from huffington post:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-wilson/obamas-hollow-judgment_b_89441.html

From
“Barack Obama’s Top 10 Known, Vetted, No Surprises, Electable Things”

YES.  As a state senator in Illinois he worked across party liens with Republicans to pass a bill that provided health insurance to over 100,000 people in the state.  (By contrast, has Hillary Clinton ever passed any healthcare reform?  No)

He also passed one of the most significant ethics reform bills as a state Senator in Illinois and then passed another when he entered the U.S. Senate.  He has passed more legislative bills in his political career than Hillary Clinton.

Obama has a record that says he can get the job done.

YES.  The Republican nominee will not be able to say that Obama voted for the war.  Unlike Hillary who kept her mouth shut on the topic, Obama publicly opposed the war before it began.  Some might say “Well he wasn’t in the Senate.”  However that excuse doesn’t explain Barack Obama’s prescience to predict exactly what would happen if we entered—right down to the ethnic groups that would be fighting.  It’s not just his opposition that was important.  It is his wisdom about how the world outside our shores works.  That wisdom enabled him to describe precisely what the consequences of an Iraq invasion would be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0BzRhtAcd8

Only Barack Obama has released his full tax returns to the public.  He said it ws important for him to do so to remain accountable to the American people.  In fact, the Washington Post has compared records and found that Obama leads the pack on issues of transparency, accountability and ethics reform.  Obama also recently passed legislation to allow you to easily track how every penny of your tax dollars are being spent by the government.  Senator Obama has made himself open for vetting about his financial dealing and any potential conflicts of interest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIZAuKedoa8

YES.  While Hillary has said that she will continue to take lobbyist money and that “lobbyists represent real Americans”  Senator Obama does not take federal lobbyist or PAC money for his campaign.  He set out an aggressive, detailed ethics reform agenda to demonstrate how he will operate as President so that lobbyists do not override the will of the American people.  In fact, he attracts a greater bulk of small donors than Clinton.  Based on his record in Illinois, Senator Obama is a known quantity fore reliably getting progressive legislation passed and not allowing lobbyists to destroy the effort.

http://pop.youtube.com/watch?v=lQK84pmCfBY&feature=related

Absolutely.  In the same way that he knew not to go into Iraq but to focus on Afghanistan, Obama has the judgment to know how to pick and choose his political battles as well.  When it is time to fight back though, he does so swiftly and sharply while maintaining dignity.

Does he have the gravitas to withstand political pressure and still come out on top?
Definitely.  He has been piled on throughout the campaign season and still has risen above it without tearing down others.  His quick wit enables him to always get the better of any attempts to corner him.

Yes.  While Hillary, like George Bush, sets pre conditions for negotiating with nations that are our foes, Barack Obama has said that he will change this practice of the Bush Administration and talk with our enemies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK4S4fY8gFA&NR=1

For more

http://thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/barack-obamas-top-10-known-vetted-no-surprises-electable-things/

IT'S THE WAR!

Just in case you think that our economy is not in the toilet, you can select here for a reality check:

There is a rather widespread agreement among most economists that the War is responsible for our Economy being in the toilet today. Here is a clock for our national debt.  Thanks to the war, it continues to tick.

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

Who is REALLY responsible for this war?  It is the members of Congress who voted for it.

1. It is the members of Congress like Hillary Clinton who didn't follow the example of 25% of their fellow law makers who, with the same information with which to make their decision had better judgment and voted against the war.

2.  It is the members of Congress like Hillary Clinton who didn't follow the example of not only millions of Americans but millions of people worldwide who were against this war.  Many of us, like Barack Obama had even less information than Senator Clinton and members of Congress about the war.  Yet we could make the right judgment call.

Millions of Americans marched in the streets in Feb 2003 to protest the war.  (We had enough sense to be against the war and we didn’t even have as much information as Hillary did.  That says very little to recommend her judgment as a leader of our nation.) 

I was living in LA at the time and I marched down Hollywood Blvd with about 60,000 other Americans.  San Francisco had an even bigger turnout.  That crowd was close to 150,000 people.  

FROM WIKI: Millions of people protested in approximately 800 cities around the world. According to BBC News , between six and ten million people took part in protests in up to sixty countries over the weekend of the 15th and 16th; other estimates range from eight million to thirty million.

The biggest protests took place in Europe/ The protest in Rome involved around 3 million people, and is listed in the 2004  Guiness Book of World Records  as the largest anti-war rallying history Opposition to the war was highest in the Middle East although protests there were relatively small. Mainland China was the only major region not to see any protests, but small demonstrations attended mainly by foreign students were seen later" 

I AM VOTING FOR THE CANDIDATE WHO SHOWED THAT HE HAD ENOUGH JUDGEMENT TO BE AGAINST THE WAR BEFORE WE INVADED IRAQ AND NOT SEVERAL YEARS LATER.

IF MORE CONGRESSPEOPLE LIKE HILLARY HAD DEMONSTRATED SUCH GOOD JUDGMENT, WE WOULD NOT HAVE THE ECONOMIC MESS THAT WE HAVE TODAY.

2002 Interview with Barack Obama on Public Affairs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXzmXy226po

Here is a comparison of Obama's foreign policy versus Hillary's if you want a comparison of the two:

I am voting for Obama because of the two candidates, he is the one who has demonstrated that  he has the best judgment.  Yes, Obama has charisma while Hillary has the personality some say of a stick, but Obama also has a lot more to offer in addition to the charming spark of charisma. 

