hahaha...ss auntie ji! howdy do?

while this discussion is futile for the most part since we already have the nominee, i agree with some of what you said. the more you work in senate, the more baggages you tend to carry over the years. it takes a lot of reasoning skill and the ability to question yourself to see what you're doing is what you actually want to do.

obama was not even in the senate in 2002. but he has been very forthright in his opposition to the war. if my memory serves me right, i think it was in oct, 2002 he spoke, in an anti-war rally, some powerful words that were strongly against the war. he gained a lot of supporters from that particular speech. he was so clear in his opposition and yet not in any way negative. he didn't use the traditional kind of code words that people who oppose the war were using. he did it in a way that attracted people who normally would be gung ho for military action .

just in case you had missed, here's what he said in his own words:

"I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What  am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne. What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Rove to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income, to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone through the worst month since the Great Depression. That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A war based not on reason but on passion."

and don't forget it was a dicey situation for him too coz he knew he was going to  run for the senate in 2004 and no other democratic candidates for president opposed the war in iraq before it started.

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Rewire,

"Poll shows majority of Hillary supporter will vote for McCain in case Hillary loose."

don't go by the polls. they change every day. it took obama less than a year to crush hillary who was the clear favorite to win the nomination since 2006.

i don't say it will be a peace of cake contest for Obama against McCain, but he will make it without any tom, dick or hillary as his running mate. that i have no shred of doubt on, personally speaking.