Obama and Huckabee sweep Iowa.

[ChiangMai noon]

Any comments from Americans that understand the relevance of this result??

Obama, Huckabee sweep to Iowa victories - Yahoo! News

[AntRobertson]

Huckabee... snigger.

[Butterfly]

cocksucker who need to be put down,

those christian talibans are a dangerous breed,

they are revolting against Dubya, so that should give you a clue

[ChiangMai noon]

This is why Iowans voted for Obama.

Here's why:

• More than half of Democratic voters said they wanted a candidate who could bring change to the country.

• More than half of the so-called change voters sided with Obama.

• Clinton was favored by voters who said experience mattered most to them, but only 20 percent of all Democrats fell into that category.

So in a campaign that pitted change against experience, change won and Obama rode its coattails.

Addressing a cheering crowd of supporters in Iowa, the Illinois senator said, "We are one nation. We are one people. And our time for change has come."

Clinton ignored the obvious, which is that voters in Iowa wanted something new — and she's not it.

"Together, we have presented a case for change and have made it absolutely clear that America needs a new beginning," she said.

Look for the Clinton machine to come to New Hampshire guns ablazing as they try to make the case that Obama is too raw and unready for the presidency. She will keep trying to make the case for experience, insisting Thursday night that she would be ready to serve from Day One.

Edwards sized the night up correctly. "The Iowa caucus-goers said we want something different," he said, ignoring the fact that another candidate left Iowa with the glow of a change agent.

Edwards passionately, even angrily, challenged Iowans all year to side with him and fight against lobbyists, special interests and greedy corporate agents. When you deliver a message of change during so-called change election and still lose, the news isn't good: Apparently Iowans didn't trust the messenger.

Clinton is in trouble, too. Though she has the resources to continue, the New York senator can no longer hide behind an aura of inevitability. Obama leaves Iowa with a burst of momentum and the next contest just five days away in New Hampshire, hardly enough time to build a firewall.

If he wins two in a row, a third is likely in South Carolina and three becomes four, five and six in a compressed election calendar — and the nomination could go to Obama.

republicans presumably voted Huckabee because they need a stronger type of religious fruitcake than Bush.

[tristram]

Why do they vote for the man that bombed them ???

[ChiangMai noon]

This is issues tristram.

Be warned, you will be moderated for any attempts at humour and or gross stupidity.

[britmaveric]

iowa is meaningless poxy state, so doubt what they say has much influence or meaning.

[tristram]

I don't like Mick Huckabee because he is a ginger from Manchester.

Why are you pinking on me CMN?

[barbaro]

I've said this elsewhere.

Huckabee winning in Iowa is honestly, irrelevant.

8 out of 10 Evangelical Xtians voted for him.

Iowa is not representative of the US, racially, economically, philosophically, or in any other way.

The Caucus system is also, arcane.

Huckabee will fade, soon.

The New Hampshire primary is 4 days away: Romney's territory, with secular voters.

The big day will be on Feb. 5th: 22 states will have primaries then.

[Jet Gorgon]

^ Yep, waiting for the multi-primaries. Hillary must be mega-miffed at coming third and Obama first tho. Bet her staff is sifting the dirt on Obama. Hope the guy lives thru the whole campaign. Can't see big biz happy with this. I still want McCain to win, but it's a pipe dream.

[Mr Earl]

Huckabee winning in Iowa is honestly, irrelevant.

Not for him, and winning Iowa is turning everyones head.

Without the big moneyed political machine his win is impressive nonetheless.

Wasn't some unknown governor from Arkansas elected a decade back or so?

I like Huckabee because he rankles so many foreigners who should be minding their own biz anyway.

[GooMaiRoo]

I heard Obama's victory speech last night. Except for a 5-second snippet about ending the war, it was utterly devoid of content. A profusion of pleasant-sounding abstract nouns. A Republican, class valedictorian or CEO could have made the same speech. Obama has no policies, so he hasn't offended the corporate state or the Israeli lobby yet. Who knows what he's up to? He's a lot more charming and intelligent than Bush. Any American citizen outside of the prison population would be better than Bush. A desperate, pathetic Hillary will probably have her surrogates leak some awful rumors about Obama's drug consumption during the 'Barry Obama' years. But Edwards may be the only one with an outside chance to stop Obama. Edward's is a true progressive and his face isn't as demented as Hillary's. But if Obama becomes president, perhaps the planet will hate Americans less, so he's OK in my book.

[tristram]

You think they'd have cleaners to do that sort of think

[njdesi]

Edwards is my favorite candidate on the Democratic side, but I can support Obama if he is the nominee. While a state senator in 2002 during the height of war fervor, he correctly identified that Iran would be the main beneficiary of a US-Iraq War and the civil war that would erupt between Shiites and Sunnis.
He was right on the most important issue of the last seven years. Hillary Clinton, who supported the war until about one and half years ago, showed a clear lack of judgement. So her "experience" actually makes her a less viable candidate in my view.


