Mr. Obama is playing to a non existent middle and losing blacks and youths every time he tries to gain the middle ground. The worst thing is, that good money is being handed over by the wheel barrow to soft feeling sweet smelling men loaded up with good ideas that don't work and will never work again in this land. If Mr. Obama is going to get elected he has to unite his base. That is all. If he wants to govern from the middle; great, but get elected first. If Mr. Obama thinks he is ever going to be able to play nice with the republicans; he is wrong. We have our ideologues, and they have theirs. The Republicans know how to rattle the conservative chains. The will never call Mr. Obama the Nword, but the will remind their base a thousand times over that he is black. LIke Bill Clinton saying: inject, in regard to race. Really; what do blacks inject? If you call him young you call him a boy. If you call him elite, you call him uppity. If you call him inexperienced you call him stupid. Why not just lynch the guy and burn the body? I'm telling you, The republicans have tied a bag around Mr. Obama's head, and now all of you pundits are going to take a shot at him. Good for you. If Mr. Obama had me in his corner I'd tell him to get the bag off, and come out swinging. But the those nice guys, playing for a middle they will never find, will tell him to take punches until he has proved to the world and to America that he is a loser through and through. It makes me wonder if the republicans are not buying these people off.

Re: James A, Sweeney

Obama has lost his supporters with his arragance with his "Citizen of the World" and his statements on what the republicans will do to his name, his face, being Black etc. Not one republican has said the things that most republicans would like Sen. McCain to use such as the past judgement of Sen. Obama and his assoicates. Obama has been playint the race card ever since he gave that speech. No one can believe him and many of those that did support him now see him as an opportunist, accomplishing nothing in Ill. for 8 years and yes, just "WORDS, WORDS WORDS" meaningless. He cannot be trusted, he is risky in today's world, and we do not care about his color but do care about his inexperience and his children who have been taught by Rev. Wright since they were born to hate white people. No excuses for him.