Sorry for my grammer errors in the previous post, in my haste did not preview.  Sorry.

This was not a pivotal speed in my opinion and feel I was proven correct following the aftermath of the Wright controversy.  I don’t believe Obama knew how to portray his association to the Wright church except to engender the struggle of Wright’s work.  In my mind he may have just liked the church but was wary of just saying so, clearly the Pastor Wright response to sound bites held no hesitation, a no-hold-barred honest answer.  Despite his theories, think Wright has seen more trouble than any of us.  Now Obama has past the storm.  Does anyone consider getting people off these drugs in troubled areas but a supervised withdrawal program?  One thing is clear, we’ve listened too much to the wealth influences guiding our country, namely, on the trickle down economics idea.  We gave them too much freedom in the free-market and what a mess parsing these ill founded mortgages have caused.  Too much corporate rule in government.

Sir, I sure hope that you know what “Hetzer” means in German.
1. Being able to think of two things at the same time does not rule out megalomania.
2. Being able to compare and contrast does not rule out megalomania.
1 and 2 are well known in psychology and history.
3. The fact that there may be other megalomaniacs on the campaign trail does not rule out that Obama can be a fly-weight megalomaniac which is further supported by his past comments on Pakistan and Iran (see Chicago Tribune 2005; talk at IUPAC 2006. I can give more specifics if you need them but why don’t you first make some efforts to discover what Obama has said publicly. If I was able to find these statements you should also be able).
4. Megalomania is unusual for a politician? Try Genghis Khan, Tsar John the Dread, Napoleon, King George of England, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Mussolini, Hitler for a few. True, it is exceedingly unusual among US politicians, although I think that Nixon came close (and so did Izzy F. Stone).
I am not a Republican and I have never stolen anything from a lifeboat. Try again if you can but then without any of the filthy “Hetze” of your last paragraph.

Everything they do awake or asleep involves some kind of force or fraud.  They have done more damage to this country than the Germans, Japanese and Soviets combined.

• On black-oriented radio shows…. popular host Michael Baisden asked listeners if they supported Obama because of his race. Most callers said their support was conditioned on his positions on the issues, which shouldn’t be surprising; African-American voters have never hesitated to reject black candidates—Republicans, for example—whose views they do not share.

I’m very appreciative of the fact that Eugene noted this…particularly that this SHOULDN’T BE SURPRISING! It isn’t, and as black folks, we take this for granted. Specifically, I can think of several black candidates and public officials that I would cheerfully take a machete to, if I thought I could get away with it. (I couldn’t, and I’m not willing to go to jail). Still, black folks will by and large blow off a black candidate in a heatbeat, if we know he’s a snake. An excellent example is the despicable Clarence Thomas. If Americans could take part in the selection of SC Justices, his ass would have been run out of town.

And, by and large, the opposite is true of white people. More of them (by far) will dismiss a black candidate out-of-hand, REGARDLESS of his or her issues or stand on whatever. I’ve watched it happen over and over again, which is exactly what DOES make this a defining moment, even if he doesn’t get the nomination. It means that the younger generation is smarter than I’ve been giving them credit for, and I’m really glad. It’s such a sad thing when people select against their OWN best interests, because of ingrained bigotry, that they probably don’t even know they have.

What better example of this was even a single solitary vote (from ANY color person) for Dick Bush? Talk about shooting oneself in the foot…those folks just proceeded to blow their entire brains out.

Meantime, I’m kind of curious about whether or not Barak has actually ever visited Kenya –at least as an adult-. Maybe those who are worried about his ancestors wielding machetes, could check it out. I know that he was born in Hawaii and that he did spend a few years of his EARLY childhood in Indonesia, before they moved back to the mainland/states. But, his parents divorced when he was young, (I can’t remember what age now, but teen or pre-teen) and his dad returned to Kenya, and he had little or no contact with him before he died. I believe his stepfather basically filled those shoes.

So, that might be something interesting to check on. I’ve been to Kenya. It’s a beautiful nation state, so it makes me sad to know of all the political violence there now. I didn’t see anybody wielding any machetes though. I had to come back home to California to whip out my OWN set, in order to see any really handcrafted knives of such beauty and efficiency.

It’s curious about how we got to figure out so quick that he’s a megalomaniac. Geeze. One minute you guys are claiming that he’s a nobody sprung from utter obscurity, just a year or so ago, and now we’ve got him cut, dried, and diagnosed. Hot damn!! I couldn’t come close to that, and I’ve even read two of his books, and sat in on a couple of his lectures at DePaul, when he was a professor there, in civil rights and international law.

So, you guys are GOOD! He should hire you when he gets to be President. He’s gonna make Oprah the official ‘meeter and greeter’ and you all can be like the head shrinks, and the White House Presidential archeologists or cultural anthropologists.

Oh yeah, not to be outdone by hetzer, one of MY great uncles was the first Indian to be executed in the state of Michigan. He scalped a white dude. He tried to escape back to Canada, but they caught him.

Now, THAT’S what I call critical thinking....

Very smart. I think you should be the chief of staff.

Yep. That is really Ann Coulter style. Matter of fact, you may have even outdone her! (and that’s saying something).

