I have been watching Obama since his first day in Congress, his passionate speech on the evil of greed in America was awe inspiring which is why people in the States want him he inspires 'hope'.

Watching him creame Hilary in the primaries in Iowa with such a huge margin has not only provided me with great pleasure, it has reminded me so much of Gough Whitlams "Its Time campaign" that swept the Liberals out of power much to my disgust at the time.

Howard did not get it and he paid the price for his arrogance, people want change and meaning in their lives and most importantly hope. When 20 million Americans are starving and cannot get health insurance for themselves and their families, its easy to see why Obama is their hope for the future because he believe's he can change it and he makes you believe it too.

With the big lead in Iowa, New Hamshire will be a shoe in and the road to the White House will be on track for Obama, providing he can convince Bill Richardson to run with him as his future vice President.

I don't see the Republican's comming back after this because like Bobby Kennedy he will be unstoppable unless the unthinkable happens once again.

If only Australian politics could be this interesting.

The problem with American presidential politics, we don't know who is financing the respective candidates.

When elected who will they beholding to, and though Obama comes across clearly and sounding sincere, I have not heard him comment on hard social issues, as Hilary Clinton did in Iowa, " Are you ready for Universal health care?".

Rhetoric is a politicians tool, but having lived in the States, and seeing the poverty level a large number of Americans live in, that comment gave me some hope for them.

So my aud$10. is on Hilary!

Kipp - Hillary is spelt with 2 "l"s but on this occasion I agree with you that the Clinton machine and lack of substance will destroy Obama's White House challenge in the end. Btw Hillary won the NH primary. Super Tuesday will virtually see Hill & Bill Clinton as the next President(s) of the US - again! Can't beat nostalgia! Back to the future for America.

Using an old ploy to get elected Obama claimed he would end the war in Iraq, but refuses to set any deadline for the withdrawal of American troops, not even by 2013, when he would be inaugurated a second time if elected this year and reelected in 2012. He also supports the nuclear option. He has called for intensifying US military action in Afghanistan and crossing the border into Pakistan, and has echoed the Bush administration’s campaign of economic sanctions, diplomatic saber-rattling and military threats against Iran.
Obama and Clinton, both millionaires are representatives of the class of millionaires and multi-millionaires who dominate US political and social life. The Washington Post described his key fundraisers in these terms: “veterans of the Democratic financial establishment: a Hyatt hotel heiress, a New York hedge fund manager, a Hollywood movie mogul and a Chicago billionaire.” His billionaire supporters include investor Warren Buffett, currency speculator George Soros, hedge fund mogul Paul Tudor Jones and the Henry Crown family. Obama raised more money on Wall Street than Hillary Clinton who billionaire and media mogul Murdoch is promoting. Obama in the White House would not represent any fundamental change in the direction of US foreign or domestic policy, but he would, it is believed, put a new face on US imperialism, sorely needed after the debacle of the Bush presidency.
Ever since the 9/11 attacks, the Bush administration and the main repressive agencies of the federal government—the Pentagon, the CIA, the NSA, the FBI—have been developing plans for the suspension of constitutional rule and the establishment of an executive branch dictatorship.

My husband and I lived in the United States for almost a decade - we saw it all... I will be very surprised if Hillary Clinton loses to Obama. I may be proven wrong - but somehow I doubt it!

that's the trouble with voting for politicians. in the end, they are politicians. democracy is our only hope, but it needs citizens, not sheep. i think the human race may not be democracy quality. let's hope the emergence of homo superior is not long delayed.