Clinton Compares Obama to a Blank Screen

Wow…She continues to amaze me with her arrogance and lack of humility…
The beauty of an article like this is that Clinton supporters can’t say that she has been “mistreated” by the media…
However, Clinton supporters will continue to make rude and disparaging remarks about Barack in 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1…..

Ben that is ridiculous…No one should be voting for Hillary because she is a woman, and no one should be voting for Barack because he is an African American…
The change that is needed is one from the past…No one can argue that Hillary is an instrument of partisan politics…
If that’s what you want then vote for Hillary, but don’t bring race and gender into this race…It’s 2008 for heaven’s sake, and we as a nation are better than that…

She’s right. Obama is an empty screen and I have turned the tv off.

Again the zelous supporters of Obama are going to make this into a huge issue just like they did with that stupid picture. Barack Obama said it in his book that he was a BLANK SCREEN. So why are you guys tearing up Hillary for saying exactly what he said. Barack Obama’s campaign is not anything to Politics as Usual, it is THE WORST FORM OF POLITICS!

Hillary Clinton is not an instrument of partisan politics. This is such a fallacy. Stop spewing the Republican propaganda of the 90s. Since being elected to the Senate, Republicanan and Democratic congress people universality praise her ability to work across the aisle for mutual, common goals.
And, race and gender are inherently in this campaign – it is in the air we breathe. Not everyone is enlightened enough to look past these issues yet, and to claim that it doesn’t exist is very naive. Those who don’t see it may need a sociology 101 course.

Look at the bizarre post below from “benjamin ohara.”
Does it not strike you as unsettling that Clinton folks want a “ruler” rather than a president? I mean, nobody “rules” the USA. Sorry, but that ain’t how this puppy operates. We have a constitution and a government of, by and for the people… not of, by, and for two rich, powerful and influential families. The campaign has revealed: her royal empress has no clothes. The whole idea of a ruler is pretty disturbing.
REAL CHANGE: After being ruled for 232 years by men, the only REAL CHANGE would be to have a woman rule the United States…. that’s the only real change that can be. So if anyone is serious about change, the most legitimate action on its behalf would be to vote for a woman as the next president of the Unied States, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

RE: Women who say they feel sorry for Hillary, and they do not like her because…..
I once asked my sister-in-law why she doesn’t like Hillary and why some women do not like Hillary. Mind you, she does not vote, but her husband is a rabid Republican. I asked her and she had no answer. Then she fumbled around and said she just stayed with Bill because she wanted to be President. Women against women. I do not get it. Working women, expecially, know the double standards for women to have the same career choices open to men. I suspect that may be the problem for many women who do not think for themselves and have to express the opinions of their husbands. It’s a free country, isn’t it?

His supporters tend to see whatever they want when looking at Barack Obama, and his opponents tend to see themselves. Hence Hillary Clinton says that he is inexperienced, and John McCain says that he is naive.

Hillary is a hope for change. Both candidates represent a change in direction for this country. Hope, Change… they both bring it… Hillary also brings experience, knowledge, intensity, the will to fight. We are in for some hard times. In addition to hoping for change I need to know and trust. I know and trust Hillary more than I know/trust Barrack

“Hillary Clinton is not an instrument of partisan politics. This is such a fallacy.”
Do you even know when and how the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy came to be?

Sam, I guess the whining comment, and the claws coming out comments aren’t attacks on her. He really is simply a better person.

Hillary has launched an attack campaign against her opponent because Hillary is trying to look good by putting her opponent down. I prefer to hear Hillary use that time to finish her tax return and open her taxes to the public. Why does Hillary not talk about Nafta issues to the good people in Ohio?
Over and Over, Hillary has not learned that the negative campaign does not work…it is just a waste of time and an insult to the voters. I can make up my mind, I do not need Hillary tell me why I should not vote for her opponent. I rather have Hillary tell me why I should vote for her…. Is the negative campaign being used to cover up empty minds??? Hillary does not understand that the negative strategy will not bring her back.

People really need to examine why Hillary is blaming EVERYONE except herself for her rapid decline in the polls and for 11 straight losses in a row. When she is President and running the country into the ground is she going to try and lay the blame at everyone else as well? In the debate the other night on MSNBC, she was asked why she was unable to produce the 500,000 jobs she promised she would create for the state of NY when running for the Senate in 2000. There was a net 35,000 LOSS in jobs and she blamed Al Gore for NOT getting elected. How sad is that?!?!?

The same way Obama critizes what’s happening in Afganistan and yet hasn’t held one meeting of the sub-committee he chairs on dealing with these issues because he’s been a little busy right now. Good grief!

He is a blank screen. How many of you that are running on the Obama wagon can say 100% without a doubt you know exactly what you are getting with Obama and provide the proof to back that up?
Moving on emotions and fancy saying dose not fix the problems of this land, most of you don’t want to take the time to check on Obama’s track record so to live in your fantasy feel good world you rather leave the screen blank, keep your fingers crossed while wishing for the best and vote.

Truly amazing times we live in. That we even have someone like Obama so close to the presidency. Who would have thought to see so many voters so clearly not interested in experience or substance. So many voters being lead around by their emotions and promises of a near fairy tale future era by a man they have projected all their hopes and wishes on. A man of very little gravitas and substance whose only real skill is that of a gifted orator who has managed to cleverly re-work old political themes, as old as ancient Rome, into something new and exciting. Make no mistake, there is nothing new in what he says, once stripped of its charisma and hype, but he is just so lucky to be at that right place and time to benefit. To benefit from eight years of angst. To benefit from a media tripping over itself in adoration of his arrival. To benefit from decades of white liberal guilt. To benefit from an uncritical and unrealistic electorate. Yes, we live in interesting times. To those blinded by this politician, it will be years into the future before your blinders will come off. Let us all truly hope that this impending mistake, this potential Obama presidency, can be avoided if enough open their eyes and see Obama and the world for what it is. Otherwise one can only hope America survives the years ahead, to hopefully emerge not less of a nation than before.

Don’t blame her…poor Hillary’s brain chamber is bank… so she can’t read what 11+ million were able to read and vote for Obama.
And don’t blame few others on this blog who sees that screen blank as does Hillary.
This explains why she as been ut-smarted in votes..delegets..ideas..raising money…dealing with issues rather than crying…I am worried that she my become more dillusional after loosing the primary.

YOU GO HILLARY!!!! ALL THE WAY TO THE CONVENTION – I AM WITH YOU!

Blank screen, blank page, blank mind, take your pick.

Clinton is the best candidate, period. Obama is a newcomer who has not paid his dues in politics. He hasn’t even been in the Senate for a term and he’s already running for president. On the other hand, I am tired of people saying they want ‘radical’ change and following a Messiah, just because he is a great speaker. I look at deeds, not words. And I am also tired of listening to Obama supporters saying he had great judgment because he opposed the war in Iraq in 2002. Was he a U.S. Senator then? No. Moreover, that speech does not qualify him to lead the situation in Iraq. Lastly, he has voted to fund the war repeatedly, and has not led a single initiative to stop the war. So can anybody explain me exactly what kind of joke are we talking about here????

If Barack had lost 12 elections in a row, he would have been pressured to drop out. Hillary should be grateful to the Media for keeping her in the race. No other politician would survive a 12-0 loss, but the Clintons are ever playing the victim card, as if they are been denied what rightfully belongs to them
Bottom line – Red faced, sleaky, finger pointing Bill and Melt-down Queen Hillary are desperate to return to the White House for a third term. I am suffering from Clinton fatigue, and I look forward to voting against them again, and again.

I can’t defend either of these two clowns, but Hillary is a human chalk board when she opens her yap. I can’t keep my dog from howlin at the TV when she takes the podium.

Hillary didn’t say Obama is like a blank screen — HE said it, about himself. And he was right on.

It should be a testament of Barack’s character and will that he was able to write his own beliefs and values on that blank screen, instead of what was written for him and he just walked lock step with his race or gender.

Wendy: Interesting post. I didn’t realize she have committed any crimes and made a million mistakes. I want to be an informed voter. Could you detail some of the accusations you’ve just made? I want to share them with my friends so they can be informed too.

Tender like a snake

Obama is a master at raising money and runs his campaign with ruthless efficiency, I wonder if he will run the government the same way.

“His relative newness on the political scene, he admits, will also cause him to be seen as a “blank screen” on which a variety of people will project their own views, but he then quickly acknowledges that he must “avoid the pitfalls of fame.” Mrs. Clinton, this is the whole quote in context as opposed to the pulled sound bite. He is the right leader for this country because he knows himself and is comfortable in his own skin. That will keep his vision and responsibities focused; rather than you Mrs. Clinton
who seem to be told every other day, the candidate you are supposed to be.
He is a person first. You are a politician first.

By all of this fighting over two perfectly acceptable Democratic nominees, John McCain will be the next president of the United States. If indications, so far, are correct, 90% of us are going to be in very difficult positions. The conservatives will be in the same boat, even though they believe that the ones that don’t have, don’t work, but they will be happy because someone tells them they won.

Hillary does not understand that saying something negative about her opponent puts her in a terrible position…. Her comments about her opponent being a blank screen just shows that she herself has nothing else to talk, but BLANK…why??, why??, why??? …Maybe enticed by the press.. but Hillary just walks into the negative. Hillary cannot help it!Hillary just does not get!

Politics of fear! What are you talking about?

Go OBAMA go…..

Michael | Feb 28, 2008 10:49:12 PM
This is America, if he didn’t say he was black, he would be ridiculed by black and white. People KNOW what he is as soon as they see him or hear him speak. It is an interesting point, in that, his black daddy left when he was two and he didn’t see him again until he was 10, he grew up in Hawaii(very few if any black people) and he was raised by his white mother(beautiful lady) and white grandparents. He must have been an oddity his whole life until he went to college. And if we are to believe his wife’s college experience, even then.

