expenses to resonate. It is nothing more than embarressing to see shrub vetoing a bill for children''s healthcare for 23 billion claiming it is too much and then demand another 150 billion for a war that 70% of America thinks is a mistake!

[Razzl]

I think you''ve summarized Romney''s problem pretty well--he made himself into a phony and Republican voters saw through it. I would have wondered at the sanity of anyone who believes what Romney has to say any more; presumably his remaining supporters are the people who aren''t listening or are fixated on the popularity/winnability issue...

[richvart]

speakinup

I hear what you are saying. I did not intend to imply that 24%ers were crazy, but when someone says that George Soros is all democrats master then admits that Soros thinking only accounts for 1% of democrats it is really hard to take that person seriously.

The fact is that FoxNews, Rush, etc, all promote this same nonsense that Soros & moveon control the Democratic party. It''s so clearly not true, yet these men are extremely popular with Republicans.

It does not speak well for Republicans.

[pakaal]

"Clinton''s third-place showing effectively shatters any lingering perceptions of her inevitable march to the nomination."

"Shatters"?! She was neck-and-neck for second place! Hate to use pat phrases, but it''s the pundits who thought Clinton''s nomination was "inevitable", not us folks who actually follow politics. She''s "establishment" and that has clout, but that''s waning, as we saw last night with a tremendous youth vote turnout for Obama, fueled by new media and netroots efforts.

[marcodele]

Bush, Clinton, Bush did not win Iowa.

[logicanada]

quetzal666...Iowa is and has been the medium marker for most presidential nominees.
It is geographically located in the central US and it isn''t known for potatoes. That would be Idaho.
If you are to comment on your own country''s politics, you might want to know more about it than a foreigner.

[logicanada]

Obama was the only candidate who sounded presidential in his closing speech.
Very impressive!

[speakinup]

bobnjersey - If you were to say something that could be construde as rascist infront of a crowd that COULD interpret it that way, and you''ll understand what I mean. Unfortunately (and I do mean unfortunately), it is also the test the courts use.

Al Sharpton IS a rascist - there is no doubt about that - all he has to do is open his mouth and he proves time and again he hates the whites.

"your constitution criteria may not be what everyone else is using to denote what is perceived as his political naivete."

True, but I was commenting on age: 35 is the age needed, Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution.
Here''s a link:

http://www.usconstitution.net/constquick.html

[bobnjersey]

[If he had said "young" or "inexperienced" I would have no beef, but that''''s not what he said ... Go out on street and call a black man "boy"and see what happens.]
[Posted by richvart at 02:28 PM : Jan 04, 2008]

language and the subtlties in linguistics is just a bit more complex than capitalization of letters. If he had shown all his emphasis on the word BOY then maybe ... just maybe ... his intent was racist. from what he typed though ... it''s clearly referring to age and experience ... which has been a common reference to obama since he indicated his interests in running.

[I grew up in the South, I''''ve seen the "boy" reference first hand. The all caps "A BOY" is clearly derogatory and racists.]

the all caps typing is indicative of those on online message boards that either need some help ... or they''re trying to apply emphasis (as in speaking loudly). plus the whole sentence is capitalized ... not just the words ''A BOY''.

in fact, the use of ambiguous language is a very effective technique in many disciplines ... from politics ... to psychotherapy ... to lighting the fire of those on online message boards.

[speakinup]

"Since Kucinich is out, there goes any chance of having a beautiful woman(his wife) in the white house. Posted by gunownerdan

Well, it is remote - but Fred Thompson''s wife at TOO shabby.