Is Barack Obama all Media Hype?

Question

But is being an excellent speaker enough to become President?

But, I have looked up qualifications. He offeres nothing.

I am supporting Joe Biden. He offeres ideas and well thought out plans that are possible.

Answer 1

Yup. Who knew who he was before he was on Oprah. The sad truth is if Oprah Winfrey coughed, millions of American women, and "sensitive guys" would catch cold. Can you name one thing this man has done or stands for?

Answer 2

I am not sure it is all media hype ,maybe some. the media is just bandwagon riders( right and left) I think it is the hunger for something different in the U.S. Most of the population is very discouraged with the same old good 'ol boy system. Nothing seems to get done with the exception of finger pointing and useless partisan investigations of things both parties do. He seems ,for the most part ,as a fresh new face , that has not been soiled by the politics as usual that transpires in DC.
now.
Yes most everyone is sickened by Iraq, but politics are local. The blatant disregard for the wants and needs of the American public(from both sides of the aisle) is rubbing the public' fur the wrong way. The public would like the government to respond to local,in the U.S., disasters in a timely and compassionate manner. To actually investigate the companies that hire illegals and prosecute them to the full extent of the law, not just a meaning less fine.
Sure foreign affairs are important, but you have to clean your own back yard before you work on the neighbors.
I think that is what the public is hoping from Obama

Answer 3

No, Senator Obama is not all media hype. Listen to what he says and to whom. He does not pander to audiences, but expresses ideas on the United States and the presidency which should make people "think." Isn't that unique? A candidate who asks the voters the think is most refreshing.

Certainly his ability to deliver a speech should help his candidacy. Although, the opposite didn't seem to hurt our current president.

All-in-all, I'm still supporting Representative Paul.

Answer 4

Qualities I like:

-Voted YES on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives.

-Close tax loopholes for US companies relocating abroad

-REAL USA Plan: Reward companies that create domestic jobs.

-Bush tax cuts help corporations but not middle class.

Qualities I don't like

-Voted YES on establishing a Guest Worker program. (May 2006)

-Voted YES on allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security. (May 2006)

-Voted YES on giving Guest Workers a path to citizenship. (May 2006)


He has criticized the war but then like some other democrats did this

-Voted NO on redeploying troops out of Iraq by July 2007

-Voted YES on reauthorizing the PATRIOT Act.

(he did vote against the wiretapping program or extending it)

-Voted NO on extending the PATRIOT Act's wiretap provision.

-Voted NO on redeploying troops out of Iraq by July 2007.


This is why I am now voting for Ron Paul. I think Obama is a likeable person but unless he can prove that he is very against the war (He has criticized the war) and unless he can open up his eyes to what illegal immigration has done to our hospitals and open up his eyes as to why this won't prevent a new wave of illegal immigrants that will take the jobs the new citizens won't be hired to do anymore, it's going to cause a big problem. Maybe down the road it won't but I just feel that alot of new citizens are going to be displaced. They are going to need jobs so what is going to happen?

This isn't the solution. There needs to be a compromise and when it comes to the immigration issue, it just seems like the voting bill is FOR or AGAINST. Nay or yay. What about hospitals that closed down? Don't we need to compensate?
This has also proven that our discrimination laws don't apply for all.

I've witnessed hispanic managers who will not hire a black person or an asian and openly say this. Since the manager is a minority, the rules of anti-discrimination do not apply to that person so they can get away with it. Does anyone else see why that is wrong? If we are going to have rules and regulations, punishing those abiding by the rules is only going to create more homegrown anti-american statements.

Obama is also a likeable person because he's been around in life.

I do want America to be restored so I have to see from this perspective and ask these questions.

-Who was firmly against the war?
-Who is smart enough to know the war on drugs is irrelevant and has been used in the past to target a politician's minority of choice?
-Who believes in the constitution?
-Who knows amnesty or penalized amnesty is the wrong move especially if there is no compromise with hospitals that shut down in mind, citizens and those going through the legal procedure waiting in line?

Obama, I like you but the only person I know who supports firmly with street cred is Ron Paul.

Answer 5

he's a sturdy guy or woman that has been defective. and we can continuously be racially divided with preachers like wright around to evangelise hate and destructive destructive black guy introduced down via the white guy. what got here approximately to %. your self up make some thing of your self and recover from it end being the sufferer, wright instructors racial divide & hate, thank god he's not at the back of the pulpit anymore, yet all his sermons are on video, so obama can hear all he needs. extra blacks ought to be listening to bill cosby, he's a black guy that tells it like it is going to be.obama isn't black and white in his eyes, he says he's a black guy with a white mom.

Answer 6

In all honesty, you must ask youself one question. If he was not black would we have even heard of him. I don't think so, not yet anyway. He has only been a Senator for half a term. Not much to recommend him for the top job in the world. But then again there is John Edwards.

Maybe so.

Answer 7

Mr. Obama is doing his own hyping. I think the left wing main stream media are not choosing sides between him and Mrs. Clinton...yet.

Answer 8

Not as bad as Mitt Romney being Chinese hype by having Chinese clients who wanted a larger share of your US $$$

and Guiliani being cousin hype or g-ay hype

and Dummy Thompson for being deaf hype

Answer 9

No...he has qualifications and great ideas...the people who make that argument have never taken the ten seconds to look up his qualifications.

Answer 10

Yes, his voting record is not one of a person who is open to compromise. Unless by compromise you mean do it the Democrat way.