Since the moment Bill Clinton stepped foot into office the political parties learned how much a politician really can be portrayed as a celebrity.

President Bill Clinton's impeachment was based on a scandal of adultery and deception, a more personal matter that got headline attention and made the Clintons for better or worse the most talked about politicians. Clinton's impeachment over shadowed ever crucial change he made happen in our wonderful yet corrupted country. Clinton's face was on every tabloid, every magazine, every newspaper not only for the remainder of his presidency but for years to follow.

After all this is how Hillary Clinton got her name so well known, known as the wife who stood with her head held high through deep waters; the woman who despise her husband's lack of loyalty stood by her country and showed the world she was more than a sympathy case. Hillary was publicized in every way, again tabloids and newspapers always spoke of the Clintons and the Clintons always made actions to cause the highlights to fall back on them. This was the starting of celebrity status merging and leaking into the political field.

Obama, Paris and Britney

According to John McCain, Barack Obama is just as big as a celebrity as Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.

McCain did not compare to make a positive note of course, but to poke fun at how much media attention Barack Obama is receiving, in short making out to seem like a circus act. Either John McCain has not arrived back to Earth from Mars  or he really is concerned that he will not overcome Obama's campaign. How hard is it to recognize that history is being made with every step Obama takes? Does the McCain campaign really believe that Obama's celebrity status is actually hurting rather than helping them?

The fact that McCain is constantly sending out negative ads in such a depressing matter is only bringing more attention to the Obama campaign. It is making the people of this country want to look more into Obama, and no matter what lies are told the truth is very easily found with a little bit of research. So in reality the McCain campaign is actually giving a hand in helping the Obama's gain celebrity status, therefore, I feel a thank you note is in order from the Obama campaign.

Politicians and Celebrities One Happy Family

No matter how you look at it a Presidental Election will always be considered a Political Hollywood.

Voters will vote for the one who shines the most, for the one who reachs out the most, for the one they can look up to and feel good about... for the most part. The voters know that President Bush is one of the biggest mistakes of the United States history, they are fearful to make the same mistake again. McCain is a celebrity in his own right, he gains the recognition of the villian war hero that cannot let his pride move to the side. Obama is a celebrity in his own right, he reachs the hearts of his fellow Americans, he spreads his wings and shows that flying is possible, he is a role model for thousands nationwide.

The conventions are the red carpet events for each canidate to shine, pose and make themselves look glamerious, it is also a place where they show off their life's work and to rub other's noses in it. The Presidental Election in the great Novemeber month can be compared to the well known Oscar Award Ceramony, where the best con-artist and actor/actress gains recognition from their peers and viewers of this great nation. Ladies and Gentlement.... it is Showtime!

With the memory of Stephanie Tubbs Jones, a supporter of Hillary Clinton, on the minds of many of the conventioneers the stage is set for it to be Hillary's convention. In politics nothing is sacred to the Clintons. They will seize every opportunity to hijack the convention. Yes, Hillary is not beyond cashing in on sympathy from Representative Jones death. This could be her last big hoorah if she does not use the convention time wisely. She either has to hijack the nomination, or kick off a successful campaign for 2012, which means she has to insure through her actions at the convention that Obama is not elected in 2008.

Senator Obama has the spotlight now since he is the one who is going to announce his running mate at any minute, which will most likely happen over the weekend. He will take a bit of momentum into the convention, but that momentum will be quickly zapped by Hillary and Bill Clinton. There is no running mate that he can pick, short of it being Hillary who will save the convention, or the election for him.

Obama's campaign and Hillary's campaign both deny that there is any discussion of her being his running mate. I do not believe that ticket was ever really given consideration by either of them. Barack is afraid to have Hillary on the bottom of his ticket; she would find a way to reverse things. As for Hillary; she does not need Obama.

As much as it pains him to admit it, Obama needs Hillary's support. He will never get that support and he knows it. He cannot win if she even hints to her eighteen million supporters that she wants them to walk away from him in 2008. She is between a rock and a hard place; she has to claim the nomination at the convention in Denver, or she has to throw him under the bus this year to keep her options open for 2012. Unfortunately for both of them, the latter is most likely the best option.