Perfect description of Obama.
We will pay too dearly if Obama were to win. His policies that are known are actually carbon copies of Hillary’s.
Obama is in this for himself and the African Americans are in this also for themselves.
Just imagine if 90% of white folks vote for Hillary as African Americans are doing for Obama, you know what the media will call it.
I am an African American and I am not proud of the way we are turning out to be in this election. Is as if we don’t care what people have done for us in the past. We are doing what we accuse the white folks of doing for ages. I don’t know why I thought we were a bit more sophisticated than this.

Its pretty funny to continue watching the Clinton supporters tilt at windmills.

I like Barack Obama. He is an honest man.

Go ahead…………..Obama

Thanks, georgie. You were starting to worry me.

after reading your post for the past week, YEAH, OK, we BELIEVE that dude!

He’s an amazing candidate. I mean considering he’s a Manchurian Muslim, anti-Semite, non allegiance pledgin’, empty suit just stinking of naivete… how big a feat is it to overcome all that and beat out Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination?

Barack Obama’s campaign is not anything to Politics as Usual, it is THE WORST FORM OF POLITICS!
Obama has created a CULT with HATEFUL people as its members.
He will DESTROY America.

Lisa – no presidential candidate from either party has had a significant pre-presidential accomplishment since Eisenhower – and that’s over half a century ago.

ks kitty – huh? You’ll need to translate that last one.

LisaH, your lengthy comment lacks truth and dignity. It gives us some insight on your paranoid universe. Nice bold platitudes, pathologically interesting and very amusing. Keep going and don’t take your medication jet!

Why it took Senator Clinton so long to begin this line of criticism is beyond me, but she is right about Senator Obama. His 7-point platform can be summarized as 1.) pull out of Iraq and then go back in if Al Qaeda shows up again (the statement is illogical enough to give one a bran aneurysm), 2.) burn bridges with Pakistan 3.) sit down with Mahmoud Amadinejad (has a slight fascination with fomenting another Jewish Holocaust) 4.)sit down with Kim Jong Il (do I really have to explain?) 5.)Change
6.) You Can 7.) Believe In.
Let’s be honest, Hope You Can Believe should take care of all of America’s problems foreign and domestic.
For a political party that is constantly harping on “The Christian Right”, “Theocons”, and the imminent theocracy that President Bush and Evangelicals are secretly plotting to establish, Senator Obama sounds like a Messiah who seeks to redeem politics and the country from all that ills it. A perfect storm of narcissism and naïveté personified.

I see Steve has attended the Hillary school of strawman argument construction.

Blank Screen…hee hee. Hillary’s brilliant! This woman will make an amazing president. I donated to her campaign today. Hillary 2008.

Paul, Paul, weren’t you listening? This all goes back to the REAL georgie and the FAKE georgie. Or is it the TWO georgies without the pudding and pie?
He’s an amazing candidate. I mean considering he’s a Manchurian Muslim, anti-Semite, non allegiance pledgin’, empty suit just stinking of naivete… how big a feat is it to overcome all that and beat out Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination?
Posted by: Paul | Feb 28, 2008 11:14:09 PM
well, georgie you can support Obama , but This georgie Never will. Hillary or a cross over in the general.
Posted by: georgie | Feb 28, 2008 11:13:32 PM

TO THE IDIOTS WHO KEEP MENTIONING EXPERIENCE. THERE IS NO JOB THAT PREPARES YOU TO RUN THE COUNTRY EXCEPT RUNNING THE COUNTRY. EVEN BEING A GOVERNOR IS NOT THE SAME AS BEING PRESIDENT. NEITHER IS BEING 1ST LADY OR A SENATOR. AT THE END OF THE DAY THEY ALL HAVE ADVISERS AND WE RELY ON THE PRESIDENT’S GOOD JUDGMENT.

PAUL, there’s TOO MANY georgies!

Are maybe a schizophrenic georgie

Ethics reform was pushed through by Obama at the Illinois state senate level.
Single-mothers in Illinois get a break on public transportation and their kids do get a ride for free.
He has pushed through healthcare and childcare initiatives while serving as a state senator.
He has worked with Republicans on bi-partisan legislation at the state and U.S. level.
He has pushed through legislation that would require the use of cameras when interrogating suspects of capital crimes and did receive a commendation for his efforts by the police force.
He did put forth an extraordinary effort with bipartisan support to gain and protect resources for the rebuilding efforts of Hurricane Katrina and to prevent no-bid contracts like Halliburton from occurring like in Iraq under Hillary’s watch and non-opposition.
He did produce the most sweeping ethics reform since Watergate as quoted by other media sources.
He did work on legislation to deal with the issues of Darfur.
And all media agree that he was consistent on being against the Iraq war.
Hillary has been First Lady most of her adult life and served 7 years as an elected official versus Obama’s 11 total years as an elected official.
Exactly what hard core pieces of legislation has she brought to the table besides SCHIP?
I’ll be waiting for a substantive response.
How much of her experience is Bill’s and how much is actually hers?
Why didn’t she confront Obama with her comments at the debates, that she demanded so aggressively ?
I really hate these cheep cowardly snipper attacks.

I take that back. Obama’s presidential material. I’m not going to sit on here in the safety of anonymity and say mean things about people. Only a complete loser would do that.
And I’m Dave, a winner.

“Obamabot” I thought of that all by myself. How cool am I?

Tell me, her accomplishments MattOhio. Show your cards!!

Better to start fresh with a “blank screen” than vote for a
Lying, evasive, race-baiter like
Hillary Clinton!
She has lied about her vote In favor of
giving Bush the authority to go into Iraq, Claiming she expected him to go to the UN! She has lied about her
consistant support for NAFTA which her
husband and the Democrat Congress passed! As far as we know she’s lying about those First Lady papers which
detail her claims of experience!
She still has not released her
tax returns!
She and her husband injected race into this campaign after the South Carolina
Primary attempting to scare white voters into voting for her!
I’d say a “blank screen” would be a refreshing change from the Clintons!
At least when you’re dealing with a “blank screen” there is the capacity to learn and grow!
Go Away Hillary and take Bill with You!

reaganfan | Feb 28, 2008 11:53:39 PM
Bad form, old chap!

Well, Wil and MattOhio, I give up on you two. It’s actually not my problem, that you don’t understand politics. Your comments lack contents and proof and show a lot of simplification and ignorance.
Good night.

I will give you 3 when she was in her 20′s
1. Hillary ran a legal aid clinic for the poor when she first got to Arkansas and handled cases of foster care and child abuse.
2. Years later, she organized a group called Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families.
3. Worked for the United States Legal Services Corporation, a federal nonprofit program that funds legal assistance for the poor.
there are many more

Mike
Dont give up. dont be quitter like Obama. dont flip-flop
Matt

Most of his fans our new to the democrats you’ve seen all thoes old men in Washington they want to make sure there are enough followers to keep the gravy train going. I’m not moved by what I see I am moved by what I believe.
Hillaryspeaksforme

This site should not eliminate issues that are very pertinant to us, whom visit this site, and would like to know all the issues of a candidate that may not have reached us via the media, through word of mouth, tv and radio.

I am not sure what the insult is. Obama does hit chords that are universal in all people, so why should this be considered a negative? Leaders throughout history have used inspiration to move the masses.
Are we to believe that the only way to move forward is to fight every fight without regard to the others point of view?
Or should we believe that the only way to be strong is to fiercely oppose anyone that disagrees with us?

Please choose Obama over Clinton, so that McCain can win easily as soon as the situation will get sour in the Middle East this coming summer. Then in 2012 Obama will have to confront Arnold as the Republican prez candidate, and it won’t be easier for him. See you in 2016, dems!

Please choose Obama over Clinton, so that McCain can win easily as soon as the situation will get sour in the Middle East this coming summer. Then in 2012 Obama will have to confront Arnold as the Republican prez candidate, and it won’t be easier for him. See you in 2016, dems!

That’s Hillary for you. A new story every day. What crap!
Obama — Yes, WE CAN!!!

Madame Hillary will repell you.
In the name of Barack, the Blessed, Hussein, the Good, you are denounced and rejected!

Someone please tell Dickk Morris that he is whining like a little girl all the time about the Clinton. Get him a doll for goodness sake

Has anyone else noticed that the news media has actually “shifted” its coverage as if to “prove” to poor Hillary they are not biased they are now pouring it on Obama real thick.
They made a mountain out of a mole hill when Farrakhsn said, “I love that brother” in reference to Obama (and I wonder what else he would say and how this is deemed an endorsement); but when the Mexican woman from Texas said she is not voting for Obama and no other latinos in Texas would either because he is Black Hillary gets away with a luke warm…mild distancing with a wink.
It was obvious by the 1st part of the question that Hillary’s campaign ASKED this poor old broad to say her code remarks to latinos to REMIND them not to vote for a black man. I caught the first part of her statement where she said that Blacks used their (latinos) numbers and then did nothing for them. Well, let’s see, who exactly does she think got the Equal Rights Laws passed so she could hold the position she holds..her fellow Mexicans.
I guess that is the thanks you get. But, forget about thanks, I say to all latino leaders right now..think about self preservation. African American descendants of the only chattel slaves in this country BELIEVE that Obama may really be President and maybe this is some fulfillment of God’s purpose and reason for 400+ years of degradation. Do latinos, should latinos, really be the group to frustrate that purpose and belief????????????????????????

Hillsters, there will still be room on the O-boat when this is done. We will still love ya!
Then it will be time to take our frustration and aim it at the ‘Straight-talk Express”!

knixphan, no thanks, this hillster will be voting mccain. btw, how are the knicks doing, lol.

To all square republican readnecks out there: go to your favorite search engine and type in : “Scheisskopf” and then “puta madre” and then “va fan culo” and then “Que te jodan” – learn something about yourselves and then get a living, you poor buggers. And triple check on bugger.

stevem, interesting, isn’t it? i’ve had this sort of thing happen many, many times. particularly when i suggest visiting my favorite site, where there is actual intellectual discussion. it’s savagepolitics.com, but i doubt you’ll see this, because they delete it over and over. we’ll see.

