Barack: Our nation is at war; our planet is in peril. Families all across the country are struggling

[Stephanie]

Those ARE the priorities. The climate crisis supercedes everything.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/31/dem.debate.transcript/index.html

I believe we're at a defining moment in our history. Our nation is at war; our planet is in peril. Families all across the country are struggling with everything from back-breaking health care costs to trying to stay in their homes.

And at this moment, the question is: How do we take the country in a new direction? How do we get past the divisions that have prevented us from solving these problems year after year after year?

I don't think the choice is between black and white or it's about gender or religion. I don't think it's about young or old. I think what is at stake right now is whether we are looking backwards or we are looking forwards. I think it is the past versus the future.

[MagsDem]

1. He seems pretty plugged into looking backward...

All he can talk about no matter where he goes was that Hillary voted for the war in 2002, even though he spent the entire 2004 campaign season excusing Kerry for it.

[Tweed]

3. You seem pretty plugged into looking backward

So I don't blame you for thinking others are doing the same.

[ErnestoG]

7. You support an IWR candidate....whats more backwards than that?

[agdlp]

8. The Audacity of Fraud: How Barack Obama Is Losing My Vote

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/20/2648/

[loveangelc]

2. "our planet is in peril" automatically made me think of the Captain Planet cartoon lol.

[Stephanie]

4. Do you think it's funny?

The ice caps might disappear in five years. You have no idea how dire our situation is.

[Bodhi BloodWave]

5. hehe, would it be bad to say that

i still love that cartoon and i'm almost 30 :P

[silverweb]

6. He's exactly right.

And Barack Obama is the one who can best lead us in that new direction.

GObama! _YES, WE CAN!_

[splat]

9. "Lead us in a new direction"? "We" are not the ones off course

Obama's stirring words aren't going to mean squat against the corporate clan.

[silverweb]

10. There you go.

That's exactly the kind of "why bother, we can't do it" cynicism that Obama's "new direction" will leave behind.

And we're part of the growing movement that will leave it in the dust!

The "corporate clan" will adapt or wither.