When you think about it Obama has had a pretty big hoorah for someone who spent about ten minutes in the Senate before he announced he was running for President. He survived a lot, given his questionable relationships, and he was helped along the way by the fact that John Edwards concealed an affair long enough to take votes away from Hillary, giving Barack the win. That statement is not totally supported in fact, but I am one who believes Edwards did keep Hillary from winning.

Barack got some help along the way, dodged bullets with respect to controversial pastors and other former associates. He also got to tour the world in celebrity fashion. He stood before massive crowds and had them eating out of his hand. After the speech everyone felt great, even though no one new exactly how Mr. Obama stood on the issues. His use of catchy phrases to avoid answering questions is amazing, especially the one he used when Pastor Rick Warren asked him when life actually began. McCain said without hesitation that is begins at conception, Barack said answering that question was above his pay grade.

I am not sure what that means, and neither do his surrogates who are trying to explain it. They all have a different interpretation of the phrase. I tried it out on someone at work to avoid answering a tough question. It must have been in my delivery. Obama does have a smoother delivery than me. In the end, I had to answer the question I was asked and the person who asked it walked away shaking his head as if he thought I was caught up in the speed of dark. He was looking for a brightness he did not find in me with that phrase.

Mr. Obama did not seem very bright when he uttered his catchy “above my pay grade” phrase, but who am I to criticize. This man, who avoids talking about things above his pay grade, won the nomination of his party, went on a world tour and has a convention in his honor. He may find out that the Denver convention may not be a hoorah in his honor after all. It could turn into his political funeral. One lady attending the convention, Hillary Rodham Clinton is definitely above his pay grade.

Seems tragic to come so close to the prize and lose it unexpectedly at your last hoorah, but it may happen to Barack Obama. Of course, he does get to keep all the excess money raised by his campaign, does he not? That puts him well above my pay grade!

Obama is lauded as a great orator by the media. Really? Is he? Look at the number of ah, um, ah, well, um, sequences that he got into at Saddleback and in other debates for that matter. He is a great orator? No. I must confess that he is a great reader of something that someone else wrote and put on a teleprompter. When the teleprompter isn't there Obama chokes or maybe it is just the real Obama coming out. I wonder if he will have a teleprompter when he meets with a head of state over a conference table or takes the "phone call at three A.M".

McCain is not a great orator but he has things in common with Lincoln, a quiet wisdom and a wealth of knowledge and experience and more important, he is able to draw from that pool and use it when needed. He thinks fast on his feet. He showed that ably at Saddleback. Allow me to observe that if I have a choice of a guy who can read a teleprompter or one who can think on his feet, I will take the latter every time if the person is going to be in a position of decision making. If I want someone who will make an impressive speech, I will take the teleprompter reader. But a president must be able to think on his feet.

Lincoln told a story during the debates about a train engine that had a small boiler. It was so small that when the whistle blew it couldn't run. The boiler couldn't make enough steam for both. He then likened his opponent to the engine. He told the people, “When Mr. Douglass talks, his brain doesn't have the ability to think.” Obama is somewhat the same.

So why did Obama look like so good? In the earlier debates Obama generally went last, or at least not first, in answering a question. The others answering the question gave him material and more important, time to think up an answer. He could think before he had to talk. He could listen to the other answers and draw from them to form his answer and in fact if you listen to him that happened all too often. I would also not be surprised if I learned that the Obama staff was holding up queue cards (known in the industry as idiot cards) in the back to help him or they had a headphone for him to listen to it would not surprise me.

