Ya think? Obama lacking in specifics? Just a little!

Look at his website...his positions are the most specific of any candidate.

When your giving a stump speech to 20,000 people thats not a realistic or wise time to make a policy speach.

Whats funny is that Obama has been one of the most specific on policy when his campaign started. For those of us who dont have amnesia that was the biggest criticism about him earlier- just that he wasnt as popular then so people werent paying atention.

Good job, Sen McCain. That tactic seems to be working well for Sen Clinton, too.

McCain has absolutely no chance against Obama. This is like comparing a Porsche with a Ford Tempo. Did anyone see McCain speak last night? Those surrounding him at the podium looked like a convention of morticians. With a few exceptions, all were old white men. That image alone - when contrasted with the energy and optimism of the Obama campaign - turn most off to the ways of the past. Obama will CRUSH McCain in the general election. Moreover, conservative Republicans are well aware of this fact.

I agree with Dano. Judging by McCain's speaking skills that night, he has no business giving speech advice to Obama.

Whats wrong with being liberal? I checked the definition in dictionary.com and this is what i got -

Liberal: favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.

Whats wrong with that?

The term, liberal is used in God's Holy Bible 4 times.

3 times in the Old Testament and once in the New Testament.

There is NOTHING wrong with the term.

Finally, starting to question the magical mystery tour. A shame the press didn't bother to do it earlier. Tweety was quoted on MSNBC as saying he wanted to cry upon hearing the soaring rhetoric of Obama (reading from a teleprompter). Oh well, if he doesn't win he can get a job as a preacher. Amen brother.

Good question Alex! As long as you let your opponent define your position and use it against you, you are not going to win. Democrat should try to define themselves, without any fear what republican will say. Unfortunately that is what was happening for a long time!

Sooner or later Obama is going to have to accept debates. Understandable why he doesn't, because he looks bad in them, stammers, stutters, and has no answer. Why does he not have a plan for universal health care? Why did he consistently vote in favor of every single war vote? The only time he came out against the war was from the comfortable position of being outside the senate. Where is the press, do they all have their heads in the air breathing the rarified gas of rhetoric?

Nice timing to coincide with Obama giving an economic speech in Wisconsin laying out specifics.

The "no specifics" line is just the same old political crap that if you repeat something enough it becomes true.

I suggest McCain attend the Obama speech that's today. Obama will be discussing the nation's economic problems and solutions to fix them.

Um Pedro, are you serious? There have been 18 and there are going to be 2 more in the next two weeks.

And really they have repeatedly gone into their philosophical differences on how to get to universal health care (mandate v. lowering costs) that if you don't know how each candidate stands, you're just not paying attention.

There has been one debate between Clinton and Obama. Obama is rightly fearful of debates. Obama's health care plan is not universal, except for children it is optional, and he explains that once prices are lowered everyone will buy in. I think we need debates to see more of this type of thinking. Once the prices are lowered more people will buy in. Rolling eyes icon.

Let Sen McCain know that Sen Obama is no Mitt Romney who started his run without taking a position on any issue.

For McCain to say Obama is all rhetoric without specifics is a huge statement on just how CLUELESS McCain is. For those of you who are not aware of Obama's positions, please check out the issues page on barackobama.com. Also check out the "issues" section under Barack TV and there is a very, very good speech on foreign policy. Barack is ready to engage the world in real diplomacy again!

For those who say "Barama doesn't really have a universal health care plan", they should be real, real careful backing Hillary's...it's MANDATORY, not optional, by PAYROLL DEDUCTION. Yeah, people...Hillary's plan AIN'T FREE!

It's time for the American people to get informed! Just because Obama is the most inspiring, consensus-building person in this race (and his primary results prove it)...does NOT mean he is clueless. There are REAL ideas underneath his inspiring speeches...Read up!

John "No Can't Do" McCain !!! Just what the doctor ordered.
Can you give an inspiring speech Senator McCain - " No, can't do" !!
Can you bring people together Senator McCain - "No, can't do - I can't even bring the conservatives in my party together with me" !!
Can you come up with any specifics on the economy Senator McCain - "No, can't do"

...the list goes on..

A vote for McCain is a vote for the continuation of the failed policies of George W. Bush.

And THAT, my friends, is the GUARANTEED LOSING FORMULA in 2008.

