Submitted by k m barnes, Aug 1, 2007 13:03

After first being excited at Senator Obama's potential, he has shown a propensity to fall rather than grow, when it comes to being a legit presidential candidate. It seems that if he answers a question at all, it's an answer that has been filtered to appeal to the greatest number of people and with little thought to the consequences of what he says he will do as President.

I have reached the point where I will no longer consider his candidacy and I suspect it is mostly because of the showing of his in-experience rather than his potential. In any regard he would benefit from being his "own man" again, rather than pandering to what his handler's perceive as "the best answers for this audience".

It is not that he is right, (as many Americans are), about the battle needing to be fought other than Iraq. It is the irresponsible manner in which he verbally attacks the whole of Pakistan when it is really the nether-regions of Pakistan that should be put into the spotlight. For this we need the support of the ruling government of Pakistan, not their resistance.

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