And what was the answer to the Obama crash and burn at Saddleback from the Obama camp? The only thing was an attack by proxy on Saddleback Church! The Obama camp is like the ball team that blames the field for the loss. The field wasn't level. It wasn;t their playing. According to the charge, McCain listened to Obama and thus had time to study the questions and Obama's answers. Let's suppose I didn't trust Rick Warren, McCain, the Secret Service and Warren's staff and thought they could all possibly participate in such dishonesty. It is like believing the police at the OJ quarters, who didn't know each other conspired to frame him. It isn't credible. Even if ethics didn't demand it, wisdom would say to the McCain camp, “Don't do it.” Why? If McCain had been given access to Obama's answers it would have been easy to show that his answers were targeted to rebut the Obama answers. It would have not been prudent for the candidate that went second to try to take that advantage. It would have been too easy to stumble on an answer and reveal awareness of what the first candidate said. That the Obama camp would consider this possibility shows they either underestimate their opposition or that they would have done it, given the opportunity! Consider that breach of integrity. And these people want to run the country. Having that would be Honest Bill Clinton gone to seed!

But one questioning Obama's integrity has more ammunition in his own statements. Some of Obama's answers boggle the mind when they are examined because they totally ignore facts. He says that deciding when life begins is above his job description yet he has voted to allow the survivors of late induced abortions to be left to die. If he really felt it was above his job description he would have voted to err on the side of safety. That is what you do when you can't be sure.

He called his vote against the war the hardest decision of his life. What vote? He was in the Illinois Senate, not the U.S. Senate when that happened. During the primaries he chided Hillary for that vote and repeated that he did not vote to go to war. He wasn't there to take part in that vote. And voting against the war for someone from a Democrat state like Illinois isn't an act of courage it is out and out cowardice! And if there was a vote that took any courage it was the one he seems to want to forget, the vote for war funding. The war is wrong but he will fund it. Does that make sense? Sure it does. That bill had pork in it. Lots of pork. Democrat pork. It would have taken courage to vote against it.

Although this was in another forum his talk about properly inflating tires is a joke. Experts tell us it will help, maybe two percent. But this is not overall oil usage. It is just gasoline. It is less than a half of a percent. This is good to do, we should do it but for someone who is setting policy to say this is a solution means they just plain don't understand the problem. If Obama doesn't understand this, what else doesn't he understand? The war? National security? Abortion? Judges?

Obama was willing to throw a black Supreme Court justice under the bus to satisfy his financial support, the radical left. What else will he throw under the bus for this radical fringe? National Security? These people hate the US and want to see her fall.

So the Navy pilot shot down the orator. The orator couldn't even see (in this case hear) the enemy. But like the pilot his instincts told him where the enemy was, where he would be and where the gunfire should be placed to take him down. And like an unskilled pilot, the orator flew into the bullets. It was crash and burn.

There will be another assassination, or sorts, not on the magnitude of the aforementioned assassinations and their will be no loss of physical life. Make no mistake about it though, Barack Obama's political life will be assassinated at the Democratic National Convention in Denver Colorado, and the assassins of his political life will be Hillary Clinton, her husband Bill and millions of voters who still believe Hillary should be the next President of The United States.

Work with me here and help me to understand why the Obama campaign would agree to place so much of the convention in the hands of the Clintons. If not, her supporters would revolt, you say? That is wrong! Barack Obama has to take charge of the campaign and let everyone know that he is the nominee. He seems to want to do that only if it is okay with Hillary. If he is so afraid of Hillary Clinton, what kind of President will he be? Is he going to cower down to terrorist nation's leaders in the same way he cowers to the Hillary?

He took most of the spotlight away from Hillary over the past couple of months. In doing so he won over many of her supporters. The others he will not get, even if she tries to help him, which she will not. Many of Hillary's supporters will never vote for Obama.

Instead of taking charge of the convention and making it his convention, he has allowed Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton to steal the spotlight on two critical nights. More importantly he is giving Hillary the chance to take back her supporters who had moved to him. She will steal the convention and kick off her campaign for 2012 at the very least. There is a possibility take the nomination away from him on a roll call vote, something he is allowing.

Barack Obama and the Democratic National Convention represent the World Trade Centers. Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton represent the hijackers of two jet airliners on a collision course. Collision one will occur on Tuesday when Hillary speaks and collision two will occur Wednesday when Bill speaks. Barack and the convention will fall. The final collapse will be on November 4, 2008 as Hillary's campaigns for 2012.

