Go for it Obama campaign. Let them sneer about the politics of hope all they want. Hope trumps fear any day and it is the politics of fear, which is the same script used by Bush and the Republicans. Hillary/Bill sounds downright nasty when she says negative things. Is that her so called strength? Being presidential. The political pundits all say that nobody likes negative campaigning, but also say that it always works. Miss goody two shoes blissfully said that she was running a positive campaign, but when she got caught tripping over her own tongue, and she started dropping in the polls like a ton of cow dung, she decided to use that dung to hurl at her opponents, mainly Obama.

"Today, we learned, once again from ABC News, that Obama's campaign has also registered web sites that could be used against Clinton."

Wrong, Chicago Tribune. Obama has not -also- 'registered a website that could be used against Clinton', or I guess it could be used against her because it is her own words, but Obama campaign has, and rightfully so, put up this website to refute Clinton's attacks, to catalogue them. How is it an influential newspaper and all these influential newspapers cannot get this straight? Why is it no one is actually diseminating the differences here between these two sites and attacking or damning Clinton for putting up a website strictly to attack Senator Obama? His is a categorizing of what she actually said against him. I just can't believe or accept this. Obama campaign has done the right thing, put all Hillary's attacks against him on a site so all can see each and every one of her attacks against him. So in a sense it's a website of Hillary's own stuff against Hillary!

Maybe the Obama campaign will use the new web sites to finally give straight forward answers about his cushy land deal with Tony Rezko.

Hope does not top fear any day. If so we would be talking about President Kerry this year. W won running on fear of terrorist and fear of gay marriage four years ago. I think Obama is doing the right thing here but fear does work, there is no denying that. The Clinton camp will probably say that Obama is going negative by pointing at baseless negative attacks coming from Clinton and her people.

A black pastor says although there is a leadership vacuum in the African-American community, Illinois Senator Barack Obama does not fit the bill to fill the void. The New Jersey minister hopes his new website, ObamaNation.com, will expose Obama's voting history and prove to black voters that the much-touted Democratic presidential hopeful does not represent their values. Pastor Clenard Childress heads the group Christians for Social Justice and is assistant to the national director of the pro-life group called Life Education and Resource Network, or LEARN. Also, he has recently launched the new ObamaNation.com website and its "Obama Blog," to educate the black community regarding what he calls the "horrific" voting record of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Childress says "winds of change" are blowing in the black community, but he believes the election of Obama as America's next president would be "a step back" at best. "All polling shows that African Americans are pro-life," the pro-family advocate notes, and "all polling shows that they are not in agreement with same-sex 'marriage. Childress says his organization's goal is to get these facts about black America to translate into action at the voting booth. And one way of making that happen is to make Obama's own voting record known, the Christians for Social Justice official explains. With regard to abortion that record is disheartening, he notes; "even on the Born-Alive [Infants Protection] Act, I was appalled that he would deny medical assistance to a child that survived an abortion.expose the Illinois senator's liberal stances on several key issues affecting the black community. Senator Obama's support for abortion garnered him a 100 percent rating from Illinois Planned Parenthood, an organization whose founder called blacks "human weeds." But according to Childress, the Illinois lawmaker and Democratic presidential candidate does not represent the views of the African-American community on abortion or any number of other important issues, including homosexuality.
Yesterday the London Times reported central questions about Senator Obama's shocking dearth of international experience: "Fresh doubts over Barack Obama's foreign policy credentials were expressed on both sides of the Atlantic last night, after it emerged that he had made only one brief official visit to London - and none elsewhere in Western Europe or Latin America." It also reported: "Mr. Obama had failed to convene a single policy meeting of the Senate European subcommittee, of which he is chairman."These basic facts, coming from a major foreign newspaper, are a sobering counterpoint to a gushing Boston Globe editorial that endorsed Obama for having "an intuitive sense of the wider world with all its perils and opportunities." Intuition may be a laudable quality among psychics and palm readers, but for a professional American diplomat like myself, who have spent a career toiling in the vineyards of national security, it has no relevance to serious discussion of foreign policy. In fact, Obama's supposed "intuitive sense" is no different from George W. Bush's "instincts" and "gut feeling" describing his own foreign policy decision-making. We have been down this road before.Barack Obama attended elementary school in Indonesia before the age of 10, his chief period of time abroad. I, too, spent years overseas in my formative school years. While the experience certainly whetted my appetite for international relations, it did not provide me either with "intuition" or expertise in the conduct of my nation's foreign policy. My understanding of international affairs came from twenty-three years of professional diplomacy, much of it spent overseas dealing at senior levels on crises such as serving as the acting U.S. ambassador to Iraq stationed in Baghdad during the first Gulf War. Senator Obama echoes and reflects the same attitude of contempt for "on the ground experience." Acting on his superior "intuition" he has proposed unilateral bombing of Pakistan and unstructured summits without preconditions with adversaries such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il. As we have learned, the march of folly is paved with good but naïve intentions. After he came to Washington, Obama's views were thoroughly conventional and even timid. In 2004, he said about the 2002 congressional Authorization for the Use of Military Force: "I'm not privy to Senate intelligence reports. What would I have done? I don't know." On Iraq-related votes in the Senate, Obama's record identically matches Senator Clinton's–with the exception that Senator Clinton voted against the confirmation of General George Casey as Army chief of staff. Obama's vote was typically passive.Senator Clinton for President, because we know that she has the experience and the judgment that comes from having been in the arena for her entire adult life–and from close personal participation with her in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy. And we have trust in her to end the war in Iraq in the most responsible way, consistent with our national security interests.