You mean he was stood up by Angelina, too? Obama follows the sad trail of democrats who give the same amount of time to the national press as they do to "Entertainment Tonight."

Obama doesn't really "answer" any question whether it's embarassing or not. He just spouts something vague about change or hope and moves on to the next Swamp/Us Weekly bootlicking session.

O! He's a media creation! I'm shocked. Not. And by the same magazine that has not gotten over the retarded Jeniffer/ Angelina battle. We're supposed to look away to more important issues, like Dar fur and Iraq, not Paris Hilton, he said at a graduation ceremony. Here he is in the biggest exporter of celebrity nonsense. Talking about nonsense. I guess his campaign thought this would be a great way to see "he's like us." They did so by selling out, giving an interview, at this crucial point in the election to "Spencer Pratt denies wanting calf implants." I personally find this lame.

The nations Young people are very excited and they are voting for Senator Obama in record numbers because they don't want to spend the next 100 years in John McCain/Bush's war on Iraq.

I dare the Wingnuts to underestimate this...

I'll take that dare. Remember how the left dared us to underestimate John Kerry's support from the non-voting 20-something demographic? How'd that one turn out for you guys?

Think everyone should realize that Obama is copying all of Hillary CLinton's work and everything she stands for. How many times does he gracefully give her credit for his taking all her ideas and putting his name of them? How many times have you heard him say, I agree, same ideas/he is using all Hillary's hard work and at the same time, hiding the truth about his religious beliefs and fooling a lot of people. ?We could all pay deeply if our young voters don't wake up.

While the Wingnuts are busy on here trying to come up with new names to call Senator Obama it appears that another member of the "Family Values Republicans" has taken a "wide-stance" on his morality views.

Another Republican sexual hypocrite resigns:
http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2008/02/27/scandal-ridden-homophobic-da-in-lawrence-v-texas-case-resigns/

I'll take that dare. Remember how the left dared us to underestimate John Kerry's support from the non-voting 20-something demographic? How'd that one turn out for you guys?

Posted by: Jeff | February 27, 2008 03:15 PM

Jeffy,

You're right Jeffy, I guess those record Democratic voting turnouts don't matter, my bad, you're right, maybe the young people will get excited about a 71 year old man (McCain) who want's to start WW3 in their name....HAHAHAHAHAHA!

It scares the heck out of me that our young people are voting for trend over substance. I asked my daughter why she was voting for Barack Obama and she said "He's like totally the young people's candidate! Hillary is too shrill, I like the way Obama talks!"

I just hope if he's the nominee he gets enough "old people" behind him who know something about how the world and the economy work.

OF COURSE HE'S JUST LIKE US! I mean, who here hasn't used money from a british-iraqi millionaire laundered through our sleazy slum-lord bag-man so we can buy a stately mansion?

I'll take that dare. Remember how the left dared us to underestimate John Kerry's support from the non-voting 20-something demographic? How'd that one turn out for you guys?

Posted by: Jeff | February 27, 2008 3:15 PM

About as well as the Republicans' prediction that they'd sweep the 2006 election and continue their firm hold on a permanent majority did for you.

"SAGGY BOTTOM NO BELT WEARING BROTHA'S SPEAKS"

OF COURSE WE KNOW OBAMA.

HE'S NO GLENN BECK! HE'S NO "DAVID PALMER." HE'S NO MESSAIH, HE'S NOT GLENN BECK. TALE TALE SIGNS THAT OBAMA IS NO DICTATOR.

HE'S DOESN'T APPEAR TO WANTS TO FORCE REPUBLICANS TO PUT DOWN THEIR DIVISIONS. HE'S NO GLENN BECK.

HE'S NO JESUS! HE'S NOT FROM ANOTHER WORLD. HE'S NOT THE DEVIL. I DON'T CARE WHAT COLOR HE IS!

HE'S NO RACIST LIKE ME!
OF COURSE I JUDGE HIM BY THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN AND NOT HIS POLICIES. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HIS POLICIES ARE, BUT WE KNOW WHAT COLOR HE IS.

HE'S NO GLENN BECK! HE'S NO DAVID PALMER.

SO BY WITHDRAWING TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ PER "THE GENERAL ON THE GROUND" GEN. CASEY ALSO DOESN'T FORCE REPUBLICANS TO PUT DOWN THEIR DIVISION.

GO BE DIVIDED AS THERE IS NO MORE ROOM FOR DIVISION!

YOU KNOW HE'S NO GLENN BECK!

You can keep the young people. I'll take the AARP crowd and our 71-year-old candidate any day. You know about people in AARP, right? You know that they consistently vote, right?