Hillary is doing quite well despite overwhelming media support for Obama, despite girly men who fear women, despite all the lies and hate, despite being outspent 4 to 1 across the board, she’s still in the game. On the other hand, I have no idea how Obama will function under stress. He functions quite well with happy times. That’s not how the job in the White House will be, unfortunately. Hillary has shown her metal. I know she can handle the tough going. I’ll stand with her.

HRC is the smartest and most knowledgable presidential candidate and will be the best president.PERIOD.I predict that she will be better than her husband.In addition to being ready on issues, she is also a kind and caring woman as her battles for civic,women’s and childrens rights show.Can you see the onvious bond and love between HRC and Chelsea.She is a loving and caring mother.The only other candidate with understanding with the issues of the people was Edwards while he was in the race.Hillary for president.

VRP:
Arnold Shwartzenegger can’t run for
President as he was not born in
the US!

DavidB.
tell us why Obama cant answer a question in an honest manner. What is he hiding about his life?
Why is he changing his stance on important issues all the time?

How sad that she now is disrespecting the Obama backers as though we haven’t done our homework and are just blindly following our “Messiah”.
Newsflash for ya’ Hil:
We aren’t behind Obama “without knowing” what both he AND you stand for. We’ve done our homework, and you have been seeing the results over the past 11 primaries.
Good luck once you re-join the Senate.

Bag the Billster,
Not just Clinton supporters, everyone else in the world including you Obamatons are saying that Obama supporters are irrational and unreal

Our only and last hope to fix America is with President Obama! We cannot wait. A return to the corrupt past will be a disaster!

Wow, this is really sad to see how much hate is within the Democratic party. One side is going to lose by a tiny percentage of the vote. I kinda see a civil war going down in Denver now and I don’t see enough selfless people to bring this party back together.

Sorry to say Hillary is not going to make it. There are too many highly educated people who have rejected her already. Many studies have shown that people with greater degees of higher education, college, masters. doctorates and lawyers, gravitate towards Obama. Those with less education, like many on this site, are down their with Hillary. The really pitiful and ignorant ones are there with McCain. Those are the dumb bigots who spread lies out of desperation. Theese Clinton supporters are usually less well off financially also. So their thinking is more than a bit off-it is below the basic standard. They fail to see that Obama is a great leader while Hilary posseses the ability to see only the trees and not the forest. It is probably because of their own incapacity to see true leadership and brilliance, that these unfortunates are rabidly defending Clinton. They say they will abandon the party if Hillary loses. So be it. Ther party will lose many many more if Obama is defeated because of the Clinton’s and their unethical and illegal actions-they will try to steal the election.
I hera the last gasp of the old lady Clinton and her desperate supporters. I pity you-I would be just as angry if my more brilliant candidate were in her position. But he isn’t because there are more higher educated people who vote and support Barack. It’s called survival of the fittest.

We have a battle to conquer! We are told that this battle is about ideology.
But NO, this battle is about Truth and Right!
Will we stand and let our young be sent off to slaughter?! NO!
Will we stand and let our Voices NOT be heard? NO!
Hillary, the Knowledge,or Barack, the Good,
Be our Voice, must win victory for us all! Never waver, never weaken, never fall for the craven attention of the Oppressor. It is only a distraction! We, only now, see the Truth in our STRENGTH!
Let the craven heathen, that masquerade as the righteous, know WE ARE ONE! One for all! All for one! Let the battle BEGIN!

Bag my Friend
Polls dont count. TX and OH will count in Hillary’s favor. Media is already giving OH to Hillary and a big Hispanic advantage to Hillary in TX. I am sorry that you will be surprised.
Hillary-Edwards ‘ 08

Bag, CNN stated tonight no latinos were included in this poll. Check your facts before blindly posting an uncheck poll.

Wrong, DavisB, CTV said tonight they stand by their story.

Well, she is correct about the “blank screen” comment; Obama said as much in his book. But to say she’s not surprised by how the race has shaped up is dishonest. She thought this would be wrapped up by Super Tuesday, and everybody knows it. Obama, on the other hand, clearly planned for a long-hard slog.

What? Hillary is a farce. Bill was elected promising universal health care. The Congress was democratic. Eighty percent of the public was behind it. The economy could easily support it. Yet her program was 100% failure. She had another 6 years to try to revive it. Let’s hear the excuse for 8 years of failure on her supposed pet program – when her husband was the president no less. Now there’s an election, she’s promising you healthcare again just like Bill did – with an unworkable mandatory plan. The theory is that if you can fool them once, you can always fool them. As Geffen says, “the Clintons lie with such ease, it’s troubling”. and the NY Times’ William Safire called her a “congenital liar”. Hillary flunked healthcare. She flunked Iraq. She flunked Iran. She even flunked the Washington bar exam twice, and is a serial failure as a housewife. That’s her record – her so-called experience. Vote Obama.

Hillary claims the 200,000 jobs she promised in NY never happened only because she expected a Democratic President, and didn’t get one.
Hey Hillary, what if you don’t get a Democratic congress? Will you be able to pass anything with a Republican congress?
I want a candidate who doesn’t blame his failures on other people. Take responsibility for your failures Hillary. Apologize for your vote on Iraq. Take responsibility for destroying healthcare in 1993. Admit you couldn’t make 200,000 jobs because it was a ridiculous campaign promise.
Do those things, and I will consider voting for you if you somehow beat Obama. If you don’t, you are no better than George Bush – whose arrogance and unwillingness to admit his mistakes are his two biggest flaws. Everyone makes mistakes – Obama will as well. But at least he will admit them and try to fix them. You’ll just blame someone else.

It’s not what we don’t know about Obama. It’s what we do know about Hillary.
It’s amazing to hear this from Clinton supporters who themselves show themselves as mindless sheep. Obama says he thinks we should be able to pursue credible intelligence of AQ targets in Pakiston unilaterally, Clinton says “He wants to bomb Pakistan”, and her sheep begin chanting a monotone “He wants to bomb Pakistan”.
Her sheep then begin chanting “Rezko. Rezko”… probably because it’s easier to chant than “McDougal. McDougal”.
I have only heard the sheep mumble about the minister’s worship of Farrakahn, but how illogical is it for a Christian minister to openly admire a Muslim extremist anti-semite as well be a racist himself? I’d have to hear this minister express this to me himself to believe this isn’t just the Clinton Kool-Aid.
Anything allegedly corrupt about Obama, the Clinton’s have trumped him on all counts. Heck, Bill’s top business partner is the Emir of Dubai.
Elect Hillary. Let’s go ahead and have another Bush with different lies in the White House.

I mean, Can you believe these guys? Chasing a hot wind. I sense a lot of discomfort in the Obama Campaign. Even the media is not talking a lot about them now.

Nevertheless, it is not unusual for politicians on both sides of border to give heads up when candidates make unilateral statements over foreign policy. I see nothing wrong with the heads up between nations. Just the nature of the beast. Big boy politics. That’s the way I see it.

Wrong again…After Hillary’s win Tuesday night I wont even sleep.

You just run with this one now Hillary – see where it gets you. I have never seen so many faces to one candidate in my entire life. LOL!

Pledged Delegates:
Obama 1183
Clinton 1031
States won
Obama 25
Clinton 11
Popular vote:
Obama 10.2 million
Clinton 9.2 million

Look, I think Hillary is going to be a leader in our party for years to come, and will eventually make an outstanding Senate Majority leader. There’s worse things in life than having to choose between these two wonderful candidates. And, I’m sure many of you would have to admit a year and a half ago, you were arguing with your buddies how they just HAD to vote for Hillary (I know I was).
As far as the sniping between the two candidates…that’s politics! Hillary doesn’t want to concede her eventual defeat quite yet, and is clutching at straws. Let’s not lose sight that when Obama wraps it up, she will campaign her ass off for her party’s nominee!
It’s a new day in politics (and I, for one, am so thankful). Obama has been my guy since he jumped in because he gives this party a real chance to build a working majority for the conceivable future. We are standing on the precipice of the greatness we all know our party represents! Let’s not tear it down with stupid infighting. Stay focused. The biggest fight is yet to come. That’s when we will ALL have to combat the real “kitchen sink” politics that is sure to come.

Was anyone watching the debate?? TR asked a hypothetical question if Al Queida was completely out of Iraq and we pulled out our troops would we go back in Iraq again. Barack responded that as CIC he reserves the right.
It was a Hypothectical Question.
Apparently, Hillary read page 11 (in the Prologue) of “The Audacity of Hope.” What he actually says is, “Undoubtedly, some of these views [both progressive views and views critical of the Democratic Party] will get me in trouble. I am new enough on the national political scene that I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views. As such, I am bound to disappoint some, if not all of them. Which perhaps indicates a second, more intimate theme to this book–namely, how I, or anybody in public office, can avoid the pitfalls of fame, the hunger to please, the fear of loss, and thereby retain that kernel of truth, that singular voice within each of us that reminds us of our deepest commitments.”
Well, Hillary, what about “the pitfalls of fame, the hunger to please, and the fear of loss”? Reckon you might have gotten caught up in any of these? Maybe you should read the whole book.

Man, now I feel stupid posting under Eric because he is right and is clearly the better man than me lol.

Sludge:
Obama’s main accomplishments in Chicago include
Getting healthcare for over 200,000 children
Passing the toughest ethics reform bill in state history (as you may be aware, IL and Chicago is probably the most politically corrupt place in the country)
Reforming a broken death penalty system which had wrongly sent hundreds of innocent men to death row.

There is every indication that we are tired of all the back and forth bickering between candidates, yet it goes on.
How did I choose between them? I wrote each campaign and asked about their position on an issue that was important to me. Both sent emails asking for donations and support almost immediately. One answered my question within 48 hours. That was the candidate I chose to support.
Hint: If she can’t run a campaign, she can’t run the White House. She was so sure she was going to have the nomination wrapped up by Super Tuesday she didn’t have any organization on the ground in Ohio & Texas. I really made up my mind when she had to lend her campaign 5 Million bucks. Why doesn’t she release her tax returns? Sorry, Hillary, I am just not buying it anymore.

