Thanks for the facts. It is very scary when Presidential Campaigns twist the truth to fit their needs. Like Clinton flyers saying Obama is doing a TRILLION dollar tax increase! (another lie) Do they ever STOP? Does America want an Administration that behaves so deceitfully? Back to the '90's you go...wonder who the Intern will be this time round? Glad it won't be MY Daughter. The Clintons seem morally bankrupt. That is my opinion.

What impresses us most about Obama is his ability to inspire hope in those who’ve learned to dismiss the political process as a cynical joke. And his gift goes beyond speechifying, which he does with uncommon grace. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has charged that he is short on experience. We disagree. He has had more years of legislative experience than Clinton, with three years in the U.S. Senate and eight years in that rough-and-tumble body known as the Illinois Legislature. During those 11 years, he successfully brought together Democrats and Republicans to pass legislation benefitting ordinary people — from tax credits for children to ethics reform in Congress.

And what good did Clinton’s experience serve us when she voted to give President Bush a blank check to wage war on Iraq? Few decisions in history have proved so predictably wrong-headed. As the most engaged First Lady in history and as a U.S. Senator, she should have known better. Yet Clinton never even read the National Intelligence Estimates that assessed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as odious but not an imminent threat to the United States. Our own congressmember, Lois Capps, knew better when she voted against the war authorization act.

At that time, Obama, who had not yet assumed his U.S. Senate seat — and could not vote — spoke out extensively against the war and predicted many of the horrors that have since come to pass: thousands of American dead, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead. Escalating terrorism. A staggering drain on the economy. Untold dreams forever deferred.

While Clinton is certainly a strong candidate for president, she remains fundamentally a tragic figure in American politics. The victim of one of the most relentlessly vicious and sexist smear campaigns unleashed in recent memory, Clinton retreated into her own interior fortress. We sympathize with her plight, but that’s no reason to give her our vote on February 5. In the next four years, we need to tear down the fortress walls and begin the hard work of rediscovering what it really means to be American. As a nation, we long to regain the courage of our convictions, to renew our faith in American ideals.

The groundswell of support for Barack Obama is based on the belief that he has the ability to inspire hope and define our aspirations as a nation in a way that reaches not only Americans, but the world. We believe this as well, and urge you to vote for Barack Obama in the Democratic primary on February 5.

http://www.independent.com/news/2008/jan...

Who is STANDING for the VOTERS?

We KNOW WHO is STANDING for CLINTON!

Mr. Reid, WHERE can I VOTE?

This is the Clintons. They divide and conquer. It's not about the Country, or the People, with them....it's about THEM getting POWER of the Presidency at ANY cost. Now they have sparked Women against Men (to get the WOMAN Vote), Union against Union (to GET and STOP CERTAIN Votes), and Race!!...WHAT is next?

God help the US.