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Originally Posted by Delgar
Really? I'm not an Obama kinda guy, being more right wing than left, but Obama's candidacy is intriguing. Were it Hillary vs. McCain, that's two establishment folks fighting it out, boring.
Watching Obama leap onto the scene is pretty exciting, and at the least he offers a different way of dealing with international relations.
Had Ron Paul not been disclosed as such a racist, I'd otherwise have wanted him to win the Republican nomination. When the news about his newsletter came out, I was pretty shocked. I suppose he always was a fringe player anyway, but still, I fancy myself a Libertarian, and he's the closest of all the candidates to that ideal. But I'd never vote for him given his disclosed history.
Obama has already had the dirt thrown at him, while McCain has had an easy run. Obama is primed to win the presidency. He'll surge in the fall, because I expect McCain has a lot of bad history that is about to come out. First, he's not really a conservative, and second, he flip-flops more than Kerry. And I suppose those two problems are related.
Hopefully, Obama won't have enough influence or foolhardiness to wreak a socialist agenda on the US, and will be an intelligent president who really thinks before acting, unlike Dubya.
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McCain's biggest issues will be his running mate choice and how clean he can run.
I still think he will choose Joe Lieberman, which would be a great choice IMO. He will alienate the base, but really he never has been the choice of the base and what are they going to do, vote Democrat in protest? Nope. He'll win some moderate dem votes with that choice.
I think he MUST run a clean campaign and not throw any mud at Obama. He's been able to do that in the primaries (other Republicans, not Obama) because of the ease of his nomination. I think throwing mud at the golden boy (and I mean that in a complimentary way) would be a negative for McCain.
I just wish Obama would start talking policy. I don't blame him for not doing it so far, he hasn't had to. Why risk it? At some point, though, he will have to say some things that far left folks aren't going to like. He's had a little trouble with that with the whole Rev. Wright fiasco. He should've thrown that guy right under the bus immediately IMO. He needs to show that he is a strong and decisive leader when faced with adverse situations. His biggest issue so far, IMO. His running mate choice will be interesting as well, but not as important as McCain. No clue who he will pick...I just can't see Hillary being his choice....and I hope it's not Edwards either.