Barack Obama Explains the Meaning of Life

Dear "Humane" Your statement shows YOU to be that which you abhor. Try compassion, try to accept that
others who have a different opinion are just as valid as
you feel yourself to be. See beyond Obama into your
own heart. You do not need him. You are complete.

Sounds to me like the guy who asked the question
was a plant and Obama's answer was scripted.
All you Obama folks need to get a life and realize YOU are just as worthy as he is - he is not more than
you. Honor yourselves. GET A LIFE - you are feeding off him.

I will not have as a friend or associate any of the hateful, small-minded people who comprise Obama's detractors.

"Oh Lovely, now I have a politician explaining the meaning of Life! Sigh!"
Daniel - he was ASKED the question.
"On the point of us co-operating with other countries, we gave blood for those countries!!"
Spock - alright! that's the kind of attitude we need in this emerging global community.
Seriously, get over it. overall, we've taken far more blood that we have given. that includes many many innocent lives.

I think as always, Obama answered the question with poise and confidence. Whether or not he is as genuine as he seems is still yet to be seen. And the answer to his question is yes. Yes he is living in a Country/World that has a huge gap between rich and poor. Yes, they are living in a Country/World Divided by race. And Yes to everything else. He says that life should be about leaving behind a better world. Well that cant happen through a corrupt society and political system. It has to start with every individual.

Oh Lovely, now I have a politician explaining the meaning of Life! Sigh!

I agree with everything that Obama said except for the one part at the end about Christianity. It's a shame that in today's world that he still has to bring religion into play to be elected. The large contingent of "conservative christians" is the reason that Bush won an election, and to pander to them simply to be elected should be unnecessary. He is clearly the best candidate, and is poised to accomplish great things if given the chance to run the United States. With that said, I at least believe that some progress is being made to begin to dispose of the ignorance possessed by so many of the inhabitants (and unfortunately, swing-state voters), and hopefully this will snowball into a better nation and a better world over the horizon.

Obama would be a good president if he weren't the typical Democrat wanting to take all of our income and give it back piece by piece in government programs.

Also, his plan for national health care is horrific. I can't believe people buy into this concept. The Federal government ruined retirement with social security, education with no child left behind, and now you want them in charge of your HEALTH!!??

People need to learn from the mistakes of the past!

We so badly need someone with this caring and expansive view in the White House. Especially now. In addition to an IQ 'tsunami' in January, 2009; this makes it seem we'll get a compassion 'tsunami' as well. Bless all who read this.

To those who say "Michelle wasn't proud of America"
What is there, in a Bush run America, to be proud of? Illegal war? Illegal detention? Illegal spying? Record profits for big oil? Which is it?
I cannot be proud of our country until we elect the right man for the job and undo what Bush has done to this great land of ours.
To those who say "He isn't experienced?"
I say it is YOU people, those of you voting for "experienced" republicans that have thoroughly ruined this country, indebted your grand children's grand children with Reaganomics and failed imperialist foreign policies, allowing the military industrial complex to dictate our economy, no health care, dilapidated schools and infrastructure, unaffordable college. If this is "experience" I want nothing to do with it. Any fool can start a fight but it is a man of wisdom and experience that knows when not to fight.
I'm sorry that "experience" argument holds NO water and is a slimy republican talking point to avoid answering the hard questions. And it's typical of people to dumb to think for themselves.
We're AMERICANS first and foremost, I suggest you find out what that really means before you vote, lest you vote for more of the same.

I'm an American, born and raised. Its not the country that is hated. Its the ideals of the common American that is frowned down upon. The American people are waking up from a dream. Waking up to realize that they are ignorant and small minded. Instead of people educating their selves, they rely on gossip and rumor.

To all my fellow Americans: Get smart, or there isn't going to be much left of our country to fight for.

Its sad that we let emotions run our lives. Not proud for 30+ years? oh please! people who take that comment literally are the same ones that take scripture word by word.

As for the candidate I am glad to hear the man instead of the canned speech. After a while we need to see the real person. He is genuine but I see him rely on his prompter more. Probably tired of the year already...

In Barack I see a person that is smart, inexperienced but sincere and honorable. We have experience everywhere in Washington and they have proven (without a doubt!) that using a failed metric as 'time' for merit does not work.

We need honest and honorable. Not seasoned and dishonorable...

Many refer to the ties Obama has.In fact, we as americans have ties...for we are all a part of the whole and all misdeeds reflect on us all . That said, we can't always be vetting those we deal with to accomplish a good deed.Did Obama involve himeself in some criminal activity? If so, why was he not prosecuted? It seems to me, this wasn't the case, and I for one, have known many people, had many dealings, and yet I was not involved with anyones personal misdeeds. Not held accountable for the acts of others. If my banker kills his wife, it is not my fault, really.Should it then be questioned if my home loan was sanctioned by a killer?

I want to take issue with the person who said that what Barack said 'doesn't matter if north korea is throwing nukes at us."  That is one of many places where such crass words leveled against him are wrong, for a very simple reason.

What matters in any crisis, whether it's the next Katrina or all-out war or shortage or famine or drought, is how we work together or fail to.  How we treat each other, or else abuse each other instead.  How we band together or insist we're only for ourselves (our family, church, class, gender, race, etc).  If we don't have any reason to band together, then when crisis comes, no amount of government intervention will do us any good.  Either we'll be helping one-another to make it through together, or looting each other's houses.

I reject the latter view, utterly.  And I am not alone.  And Barack Obama is a big part of why I feel brave enough to say so these days. We stand or fall on how we treat our fellow human beings, American and otherwise.  So do we stand together, or fall apart?  That's the choice Barack embodies for me, and I've made mine.

Anyone who thinks it's still 'us against them' will eventually end up 'me against all'.  I choose 'we'.  We are the ones we've been waiting for.  Barack Obama has just shown a critical mass of us that we're allowed ... that we have the responsibility...  to say so, believe in it, and do it.

I see that some here pretend to be upset that Obama noted the hatred many people now have for America. Is that because they are so willfully ignorant that they haven't noticed it themselves? Or are they so indoctrinated by the Neocon swindle system that they can't stand the truth?
Well, there is all too much hatred fror us in the world; it is not hatred of our "goodness," nor is it hatred for our "freedom." It is hatred of our government's hypocrisy, for its refusal to live by our nation's stated ideals. There is little hatred annywhere else for our values or for our principles of justice. In fact, the greatest haters of those ideals of our country's are the very Neocons now misleading us, and those dupes here spouting their contempt for those who would restore adherence to those ideals.
The fact is that our Bush-Cheney government is the worst in our history, and it has attacked constantly the Constitution that forms the basis for our form of government, and the ideals of justice that underlie that Constitution. And the big haters here are undisguised; whatever they may call themselves, they do not represent the best of America.
And they won't prevail this time!

Nice answer? Huh? It did devolve into a campaign speech and rather stock answer.

He's a politician not a messiah, and I will not be voting for him based on his lack of experience and accomplishment.

Wow...alot of bitterness and hatred.What kind of world these people live in?Enjoy your life folks.Life is too short to live in a hateful mood.Get outside and enjoy it for once..

Just a thought that I keep on my desktop: "Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness– and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they’re selling– their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them. Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."

In life, love is all that matter. Obama has it in an unquantifiable measure, please let him have it all. For no man can lead his fellow man without first loving him.The Republicans may have love but not in reasonable quantity.Above all Obama has shown that the ability of a man to express himself effectively is the shortest cut to excellence.

What a sweet story! Obama will be a great president! Much better than senile angry McCain.