Still, somewhere, over that rainbow, even the likes of the most ignorant may be saved, DESPITE themselves. There’s a political term for that, but I can’t think of it right now.

The problem with Obama is that he can think of two things at the same time.  He can compare and contrast. Try most of the others if you are collecting megalomaniacs.  He does pick lousy stupid slogans however.

Republicans don’t hesitate to steal from lifeboats if it can give them a few more seconds on the Titanic.

Every once in a while presidential candidates show us who they really are. Such a moment happened after Senator Obama won the Iowa caucuses when he stated “I am going to change our country, I am going to change the world”. Sure baby, try Pakistan first, then China , then India, then Russia, etc. and see how deep you get us into doodoo like JFK who tried to change Cuba by proxy and Vietnam directly after his Cuban adventure had dismally failed. Or will you try to change them all at the same time? For a moment Obama was stark naked there. Psychiatrists know the affliction. It is called megalomania. Megalomania is dangerous. It is a pity that Izzy F. Stone is no longer with us to demolish the humongous pretenses of this dangerous Senator who must not become our next president.

Like Ann Coulter and George Bush, they prefer cluster bombs.

Two of my great uncles killed people with money.

If Obama gets the nomination as scripted, I hope we have Kucinich as Vice-President. That way the Republicans will hesitate to kill him.

“BTW, citing the “American Prospect” as your source for such buffonery further confirms your idiocy.”

Really?  Why is that?  And just what is your source?  Your swinish ignorance is appalling.

I love the smell of racism and protection rackets in the morning.  Caesar was stabbed how many times?  I think Obama is an honest crook compared to the others.  But when the Republican filth gets done with their lies, he will look like corn beef hash.

God, I hate them so.

I guess this means that Barack won’t be getting the Nazi vote. 

Sorry.  I got my post just below in the wrong place.

“By the end of the special hearings, not only did opinion polls show that a majority of black Americans as well as whites believed Thomas over Hill, but blacks also sided with whites in favor of Thomas’s confirmation.”

-- The American Prospect, Jan. 1, 1992

“By the end of the special hearings, not only did opinion polls show that a majority of black Americans as well as whites believed Thomas over Hill, but blacks also sided with whites in favor of Thomas’s confirmation.”

-- The American Prospect, January 1, 1992

A black and a muslim terrorist.  Who could ask for anything more?  OUR INSTITUTIONS ARE TOTALLY COMPROMISED BY MONEYED FILTH.

It is refreshing that people don’t see him as different as he himself doesn’t appear to feel different, that regarding race.  His approach to campaigning is different in that the long time custom of issue oriented campaigns he does not follow per-say, follows a chapter from the nice guy Bush campaign.  Good writer as Bush was a good speaker, needs to stay on the issues as the Bush method has spread distrust.  On the healthcare issue I think it can’t be done without finding the excesses of expense, if that could be done with Republicans reaping the rewards of reduced health plan costs many already have, they would be on board.  If the unknown extra expense, compared to other countries, be research, possibly that should be funded by government separately.

Yes, times are changing.  A women and a black both very close potential candidates for the POTUS----that does say something!  As the USA becomes more of a class society due to perverse republicanism (aggressive capitalism or social Darwinism---take your pick) the large under-class will rise and select a populist candidate which appears more and more to be Obama.  The question is, can Obama effect meaningful change.  If elected he will have to face powerful capitalistic forces that will bear their teeth to maintain their position in the forefront of aggressive capitalism.  Sometimes when an idealist enter the Oval Office reality has a way of changing that person’s direction----we’ve seen it before!

You’re so very wrong. Thomas has never had much black suppoprt and he still doesn’t. Not to mention that Thomas’ chief accuser was Prof. Anita Hill, a black woman. If anything it is white America which blindly alligns itself with people who look like them. The greatest example is Bush himself. The guy is a blueblood from Connecticutt who was moved to Texas and now plays the role of cowboy.He is also a man with many intellectual inadequacies and yet many whites perceive it as an admirable quality and say that they would like to have a beer with him.

Poor John Edwards and Poor John Edwards supporters. He has been neglected, marginalized and overlooked by most of the media and now I guess the spin is that his message is “dated”. And now the media drums are beating for the candidacy of Barak Obama. People everywhere are patting themselves and the country on the back because Iowa shows that we ain’t racists anymore. (We won’t be racist anymore when we don’t notice the color of a candidates skin.) I am happy to see that we have gotten to a place in our history where an African American can have a serious chance to be President of the United States. But just like the women who say they want desperately to have a woman candidate just not “this” woman candidate I would like to see a person of African American heritage be able to be president. Just not this one. I like fighters and he’s a conciliator. But that’s okay cause if he wins the nomination and then the election he’ll fit right in with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid in their never ending attempts to try and work with Republicans. And will make just about the same amount of progress.

I think that in a strange way the worsening economy may be hurting Hillary Clinton.  It reminds the Democratic base of things they did not like about the Clinton administration:  increasing economic inequality and NAFTA, for example.

Eugene Robinson says that “John Edwards’ class-conscious rhetoric seemed dated.” That statement is ridiculous, although I realize the corporate media does not like Edwards’ message.  Economic inequality in these country is now huge and getting worse.

As for black support for black officials, right-wing Clarence Thomas did have the support of most blacks.