Well, it's two fold. 1) We got a lot of sheep out there but 2) Americans desperately want to believe that they've finally found a candidate who truly represents change and is not part of the establishment elite...and most importantly,
can actually win.
They're going find out soon enough that Obama is yet another shill in a long line of political pawns who just happens to be the
slightly lesser of two evils. I've been saying this for months but some still don't realize how tied into the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Obama is. Right behind Hillary, he's there go to guy on the democratic side and they've been pumping in funds to his campaign from day one.
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How Barack Obama learned to story worrying and love AIPAC."
"But Obama has already started to garner pro-Israel financial support. A review of donations to his campaigns for federal office since 2000 by the Center for Responsive Politics showed Obama had received more than $110,000 from pro-Israel sources through last June. Prominent among his backers are the Chicago-based Pritzker family, which owns the Hyatt chain of hotels. Lee Rosenberg, AIPAC's treasurer, is also a backer, and a member of Obama's finance committee."
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article6640.shtml
But let's see, just for fun Obama =
Candidate who consistently voted to fund the war in Iraq
http://media.www.lawrentian.com/med...Really.An.Agent.Of.Change-3154799-page2.shtml
Candidate who will not commit to ending the Iraq war by 2013
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zza5rjai9F0
Candidate who will not take nuclear options w/Iran off the table
http://www.counterpunch.org/obama03052007.html
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And while we should take no option, including military action, off the table, sustained and aggressive diplomacy combined with tough sanctions should be our primary
means to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons." - about 25 paragraphs down
Candidate who will grant eventual amnesty to 38 million illegal immigrants
http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=18901557&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=6
http://www.phxnews.com/comment.php?cid=229885
(and yes, all 3rd party, independent studies are showing the number much much higher than the official 11-20 million figure the gov't keeps throwing at us)
Just to name a few...
Would he make a better president than Bush? Of course, but who the hell wouldn't. Better than Clinton? That's the real question because in the end, Barack is supposed to be this sort of agent of change and yet according to a new article put out by Salon, he and Hillary have voted the same
257 out of 267 times (
http://reddit.com/r/politics/info/679qo/comments/).
The truth is Americans are being taken for a ride like never before and there's little they can do about it besides vote for Ron Paul. He's not perfect but he was and still is the biggest threat to the status quo followed by a very distant Romney (whom much of the political establishment/media also despises). But instead, after telling exit polls in both New Hampshire and Florida that illegal immigration & the economy are their two biggest concerns right now, the sheep overwhelmingly throw their support behind the biggest pro-war, pro-amnesty, economically retarded lunatic of them all, Mccain.
In my opinion they deserve what's coming.