In response to some interest in canidates faith - I've taken a look at how Barack Obama's theological opinions come out in his worldview.  Take a look, and hopefully this spurs a good discussion

Stephen Cassidy wrote about this a few days ago, but I want to return to it - because it just got bigger:
From Today's Meet The Press: (The most watched show in politics)
It is looking more and more like ethics will be a big issue in the race.

It just went official - Supporters of Barack Obama have just polled off what amounts to a political earthquakes.  Nearing 260,000 Donors & and officially reaching their goal of 350,000 donations - Wow!

Dare anybody question the movement now? That is 1 donation for every 1000 Americans.

Virtual toast to all!!!

And, if you get a chance - check out his issue page at http://origin.barackobama.com/issues/  (It is getting to be really impressive, specific, and progressive) No more "empty suit" frames please.

Barack Obama has the highest in-state approval ratings of any Senator in the United States Senate.  Which is extremely impressive, and demonstrates his appeal to moderates republicans and even evangelicals.

electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electio ncentral/2007/jun/26/poll

www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ ny-uspoll275271553jun27,0,844076.story?c oll=ny-nationalnews-print

Newsday:
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton has publicly disdained going negative on fellow Democrats, but her pollster is apparently probing primary opponents' vulnerabilities in calls to voters in New Hampshire and Iowa.

A field office working for Clinton pollster Mark Penn has been testing Democrats' responses to attacks on John Edwards and Barack Obama, according to three voters who say they received calls in recent weeks.

Iowa voter Jason Eness-Potter told Newsday a pollster called him last month asking if he'd be less or more likely to back Edwards knowing the former senator "proudly promotes himself as a champion of the poor, and yet he went and got a $400 haircut."

Another Democrat told Talking Points Memo, a left-leaning Web site, she had received a similar call.

News of the negative "test" polling comes as Obama and Edwards have stepped up criticism of front-runner Clinton. On Monday, Obama told reporters, "The only person who would probably be prepared to be our president on Day 1 would be Bill Clinton - not Hillary Clinton."

The polling worker asked Eness-Porter if he thought Obama should be elected president despite serving only two years in the Senate. "It was a 40-minute interview," said Eness-Porter. "For the first 35 minutes they asked me basic poll questions and then it turned negative."

A Clinton spokesman declined to comment last night.

A New Hampshire-based blogger on the liberal Web site Daily Kos yesterday reported answering a similar poll, this one questioning the sincerity of Obama's opposition to the Iraq War in light of his previous votes to fund troop deployments. Blogger Dave Kulju said the caller also described a recent New York Times story questioning the connection between Edwards' anti-poverty charity and his political campaign.

We had a discussion yesterday about the blog reports, and now it is stating to leak into the MSM.  I'm not too upset, but the Edwards people probably are.  They may not be psuh-polls, but they are personal attacks on Edwards.

Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) just said on the Senate floor he would not wait any longer for a change in course in Iraq - no longer waiting for Gen. Petraeus to say it is not working.  This is the first conservative Republican, since Hagel, to oppenly break from Bush - and an extremely powerful one at that.

www.pollster.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.fcgi/3 837.1285012595

(conducted 6/15 through 6/17)

Among approximately 380 Democrats and Democratic leaners, Sen. Hillary Clinton leads Sen. Barack Obama (30% to 20%) in a national primary; former Sen. John Edwards trails at 13%, former V.P. Al Gore at 9%.

When Gore is excluded, Clinton leads Obama (32% to 22%), while Edwards trails at 16%.

Among approximately 330 Republicans and Republican leaners, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani edges out Sen. John McCain (20% to 16%) in a national primary; former Sen. Fred Thompson trails at 15%.

Barack Obama is known for rejecting the "either/or" of American Politics.  I can find occasions he has called for getting over either/ors in the Aids Crisis/ Immigration/ Health Care/ Global Warming and I'm sure there are many other incidents.  But, Ironically the Obama candidacy presents an interesting Either/Or to democrats.  If you read postings on the sight Obama is generally perceived as Either a Messiah like candidate or a "Johnny Come Lately" candidate.  I, admittedly, lean toward the aforementioned.  In actuality it is probably somewhere in between the two - but I want to maintain this Either/Or perception, and suggest Obama is the candidate of risk.  He is a preverbal venture capitalist candidate - who, though having great risk, can yield a great profit.  This leads to his problems with a number of liberals - he confuses them - mainly in two ways: