Opinion Talk

By f(x) = 36x^2

January 3, 2008 10:00 PM | Link to this

I think that Obama has many great qualities, but I fear he is unelectable in a society that fears non-whites. I pray that I am proven wrong, but I think that Edwards has the best chance to win the Presidency.

I am glad to see that all three top Democratic contenders made respectable showings tonight in Iowa.

By @@

January 3, 2008 10:14 PM | Link to this

Let’s hear from Juan Williams of Fox News…

Iowa, a state of 90% white voters has chosen Obama, a black candidate. Does this mean that accusations of racism against rural white America doesn’t exist?

Also, those who cast their votes for Obama said it was because of his likeability but they didn’t think he could win the general election.

It was the most liberal of the liberal voters in Iowa who supported Obama. Just wait until the Republican candidate brings that to the attention of American voters in the general.

I agree, Obama is a likeable guy but I don’t elect presidents because they’re likeable. There’s gotta be more.

Substance would be good.

By getalife

January 3, 2008 10:21 PM | Link to this

Lets hear from Jack Cafferty instead:

Iowa is more white than the North Pole and Obama won.

Edwards was out spent 6 to 1 and finished second.

By COOL BOB

January 3, 2008 10:36 PM | Link to this

I hope blacks like John Lewis and those black congressmen from South Carolina feel real dumb right now. They decided to cast their lot with Hillary, simply because they didn’t think white people would vote for him. That is one of the dumbest, slave mentality arguments in the world. I bet they’re kicking themselves now. Sold out for a dollar to the Clintons. Obama’s going to get a boost in New Hampshire, win South Carolina and Nevada, then the nomination and then the White House (and then Jesus returns).

By @@

January 3, 2008 10:45 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

Huckabee was out spent as well and he won. Something else that Juan said…

Bill Clinton employed “patronizing politics” when it came to the black community and that the black community can’t be certain that Obama will deliver as Bill did. Say whaaatttt?

I don’t support this black/white division Getalife. We’re all shades of gray in my opinion.

By getalife

January 3, 2008 11:39 PM | Link to this

@@,

Yes, 15 to 1.

Obama drew in over 218,000, twice as many as the gop in a red state.

His speech was excellent and had ordinary folks behind him unlike Clinton and Gomer Pyle.

Obama changed Iowa politics tonight and I feel much better about the direction of our country.

By ladyK

January 4, 2008 12:03 AM | Link to this

OBAMA08!! YESSSSSSSS!

By LadyA

January 4, 2008 12:24 AM | Link to this

I admit it, I was a cynic. I WAS a cynic. But these are now tears of a believer. After seeing Obama pull through in Iowa, my heart and perspective has changed. I feel like my people have taken a deep breath. Grandma is looking down smiling.

While this Iowa caucus is a “weak” indicator of the final presidential race outcome, it’s a STRONG indicator that American’s want unity. Change IS brewing. Change that I doubted that I underestimated. We Americans are in a dire need of a stronger connection to each other. Obama is the means to that connection.

I’m crying like a little baby. Or a grown woman who was a cynic and is now a believer.

By r martin

January 4, 2008 12:31 AM | Link to this

Fact: 2.3% of the entire Iowa population is African-American.

Fact: Obama rec’d 29% more votes than HIllary Clinton or John Edwards.

Fact: White, southern republican males like me, are backing his message of unification in this country and are supporting him.

He’s electable. Why? because we are sick and tired of the divisiveness of the Clinton’s and the Bush’s. We need some unity. Not Jesse or Sharpton. Not Bush or Clinton.

Hillary is underqualified anyway. Is Michelle Obama qualified to be Senator because she married one?

* OBAMA 08! Let’s get fired up people!*

By atlien

January 4, 2008 12:36 AM | Link to this

This proves Jesse, Al, Andy and John are out of touch with the times. Iowa is actually 98% white going by ABC News and Obama was able to win. The voter turn out was great and is a view of good things to come. Andy Young was so wrong to say that this is not Obama year. John Lewis, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are just wrong for siding (selling out) with the Clintons.

If Obama does not make you feel good about the direction of the country tonight, then you need to check your soul.

Rumble Obama, rumble…08

By getalife

January 4, 2008 12:38 AM | Link to this

Obama made history tonight.

Here is his speech

By Alex Phillips

January 4, 2008 12:40 AM | Link to this

I have to admit that I am very impressed with the people of Iowa. They appear to have looked past skin pigment and at the individual, and it gives me a refreshing hope for where this great country can go and what it can become and renews my outlook in the body politic in our nation. There is a long fight ahead for the Senator from Illinois and my eyes are peeled for how he fairs down South, it will be interesting. I am from the South and will leave this earth in the South, and I love it, but I do however feel that certain mindsets and old hindrances may rear it’s ugly head when it gets to be a serious reality that we could possibly see our first black president. I think it is start of renewing this nation and establishing it as a beacon of light for the rest of the world. I hope that others that care about this country and the shape it’s end will look at past Mr. Obama’s skin and listen to his message and make their decision to vote for or against him based on that and not his skin. We are and should be more advanced than that…..It is 2008, not 1958, it’s time, what can it hurt.

