Apr 30, 2008 2:40pm

Obama’s Negatives Rise, Clinton Tops McCain in New Poll

ABC News’ Ed O’Keefe Reports: Barack Obama’s recent woes may be having an effect in the polls.

A new CBS/New York Times poll released on Wednesday shows Sen. Obama, D-Ill., and presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tied in a hypothetical general election match-up, while Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., edges out McCain by a five-point margin.

Here are raw CBS/New York Times numbers now (among registered voters):

If the candidates were Obama and McCain, who would you vote for?
Obama: 45%
McCain: 45%
Undecided/Don’t Know: 6%

If the candidates were Clinton and McCain, who would you vote for?
Clinton: 48%
McCain: 43%
Undecided/Don’t Know: 5%

"Barack Obama’s problems over the last few weeks, including his Pennsylvania primary loss and the continuing media coverage of his former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, may have contributed to his weaker position compared to two weeks ago," read an analysis released by CBS and the New York Times.

Since their last poll four weeks ago, unfavorable views of Obama have risen 10% — from 24% a month ago to 34% at present.  Obama’s woes also appear to know few demographic bounds — unfavorable views of Obama have risen among women, whites, independents and Democrats, according to CBS News and the New York Times.

Here are the raw CBS/New York Times numbers as of their last poll on April 3, 2008 (among registered voters):

If the candidates were Obama and McCain, who would you vote for?
Obama: 47%
McCain: 42%
Undecided/Don’t Know: 7%

If the candidates were Clinton and McCain, who would you vote for?
Clinton: 48%
McCain: 43%
Undecided/Don’t Know: 5%

An Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Monday found similar results.

In that poll, Clinton leads McCain by 9-points, 50-41, in a hypothetical general election match-up.  Obama, on the other hand, is "virtually tied" with McCain, at 46-44 percent. 

Obama strongly condemned recent comments made by his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, on Tuesday, a move that many political pundits consider high-stakes but necessary gamble by his campaign to control a spreading political firestorm.

Reacting to what he called the "spectacle" of his former pastor at the National Press Club, Obama denounced Wright saying, "What Rev. Wright said yesterday directly contradicts everything I have ever done or said in my life."

"Whatever relationship I had with Rev Wright has changed as a result of this," Obama said.

The candidate went considerably further than he has in the past in distancing himself from Wright, accusing him of "insensitivity and outrageousness" in his Monday appearance at the National Press Club in Washington.

"The person I saw (on Monday) was not the person I met 20 years ago," Obama said.

So, let’s focus on Barack Obama and his campaign and see where things stand in aftermath of latest Rev. Wright events.

In his exclusive blog on ABCNews.com, former Bush campaign strategist and ABC News political contributor Matthew Dowd opined that "Obama’s statements in last 24 hours of being passionately critical of Wright and saying he was out of step with America were the only choice he had left. It was his only option and he seized it well."

Dowd laid out four points he views as critical to an Obama comeback emphasizing, "The biggest damage to him is that he held a brand of being an unconventional candidate in a time America wants a shift from the conduct of politics as usual. But he and his campaign have seemed very conventional of late."

User Comments

Memo to DNC – End the Drama – Pull the Plug on Obama!!!!

Posted by: s. valenti | April 30, 2008, 2:47 pm 2:47 pm

Mr. Obama aint no president…

Posted by: ebony | April 30, 2008, 2:58 pm 2:58 pm

Dea, Reid and Pelosi DNC should quickly pull the plug on Hillary the Bosnian General, she is unelectable and is the only one candidate who can reinvigorate and reunite the Republican base which McCain needs to win. Learn the lesson. God bless America and God bless Obama. OBAMA08.

Posted by: BKMC | April 30, 2008, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

BO: hypocrisy at best in display.

Posted by: Olbermann3 | April 30, 2008, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm

Louis, you guys sure were touting those polls when Obama was winning. LOL

Posted by: A reader in Georgia | April 30, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm

Obama treats Americans like real people and grown ups, no more lies, its time to change Washington, obama 08!

Posted by: jacobs | April 30, 2008, 3:04 pm 3:04 pm

Yea right, Hillary is just womping everyone now. NOT!!

Posted by: Joe | April 30, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm

Obama can’t win the general election. Go Hillary or McCain!

Posted by: Jacko | April 30, 2008, 3:06 pm 3:06 pm

Hey Ed,
You failed to mention that Obama has actually gained ground over Hillary in this poll.
But that would distract from your aim, now wouldn’t it?
Show a little journalistic integrity.

Posted by: Jack | April 30, 2008, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm

The only way that super delegates will start to move away from Obama is if he loses Indiana and has a less than impressive showing in North Carolina.
It feels like Obama peaked months ago and it is Clinton with the momentum.

Posted by: sherr | April 30, 2008, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm

I have been reading a lot of information regarding voter suppression in NC. As an African American this really concerns me as it has been aimed at the AA community. What is going on, and why are you not reporting it!

Posted by: Anette | April 30, 2008, 3:08 pm 3:08 pm

@Anette.
Just show up with a photo i.d.
No matter how you feel about it, that will move the process and voting along.

Posted by: sherr | April 30, 2008, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm

Please stop calling Sen Clinton Shrillary Obamas negatives have gone up because of his not being truthful and guilt by association is valid at this pint because everyone in Chicago tries to get ahead in schemes that are considered illegal everywhere else please do the right thing and nominate Hillary she will move this country forward trying to say Obama would bring a new discourse is a joke

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:10 pm 3:10 pm

“He does not know me now.” Let’s run the poll again in a few days and let that sink into people. The masses march out of the church house on Sundays disagreeing with their Pastor and talk about it all day and into the night. Now they have seen the power of mud-fights in politics and the pressure put on a man who unmistakenly looked like it was one of the most painful things in his life to do – publically distance himself from his pastor, the man who married he and his wife and Baptized his children. With applause the Karl Rovians had divided another camp – but what Senator Obama’s campaign has been all about is rising above it all and from far, far behind the pack he has made it thus far. Take the poll again on Monday – this young man has been tested over and over and over and over. He continues on, thankfully. I’m sorry if I offend some of my fellow citizens, but I’m beginning to clearly see what Senator Obama has been trying to tell us from the beginning.

Posted by: OnTheGloryRoad | April 30, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm

obama is in serious trouble – i watch the comments on digg.com and there has defintely been a change in tone toward obama – two months ago one word against obama and you would have been ‘dugg down’ into oblivion but if you go there today a lot of people are expressing their concerns and being ‘dugg up’

Posted by: scathinglybrilliant | April 30, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm

Its over for Obama he needs to do the right thing and suspend his campaign it should be Clinton/Edwards on the ticket because in 2004 Kerry was not nice to edwards and edwards wouldve won the ticket for them

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm

and some Obama people are having ephinaies how interesting… Clinton will rise to the occasion and defeat him soundly end of story

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm

Note that while Obama accumulates negatives and baggage via his associations, and it is not quite the baggage Hillary carries by being married to Bill. As far as family values goes, the Clintons send a very bad message. The Republicans will have their way the ‘impeached’ Clintons.

Posted by: democratfor08 | April 30, 2008, 3:15 pm 3:15 pm

If Hillary Clinton is the nominee it will be a guaranteed McCain win. All the young voters, new voters, African American voters, Independent voters, and Obamacans will either vote for McCain or stay home. The damage will not only be seen in this election but in elections for decades to come.

Posted by: Mike | April 30, 2008, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm

Obama is unelectable!
Who cares if he gets the nomination and looses to John McCain in November!
Sure either Hillary or McCain!

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 3:16 pm 3:16 pm

here’s the hard numbers:
3/28 – 4/02 Obama 46 Clinton 43
4/25 – 4/29 Obama 46 Clinton 38
That’s a +5 gain in the midst of Wright, Bittergate, and a PA loss.
Looks like Hillary is the one who should be worried.

Posted by: Jack | April 30, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm

Tony
go away nobody will be influenced by you

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm

Hillary’s supporters are people over the age of 65 and uneducated blue collar worker….the truth must really hurt.

Posted by: jeff | April 30, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm

Jack
you are wrong what poll is that stand down and vote for Hillay

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm

If obama was like me in church, he fell asleep during the sermon. It seems that wright would cause me to go to sleep. So please do not fault Obama for what he slept through in church. Perhaps we can move on from this non issue and talk about a hundred year war in iraq and who can get us out.

Posted by: The Lord of War | April 30, 2008, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm

Jeff I know several Hillary supporters with college degerees and masters there goes another myth that the Obama lie machine puts out please go away

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm

not once have I touted poll. election day statistics only.

Posted by: Louis | April 30, 2008, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm

it is Wright to question Obamas actions in his church ;)

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:23 pm 3:23 pm

Stop the Barrack whinning. He did it to himself. Cocky and Arrogant!
No foundation = no nomination

Posted by: Eddie | April 30, 2008, 3:24 pm 3:24 pm

NC and In will vote overwhelmingly for Clinton and put to rest this nonsense you Obama people are grasping at straws bu I understand that you are angry for wasting so much time on the wrong candidate!

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm

If we could put up with the drug addict and convicted felon of a brother-in-law of Hillary Clinton, surely we can put up with ex-Marine pastor who can’t getaway from the 60s view of how the US Government treats blacks. It is pretty obvious that Obama faces a double standard when it comes to disowning his pastor simply because most Americans are uncomfortable with a crazy black pastor though they tolerate crazy white pastors.
Should she become the number one contender, we’ll hear a lot about Hillary’s baggage – some of which have yet to be “rummaged through” though she claims she is fully vetted. For someone who wears her faith on her sleeve – we are yet to find out which church she attends and what her church group stands for. We all would like to know what the Clintons did to push Vince Foster to commit suicide and why Susan M. went to jail for the Clintons. Even if Hillary thinks her baggage has been rummaged through, the MSM will rummage through it again and this time she will be answering the questions instead of Bill. And the Rev Wright controversy will look pale by comparison.

Posted by: SelfishGene | April 30, 2008, 3:25 pm 3:25 pm

again it is now futile to support Obama just wise up

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm

Hillary’ supporters: People over the age of 65 and uneducated blue collar workers…..the truth must hurt.
….I’m not going anywhere staniam

Posted by: jeff | April 30, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm

Tom
you are just scared that they would vote for her

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm

Wright is such a shrinking violet who rarely opens his mouth. Of course Obama was fooled up until 2 days ago.

