Welcome StG, I missed you. You have good ideas, you are a very good person, do not disappear! 5-6 years before the kkk killer of black HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS in Mississippi State said in his apology that he "DID NOT KNOW THAT KILLING A BLACK WAS ILLEGAL" and learned it when he was soldier.
Today American people gave their preferences to a black man.
LONG LIVE THE PROGRESSIVE AMERICANS!

Democrats in rural strongholds refuse to give backing to Obama

the uglier truth is that part of white America remains secretly - or sometimes openly - deeply distrustful of the idea of a black president.
This state (West Virginia) is white, elderly and working class. This is not natural Obama country. People are not used to having black politicians on the ballot

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/08/barackobama.hillaryclinton

Antonius

I am hopeful that the need and desire for change is strong enough for the more racist elements in the Democratics, to finally rally them together and vote Obama into office.

Hilary has a chance to add her influence and unite the Democrats for a new America.

Fingers crossed.

:-)

Fractelle
Read the dramatic speech, of Chris Hedges "America's Democratic Collapse"

'Our state, our nation, has been hijacked by oligarchs, corporations and a narrow, selfish political elite, a small and privileged group which governs on behalf of moneyed interests." by the end of 2012, 12.7 percent of all residential borrowers in the United States will be forced out of their homes.
The U.S. economy has 3.2 million fewer jobs today than it did when George Bush took office, including 2.5 million fewer manufacturing jobs.
In the past three years, nearly 1 in 5 U.S. workers was laid off. Among workers laid off from full-time work, roughly one-fourth were earning less than $40,000 annually. A total of 15 million U.S. workers are unemployed, underemployed, or too discouraged to job hunt.

The defense budget for fiscal 2008 is the largest since the Second World War even as we have more than $400 billion in annual deficits. More than half of federal discretionary spending goes to defense.

Eighteen thousand people die in this country, according to the Institute of Medicine, every year because they can't afford health care.

Four media giants -- AOL-Time Warner, Viacom, Disney, and Rupert Murdoch's NewsGroup -- control nearly everything we read, see and hear.

George Bush, has done more to shred, violate or absent the government from its obligations under domestic and international law. He has refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol, backed out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, tried to kill the International Criminal Court, walked out on negotiations on chemical and biological weapons, and defied the Geneva Convention and human rights law. He has set up offshore penal colonies where we deny detainees basic rights and openly engage in torture. He launched an illegal war in Iraq based on fabricated evidence we now know had been discredited even before it was made public.

http://www.alternet.org/democracy/86973/?page=2

Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaide

ASymeonakis “am sure Obama and Rudd will improve the relations between Australia and USA for the benefits not only for both countries but for the whole world”

Like I said “the only way relations could improve between Australia and any possible Obama administration versus the Howard / Bush relationship would be if Obama was to give Krudd a good rodgering.”

As for “WE DO NOT WANT ONLY”

I only attempt to speak for myself, I figure you do the same. So stop trying to pass yourself off as the mouth piece for some sect, group or tribe.

The big battle for the White House is about to start. Who has the wind behind him, Barack Obama or John McCain? What hurdles do they face and what strategies can they employ to overcome them? Five leading US pundits give their views.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7443467.stm