I don’t see black/white, man/woman.
I want a new I repeat, NEW president. GoBama.
fyi, female, dem, nw. IN.

Nancy, I have no idea where in the heck you’re coming from. What’s your point besides choosing comments that suit you? Afghanistan, for your info, under the European committee responsibilities is also NATO which is responsible for Afghanistan. Perhaps you need to do a little better research on your own and break away from the Obama website.

I never seen such desperate power-monger in my life. She will say and do whatever to get into white house again. Obama is peoples choice. She tried everything and failed miserably there is nothing she can do to derail this movement. Hillary, please go away no body likes to see you around anymore! Just disappear! get lost!

I first started looking at this race in October disliking Clinton. After New Hampshire, I realized that she’s human and my respect for her began to grow. However, after her unnecessary and blatant attempts to gain pity these last few days, my respect for her has greatly decreased again. I don’t want her to represent what women are capable of. Because women are capable of being reasonable, of having the humility to admit when they do something wrong, and of picking up the pieces without blaming their setbacks on everyone else. It’s called carrying yourself with dignity, and that is one thing Hillary Clinton does not have.

Congratulations Hillary supporters if she wins you get to have your President of the United States of Feminists/Old Hispanics/and the under educated. What a dream, I see why the passion is there now. Idiots, wake the hell up the Clinton’s are just as Corrupt as the Bushes. We need the least tainted choice, why not one with a million plus individual American donors from all walks of life. One last thing to those who can’t think for themselves. Obama is nothing close to Gearge Bush except in age at inauguration. Obam is an entirely self-made man who has not just succeded but exelled at everything he has set out to do. Come on Amrica wake up and take your damn country back. All this guy wants is for us to buy him and use him. He won’t rule us we’ll rule him. How bout that for a reverse argument. Donate and Vote Obama and you own him and our government? Argue that!!!

Throughout this past few weeks I have seen how Senator Clinton consistently tries to make a point of something that Senator Obama says or does as if it is wrong or negative to do it and then she turns around immediately and says or does something exactly the same or similar.
She claimed that a candidate should use their ‘own words’ in the Texas debate and then in that very debate she closed using words of campaign phrases of her husband and Senator John Edwards!!!
And people were praising her for what she said!!!!
In this very article she suggests that Senator Obama is saying that he is a blank page (which Senator Clinton of course wishe to project as meaning ‘inexperienced’) that people project things upon. Then in the next comment when asked about women feeling sorry for her…she says she feels that they project things about her own life on to her!
She does things like this constantly… I have lost all respect for her. If she wins the nomination, I refuse to vote for her.

Thank you Laura, On the other hand, do you mind if I see the exact opposite as you. When Obama gets put through the bad times as Hillary is experiencing right now I have no way to judge how he would or would not act under similar circumstances. Then we can judge apples to apples. Fair enough?

Hilary Clinton is simply a political mediocre. She can only act as commander in chief, but never can truly perform that. Compared to her ability she has already gained more than enough. For her, politics is a way of building someone’s carrier. That is why she could compromise with her husband few years ago.

I find it interesting that people claim that Sen. Obama is so “fresh,new,and clean” and that he is not the usual politician. Yet when experience is brought up the same people claim that Sen. Obama has just as much, if not more experience than Sen. Clinton. Am I missing something here?

Lincoln didn’t pick up his marbles and run from the fight. He was a man! He stood for what was right despite the heavy loss of life and in spite the opposition. Obama is no Lincoln. Never ever go there again. You went too far.

It is more amusing by the day to injest the socialist tripe spewed by the three leading “candidates” in this train wreck of an election. The two narcisists that call themselves democrats have FDR rolling over in his grave( Eleanor is elated with them).
Lest we forget the erswhile Mr McCain, we find no message at all. In 1960 a pudgy little man name Nikita said it all ” we will bury you, not by force of arms but from within…” I didn’t give it much credence then But we see he was correct,sadly.

Wil, that would be fine except they’re all already a bunch of apples on the congressional tree including Obama. He has played the game and is in no way 100% pure as a result but he has at least tried his hardest in his short time to stay relatively clean. Bad times, Domestic issues, Foreign Issues, don’t mean a thing if you consider that none of our nations problems can be solved according to the Common sense of the Common Majority regardless of what that means ie. republican, democrat, left, right. Democracy isn’t about what I want or you want and especially not what any individual special interest or lobbyist wants it’s about the voice of the American Majority. The Bushes and yes the Clintons have already proven their ineptitude at providing Americans this voice through good times and yes through the bad they have never fundamentally changed a damn thing. The very fact that this man is even openly preaching these points gives you and every Patriotic American reason to give him and his message serious consideration. Fair?

Wil, you know and I know, that the photo being available is different than it being pushed to websites, news organizations etc. Which is why Fox shortly afterwards could run the story, “Proof That Obama is a Muslim?” with that photo as it’s tag. So that even if in the story, they could go ‘no no’ the damage via the image was already done.
That photo being pushed had no other reason than to try and use it as a smear. Even if the photo itself, wasn’t anything negative, per se. That’s how the Repub. slime machine works.

Hey werdup…before you start telling us your great worldly knowledge from your wonderful sources around the globe, isn’t the rest of the world laughing at us already? Bush for 8 years cost us that stake at credibility. No doubt they are going to be skeptical of any frontrunner in the States.
So what are these sources you’re referencing anyway? I’d loooove to know.

Hello, Heidi. It is my understanding that photo was printed by the Drudge Report. I have never read the Drudge report and would never have known this photo existed were it not for MSM news sites. Drudge, as you well know, is a republican hit site and I had immediate thoughts that this does not meet the smell test. I wondered why none of us really questioned or demanded that Drudge product proof of his claim. The last thing Hillary needed was this photo, believe me. Hillary needed this like a hole in the head. And that is exactly what happened. To this day I’m still wondering why none of us checked this out better.

To Allen, saunders, LisaH, Wendy, and especially you, Scrapiron: I hope there is a God, a just god, and I hope you meet her someday.
SJ, be comforted: I sincerely doubt that Wendy is an Obama supporter.
Yes, Hillary took the “blank screen” phrase completely out of context and twisted it for attack purposes. This is a tired and familiar strategy employed by her and her campaign. It seems that she’s using Obama as a blank screen to project herself onto, when she accuses him of Karl Rove-inspired attack politics – it’s a mirror she’s looking into, not a blank screen.
I’m a longtime supporter of the Clintons, worked for Bill in ’92, and I was looking forward with great anticipation to Hillary’s run for the presidency. She has lost my support, however, because of whom she has shown herself to be as a person and how she has run her campaign. Her conduct has caused me to recoil from her long enough to see that Obama is superior when it comes to his plans, his policies, his ability to inspire and lead, and his fearlessness in having the audacity to tell the truth: that change starts with me.
It is quite possible that the anti-Hillary feelings of some Democratic and Independent voters is not borne of sexism or any other prejudice, not to be decoded in some arcane calculus: it is quite possible that it is borne of a combination of Hillary’s failings as a candidate and the good perception and good judgment of those who have or will instead vote for Obama.
There will be a woman president some day soon. Unfortunately, Hillary is the wrong woman this time; just as Edwards, Biden, Dodd, Richardson and Kucinich were the wrong men.
I am not an Obama supporter bashing Hillary, I am an American whose support Hillary Clinton has lost and Obama has gained. We are all Americans, if we’re voting, all creatures of the world, and as John F. Kennedy said “we all breathe the same air, and we are all mortal”. There are many things we share, and let’s try to remember them as we vent in these pages.

The thing I love about Hillary is Obama is a blank page but she has soooo much experience. Doing what? She didn’t have security clearance during her years as First Lady so what was all this experience she keeps talking about? The Clintons like the Bushes are what is wrong with politics. They would sell their soul, if they had one to get what they want. I only wish this primary season ends soon and Bill and Hillary fade away. She is a lousy example for women.

I have become desensitized to Clinton’s remarks. Her words just do not carry weight. I don’t think she realizes it but it’s her negative remarks that has drawn the negative media attention.

Hillary supporters all well know the majority of Obama supporters hate her, and hate the people who stand with her. Nothing new here. There are eleven million of us as well and not one of us can or will ever forget the ugliness of it all. You scream it often enough. We get it, okay. But we will remember it come November as well. We have no home with you people, nor do we ask or want one with you.

“Everywhere I go people say ‘Don’t give up, don’t give up, stay with this.’” Clinton said, “There is something going on here.”
Sen. Clinton needs to go somewhere other than her own campaign rallies. The woman’s already in a bubble, and she’s not even the Democratic nominee.

BO is a good speaker and won a grammy! woo hoo!! That’s about sums up all his awards. On the other hand, the other candidates have a lifetime of accomplishments! I’ve heard many BO supporters say they like him because he is a “blank slate” (his own words) and has no experience and will let the people decide what direction we go. Hmmm…is that like voting ‘present’ and letting everyone else make a decision to see which way it lands? Wake up America, do your research on the fact – this guy is not ready for the presidency.

the other candidates have a lifetime of accomplishments!
Like what?

