Did Barak Obama deserve to be Nominated for US President over Hilary Clinton?

What do we mean by deserved? If we are talking about experience in government, I guess guess he should have lost out to Hillary and should lost out to John McCain, both of his colleagues in the Sentate have far more experience in government. I guess if we talk about whether he came up with any solid policies that Americans want to get enacted, I guess the answer has to be no. Much of his campaign during the primaries was based on the 'feel good' message of the need to change. But having said all that, Barak Obhama was sorely tested in his campaign for the White House. Hillary Clinton is a seasoned politician and used allot of "Dirty" tricks against him. He was not helped by his crazy pastor or a wife who seemed very bad at using sound bites. And inspite of all of this, he won a somewhat messy but democractic process of being chosen as a presidential candidate. Say what you like about the American system but the primary process is meant to weed out the less suitable and he passed a particularly grulling session. Of course, Hillary made allot of mistakes in her campaign and John McCain may not make the mistakes that Hillary made. However, while Hillary did run an amazingly poor campaign, considering all her advantages, that should not detract from the fact that Barak Obhama fought a good fight to get the candidacy.

Tigertang, the question is did he deserve it, not that he won it! My answer was it does not matter what anyone thinks if he deserved it or not...he won it. No matter how he did it and how inexperienced he is in the political scene, the bottom line is he won it.

the real unfortunate part,in both our countriesis that we can only elect the rich or lawyers. the rich only want to add to their pocket and lawyers as we all know,could not tell the truth or act in anyones favour but their own. If a person from the grassroots were able to run,then we would be able to see how well a country can be run,we had one,but is now retired from politics,unfortunatly. He was a newspaperman,not owning,but employed,and he changes our province to the best state it has ever been in,now they are trying to destroy it again as we had to elect another rich idiot. mabe someday,we will get lucky again. Many Blessings

"The problem is that the Republican candidate isn't a whole lot different in their thinking. McCain just has more experience," I'm afraid if anyone thinks there isn't a whole lot of difference between the thinking of McBush and Obama the media sure hasn't been doing their job in covering the issues! Annie

I hear ya Mac! The problem is that the Republican candidate isn't a whole lot different in their thinking. McCain just has more experience, I am not sure if that is a good thing or not at this point! LOL!