As for the odds that she will take the nomination from him at the convention; probably a million to one, but those are better odds than Obama has of winning in November. After Hillary and Bill finish with him at the convention is too late to learn that the Clintons never give up. They may lose a round here and there but they regroup, come back stronger and win the fight.

When it was first announced that Barack Obama had enough delegates this writer believed he would take charge, spell out a plan of action for his campaign and distance himself from Hillary Clinton. It was a risky move but the only real move he could make.

I was wrong! He had other moves planned, including a celebrity trip around the world. Who knew the McCain campaign would have Paris Hilton fall into their laps after all the celebrity flap. Her response to comments McCain's campaign made using her name actually brought McCain into this century.

Of course McCain has something else on Obama; he does look like the candidate on the dollar bill. In fact John McCain may have known the man personally. I looked at some old pictures of George Washington at Valley Forge and John McCain is in the background. Sorry John, I could not pass it up.

One thing is certain, if John does win in November, he must send a thank you card to Hillary Clinton. It would also be a great idea to give her a lifetime job, maybe on the Supreme Court. Otherwise she is going to come after him in 2012 if his health lets him stay in office for one full term. It is more likely that she will be coming after whomever McCain picks as his running mate and he should have picked her… to late now!

No matter what else happens Hillary and Bill will take another shot at Obama and he is going to lose. He proves daily that he is not a take charge sort of guy!

I am back now and I did have a great laugh. I believe there is some truth to the assertion that Edwards took votes from Senator Clinton, but it is hilarious. Think about it; Hillary is married to Bill Clinton. Hillary and Bill cannot utter any criticisms about Edwards having an affair and lying about it. Bill Clinton could hold seminars for men who want to cheat on a spouse and lie about it.

Hillary is in a no win situation. She stayed with Bill after his infidelity. Her husband was not a nominee when he had an affair and lied about it; he was the man in the White House. It is literally impossible for her to complain about votes Edwards received after his indiscretions. Even her former campaign manager did not argue that point with any degree of enthusiasm.

A valid point is that this story was floating around in November, 2007. All of the campaigns and news reporters knew about the affair. The Clinton campaign was between a rock and a hard place and could say nothing because of Bill's promiscuous lifestyle.

None of the other campaigns had anything to gain by exposing Edwards. It would give more votes to Hillary. They all knew John Edwards was not a serious contender in the long run, so they were happy to see him get votes that would otherwise go to Clinton. Did he get enough votes to take the nomination from her? No one really knows, but it is a strong possibility.

There is one thing of which we can be certain; Hillary cannot complain now without starting a war that Barack will win. The millions of women who support her and do not like Obama can relate to the similarities between John Edwards and Bill Clinton, and they do not like those similarities. Hillary wants Barack to lose in 2008 so she can run in 2012. Inserting an infidelity debate into the mix now will risk driving a significant number of her supporters to Barack. Minimizing the Bill Clinton factor is a constant battle for her campaign and it keeps Hillary walking a tightrope..

Hillary has to play the hand she was dealt. The stage is set for her and Bill to control the second and third nights at the convention, leaving one night to Obama. Hillary will give a mediocre endorsement of Barack Obama on night two of the convention. On night three Bill Clinton may not even give an endorsement to the Senator from Illinois. We can be certain that Bill and Hillary will talk a lot about Hillary's eighteen million supporters. In the end, Barack will leave the convention with a nomination. Hillary will leave with the win and will start planning her campaign in 2012.

John McCain has the credentials to be President but he does not have the mental awareness to serve the country for four years. He is a great American hero whose time has come and gone. If he wins it will be because Hillary supporters vote for him. Immediately after her concession to Barack Obama, Hillary could have gone to McCain, formed an alliance and run as his Vice President. She would be elected and would become Commander In Chief before the end of McCain's first term. Would McCain have entertained this idea? Yes! Remember, he and Hillary actually do like each other.