Wil, of the millions of Obama supporters in the country, there are probably 10,000 at most who have ever posted in a political blog. Of that 10,000, there are probably 1,000 who could be perceived by a die-hard Clinton supporter to have gotten carried away in their attacks on Hillary. Many of them, I’m sure, have been whipped up by what they feel are unfair attacks on them and their candidate by carried-away Hillary supporters. Then there are some who are posing as Obama supporters, just as there are some who are posing as Hillary supporters, and there are a lot of neo-cons and race-baiters who are attempting to turn Obama and Clinton supporters against one another (see, in this blog alone, the likes of Allen, saunders, LisaH, Wendy and Scrapiron).
So please don’t fall into the trap, and don’t let the vocal few blind you to the silent many. If you stay home on election day because Obama is the Democratic Nominee, or if you vote for McCain, you will be putting at risk the lives of tens of thousands more innocent men, women and children around the world because you feel you have been slighted; hundreds of millions of Americans will labor for 4 more years and get nowhere because you will have helped put the chauvinistic party of the select few back in power; all the oppressed women of the world, e.g. from Saudi Arabia, will continue to have their spirits crushed because we will continue to feed the Saudi Royals by the billions every day, continue to kiss their feet while they keep women from driving, from voting, from leaving their homes unattended; freedom-loving people in the Muslim world, women especially, will suffer under the fanning flames of Islamic Extremism because you will have chosen to help put in power a man who will continue to wage war in the Middle East despite all consequences; think of all the women of the world who will suffer genital cutting and a universe of infamies because we have neither the resources nor the focus nor the political will to press for changes through our trade policy and other diplomatic efforts because we are throwing trillions of dollars down the money pit in Iraq (and soon Iran). Think of all the people in this country and around the world who don’t have four more years to wait — think, please, before you say you will not support Obama. If Hillary wins the nomination I will vote for her in November despite all the names I’ve been called by Hillary supporters after I’ve posted blogs that simply spell out differences between the two candidates and offered my opinion about the superiority of Obama’s leadership skills and his potential to actually enact any of the programs he’ll push for. I have been offended, but I will do the right thing for the country I love, and I will not be dissuaded by the insults of a vocal minority of Hillary supporters. Look into your heart, please.

Wil, I think there has been a lot of vitriol on both sides, certainly here you see it just as much from the people supporting Hillary, as those supporting Obama. As well as just those Repubs who dislike either and will take a chance to bash either candidate.
But I would hope that every Hillary supporter or Obama supporter, would think of this country first, before their ego and wounded feelings about something on the internets. Politics are too important to have it be decided on how mean someone was to you on a messageboard.
If someone truly is a supporter of Hillary or Obama, than they know that there is zero chance that anything they mutually agree on (which is 95% of things) will get done under McCain. Especially now that he’s totally sold out to the Republican ideologies of Dubya/Cheney. If you don’t agree that Obama or Hillary will do enough for healthcare, NAFTA or repealing the tax cuts for the wealthy or getting out of Iraq before 100 years, you have to admit, they will totally not happen with McCain. At all.
So anyone who isn’t using vanity to decide their vote, who is a supporter of either Obama or Hillary, will vote for the other one in November. Otherwise you really don’t care about what your candidate stands for and and are letting them, and the country we all love, down.

Wil
I understand what happened in the Gore Election and that isn’t true democracy either. So you know where I come from and there are plenty like me as evidenced in the news reports and turnout numbers. I am a 26 year old White male who never voted and never cared to vote until this election. I have always been interested in our govt. and love our country but I was raised as an independant thinking American, as a result I have never bought into the argument that is shoved down our throats regarding voting as an act of patriotism or prerequisite to being a good American. Our govt. sold out long ago and our democracy has been nothing more than an illusion proped up by sham elections like you speak of and canidates bought and paid for by a priveledged few. In my opinion up until now Voting and supporting our “democracy” has been the equivalent of riding a bus that forces a minority to sit in the back. We citizens should have boycotted these politicians long ago was my opinion until Obama came along and flipped the script. He’s not perfect, he’s played the same game as the rest until now, until he had the platform to begin trying to change it. My fears aren’t based on who has experience and policy books, my fears are based on whether we ever actually get our country back before it’s too late. Everyone is right I know what I will get with Mccain and Clinton, nothing profoundly new or different and certainly no chance of we the people getting our democracy back, at least with Obama there’s a chance. Can he be lying? Yes but at least his message and campaign structure gives us a chance. If not him or someone else with the same mixture of message and finances I and many other first time voters will never vote.

Thank you, Heidi. I invite you to read my post at 2:52:25 AM — we were apparently working on them simultaneously. I share and applaud your sentiments, and I beseech all commentators here (who are actually Obama or Clinton supporters) to take them to heart.

Here are the stats that matter, from the AP: In the 22 contested Democratic primaries so far, independents made up 22 percent of the vote and they supported Obama by an overwhelming margin of 64 percent to 33 percent. Crossover Republicans, a far smaller percentage in the Democratic primaries, backed him 55-33.
If Hillary can’t win independents against a “lightweight” like Obama then she doesn’t have a chance against McCain.

Jason,
it’s not Obama you doubt but your fellow citizens and even yourself. Read the consitution, check out some history on our Democracy, hell read the definition of democracy

WE EUROPE BELIEVE THAT EVEN WHEN HILARRY FINALLY WINS THIS CONTEST; SHE´S SHORT OF THE PEOPLE´S MANDATE; AFTER SERIES OF LOSSES ACROSS US:

To the person that brought up Pakistan. Let’s not forget that Bush just did exactly what Obama was describing – unilaterally hitting a terrorist base within Pakistan without telling Mushareff. They claimed to have taken out one of the top Al Qaeda lieutenants.

ray, I would vote for McCain if I believed in him — it doesn’t matter that he’s a Republican, it’s his professed intent to continue the same failed economic, military and foreign affairs policies of the Bush Administration that I dislike and that I think would be disastrous for the country and the world. If you read my post carefully you will see that I was specifically addressing the idea that a Clinton Democrat would withhold their vote for Obama not on his merits as a candidate but on the basis of having been insulted by blog posters.

Every blog I post on, I try to be fair and argue logic not ideology. I try and argue based on the basic democratic principle we supposedly cherish and hope to spread across the world. I also argue on behalf of my canidate of choice Obama but only using the above outlined criteria, not the played out sexist crap, or rebub smear machine crap, just simple pure logic. You know what I noticed, not very many of you in fact almost none of you Hillary peeps and Republicans argue my posts. I guess it’s because you can’t argue with logical unbiased debate based on real democratic principles not my own ideology. I support Obama based on that and nothing else. Vote Logic, Vote Democracy, Vote Obama 08 and the majority of america’s voices have a chance.If not go ahead and Vote illogical, Vote against true representative democracy, Vote against our founding fathers beliefs, vote ideology and Vote McCain or Clinton

I am no Clinton apologist so file this under “a ship too late to save a drowning witch”. I completely agree with her assessment of Sen Obama. He is a “uniter” a “catalyst for change”, “change you can believe in”… this may go down as the complete triumph of branding over substance. He promises whatever his audience wants to hear… abolish predatory credit card interest rates, ease bankruptcies, tax and punish all those nasty rich people… etc. YET he is only a first term Senator. Another claim to fame… he opposed the War, yes, but he did so in the comfort of the Illinois State Senate – NOT the US Senate. So this gives him the mantle of presidential authority… gimme a break. I’m glad I’m a Republican. You Democrats are crazy to nominate him, but go ahead. As I said I am no Clinton fan… either way you guys will not take back the Whitehouse! Keep on fighting – keep on exposing your obvious flaws! I do hope this fight goes all the way to Convention!

I fear when a man says he is here to bring unity and understanding to everyone, yet no one is allowed to call him by his full name, since it may sound like a muslim! First, if the name offends you, change it. Second, your actions and the actions of your suppporters in sensoring a muslim name does a lot of harm to muslims – you are saying anything muslim sounding is bad and should be rejected. So much for bringin unity and dignity to all people.

Clinton voted to give Bush authorization for going to war if inspections failed. She did this because there was actionable intelligence (the intelligence that later proved to have been false) that Iraq was a threat to our security. Now, Obama says he will invade Pakistan (UNILATERALLY) if there is actionable intelligence — Now where have I heard that one before! And he would also get out of Iraq but then has to get back in since there AlQeda there! Wake up America and smell the coffee.

Jack
Why don’t you look up the numbers in the exit polling if you can find em or wait until the fourth and research it then. But look em up and see what percentage of american muslims vote Obama. I’m sure they’re not to offended. The use of the middle name, the use of the photo, the attacks against his pastor, questions about a non-affiliated supporter Farrakahn, Where he went to school as a kid for a few years, all that plus the smear emails that outright make untrue suggestions and accusations that he’s a secret terrorist. If it were you would you be a little hesitant to advertise your name to a nation who just hung Sadaam Hussein and is at war with terroists while all the above things are goin on? Come on man be honest. It doesn’t make him dis-honest or un-viable just a little human. Everybody gets a little self-concience sometimes. Yes he should just come out and address it all the time until it goes away, he probably will. Hillary has seemed farely self concience about her vote and just barely only recently almost apoligized, and I bet McCain got a little touchy during the whole Keating 5 scandal so like I said before. Check out the exit polling, Obama is winning everyone man, except for old hispanics and feminists. They’ll be on the bandwagon soon enough, well except the feminists of course.

Let’s face it. United States is still a sexist country and women are looked down as weak and incapable of leadership. For most men women have difficulty doing their work since they periodically have emotional imbalance. I personally experienced it in the office setting. I was in sales then. We have a female manager who is basically a can do attitude and will never take no for answer and she gets things done. During conferences, whenever she discusses the need to achieve a target quota and feel passionate about it, the male chauvinists will say derogatory remarks behind her back like “Ms….. is pushing us again, must be the period, huh”.
A lot of male in the electorate will not admit to it but subconsciously, whenever a female above their rank asks them to accomplish a task, they silently say “who the f** are you, bi**”. It is no surprise that the same is being reflected in the current election.
Also it is a fact that the media, through the idiot box called television, dictates who to vote for in this coming election.
The same media who promoted a uniter and stained Al Gore eight years ago. The same media who kept quite about the election anomalies in Florida. The same media who kept quiet in the run up to the Iraq war. The same media who made Howard Dean look bad when he rallied his followers almost four years ago so the vulnerable John Kerry will make it to the nomination. The same media who pictured John Kerry as a flip flopper and made him lose the election. The same media who kept quiet about the anomalies in Ohio.
Now the media is at it again. For almost a year now they have stained the Clintons and constantly harped on the negatives while putting Obama on a pedestal as if he is pure and holy and devoid of sins.
I have always been a fan of Keith Olberman and never missed any of his shows until of late when I noticed that he kept hitting Sen Clinton and treated her with disdain while singing song of praises for Sen Obama. It is a pity. Keith should have stayed neutral. Unfortunately he proved himself no different from the man he loves to chastise – Bill Oreilly. The only difference is that they are in the opposite side of the political spectrum and have opposite agenda.
Let me give an example of the latest media partiality. A civil rights leader jump ships to Obama camp because he has to follow the will of his constituents and it is featured in the news every fifteen minutes. Now, how come nobody in the media ever questioned the fact that John Kerry, Edward Kennedy and Deval Patrick haven’t changed their vote from Obama to Clinton to follow the will of their constituents?? Is it because it may hurt the chances of Sen Obama and hinder the bandwagon for him?

