How much change can obama deliver?

Obama is portrayed as the candidate who stands for change, but how many of his changes do you think he'll be able to actually deliver? The US political system is designed to prevent one man from making all kinds of changes. Everything that George W....

Bush has done so far, from the Iraq War to tax cuts for the rich only, has required and gotten the support of Congress. So even he didn't make these changes through sheer will.

If Obama is elected president, I think we're in for four years of empty promises.

If elected we're in for many more years of unprotected borders. . . .
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But we'll have a black man in the presidency. That's something new I guess. So he'll have delivered already. I'm so good at arguing (sarcasm).
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Jill

Hard to say, but I'd rather have a president that tries to do the right things and fails than one who does the wrong things and succeeds.

Democrats currently are spinless and directionless. To me the Democratic party lost it soul when Reagan won in 1980. Reagan made conservativism hip so the Democratic party slid toward the center and presented themselves as Republicanism lite; conservative without the Republican lunatic fringe. The problem is that when you define your own identity by someone else you really have no identity.

I see Ms. Clinton as another Republican lite. I don't hear her voicing a progressive viewpoint. I am for socialized medicine but I'm not crazy about her plan. While Clinton is still a better choice than the Republican candidates I don't see her as changing much. Obama does seem to inspire people in a way that few presidents seem to be able to. Obama can not change things on his own; he needs to win people over to his side but perhaps he is the one candidate who can do that.

The reason Clinton isn't voicing a progressive viewpoint is because she came up in a time when, as you say, conservatism was very popular. She watched vocal liberals like Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, and Michael Dukakis get crushed by their Republican opposition. I completely disagree that she's some kind of Republican lackey; she's a true Democrat, but she's learned to voice her liberalism with caution in order to actually get into office.

Obama is not a veteran politican and therefore has no experience with the past political moods of the country, which is why he doesn't hesitate to talk the talk. I don't see this as a bad thing; however, I think people have become swept up with his rhetoric and promises, and have come to expect too much from him. He won't be able to deliver much of what he's promised, and he'll end up a disappointment.

No offense to anyone... but when people are trying to get elected, they want mjore people voting for them then their opponent (duh). so they are going to promise a lot of things that they can't follow through with.

while obama may have the least political experience of the bunch, he is the only one to have not made a mistake, thus far, during his campaign trail. and I agree with filletospam, a failed attempt at doing good, is better than a succesfull attempt at doing what is wrong.

Obama's made plenty of mistakes on his campaign trail, including misquoting an Army captain in Iraq during his most recent debate with Hillary Clinton in order to support his personal position.

A failed attempt at doing something right arguement still won't hold up to the American public. If Obama makes promises for change during his campaign, he'll be expected to deliver once in office, and if he doesn't, it will damage his party's credibility.

I take comfort in the guaranteed assurance, that whoever gets elected, will behave dramatically differently once in office than during the campaign.

Yea he will deliver some changes, he'll raise taxes sending more companies over seas causing more people to be out of work. If he actually got universal health care to go through who would pay for it? China? Our national debt would rise. I think he wants to fiscally bring us back to the 70's. Not all change is good, his words are just empty rhetoric. When people kept asking him to explain these changes and how he would go about creating them he wrote down a plan that just boggles the mind with it's simplistic thinking. Really though none of the candidates are any good your just choosing the lesser of two evils which is always tough. That's why this two party system really hurts.