How Obama Won The Presidency

WSJ's Chris Cooper reflects on how Barack Obama defied the odds, using a team of grassroots organizers with no Beltway background to snatch victory from more-seasoned politically savvy rivals.

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[mercury4metal]

Are you kidding us?!? He was put there by WALL STREET!!! The same "Journal" you work for!!! Money can buy anything, even the LIES that are coming out of your mouth!!!

[ladagosta]

What you are saying is he bought his vote! Surely this is what is meant by the love of money is the root of all evil. If he had no money, he would have had no power to gain office.

[lexiii58]

rubbish really? I'm 17 years old and it's not freaking out... this man is seriously going to affect our lives! What happened to this country seriously? Where are our morals people? WAKE UP!! Or Obama will, and it will be alot more harsh. He is full of bull crap. If your dumb enough to believe propoganda then your just ignorant.

[psyclon09]

this is all rubbish -.- everyone freaks out about everything now adays, swine flu, obama being socialists, next thing u know theres gonna be a mass hysteria on 2012

[realinohio]

Who won it for him? Eight years of George W bush did

[fishininthesouth]

hey man, this video has been posted for a while so i guess that your views may have changed on how obama got elected but just incase it hasnt....here is how he got elected....he stood there and said...free free free,,,,change change change....look at me i look like i am black... i am going to pay for your house and pay for your gas in your car......that bastard got elected due to the color of his skin even though he is half black and he has people out there that thinks they can get shit for free

[GriffinPilgrim]

As far as I can see the change he's been doing so far is easing up on the human rights a buse, not using religion as an excuse for presidential policy, actually doing something to help your economy instead of ignoring it and hoping it goes away, oh, and trying to give a healthcare system not based on the concept of "the rich get to live." Not "screwing your nation" and not socialist.

[horsegrl12]

no im not.. at least you would know mccain would die soon anyways if things went wrong. But now we have to put up with 4 years of this guy who want to screw our nation. Well all im saying is that people should have stopped and asked..What change is he going to bring us? But because they didn't we are screwed.

[GriffinPilgrim]

"i know more than you probly do"

I highly doubt that.

Speaking as a dispassionate observer (I'm British, he's not my president either way), If Obama is Socialist then McCain is a Nazi. Obama happens to be a left winger, that does not make him socialist. If he abolishes private property and makes all services communal, then you have a case. Otherwise, you're talking out your arse, sweetheart.

[horsegrl12]

yes i do thankyou, i know more than you probly do. I wanted to vote for obama at first actually... But than i thought about it and asked myself....How stupid am i really?