I hope Mike Huckabee wins the GOP nomination. It is fun watching the GOP elite be completely horrified at the evangelical monster they created.
If you are a fake, silver spoon up his Yalie ass hick like GW, that is acceptable. But you can't be a real hick that doesn't give a shit about Wall Street and actually believes in this Jebus crap. This is what your party has become, Republicans. Even if Romney/Guiliani/McCain pull out a victory somehow, your base isn't going to rally around a Mormon/thrice divorced drag queen/pro-immigration anti torture candidate. They'll stay home on election day.

The complete destruction of the current Republican party structure would be the best thing to happen to my country.

[Redrocket]

But if Obama becomes president, perhaps the planet will hate Americans less, so he's OK in my book.

I guess you missed the part where he said he would invade Pakistan. Even GWB isn't that stupid.
Obama is pure fluff he won't hold any sand

[Boon Mee]

Any comments from Americans that understand the relevance of this result??

Obama, Huckabee sweep to Iowa victories - Yahoo! News

It's one giant yawn.
So long as the Hildebeast continues to lose, it's good for America and the World.

[GooMaiRoo]

But if Obama becomes president, perhaps the planet will hate Americans less, so he's OK in my book.

I guess you missed the part where he said he would invade Pakistan. Even GWB isn't that stupid. Obama is pure fluff he won't hold any sand

I did miss that part. I'll be more watchful of his real positions, which are hard top discern between all of the fluff he spews. I hope more people like you expose his true beliefs. Obama may very well be a fake populist, a friendly face for the military industrial complex. I still stand by my belief that anyone, including Obama, is better than Bush. But I support Edwards or Ron Paul, whichever one has a better chance.

[Texpat]

The military industrial complex needs a few more friendly faces.

Alternatively, we can buy our satellites from the Chinese.

[chinthee]

By SHARON COHEN, AP National Writer 1 hour, 8 minutes ago

Ray Ballentine was waiting for a sign to throw his support to Barack Obama. And when Obama coasted to victory in Iowa's caucuses, there it was — evidence that the senator had the broad racial appeal to get to the White House.

Obama's convincing win in Thursday's caucuses in Iowa — a state with just a smattering of minority voters — demonstrated the Illinois senator's support crosses racial lines and bolstered the notion that America is receptive to electing its first black president.

Whether Obama's appeal stretches beyond the farm fields of Iowa will become clear over the next month as the freshman senator faces a series of tests on different political terrain — beginning with Tuesday's primary in New Hampshire, another overwhelmingly white state.

Does Obama's win show US is colorblind? - Yahoo! News

[Redrocket]

I still stand by my belief that anyone, including Obama, is better than Bush.

This is the exact mentality that managed to get GWB re-elected.
This is what got John Kerry nominated.
Call Michael Moore and get his special seat at the DNC ready.

The democrats are guaranteed to lose again if they can't remove their collective heads from their asses and get over GWB.

GWB isn't even running for office for crying out loud.

Sure Obama looks good, he made a fantastic speech at the DNC in 2004 but is that a qualification to become president? He is likely to be nominated. And given how stupid American voters are he will have a good chance of getting elected. (remember Al Gore and John Kerry nearly won their respective elections)
Oh yea that was cute appearance he made with Ellen Degeneris.

[Tchiowa]

Any comments from Americans that understand the relevance of this result??

Obama, Huckabee sweep to Iowa victories - Yahoo! News

It's one giant yawn.
So long as the Hildebeast continues to lose, it's good for America and the World.

So who is your pick ?

BTW Bush can't run again.

[GooMaiRoo]

But if Obama becomes president, perhaps the planet will hate Americans less, so he's OK in my book.

I guess you missed the part where he said he would invade Pakistan. Even GWB isn't that stupid.Obama is pure fluff he won't hold any sand

You piqued my interest when you said Obama would invade Pakistan and I dug a little deeper. What he did say is this: if there was clear evidence that Bin Laden was in a specific location is Pakistan, Obama would support going in and dusting the guy regardless of what the Pakis said. This would not be an 'invasion' in a common-sense interpretation of the word (going into Iraq WAS an invasion). If you assume that Bin Laden is actively seeking nukes to destroy an American city, Obama's position is not unreasonable. Obama was indiscreet for saying it and offending the entire country of Pakistan, but he was probably right in principle. I'm not sold on Obama, he IS a lot of fluff so far, but his position on taking out Bin Laden is not all that unreasonable.

[AntRobertson]

^ 'Redrocket' is an alternate login of 'Mr Earl's' and is therefore, obviously, just as loose with the facts as the original.

[Jet Gorgon]

Nevertheless, it is fun to watch the debates.

[chinthee]

By Robert Marquand Thu Jan 10, 3:00 AM ET

Paris - Regardless of which Democrat pulls ahead as the candidates race toward Nevada and South Carolina, the rapid political rise of a Harvard-educated Illinois senator with a Kenyan father is bringing ripples and some tides of excitement in the near and far corners of a weary world.

It's clear that the buzz around America's first realistic black candidate has fed the imagination of many non-US observers, who see the controversial superpower as offering something different.

Abroad, fresh image of U.S. - Yahoo! News