A former Clinton supporter and attorney has filed suit to stop Obama from being nominated. He is asking a judge for an injunction. God help us if this works. He is saying that Obama is not a citizen of the U.S. and cites a forged birth certificate among other documents.

Didn't think the Dems would meltdown before the Rethugs, but if this holds, be it true or false, the Dem meltdown is well underway.

If McCain wins or even looks like he's going to win, I'm outta here!

"The rebirth of the American dream"? You've got to be kidding me. Obama is pure 'Chicago school' in ecomonic policy (consider the influence of Austen Goolsbee), and he will carry us back to the cold war (Russophobe Brzeznski calls the shots in foreign policy). This is just the old American imperialism with a new face.

I think you yanks are screwed either way. John McCain does appear to be "Bush on Roids" and it would seem that Barack Obama has Zbigniew Brzezinki's arm up the back of his shirt. I was initially impressed with Obama but I fear he is just a popular face to ease the fears of ordinary people.

If McCain wins, you can expect more of the same and America's reputation in the world will be in tatters for decades to come. A war with Iran would be a probability and relations with Russia would be on a knife edge.

If Obama wins, it would appear that Brzezinski could throw a spanner in the works of America rebuilding it's reputation for being a beacon of hope and opportunity. Brzezinski is fiercely Anti-Russian and has bragged about his "Afghan Trap" on a number of occasions.

I hope for Americ's sake, and the world's sake, that Obama wins and then uses the power available to him to roll-back what the imbecile Bush and the evil Cheney have done in the last 8 years.

I hope that Obama has the stones to stand up to the Oil giants and the Pharmaceutical and Chemical companies and wind back this extreme capitalism that drives the corporate American empire. Obama and America would go a long way in repairing America's reputation if he would deliver on his statement that he would talk to America's enemies.

The sooner an American president realises that America is not the only great country on earth and abandon's this "New World Order" strategy, the sooner America will be regarded as a great country again.

Just to paint a picture, Bush and Cheney would rather spend Billions and Trillions of dollars on wars and military hardware, than they would on homeless Americans or Hurricane Katrina victims.

How can a country that spends a billion dollors a day destroying a country on the other side of the planet not be able to afford a free health service for their own people. Just imagine what a billion dollars a day poured into helping your own people would do as opposed to a billion dollars a day destroying and controlling people from another land.

I left 1.5 years ago Marty. I did not like the fascist regime that had developed, nor the ugly, paranoid mood that has gripped that brainwashed Nation since 911. Maybe someday Americans will come to their senses, but I think the worst is yet to come, and it will take much suffering to break the spell they are under. I do hope I am wrong, but I don't think so.

By choosing Joe Biden for VP, Obama has finally shown me that he does have good enough judgment to see that he needed someone who could bring some reality and substance to his campaign. Joe should be a perfect mentor. I volunteered for him in Iowa and he is warm, funny, and wise. He is always critcized for being long-winded but it seemed more to me that he cared that regular people understood complicated issues. Many complain that the issues aren't talked about, but then when someone does talk about them, they criticize him and call him a wind-bag. I think that in this age of surfing channels and surfing the internet that most people no longer have an attention span of any length.

As more people become acquainted with Joe, they may begin to wonder why he isn't at the top of this ticket. Ask the media. They refused to cover him here. He won most of the debates, to the extent that he could get to say anything, but the media often didn't even acknowledge he was there. All they wanted to cover was the sniping between Hillary-Obama-Edwards.

Joe's book, "Promises To Keep" is now zooming up to the top of the best-selling book list, and they are scratching to bring it out in soft cover.

I am a dual citizen living in Calgary from the U.S. No longer have to put up with the crap of the United States. Good luck with that down south, because both candidates suck.

Some 6 months ago, here on Planetary, I sounded a warning about Obama's electability vs that of HRC. As much as the woman and her destestable husband leave a bad taste, she would have been a shoo-in against Psycho McCain. But Obama it is - and as MC points out, the party has been paying the price with numbers diving 1% every three days.

Some weeks ago, again on Planetary, I raised a few issues around Obama's lack of candour, specifically mentioning the birth certificate which - as Marty correctly asserts - is now the subject of a legal challenge brought by a democrat operative from the Clinton camp. At the time, I was sniggered at by some Obamaphiliac as parroting rightwing blogomischief. Well, seems Obama's eligibility to run is now mainstream news!

Face it. The man has serious problems. It is an open secret that Karl Rove is on McShame's payroll. And he's only just warming up. It is gonna get way more dirty. Any post convention numbers rush (some are hoping for 15%) will be nothing more than a bouncing dead cat.

Regardless of how well Obama deflects criticism of his foreign policy weakness and other manifold deficits, he just ain't gonna escape the archetypal barriers posed by America's innate racism and homophobia - which are far more prevalent in the land of the free than anyone cares to admit.

In the meantime, as the sideshow that is election year unfolds, Americans continue to murder children in Afghanistan, play chicken with a resurgent superpower, and preside over Pakistani political chaos where fundamentalist islamists edge ever closer to getting their hands on a nuclear arsenal.