Is McCain Even In This Race? Sure doesn't feel like it from here.

Gosh. I watched Obama's speech in Berlin yesterday. 200,000 people showed up - in a foreign country. That is just amazing.

It's like McCain isn't even in this race. It is just one of those times in history when an amazing leader is on the rise.

Obama is like this wonderful wind blowing across the world - at a time when everyone, everywhere is so hungry for better times, for more optimistic times.

I love it. After 8 years of being so down. So tired of sleazeballs in government, of one god awful horror after another. Its so good to hear a new voice rise up. Someone who can cut across all the races and all the religions. So good to feel hope again.

So why am I so afraid a sniper will get him? I watch him and I always say a prayer at the same time for the gods to protect him.

You can tell that even they aren't too thrilled with the contenders they had.

But who can blame them, knowing that whoever was the nominee is going to get their clock cleaned this year?

You're not the only one who worries about that.

got shot - both Kennedys, the Pope. Martin Luther King. It was just awful then. All those huge, formal funerals. All of that pain. But more than that, it was the loss of those wonderful voices.

I don't think the world sucks. But there sure are some pretty awful people out there who can do a whole lot of damage.

I'm just praying it doesn't happen again this time. I just want to see what this man, which this kind of voice, and the ability to work across ethnic lines of all kinds can do.

with more pizazz and then steal it again. Or both. :scared:

jackasses can really do.

I was there when Nixon was pulling stuff - although what he did seems kind of like child's play compared to Cheney and his bunch.

But there is always a tipping point where these guys push it too far. And when their house of cards starts to come down it just crashes down.

I really think that history is going to look back at the Bush years as a very, very dark period in our history. Brought on by fear after the 9/11 attack. But you know we have come thru much darker times than these. And we made it. And we will make it again. I truly believe that.

I was just a tot during Viet Nam/Kent State/Watts and not here at all for McCarthy. But my feelings are ** took those two eras plus the robber barons and the great depression and rolled them all up into one. I think it could get as bad as all that as his policies and Constitutional shredding are maintained and worsened by the next Repub pResident. And, then we get to add in peak oil and the climate change crisis.

What the hell kind of country are my little boys growing up in? :cry:

...but we mustn't forget that in the post election 2000 bizarro world in which we now live, truth and reality have little or no relevance.

Corporate media will create the illusion of a close race right down to the wire -- that's their job. Electronic vote switching gremlins will do the rest.

Everything coming out of his mouth is a "mispeak" of one sort ot another.

I just don't think McCain is really all that smart to begin with. Sure doesn't seem like it to me.

He's obviously slowing down both mentally and physically. A presidential campaign is not at all good for someone in his condition.

It takes someone with an amazing command of a whole lot of information to pull off being President.

I remember a Republican friend of mine years ago (and he just hated Bill Clinton) but he said the guy's command of information was incredible.

I feel that way about Obama. His ability to learn and analyze information and remember it all is really amazing.

from a PR and media point of view. Obama feels he has to pull out all the stops to overcome his natural obstacles, which is a great attitude. Hopefully it will result in a landslide, but conservatively it should mean a win, even if it's a squeaker.

I watch him making those major gaffes and I am embarrassed for him.