Most Americans (certainly most Democrats)  will agree the biggest and most harmful decision of this Administration was their decision to invade Iraq.  it is from that that we can attribute loss of life, enormous national debt, destruction to our economy, loss of respect and standing in the world among other free nations and more.

What good is a candidate like Hillary if she hits the floor on day one with the wrong answer? 

I prefer a candidate who hits the floor on day one with the correct answer, not one who has the right answer several years later.  That is why I am voting for Obama.   I prefer a candidate like Barack Obama who clearly made his case against invading Iraq in the beginning--not several years later.

1.  Hillary couldn't even choose the right party the first time when she was beginning her adulthood.  She was a member of the Republican Party for several years before she became a Democrat.  She even served as president of the young Republicans club at Wellesley.  Obama has never been anything BUT a democrat.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/03/hillary_king_and_goldwater.html

2. Hillary didn't have enough judgment to make the right decision about war the first time.  (and thus she is in part responsible for the mess that our country currently is in.  If we had not invaded Iraq.  Our country would be in a much better place today.)   She went along with the majority of the herd on that vote who also happened to be Republicans. 

Today Hillary crows that she made the "best decision given the information she had at the time." But that is obviously not the truth.  156 members of Congess voted against going to war in Iraq--over 25% of Congress.  They all had the same information that Hillary did and yet THEY were able to make the best decision.

But her excuse pales even further against the backdrop of MILLIONS of people who opposed the war before we ever went.  Obama was among these people and there is a video of him when he was a Senator in the Illinois legislature speaking out against the war on Public Affairs.  And Obama made several speeches against the war in the fall of 2002 as well.

The Two Biggest Issues which must resolved if America is to move forward go hand in glove:  War and Lobbyists

1.  Iraq -  Until we bring our troops home and stop pouring all our tax dollars down that dark hole, we will not have enough money fix all the economic problems that we have here in our own country.  And, until we remove all US combat troops from Iraq, Terrorists will always have the target they need in order to continue and that target will be American soldiers and innocent Iraqi citizens.

2. Lobbyists - Until we get the voices of special interests out of Washington DC, it will be THEIR legislation that gets enacted and not that of the people.  In spite of what Hillary Clinton says, the overwhelming majority of the professional lobbyists in DC today do not represent the average American citizen.  They represent huge war contractors like GE, Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Blackwater.

SOME CANDIDATES SAY THAT IRAQ IS NOT AN ISSUE.  I SAY THAT IT IS THE LARGEST ISSUE.  THAT IS WHY I WILL BE VOTING FOR THE CANDIDATE WHO HAD ENOUGH JUDGMENT TO GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME: BARACK OBAMA.

IF MORE CONGRESSMEN AND WOMAN such as Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Boxer, Akaka, Bingaman, Byrd, Chafee, Conrad, Corzine, Dayton, Durbin, Feingold, Graham, Inouye, Jeffords, Kennedy, Leahy, Levin, Mikulsik, Murray, Reed, Sarbanes, Stabenow, Wellstone, Wyden, Hilliard, Pastor, Snyder, Thompson, Matsui, Woolsey, Miller, Pelosi, Lee, Stark, Eshoo, Honda, Lofgren, Farr, Condit, Capps, Becerra, Solis, Watson, Roygbal-Allard, Napolitano, Waters, Millender-McDonald, Baca, Sanchez, Davis, Filner, DeGette, Udall, Larson, DeLauro, Maloney, Brown, kMeek, Hastings, McKinney, Lewis, Abercrombie, Rush, Jackson, Lipinski, Guitierrez, Davis, Schakowsky, Costello, Evans, Visclosky, Hostettler, Carson, Leach, Allen, Baldacci, Cardin, Cummings, Morella, Olver, Neal McGovern, Frank, Tierney, Capuano, Delahunt, Stupak, Kildee, Bonior, Levin, Rivers, Conyers, Kilpatrick, Dingell, McCollum, Sabo, Oberstar, thompson, Clay, McCarthy, Pallone, Payne, Holt, Menendez, Udall, Meeks, Nadler, Towns, Owens,Velaquez, Rangel, Serrano, Hinchey, Slaughter, LaFalce, Houghton, Clayton, Price, Watt, Strickland, Kaptur, Jones, Brown, Sawyer, Wu, Blumenauer, DeFazio, Hooley, Brady, Fattah, coyne, Doyle, Langevin, Clyburn, Duncan, Doggett, Ron Paul, Hinojosa, Reyes, Jackson-Lee, gonzalez, rodriguez, Johnson, Sanders, Scott, Moran, Inslee, Larsen, Baird, McDermott, Mollohan, Rahall, Baldwin, Kleczka, Barrett, and Obey HAD THE COURAGE 6 YEARS AGO TO SAY NO TO GEORGE BUSH.

156 of her fellow congressmen and women had the same information that Hillary had and they made the right decision.  She did not.

HITTING THE FLOOR ON DAY ONE WITH THE ABILITY TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION THE FIRST IS THE MOST IMPORTANT. 

WRONG DECISIONS BY LEADERS HAVE IRREVOCABLE CONSEQUENCES FOR CITIZENS.