Posted by: geevill | April 30, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm

If Obama is going to prison for laundrying money -then He will be in good company because “Bill and Hill” should be in there also.

Posted by: orange cat | April 30, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm

Memo to S Valenti who said pull the plug on OBama–” Stick your head in a wall plug and shock yourself back to the real world and not the one you are in now–which appears to be some kind of fantasy world

Posted by: Dan A | April 30, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm

stanium: They can vote for her…I don’t care. The key words are OLD and UNEDUCATED.

Posted by: tom | April 30, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm

Does ABC have an agenda, or is it just me?
I know change is scary, but come on…

Posted by: discernment | April 30, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm

I’ve had enough of some people blindly following Obama. I’m embarrassed for them! No matter what he does, they give him a pass. All of his associations (and close, long relationships) with racist, anti-American people do matter. They matter a WHOLE lot. He shouldn’t even be allowed near the White House.

Posted by: NoHateHere | April 30, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm

Tom
THe demographics are changing you can say all you want the tide is turning we cannot have Obama in the white house period

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:30 pm 3:30 pm

Wright said nothing new!
Only Obama keeps changing his story.
Why isn’t Obama winning and putting Hillary away?
Because we saw racist pastor and Obama mentor.
Obama had lost the white vote in every election since Feb 19.
Obama had only carried a small white majority in three states during the primary.
How does Obama win an election against McCain with three states?

Posted by: kate glass | April 30, 2008, 3:31 pm 3:31 pm

This election isn’t about who you’re voting for, but who you’ll be voting against !!!

Posted by: CMG | April 30, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

Wright a shrinking violet? are you kidding lol

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

It is sad how poorly educated people are here. The other candidates cannot compete with Barack’s intellect, nor can they compete with is positive message. Therefore, they have to play to thier own xenophobic fears. Obama is the only choice for change that this country desperately needs. Hillary tells so many lies, she actually believes she is ahead. Her campaign makes up new math every day to try to sell the idea that she is electable. Go on Hillary, you are are tired candidate. For a candidate who is trying to show sympathy for average workers, it was hilarious to see her riding in that huge truck to a glass factory. GO OBAMA!

Posted by: juscogens | April 30, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

I am a collage educated young red blooded american man. I support HILLARY CLINTON 100%

Posted by: KURT | April 30, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

Obama may have intellect but its not poltical

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm

ah Obama can be president of a cult now

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm

What they don’t say is that Hillary has just as high negatives and Obama is ahead in head-to-head poll against Hillary.
By the way the one who said Obama is going to prison, how about Hillary current FEC fraud problem. Hillary is getting the free ride these days.
And those who think Obama is finished 2 polls today show he is back up, the most recent ones. 41-38 and 46-43.
Also, superdelegates have been swayed by Rev. Wright saga. Obama picked 5 supers in the last 24 hrs and Hillary 4.
Live with it, Obama will recover and sstill win the nomination.

Posted by: Anthony | April 30, 2008, 3:35 pm 3:35 pm

Barry’s church itself should
be investigated by FBI due to the public
statements of his Obama’s mentor.

Posted by: mercy | April 30, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm

J. Sanchez: She stood by Bill because she was planning to run for Prez even back then. She new that if she left him, she wouldn’t be able to ride his coattails to the Presidency.

Posted by: tom | April 30, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm

Tom
there you go with your dubious statistics that nobody ever believes

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:36 pm 3:36 pm

Barry has been lieing and manipulating
for years…

Posted by: nancy | April 30, 2008, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm

anthony
wrong again Obama will not recover and there is nothing you can do about it

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm

What about the WSJ/NBC poll?
Obama beats Hillary AND McCain!!!

Posted by: maritza | April 30, 2008, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm

What about the WSJ/NBC poll?
Obama beats Hillary AND McCain!!!

Posted by: maritza | April 30, 2008, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm

No actual votes have been cast and CANNOT be cast until the convention. that goes especially for caucus delegates who frequently do not show up. That is why alternates are selected.
Superdelegates can say what they want. Clinton supporters will demand a vote in Dennver.

Posted by: geevill | April 30, 2008, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm

How do you like the known unknowns that Obama has mis-judged – his 20 years friendship, menteeship, and inspirationship by his good Rev. Wright?
He knew exactly what he was dealing with, yet he hides it from the people and deceives the voters, by changing his judgments 5 times!!!
I suppose you got to give him credit he only changed his judgment twice on Iraq, first against, then vote to fund it, and now against it again.

Posted by: lazy | April 30, 2008, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm

Forget what Jeremiah Wright has said because his problem is but a symptom of a much larger problem. I want to know when O’bama will reject the Black Nationalist and Black Power tone of the Church he has supported and attended for 20 years. A Church’s whose vision statement is taken from the writings of the anti-White, Dr. James Cone? Martin Luther King Jr. said the Black Power movement is a destructive philosophy because we all need each other. Black Nationalism and Black Power are one step removed from Black Separtists which are hate groups according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Posted by: ShelbyBob35051 | April 30, 2008, 3:40 pm 3:40 pm

Actually, the latest polls is 46-38 for Obama vs. Clinton.
Ha ha ha ha by the way if Hillary gets the nomination you will see the Obama coalition also turning against her by not voting or voting for someone else.
Jimmy Carter said today that supers will not overturn the pledge delegates. Obama is the nominee.

Posted by: Anthony | April 30, 2008, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm

I’ve been hearing rumors (which i never give credit to) from several online sites that Obama will soon be airing ads which complain that bill cost him a vote because Monica L. is voting republican because the democrats left a bad taste in her mouth.

Posted by: other | April 30, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm

Tom
CNN is biased to Obama either way he will not win

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm

It’s really interesting to see how the media slants things and how some people follow the media’s lead and can’t think for themselves.
Right now Obama is their victim and you are hard-pressed to find any positive news coverage about him. Next week, it may be McCain or Clinton.
Meanwhile, the haters continue to post lies as though they were truths and some people buy into it.

Posted by: Liz | April 30, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm

It’s hard to keep track
Wright story changes 5
Flag pin story changes 4

Posted by: geevill | April 30, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm

what people forget is that ALL
delegates are free to vote for who
they want…

Posted by: rex | April 30, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm

Tom
that proves you are a republican because thats what they call CNN its not the same thing since ed Turner left you know that

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm

It depends what “truth” you are beleiving. REad CBS’s new poll- very different numbers…

Posted by: discernment | April 30, 2008, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm

staniam: Translation-You saw the facts and you felt a shot of fear/desperation go through you.

Posted by: tom | April 30, 2008, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm

Could some of these comments be anymo’ ignant! I’m appalled by some of the negative commenting I’m seeing. Stop it because it’s very unattractive and you’re killing my buzz from these (legal) herbs I’m taking. Who cares about polls? They’re never 100% accurate (but we all knew that) and people’s opinions change more quickly than a butterfly faint at a bustop.

Posted by: Tone | April 30, 2008, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm

You best be getting back to Chicago Senator. It looks like your chickens have finally come home to roost and the nest is full of ####.
Bye-bye now, Senator O-bomb-a!

Posted by: LindaJ | April 30, 2008, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm

anthony
Hillary supporters dont take to threats too kindly

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm

Posted by: Liz | Apr 30, 2008 7:42:22 PM
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The same media was literally lynching Hillary and swooning at Obama resulting in his current position of “front-runner”. Weird situation because of the media………If the media had been honest and exposed the background of Obama this embarassing situation could have been prevented.

Posted by: dem | April 30, 2008, 3:46 pm 3:46 pm

the truth finally dawns:
HILLARY IS A FIGHTER AND BELIEVES IN FAMILY AND BELIEVES IN THIS COUNTRY. SHE HAS MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, UNLIKE OBAMBOOZLER, SHE CAN GO RETIRE. SHE DOESN’T NEED THE MONEY. SHE DOESN’T NEED THE PRESIDENCY! SHE ONLY WANTS TO HELP YOU AND THIS COUNTRY!
Hillary 08!!

Posted by: julie | April 30, 2008, 3:47 pm 3:47 pm

nope because what I say is usually perceptive you didnt deny it so yo uare a republican

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 3:47 pm 3:47 pm

to:staniam–I don’t know about Hillary but Bill has been known to “RISE TO THE OCCASION !”

Posted by: orange cat | April 30, 2008, 3:47 pm 3:47 pm

Hillary’s turn in the barrel is coming…if she wins the nomination the republicans are going to come after her with everything they have…the first hit will be trust…document shredding..whitewater…vince foster…the next hit will be her lying..they will take her apart…her years in the white house with her husband are going to be her undoing…

Posted by: Alpha | April 30, 2008, 3:47 pm 3:47 pm

Simply if Hillary wins Ind, and gets close in NC, then Obama is totally dead…..
So far, it looks that is the trend…

Posted by: True Truth | April 30, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm

Let’s put a Junior senator with
a shady past, special interest money up
his butt and no foreign policy
experience in the Whitehouse.
What could possibly go wrong??

Posted by: maria | April 30, 2008, 3:49 pm 3:49 pm

I vote Hilarrrry’s yeah,YEEHAH! APPAlachy go for CLinton…..swing your partner round and round….YEEHAH!!!

Posted by: Joe-Frank | April 30, 2008, 3:50 pm 3:50 pm

Can someone help me here:
I am a huge Obama fan, but as I remember in his race speech last month he admitted he heard some of those controversial sermons, but yesterday he said he heard none of those. Did I remember wrong? Also, I feel kind of weird if he accidentally skipped all those controversial ones and only attended the rest of them.

Posted by: Joy | April 30, 2008, 3:51 pm 3:51 pm

Antoin
we will run your corrupt chicago mafia style out of washington on a rail Hillary will win
Posted by: staniam | Apr 30, 2008 7:41:10 PM
Hey whats up “Staniam”
First off BIG MOUTH I’m not in the mafia
you watching too many movies.
This aint hitman or mafia from ps3
Secondly what do you represent fool?
I see you on here yapping off at the mouth posting all this garbage, FOOL YOU JUST IN THE WAY. You must be one of those “uneducated” dummies that HILARY loves to brag that shes leading votes in.
WAY TO GO DUMMIE
Oh by the WAY HILARY DOES NOT WIN!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Antoin, Chicago | April 30, 2008, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm

Blah, Blah, Blah.. Waa, Waa, Waa.. you Obama supporters are like little babies.Obama is not the Messiah. come out of the trance.

