while Obama is a sharp, intelligent, likeable candidate, and MAY be an outstanding President some day, I will never cease to be amazed at how gullible the American voters are ... this man, a freshman Senator, has only been in politics an extremely short time ... his skyrocketing popularity is based on his keynote speech at the last Democratic convention ... gimme a break ! ... ONE SPEECH is all it takes for people to choose you as the leader of the world's most powerful nation ?? ... (the mind boggles) ... I give up, I'm gonna go live in the woods, and eat berries (and smoke pot, of course) ...