This is hilarious!

BTW Last night's game against the Broncos was something...

heh..clever to keep the tags/channels this way

Wow. This is hilarious.

okay, this is pretty great

lol... damn it.
What's the talk over there in the US? Is there a real chance he's gonna run for the office?
I'd like to see a black(ish) man with an obviously foreign name be the next president of the US. At least it would reflect a big change in politics over there.
Only better than that is when a Woman is elected for office in the US (as long as it's not like that mega bitch from Prison Break) heheheh

Last thing I read, EMPIRE, is that the pundits are projecting an 80% chance that Obama will run and a "99%" chance that Hillary Clinton will.

Frankly, I don't need to see another Bush or Clinton in office ever again. America is not an aristocracy (or, at least, it's not supposed to be). Obama '08!

i would actually vote against hillary with close to the same veracity that i voted against bush. i can't stand hillary for whatever reason. obama '08!

I agree with the sentiments expressed above. I believe and fervently hope that the American people having seen what this government has done, would back Obama in '08. A completely new face in Washington.

But however I have to realize that the fervor created over Obama is directly correlated with his coverage by the media. He looks like he could do it. But while the wild state of California was ready to accept someone who is foreign, would the nation? I don't know really.

We'll see I guess...

He's a fresh face with undeniable enthusiasm, which I like.

We need more info, though. He's been in the public eye for all of two years, so what do we really know about him?

I don't think he's going to get very far. Granted he's got the media spotlight at the moment, but fame in the media is very fleeting and it's a long way until the primaries. At which point I see him going the way of Howard Dean and showing up at third place in Iowa and New Hampshire.

I'm agreeing with amxcbvc that sure he's a fresh face which is needed in contrast to the old horses in politics, but I don't see him as a man of substance yet. To his credit, he has a speech at the DNC, two years as senator and a book and that's it.

wumpus:

Obama doesn't have the machine behind him yet and the netroots are tepid. I think those are his biggest obstacles right now. Bush and Clinton weren't really all that seasoned or substantial, but I suppose that you could argue that they ran a state (even though the governor of Texas is largely ceremonial).

Obama needs to use the Clinton playbook -- young, energetic, charismatic, exciting -- and hope that the left wing of the Dem Party provides token support to Kucinich rather than to someone with more staying power like Edwards, Clinton, or Clark.

Sadly, Kucinich is persistently abused, spat out, and crushed by the Gang of 500. He was an amazing mayor of Cleveland.

And since you lean Red . . .Will John McCain get a pass from the Dobsonites? Or is the Republican nomination now Mitt Romney's to lose?

"Sadly, Kucinich is persistently abused, spat out, and crushed by the Gang of 500. He was an amazing mayor of Cleveland."

You do know he's a Socialist right? Kucinich throws his hat into the ring every time and I think even he knows he not going to win or even get close. It's more of a symbolic gesture then a political goal; pretty much the same as Lyndon LaRouche.

"And since you lean Red"
I'd say thats accurate.

". . .Will John McCain get a pass from the Dobsonites? Or is the Republican nomination now Mitt Romney's to lose?"

I'm going to say flat out that I don't make predictions, I just go with my gut feeling. I think McCain will have to come to terms with on which side of the aisle he's on because I don't think that playing both sides is the way to win an election. Will he get a pass...I don't know. Romney on the other hand won in Massachusetts because he had a solid and clearly defined platform. As for the nomination, it's anybody's game at this point. Personally, I don't care. The primaries are over a year away and I'm just not going to pay attention to election politics while the corpse of the last election is still warm. I'm an Imagery Analyst, not a Political Analyst so for now I'm just going to stick to the job that I get paid for.

I smell fear coming off of those comments, Wumpy.
For a nation that very nearly elected Ross Perot and elected a muscle-bound retard the governor of its biggest state, I think you overestimate the value of experience and underestimate the power of vision and charisma.
(Incidentally, Obama's written TWO best-sellers and was elected to the Illinois legislature before he was elected Senator.)

As for the Republicans, there is not one candidate anywhere in their field that will satisfy the Religous Right - and as we've seen recently, the Republicans lose when they stay home.

Are you in the United States, Theo? California comes in at #3 in terms of size. It is the most populated state, though.

Obama is an engaging speaker but he votes exactly like Ted Kennedy. That is unacceptable.

I could see myself being happy with McCain or Obama in '08. Not excited about anybody else, though. ... unless Christopher Walken decides to run...