Obama Presidential Announcement - Live Thread

C-Span ^ | February 11, 2007

[don-o]

Anyone going to watch this?

[jaycee]

You took the words right out of my mouth. I heard part of it when I was upstairs. Kept comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln. I do not like this "KNOW IT ALL".

[freeperfromnj]

I found it interesting that he was supporting Obama over Hillary.

[Mo1]

Free???...what free stuff???...if you work for a living, nothing is free... middle class voters know this better than anyone...

middle class Conservative voters know it

But I am talking about the middle class Dem voters and the Indepentant voters who really don't pay attention to politics and to them it's free stuff .. just like sending their kids to public school instead of private .. they consider it free education

It is the independent voters that will end up deciding this election because the "true" conservative don't like any of our candidates and will either sit home or vote 3rd party out of protest .. and the Dems know this

[syriacus]

I think the left hates freedom...

It sure seems that way.

[mel]

Is Obama's relatives Sunni, Shiite, Suffi or don't say it Wahabi (sp?) Can you imagine?
It is like something out of 24

[ken5050]

Hillary is between a "Barak and a hard place.."

[Mo1]

They will play him up into Savior status, only to later team him up as Hellary's VP. That combination will be nearly unbeatable in this newly moderate country

They can be beat .. but only if our side wakes up

[mel]

What phonies

[ken5050]

They will NOT nominate TWO senators again..

[freeperfromnj]

Kept comparing himself to Abraham Lincoln.

Lincoln was a war time President. This guy's a cut and runner.

[mel]

I don't know Obama is the Oil King that is slicker even than the original Clinton IMHO

[KevinDavis]

Well in 08, if it means holding my nose and voting for McCain, then I will.... Yes, we can control congress, but if this dweeb is the CIC, then we are in a lot of trouble cause he will fight the war on terror Clinton style. Just launch a few cruise missles than that is done. At least McCain gets it..

[Bahbah]

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

In the long run they know quite well that Obama has very little experience. This is why they will do this for now and later have the "Proper Sense" to move him into the VP slot to let the more "Experienced" Hellary have the nomination. But the combination will appear as nothing but brilliant to the masses.

[ken5050]

April 26th, 2007..2+ months...Dem candidate debate at black college in S Carolina...Hillary is a terrible, shrill speaker..Obama can really make up ground...they'll be on the same stage, side by side...

[Txsleuth]

I can pretty much guarantee that if Obama was a white man...he would be as anonymous as the other 2 year white man Senators...

I am not racist...but the fact that the MSM has made him a ROCK STAR, with NO experience, NO qualifications IS racial.

[syriacus]

Is Obama's relatives Sunni, Shiite, ..etc,

Obama should have heeded the words of a song I learned as a child, Go Down, Moses.

With Obama it should have run..

When Shi-ites were in Saddam's land...
[Let my people go]
Oppressed so hard they could not stand
[Let my people go].

Go down, Obama
Way down in Baghdad land,

Tell old ..Sad-dam
to let the Shi'ites go.

[Mike Bates]

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

You and I BOTH know that is only possible with ONE choice. (Which I will not mention here to avoid another flame fest.)

I don't think this party is capable of making a logical choice any longer. They have confused their "principals" with common intellectual balance.

[mel]

They just keep beating that dead horse