Young people, like "Obama girl" can't be bothered to actually vote or even be registered to vote in the state they live in in the first place.

I'm sorry, Jackie, that your daughter doesn't read. Voting for Obama is not voting for trend over substance. And actually if inspiring millions of people to become activally involved in politics and care about issues like the collapsing economy, the environment and responsible foreign policy, than I'm down for that trend.

Too bad they don't have pictures of John McCain when he was a youngster. I guess cameras weren't invented yet...

McCain's 1st product endorsement

How can he be any worse than the idiot who's running the country now? Jeez, you people need to lighten up.

Oh, and on those "record" democrat turnouts, you are correct, John E., that they don't matter.

The democrats came to the polls in the primaries by margins of 2-to-1 to the republicans in 1984 and 2000, too. We know how those elections turned out. I'd love a repeat of either of those elections.

Barack is a man raised by a single parent for most of his childhood, who was helped by her parents. He didn't know what he wanted to do when he grew up, was an above average college student, who got inspired and went to a better school. He then went to work as a community worker, working for the poor. After several years he went to law school (umm Harvard, magna cum laude) and was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He then came back to Chicago, as a civil rights attorney, and started teaching at the University of Chicago. He ran and won a seat in the State Senate, served there from 1996 to 2004, while continuing to practice law and lecture. Then he gave THE speech, won the US Senate seat, and ran for President.

He's got a wife and kids who seemingly love him. He's smart, articulate, spent most of his adult life fighting for the rights of the poor and under-privleged.

So, nope, he's not like most of us, but I believe he actually cares about people. He's not a media creation, though I can understand why people think that. In a world where there are so many cynical people, here you have somebody who actually believes we can be better than we are today.

I maybe wrong but the Obama girl could vote. She was registered in NJ. She just had a lot of excuses why her excitement didn't translate to a vote.

Jeff, you can have the 71-year-old AARP crowd, because they're not the ones who will be sent to Iraq to fight these idiots' wars. As long as you get your tax cuts, what do you care what the rest of us have to deal with?

I hate to say it, but a lot of Americans get their news form this claptrap... I'm not kidding. This cheesey article is targeted toward some of those same people who still think he's Muslim.

It's embarrassing, but the lettered and well read in America are unfortunately in the minority.

Jeff, you can have the 71-year-old AARP crowd, because they're not the ones who will be sent to Iraq to fight these idiots' wars. As long as you get your tax cuts, what do you care what the rest of us have to deal with?

Like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, and Mikhail Gorbachev, Barack Obama is a man of peace and love who is fighting against oppression and political corruption.

Remember this: no dream + no hope + no self-knowledge + no mindset change + no integrity + no passion + no trust + no love = NO SUSTAINABLE CHANGE---

Also Remember this:
Dream it, hope it, believe it, fix it in your mind, visualize it, accept it, respond to it with love, passion, and integrity, give your peak performance to it and you will achieve it…>>read more at http://rampersad.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/46/

You can keep the young people. I'll take the AARP crowd and our 71-year-old candidate any day. You know about people in AARP, right? You know that they consistently vote, right?

Young people, like "Obama girl" can't be bothered to actually vote or even be registered to vote in the state they live in in the first place.

Posted by: Jeff | February 27, 2008 4:19 PM

Bill/Jeff,

That's what the Republic Party members were saying right before Iowa "happened" for Obama.

The what I love about the old, stuck in their ways Republic Party robots, they're always the last ones to see the Hurricane coming at them and when they do see it they blame it on someone else.

Between Sweet of the Suntimes and you with Obama Mania; I'm getting sick of hearing so many articles. Question: Why do you only limit your articles with the most ridiculous/mundane issues on the Senator. You never get serious about what he says about a issue; rather, is is always tabloid nonsense-as this is. What Obama is Like? That is stupid.

I think the quote from Michelle Obama is emblematic of how he and his campaign sees his messianic- grandiose perception of him:
" The question is not whether Obama is ready (for presidency), the question is, are you ready for Obama"

I am not into hero worship, that some of our culturally revered press and luminaries are, so this comment is distasteful to me.

Is he going to be better than Bush?

They share a common denominator: INEXPERIENCE!
Bush's inexperience + mind bogling ineptness with words; Obama's gift: INEXPERIENCE and newly packaged, plagiarized "just words" oratory+ Chicago style politics.

RESULT: CALAMITOUS!

AMERICA WAKE UP!

I think the quote from Michelle Obama is emblematic of how he and his campaign sees his messianic- grandiose perception of him:
" The question is not whether Obama is ready (for presidency), the question is, are you ready for Obama"

I am not into hero worship, that some of our culturally revered press and luminaries are, so this comment is distasteful to me.

