Dropping Oppo

In America, everyone should have a fair opportunity to realize their dreams, no matter where they came from. John Edwards is running for president to build One America where every American can work hard and build a better life, the same opportunity that Edwards had. At the same time, America's leadership role in the world has grown out of our moral strength as an example for the world, not just our economic and military strength.

In today's Two Americas, it is no coincidence that most families are working harder for stagnating wages when there are nearly 60 lobbyists for every member of Congress. America's image overseas has been tarnished by the war in Iraq, our refusal to join the world in working to halt global warming, and repeated violations of Americans' constitutional rights.

Building One America will take strong, bold steps, not incremental steps and half measures. Edwards has proposed detailed plans to put Washington back on the side of regular families.

John Edwards can make a difference!

Obama has to be a republican - his actions, negativity, and nasty slams against his rivals prove that. Only the republicans get that nasty during an election campaign. Whatever respect I had for him before he started campaigning, has certainly gone by the wayside. I wouldn't vote for him now if he were the only dem running - I wouldn't vote at all for the first time in my life. He is too much like a repub.

What does Obama's religion have to do with anything? Why shouldn't Oprah Winfrey want to see a black person elected president? Debate his ideas vs Hillary Clinton's not his race or religion!

Mary Ann Petitone - I suspect that Oprah is backing Obama because it is time to make a change in this country, his character, family values, he's intelligent, further, Oprah is where she is today because she is a genuine, authentic personality. She is wealthy because she made excellent choices when given the opportunity and continues to do so. I suspect that many people, unfortunately, see only the money and not their true contributions to this society - she has made a tremendous difference in this world and truly that is what it is all about, making a difference and leaving this world a better place.

Could it be the Conservative Media Machine knows Obama has a realistic chance of becoming President and have decided to gang up on him to ensure Hillary gets nominated? It's well known that Dubya and his gang would rather face Hillary than any other Democrat because they know no conservative will vote for her, many independents won't vote for her, and even some Democrats despise her. Try writing about some real issues like universal health care, better salaries for middle America, the failed war in Iraq, the trend toward failure in Afghanistan, greedy banks and credit card companies with abusive fees and interest rates... And if the strain won't kill, try being less biased.

How is it that these guys spend so much on professionals who are supposed to get it right, and the first time out of the box, they muff it?

C'mon Barack, get it together.

Hey blacktruth--I'm with ya!
I want Obama as much as you do. At this point, any advantage to ensure 8 more years of GOP administration will be gratefully accepted!

"Not that it's a shocker that Obama is drawing differences between he and his opponents. (UPDATE: The Obama campaign says this document came because a local union requested information on the differences between him and his opponents.)"
Wow--the ultimate journalistic flip flop! Here we see the use of both nominative and objective pronouns in parallel sentence constructions in the same paragraph!

Edwards and Obama fighting over the liberal vote, when general elections are most certainly won in the middle, by winning over independants. I know the media knows this.. thus their stumping for Obama is most transparent. The media is owned by corporations, and corporations favor republican leadership. The republicans would rather run against a liberal like Obama or Edwards than a moderate like Biden, Clinton or Richardson. Think about it for a minute folks.. before you jump on doomed bandwagons because Oprah told you so. The media is not looking out for your best interest. A moderate democrat has the BEST chance of beating the republicans. It's a tried and true formula for success.

The only time Oprah supports a presidential candidate is when the candidate is black? Also, why did not she have largte meetings to protest the war bfore?

Why do people make claims on blogs that are demonstrably untrue. One poster above claims Clinton is beaten by every Republican contender in "recent polls." The only poll that shows this as far as I can see is an interactive one run by Zogby. Just about all the others show her beating all the Republicans. As for the Zogby interactive poll this has a self selected sample so it's about as valuable as any of those unscientific polls that blogs run. Most strange.

