Oh yeah if he can't get water electricity and health care to his own grandmother does anyone believe he will get it for them as president????

Perhaps Obama's grandmother lives in a hut in Africa because that's her home and where she wants to live. Believe it or not, most Africans actually love their home!

God, there are too many moronic comments!

Obama is a nice guy who wants a very lucrative job.

Stop acting like every comment you make has to be political and tear down someone to help your favorite candidate.

I wouldn't vote for him to be president, but I wouldn't treat every election as some sleezy gotta get my guy elected at all costs event either.

Man up, yo! Start acting like adults.

That the hell does "change" mean??
That's all Obama talks about without giving speciofics other that giving freebie's to all who ask.

He's on the "Most corrupt politician" list though!!

Fred Thompson in 08!!!

Yes, Fred Thompson '08! A comatose President will be unable to do anything stupid! Or anything at all! even better!

(This started as a parody, but now that I think about it...)

RIP Benazir.

Some of you need to travel beyond the American borders and accept that the world has much too offer. Never has America been more arrogant, pretentious, and ignorant of the world than in this moment. We have a president who has undermined democracy in his own country and a vice-president whose vast experience of sending others to war while safeguarding his own life, has led to a needless and fruitless conflict.

The irony of Decent Person's post points to the absolute inanity of much of the right in this country who only associate fanaticism with the Muslim community, forgetting that Christianity is susceptible to identical perversions. We are a laic state and thank god for our supposed separation of church and state. I would recommend leaving your hovel in Arkansas and venturing to see a world with civilizations thousands of years older than our own. Perhaps your presumption of superiority would be quelled and your heart could be opened to the knowledge that people can live fruitfully and happily without the wanton materialism and status symbols that define our nation's character. We were once a nation of boldness and thought, but sadly we are now characterized by an institutionalized idiocy and dumbed down electorate who believe that a big stick is more powerful than an agile mind. We live in a country where we construct more prisons than schools, where education has become an afterthought and guns a more common property than books. Some of the responses on this article represent the intellectual maturity and breadth of a two year old primate and unfortunately, that thoughtlessness has prevailed in much of America.

The "real world" extends far beyond our borders and to understand it, one must be a part of it. Unfortunately, the religious right and its conservative cohorts believe the only relevant history to be that of a book written 2000 years ago. God help these neophytes and myopic fools find the faith to be humbled and informed. Have we not learned from Vietnam and Korea, Iraq and now again in Afghanistan that to underestimate our foe, to find him inferior because he may be different, has lead to the myriad death and destruction of so many who did nothing to deserve such malevolence and violence. We have become what we once abhorred, the tyrant and the conquerer. Obama, I hope can become the usurper and uniter. We need bold leadership. The fifteen minutes of the religious right is up!

I want to live in a hut in Africa.
A lot less obtrusive ignorance floating around so freely out there, a little more peace and quiet.
Ill probably stay here though, and Ill probably vote for Obama too

And Amen to Rob, too

Wow, Rob. Outstanding post amongst a pile of DrudgeBots. Sadly, using words just confuses them. They prefer irrational emotion pandering. The more visceral the better.

muslim? out of touch? only rudy can lead? is blogging really as tactical and divisive as party politics? what a waste we have become. whoever wins i hope they are open for compromise and common good. teamwork is sadly something america get's worse at everyday.

mike--wake up and smell the coffee

Obama is an empty suit. His lack of originality, experience and ideas for America will continue to present themselves as Americans look closer. However, I can see where he would be a tolerable alternative to sHillary, for Liberal voters.

Noone else but Obama could get away with pretending that his paternal grandfather's second or third or fourth wife is his "granny" when, of course, she isn't.

Can we please have a reporter lookup this famed "grandmother living in a tiny hut in Africa"? Is Senator Obama close to her? Does she ever visit him in the US? Does he visit her in Africa?

Obama is a Christian convert from Islam. He was raised a Muslim when he was in Indonesia. His middle name Hussein is named after a Muslim warrior. Radicals may feel that his conversion sets a bad example for other Muslims. On the other hand, he could help lead to a mass conversion of Muslims around the world.