The Dems will beat McCain like a DRUM.

The thought of McCain or any Republican winning another four years is disturbing, indeed. McCain has been specific in one detail and that is to continue this war a hundred years, a war which Bush and Cheney used to line their pockets.

Forget about healthcare, college educations, repairing of infrastructure and many more things that the people of America need. It seems some people are happy to line the pockets of a few very wealthy men.

I agree with McCain here. Obama's super bowl ad promising to "SAVE THE PLANET" and "CHANGE THE WORLD" demonstrates that he has an absurdly unrealistic assessment of his own capabilities and limitations and the role of our government. In that regard, he is a lot like George Bush--just on the complete opposite end of the political spectrum. I have had enough of a president who is completely divorced from reality. Obama mocks "seasoning" on the campaign trail, but clearly he could use a little of it. I've voted Dem. in every presidential election since Ronald Reagan. If Obama is the nominee, that will change.

Perhaps John McCain should acknowledge that the same journal that named Obama the 'most liberal' last year wouldn't judge McCain's record because he hadn't shown up to vote enough in 2007 for them to include him.

And really, maybe McCain is upset that Obama was elected to the senate 4 years ago and is running an excellent presidential campaign. Four years after McCain was elected to the senate he was being rebuked for his part in Keating 5.

At least Obama and Clinton went back to do their jobs when Harry Reid needed them for the stimulus bill, where was McCain?

If I cannot for Clinton, I vote for McCain.....at least they have experience and are not ultra liberal and have at least visited the countries we are conserned about. Where has Obama gone and for what purpose...what makes him think he can give a pretty speech to foreign leaders and have them swoon.

sound and proven ideas, you mean like the ones that have lead us to an endless war, bottomless debt and an inadequately educated populace that far to many have to choose between seeing a doctor and paying the rent. You mean those ideas. John, get someone to read his positions off his site and write a synopsis for you. Don't worry they can dumb down th economic bits so you can understand them.

Louis:

Maybe someone can read Obama's "positions off his site and write a synopsis" for Barack so he can start to campaign on them instead of the insipid hope and change drivel. Oh wait, I think someone did that today---I heard that he's rolling out some substance. Strange, Obama's "substance" looks remarkably like a cobbled together version of Edwards and Clinton proposals--just missing a few key elements like a health care mandate, which even the Heritage Foundation (hardly a bastion of big government initiatives) endorses over denying the poor access to care. Obama says: " the reason people don't have health insurance is not because they don't want it but because they can't afford it." Duh Barack! That is precisely the problem that your proposal is supposed to solve and doesn't! Clinton's does, Edwards' did. Hell, you could say the same thing about social security---"the reason people don't fund their social security account is not because they don't want to but because they can't afford it..." Is retirement income any more or less important than access to health care? Has Obama thought through any of this stuff? The answers are no and no.

But boy has he got some bit ideas. The man ran a super bowl commercial that promised "we can save the planet",,,,"we can change the world." I don't know how much something like that costs, but it can't be cheap! Hold on to your wallets--he has already said that he will raise income taxes, lift the FICA limit and raise capital gains taxes. I'm sure this will provide just the boost that we need to get us out of this recession.

He's great with a teleprompter though. Kind of like Reagan that way...

Rematch of Clinton and Dole. Old Bob was a war hero too. His ideas were just as old.

Wait till the Republican machine gets hold of Obama. You haven't seen nothing yet.

Swift boaters are just getting ready. If democrats think they are going to win the White House with Obama, they are delusional.

He did not get vetted in any of his election especially, to US Senate. Would have if, Jack Ryan didn't self-destruct and Alan (the nut) Keys became Obama's opponent.

His far left liberal politics will turn off many independents and they will vote for McCain making up for his loss right-wing conservative vote.

Then again, the power hungry right-wingers are not going to vote for anyone else, they want to keep the WH.

Fun is just beginning. Like Lou Dobbs says, it is great to be independent these days.

McCain needs to FORGET about his opponents and tell US, what he plans to do about Immigration besides some damn fence. What about the economy? Here he is worrying about other people. What a joke.

My vote next month will go to Obama or Huck, I encourage others to do the same. McCain clearly doesn't get it. We need to remind him, he hasn't won anything yet! He may essentially have the nomination, but he still NEEDS us.