Clinton accuses Obama in this article of being a “blank screen” who “people of widely different views project what they want to hear” She then goes on to say that “I think a lot of woman project their own feelings in their lives on to me.” So why is it acceptable for women to have an emotional connection to Hillary, but when people do the same to Obama, they are just deluded? This is another example of hypocrisy coming from the Clinton campaign; It’s okay for them to indulge in negative campaigning, but when Obama does it, they cry and play the victim.
Hillary is a hypocrite,a chameleon, and a weathervane, and her attacks on Obama have all failed because they lack substance. Negative attacks must have at least a grain of truth to them to succeed. When Obama accuses Hillary of supporting the Iraq war when it was politically popular it hurts her because it is true; when Hillary accuses Obama of not REALLY being against the war, it just makes her look foolish.

I hear a lot about Hillary’s experience, but what about her successes? Does she have anything?
I also hear that she’s pro union, but wasn’t she on the board at wal-mart? Did she succeed at changing the minds of the wal-marters to go union? I think not.
Seriously, what has her 35 years of experience yielded?
The reason I support Obama is his lack of Washington experience. Hillary is just too old school Washington.

oh yeah I do it without bias or any sexism just logic and democratic principles that your canidate simply does not measure up to. So again I challenge you to scroll up and read my previous 3-4 posts advocating Obama, they aren’t the hateful ignorant arguments of some and I even declined to name the littany of true and substantiated evidence of corruptions and shady ties the clintons come with. Please I challenge you to state Hillary’s case based on logic and democratic principles and nothing more. I think you may find yourself thinking about removing your feminist hat and realizing she simply is not the one. One day the right woman will come along and the arguments of logic and principle with fit with her and she will be President. That will be a glorious day, the reality is Hillary is no more or better qualified than dozens of distinguished woman Senators, Governors and diplomats. The difference is her fame and privaledge. It’s simply about the whole package and she doesn’t quite have a big enough one because this guy is actually bigger. If she were the right women it would be no contest.

She is just letting everyone know Obama has a clean slate to start from!
Vote Obama!

The title of this article is misleading – yet another media turn to make Hillary look bad. She is not putting Obama down by her comment. In fact she’s giving a very accurate reason as to why people are following Obama. Unfortunately too many people in the USA listen to what they want to hear – not to what is really being said. If they really heard what was being said, they’d see Obama, although a great speaker, isn’t saying anything new! He’s just a politician. And, I for one, won’t be voting for him.

Quote from Ryan: Clinton you raised $35M, Obama you raised $50M. (pause, pause) Obama YOU are the next American Idol!

Obama supporters. Ignore Hillary. I thought she used to be somewhat intelligent but the last few weeks of he campaign how made it evident that she is not and is not qualified to be president. She just keeps coming up with foolish slogans as a reason not to vote for Obama. She is not a threat to win anymore.

Hillary whiners. When you say stupid things like this as she often does you will get negative media coverage. It is not because the media is against her but rather she is the one providing them with negative information.

Joel-Obviously that is not a nuetral site and it will distort the truth. I did not even read any articles but I can tell form the front page about its inablity to tell is straight.

She implies that people project things upon him even when they don’t know what they want. That is what makes me most afraid, her implying that she knows what is best for us. Here comes NannyState 2.0.

Heh. She is basically saying, that BO’s supporters are delusional and have no idea what they are doing. Way to rally his support, Hill. It works every time. BO can’t help that people have listened to him on the issues and have decided they will vote for him. The fact that she believes that she is OWED this presidential candidacy is ridiculous. She has an entitlement problem here. She seriously thinks BO thought he would get the support he has now. He is just as surprised as the rest of the world. Two terms in the Illnois State Senate is not having experience? Is she nuts? Technically, he’s been in elected office longer than she has. I will vote for her if she gets the nomination but she is really annoying me at this point.

Hillary always gives negatives information about OBAMA.These all contributed for her to lose this nomination.The more she criticizes Obama, the more people continue to adore him. I think Hillary is in complete desperate.It is the reality

I think I hear jealousy talking.
Fact: Obama relates to and connects with people.
Fact: Hillary does not.
So according to her this has to mean he is a blank screen and the people who think they know something of him are just projecting fools since it couldn’t possibly mean the real Hillary is manufactured and that any Hillary she cranks out is simply is not selling well enough at the ballot box.
Hey Hillary? How many times are you going to keep calling us delusional. I mean, gee, that’s such a winning campaign strategy.

Behind the populist veneer, Obama is a slick politician backed by a slick-running political-marketing machine. Has he ascended because of a genuine and natural process? I don’t think so
– he’s been groomed over the longer period of time via insider book deals and a prechosen prime-time speaker spot at the last Democratic convention.
It saddens me that so many young voters in Obama’s corner are not asking harder questions about this man and why he is being allowed to cakewalk to the Democratic nomination. Who really is backing him? Why has the press failed to dig into his political past — why has he not been vetted to date?
It seems so often we blame the old for the mistakes of the country — this time around the finger pointing will be at the young voters whom blindly follow the Obama spin. Please think hard before opting for an unseasoned and solely political player to carry the Democratic mantle.

It is sad that people can not see through Obama. Not matter what comes out on Obama, his supporters will defend him to the end. This is the same thing that happen with Bush. Supporters agreed with him about everything he said and did and look what kind of mess he got us in. It appears that people want to live in an illusion rather than in reality–the reality that Obama is all talk!!

What Hillary says about Obama thinking he would wrap it up after Iowa is ridiculous. EVERYONE knows that she and her camp thought that they would have this nomination in the bag after Feb. 5th. People in her campaign have said so and site that as the reason that they were so unprepared to compete with Obama in the following races. Now she is turning it around to make herself look like the victim, as always.
It’s amazing to me that all Clinton has to do is continuously repeat the same lies over and over and people just buy into them. Say what you will about Obama but at least he doesn’t treat people (especially his own voters) like morons. Clinton supporters should be outraged, not Obama supporters–we’re not the ones being lied to.

What negative attacks against Obama? She’s telling the truth…lol. People don’t like that she does that which is why alot of people don’t like her, she speaks her mind.

Two years from now I want to come back if Obama is the nominee and say “I told you so”. Wake up from your dream world America!

I agree Benjamin O’Hara
Also I am not quit sure what god is ”
But I no this much ‘He wants Hillary to have a “FAIR” “Election”
I also no this If she don’t he is going to bring this country to it’s knees” see
It is really his”
god wants a woman to have a try at this thing to ”
God is god you can say all kinds of terr able bl able about it I do not care”
He made me And I am employed by him and i will type this if you don’t like it find another earth to go mess up”!

Oh, lord, please deliver us from the various Hillarys. When she’s not whining, she’s shrieking. When she’s not shrieking, she’s mocking. When she’s not mocking, she’s insulting. The country wants a divorce — from her. It’s gonna be over soon, right?

does she realize how ridiculous she looks when she says idiotic things like this – like him of not – he is not an empty screen – just because i can give an inspirational talk about being fit and exercising does NOT mean I don;t know how to do shoulder surgery – in reverse just because she lacks the ability to give inspirational speeches does not mean she is without ideas or incapable of being a good president – unfortunate for Hilary Barack can do but – be a good president and be an inspirational leader!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is this something even worth reporting about? Mrs Clinton have made her opinions clear about Mr Obama and frankly the Democractic Party and its supporters have heard enough. We will speak again in Vermont Rhode Island Texas and Ohio on March 4th. The Clinton camp seems to spend a lot of time feeding on dirt about their opponent and her collague that American citizens in general, will prefer not see any anymore mud-slinging in or at the White House. The next four years will not be enough to clean up the mess of so called legacies. So maybe a blank screen is just what we need.

I guess this means she intends to march on even after she loses Texas or Ohio. She will drag this down to the lowest denominator before she quits.

Blaming of the Shrew………
It’s time Hillary gets it. Dubyah hasn’t, and now we have one of our prime Democrats refusing to look at reality. Face it Hillary, I am a lifelong Democrat, a fan of yours and Bill’s, and voting for Barack. Stop blaming him for all of your misquotes, and problems on the campaign trail. This process is about what the people want. Would you take that away from them? It seems to me they are making a pretty clear statement about what they want……………..

operalovr,
You are only one of 10 millions who vote for Senator Obama so far. How about the other 10 millions (not including Florida and Michigan) who vote for Hillary Clinton? Should their voices be heard?

Hillary Clinton is as intellectually dishonest as her husband has proven to be when either of them want something badly. Her husband, the charmer, has shown her the ropes of manipulating the public and as a victim of his lack of loyalty and personal ethics, she has adapted to survive. She has embraced him and his behavior, else she would have to face the fact that he is a serial adulterer and should have been dumped years ago. It is so much easier for her to see them both as victims of the Right, errant women and Senator Obama. I am constantly amazed how Americans have literally dismissed the fact that this woman has had a husband who has given her 30 years of serial adultry. His coup de grace was to humiliate her publicly while still in the White House. No one seems to consider the impact this has had to have on her self-esteem. I know she tells us she was chanting a prayer with her fingeres in her ears during all of this. Ha!Yet everyone seems to look at them as though none of his contemptuous behavior happened. I do not believe this is a healthy marriage. It has survived for the most superficial of reasons…personal ambition, arrogance and interdependent enabling. These are two people who need to step away from public life and do a little meditation on what it means to behave like a decent human being. They have lied,obfuscated and manipulated their whole public life. Hopefully for Americans they will not survive this last scorched earth attempt to get to the White House.