Rick, it's his grandfather's fourth wife. On Obama's father's side. You know, the African father that abandoned the family when Obama was an infant before he was sent off to be raised to adulthood with his white grandparents in Hawaii.

Obama has likely never seen her or met her or even really knows if she lives in a tiny hut or not.

Though it makes a good speechifying anecdote for the Obama people who slurp up the sugary vacant platitudes he spouts off with.

After much reading and thought, I am supporting Duncan Hunter.

"why waste the democratic spot on him?" I'll tell you why Mike: Because Obama beats every Republican running!

Did you even imagine, Mike, that there are more decent people, from every party, that are so sick and tired of reading, hearing and seeing pure juvenile vitriol like you just spewed, from all sides, that once again, as in Illinois, Obama will end up with 10-20 pts more of the vote than polled right before the election?

I hope everyone sickened by such vacuous ignorance just draws that line, hits that button, fills in that bubble on those ballots, or raises their hand in the caucuses and votes for Obama. When it's just you and your vote, the real issue won't disappear or get buried beneath the bull. You want someone who still believes in hard work, logic, [Christian, the generous type not the go-to-hell-type] faith and compassion, and doesn't owe his/her soul to military contractors, foreign PACs or 527s. That leaves only Barack Obama from Illinois.

Unless you've a share in those contractors or oil corporations, and your worthless dollars have been converted and invested offshore, don't defend them or their bought-paid-for candidates - they're destroying the American way of life. There's only one of those ethical candidates on either ballot this year, Mike, and it's Obama. No lobbyists, no PACs foreign or domestic, no 527s be they unions, labor, business, religious, pro-life, left or right. And he's already got almost half a million individual donors, most small donors - more than any candidate in history - and it's only the primaries!

Want your own President of the UNITED States? It's Obama. Want one paid-for to sell you down the river, go elsewhere. But you know what, haters, when Obama wins, there won't be any rancor or vengeance from us, we'll just go forward and fix this pathetic mess Bush and Cheney have wrought. We love this country.

Rob, I think you must be very young or ill-informed. Americans do NOT feel superior...colleges deep-sixed THAT mentality in the 80's. I do not know ANY thinking person who actually believes this country is "defined" by its drive to obtain material goods...I just don't. Who are you hanging around with? Idiots think that...dopes think that, but educated Americans don't, and they are the leaders, entrepreneurs, movers and shapers of policy, and the reason that immigrants still flock here in DROVES. Follow the traffic, bud.

The reason we have a dumbed down electorate is that the liberals got a hold of the schools. Just as they spent 5 trillion fixing poverty with The Great Society. Name me ONE LIBERAL POLICY since 1960 that has WORKED. OK I'm sure there's one...must be one. Let's see, we still have poverty, now we have bad schools full of athiest multicultural BS, where kids can't play dodge ball or compete with each other because it might hurt their self-esteem (liberal idea). We have so much political correctness we can no longer fight a war, even when our safety is on the line. All liberal policies. I can't think of a single conservative thing that has done the damage you are complaining about.Examine your OWN policies before you criticize your opponents, using Christian bashing as your cloak. NO ONE (not even Repubs)wants fundamentalists running the country. And we don't want empty headed liberals either. Who on earth do you really know of any consequence in your life who lives with a kitchen full of guns? You must run with some pretty strange folks. Im a conservative and I don't KNOW anyone with one...only folks who believe we have a right to own them.

This is the greatest country on earth. Flawed, yes. But let's argue the issues here, not bash America. Obama has yet to offer one idea that's not recycled leftist do-goodism. The rest is all cliches, no specifics. Please share with us what solutions you think he, or any of them, might bring to bear that would contain the threat of islamofascism, end illegal immigration, and actually contain escalating health costs.

So far not ONE candidate has...neither Dem nor Rep. THAT'S our big problem. I respectfully disagree that Obama has anything whatsover other than charisma, and elequence to offer. It's a shame, because he's really likable. But there's no there there.