This is a man who in the age of greed took the high road of community service. This is the good father and husband. This is the humble servant. This is the patient teacher. This is the scholar statesman. This is the man of deep Christian faith.

Obama has a reservoir of personal physical courage that is unmatched in presidential history. Why unmatched? Because as the first black contender for the presidency who will win, Obama, and all the rest of us, know that he is in great physical danger from the seemingly unlimited reserve of unhinged racial hatred, and just plain unhinged ignorant hatred, that swirls in the bowels of our wounded and sinful country. By stepping forward to lead, O...

This is a man who in the age of greed took the high road of community service. This is the good father and husband. This is the humble servant. This is the patient teacher. This is the scholar statesman. This is the man of deep Christian faith.

Obama has a reservoir of personal physical courage that is unmatched in presidential history. Why unmatched? Because as the first black contender for the presidency who will win, Obama, and all the rest of us, know that he is in great physical danger from the seemingly unlimited reserve of unhinged racial hatred, and just plain unhinged ignorant hatred, that swirls in the bowels of our wounded and sinful country. By stepping forward to lead, Obama has literally put his life on the line for all of us in a way no white candidate ever has had to do. (And we all know how dangerous the presidency has been even for white presidents.)

Obama brings a healing and uplifting spiritual quality to our politics at the very time when our worst enemy is fear. For eight years we've been ruled by a stunted fear-filled mediocrity of a little liar who has expanded his power on the basis of creating fear in others. Fearless Obama is the cure. He speaks a litany of hope rather than a litany of terror.

Speaking as a believing Christian I see the hand of a merciful God in Obama's candidacy. The biblical metaphors abound. The stone the builder rejected is become the cornerstone... the last shall be first... he that would gain his life must first lose it... the meek shall inherit the earth...

For my secular friends I'll allow that we may have just been extraordinarily lucky! Either way America wins.

Obama or McCain? -- D'uh!

I'd like to see a parliamentary system, myself, but right now in our 'winner-take-all," democracy it's Obama or McCain who will be the next President.

I hear him and see him as a very wise and thoughtful man, not to mention he was apparently intelligent enough to get through Harvard law school, and become the editor of their prestigious Harvard Law review.

I also see a man of integrity. (Certainly more integrity than a womanizing, crap shooter, pampered privileged son of a 4-star admiral...and used his Dad's status to get special favors not only in school but as a POW.)

The idea of Obama being a "liberal," is wrong.

It seems this tag is more a Republican creat...

Obama or McCain? -- D'uh!

I'd like to see a parliamentary system, myself, but right now in our 'winner-take-all," democracy it's Obama or McCain who will be the next President.

I hear him and see him as a very wise and thoughtful man, not to mention he was apparently intelligent enough to get through Harvard law school, and become the editor of their prestigious Harvard Law review.

I also see a man of integrity. (Certainly more integrity than a womanizing, crap shooter, pampered privileged son of a 4-star admiral...and used his Dad's status to get special favors not only in school but as a POW.)

The idea of Obama being a "liberal," is wrong.

It seems this tag is more a Republican creation to put people in a box and then kick them around.

While it is true Obama proposed policies that help Main St. more than Wall St., he also talks about energy independence which is good for the whole nation, he also does not talk Against War, but against stupid false wars started with deliberate deceptions.

Obama's made it clear he's keen on killing or capturing bin Laden; that makes sense to me; what doesn't make sense is the incompetent and corrupt leadership that used 9/11 to pursue their own agenda of war against Iraq (and bin Laden, the man of 9/11, still lives free and organizes against us.

Obama believe in Consensus! He believes in taking input from all sides: Democrat, Republican, Independents, etc. He believes there is no Red State America, no Blue State America, but the United States of America.

These are not just empty words for him. As a half-black person -- raised by Whites -- he's lived in both worlds from the day he was born and getting along -- consensus -- it a true belief of his.

As the son of a mother dying of cancer and fighting insurance companies for health care, he's serious about making that better for us all, too.

His pulling himself up by his own bootstraps, with opportunity and education, is also something he believes in.

He's for real.