Is he going to be better than Bush?

They share a common denominator: INEXPERIENCE!
Bush's inexperience + mind bogling ineptness with words; Obama's gift: INEXPERIENCE and newly packaged, plagiarized "just words" oratory+ Chicago style politics.

RESULT: CALAMITOUS!

AMERICA WAKE UP!

While younger voters may not be familiar with all of the issues involved in the presidential race, that is no reason to imply they are illiterate and/or indifferent. Perhaps the older voters should realize that consistently voting for candidates based purely on their party affilliations is also not taking into consideration the individual candidate's policies or stance on the issues. The youth of America see hope and change in Obama and while they may not be able to cite verbatim, his stance on every issue, the fact that they are motivated to vote and discuss the upcoming election is very encouraging for the future of our country. I would rather a young person vote based on their "gut" feeling for a candidate than squander their right to vote because they feel that one candidate is the same as the other and it doesn't really matter anyway...

Deezer, you mean the people fighting this war like John McCain's youngest son?

Where are Barack Obama's precious little snowflakes again? You better not go there, pal.

I'm an older white guy who is for Barack Obama and know him to be a regular guy from the neighborhood. I have watched his progress and trust that he will be a fine president.

I was clean and sober in high school, so no, he's not.

Sam, Obama girl lives in New York City but is registered to vote in New Jersey. If she's so enthralled with Obama then why, oh why, didn't she register to vote in the state she lives in?

Or could it be that obamania is just a fad that really has precious little to do with actually participating in our electoral system?

Just Steve, you forgot the part about where he "did some blow" because his gym teacher was mean to him at his expensive private school. That was the best part of the book, and, yes, I did read it. I guess, in that respect, he is like Hollywood although I would never presume to say "us.'

John e., you're response is more wacky than usual. No republicans were predicting a Hillary win in Iowa. Hillary barely even campaigned there compared with New Hampshire. What "happened" in Iowa? A candidate who was polling ahead won. No big shock there.

Besides, as members of the GOP we really don't care what happens in your primaries. We had a field of 6 dozen good candidates of our own to pick from. Believe it or not the world does not revolve around you and St. Barack.

Is he like us? Do we really want a leader that's just like us? Focusing on the petty, everyday things, struggling to get through a day at the office, going home to pay the bills, making tuna casserole for dinner? I don't think so. However, for a man that has lived on three continents, been educated in some of the most prestigeous institutions, has movie star "friends", and millions of dollars to his name, he is the most like me than the other candidates. I want a president that understands my needs and values my opinions, but at the end of the day I don't want a president that's 'just like me' - or I'd run for office myself.

in regards to--- I am sorry, but the older generations have had their say, and we have useless wars and a disgusting deficit. and the environment? oh, thats just some liberal youthful concern, right? no more old men with concern only for dominance and pollution!

It scares the heck out of me that our young people are voting for trend over substance. I asked my daughter why she was voting for Barack Obama and she said "He's like totally the young people's candidate! Hillary is too shrill, I like the way Obama talks!"

I just hope if he's the nominee he gets enough "old people" behind him who know something about how the world and the economy work.

Oops, I meant a half-dozen good candidates. I'd typed 6 then decided a half-dozen sounded better and made a typo. I regret the error. Hee. The point stands about not caring about St. Barry.

How Barack Obama played the race card.

http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=aa0cd21b-0ff2-4329-88a1-69c6c268b304

Where are Barack Obama's precious little snowflakes again? You better not go there, pal.

Posted by: Jeff | February 27, 2008 5:00 PM

Obama's kids are still in grade school you idiot and with any luck they won't have to paticipate in the clusterfreak that Iraq is and yes it's nice that crazy John McCain/Bush is sacrificing his youngest son for his 100 year war on Iraq, afterall, it's the least he can do.

I dare the Wingnuts to underestimate this...

Posted by: John E | February 27, 2008 2:49 PM

John Everdumb: Historically the youth doesn't show up on election day, a trend that has been constantly repeated on general election days. Your an amateur "singer" for the DNC, you have a ways to go junior.

HIllary is getting great turnout from real Democrats who haven't voted since ... the 90s.

Obama is getting great turnout from GOP "Democrats/Obamacrats for a Day", whom he invites to come out to vote against Hillary and then go back to the GOP in November.

Jeremy, no one's saying that the older generation hasn't had their say, but if young people are really serious about electing Obama or ANYONE president then they need to get to the polls and they're supposed game-changing votes in 2004 weren't enough.

The democrats did this exact same type of celebrity "journalism" to excite them, too. Lenny Kravitz, Sean Combs and the rest of the Hollywood ilk told young people all year to "vote or die."

