Obama had it right in 2002

[lwcon]

I'm not a big Obama fan.

I think he has enormous potential, but I'm still steaming about his glib catering to the religionists.

As far as I'm concerned, he can be as Christian or Muslim or Jewish or whatever as he wants. And I don't begrudge him talking up whatever role religion might play in his life. But the truth be told, he's blatantly using religion to prop himself up, at a cost to other Democrats, whom he paints as less moral because they don't couch their values in Christian terms.

All that said, this video shows that we're dealing with a guy who can really get things right.

If he can avoid being a Slick Obama that tries to be all things to all people, I could get behind this guy.

While I'm still rooting hard for Gore to get in the race, I have to admit that I like what I see in the video clip.

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[sodenoue]

1. Obama's Still Got it Right

Obama 08!

Gore (III) commented in a December 14, 2006, article in the New York Observer: "I know that has no plans to run in 2008 <...> Well, I guess I have to add his addendum. I think the way he always says it is, 'I don't see any circumstances under which I would run for president'."

Gore won in 2000 and the bushites stole America from us. If Al doesn't want to run it is understandable. He won once and still did not get to be president. I would be weary as well.

Obama is the man!

[Acadia Blue]

2. He is a chance to get rid of the "old boy" network that has infected

so many people in Washington. We need to change the election laws and the dirty money the now allows only the super rich and the super rich corporate supporters to control who becomes our leaders. The money is the most corrupting of all. The crises in the middle class, and Clinton who wanted NAFTA and got it, are examples of money controlling everything.

I want Hillary and the DLC out. Richardson, Obama, Edwards.....we need a new start. I know Richardson is not poor nor Edwards but they seem to have not joined the American aristocracy yet. And Bill Clinton is responsible for NAFTA, by not vetoeing it and supporting it, and the telecommunicastions act that promoted big money and big consolodation and other affronts to democracy. Let us not forget WACO. I don't like religious crazies, but don't want to hurt them either or take away their civil rights. Bill and HIllary are really pink elephants. I don't give a hoot about his private sex life but do care about the policies that hurt the middle class. He joined with the PUBS on these and Hillary supports them.

[AtomicKitten]

3. Obama had it right on Iraq from the get-go.

That's a really important distinction and consideration, at least for me.

[lwcon]

4. Definitely

No question, if I had to choose between Obama and Hillary, he'd get the nod on that alone.

I've previously suggested two ways Dems who voted for the war could come clean about it. HRC has, at times, owned up to one form of apology -- the defensible idea that giving the president the power to do his job (leverage over a rogue state) wasn't the problem... it was the president's abuse of that power.

But better still are people like Gore and Obama who took the long view on this tough issue and realized that, you know, we simply cannot trust *this* president (who was almost certainly going to start the war even if and when inspections were resumed in earnest), and they were willing to take the heat for saying so.

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