By Alex Phillips

January 4, 2008 12:49 AM | Link to this

No matter what happens down the road with the election one thing is certian Obama made history tonite and I am glad I am young enough to have witnessed and it was in my life time, which I knew it was bound to happen at some point. I just thought I would be 90 yrs old before I saw it. May God protect you Senator Obama, you’re gonna need it.

By OB all the way!

January 4, 2008 1:00 AM | Link to this

I saw Obama’s 2004 DNC speech on TV and was greatly impressed by what he had to say. I attended a Fundraiser here on March 07 at the Hyatt, The Rally at Yellow Jacket Park in April 07, also the Rally in the World Congress in Sept.07, and CBC Rally in Washington, D.C. in Sept. 07. The young man has what it takes to go the distance, and I plan to continue to help him. Oh yes I have been up to Columbia, S.C. on one occasion to campaign door to door and I will go at least twice more before their Primary.

Go Bama!!!!!

By Georgia_Independent

January 4, 2008 1:20 AM | Link to this

It is great that America and the South is blessed to have a Democrat like Barack Obama. Obama, like John Edwards, will campaign in Georgia and present issues in the South (the home of more than 2/3 of America’s African-Americans). Thank you Iowa, for doing what clowns like Andrew Young and USELESS Congressmen (who live on the fact that they walked with Martin Luther King, Jr 40 years ago) like John Lewis, would not do. Thank you Iowans for listening to the message of the candidates and not buying into the political experts. Congratulations Obama! I can not wait to vote for a candidate like you on February 5.

In the meantime, will you guys at the AJC stop wasting our time with quotes from useless voices like Andrew Young and John Lewis? In the meantime, investigate the unethical behavior of US Congressman David Scott, who is smart enough to live in a different district than he represents in Washington, but is dumb enough to endorse Hillary Clinton. In the meantime, watch as Americans state by state say that Barack Obama is the leader of the Democratic party…a new party that reaches across the aisles and protects the lives of Americans, all Americans.

By YES!

January 4, 2008 1:36 AM | Link to this

racism in this country needs to be buried

NOW

It’s been 43 years since 1964 - 2 generations of people who have not lived under segregation. Sure racism exists, but it is the way of the past. The way of the future is unity and acceptance, and our youth craves it: 57% of voters in Iowa tonight under 30 years old went for OBAMA!!!

black & white left & right working towards a common goal of making the world a better place… this partisan world that has been created by Bush & Clinton is a dead end.

Fired up - ready to go! OBAMA 08

By Fred

January 4, 2008 1:45 AM | Link to this

Dear f(x) = 36x^2,

A society that fears non whites? give that race card a damn rest, it is way over played and very tired. OUR (notice I said OUR, without any reference to skin color) society is so diverse that actually “whites” are a minority. Just damn, that blows your race baiting out of the water but won’t change your mind as you will never be confused by the facts.

To most people I have talked to, Obama is questionable because of his “lack of political experience.” I kinda like that personally. I might just throw the brother a vote in our primary and see how it plays out.

Oh, and on a side note: How come I have to be “white” while all you non whites have to be called some hyphenated BS Americans? Isn’t just being an American good enough for you?

By Fred

January 4, 2008 1:51 AM | Link to this

Another side note, BECAUSE the race baiting warlords who sell “their people” out time and time again, (Jesse Jackson, AL Sharpton etal), won’t endorse Obama leads me to want to vote for him. It shows he (Obama) isn’t a part of the race baiters and is an AMERICAN, not some hyphenated race baiter.

By ron

January 4, 2008 2:30 AM | Link to this

Who really won,Obama or Oprah?

By Anthony Moore

January 4, 2008 2:53 AM | Link to this

I watched the caucus process last night and like it. Why doesn’t Georgia pass laws to have the same process? It really gets the community involved and your voice and vote truly counts!!! The people in Iowa realize that we need a person in office that both parties in the House and Senate will be willing to work with to get new laws passed. It does not matter how much experience you have had in Congress if many Republicans do not like you because of the pass..(i.e Hillary Clinton). We need to get things done, laws passed, changes made. Hillary has been given 16 years to do that and still look at American.

By estoy2u

January 4, 2008 6:01 AM | Link to this

Now if the media will just let the African American label just be put on the back burner

By Leah

January 4, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

I don’t want to be overly excited; however, I am ecstatic about last night’s caucus results. Thank you Iowa for getting it right! Divisive, partisan politics is out. I hope this is the beginning of the end of the Clinton era. I also hope this is the end to those battles that date back to the 60’s.

It’s time we move forward as a united country. “Time for change we can believe in.”

By Lisa Hampton

January 4, 2008 9:13 AM | Link to this

Obama’s victory in Iowa is proof that anything is possible in America. Obama I support you until the very end! Go Obama. Fired up, ready to Go!

By xavier

January 4, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this

SOUNDS LIKE MS. TUCKER LOOKS FOR HILLERY TO WIN BECAUSE SHE IS RELATED TO BILL. YET EVEN WITH ALL THE GOOD THAT BILL DID, THESE WHITE BREAD, CHURCH GOING FOLK WON’T FORGET BILL WAS THE ONLY PRESIDENT WHO GOT “CAUGHT” IN THE WHITE HAVING SEX WITH AN AID. NEXT: HILLERY JUST REMINDS ME OF A REPUBLICAN DRESSED LIKE A DEMOCRATE JUST TO GET VOTES..HMMMM.. WHERE’S BARACK!!