Here's a USA Today on their efforts: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-08-19-cover-youth-vote_x.htm

Now we're seeing the same stories about how young people are more politically active than ever except Obama's attached to them and not Kerry.

Here's a story on how they voted in '04: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/20/politics/main656805.shtml

They'll have to do better than that if they want to compete with AARP, that's all.

Oops, I meant a half-dozen good candidates. I'd typed 6 then decided a half-dozen sounded better and made a typo. I regret the error. Hee. The point stands about not caring about St. Barry.

Posted by: Jeff | February 27, 2008 5:16 PM

THE POINT STILL STANDS, JEFF!

You come on here and cheerlead for John McCain/Bush every single day, you're young enough to sign up for John McCain/Bush's 100 year war on Iraq, you support it and you support more people dying for it...and yet YOU YOURSELF REFUSE TO SIGN UP TO FIGHT IN IRAQ, the war that YOU CALL absolutley vital to our national security.

You sir, are a lying, stinking hypocrite!

OBAMA 08!!!

Obama is a product of the media age. He is a man of "show" not substance. He talks about change but what is he going to change and how?

I guess we'll learn when Obama and McCain debate this fall. In the end I'm betting on McCain. He survived years in a Vietnamese prison camp. Compared to that experience, this election ought to be a piece of cake. McCain is your run-of-the-mill Republican.

The winner of this election will be the one who can get out the vote. Will young people lose interest in the election by November? Only time will tell.

No, Barack H. (Middle name HE'S allowed to say, but we aren't) Obama ISN'T just like us. The media (so far) treats him like he walks on water. And that is the difference between Obama and other politicians.

Want a specific example, right on this "Swamp" webpage? If you're reading this, hit "page up" a couple times and look at the right side of the screen, where it has candidate's photos. Clinton II and McCain have one photo gallery. Barack the New Messiah has two galleries.

Well, I don't know how much like me he is, but I do know Obama can catch a cold. (Cue applause here.)

Everyone loves Obama because he's seems different than you stereotypical rich white guy running for office. Except that he has all the same characteristics of a typical rich white guy i.e. lawyer, Ivy League, fairly wealthy, political connections...

I'm 20 years-old. I'm pretty up-to-date. But, unlike many others, apparently I cannot see whatever Obama has to offer. He's just like us huh? Like me? What's in the article? He breathes air too? Oh my god, that's insane.
He's not like me. He went to Harvard, which is much more prestigious than the current institution I attend. He's lived all over the world. He's traveled everywhere.
Do an article on McCain being like Us. Oh wait, you can't. He fought in one of the most brutal wars and endured how many years of torture.
It makes me sick when Obama is all over the media. He's not the second coming of Christ. He's not Captain Planet. I've come to the conclusion that, more or less, all he can do is speak very well.

First of all, the Republicans can call Obama all the names they want to but they can't change the fact that John McCain is a one issue candidate (war) and not only is he wrong on that one issue he's also lying about it.

The Myth of the Surge
Hoping to turn enemies into allies, U.S. forces are arming Iraqis who fought with the insurgents. But it's already starting to backfire. A report from the front lines of the new Iraq

full story:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18722376/the_myth_of_the_surge

I'll be voting for Barack Obama this fall and I suggest that people ignore the rhetoric coming from the Republican Party because it's the same BS that they were throwing around before they gave us the disasterous George W Bush Presidency of the last 7 years.

Whose idea was that article. I think I'm going to puke. By the way if you think the young voters are being swayed by "he talks good" wait till the 17 year olds get the vote in IL.

He went to Harvard. He lives in a 2 million dollar estate. What do you think???

I've done extensive background work on both Senator Obama and Senator McCain and by far Senator Barack Obama is more authentic and trustworthy.

"McCain Resurrected
The Arizona Senator has gone from laughingstock to presumptive nominee by campaigning for World War III"

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18721308/mccain_resurrected

Sorry, I just can't vote for this man (McCain)...

A president should not be just like us, he/she should be much much better. Good grief.

Obama is way ahead of the other candidates when it comes to both common sense and visionary genius.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iNxTApa2sQRu0Xx99P3jt2bEXw7gD8V2TPTO0

"But I have some news for John McCain," Obama added. "There was no such thing as al-Qaida in Iraq until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq. ... They took their eye off the people who were responsible for 9/11, and that would be al-Qaida in Afghanistan, that is stronger now than at any time since 2001."

