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Listed below are comments made by C_Aurora between Wednesday, 25th June 2008 and Wednesday, 2nd July 2008.

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Health, guns and Unity 12:22pm on 02 Jul 2008 #23 Candace, yes, I know there are others, thus the "such as" part. The final choice will be not only up to Obama, but also the chosen one. Many non-public factors will be considered.

#25 M.A.II, I could pick on your other points but choose to let them slide. Please reread the Fox man's (it wasn't Justin's) story about his wife's medical care. He didn't call the UK NHS a failure, far from it. He was able to appreciate its strengths, also pointing out a few weaknesses. Likewise, in the USA. (Which, incidentally, is why the article was worthy of note. It wasn't "grinding an axe", which is how I perceive your assessment of it.)

There are plenty of problems in USA medical care independent of (but perhaps tangentially related to) the system of financing. Healing is far more about the person than about the toys and gadgets used. According to the Fox man, they seem to understand this better on the other side of the pond. Maybe their understanding (of this and other matters) is deeper than yours?
Health, guns and Unity 00:38am on 02 Jul 2008 I know it has been discussed to death, but I personally would be very surprised to see HRC as the VP choice. She helps unify the party, which she is going to do anyway, at the cost of weakening Obama's message. She's also the one lightning rod who could possibly bring the far right out of their dormancy for this election. Right or wrong, she is one of the most hated public figures in the USA.

Obama wants and needs some of the moderate Republican and Democratic voters. I think a "red state" woman such as Kansas Gov. Sebelius is his best choice. Time will tell if he sees it the same way.
Obama's summer 12:05pm on 28 Jun 2008 American voters are funny. Obama's popularity abroad is likely to be a liability in November. Even though Americans ended up disliking the incumbent for many of the same reasons that the rest of the world does, they tend not to think about it in those terms. For a time, including '04, Bush's unpopularity overseas played well in the polls (and it still does with a significant portion of the electorate.)

This election is all Obama's, but so were the historic 2002 midterms the Democrats'. (They lost in '02.) A big mistake could easily change things. I can imagine how wildly cheering foreign rallies for Obama would play on McCain commercials.
The strange death of social conservatism 05:29am on 25 Jun 2008 The religious right will be back. They're sitting this election out because they know that the pendulum has swung back. It will be easy for them to take potshots at Pres. Obama. I suspect this was a deliberate decision of the leadership, which is the only way McCain was able to get the nomination.

I live in a "red state", and the people around me are still very religious and very "conservative". There's a lot of disgust with Bush, but after 1-2 terms of Democratic presidents, they'll be back with the GOP.

Also, note that none of these "red state" voters are actually going to vote for Obama. They're more likely to stay home or cast a protest vote.

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