Posted by: Tom NYC | April 30, 2008, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm

I support Hillary but intended to vote for Obama if he was nominated up until today. Now it looks super bad and I will be forced to vote for McCain if Obama is nominated. McCain does have an honest reputation. I just hate the republicans. Why can we Democrates not have some sense and nominate someone who can win. Hillary can and will win if nominated. Obama is going to get trashed like unbelieveable by the Republicans. Obama jumped onto the fast track to the Presidency. He is simply not ready for the Presidency. He did not know he would be vetted so deeply. He thought it would be like his Senator race. Presidential elections are different. Hillary has been vetted and can and will win. Hillary would have had all the black vote if Obama was not black. Hillary and Bill are life long supporters of the black cause. They have been treated terrible in this election. Vote for Hillary. We must defeat the Republicans. Obama said he wants to unite the people but right now he is dividing the people. His best move to unite everyone is for Obama to throw his support to Hillary immediately.

Posted by: DemocratForever | April 30, 2008, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm

i’m gonna TIVO Hillary’s exit from this race. That evil gas bag peice of crap will NEVER be president and even if Obama loses I’ll be happy that she will NEVER be commander-in-chief.
God damn America…NO..goddamn Hillary Clinton. And her feminazi, hateful redneck couldnt get a real job so had to work at a steelmill and blame affirmative action because your dumbass cant make a living because you dont have a degree or GED supporters.
I cant wait til all you old fucks die off so we can have a real change in this country the next generation.

Posted by: Josh N. | April 30, 2008, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm

This article is not telling the West Coast Messenger anything he didn’t already know a long time ago. Welcome to the Obama Zombies, it’s time to play catchup.
========================================
Did you see Obama bowl?

Posted by: WestCoastMessenger | April 30, 2008, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm

Where have all the “out of context” people gone?

Posted by: JanetP | April 30, 2008, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm

Please do not vote for a black man. All my family lie and say they are concerned about that wright guy.I Wish we would all tell the truth…….majority of us would never vote for a black man or woman to be president of this great country.Atleast, I am honest, you may call me racist but i have the guts to say it.

Posted by: Sam | April 30, 2008, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm

Where have all the “out of context” people gone?

Posted by: JanetP | April 30, 2008, 3:54 pm 3:54 pm

ALEX H.- It has been fun watching the antics of his frat-boy and girls-gone-wild supporters, but it is now time to take the presidential contest seriously.
Question: what does drinking and porn have to do with people who support Obama?

Posted by: Tone | April 30, 2008, 3:55 pm 3:55 pm

More from cry baby Obama. Obama cries foul:
By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer 8 minutes ago
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama’s presidential campaign wants federal regulators to investigate fellow Democrats who are backing Hillary Rodham Clinton’s candidacy, taking intraparty discord to a new level of confrontation.
Obama’s campaign lawyer, Robert Bauer, filed a complaint Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission, accusing the pro-Clinton American Leadership Project of violating campaign finance laws by running ads against Obama. The group is spending $920,000 for an ad in Indiana questioning Obama’s economic policies. Clinton vindicated:
Lawyers for the ALP, in a statement issued Wednesday, said the group is operating independently and not coordinating its efforts with any candidate.
“Moreover, persons who have provided financial support to a presidential candidate are not prohibited by law from making donations to ALP, and if they do so, that fact alone does not constitute ‘coordination’ under the FEC rules,” the statement said.
This kid Obama is too much. Grow up Obama. Get some decent friends and try again in four years. Obama will never win the GE.
“If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.” -Harry S. Truman

Posted by: The End | April 30, 2008, 3:56 pm 3:56 pm

BOTTOM LINE:
Barry is not presidential material
and overestimates himself.
that is why he is putting us through
this drama.

Posted by: micro | April 30, 2008, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm

The poll Shows Now that Hussein Obama is out of the race, we have to coax and coach Hillary to be the best female president. Obama refused to disown his preacher before, and had refused to disown his male lover, Larry Sinclair who wared us that Obama is dishones, eletist,uses bad judgment and is divisive. Hillary is fit to rule our country, and her past is benign to that of Obama. The reason that Obama got to be the front runner is because his surrogates Did not allow or protected his weakness from the public. He has to step down for The good of the party. This was a failed plot with Wright and Obama to try and Win over the election which was to show his good judgment and to hide his Muslin Background. But it backfired and now we have a race war on our hands. Not even Obama team could foresee this mess. Carter wanted to derail Hillary and present Obama as the winner. But he has betrayed our country by talking to our enemies.We must not let Carter have his way or this will be a full scale war if he tries To overthrow Hillary. My generation have never been racist, and with our Cultural background, we live as eaceful and as whites but our forbearers
Had many cultural levels. It is easier to live as the white race because we
Don’t have the issue of gangs and we have religion in our life and a good moral Upbringing. We are not a rich community, but we have faith, and like the Other races who always complain and never try to behave in a kind way
And ask for help instead of trying to cause turmoil by stealing, and killing.
My community listen to people who ask for help and if we notice they are
Trying to better themselves then we all pitch in to help each other. We have
Made up our mind for Hillary. Obama has made this a race war.

Posted by: betsy and mikey | April 30, 2008, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm

TeamPolitico: Apr. 30, 2008 – 6:31 PM EST
“Superdelegates are her only path to the nomination, and she has been losing them at a rate of 9-to-1 since Feb. 5,” an Obama aide said. “If she can’t get them now, when will she get them?”
She’ll get them when the people who cling to their guns and religion have a chance to vote. She’ll get them as Obama’s friends speak loud and clear about their disdain for the American government. She’ll get them as people begin to understand that she is clear on the issues & clear on solutions.
Hillary is focused. Hillary is ready to be our commander in chief. And Hillary will beat John McCain.
Hillary, the SMART choice.
“If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.” -Harry S. Truman

Posted by: The End | April 30, 2008, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm

Just like DR Maya Angelou said:
” Rise Hillary..rise…”
Thanks to DR Maya Angelou.

Posted by: crisis08 | April 30, 2008, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm

I am not surprised by the poll results. I’ve always known that NObama is unelectable. Go Hillary!

Posted by: DMK | April 30, 2008, 4:00 pm 4:00 pm

Y’alls y’alls best be leavin’ Hills alone and vote fur her. Ain’t Obama black?

Posted by: Tuck | April 30, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm

Joy – You were no more confused than Obama can no more disown his good Rev. Wright than he can disown his grandmother and the black community. He has changed his judgment 5 times, so you can pick up which ever position you feel you are no less confused.
That’s what a hypocrite can do to you to your mind.
He cannot win with his judgment, inexperience, and hypocrisy in November.

Posted by: Boneheaded, Chicago | April 30, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm

Are we going to be sheep, led around by the nose by polls that change every week? Vote for your candidate of choice. Why would you want some one in office that you detest, regardless of their party label?

Posted by: DennisNC | April 30, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm

Threal story in this poll that you have slanted in onbe direction is that Obama beats Clinton with Democrates by 7 percent.
The head to head with McCain shows that it is a tie eitherway.
After 6 weeks of beating Obama with Rev Wright it is amazing that He is still ahead or even. He will weat6her it.
Watch Magnet Gate now.
Ohbama 08

Posted by: Thinking | April 30, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

YEEHAH!!! GO HILARRY!!

Posted by: Huck | April 30, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

Joy,
Sorry I can’t help you because I heard Obama say that to disown Pastor Wright is like disowning the black community.

Posted by: geevill | April 30, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

Threal story in this poll that you have slanted in onbe direction is that Obama beats Clinton with Democrates by 7 percent.
The head to head with McCain shows that it is a tie eitherway.
After 6 weeks of beating Obama with Rev Wright it is amazing that He is still ahead or even. He will weat6her it.
Watch Magnet Gate now.
Obama 08

Posted by: Thinking | April 30, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

I am from Indiana too, I feel the same!
It is time to kicj Obama out of the race

Posted by: Gail, IN | April 30, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

THE TIDE IS TURNING!!!
HILLARY FOR AMERICA!!

Posted by: BLONDIE | April 30, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

Sam: That was so disgusting what you said, that the only words you left out was that word you really refer to black people as. I just hope you’re an atheist saying some anti-Christian crap like that. Wait I take that back. Atheists have morals and a better idea of humanity. Honesty is not the best policy when it’s that disgusting. Next time keep it in the closet.

Posted by: Tone | April 30, 2008, 4:02 pm 4:02 pm

Goodbye Obama!
Last stand for Obama will be IN!

Posted by: Sandy, IN | April 30, 2008, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm

renouncing a 20 year relationship
after 3 speeches on National TV
is so gay…

Posted by: rig | April 30, 2008, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm

My momma say Hil-ry best be four the farm. If vote for hur, she help with the cowws.

Posted by: patty-JO | April 30, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm

Senator Clinton has always been the most qualified candidate in this campaign. If the press had been doing their jobs instead of attacking her and giving Obama a free ride we wouldn’t be in this mess. People are finally starting to see him for what he is and that is a rookie senator from Illinois who is not qualified to be president. Take a look at his district in Chicago if you want to see what he has done. Senator Clinton is supremely more qualified and she is our only chance of winning in November. If we truly want to win the White House back in November we need to vote smart. We need to vote Clinton.

Posted by: what is and what isn't | April 30, 2008, 4:04 pm 4:04 pm

This is some funny SH#@T
HILARY thinks shes gaining points today but all O’REILLY is going to do is talk about REV WRIGHT tonight and use this WITCH HILARY to divide the democrats, WAY TO GO HILARY

Posted by: Apollo Creed | April 30, 2008, 4:05 pm 4:05 pm

Amazing, get behind in the Polls and start with idiotic namecalling. So much for the well educated obama supporters. They must post on MSNBC and send the uneducated ilk here.

