Comments on: Election 2008 Prediction: Obama wins by 5 percent; we will all be depressed

By: Jiban

Jiban — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 06:14:38 +0000

Phil

I so much want to see Obama to win, he exudes youth, better spirit, entusiasm and a clear change path…He is not a astute politician and he is much nearer to people…

But, the machinary and experience to ‘act weird, but timingly’ is something which voters would buy in – like in NH. May be the cunningness and skillful manipulation of the campaign will work in Hillary’s favour !

- We remain to watch and see…

By: Luni Joi

Luni Joi — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:14:45 +0000

In the beginning, I didn’t like Hillary; but I always like Bill Clinton.
I hope Hillary wins. But I know she won’t.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:54:36 +0000

Let me make some obvious statements. Ron Paul and Kucinich have no chance of winning their parties’ nominations, let alone becoming president. Barack Obama has no chance of being elected president because he’s black just as Romney has no chance of being elected president because he’s a mormon. The difference is that the democrats are dumb enough to possibly nominate Obama anyway while the republicans will never nominate Romney. Hillary and Giuliani are jokes that will not be nominated. The most electable and likely candidates are Edwards and McCain, who’re both doing well in the most recent polls. The democrats do have an advantage going into this election but that’s not so important as a bad candidate, like Dukakis or Mondale in the past, will still sink them fast.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:48:24 +0000

Please. I love Kucinich, but he’s not going to win the nomination. If Obama loses to Hillary because of votes going to Kucinich, we’ll all lose. Sorry, the primary is the most important election. The Republicans will lose the final race, but let’s not make protest votes in the Democratic primary. Just say no to Hillary!

By: Daniel Taylor

Daniel Taylor — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:39:24 +0000

I can’t see the Democrats winning with Hillary. Too many people just simply do not like her. If the extreme left thinks they have a lock on hatred with Bush, try to put Hillary in office. You will see the right come unglued during the election.

Plus she has a temper, a legendary temper. Any opponent who can bait her into losing it on the national stage, even a little bit, will sink her. Americans just don’t like that in a president.

Yet, I can’t see Obama taking the nomination even though I think he would be more of a challenge. It will be interesting to see.

Honestly, if Giuliani wins the Republican nomination my bets are on him against Hillary or Obama.

By: Paul S.

Paul S. — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:29:49 +0000

Obama hired the one and same PR firm as Deval Patrick, Together we can. I think we may well be on our way to electing our second black president (Clinton being the self proclaimed first). Unfortunately Barack will probably turn out to be another Jimmy Carter. Maybe it won’t be such a bad thing. Four years of dismal hopelessness, similar to ‘76 thru ‘80, will remind us that things really aren’t that bad now, making these the good old days…………

By: Michael S

Michael S — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:10:00 +0000

Edwards wins Iowa and your bet is off.

What I like about your really depressing post is that it demonstrates that the era of good feeling that Obama is so high on is going to turn out to be a mirage. We need a fighter.

By: JB

JB — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:07:00 +0000

Obama will definitely win the nomination once Edwards’ supporters finally give up on him and move over to Obama. But Obama is hiding something, and I think the Hillary campaign knows it and is afraid it will backfire to use it; Hillary recently made a point of noting that with her there are no “surprises.” You can bet the Republicans know what it is, and are praying he will win the nomination.

By: Alex Campbell

Alex Campbell — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:18:17 +0000

“I think Paul’s views WRT abortion and stem cell research make him a hard cell”

Either that was a brilliant typo or a marginal pun. His stance on abortion will be a serious challenge to the cross-party appeal that everyone seems to think he has.

“But I think it’s academic, because I see no chance of him getting out of the convention with the nomination. He will remind people too much of Ross Perot, in the “he’s a little crazy” sense.”

He does come across as a little crazy, perhaps because he is so ardently in favour of abolishing the federal government.

“To decry democrats as tax/spend is fairly laughable. Do you honestly think that we’re in better shape now (9.1 trillion debt, deficit either $210B or $600B depending on whether you count SS loans or not, $250B in interest) than at the end of Clinton’s terms (5 trillion debt, no meaningful deficit, $200B in interest)”

Indeed. How many Democratic social programs could the USA have paid for with the amount that Bush and his cronies have spent on their Iraq misadventure?

By: Stu

Stu — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 00:11:48 +0000

It really doesn’t matter who wins. Until we can find an alternative fuel source we’ll just be stuck in the same game with different players. We’re doomed because we are controlled by a corporate mentality that places the dollar far above human life and human rights. Don’t you love calling customer support and talking to someone in India who you can barely understand and reads from a list of scripted responses.

I’m still flabbergasted that on 9/11 half of the news reports were speculating how the terrorist attacks would affect Wall Street.

Life sucks…pass me another beer.