"I think the candidacy of Senator Obama represents the beginning of a new movement in American political history that began in the hearts and minds of the people of this nation. And I want to be on the side of the people, on the side of the spirit of history."_ Congressman John Lewis, in a statement announcing he was switching his support from Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton to Barack Obama.

The democrats are on a streak - in the last two elections the republican candidate was eminently beatable yet the democrats nominated the ONE candidate that the republicans could beat.

They're on the road to #3 - either one.

Wanna win? Give me and millions more like me someone better than bo or hillary - among (many) other things that picture of bo dressed in Somali garb is disturbing and hillary just has to open her mouth and the negatives go over 50%. The vaunted "republican hate machine:" has nuttin' on what bo and hillary are doing to each other.

Evan Bayh. But it'll never happen.

The keyword,in most of the
rhetoric heard in the "debates",seems to be CHANGE.
Although everybody talks about it,NOBODY has bothered to define the changes they are
advocating. Change,just for the sake of change,is not
a good thing!

Can you dumb democrats only come up with John McCain is 77 and old. Well let me tell you something, I bet you men are younger, but have A fat old ugly wife at home that your miserable with and have to sleep next to every night.

John McCain isn't doing so bad at 77 with a HOT wife named Cindy.

The young are not afraid of what a backing by Farakhan nor a Church that says Africa first can mean.

I sure wish this man had an open past. A past that showed how little these "symbols" meant. Is he pro Israel as his mouth says or anti-Israel as those around him say?

"Where are Barack Obama's precious little snowflakes again? You better not go there, pal.

Posted by: Jeff | February 27, 2008 5:00 PM"

I'm pretty sure they're still in elementary school at the moment ... Considering they're just 9 & 6 years old.

Obama did not come from a privileged background but comes to us as a Harvard grad with friends like Oprah Winfrey. It constantly cracks me up that he plays the race card when he hasn't had anything common with black americans, ever. He is half white, was raised by a white mother and white grandparents, yet he has the nerve to portray himself as the black candidate. He is not the middle class or common folk candidate either; he lives in a million dollar house, hasn't had to struggle for a long, long time and is far removed from the problems of the average person. He is packaged and is doing his best to stay away from anything of substance. It may be slick and the more you fool the average American, the more they love it; but come Jan 20 of next year, I would rather have someone who has put themselves on the line for who and what they are, and that adds up either to Hillary or John McCain. Sorry, Barak, you are a phony, or, at the very least, you have no record or real experience to hold one of the most difficult jobs in the world.

So tired of Obama being characterized as all talk. With the internet there is so much info available and too many choose to go with just one source- the mainstream media. I am a Republican who after much reading and discernment has decided to vote for the real deal---Obama. Here is an article written about him from 1995. It shows he is definitely not just a man of words. http://www.chicagoreader.com/obama/951208/

My favorite quote from o'bammy is:
"We must be the change we wish to see."

Very moving, very inspirational.

Oooops! It was Mahatma Ghandi that said it. o'bammy just claimed it to be his.

It scares the heck out of me that our young people are voting for trend over substance. I asked my daughter why she was voting for Barack Obama and she said "He's like totally the young people's candidate! Hillary is too shrill, I like the way Obama talks!"

I just hope if he's the nominee he gets enough "old people" behind him who know something about how the world and the economy work.

Posted by: Jeremy Farmer | February 27, 2008 5:13 PM

Don't let the know-nothing Republicans scare you, Jeremy, they're full of crap.

It has really been bothering me - the charges from the warmongering John McCain Republicans that Obama is all talk and no action. Those of us who support him and have reviewed his record know there is no basis to this charge, but just to make sure, I went to the Congressional Record (www.thomas.gov) and did a search for bills sponsored or co-sponsored by Senator Obama in his three short years in the US Senate. I searched the 109th and 110th Congresses which cover the years 2005-2007.

In a nut shell I found:

Senator Obama has sponsored or co-sponsored 570 bills in the 109th and 110th Congress.

Senator Obama has sponsored or co-sponsored 15 bills that have become LAW since he joined the Senate in 2005.

Senator Obama has also introduced amendments to 50 bills, of which 16 were adopted by the Senate.

His record is in fact quite impressive for a junior Senator from Illinois.

Below I summarize Senator Obama's legislative record in the US Senate.

First I list the bills he sponsored that have become law.

Next I summarize the bills that he has sponsored or cosponsored since he became a US Senator in 2005.

I have only included major pieces of legislation and have not summarized continuing resolutions or naming post offices, for example.

His record suggests several priorities and the bills he supports address many of our most pressing problems.

