Comments on: Obama's Oratory Grabbing Spotlight

Being Compared To JFK, Drawing Huge Crowds, Moving Some To Tears; Pundits, Rivals Noticing

[nicksp2]

Read the truth in the Chicago Sun Times (umm..isn''t that where Obama is from??)

http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/794128,CST-NWS-campweb14.article

and he can''t even respond to it cuz he knows it''s true!

[remco82]

Obama has charisma. He has the ability to kindle hope among the people. McCain offers four more years of nutso Bushism while Hillary brays like a donkey and is a total fake. Go Barack!

[nicksp2]

real nice, Tracymorgan3. Maybe Obama''s got your tongue and all his minions have lost the ability to speak for themselves in proper sentences without being rude?

[nicksp2]

Unfortunately what the media don''t show here in their glassy eyed support of Obama is the fact that he is plagarizing his ideas from Clinton - whenever he actually concedes to giving specifics! His green collar jobs, his infrastructure bank...we''ve heard it all before because Clinton started talking about it in 2007! Yes, a brilliant orator, too bad his policies are not his own. That tells me a lot about what will happen if he makes it to the White House. Scary!

[flreason]

Infidel: Could you put in the kinds of hours he has on the campaign trail, and then get up in front of a crowd of 15,000 people and consistently be a glib off-the-cuff speaker? If so, then maybe you should consider running for office. Candidates are human. I think Obama''s poise as a public speaker is improving with time. He certainly uses speechwriters--as did JFK (Pierre Salinger) and most other national politicians. Bush isn''t genuine or folksy, he just can''t read well--even teleprompters.

[infidel_us]

He sounds good as long as the teleprompters are working. When he has to hack it on his own, he really shows off how little he knows.

[bikegirl03]

You''re right about working people. We are NOT in the least bit enchanted by BHO''s rants and raves. I am NOT getting goosebumps....rather, I am frightened about the hidden agendas of this man and what it means if he gets into the big house! WAKE UP YOU FOOLS!

[flreason]

jack3213:

Well put. Many of your points are accurate, although I would like to know your source for "80% of Obama''s contributions" being affiliated with business. If I work, does that make me associated with business? However, Obama''s hundreds of thousands of individual donors is unprecedented.

Having said that, the only way for the needed reforms to be implemented is for people who espouse those goals to seek office, and for voters who understand the need to become activists, educators, and advocates. When an aware electorate demands candidates who will implement these reforms--and holds them to their promises--then we will see our government transformed. From my perspective, that means that party loyalist and religious/idealogical litmus tests that discourage intelligent candidates from running need to be de-emphasized. The current system rewards "yes men": system manipulators who play the game by the system rules for their personal gain. We need a 21st century Thomas Paine who can awaken and energize our electorate. I think the successes of Huckabee and Obama give us cause for hope.

There are no perfect candidates, just as there are no perfect political systems. Both have to be constantly monitored and adjusted when they stray too far from their roles as workers for the common good.

[barbaraf4]

After listening to 8 years of a moron who has a mouthful of marbles and who cannot speak in complete sentences, Obama''s words fall like rain on a thirsty soul. (Who is his speech writer? Tell me he writes his own speeches and I will really be impressed).

[jack3213]

Here are some realities that neither group wants to face: Both candidates are establishment insiders
Both are corporate-state politicians. Large sources of Obama money are law firms, investment houses, and real estate companies, and 80 percent of his donors are affiliated with business, compared to 85 percent for Clinton.Neither are true progressives or populists, like Kucinich and Edwards.
Both Clinton the fighter and Obama the talker will sell out once they confront presidential realities. Why? Because plutocracies know how to retain power AFTER elections. After two years it will be clear that the new president will have failed to extract the US from Iraq, will have failed to deliver universal health care, will have failed to address illegal immigration, will have done nothing to get a new and serious 9/11 investigation, will have done nothing to stop middle-class-killing globalization, and will have utterly disappointed the vast majority of Americans.
Finally, for those seeking serious political system reforms, it is troubling that neither Clinton nor, especially, Obama have the courage to advocate needed constitutional amendments, such as replacing the Electoral College with the popular vote for president, getting all private money out of politics, making universal health care a right, and preventing presidential signing statements that undermine laws.