Posted by: Beau | April 30, 2008, 4:05 pm 4:05 pm

WHAT THE MEDIA DOESN’T REPORT….
Obama Distorted Rev. Wright’s Background
Monday, April 28, 2008 9:39 AM
By: Ronald Kessler
In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, Barack Obama again fabricated the background of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to try to excuse his longtime pastor’s denunciations of America and of whites.
Referring to racial discrimination, violence, and segregation, Obama said Wright “went through experiences that I never went through.”
In his speech on race in Philadelphia, Obama made similar claims. He described a “lack of economic opportunity among black men, and the shame and frustration that came from not being able to provide for one’s family . . .”
Obama said this was “the reality in which Reverend Wright and other African-Americans of his generation grew up . . . For the men and women of Reverend Wright’s generation, the memories of humiliation and doubt and fear have not gone away; nor has the anger and the bitterness of those years.”
But as detailed in an April 13 Newsman article, “Obama’s Rev. Wright Mythology,” Obama’s characterization of his mentor’s upbringing is untrue.
Wright grew up in a racially mixed, middle-class section of Philadelphia called Germantown, which consisted of homes on broad tree-lined streets. Both his parents had good jobs: His father was a pastor; his mother was vice principal of Philadelphia High School for Girls.
Wright was privileged to attend the elite Central High School, which admits only the most highly-qualified applicants from all over the city. When Wright attended Central High, the student body was 90 percent white, according to students who attended at around the same time.
Wright’s classmates clearly respected him. The 211th class yearbook described him as the “epitome of what Central endeavors to imbue in its students.”
In contrast to Wright, Bill Cosby, who also attended Central High, has denounced the black culture of victimhood that Wright has promoted in his sermons, a culture that Cosby says sets up blacks for failure.
Since the Newsmax story on Wright’s background ran, only Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly has picked up on the fact that Obama’s characterization of his preacher’s upbringing is fiction.
Meanwhile, the coverage resurgence of Wright over the weekend spotlights the fact that, by suppressing any mention of Wright until mid-March, the media in effect selected Obama as the Democrats’ nominee.
Wright appeared in a Bill Moyers interview on Friday, gave a talk to the NAACP in Detroit on Sunday, and spoke to the National Press Club this morning. As a result, clips of Wright denouncing America and claiming the country introduced the AIDS virus to kill off blacks have been blanketing the airwaves.
Moreover, at the NAACP, Wright in effect ratified the black culture of failure by saying African-Americans’ brains are different than those of whites: If they speak differently from whites, they are not wrong — just different, he said, implying that they should not be corrected.
If the Obama-loving media had picked up on stories that Newsmax started running in January before the primaries began about Obama and his relationship with his pastor, Hillary Clinton undoubtedly would be ahead today in delegates and votes.
After the media finally ran the stories, Obama’s double-digit lead over Clinton in national polls vanished. At the same time, John McCain shot up in the polls.
As Ken Blackwell, a black columnist, recently wrote, the media have covered Obama “as if he were in a beauty pageant.” In doing so, they have done a disservice to Democrats by not telling the truth about Obama and his pastor until most of the primaries were over.
By not reporting how Obama is using bogus claims about Wright’s upbringing to excuse his “God damn America” tirades, the media are continuing the coverup.

Posted by: sheanne | April 30, 2008, 4:05 pm 4:05 pm

Hillbillies of America (HA) endorse CLinton.
Gramps and Granny’s of America (GGA)support two!! (

Posted by: kate-lucy | April 30, 2008, 4:05 pm 4:05 pm

sandy:
make sure your friends and family
vote for Hillary!!

Posted by: rex | April 30, 2008, 4:05 pm 4:05 pm

Beau: Getting a bit depserate?

Posted by: ron | April 30, 2008, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm

Why do you fail to mention in the headline that Obama’s lead over Clinton grew since the last poll?

Posted by: Laura | April 30, 2008, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm

My momma say Hil-ry best be four the farm. If vote for hur, she help with the cowws.

Posted by: patty-Jo | April 30, 2008, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm

I vote for Hilarry..she nice…she help to ejucate me and mi familee!!

Posted by: Joe-Bob | April 30, 2008, 4:08 pm 4:08 pm

The case for Hillary gets clearer
every day… I knew things
would work out…
Vote Hillary 08!!

Posted by: diana | April 30, 2008, 4:08 pm 4:08 pm

Dubya was electable, too. That turned out great didn’t it? …… I think the main reason the GOP has done so well in elections over the last several decades is that they stand for something and do not tuck their tails once they are attacked politically. What the GOP stands for might be reprehensible, but I doubt that in a brisk wind most Democrats, voters or party leaders, will stand up for anything. There is little hope for the party if it remains one of spineless wimps.

Posted by: DennisNC | April 30, 2008, 4:09 pm 4:09 pm

Momma Joe say we best vote four Hilaryy’s to save the goats!
Hilarry o8!!

Posted by: Kathy-SUe | April 30, 2008, 4:10 pm 4:10 pm

Hillary’s support consists of grannies and uneducated blue collar workers.

Posted by: jeff | April 30, 2008, 4:11 pm 4:11 pm

Obama put Rev.Wright on his Spiritual Advisory Committee, but he didn’t know Wright had radical views?
Another example of poor judgement and another lie.

Posted by: cindy in nc | April 30, 2008, 4:12 pm 4:12 pm

Let the good Hoosiers speak out to shut down the BO hypocrisy on Tuesday.

Posted by: bony | April 30, 2008, 4:12 pm 4:12 pm

Swing yur partnur round and round…yeeha!! Hilarry 08!!!

Posted by: Joe-Tuck | April 30, 2008, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm

Obama is such a loser. The latest news are just the tips of the icebergs. There’s more to roll out as the HRC machine begins to go into overdrive. In the end, only this country loses.

Posted by: Frustrated Voter | April 30, 2008, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm

It’s time for Obama to pick up the soap box, and fold the tent.. He has lost the respect of the main stream voter’s.. He is just another Balph Nader.. Hillary will get my vote. She is by far the best choice, and will make a great President.
GO HILLARY!!!!

Posted by: J.Murphy, CA. | April 30, 2008, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm

Hiwalry eh truful! Obama liy!!

Posted by: Becky-SUe | April 30, 2008, 4:14 pm 4:14 pm

I’m getting sick of this whole Obama circus that’s been going on for months! It’s time for him to get out of the race.

Posted by: DMK | April 30, 2008, 4:14 pm 4:14 pm

Momma Joe say we best vote four Hilaryy’s to save the goats!
Hilarry o8!!

Posted by: Kathy-Huck-Joe | April 30, 2008, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm

Dude, this is such a misleading interpretation. YOU ARE MISSING HALF THE POLL.
Here’s some neat numbers that you missed:
OBAMA 46-38 among democrats (+8)
On Apr 3 and Mar 19, ON THE SAME POLL Obama led by only 46-43 (+3)
OBAMA 51-34 expected to win among democrats (+17)
OBAMA 48-37 best chance to beat McCain (+9)
ALL VOTERS – Obama 44% Clinton 39% (+5)
TELL THE WHOLE FREAKIN STORY!
Here’s the poll, which has way more than enough spin on it, but at least it has the raw numbers:
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/apr08b_demrace.pdf

Posted by: Phil | April 30, 2008, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm

Dude, this is such a misleading interpretation. YOU ARE MISSING HALF THE POLL.
Here’s some neat numbers that you missed:
OBAMA 46-38 among democrats (+8)
On Apr 3 and Mar 19, ON THE SAME POLL Obama led by only 46-43 (+3)
OBAMA 51-34 expected to win among democrats (+17)
OBAMA 48-37 best chance to beat McCain (+9)
ALL VOTERS – Obama 44% Clinton 39% (+5)
TELL THE WHOLE FREAKIN STORY!
Here’s the poll, which has way more than enough spin on it, but at least it has the raw numbers:
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/apr08b_demrace.pdf

Posted by: Phil | April 30, 2008, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm

Hillary Clinton will make the BEST President. She has the determination, knowhow and ideas to get the job done. Go Hillary!!!!

Posted by: Ellen | April 30, 2008, 4:15 pm 4:15 pm

Kathy-Huck-Joe: I thought we vote for the pigs?!

Posted by: Bobba-Tuck | April 30, 2008, 4:16 pm 4:16 pm

YEEHA!! HILLBILLIES FOR CLINTON!!

Posted by: Hilbilly | April 30, 2008, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm

McCain says yes we can! Time for Obama supporters to change to the sure shot candidate. Hillary keep up the fight and McCain will give you Secretary of Commerce. McCain will unite the country. Time for a change from Clinton/ Bush presidencies. Hillary and Bill will divide the country like Bush did.
McCain 2008.

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm

Hillary’s support consists of grannies and uneducated blue collar workers.
Posted by: jeff
Obama’s support consists of delusional (bi polar?) individuals.

Posted by: DMK | April 30, 2008, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm

Hillary appeals to the racists and religious bigots in the party. Have no doubt that the attack based on Rev. Wright is blatant racism. Just as Hillary should not be held accountable for what Bill and her sleazy lifelong friends were called on in the 90′s, Obama is not responsible for that his friends do. The fact that so many are going after Rev. Wright is strong indication they cannot find fault with Obama himself.

Posted by: DennisNC | April 30, 2008, 4:18 pm 4:18 pm

COme on granny!! SWIng your partner round and round!!
Hillary 08!!

Posted by: taby | April 30, 2008, 4:19 pm 4:19 pm

It is Obama vs Hillary, McCain, and Bill Clinton and Rev Wright na dhe is still leading Hillary.
That is resiliant.
He will win, and beat McCain in NOV.