Most of his legislative effort has been in the area of Energy Efficiency and Climate Change (25 bills), health care (21 bills) and public health (20 bills), consumer protection/labor (14 bills), the needs of Veterans and the Armed Forces (13 bills), Congressional Ethics and Accountability (12 bills), Foreign Policy (10 bills) Voting and Elections (9 bills), Education (7 bills), Hurricane Katrina Relief (6), the Environment (5 bills), Homeland Security (4 bills), and discrimination (4 bills).

Of the 15 bills Senator Obama sponsored or co-sponsored in 2005-7 that became law:

Two addressed foreign policy:
Promote relief, security and democracy in the Congo (2125)
Develop democratic institutions in areas under Palestinian control (2370).

Three addressed public health:
Improve mine safety (2803)
Increased breast cancer funding (597)
Reduce preterm delivery and complications, reduce infant mortality (707).

Two addressed openness and accountability in government:
Strengthening the Freedom of Information Act (2488)
Full disclosure of all entities receiving federal funds (2590)

Two addressed national security
Extend Terrorist Risk Insurance (467)
Amend the Patriot Act (2167)

One addressed the needs of the Armed Forces
Wave passport fees to visit graves, attend memorials/funerals of veterans abroad (1184).

Of the 570 bills Senator Obama introduced into the Senate during the 109th and 110th Congress (Senate Bill numbers are in parentheses), they can be summarized as follows:

25 addressed Energy Efficiency and Climate Change
Suspend royalty relief for oil and gas (115)
Reduce dependence on oil; use of alternative energy sources (133)
Increase fuel economy standards for cars (767, 768)
Auto industry incentives for fuel efficient vehicles (1151)
Reduce green house gas emissions (1324)
Establish at NSF a climate change education program (1389)
Increase renewable content of gasoline (2202)
Energy emergency relief for small businesses and farms (269)
Strategic gasoline and fuel reserves (1794)
Alternative diesel standards (3554)
Coal to liquid fuel promotion (3623)
Renewable diesel standards (1920)
Reducing global warming pollution from vehicles (2555)
Fuel security and consumer choice (1994, 2025)
Alternative energy refueling system (2614)
Climate change education (1389)
Low income energy assistance (2405)
Oil savings targets (339)
Fuel economy reform (3694)
Plug-in electric drive vehicles (1617)
Nuclear release notice (2348)
Passenger rail investment (294)
Energy relief for low income families (2405)

21 addressed Health Care
Drug re-importation (334)
Health information technology (1262, 1418)
Discount drug prices (2347)
Health care associated infections (2278)
Hospital quality report cards (692, 1824)
Medical error disclosure and compensation (1784)
Emergency medical care and response (1873)
Stem cell research (5)
Medical Malpractice insurance (1525)
Health centers renewal (901, 3771)
Children’s health insurance (401)
Home health care (2061)
Medicare independent living (2103)
Microbicides for HIV/AIDS (823)
Ovarian cancer biomarker research (2569)
Gynological cancers (1172)
Access to personalized medicine through use of human genome (976)
Paralysis research and care (1183)

20 addressed Public Health:
Violence against women (1197)
Biodefense and pandemic preparedness and response (1821, 1880)
Viral influenza control (969)
End homelessness (1518)
Reduce STDs/unintended pregnancy (1790)
Smoking prevention and tobacco control (625)
Minority health improvement and disparity elimination (4024)
Nutrition and physical education in schools (2066)
Health impact assessments (1067, 2506)
Healthy communities (1068)
Combat methamphetamines (2071)
Paid sick leave (910)
Prohibit mercury sales (833, 1818)
Prohibit sale of lead products (1306, 2132)
Lead exposure in children (1811, 2132)

14 address Consumer Protection/Labor
Stop unfair labor practices (842)
Fair minimum wage (2, 1062, 2725, 3829)
Internet freedom (2917)
Credit card safety (2411)
Media ownership (2332)
Protecting taxpayer privacy (2484)
Working family child assistance (218)
Habeus Corpus Restoration (185)
Bankruptcy protection for employees and retirees (2092)
FAA fair labor management dispute resolution (2201)
Working families flexibility (2419).

