There's a reason we want Obama. I can give it to you in 5 words.

[FlyingSquirrel]

HE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO WIN!

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That's it. It's not even that he's "Not Hillary", as many people like to claim. We all know that the presidential election has become a racket - and that We The People HATE rackets. The Republican nominee especially is hand-picked by the elite (obviously, how else would Bob Dole and John McCain be the nominees?) and the media attempts to pick the Democratic nominees as well.

Obama was supposed to be a sideshow. A curiosity. Something to pique people's interest, and improve the ratings for the media on the way to Clinton's nomination. Edwards certainly wasn't gonna do it for them. But he wasn't supposed to WIN!

And yet he has. And that, more than anything, is the reason we want him. We are SICK AND TIRED of the media and the powers-that-be choosing our nominee and yes, our president.

SICK OF IT!

So Hillary, I'm sorry if you played the game the way you played it because you learned the rules and you figured if you played by those rules you would be able to win. Because we just changed the rules -- and we are the ones in charge now. We are the ones who should have been in charge all along. I feel for ya, but the future is NOW.

[floridablue]

1. Two words

Supreme Court !!!!!!!!

[FlyingSquirrel]

2. Ok but that doesn't differentiate him from Hillary.

But yes, that's why one reason we want a Democrat in the WH next January.

[demwing]

4. Oh, but it does. Hillary was supposed to win the day Bill left office

Not that she was supposed to immediately assume the thone, so to speak, but more so that she was a presumptive nominee before she was even elected Senator.

Hillary was the buzz.

But several things happened - Bush vs. Gore, Howard Dean over taking the DNC, and the rise of the Internet as both an alternative media resource and phenomenal fundraising tool, and suddenly, politics as usual, isn't usual anymore.

Kick to the thread, and Recs to the OP.

[Radio_Lady]

7. The last election they lost was in 1980! They have won 8 elections in a row!

Why can't we give Hillary a little room? Somebody had to lose the top spot, and she lost.

However, Obama NEEDS to think long and hard about what his very slim victory means to the ticket.

Take a breath. I'll take the ticket anyway it gets put together, ultimately. BUT... she was the runner-up. In many contests, the top person serves, but if he can't finish the term, the runner up takes over. And, no, I don't think she will try to assassinate him. That is SO over the top I can't even express my rage at the notion. Some people really have to get over this notion.

[demwing]

12. Obama will pick whomever he wants - but Hillary is a horrible choice

She represents old schiil politics. She does not repersent change.

[Radio_Lady]

15. Disagree completely, but I will certainly defend your right to say it.

A woman for Vice President? I'd call that a VERY BIG change. It's never happened before, and this woman is extraordinary, IMHO. Millions agreed with me enough to vote for her!

I do have to admit that during the run-up to the primary election in Florida (where I was hired to temporarily replace Larry King on his overnight radio show) and then in Boston (1972), as one of the first full-time female radio talk show hosts in the US, I predicted that a black male would be President before a white (or any other color!) female would get the chance.

I could be absolutely correct on that in a few months!



Cordially,

Radio Lady in Oregon

[fortyfeetunder]

3. Off to the greatest page!

this is exciting...

[juno jones]

5. K&R!

[babylonsister]

6. He EARNED THIS, and don't you ever forget that! He worked hard

against lots of forces you apparently don't even understand.

[oxbow]

8. What's odd is that some Clinton supporters claim that the media picked Obama

I don't understand how we can live in such different realities. Are their memories so short that they can't remember evenets as early as this January? Thank God for our sensible HRC supporters here!

[Radio_Lady]

9. Pictures speak 1,000 words. Here's 2,000 words worth...

[boppers]

10. Two words:

CHANGE MATTERS.

We want it. Now we have to fight for it.

[chknltl]

11. Agreed! He wasn't supposed to win.

The Military Industrial Complex had two horses in this race....now they have only one and that one is lame with a potential for not even making it through the race! When Senator Obama talked today about rebuilding our military after the devastations from bush's failed fiasco's, it is my hopes that the MIC noticed. At least we took a giant step closer to regaining our government today. Now if we can somehow prevent the MIC/Big Oil and bush from opening up a further deadly fiasco with Iran.....

[chill_wind]

13. The list of reasons we've fought and rallied for him is **long**

but agree--- they never saw him and us coming at them until Iowa--- and this just sweetens the victory beyond words.

[cboy4]

14. I'll say this....I'll take Obama any day over that world

class back-stabber Bill Richardson.

What an awful person he is.

[FlyingSquirrel]

16. I don't know that he's an "awful person", but

His style doesn't really do it for me. Not that it's a good reason to not consider him for the job... Guess I'll have to learn more about him.