Posted by: Thinking | April 30, 2008, 4:19 pm 4:19 pm

Dems eat their own. We need the African-American vote and the college vote. Let Hillary have the union workers.
McCain 2008

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm

Because the truth finally came out. Finally teh true colors of Obama and Wright came out. They both mcoked th Americans. Shame on you.
Wright gave a long speech (I mean church sermon) last Sunday to see how good their church is. But that is not the issue. The issue is that both of them LIED and trying to mislead again the American people by saying good things. You can not fool the Americans. He said that Black preacher shouts when they preach. There is nothing wrong with shouting when preaching. What is wrong is that he shouted and mocked the entire nation specifically after the 9/11 attack. He and Obama need to start taking responsibility for their bad actions. He also sad that Obama is just a politician. Wright is also politician by giving his speech (sermon I mean) to cover up the bad comments he made and actually just justifying his mistakes and used the racial card as an EXCUSE. Being racial to African Americans are being overused, misused and is an EXCUSE for their personal interest. Really bad!!!
You and Obama lied and does not take responsibility of what you said. Instead you both make reason to justify you irresponsible and very degrading comments. You both mocked the Americans. Being bias to African American has been overused, misused and used as an EXCUSE so that theyt can get away from their bad actions/behavior. You can not fool America this time.
Beware North Carolinians and Indianians….Obama lied and just a Politician.
Mr. Wright, CNN interview, said Obama condemned his comments about american because Obama is a Politician. Yeah right, Obama wants to get away with it condemning Wirght’s comments to get oput of trouble and still fool the Americans and the younger voters. Good job lying Obama. You don’t tale responsibility for your action. You are a disgrace for all North Carolinians and Indianians. What’s new? Obama lied just like Wright, Rezco and Ayers and he will continue to lie and overspent the voter’s money just to win but still the loser.
Richardson suddenly came out at CNN after Hillary won Pennsylvannia. Why are you afraid? Yes you are because f Hilalry wins your personal ambition and interest will disappear. Richardson cannot be trusted and a traitor. Don’t vote for him when runs for a Senator. He belongs to Wright, Rezco and Ayer who join any group or fraternity where he will benefit and not the Americans.
Obama’s motto and theme should be Pay per Vote. Obama overspent in Pennsylvannia and still came out the loser.
Look at the facts as to how strong Hillary is:
Obama lost in Pennsylvannia in spite of endorsement by a Senator and overspending in ads, 5 to 1.
Obama lost in Texas and Ohio even overspending in ads and manipulating info in Ohio.
Obama lost in California even though Oprah, Maria Shriver, and Katherine Kennedy endorsed him.
Obama lost Massachusetts even though Kennedy and John Kerry endorsed him.
Hillary won the big states and has more electoral college votes to date than Obama that is crucial in November.
Obama lost the big states even though the media is most of the time unfair with Hillary and always positive to Obama.
Wake up superdelegates! You will make the right choice if you pick Hillary.
Obama mocked the Pennsylvannians and the entire nation, which is so irresponsible and very degrading to all Americans. He is just like Wright who mocked the Americans and like Rezco and Ayers who we can’t trust.
Before you can have CHANGE, we first need SOLUTIONS and that is HILLARY.
Wake up superdelegates!
Also, comments by Clyburn is disgusting and divisive. Why don’t you say something about Wright’s and Obama’s lying bizzarre. Why because they are African Americans. You are bizarre. Grow up.
You are the one who is bizzare and a disgrace. Racial discrimination against African American has been overused and misused. Actually you are now beginning to be racial. To get away with bad comments and bad behavior you will always use the racial issue as an EXCUSE. Shut up.
Beware North Carolinians and Indianians….Obama lied and just a Politician.

Posted by: Alfredo | April 30, 2008, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm

Even the pigs are dancing!! YEEHAH!!
CLinton 08!!

Posted by: Huck | April 30, 2008, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm

say what you will obamaphiles, bill clinton was a damn good president. i know that all of you educated middle class voters for obama (what a joke) arent old enough to recall how good it was in the 90′s but i would have thought you could read about it atleast. it is true that hillary has baggage like all people in public life, but hers are already vetted. barrys is all new, and rush and hannity will milk the cash cow dry. this guy is a looser. face it, buyers remorse is a powerful thing.

Posted by: jimt | April 30, 2008, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm

I been working on the railroad…
Clinton 08!!

Posted by: Buck Wilson | April 30, 2008, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm

The GOP considers Clinton to be no threat in the general election.……… “The GOP Gives Clinton The Silent Treatment” http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080430/pl_politico/9964_1;_ylt=AvTVMmWc2_P3a5XDPdYA67YE1vAI

Posted by: DennisNC | April 30, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm

Pick your lying, conniving, cheating, entrenched scumbag and cast your vote! Expect huge changes in American Government! this too shall pass

Posted by: dave | April 30, 2008, 4:22 pm 4:22 pm

Gurls just wanna have fun..oh, gurls..just wanna have fun…that’s all they realy realy wantt!!
YEEHAH! This Hillbilliy Party in ful swingg!!
CLinton 08!!

Posted by: KAthy tuck | April 30, 2008, 4:23 pm 4:23 pm

Tuck: Nice tractur trailer!!
Party in ful swing!!
GRanny’s gramps, hillbillies
YEEHAH!!
Hilarry 08!

Posted by: sue-joe | April 30, 2008, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm

Yes…Obama lies. But does anyone REALLY want to count lies in comparison to those of Hillary/BIll? They sold out the WHite House, they took money from the Chinese, they allowed the CHinese to gain access to advanced weapons technology–and helped polarize AMerican politics in a way that NO OTHER PRESIDENT SINCE ANDREW JOHNSON has.
So yeah, let’s add on 4 or 8 more years to the Bush/Clinton dynasty. Things have gone REAL well since Reagan ended the cold war.

Posted by: jim | April 30, 2008, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm

I expect Obama’s popularity to sky rocket…..The news article next week(especially on CNN) will read “OBAMA BOUNCES BACK, IT LOOKS LIKE HE CON VICED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT HE DENOUNCED REV. WRIGHT.” Now you all know Obama buys the polls. He pays them to say exactly what he wants….WATCH! I predicted that it would happen after his speech and I was right, and I predict it will happen now. And this nonsense about him and Rev. Wright….. if Obama should win the presidency him and Wright will kiss and make up as soon as he’s sworn into office.

Posted by: mgck59 | April 30, 2008, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm

to jim, reagan ended the cold war, hahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahah!

Posted by: jimt | April 30, 2008, 4:26 pm 4:26 pm

WOW!!!! HAS ANYONE WATCHED THE BILL O”RIELLY SHOW. HILLARY KNOCKED ONE OUT OF THE PARK!
HILLARY SHOWED HER TRUE FIGHTER INSTINCT IN HER. THERE WAS NOTHING HE COULD ASK THAT SHE COULDN’T ANSWER WITH FACT AND PLAN. HONESTLY, I WOULD BE AFRAID TO DEBATE HILLARY. I NOW SEE WHY OBAMA WOULD NOT DEBATE HER.

Posted by: HILLARY KNOCKED ONE OUT OF THE BALLPARK | April 30, 2008, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm

Obama supporters you have to come out and support McCain now the media has kicked Obama out of the race. The Clinton supporters will not vote for black people. Look at how quickly they turn on you if Obama was the candidate. Come to Lincoln’s party. Dem’s eat their own. Get away from Bush and Clinton.
McCain 2008.

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm

I’ve always said I will vote for whoever the Democratic nomination but I’m sorry, I can’t do it. If it’s Mrs. Clinton, I’m staying home and I’m boycotting cable news. If Hillary stayed positive, I would have no problem supporting her. But to try and tear someone down in order to win…is unacceptable to me. There are all kinds of ways to fight. She is a very talented and capable woman. All she needed to do was stand on her own experience to lift her self up. If she would have done that and keep the on the high ground, she would still have thousands of people supporting her if Obama loses. And as for the media, Shame on You!!! I have no problem with them talking about Wright and Ayers but they need to do the same with McCain and Clinton. It’s only fair, it’s only true journalism. It’s over….no matter who gets the nomination…the Dems have lost.

Posted by: gw | April 30, 2008, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm

I think it is far more likely that michelle will be kissing rev. wright than barry. he will be kissing larry sinclair.

Posted by: jimt | April 30, 2008, 4:28 pm 4:28 pm

Obama has tried to make us believe, in various ways, that he was ignorant of Wright’s radical, outrageous, anti-American and divisive views. BO has tried with, “I wasn’t in church when he said those things..”, “The fiery soundbites were just snippets taken out of context and his message was twisted”, etc…. Now that we’ve heard Wright speak his mind this week, we see that those “snippets” mean what they say, whether in context or not… those are Wright’s views… he has just affirmed and confirmed and stood by them at the NPC…. The “real Rev Wright” spoke out and it’s plain that there’s consistency in his thinking and views…. BO wants us believe that this is not the person he’s known for the last 20 years… he now wants us to believe that Wright was not really his spiritual mentor after all, though he said he was in his book… He wants us to believe that he is now shocked and outraged at the things Rev. Wright just expressed, as though he has just found who this guy really is and what he really believes… Now Obama gets shocked and decides to dump Wright after their long-time close relationship and going to hear his sermons for 20 years… Seems Rev Wright is right in saying that BO says whatever might help him politically.

Posted by: Landi | April 30, 2008, 4:29 pm 4:29 pm

Who Barry? Only peple i knows is hilarry and obamma.
CLinton 08!!

Posted by: Joe-Bob | April 30, 2008, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm

Go Hillary….
Nothing can stop you ..

Posted by: crisis08 | April 30, 2008, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm

jimt, you seem to be very confused. Bill was POTUS and Hillary was not. And, no, he did not do her bidding just because she happened to live with him. As for her failures being vetted, we don’t let a murderer walk just because her crime is vetted. We’re supposed to hold our so-called leaders responsible for their actions… that is if we are responsible.

Posted by: DennisNC | April 30, 2008, 4:31 pm 4:31 pm

to g-dubya: obama is a wimp. he cant take a good shot. he is afraid to debate clinton in n.c. he would get crushed again. he has not seen anything yet. when the repugs get done with him, his butt will be bigger than when larry sinclair got done with it. sorry obamaphiles, he is a liar and a fraud. hillary 08

Posted by: jimt | April 30, 2008, 4:31 pm 4:31 pm

Clinton. same old stuff ’08 Most people like the same old stuff.

Posted by: JKL | April 30, 2008, 4:31 pm 4:31 pm

Let’s see what did Hillary do today? Proposed a gas-tax holiday that economists and experts about the oil industry said would actually encourage consumption and raise prices, went to a gas station for a fillup and photo-op but spent most of her time on the phone instead of talking to the regular fella driving, oh and (shades of Bush 2000) had operatives demonstrate as “concerned Florida voter” at the Democratic Headquarters in Washington threatening that they would shut down the convention if not seated.
This woman thinks we are stupid, and threatens to destroy the Democratic party if she does not get her way.
Wait a minute! She’s a Republican! Wants irresponsible tax cuts, tries to take elections away from the people, becomes a millionaire “one of the people”, and threatens to obliterate Iran. YES, THAT’S IT! SHE’S A NEOCON!

Posted by: Sanity Man | April 30, 2008, 4:33 pm 4:33 pm

92% blacks voted for Barack. So don’t ever point your fingers at us white folks for being racists!!!!!
Lynch Barack for all I care…..