Would Hillary's pride let her change parties in order to be elected? This columnist believes she would. However, the Republican Party wants nothing to do with Bill Clinton. He would be left off of the appearance schedule for the campaign; a strategy he would resist. He is a problem for Hillary, but one she can handle.

Bill Clinton can and will help Hillary kill Obama's chance to live in the house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. He will help her because he knows it will help him get to live in that house again. Hillary will use Bill to help with the sabotage of Barack Obama then keep him on a very short leash with respect to her 2012 campaign. She cannot afford to divorce him. He is vindictive and can speak to the skeletons in her closet. She has plenty of skeletons and Bill can douse her hopes for the Presidency. She has to help him preserve his legacy.

So, Hillary needs to settle in and take a huge win from the convention. Barack Obama cannot win without her supporters and she will stop short of giving them to him. The Clinton's convention message will be unmistakable; vote for Hillary in 2012. The only risk factor is who McCain will pick to take over for him during his first term. That person will be her opponent in 2012 and could have time to establish himself or herself in the Oval Office, depending on how long McCain's health allows him to sit in the chair.

All that said, yes, Edwards lied and because he lied he probably did cost Hillary enough votes to lose the nomination but that is politics. She is going to put a knife into the back of Barack Obama and that too is politics. Her plan to get into the White House in 2008 failed, but the Clinton's never give up. They will kick off a very aggressive campaign for 2012 at the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver.

Not a bad move for the DNC, especially in a race like this. I wonder however, if Obama had lost, would we even be doing this?

Though we all hope to get past racial issues, the fact remains there are a lot of people out there still holding on to long-running beef that no minority is good enough, or smart enough to be President.

The facts are clear that Obama represents what the country look like today. And it surely doesn't look old and white.

And what's the most they can say about Obama now? OH, he's inexperienced. That's the same thing they've been saying about successful black men who apply for high profile jobs for years.

When they can't get you on education, family lifestyles, attitude, charisma, they can only say, “Sorry, you don't have enough experience”

Black America will NEVER have enough experience for mostly white-dominated jobs.

So yeah, I think it's great that Hillary will get her shot at the DNC to appease the supporters she carries because she did run a historical campaign but her history will have to wait.

She wanted to be the first woman president; Obama wants to be the first black president.

With the country only integrating 40 or so years ago, it's obvious what wounds we want to heal first.

America, get over it-she lost. That's just the facts to it all.

And besides, whether if Obama can do the job or not, America has already christened him. McCain has the fight of his life on his hands to even come close to winning. You can see the bias in the media. They're going to make him president one way or another.

And why? Why so much of a push?

Maybe folks look at Hillary more for what her husband did than what she can do for the country. Maybe she represents the 90s. Maybe they see Obama as a person that can bridge the diversity gap in the world. It could be dozens of things for what we know.

And we haven't seen her on the TV lately, but she has been pushing for Obama..It's like the media doesn't want to recognize it for nothing! She's playing her new position and maybe it's never going to be good enough. It's like Muhammad Ali and Frazier shaking hands at the end of the bout..Who wants to see that? We need beef. We need troubles. We need conspiracies..That's what' America is all about.

Now, the former first lady will speak on the second night, Aug. 26 - the 88th anniversary of the women's right to vote. I consider that nothing more than great spin so that people can't say they simply pacified the Clinton camp because they're sore losers. Either way it should be a good speech but like I said, if she goes into the whole “It was a hard fought battle to the end and…” blazy blazy blah…I'm turning the channel to Family Guy.

Let us see who is against Obama, and why it will boost votes for him.

• Jesse Jackson

  • Jesse Jackson does not like how Obama is talking to the African American population. Jesse has already had to apologize to Barack Obama about a vulgar tirade that has dismayed a lot of people.
  • People who will vote for Barack Obama because of Jesse Jackson are people who are wary of Jesse Jackson and what he portrays. This actually makes Obama a more mainstream candidate who is not swayed by racial allegiances.
  • People who support Jesse Jackson are already Pro-Obama, so all Jesse did was allow some misconceptions of Obama to be removed. If this was an orchestrated move, it was executed well.

