. . ."Obama, increasingly confident . . ."

Just what Obama needs, more confidence.

This guy is really set up for a fall this fall.

OK, the preliminaries are over, let the main event begin.

McCain wasn't most Republicans (certainly not mine) first, second or even third choice but there will be no problem rallying around him when the other choice is an arrogant clueless out-of-touch Harvard community organizer. (just exactly what is a community organizer, anyway)

The most liberal and least experienced of 100 Senators seems an unlikely choice to bring the nation together. Obama couldn't find the middle of America if it plopped into his latte capichino (or whatever it is yuppie lawyers drink)

And they same old tired liberal policies that have failed at the ballot box for 50 years won't fly any better dressed up as "chance" (oooh- change!)
-lipstick on a pig, you know-

Obama has never faced a real issue oriented campaign against a qualified candidate of substance. McCain has more character in his pinky that Obama will ever aspire to. (being raised by a racially insensitive granny doesn't really register on the scale of "hard knocks" compared to 5 yrs in Hanoi Hilton)

Poor Michelle thinks $10,000 dance lesson bills make a tough life. The Obama's better strap everything on tight, the ride is just beginning.

Wow. Judging from these two posts (written by the same person?) there seems to be no shortage of bitterness pills. Too bad this forum sometimes gets long on insult, short on fact.

Don't attack lattes!! They are delicious. Please, let us nons have our coffees too. Good grief.

Obama will win because he is smart, trained, experienced, and kind. McCain is old, was smart, trained only for war, and is not kind. America does not need nor want by any poll 4 more years of Bush. McCain has a heavy chain to carry and it is called George's legacy.

McCain could throw off the chain, but then people would wonder what he has done for years and years. That would be emb. So he will run the mile with George firmly holding on to his sneakers.

Obama will be called President by this time next year. The people have had it with this war and spend GOP.

haughty - out of touch,

It amazes me that anyone out there with any sense or rationality would not get the fact that the Republican party is going to take another drubbing this fall. Why?

Because in 2006 the people, including a majority of Republicans, voted the Dems back into office, in a historic not one single Dem seat being lost in either house in an election. That's very telling.

Now the Dem dominated congress gets blamed for not getting things done. Why? Because Bush finally got the guts to use his power of veto, which he didn't use once before 2006 - another historic precedence. At every turn the irrelevant lame-duck Bush stops the very thing Dems were voted back into office for.

The neo-Con caused drubbing of Republicans will continue in November08 with Dems gaining further control of both houses and the presidency back in Dems hands. This is good! Why? Because Americans don't want a presidency that supports and drives run away corporate welfare that penalizes small business and the common hard working American.

Voting Democrat across the ticket may not only be the most sensible thing to do, but possibly the most patriotic as well.

well said I voted for Georgie and he handled business recklessly im SO FED UP w BUSH's so call free market policy that end up in a 5 dls gallon Gasoline the ENRON mess AL Queda ( Bunch on Thugs inflated to an EVIL STATE )tons of money and NO HEAD YET. insted he chose to spend Billion to Guard an OLie patch of land they real winner in this is the company getting the GVMT contracts ** HE BEATS NIXON AS THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER in my BOOK***

try euphoria and anticipation!

BRING IT ON !

. . . it is a mean troubled world.
Gas prices, mortgage crisis, terrorism, recession, China, food prices; that's only a start.

So you're going to turn things over to a first term Senator who has never accomplished ONE SINGLE ITTY BITTY thing except talk a good show?

whatever

ToothFairy for VP?

Time for a change. I watch the news and i wonder how can the president be so stupid. Incredibly arrogant. Incredibly. I used to think that he was getting a bad rap, I used to think that the liberals were out to get him.

But after watching and listening and listening and listening, I say BRING ON OBAMA. Give me someone who is trained as a lawyer, and who probably had to write papers about freedom and the constitution. Not a rich kid whose daddy got him his college entrance and his start up money for the companies that went bankrupt.

I used to think President Bush was getting a bad rap. I don't anymore. Not one bit.

Of course, we've been overlooking Obama's greatest (only?) qualification to lead the free world in a time of unparalleled crisis:

He surely had to write papers in school; papers about FREEDOM and the CONSTITUTION, no doubt.

OF COURSE he is qualified.

Who knows; maybe he even wrote a few papers about avoiding a economic depression and fighting IslamoFascism; that would be neat, too.

At the very least he should be prepared to tell the nation "What I Did Last Summer"

I sense that our nation is on the verge of great times.

Obama taught constitutional law courses. I think Bush might have had Cheney look it over once or twice in search of loopholes. Instead, Cheney found a new word - IslamoFascism - and told Bush to bomb somebody, but skipped over the part about national debt.