Pop! Why the Obama Bubble Has Collapsed

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Good afternoon. One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
I am from Yemen and too poorly know English, please tell me right I wrote the following sentence: "To sustain excellence tthyroid that in published and they."
Regards :p Hart.

Hart of FL 9:42PM May 21, 2009

PWNT

Corrupt of IL 8:19PM May 11, 2009

Both the article and the early comments are only wishful thinking. Obama will win and win big, despite the desires of many McCain supporters. Reality will really set in and the next step is the beginning of reassembly of the pieces of Humpty Dumpty that the Republican Party has become. If you want my prediction, it will take several years (read: at least two election cycles). I dare say my prediction has a lot more chance of surviving the future than the one about bursting the Obama bubble.

Realist of IL 11:30AM October 20, 2008

Funny how the money and politics guy chose to write about the demise of Barack Obama - right before the Treasury Secretary pleaded for a $700B bailout from the Congress and the McCain campaign stumble on the shoals of the first Presidential and VP debates.
Nice to know we can add this clown to the list of people who felt the economy was "fundamentally sound" and that McCain's lack of knowledge - self attested to by the candidate - on the economy was not going to be a hinderance to his campaign.
Good luck finding a job in this market; but then - you knew that, right?

Derrick Gibson of FL 5:15PM October 04, 2008

Or my name isn't Carnac!

Carnac of NY 9:54PM October 01, 2008

Reminds me of the "Music Man" couldn't read a note, and his change message sounds like the music mans "think system". You can't think music out of trumpet and Obama can't sell me change without spelling out in details what change. This is the greatest country in the world and I'm not ready for a snake oil salesman to run my country.

Harry E. Stewart, Jr. of VA 12:55PM September 16, 2008

my comments were not posted.

ToObamaHaters of IA 11:17AM September 16, 2008

If anyone out there who thinks that the the US Of A isn't fed up with ongoing wars. Well,They are as blind as a bat. And just because McCain picked a woman don't mean Dit. It's a two hourse race and my money is on Obama. And it'll be a kiss off for the Republicans come Nov.With McCain it's just the same old Bush-ism. So hail to the new Chief, Obama, come Nov'

Leonard J. Douglas 2:15AM September 16, 2008

Obama has not closed the sale because even after a year and a half of running for president we still don't know who he really is. Obama is a likeable guy, but where are his friends from the past, the people he went to college with?? Truly effective leaders usually have many friends from their high school and college years that they forged lifetime friendships with. Obama doesn't seem to have any close male friends, also, where is are his family aside from his wife, two kids and an occasional appearance by his half sister Maya?? We never hear from his grandmother living in Hawaii, or his grandmother living in Kenya (who lives in a hut, like his half brother George Obama). Obama comes off like an aloof, lone wolf. My hesitance to vote for him has nothing to do with him being black either. I would have had complete confidence in General Colin Powell's ability to run the country. In fact, Powell proved to be the most honest person in Bush's administration who used him as a dupe for the runup to the war in Iraq. This was shown to be true in the Frontline documentary on PBS, "Bush's War." Powell was betrayed by Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney, etc. Also, I would have loved to have seen McCain put Condi Rice on his ticket. I really admire her as a human being, she has shown tremendous growth during the last four years. She was also outside the loop during the leadup to the war, now she seems to be running the foreign policy show with some successes and some failures. I hope she writes a book about being National Security Advisor and Secy of State next year. She has really shown her foreign policy chops and would have been a good choice I thought.

sc341 of NJ 1:24AM September 16, 2008

We have one election for president every four years. Perhaps a vast majority of us voters would prefer if all you pundits would just stop speculating and go get a job digging ditches or something equally worth while. If American voters really are swayed by all the things you guys write about, there is little hope for our democracy.
If we believe that a guy like McCain can do a better job than Obama, we'll vote for him. If not, we'll vote for Obama. It should be about that and all this other trash should be put where it belongs - in the garbage. Please spare us any more speculation! Oh wait, you can't because that's how you make your living. One more thing wrong with how we do things. We need a law that limits the campaign to eight weeks total. Until then, eveyone just does his or her job. Then they have a couple of debates and we vote. You guys would then have to go away! Wow how great would that be???

Peter Schmitt of IL 8:20PM September 15, 2008