Hillary is so right. The media has been mis treating her…I will vote for her kowing she has the experience to go right to work for our country.Obama has the looks but not the smarts. The Blacks are giving us a message of being discriminating as they are voting not for who is qualified but voting because he is black.

The only change Obama could bring to this country to be defeated after all the hard work of the democrats and watch passing the keys from Bush to McCain. He has no chance in a general election this fairy tale must stop somewhere.

John Prescot post: “The only change Obama could bring to this country to be defeated after all the hard work of the democrats and watch passing the keys from Bush to McCain. He has no chance in a general election this fairy tale must stop somewhere”
Good post. I wish the liberal DEM including the top leaders from Democrat Party who dream about “CHANGE” or against Hillary Clinton understand it.

I will be PROUDLY and CONFIDENTLY voting for Hillary (early voting)next Monday(she’s so inspiring and smart) and tomorrow I am very exited we are going to Dallas to see her speak.
(hope we don’t get shot!):/

I continued to be offended by Hillary claiming to be a victim to get votes. I was a woman who worked in management at a Fortune 100 company and I succeeded because of intelligence and hard work. There are obstacles for women, no doubt, but the “poor me” approach is not the way to change attitudes. Will that work with Putin?
I live in Illinois and am proud to be represented by OBAMA. He was not the choice of the democratic machine in his democratic primary run for Senate, he won the nomination and the election by hard work and meeting the voters across the state…not just in Chicago. Having supported him through his whole career in Illinois, he is not a blank screen, he is a truly unique individual.

Given the fact that the G.O.P. and Karl Rove are responsible for the Obama candidacy in the first place, he’s not a blank screen but one programmed to deprive the only democrat with a shot at taking the White House from doing so. Clinton has been way too restrained in revealing what she knows about this guy.
Obama’s principle speechwriter is Ben Rhodes, brother of Fox News VP David Rhodes, which should have tripped a flag immediately for anyone familiar with presidential election dirty tricks. Fox was the network that called Florida for Bush in 2000, after all the other stations had declared Gore the winner. Now Rove and company are scamming the public with a small-time corrupt legislator from Illinois, who’s peddled as a “movement” – the anti-war, anti-Washington insider, anti-machine politics candidate. There is no actual evidence to back up any of these claims. Obama’s long-time benefactor, Chicago slumlord Tony Rezko, goes on trial March 3rd for multiple felony counts of fraud. And once Clinton’s knocked out of the race (and hopefully she won’t be), we’ll be hearing about this dark side of Obama’s past all the way up to the November election. And then we’ll have another 4 years of neoconservative rule. For more on the Rove strategy, see the article I’ve posted at thecityedition.com or click on my screen name.

Unbelievable,
Did Bill Clinton lies about sex and Hillary ignored about that? I do think so. But it’s their personal affairs. What I care about is I have to pay triple each time I visit Gas Station right now in comparison to the years of 1992-2000 beside no more High Tech Jobs in the heart of Silicon Valley as well as other regions in the US.

stock_craft,
Clinton’s lies today have nothing to do with what’s going on in her personal life. I could care less.
She is blatantly lying about her opponent, in the public sphere, and casting herself as the victim in order to win votes.
Just be honest.

So stock_craft,
Let me get this right. You agree with Clinton that Obama assumed he had this race in the bag after Iowa. If you really believe that, then I have lost all hope of a civil discourse about this election.

stock_craft,
Does character not matter then? A leader has to instill confidence that they are acting from a principled center. I don’t like not being able to trust my leader.
Regarding experience and problem-solving, at least take a moment to learn about the bipartisan bills that Obama has co-sponsored, one at least with a Republican regarded as most as proabbly the most conservative in Congress.
Consensus-building is a function of problem-solving. My beef with Clinton is that instead of talking about solving problems, she talks about “fighting” problems. That implies a winner-take-all mentality that has gotten us nowhere since Bill Clinton lost Congress way back when.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with trying a different approach to legislation.
I do not believe Obama is a perfect person. Neither do I believe that Clinton is an evil person. I simply disagree with her positions and more recently, her campaign tactics, that belie a willingness to fight to “win,” as opposed to fighting to “lead.”
That is my perspective on the situation, and I am happy that I was able to cast a meaningful vote for Obama here in Wisconsin.

Referring to ones self as a “blank screen” is NOT a negative statement. It’s about the way Barak listens to people, rather than cramming his ideals down your throat. It’s about still waters running deep. It’s about being a good communicator. A good communicator will unconsciously “mimic” the body language of the person they are speaking with. It’s almost a dance and some people have two left feet. Notice: His face is open and interested when speaking one on one. No bug eyed, exaggerated head nodding like Hillary. His smile reaches his eyes. No phony face cracking grimace like Hillary. He also communicates with touch and it is not contrived or intrusive. Barak was raised with much love and respect I would say and seems to return it unconsciously. Sure he is everyman. So he listens. So he keeps his own council. He said “blank” but I think his reception is just fine. Better this “blank screen” that the “programming” we’ve been receiving.

Clinton is doing us a service…she is stanfding up to what every Congressperson knows, but will not confront….that Obama has not been doing his job as a Senator (90% absence from voting in latter qtr of 2007).
Secondly, he admitted in the Cleveland after Hillary called him on it, he was named to chair a sub-committtee of the Foreign Relations Committee on Jan 1, 2007, and then with the exception of calling for confirmation of 2 Ambassadors, NEVER HELD A COMMITTEE meeting! He replied that he was unable to hold meetings as he was working on his campaign!!!!
This I call the absolute ARROGANCE of PRESUMED POWER!!!! He has NO foreign affairs experience in his professional life, this was the perfect opportunity to orient himself to world affairs facing Congress. HE ABDICATED HIS RESPONSIBILITY………HE IS SO UNDERQUALIFIED FOR THE PRESIDENCY IT IS FRIGHTENING!
BOTTOM LINE: OBAMA HAS NOT BEEN DOING HIS JOB IN THE SENATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANK YOU HILLARY….we KNOW YOU are a Congressperson of achievement. Congrats also in being named by Forbes as one of the top 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN IN THE WORLD. The world knows it, let’s pray the American voters wake up and realize the American Idol personality game must end soon.

Ok, now I don’t like her anymore. I loved Bill Clinton when he was president and I thought Hillary was smarter then this.

Hillary will be out in few days.She will lose Texas. She only knows how to brag about her ’35 years experience’,the one who ‘starts from day one’..bla bla bla…the millionairess that cares for poor people but she and her husband filled their pockets with money from politics..they love poitics..it made them millionairs. She will be surprised when the final tally of votes in Texas..only white women between 40-60 who she is selling them her fancy story .
She is also a war monger..voted against ban on cluster bombs so she will not be in the way of Israel raining cities and town in Southern Lebanon. She will lose big time in the state of Texas. Now she is threatening to sue…anyway to win.That’s how she operates by smearing opponenet in the morning then smile and give him a hug in the afternoon..she is phony.

Unbelievable,
Voting for Hillary might cost my job because I work for a public work that Bill Clinton did not care the most in the past. However, I will try the best to do my part whatever I think is right and so do you.

The repb issued 2000 subpeonas and spent 40 million to try and get the Clintons to no avail.She has never been charge with any wrong doings or spent a day in prison.All her negatives are Repb talking point uttered over and over.I’m an ex Repb,there is an undying hatred for the Clintons because he denyed Bush his second term.Lets hear facts not as Obama said words.

If Obama describes himself as a blank screen, then that’s what he is. It makes perfect sense. It’s the people (his supporters) projecting onto him what they want him to be – Jesus, Messiah, Moses, Mohammed, Elijah, MLK, ….
You get the picture.
I just hope that he turns out to be what they think he is.

It’s not the least bit surprising to me that people use Barack Obama’s middle name against him.
Or that they so vehemently attack him.
What’s really surprising to me, is that he’s managed to get this far in the race. NOT because he’s not deserving of our support. but because people are SOO unbelievably fearful. (as well as Vapid, and ignorant, i.e. LISA) If you can’t tell how intelligent, insightful,wise, and committed to the greater good Obama is, then it is because you just don’t Want to see it. period. Wanting Hillary to be president as I once did is fine, but there is no denying the great character,and inspiration that is Barack (Yes I can take it- HUSSEIN) Obama. do people not believe him when he denounces Farackan? He is NOT a muslim. Do you really think he’s lying when he says Israel’s security is sacrosanct?? What has happened to people? And by the way, I looked up the word DENOUNCE. it’s exponentially more powerful a word than REJECT. I was a HRC supporter up until the debate when she accused obama of plagiarism, and then proceeded to give a completely plagiarized closing statement. That was the end of my support for Senator Clinton. Wake up people, not only can
we afford to roll the dice, we can’t afford NOT to.

…And finally, did any of you Barack Obama bashers actually READ The Audacity of Hope?
I’m quite sure you didn’t. If you did, what you’d discover, is that Obama, is clear, level headed, feet on the ground, common sensical human being.
a person who tries to respect points of view that might differ from his own. a person who has that uncanny ability to bring people of different points of view together, and align them toward a common purpose, of better understanding. He’s not perfect, and he’s hardly the messiah, but he’s so far and away the best there is today. READ his book, and you will find a reasonable and grounded person, who has a very impressive knowledge and respect for U.S. history.

Waaah, waaah, waaah! And so it begins as we all knew it would.
“LAREDO, Texas – Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign has raised the possibility of a challenge to Texas’ primary and caucus rules just days before the contest, drawing a warning against legal action from the state’s Democratic Party.”
Could she bow out with a modicum of grace and dignity intact? Of course not!
“The letter also noted that many of Clinton’s senior campaign advisers in Texas had helped to develop the rules governing the state’s caucus system. A Texas party official also noted that former President Clinton won the state’s caucuses in 1992 and 1996 following the same rules.”
She only cares about winning at any cost, even at the expense of this thrilling,revolutionary Democratic movement we are seeing! Finally the people are waking up to take back their country and THIS is her main concern?!
Please Hillary, just shut up and go away already! I am ashamed to share your gender.

