PaulFitzroy, you are way off base, and out of line. Your posts are on the borderline of a well desered pitting.
This man is damn impressive, and would be regardless of his skin color, and regardless of what you think of Jackson and Sharpton. His oratory, the strength of his ideas, his intellect, the rightness of his idealism: all are on the highest level. That combination will win him a lot of support, regardless of skin. He has mine from that one speech alone. A man to watch.
I agree that there doesn’t seem to be any real debate here, though. There’s a MSPIMS thread with virtually the same content.
Maybe the debate is, is there a reasonably good chance that Obama could become a leader of National significance in the near future?
If Bush returns to office (God help us), I’d throw my support behind Obama for 2008. Sorry, Hillary, but you’re too polarizing.