Posted by: Doc | April 30, 2008, 4:33 pm 4:33 pm

Clinton party you Go Girls! McCain needs Barack bloodied up. He is almost knocked down but not yet. Leave some for McCain so he can finish him off in November. Clinton Bloggers we need you to also go to MSNBC and CNN and keep fighting for us. LOL. McCain will give Hillary a cabinet seat for your hard work!
McCain 2008.

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 4:33 pm 4:33 pm

dennisnc, you mean like obama not voting to increase the penality for gang related murders in chicago. i think we all why he voted that way. rev. wright said it best. blacks are killing thet wrong people.

Posted by: jimt | April 30, 2008, 4:33 pm 4:33 pm

I was reading abcdebates blog are we surprised that Obama is leading Hillary by such a large margin…..by next week CBS and CNN will have Obama leading Hillary, and McCain by 33 points……But, when November comes and McCain wins then you’ll realize how much those polls do lie

Posted by: mgck59 | April 30, 2008, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm

Whoever is ahead in the popular vote is who the superdelegates will go with. With that said can Hillary win the popular vote. I don’t know, can she.

Posted by: lily | April 30, 2008, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm

No canditate is 100% perfect. If the voter can remove a single flaw from each canditate,who would s/he vote for.
Lets face it the Preacher is right and like the old saying what comes around goes around, cause and effect, 1+1=2…His words maybe harsh to ears of some Americans but truth hurts. Americans should visit other parts of the world to get a balance view.
Having said all that, I think Clinton has more experience and better suited for the next 4 years.

Posted by: Jaime | April 30, 2008, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm

Mccain and Clinton has very good experience, but Obama hasn’t.
I believe Clinton will bring a big victory election 08 for Demoract party, but Obama will bring huge bited election 08 for Demoract party

Posted by: Good Leader | April 30, 2008, 4:36 pm 4:36 pm

Mccain and Clinton has very good experience, but Obama hasn’t.
I believe Clinton will bring a big victory election 08 for Demoract party, but Obama will bring huge bited election 08 for Demoract party

Posted by: Good Leader | April 30, 2008, 4:36 pm 4:36 pm

jimt, actually I meant her vote that led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands. Real deaths, not theoretical ones.

Posted by: DennisNC | April 30, 2008, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm

What did I say about the racists are supporting Clinton. Obama supporters you need to vote McCain once she gets the nomination.

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 4:37 pm 4:37 pm

oh, sorry dennisnc, i guess there were no real gang related murders in chicago. damn man, read the paper.

Posted by: jimt | April 30, 2008, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm

BKMC,
Your so tired. And so is your candidate…….Barack the mirage. His numbers are dropping so fast it has to be setting some sort of record.

Posted by: SadStateOfAffairs | April 30, 2008, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm

This is Hillary song” Girl just want to have fun,,,”
This are Obama songs
” You have a bad day….
” Too late apologize . it’s too late apologize…”

Posted by: crisis08 | April 30, 2008, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm

Hillary’s support consists of grannies and uneducated blue collar workers.
Posted by: jeff
Obama’s support consists of delusional (bi polar?) individuals.
Posted by: DMK | Apr 30, 2008 8:18:40 PM
Hey “DMK” I like that. very good one
LOL LOL

Posted by: Antoin, Chicago | April 30, 2008, 4:40 pm 4:40 pm

Lynch, so you admit to being a racist, too?

Posted by: DennisNC | April 30, 2008, 4:40 pm 4:40 pm

to wanakee hill, your right, obama does not share wrights views today. but he did yesterday and will again in nov. if elected.

Posted by: jimt | April 30, 2008, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm

Doc:Moron

Posted by: ron | April 30, 2008, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm

Obama should go home,he is not electable and not qualified to be president of the United States of America.He might be a good cult leader , like Warren Jeffs.

Posted by: Nancy | April 30, 2008, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm

My bad. I am an idiot.
I just found out that Obama voted for a gas-tax holiday THREE times while in the Illinois legislature.
Obama even joked, “Can they put my picture on the pumps so they know I saved them money?”
Don’t fault me. I am just another dumb kool-aid drinker without all the facts.
Obama/Wright ’08

Posted by: Sanity Man | April 30, 2008, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm

McCain has the most experience and he doesn’t lie. Hillary will be smacked down when the McCain ads come out with her voice over talking about sniper fire while she walks out with Sinbad and Cheryl Crow to greet a young girl. Repeat that over and over and over and then end with McCain as a POW. Bam. McCain will beat her like a drum. Real men vote McCain.

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm

jim, you are a con man but a very poor, illogical one.

Posted by: DennisNC | April 30, 2008, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm

FOX News:
Obama trails Clinton by just 20 superdelegates, 243-263, cutting her lead in half in less than two months. This week, he picked up seven delegates to her four.
Obama08

Posted by: Thinking | April 30, 2008, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm

BO wants you to believe whatever benefits he himself – nothing more, nothing less. He will say anything to win an election.
He will change as many times his position as necessary to persuade you he had not known his good Rev. Wright for 20 years.
If he did not know “as well as he thought he knew”, how could he be inspired by his sermons to name his book after one of them? If that’s the case, he is deceiving the voters by lying to them that Wright has been an inspiration while he really has had no clue what Wright was. Sounds hypocrite to me.
If he did know Wright’s ideology, as he clearly does being first in his Harvard Law class, he would be indeed the most ignorant person in this World. If he knew and then tells the voters he did not know, he is lying. Otherwise, such an ignorant phony has no presidential quality, not even a State senator, nor a substitute Lecturer. Either way, still sounds hypocrite to me.
You, BO supporters, pick your choice. You will for sure end up with a hypocrite.

Posted by: bony | April 30, 2008, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm

There are some hardcore critiques of Obama here that just cannot be countered, even by his most fervent followers whose comment only further reflect how blind they are. Even his fanclub known as the newsmedia cannot spin it away. Now if the superdelegates whose original role, the reason they were created to begin with by the Democratic Party, as independent decision-makers in case the people were about to make an immensely stupid choice, which is exactly what was happening, cannot get it right and nominate Hillary…then they can bear the responsiblity for handing the Republicans another victory yet again.

Posted by: Johnny D. in NE | April 30, 2008, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm

clinton and McCain both have been piling on Obama for the last month and people are surprised his negatives are going up? Let’s see McCain and Clinton survive that onslaught. If Obama is now unelectable then the dems are screwed cause Hillary will get crushed in a general election. Her negatives are way above Obama’s even now and they won’t ever be any lower than they are right now.

Posted by: foolishdems | April 30, 2008, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm

Hilarry’s songs: “Touch My Body” and
“Superfreak”

Posted by: k | April 30, 2008, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm

I’ll bet many folks in the early states who supported Obama before the debates and Rev Wright blew his cover will NOT vote for him if he’s the nominee in November.

Posted by: NatT | April 30, 2008, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm

Ready 999. i do not need an ebonics lesson. please speak proper english. geesh

Posted by: jimt | April 30, 2008, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm

White folks,please stop hiding behind this man Rev. Wrong. As a white man, I find it dificult to understand why we are unable to tell the truth. Half of us find it difficult to vote for a black person, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that! it’s not racist, it’s just the way it is. My own mother has admitted it but she hides behind Rev. Wrong or the bitter comment. I am not comfortable voting for a black man, I see no need to hide it. Pennsylvania was all about race, we just tried to hide behind that bitter comment. I am not racist…….. I say hello to blacks all the time, I just don’t feel comfortable voting for a black person. Please folks tell the truth. Many of us hate Bill and Hillary, but we have no other choice but to vote them in over Obama.

Posted by: honest-man | April 30, 2008, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm

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Antoin “Tony” Rezko (born 1955 in Aleppo, Syria) is an American restaurateur and real estate developer in Chicago, Illinois. Beginning in the 1980s, Rezko became involved in fundraising for local Illinois Republican and Democratic politicians, focusing primarily on Chicago-area Democrats and was one of Barack Obama’s first financial contributors. After becoming a major contributor to Rod Blagojevich’s successful gubernatorial election, Rezko assisted Blagojevich in setting up the state’s first Democratic administration in twenty years and was able to have business associates appointed onto several state boards. Rezko and several others were indicted on federal charges in October 2006, for using their connections to the state boards to demand kickbacks from businesses that wanted to do business with the state. While the others have plead guilty, Rezko plead not guilty and is currently on trial.
Contents [hide]
1 Early life and education
2 Business history
3 Fraud and extortion charges
4 Ties to politicians
5 References
6 External link
[edit] Early life and education
Rezko was born in 1955 in Aleppo, Syria to a prominent Catholic family.[1] After graduating from high school there, Rezko moved to Chicago and earned an undergraduate and a master’s degree in civil engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in the late 1970s. He joined an engineering company, designing nuclear power plants, then left to design roads for the state Transportation Department, making $21,590 in his one year there.[2][3]
[edit] Business history
Soon after beginning his career as a civil engineer, Rezko started investing in real estate and fast-food restaurants—including the first Subway in Chicago. Many of these properties were in lower-income African American neighborhoods.[4][1] Then, meeting Jabir Herbert Muhammad, former manager of heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali and son of the late Nation of Islam leader, Elijah Muhammad, he was asked in 1983 to support the successful mayoral candidacy of Harold Washington. J. H. Muhammad’s company, Crucial Concessions, which Rezko went to work for in 1984, won a food contract at the Lake Michigan beaches and in many South Side parks after Washington became the first black mayor of Chicago. Rezko put together endorsement deals for Ali, became the executive director of the Muhammad Ali Foundation, and traveled the world with Ali for five years.[1] In 1997, Crucial opened two Panda Express Restaurants at O’Hare, under the city’s minority set-aside program. It lost those franchises in 2005, on the grounds that J. H. Muhammad was merely a front for Rezko, who had been appointed trustee of J.H. Muhammad’s affairs in the early 1990s because of the latter’s failing health. In March 2008 Muhammad sued Rezko, alleging that he had been swindled out of his home and business interests.[4][5][6][3]
In January 1989, Rezko and Daniel Mahru, CEO of a firm which leased ice makers to bars, hotels and restaurants and a former attorney, founded a real-estate development and restaurant holding corporation called Rezmar Corporation. Six days after Richard M. Daley won his first term as mayor in 1989, having campaigned on a promise to build more housing for the poor, they applied for a $629,000 loan to help fix up an abandoned apartment building. Rezmar stopped making monthly payments after just three years, then renegotiated a payment of less than 16% of the original, after missing 16 payments. They were meanwhile given two more loans for other projects, both of which ended in foreclosure. The last loan was advanced in 1998, and the deal included three of Mayor Daley’s top African-American allies: Bishop Arthur Brazier, Leon Finney Jr. and Allison Davis.[3] Between 1989 and 1998, Rezmar made deals to rehab 30 buildings, a total of 1,025 apartments, expending more than $100 million from the city, state and federal governments and in bank loans. Rezko and Mahru weren’t responsible for any government or bank loans or the $50 million in federal tax credits they got to rehab the buildings. Rezmar put just $100 into each project and got a 1% stake as the general partner in charge of hiring the architect, contractor, and the company that would manage the buildings, screen tenants and make repairs, Chicago Property Management, also owned by Rezko and Mahru. It also got upfront development fees of at least $6.9 million in all. Under its deals with the Chicago Equity Fund, Rezmar promised to cover all operating losses in any building for seven years, but had no obligation after that, although the tax credits they sold could be recovered by the Federal government from the holders if the projects did not survive for fifteen years or more.[3] By 1998 the company had a net worth of US$34 million,[7][8] and it then turned to purchasing old factories and parcels of land in gentrifying areas of Chicago and turning them into upscale condominium complexes.[3][9]
Rezko was named “Entrepreneur of the Decade” by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association.[10]
Rezko’s investment in restaurant food chains had started with a chain of Panda Express Chinese restaurants. In 1998, Rezko opened his first chain of Papa John’s Pizza restaurants in Chicago and by 2002, he had twenty-six stores in Chicago, at least fifteen in Wisconsin, and seven in Detroit, part of the financing for these stores was through GE Capital.[2] By 2001, Rezko began to fall behind on his franchise payments and loans and he transfered the franchises to several business associates. In 2006, during a lawsuit with Papa John’s over his franchise fees, Rezko renamed his Papa John’s restaurants to Papa Tony’s.[10] Rezko also had a lien filed against his home after losing a civil lawsuit to GE Capital.[2]
[edit] Fraud and extortion charges
In October 2006, Rezko was indicted along with Republican fundraiser and businessman Stuart Levine on charges of wire fraud, bribery, money laundering, and attempted extortion.[11][12] The charges are part of the federal investigation known as “Operation Board Games”. Rezko and Levine were charged with attempting to extort millions of dollars from businesses seeking to do business with the Illinois Teachers Retirement System Board and the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board from 2002 to 2004. Levine pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against Rezko and others. While the charges carry a maximum sentence of life in prison, Levine expects to receive about a 5-1/2 year sentence in return for his testimony.[13] In addition, he has been charged with defrauding General Electric Capital Corp. out of $10.5 million in loans to a pizza restaurant business and bilking a group of investors.[14] The case is being prosecuted by Patrick Fitzgerald who prosecuted the case against Scooter Libby arising from the CIA leak scandal.
Rezko pleaded not guilty, and his trial in the Board Games case began on March 6, 2008.[15] He was jailed shortly before the trial began when he received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Lebanon. Rezko had told the court that he had no access to money from overseas. Ten weeks into the trial, on April 18, Judge Amy St. Eve released Rezko, after friends and relatives put up 30 properties valued at about $8.5 million to secure his bond. Prosecutors opposed the motion for release, saying that Rezko was a flight risk.[16][17]
[edit] Ties to politicians
Tony Rezko’s first significant political act was hosting a fundraiser for Harold Washington during Washington’s successful campaign to become Chicago’s first black mayor.[4] He has since raised funds for many other politicians, both Democrats and Republicans.[18] Prominent Democrats that Rezko and his company, Rezmar, have contributed money to, or fund-raised for, are Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Comptroller Dan Hynes, Attorney General Lisa Madigan, U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate Barack Obama, Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn, former Chicago Mayors Daley and Washington, former Cook County Board President John Stroger, and Cook County Board President Todd Stroger.[2] Rezko has also raised money for Republicans: former Illinois Governors Jim Edgar and George Ryan,[1] the late Rosemont Mayor Don Stephens and he co-chaired a megamillion-dollar fund-raiser for President George W. Bush in 2003.[18][3]
Rezko’s closest ties have been to Governor Blagojevich and his family.[2] Rezko has donated $117,652 to Blagojevich’s campaigns,[4] and is credited by the prosecutor in his trial with having delivered bundled contributions totalling almost $1.44 million.[19] Since 1997, Blagojevich’s wife, Patricia, has made at least $38,000 acting as Rezko’s real-estate agent on several of his company’s property acquisitions. Rezko has reportedly raised millions of dollars for Blagojevich’s campaigns and when Blagojevich won the Illinois gubernatorial election in 2002, Rezko assisted Blagojevich in setting up the state’s first Democratic administration in twenty years.[2] Rezko recommended many of his business associates and their relatives for positions within the state government, three of which were appointed to the state board that oversees hospital projects and the state’s development board was run by a former Rezko business associate. In federal indictment charges, Rezko and Republican fundraiser, Stuart Levine, are accused of using Rezko’s influence with public officials to demand millions of dollars in kickbacks from companies that want to do business with the state.[2][4]
The indictment of Rezko on federal charges has drawn attention to his relationship with Illinois Senator Barack Obama, though Obama has not been charged with wrongdoing.[20][8] In 1990, after Obama was named head of the Harvard Law Review, Rezmar Corp. offered him a job should he decide to return to Chicago, and although Obama turned that offer down he later did take a job, which he held from 1993 to 2002, with Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland,[21][22][23] a law firm representing Rezko, Rezmar, and community groups in partnership with Rezmar, that helped Rezmar get more than $43 million in government funding. The firm’s then senior partner, Allison S. Davis, has been a member of the Chicago Plan Commission since 1991, later went into business with Rezko,[8][24][25] and in 2003 was appointed to Illinois State Board of Investment, which controls state pension funds, by Governor Blagojevich at Rezko’s request.[26] On July 31, 1995 the first ever political contributions to Obama were $300 from a lawyer, a $5,000 loan from a car dealer, and $2,000 from two food companies owned by Rezko.[27] Starting in 2003 Rezko was on Obama’s U.S. Senate campaign finance committee, which raised more than $14 million.[8] Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama, and that fundraiser was instrumental in providing Obama with seed money for his U.S. Senate race.[1] Obama has since identified over $250,000 in campaign contributions to various Obama campaigns as coming from Rezko or close associates, and has in consequence donated almost two thirds of that amount to charity.[28] Also, in 2005 Obama purchased a new home in the Kenwood District of Chicago for $1.65 million ($300,000 below the original price) on the same day that Tony Rezko’s wife, Rita Rezko, purchased the adjoining empty lot from the same sellers for the full asking price.[29] Obama acknowledged bringing his interest in the property to Rezko’s attention,[30][31][32] but denied any coordination of offers. According to Obama, while the properties had originally been a single property, the previous owners decided to sell the land as two separate lots, but made it a condition of the sales that they be closed on the same date. Obama’s said that the properties had been on the market for months, that his offer was the best of two bids, and that Ms. Rezko’s bid was matched by another offer, also of $625,000, so that she could not have purchased the property for less.[33] It had been reported that Rezko was under federal investigation for influence-peddling, before Obama bought a 10 foot (3.0 m) wide strip of Ms. Rezko’s property for $104,500, $60,000 above the assessed value, in 2006.[29][8] According to Chicago Sun-Times columnist, Mark Brown, “Rezko definitely did Obama a favor by selling him the 10-foot strip of land, making his own parcel less attractive for development.”[34] Obama acknowledges that the exchange may have created the appearance of impropriety, and stated “I consider this a mistake on my part and I regret it.”[33]
On December 28, 2006, Ms. Rezko sold the resulting narrower property to a company owned by her husband’s former business attorney. That sale of $575,000, combined with the earlier $104,500 sale to the Obamas, amounted to a net profit of $54,500 over her original purchase, less $14,000 for a fence along the property line and other expenses.[35][36] In October 2007, the new owners put the still vacant land up for sale again, this time for $1.5 million.[37]
In June 2007, the Sun-Times published a story about letters Obama had written in 1997 to city and state officials in support of a low-income senior citizen development project headed by Rezko and partner Allison Davis. The project received more than $14 million in taxpayer funds, including $885,000 in development fees for Rezko and Davis. Of Obama’s letters in support of the Cottage View Terrace apartments development, Obama spokesman Bill Burton said, “This wasn’t done as a favor for anyone, it was done in the interests of the people in the community who have benefited from the project. I don’t know that anyone specifically asked him to write this letter nine years ago. There was a consensus in the community about the positive impact the project would make and Obama supported it because it was going to help people in his district.” Rezko’s attorney responded that “Mr. Rezko never spoke with, nor sought a letter from, Senator Obama in connection with that project.[38] In an interview with the Sun-Times editorial board, Obama said that Rezko has raised $250,000 in campaign donations for him,[39] of which, Obama has returned or donated to charity more than $84,000.[20]
In the South Carolina Democratic Party presidential debate on January 21, 2008, Senator Hillary Clinton said that Obama had represented Rezko, who she referred to as a slum landlord.[40][41] Obama responded that he had never represented Rezko and had done only about five hours work, indirectly, for Rezko’s firm.[33] Within days of the debate, a photo of Rezko posing with Bill and Hillary Clinton surfaced. When asked about the photo Hillary Clinton commented “I probably have taken hundreds of thousands of pictures. I wouldn’t know him if he walked in the door.”[42][43]
On March 14, 2008, in an effort to comprehensively address the varous questions raised about Rezko, Obama spent about an hour and a half with the editorial boards and journalists of the two major Chicago newspapers, the Chicago Tribune[44] and the Chicago Sun Times,[45] agreeing to answer all their questions with no time limit. The previous owner of the Obama house also provided an email exchange confirming Obama’s description of the purchase.[46] Both newspapers had endorsed Obama for the presidency earlier, and the Tribune specifically reaffirmed their support in an editorial.[47]
Rezko headed the 2002 campaign finance committee of former Cook County Board President John Stroger. Stroger in turn appointed Rezko’s wife, Rita, to the Cook County Employee Appeals Board, which hears cases brought by fired or disciplined workers. The part-time post pays $37,000 a year.[1] A Rezko company had a contract to maintain pay telephones at the Cook County Jail under Stroger. The Chicago Sun-Times puts Rezko’s contributions to Stroger at $148,300.[48]

Posted by: Roy Morris | April 30, 2008, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm

**SORRY** CLINTON PASTOR WAS FOR THE CITY CLINTON…. I believe in doing what’s right this was how media posted Clinton’s former pastor.

