Wow - Have these guys ever even listened to what the other candidates have to say? They are clearly not very familiar with Obama and quick to regurgitate McCain rhetoric.

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hello chyssarich, i am the young man with the nervous tic featured in the video and you are misinformed.
for one, i am one of John McCain's most outspoken critics have never expressed any support for his campaign. This is because I am fiercely anti-war. It is also because of my anti-war nature that I am very much against a Barack Obama presidency.

Clearly, I am far more familiar with Obama then you are and can see that his "Change" message not only is a complete sham (legislative records support that he is not only dangerously moderate, but also a classic do-nothing), but also makes reference to an eventual and long desired invasion of Iran. In fact, Obama has publicly stated that "No president should ever hesitate to use force-unilaterally if necessary-to protect ourselves and our vital interests when we are attacked or imminently threatened."
If I hadn't known that was Obama already, I would have assumed that was from our current president; the imperialist tyrant George W. Bush.

"But Obama didn't vote on an Iranian invasion!"
You're right, in fact, Obama didn't vote AT ALL when Joe Lieberman proposed the Kyl-Lieberman Iran Amendment (which would deem the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization thus allowing us to order a full-scale invasion).
If your retort pertains to "Obama was busy campaigning", then I criticize your candidate for acting only in self-interest and would ask you personally to stop deifying this narcissistic doppelganger of failure John Kerry.

"Obama is logical when it comes to his opposition of Iraq. He isn't like those naive radicals who want immediate withdrawal, he actually wants to help rebuild Iraq before we wage peace."
We couldn't even maintain efficiency in New Orleans, how do we expect to rebuild an entire foreign nation like Iraq? Obama is not going to get our troops out of Iraq, he is just going to pull a James Buchanan and wait for the next president to take care of the dirty work.

"What you are saying about Obama is farfetched and unrealistic!"
Thank you prodigy of corporate-controlled media, may your "words of reason" allow us to continue in economic collapse and political corruption.

I hold Barack Obama as the greatest linguist in this election, but as a candidate I find him appalling at best. If the Democrats were really looking for a drastic alternative to the neoconservative scourge that has plagued the Republican Party, they should have got the "liberal" (I use quotations to recall modern liberalism's betrayal of its Aristotlean roots) media behind a true Democrat like Mike Gravel (whose polticial achievements include single-handedly initiating the abolition of the military draft) or Dennis Kucinich.

Hope you can ge back to me, chryssarich.

With pleasure.

To start, I'm curious to know whom you're quoting throughout your post.

I'll continue by pointing out that the fact you call yourself "fiercely anti-war" warns any reader you're likely to have more extreme views. Be aware that name-calling greatly reduces the value of your arguments.

The reason I say you're not familiar with Obama is because of the "he only tells people what they want to hear" remark. In fact, part of Obama's stump speech outlines how he does just the opposite: tells people what they NEED to hear, even if it's not what they want to hear. He follows with specific examples of how he's done so. A quick search on Youtube should produce quite a few links to this regard.

I am extremely familiar with Obama, his views and his past, both politically and socially. I began exploring the candidates more than a year ago and came to an educated decision in my choice to support him.

I am not blind to his faults. No candidate is perfect, and no one is expecting perfection. The best each of us can hope for is that one or more candidates meets our criteria in a number of areas, and for me, that candidate is Obama. I find I agree with him on a vast majority of issues.

I, like many Democrats, don't consider moderate views "dangerous," and I don't disagree that our country should use force if necessary. The Iraq war is a botched job that doesn't even belong in the same category as possible future action against Iran.

I'll point out that I have a MA in advertising and have worked in communications-related fields for a decade. Like many Obama supporters, I am well-educated and therefore less likely than your "average Joe" to be swayed by the media.

I find it sad that at such a young age you've already developed an intense distrust of politicians and a deep pessimism regarding our government.

I fully believe Obama will deliver on his promises. If he's elected president, he will be held to perhaps the highest standards of any president in our lifetimes. If he can't accomplish what we've elected him to do, some will choose not to support him in 2012. Either way, we'll be better off than we are today.

Nice video B Money! Very clever observation on the number of signs vs. Republican voters present.