THANK YOU EVANNA
as am I

I have to respectfully disagree (sound familiar?) with the assessment that Obama has been “created” by the media.
My children and I had lived entirely WITHOUT cable TV for 6 years. I just re-married in Sept. ’07 and have now been watching the debates, and LOST : ) since Jan. ’08. So of the past 6 years I have been exposed to a few HOURS of the media. My main source for news is NPR.
I denounce, (a STRONGER word than REJECT) the media as a corporate tool in general, with very few exceptions. I believe in books and of course the internet. Television has little to offer the masses except to lull them to sleep while the Govt. enslaves us all.
I am attracted to Obama and repelled by Hillary on a purely human level. No one can say I’ve been “programmed” by the mass media since I’ve not been exposed until very recently.
I actually liked Kucinich. Was I swept away by his debonair ways or his animal sex appeal I wonder? Was I programmed?! (: O
To draw such comparisons is an overt simplification. And correct me if I’m mistaken, but isn’t Jimmy Carter a globally respected diplomat now?

Yes, Jimmy Carter is a globally respected diplomat NOW, so there’s definitely hope for Obama sometime IN TH EFUTURE. The point was that he’s not ready to be president NOW.

It seems that some of you have done your homework and done it well, others fling mud because that’s all you have because, I’m grasping at straws here, you haven’t done your homework and instead parrot the same old sad words that are designed to offend, now who’s being divisive? Haven’t you learned that facts speak for themselves and need no one to defend them…they are self-evident…So before slinging mud and generally disparaging words, try doing your homework. And ask yourself, how do I know what I’m saying is accurate? Of course, if you’re not interesting in facts, then I guess you’ll just continue on as you are…without being open to “real change” rather than superficial change without merit.

Hillary! Go Girl! We are rootin’ for you! Yes, we agree, the real change would be a ‘woman president’. We know you can do the job, ’cause you have been tried & tested. Go Girl! Go Girl!!

Obama is a uniter, who prides himself on being strong on civil rights and equality. Really? Then can someone explain to me why he was ACTIVLY INVOLVED for over TWENTY YEARS in a close personal and religious relationship with a church and minister who PRAISE and PREACH Farrakan’s prejudiced and intolerant views?! Maybe that’s the reason Obama freaked out when Farrakan “endorsed” him. I know all you Obama supporters won’t just take my word for it.
Also notice how the mainstream media is conveniently ignoring this story as well. If Hillary had spent twenty years involved with a church that preached white supremacy it would be front page news everywhere… proof again that no one is allowed to say anything negative about Barack Obama!

well… if you research more on Obama you will find his mediocre political career in Chicago and maybe will get to know his allies. Obama appeals to those who are insecure and inferior. those people who get the pleasure of having someone who rise up from the bottom and become a star. they identified with him because they feel that he is their idol. Truly, he is a blank screen, full of speeched without substance. Hillary appeals to women who are courageous, rightfully arrogasnt because they know where to stand and be firm. women who are weak do not identified to Hillary because it feels them insecure and defines their vulnerability. those who speak their mind and firm have Hillary as their idol.
Going back to Obama, literally, his face is blank everytime he look at Hillary during debates. maybe because he could sense his limitations .

I’M MALE, AS A MALAYSIAN INDIAN HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING UP THIS AMERICAN ELECTION.THINGS SEEMS TO ME VERY STRANGE.BLACKS SUPPORT BARACK OBAMA.BUT I DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPEN TO THE WHITE WOMEN’S,THEY ARE NOT SUPPORTING CLINTON.BUT THE AMERICAN WOMEN GO TO THE STREETS AND DEMONSTRATE FOR WOMEN RIGHTS AND DEMONSTRATING WOMENS ARE DISCRIMINATED ALL OVER THE WORLD.YET IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY WHEN A WOMEN WANTS TO RUN FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION,THEY DIDNT WANT TO SUPPORT HER.AFTERALL CLINTON IS NOT THAT WORSE.MALE PRESIDENT DOES LOT OF MISTAKES YET THE AMERICAN WOMENS STILL PREFER MALES TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT,VERY STRANGE.
OK NOW I’M COMING TO OBAMA.HE SAYS CLINTON SUPPORT AMERICAN INVASION AGAINST IRAQ,AND HE WERE WITHDRAW AMERICAN TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.AND AT THE SAME TIME HE WANTS TO ATTACK PAKISTAN IF THE PAKISTAN GOVERMENT NEVER TAKE ANY ACTION AGAINST AL-QUEDA.LIKE THAT HOW MANY MORE COUNTRIES OBAMA WANT TO ATTACK IF THEY NEVER AGGREE WITH AMERICA,EXAMPLE:NORTH KOREA,BURMA,IRAN,SYRIA AND THE LIST GOES ON.WHEN HE SAYS HE WANTS TO WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM IRAQ,HE IS SAYING THAT HE WANTS TO PUT A FULL STOP FOR ALL THE BLOODSHED,AND HE PREFER TO DEAL WITH A DEPLOMATIC WAY AND SOLVE THE OUTSTANDING ISSUES.AND ON THE OTHER HAND HE WANTS TO ATTACK AL-QUEDA CAMPS IN PAKISTAN WITHOUT THE GOVERMENT’S CONCERN AND START AMOTHER BLOODSHED.AT ONE TIME OBAMA SAYS HE WANTS TO WITHDRAW FROM WAR AND ANOTHER TIME HE WANT TO ATTACK PAKISTAN.HE IS MOTHING MORE THAN THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH JR,UNTIL NOW BUSH CANNOT GIVE A CONCRETE REASON FOR INVADING IRAQ.IF OBAMA COMES AS A PRESIDENT THEN THEY WERE BE WAR ALL THE WORLD.YES IT’S GOOD TO MAKE CHANGES BUT IF YOU THINK YOU CAN CHANGE THE PRESENT SYSTEM IN AMERICA AND AROUND THE WORLD, WITHOUT FIGHT/WAR,NO WAY, WE HAVE TO IMAGINE THAT IN OUR DREAM WORLD.
I’M CALLING YOU AMERICAN PEOPLE ,PLEASE THINK.ELECTING AMERICA’S PRESIDENT IS NOT ONLY AMERICAN ISSUE,BUT IT AFFECTS THE WHOLE WORLD.THAT IS WHY THE WHOLEWORLD IS EXPECTING A RIGHT CANDIDATE TO BE THE PRESIDENT.

I wanted to clarify some of the comments that have been made against Barack.
His pastor/spiritual mentor’s relationship with the leader of the Nation of Islam can hardly be linked to Barack Obama, but even if it was, I suspect he’s admired because of his work exposing racism, not because of any other factor. His statement that the Catholics “conspired” with the Nazis against the Jews (and that this is a bad thing) is true. The pope did remain silent fearing retribution for Catholics in Germany. In any case, Barack has renounced his endorsement.
2. He voted “Present” on a bill in the *Illinois* state legislature as you described because it was unconstitutional. Local zoning ordinances had to be in place, not an act of the legislature. He said in the debate that he was against sex shops being near schools.
3. He has apologized for the “boneheaded mistake” of Reico, and given back the money.

The Better Government Association in Illinois speaks out against corruption.
They say Senator Obama is not candid about his long relationship to Rezko. He brought that house from Rezko while Rezko was under investigation. I don’t believe that was good judgement.

Hillary,
My question to you is, WHERE ARE YOUR SPECIFICS? I’ve followed everyone of your speeches and have yey to hear you say anything specific? “In my specific plan,”…”I have set forth a detailed specific plan,”…”In my plan I talk about specific details…?”
Health Care:
How are you planning to mandate my income to make me pay for Health Care? What if I don’t want to be forced into a mandatory (mandated) health care plan? I can’t get through to the IRS to answer the phone, How do I get through to whatever agency will be responsible for enforcing your mandate when I need to OPT Out? What will the fines be? Will you tie them to my assets?
Foriegn Policy:
You give a litnay of places you’e visited as the First Lady, “and made speeches!” By what incumbent posistion did you really make any changes…”Are you telling me that your “WORDS” persuaded these leaders to make change? No that would make you a hipocrit today.
Economics:
What sisde do you really stand for? In Ohio you say “NAFTA is BAD!”…”In New York you say NAFTA is good!”…BTW Upper New York would argue that it was really a good thing!” But more importantly…”Why did you change your stance on NAFTA shortly after leaving the state of OHIO when you landed in TEXAS?
IRAQ
Your vote in the Senate is your own…If you didn’t agree with the War, why didn’t you vote against it? Isn’t that what you are saying to people, “that this is your chance to stand up and vote for what you believe in?”
I’m confused?

It’s funny that when we get back to the issues…The Clinton campaign doesn’t really have anymore substance:
Let’s See What the Experts Say!
Health Care:
95% similar
5% difference: Unmandated vs Patial Mandated (for children)
Hmmmm…Must be some substance there in order to make the comaprison. You make the call?
Education:
100% Get rid of the No Child Left Behind
100% Early childcare investment
100%
Difference:
Obama:
Increase teachers salary
Focused on Early Chilhood
$4000 earned credits in return for re-investing in programs for America.
Clinton: haven’t heard of dollars (No specifics); however, she stated she forgive student loans? “Need specifics on the dollar amount?” How much are you willing to forgive? Who pays for it…the tax payers? Why of course!
Foreign Policy:
Obama:
Father: Kenyan, Mother: White, born in Hawaii, raised in Kenya, Indonesia and America. Met with foriegn dignataries.
Opposed to Iraq war and still does.
Clinton: Met with digitaries of Foriegn countries during Husbands Presidency as First Lady in 1992-2001.
Voted for Iraq war and now opposes it
Critics and Experts agree that that is no real differences in each of their plans; however, there is a fundalmental difference in thier character!

I love it how people say that the only reason I could support Obama is because he is a celebrity. I have news for you, I actually know his views, and I like them, and could care less about his “celebrity” status. Did you all seriously fall down the stupid tree and break every damn branch?
Everyone is so freaking closeminded and biased towards their own beliefs, even I am.

Blank Screen explains it perfectly.