You would have to see the Obama campaign’s web site. the people on there are of all ages and races and backgrounds. All are very very committed. You wouldn’t believe the unreported movement going on. it’s a massive grassroots movement.
And while the media says it is all young people who do not vote, the youth are committed to voting. Not only that but, there are huge amounts of people who are sporadic voters and non primary voters of all ages who are voting in this primary.
Many have laughed about the memo that came out saying there is a huge amt of people not being counted by the polls. It is true. You would not believe all the people who are not activists, who don’t really vote much who are out there volunteering and becoming activists for just one man.
the committment and the excitement is very much not being reported by the media. but, this is by design, isn’t it?

I was at Obama’s March L.A. rally and the recent public rally at Santa Barbara City College before he went to Oprah’s private fundraiser. Both rallies were super inspiring and attended by very diverse crowds… unforgettable events and unprecedented in presidential campaign history in this country.

The ‘Clinton Machine’ does seem to have the MSM all sewed up, but I think, like Deborah, that there’s a sea change going on in this country that has tremendous momentum.

I support Obama because I like his worldview, the fact that he’s lived outside the U.S., grew up in multicultural Hawaii, his wisdom and courage to tell the American people what they need to hear vs. what they want to hear. Who else went to Detroit and spoke of the need to increase CAFE fuel standards and was met with hostility for doing so, right in the belly of the beast. Who else went to the NEA and talked of the concept of incentive pay for teachers, which to many educators is almost traitorous. He did it, anyway. He does not pander.

Something else, very important comes to mind. Obama spoke out vigorously against the war in 2002 when it could have jeopardized his run for U.S. Senate and looked unpatriotic to many. He did it, anyway. And when it came time for the Senate to vote on the war, Hillary DID NOT even read the 90 page NIE (National Intelligence Estimate), even though she had 10 days to read it.

She voted for the war without reading this critical report, which was a gross DERELICTION OF DUTY before sending other people’s kids into war to be killed or maimed. That did it for me… the simple fact that she relied on advisors’ comments and briefings and not reading a report, which, had she done so, would have seen many caveats there, as per former Senator Bob Graham of Florida. He read it and did not vote for the war.

Hillary engages in triangulating and also, if being first lady in the governor’s mansion for 8 years and another 8 years in the White House qualifies for ‘experience’ to be president, then why not have Laura Bush run for the 2008 race on the Republican side? You see how preposterous that sounds? That’s the magic of the Clinton Machine’s spinning with reality and manipulating perceptions par excellence. Hopefully, the Iowans won’t buy it.

Greetings from Holland. Many foreigners too are hoping for an Obama victory. Because an American president is also a world leader of course. Obama is the man we need.

I am a lawyer from Canada, and I am actively following the Election, because i know that who ever wins the election, will impact on Canada. I have long since been concerned about the problem of America’s decreased standing in the world, and the fact that Nations like China and India are leading in terms of technology and because American politicians are fighting so much among themselves and because of thier obsession with the war in Iraq, they are not recognising their diminishing stading as the world leader. Obama is the first politician that has pointed out in an Education forum the challenges youth’s face when competing in the global market and of how important it is for Educators to become smart as to where America needs to be on the global scheme of things. Coupled with the fact that Hilary is the old school, Obama is young, this is the age of technology, A president like Hilary will not be able to move America technologically forward into the new era.