When he has the mandate and the support of the American people, when he wears the mantle of power and authority, his believes, convictions, optimism, hopes, and all the values that he stands for will transform into action.

So we’re not supposed to have any idea what a candidate stands for…just vote him in and THEN he will tell us. Are you telling us to take it on faith, that Obama is the anointed one?

The God and the people of American empower him.

OK…yep, that’s exactly what you’re trying to tell us. Anyone still think there isn’t a cult-like contingent among Obama’s followers? NOTE: I don’t mean all his supporters. Obviously some, like T-Steel, are thinking people. But John sounds like he’s ready to drink the Kool-Aid and head for the mother ship that’s hiding behind the comet somewhere out there.

He will be moved by his people and Americans will have the power to put our country the place it deserves to be – and to help the world be a slightly better place.

Sure – if you think a “slightly better place” means a world where hard work is penalized, islamofascists terror is acceptable, and your freedoms eroded in the name of some “greater good”.

His change is about who we are as individuals and as a nation, and what decisions we will choose to make in the next ten years.

Does the name Jimmy Carter ring a bell with you? Based on Obama’s voting record – since he’s not going to tell us what he plans during the campaign, that’s all we have to go on – he’s planning on taking us down the same path, only more so. Even Carter never tried to saddle us with an unworkable European-style health system. Yes, going back to that would be a “change”. Simply because something is different from the way it is now doesn’t make it better.

Make peace with the angree man, and he will drop his terror. Talk to him, respect him, accept him and teach him the better way.

We spent the better part of a decade following your advice and coddling terrorists. That didn’t work out too well. Either you’re too young to remember the 1990s, or you’re too stupid to have learned from them. Treating evil people with respect and acceptance only encourages them. Let’s put it in a way you might understand, John – when Hitler was running your country, did talking with him, respecting him, declaring “peace in our time” make him drop his ambitions? When one is confronted with pure evil, the only real solution is wiping it out.

you dont need to be american this time to vote obama in

Hate to burst your bubble, but yes you do. Americans have done a hell of a lot better than the rest of the world in building a thriving free nation, and we have no intention of letting people who have thrown their own countries into socialism’s toilet flush America into the same sewer.

The world will join America under Obama to work for change, peace, prosperity, to end hostilities, terorrism, just name it. The willingness is already swelling up.

No, what “the world” will do is look for America to finance their own defense, utopian schemes, dictatorships, and indolence, at least until you can drag America down to the level of a third world sinkhole. You will be coming to us with your hands out making demands, while encouraging barbarians who would turn the world back to the 7th-century. Want proof? Check your own previous government, or the French under Chirac.

He has to hear him self over and over again. I pray and urge all Americans to rise above cheap political campaign tricks and inenuendos to distort Obama’s message

“Cheap political campaign tricks” being defined here as asking exactly what the hell Obama’s message is.

Dont you feel like the Indians, the blacks, the poor, the rich, would one day say, America has truely turned in the right direction, we will begin to believe ourselves, love our selves, care for our selves.

Bulletin: we already do believe in ourselves, because we have created something pretty impressive. There’s a reason why we have a problem with illegal immigration – it’s because we’ve built the most productive, generous, compassionate, and selfless country on the face of the earth. Maybe instead of letting jealousy get the better of you and demanding we lower ourselves to your station, you should consider emulating us and improving your own lot.

It is the people that really bring about change but, they have to follow a leader with vision willingly and passionately

It’s fine for a leader to have vision – Ronald Reagan, for example, had vision and inspired America. But the voters must always use their BRAINS and examine that vision. With Reagan, we did that. But you’re asking us to toss critical thought out the window and vote for Obama because God and a couple billion people who want to take our prosperity and freedom from us say so.

Are you aware that in your entire comment you gave us not one single solid idea or plan that Obama supports? That you based your entire pitch on emotion?

When “tommy from nyc” used to post here, he was often openly on drugs and he made more sense than you.

Whenever I see this I am immediately reminded of N Korea, pictures of the beloved leader everywhere, Cuba, the former Soviet Union, China. All socialist/communist “paradises” built entirely on worship of a person. Picking your leaders based on charisma without looking at what they really are going to lead you into is dangerous.

I’m not comparing Obama to these heinous folks in that I don’t believe he is an evil man, but as Carter showed us, a well meaning and good intentioned person who is that politically, particularly geopolitically, naive can be almost as dangerous. Obama as president would blunder us into situations far more dangerous than Carter managed (although Carter was there for the birth of Iran as a dangerous, religiously fanatical state and did nothing to stop it), as the world today is a far more dangerous place.

The people we’ve had as leaders who were Dems in the latter part of the last century presided over the rise of Islamic extremism and rogue states, and did next to nothing to control the situation. And then they whine when people like Bush attempt to fight the war that they allowed to start by not quashing these extremists when they were easily managed.