Obama is not the one and never will be. He's not going to win the nomination and will not become president of the United States so he better forget that. Hillary will win the nomination regardless of all the comments about her and all the Hillary hater's will have to drown themselves in their beer.Giuliani will beat out the other republicans and it will be a close race between him and Hillary. The rivals will have to go back to what they were doing and get over it. Everyone wants to be president that can't and never will be. Oprah wants Obama in the white house so bad she can taste it and its because she would like to see a black president. When did she ever campaign for a white candidate? In her mind she thinks she has great power but she isn't any different than any other black women walking the streets. She only has more money and didn't earn it on her own, the white people made her rich. And she only likes to be around people with money.

The real purpose for the Democratic nomination is to nominate a candidate who has the best chance to beat the Republican nominee. Forget all this irrelevant garbage on this post. Hillary Clinton cannot beat a single republican in a head to match up with any of the candidates. She loses to everyone of them in recent polls. However, Obama beats all the republican candidates in a head to head match up. To say a black man can't be president is an outright lie!

Still smells like politics to me and of late - the past 20 years or so, the mud has turned to manure and they aren't even using fresh manure anymore. Meet the NEW BOSS - SAME AS THE OLD BOSS
Get over the "Elements of Style" and look at the crucial elements here.
Obama, Clinton and the rest are the same scum dripping sleaze as the Carpetbaggers of old..Lie after lie after lie after lie and all are pointing at the incompetence shown in the White House and saying "I am better"..Well I'm not so sure that the new manure is any better even if it is packaged better. We still have a war, they lied about stopping it and now they lie about WHEN they will stop it...They lie about healthcare, they lie about constitutional rights that were stolen from us and they won't even address them!

AAARRRGGGHHH!!

You wrote: "between he and his opponents"

Try: "between HIM and his opponents." The object of a preposition should be in the objective case.

I hear somewhere that Obama has hand in Edwards not getting funds from FEC too, just like how he did with Colbert in SC.

Kenya needs Barack Obama more than America.

Obama should honour the will of his late father by returning to his fatherland and become the President of Kenya.

I do not even know why Africans would do anything to deny serving their fatherland to play to the gallery of America.

Yes, Oprah Winfrey is bona fide Afrcan American since Kunta Kinte, but this Barack Obama guy is only an African American by default.
His father was Kenyan, born and bred and died in Kenya and by our African tradition, the first son must live and carry the heirloom of the Kenyan Father in Kenya and not claiming another fatherland, because he looks down on his own fatherland in Africa.
Obama should come back home.
All African immigrants should be sent back to Africa to join proud Africans like Orikinla to develop Africa.

Barack Husseiin Obama, come back home to Kenya.
We need you more than America.
Come back and become the chief of your father's village and marry more wives.

The only African Americans I recognize are the descendants of Alex Haley's Kunta Kinte.
Any African American whose greatgrand-parents did not pick cotton or work in the sugar cane plantations, should never be called an African American.

The Green Card is becoming FFA (free for all) these days that even Osama bin Laden can become an American tomorrow?

God save America from illegal immigrants.

Hell with it, I will vote for Obama you vote for who you want. I hope one of us it right.

Gorgei, the post I addressed to Kim should have been addressed to you instead. Don't trust these Repubs, Gorgei. They're up to no good.

Kim: your post describes what smells like the perennial Republican election tactic. They are setting up Obama for the general election, because they know -- and you also must realize -- that it is not yet the time for this nation to elect a black president. In 2006, Rick Santorum actually financed a Green Party member to run in the PA senate race, because Rick knew that his candidate would draw votes only from his Democratic oponent. In 2004, some Repub state organizations helped Ralph Nader get on the presidential ballot in those states. Again, the Repubs knew that Nader would draw more votes from Kerry than from Bush. Believe me, the party of the Southern Strategy would love to run against a black man next year. Look around the country, Kim. You'll find many more examples of the elctoral dirty tricks played by the Repubs.