13 addressed the Needs of Veterans and the Armed Forces:
Improve Benefits (117)
Suicide prevention (479)
Needs of homeless veterans (1180)
Homes for veterans (1084)
GI Bill enhancement (43)
Military job protection
Dignity in care for wounded vets (713)
Housing assistance for low income veterans (1084)
Military children in public schools (2151)
Military eye injury research and care (1999)
Research physical/mental health needs from Iraq War (1271)
Proper administration of discharge for personality disorder (1817, 1885)
Security of personal data of veterans (3592)

12 addressed Congressional Ethics and Accountability
Lobbying and ethics reform (230)
Stop fraud (2280)
Legislative transparency and accountability (525)
Open government (2180, 2488)
Restoring fiscal discipline (10)
Transparency and integrity in earmarks (2261)
Accountability of conference committee deliberations and reports (2179)
Federal funding accountability and transparency (2590)
Accountability and oversight for private security functions under Federal
contract (674)
Accountability for contractors and personnel under federal contracts
(2147) Resctrictions awarding government contracts (2519)

10 addressed Foreign Policy:
Iraq war de-escalation (313)
US policy for Iraq (433),
Divestiture from Iran (1430)
Sudan divestment authorization (831)
Millennium Development Goals (2433)
Multilateral debt relief (1320)
Development bank reform (1129)
Nuclear nonproliferation (3131,977,2224).

9 address Voting/Elections
Prohibit deceptive practices in Federal elections (453)
Voter access to polls and services in Federal elections (737)
Voter intimidation and deceptive practices (1975)
Senate campaign disclosure parity (185)
Require reporting for bundled campaign contributions (2030)
Election jamming prevention (4102)
Campaign disclosure parity (223)
Presidential funding (2412)
Integrity of electronic voting systems (1487)

11 addressed Education
Increase access of low income African Americans to higher education (1513)
Establish teaching residency programs (1574)
Increase early intervention services (2111)
Middle school curriculum improvements (2227)
Public database of scholarships, fellowships and financial aid (2428)
Summer learning programs (116)
TANF financial education promotion (924)
Higher education (1642)
Build capacity at community colleges (379)
Campus law enforcement in emergencies (1228)
Support for teachers (2060).

6 addressed Hurrican Katrina
Hurricane Katrina recovery (2319)
Emergency relief (1637)
Bankruptcy relief and community protection (1647)
Working family tax relief (2257)
Fair wages for recovery workers (1749)
Gulf coast infrastructure redevelopment (1836)

5 addressed the Environment
Drinking water security (218, 1426)
Water resources development (728)
Waste water treatment (1995)
Combat illegal logging (1930)
Spent nuclear fuel tracking and Acountability (1194)
Asian Carp Prevention and Control Act (Introduced in Senate)[S.726.IS ]

4 addressed Discrimination
Claims for civil class action based on discrimination (1989)
Domestic partnership benefits (2521)
Unresolved civil rights crimes (535)
Equality or two parent families (2286)

4 addressed Homeland Security
Judicial review of FISA orders (2369)
National emergency family locator (1630)
Amend US Patriot Act (2167)
Chemical security and safety (2486)

Next time some dumb Republican asks you "where's the beef" in Senator Obama's Senate record, please feel free to send this to them and make sure you remind them that their candidate (McCain) is a one issue candidate (war) and he's wrong on that too.

My vote breakdown: Senator Obama for student council president because he is dreamy, smart and the most popular guy in school who knows how to says the coolest things! Senator Clinton for president of the United States because she is smart, articulate fair, compassionate and tough...and she has 15 more years of real life experiences. Senator McCain for television spokesman for Erectile Dysfunction and laxative products because his age renders him incapable of doing anything without the assistance of geriatric pharmaceuticals.

Can you dumb democrats only come up with John McCain is 77 and old. Well let me tell you something, I bet you men are younger, but have A fat old ugly wife at home that your miserable with and have to sleep next to every night.

John McCain isn't doing so bad at 77 with a HOT wife named Cindy.

Posted by: Diane | February 27, 2008 06:28 PM

Which wife would that be, #1 or #2?

It's so hard to keep up with these "family values Reublicans" and their lies.

"I was clean and sober in high school, so no, he's not."
What a good boy you are. Not invited to any parties, I gather.

John Everdumb: Historically the youth doesn't show up on election day, a trend that has been constantly repeated on general election days. Your an amateur "singer" for the DNC, you have a ways to go junior.

Posted by: Don B. | February 27, 2008 5:23 PM

Donny Osmond,

Why am I not surprised that you aren't aware of what's going on.

That's ok Donny, the Obama Hurricane is going to be smacking you in the face any time now....I predict it will be coming right at you this Nov, at which time we can expect not to hear anymore Republican cheerleading from your piehole.

Yeah, Diane. Let's put McCain's wife on the ballot. I'll toss my vote in as soon as I see the woman blink. Didn't she once play guitar in the "Addicted to Love" video? Sounds like Diane's got a crush.

Once again, everyone makes an assumption based on the fact that a gossip rag that Obama's some media package in a canidate. Hello, he's a Senator from Illinois people, I don't think he'd be holding the position if he wasn't capable. Obama is young, hip, and appeals to a young, hip audience that reads US. It doesn't mean every article in there is The New York Times equivalent, but give em credit for at least trying to publish something moderately legitimate.