But hey, if you “feel” good, that’s all that matters. My advice is to stick to the traditional sources for such inspiration and soul salving (the Church) and quit trying to invent secular sources to fill such needs.

well Severian, millions are agreeing with Obama’s message,

I hate to burst your obviously religiously fervorous vision there, but “millions” of people in this country and elsewhere are shallow, narrow minded, nitwits who are doing their best to live down to the expectations set for them by both society and the school system that pushes “feel good” platitudes over actual accomplishment.

He hasn’t articulated any great mantra other than “Change” for changes sake, and that government will solve everyone’s problems.

Millions signed on to worse I suppose, as millions supported everyone from Hitler to Stalin to Pol Pot, but it doesn’t make Obama a messiah or anything other than a shallow, self righteous person preaching platitudes to a nation grown self indulgent, lazy, and who are easily distracted.

So are you going to say that Senator Obama is using the same techniques that Adolf Hitler used? And where, pray tell, is Senator Obama leading his “masses” to do?

I actually think he hasn’t a clue. Which is part of the problem, he is an empty suit.

And John, coincidentally from Germany, is a prime example of the eerie lack of concern over the lack of specifics and almost religious acceptance and emotionally needy response Obama seems to engender.

I mean, geez, can’t you just hear the “Kumbayas” being sung in between the lines of John’s posts?

He is just Obama, but we wanna unite with him thats what makes the difference. when you read these write ups here and elswhere, you can see how much people hate others in this country, they try to kill hope, they are realists and Obam is not they want us to believe. But we are reading their lips again, and I dont say this with prejudice. Values are not so important to them if they are after their own personal goals. Its like saying ” go to hell, we wanna win” while America stays divided, bleeding from its wounds. America is bleeding, it has been raped, surgically cut apart, healing must start. Dont be fooled again by quick raps designed to outsmart your judgement.
The messsage is simple, Together we can turn the situation around and we need a leader we will love, believe, work with so as to win in these bad times

No one has inspired this country like he has in a very long time
getting the poeple willingly behind one purpose is a chance of a life time…
We have indeed allowed ourselves to wallow in fear and sink into the morass of pettiness. Interest rates will go up and down; people will find work and loose jobs; that’s all temporary stuff. Obama’s change is about much deeper issues than these. His change is about who we are as individuals and as a nation, and what decisions we will choose to make in the next ten years. Choosing those who make you fear would be the wrong choice. Make peace with the angree man, and he will drop his terror. Talk to him, respect him, accept him and teach him the better way.
you dont need to be american this time to vote obama in, the whole world have voted allraedy for him and is waiting for you to act rightly. The world will join America under Obama to work for change, peace, prosperity, to end hostilities, terorrism, just name it. The willingness is already swelling up. If we do know our God given position, we would beter reflect once more before we continue to cause division.
some how the world feels like Obama will not lie to us even in the face of difficulties. I think this election is also transforming, remaking and strenghtening Obama himself. He has to hear him self over and over again. I pray and urge all Americans to rise above cheap political campaign tricks and inenuendos to distort Obama’s message
If Obama fails to be the norminee, america will feel the disappointment and division that willl follow. Dont you feel like the Indians, the blacks, the poor, the rich, would one day say, America has truely turned in the right direction, we will begin to believe ourselves, love our selves, care for our selves. I can see this coming. Let Obama make his moral message stronger than ever, Americans are a people of values if they have the options, they will make the right choice.
It is the people that really bring about change but, they have to follow a leader with vision willingly and passionately, it’s not the other way round. If we are sure of Obama as much as he can count on us, together we can… YES WE CAN.

Hitler’s appeal was based on charisma and emotion. So is Obama’s. That’s undeniable. That does NOT mean Obama is pure evil like Hitler, only that their campaigning techniques are similar. Some of Obama’s followers – the Che Guevara fans, for example – may be uncomfortably scary and dangerous, but I don’t think for a minute Obama is like that.

For my part, I’ve concluded that Obama is naive about the world scene, can be easily manipulated by far-left ideologues, and doesn’t have a good grasp of what it takes to be a successful executive. But not evil. The better comparison for Obama is Jimmy Carter.

Still, the point is that emotion is NOT a good way to choose the most powerful person in the world. As ST points out, even a lot of Democrats are uncomfortable with the idea of nominating someone simply because he makes silly people faint.

I can see getting excited about a candidate (not so much anymore since I’ve gotten cynical in the extreme), but cripes, liberals seem to be incapable of just being excited, they get these fawning, starry eyed, moonie type crushes that obliterate all capability for rational thought. It’s like when Clinton was on the talk show circuit, I thought the newscasters were going to collectively orgasm or something, level of obsequious fawning was just incredible.

Next Senator Obama’s speeches will be compared to how Adolf Hitler spoke. Oh yeah. Someone has already done that.

I can take Obama being criticized on the issues and his positions. But fainting gals and Hitler cadence comparisons give me a migraine.