If by “exotic” you mean black you are wrong. If this were Colen Powell running in a year that would be good for Republicans he would likely have a cake walk to the presidency, minus the legion of liberals who would be screaming that he wasn’t “authentically” black. Authentically meaning that he wasn’t attending churches that screamed racism and hatred for white people and America for 2 DECADES along with a host of other crap.

And so forth.

He’s too exotic and liberal for a lot of America. But this is a very rough year for Republicans.

The Democratic race for nomination is still very much alive – and most likely to be decided by superdelegates

If you’re tired of waiting around for those super delegates to make a decision already, go to LobbyDelegates.com and push them to support Clinton or Obama

If you haven’t done so yet, please write a message to each of your state’s superdelegates at http://www.lobbydelegates.com

Obama Supporters:

Sending a note to current Obama supporters lets them know it’s appreciated, sending a note to current Clinton supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Obama, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Obama. It’s that easy…

Clinton Supporters too …. !

It takes a moment, but what’s a few minutes now worth to get Clinton in office?! Those are really worth !

Sending a note to current Clinton supporters lets them know it’s appreciated, sending a note to current Obama supporters can hopefully sway them to change their vote to Clinton, and sending a note to the uncommitted folks will hopefully sway them to vote for Clinton. It’s that easy…

obama is a borderline communist that will take this country so far to the “left” that Rev Wright will be doing the invocations at the White House. Your taxes will go UP to fund all of his social programs…unemployment will sky-rocket as he taxes “evil” industry…an all the progress we made in Irac will be destroyed. Get a clue!

A black man runs from a howling crowd. If he’s caught he’ll be torn apart. If he reaches sanctuary he’ll be loved. This ritual is the Sacred Lynching. It’s a scene from Olaf Stapledon’s science fiction book, The First and Last Men. Set in the future, humanity has mixed and few people are “white” or “black,” and the ritual is a nostalgic celebration of racism in a post-racial world. It resembles our own supposed post-racial politics, and I see Senator Barack Obama as that last black man on earth trying to outrun our media mob.

And the mob tries. At ABC’s Democratic primary debate in Philadelphia, hosts Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos tied trivia around Obama’s feet. What about your angry black pastor? Are you patriotic? Are you a friend of a Weathermen terrorist? Obama questioned their questions until they looked absurd. The audience caught his cue and afterwards, when the cameras blinked off, they heckled the hosts.

The media chase Obama because, if he wins the presidential race, he’ll break the last American color line, which is also the line between our repressed history and our collective consciousness. A nation, just like an individual, will repress images and ideas that conflict with its self-image. The violence that created who we are — enslavement of Africans, indigenous peoples marched off their land, workers hanged for unionizing — contradicts our self-image as the greatest nation on earth, so our media-represses it…

To continue reading:
http://www.indypendent.org/2008/04/25/obama%e2%80%99s-race-against-race/

Don’t get me wrong, he makes us FEEL HOPEFUL when we listen to him because he is a good speaker and he is highly charismatic. But that is all there is to him. Beneath that smile there is a man with no substance. I was going to vote for him because at first he seemed like a “hopeful new beginning”. That was before I actually started learning about him. Unfortunately, while quick to point out other people’s flaws, acknowledge their own. That is how Howard Dean came onto the scene. And then, when it finally penetrated the left’s thick skulls that he wasn’t electable they chose the man who literally had the most biased voting record in the entire Senate. He was also a completely self absorbed prick when the cameras were off of him as well. Now they have given us Obama. Sorry, McCain will have to do. He wasn’t my first choice, but maybe a compromise president is what will be best for this country.

Actually, AA, that is exactly what we are doing here. Free and open debate. You may or may not yet have the perspective of appreciating that in the U.S..

Also, Socialism Lite, promoted by both Clinton and Obama, is exactly the opposite of “what makes America great.”