I like Obama. I won't vote for him, but he seems like a nice guy. I think that's more than I could manage to say for Bill Clinton, even.

You have to wonder, though, what gives these media darlings their special glow for average voters. This guy, John E., for example, seems to have a real crush on Obama, the "hurricane."

To this lady, Audrey, who acts like she is trying to set everybody straight with the laundry list of Obama bills, your information appears to be misleading.

I found contradicting information about his record on govtrack.us. It characterizes Obama's legislative success as "poor" to "average". His voting history is considered "Exceedingly Poor relative to peers".

What you are trying to do, Audrey, is mislead people with unclear statistical data and a barrage of information that cannot be interpreted objectively.

Why don't you considered the following information before you carry on with your unbridled fanaticism?:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Statistics: Barack Obama has sponsored 129 bills since Jan 4, 2005, of which 120 haven't made it out of committee (Poor) and 1 were successfully enacted (Average, relative to peers). Obama has co-sponsored 548 bills during the same time period (Average, relative to peers).

Voting History
Statistic: Barack Obama missed 193 of 1113 votes (17%) since Jan 6, 2005 (Exceedingly Poor relative to peers).

Voting History
Statistic: Barack Obama missed 193 of 1113 votes (17%) since Jan 6, 2005 (Exceedingly Poor relative to peers).

Posted by: ttj | February 27, 2008 8:57 PM

Raving Wingnut,

Voting History Statistic:

John McCain missed 65% of the votes in Congress last year (2007) while he was pretending to represent Arizona...this was second only to Sen Tim Johnson who was recovering from brain surgery...

"JOHN E SPEAKS"

BING BADA BING BABY! BING BADA BING!

He also is broke and lonely! His feet stinks and he doesn't LOVE JESUS!

THAT IS AN ABSENTEE SENATOR, BOTTOM LINE!

Just look at MA BELL AKA QWEST Communications, at the foot of the "DEVIL" begging to let "MA BELL OUT" to communicate on a "LEGAL WAYS AND MEANS OF DOING BUSINESS IN AMERICA."

Life appears to be simply "PROVISIONAL" TO MR. MCCAIN. A, LETS NOT FORGET (LOBBYIST IN ALL)!

BING BADA BING BABY!

NO CHARGE FO YOU!

O! He's a media creation! I'm shocked. Not. And by the same magazine that has not gotten over the retarded Jeniffer/ Angelina battle. Here he is in the biggest exporter of celebrity nonsense. Talking about nonsense. I guess his campaign thought this would be a great way to see "he's like us." They did so by selling out, giving an interview, at this crucial point in the election to "Spencer Pratt denies wanting calf implants." I personally find this lame.

Posted by: hmmmm | February 27, 2008 2:49 PM

I find your comment lame and tiresome. They're having some fun. Lighten the f%ck up. I've hung out a bit with both Obama and Hillary and they are both engaging friendly people. PEOPLE!!! Get it.

"Obama is a product of the media age. He is a man of "show" not substance. He talks about change but what is he going to change and how?"

Well Gina L you've certainly had enough time and debate including last night to have figured that one out. Due Diligence (DD)

1. An investigation or audit of a potential candidate. Due diligence serves to confirm all material facts in regards to the candidate.

2. Generally, due diligence refers to the care a reasonable person should take before deciding on a candidate or political party. In this case voting for a president.

"The winner of this election will be the one who can get out the vote. Will young people lose interest in the election by November? Only time will tell."

Posted by: Gina L | February 27, 2008 5:28 PM

I'm 46 years old Gina. I think I represent a large swath of Obama's support. After all those aren't doghnuts and pizza he's using to buy that TV ad time. Seems to me it your arguement against Mr Obama that lacks substance. But hey, nothing personal. I'm just getting real tired of this now completely debunked arguement that Barack Obama is incapable of running for president, let alone his ability to perform the duties required as president once he is elected, which he almost surely will be. I suggest you get up to speed on WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON.

We are about to undergo a major paradigm shift in the political landscape of both the USA and with regard to Americas standing on the world stage. I think your should look beyond a fun little tidbit and realize how important a moment this is. We are about to regain our momentum worldwide.

Fall in or fall behind. The choice is yours.

Obama for president 2008.

Roger morris, your getting there on the CAPS LOCK off issue. Congrats!

U idiots need to quit saying he(she) is better then Bush. Wake Up, yahooooo, Bush is not running. This is between Clinton, McCain, and Obama. What is the matter u cowards afraid to fight for the country that gives u the freedom to be so stupid. U sheep.