• WalMart

  • Walmart has had training sessions with its supervisors and managers telling them that the best way to keep unions from their floor is to not vote in the Democratic nominee
  • People who will vote for Barack Obama because they dislike the way Walmart practices businesses, and how they have lowered the standard of living for many Americans
  • People who support Walmart will start to think “Why Walmart is so vehemently against unions in the workplace?”

• Roseanne Barr

  • She just does not like Obama
  • People will vote for Barack Obama because they do not like Roseanne

• Hilary Clinton

  • Right now she is playing the party role and promoting Obama
  • She does not want Obama to win. If Obama wins he will also be the front runner nominee in 2012, which will put her Presidential run to 2016. If Obama wins in 2012, Americans might be ready for a Republican in 2016, so that will put Hilary off till 2020 when she has a better shot.
  • The diehard Anti-Clintons should be voting for Obama, so it will put Hilary off till 2016 and even 2020. Don't discount old age to stop her, just look at McCain . . . but then again McCain doesn't have Bill as a spouse.

The above reasons are not good reasons to just vote for Obama because you dislike who is against Obama. But if you are going to complain about who is President of the United States in 2009, you had better go out a vote.

Obama said that “The prime minister's experience, like mine, is on how we can strengthen the transatlantic relationship to solve problems that can't be solved by any single country individually”. According to Obama, the most pressing problems are global warming, international terrorism and worldwide economic turmoil.

Obama and Brown sat outside on the porch and even walked towards St. James Park which surely aroused the attention of some bystanders. Obama also met with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and opposition leader David Cameron.

During his meeting with Cameron, Cameron allegedly remarked that “Yopu should be on the beach…You need a break…You need to be able to keep your head together”.

Is Obama doing the same things that Bush did? It sure seems like it right now as Bush was and still is close friends with Blair and Brown is also from the Labour Party, but Obama also met with opposition leader David Cameron. So which side is he on? Also, Obama made a huge GAFFE as in response to Cameron, Obama replied that he would try to take a week off in August (perhaps for the Olympics) on the advice of A Clinton White House veteran. Come on now, Obama and Clinton may have started off on the same foot, but as the campaign wore on, their differences could not have not been more apparent. While Obama was still presenting hope, Clinton probably knew that she was done after Obama won 11 straight primaries and caucuses and thus, Clinton decided to play dirty. By taking advice from a Clinton insider, does this mean that Obama will play dirty as well?

First of all, I extremely doubt Iraq has any “weapons of mass destruction”. Apparently no weapons have been found, so the some people are really mad that we invaded the country for nothing. Second, why are we still there? If we haven’t gotten any weapons, shouldn’t we just leave? I have no idea why we are still there, when there is no goal and many soldiers are still getting killed. Lastly, polls say the war is going badly… Check these polls out. Thank you for reading my thoughts.

But is he for everyone? This is a question I ask myself.

Are we sure he is for everyone? But hell will he survive?

Will history repeat itself and another black man will die running for president.

I wonder will he change the history of the world as we speak, will he be the first black president for us or will we lose another president to history and the world is quiet and wonder why and what happened to the event we all hoped for.

Will we get through it and be happy and live in peace in the world as one and everything is calm and we are getting along and things are changing for the better.

I feel like this, If Obama becomes president not because he is black I hope he does what he says he going to do and not use this as a prize possession for he is playing with millions of life's.

I think we cannot take anymore fallen soldiers not coming home to families and parents. We shouldn't have the need to hunt down someone.

Did we still find oil?

I am so tired of people running for office and not doing their job as president hell I can run for president and make promises and we all would be satisfied from what I was saying.

I would run it much better than what they are doing now I am sorry no one should have to write my speech for me or dictate how I talk.

Or walk in a room while I am reading to children in a classroom and tell me we are under attack and you just sit there like what the hell you just say to me.

We are under attack what are you telling me for take of it for me.

Obama better step up his game seriously because you will have a world full of angry people and man that will be some corruption for you there.