Posted by: GAWANIA | April 30, 2008, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm

Did U guys notice how HILARY said that “she learned a lesson from REAGAN about the payroll tax” on the O’REILLY show.
This is the same lady who tried to scold OBAMA back in JAN for complimenting
The Reagan party but now is complimenting him herself.
This woman is truly deceptive ya’ll

Posted by: White man with Rhythm | April 30, 2008, 4:44 pm 4:44 pm

Honestman is really cynthia mckinny

Posted by: jimt | April 30, 2008, 4:44 pm 4:44 pm

“If you’re elected, I’m coming after you”(Wright in his Nat Press Club speech to Obama)This statement will be played over and over if O gets the nomination. And then all the “typical” white people will be so afraid like his grandmother that some Farrakhan groupie like Wright and his Nation of Islam will take over the White House that he’ll be lucky to get the elite voters that are supporting him now. He will lose by a landslide, the general election is over for this guy, it’s so over.

Posted by: MC EVANS | April 30, 2008, 4:44 pm 4:44 pm

Honestman is really cynthia mckinny

Posted by: jimt | April 30, 2008, 4:44 pm 4:44 pm

Send us the Muslim
I got a nice apple tree and some rope in my garage
McCain ’08!

Posted by: DennisNC | April 30, 2008, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm

doc……your post is quite interesting you are the core fiberage of America. We are quick to form Lynch mobs… Oh but, so am I and I’m Africa American. I will however educate you WE African Americans are only 25% of the population less than 10% of us vote. So, that percentile that you see on TV of Black support for Obama is very marginal…. There will be other minority voters that will take up the slack…Now to Landi very intelligent blogging.

Posted by: mgck59 | April 30, 2008, 4:45 pm 4:45 pm

Look 20% dems will not vote for a black person period. 15% will not vote for a woman. White man will get it. America is not ready for extreme changes in a time of war. You need to vote for the candidate who will win. McCain 2008. Dems eat your own.

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 4:46 pm 4:46 pm

Dirty Politics! Issues! Issues! Issues!
Would you send your adult child to do an “INTERNSHIP” at Hillary’s Oval Office? Do you believe the one should exploit their Public Services to a tune of $109,000,000.00 and should that income be placed in a Trust Fund for Tax Avoidance – should every Public Servants in the USA be given the same opportunity? Should all artists, writers and owners of intellectual properties be allowed to collect their royalties, payment and or profits into a Trust Fund for similar purpose? Do you embrace liars for the White House? (Bosnia, and Bill an impeached liar). These are the issues folks, where are the mainstream “Journalists”? Sincerely, Lake Hart, a Native American Writer.

Posted by: Lake Hart - A Native American Writer | April 30, 2008, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm

ooooh, struck a nerve ready999. you must really be an obamaphile. maybe you and barry can share a limo with larry sinclair.

Posted by: jimt | April 30, 2008, 4:48 pm 4:48 pm

Wow, you people are scary! Where do all of you racists reside? It’s easy to discern that you are uneducated, but how and why does so much raw hatred exist?

Posted by: Liz | April 30, 2008, 4:48 pm 4:48 pm

You mean Hillary was pandering again on FOX. Now she supports Reagan. Hmmmmmmm
Will the real Hillary please stand up
Same Old, Same Old

Posted by: Thinking | April 30, 2008, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm

honest-man is forthcoming and true to his name in expressing his opinion. Many of us are that way but find it difficult to admit. For one reason or other we find it difficult to cast our votes for a black man. To make it more palatable we find reasons that justify the way we feel. The media is simply using it to boost their ratings. They could care less what the real issues are. Had they done their job well we would not be in Iraq. We would have spared the lives of four thousand of our best young men and women.

Posted by: worldsam | April 30, 2008, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm

The reason that “Mr X” could beat all of these candidates is because none of them are listening to or even care what the American people want. Most Americans want to stop spending their hard earned tax money on offshore ventures and illegal residents. Its that simple. We wouldnt need to fight terrorists in Iraq if our government just made it impossible for illegal people to enter the US or to exist here for any length of time. That is their mandate after all, to secure and protect the borders of our country. By first securing our borders and then deporting all of those people who decided it was OK to break our laws to get here, we would open up a huge job base for legal citizens. It would be bumpy for a while but in the end, all Americans know that both the country and their familes would benefit in the long run. Until these politicians start recognizing what we all already know, they will never engage with the vast majority of US voters. They will constantly battle for the same old fringe groups and issues that the core of the country puts secondary or less. Read this. http://www.lasvegastribune.com/article19443.php
Back to top

Posted by: Paul | April 30, 2008, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm

No Blacks in the White House.
This is a White Man’s Country.
The WHITE House.
Wake Up, Obama

Posted by: ZRuss | April 30, 2008, 4:50 pm 4:50 pm

please all you right wing jack-offs Obama will get the nomination and if not Mc Cain will win for sure……thank you and have a good life
PS enjoy you federal gas tax lift………and buy your bus passes for the fall….if you don’t lik it Mc Cain would love your vote

Posted by: Country folk | April 30, 2008, 4:50 pm 4:50 pm

Obama needs to step aside and take the VP if he ever wants to be president. I simply do not want a President who does not know what is going on in front of him for 20 years. Now that Wright is inconvenient he dumps him. I don’t blame Wright at all — free speech and America. I mean he prayed with Obama back stage before announcing his Presidency and Obama knew then Wright was too controversial. So this outrage is phony at best as Wright has not said anything new — heck, we have all heard this! At this point Hillary is the best chance for a Dem President. There is alot of buyers remorse going on with Obama now.

Posted by: Ken | April 30, 2008, 4:50 pm 4:50 pm

Now what I have noticed is a stir…those that are in support of Obama are trying to stir racial anger… I do pray that we as Americans are wise enough to recognize stupidity when we see it. I don’t believe intelligent people would even put apple tress, ropes, and lynching into their post. These are the Obama’s of the world stirring that manure. He so likes drama. I tols everyone that this man was not to be trusted, that his agenda if he didn’t win was to cause a racial stir….and it’s seems I’m right.

Posted by: mgck59 | April 30, 2008, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm

That’s fine Michelle. Just read your Dem blogs and you can see how hateful they are. Still, keep McCain in mind if Obama happens to get the nomination.

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm

Not long ago most Democrats thought the invasion of Iraq was the worst thing this country had done since the Vietnam War. Now, to provide political cover for Hillary, they (like jimt) trivialize it, and the loss of hundreds of thousands of lives and the ruin of an entire nation. Those people can call themsleves anything including Democrats, but they are without principles.

Posted by: DennisNC | April 30, 2008, 4:52 pm 4:52 pm

Americans go to bed. You are misusing the internet. What rights do you have not to think about the world you have wronged so much in your decisions? The world knows that American whites are racist enough not let a black man handle affairs in your “white house” Obama is fit to be the President of the world if there where any such position. You are loosing your world status as in control because everyday you take action to appal the world. We all see what is going on. Your white media tearing down what would have been best for America and the world because he is a black man. This man has constantly said in the past even before he chose to run for the President that Rev. Wright is crazy Uncle, that position hasn’t shifted. You are so drowned in the pathological mess the regular politician want you to sink in for God knows how long of putting something that was never an issue to become an issue. Vote Obama or not, the world knows better. Arrogance comes before the fall of a man. You the common people is what he is standing for, you are why is running yet ironically you have chosen people who will represent the corporate world tomorrow and not your individual rights. This is fact. Returning America to Americans is very important right now to mitigate unbecoming and unnecessary threat to your entity and other free nations. It shows that a lot of you do not see the world as half filled but half empty because if you do, Obama name and muslim background would have been a great asset to inform the world that America and Americans are not anti islam rather America is anti terrorism in what ever shape it comes. Obama like you all know even if you don’t want to explore it, is a good man. God bless America

Posted by: The world needs America | April 30, 2008, 4:52 pm 4:52 pm

My friens Granny Opal Grandpy Ottis and Senor Lopez vot fur Clinton two!

Posted by: Joe-Bob | April 30, 2008, 4:52 pm 4:52 pm

Either Senator Clinton or Senator Obama are better choices than ol’ man McCain. Seriously, that old cout is worth the powder to blow him to hell. A plea to polarized Obama and Clinton supporters: please get over your rage against either of these candidates and vote democratic unless you want 100 more years of the Iraq war and wars against any country that frowns at the US.

Posted by: Mo Shizzle | April 30, 2008, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm

Obama seems to be having the worst luck as of late.
Not only is Obama falling in the polls, but the Pink Floyd / Obama “pig” balloon floated away from a concert.
The giant- gas filled Obama pig balloon exploded in mid air and rained down on California yards.
Is this a metaphor for the Obama campaign..??
The giant Pink Floyd “pig” balloon with Obama written on its side, got away from its handlers.
“It floated way too high and exploded. It rained down upon its supporters.”
HHhmmm, ironic, isn’t it..??

Posted by: The Angry Republican | April 30, 2008, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm

OBAMA IS NOT UNELECTABLE HE IS UNDER ATTACK FROM ALL SIDES. WRIGHT WAS PROBABLY PAID TO SABOTAGE THE CAMPAIGN AT JUST THE RIGHT MOMENT. **IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE HE WAS QUIET FOR MONTHS NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN**. MANY BLACKS DID NOT SUPPPORT OBAMA EITHER UNTIL THEY SAW WHITE AMERICA DOING SO.. MANY STILL DO NOT LIKE TAVIS SMILEY., SHELIA JACKSON LEE. THERE IS A LOT OF JEALOUSY IN THE BLACK CAMP OF OBAMA’S SUCCESS VS THE FAILURE OF PREVIOUS BLACK CANDIDATES TO GAIN SUPPORT.

Posted by: GAWANIA | April 30, 2008, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm

ready999. funny you should use the terms you do. sinclair is in the nut house alright, barrys “nut” house. poor michelle

Posted by: jimt | April 30, 2008, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm

Don’t make Obama mad… I heard he gets bitter and clings to Michelle and opposes anything and anyone that is not like him.

Posted by: josh | April 30, 2008, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm

You are right mgck59, Obama is a racist and that is why he has no chance to win. You need to help McCain win at all costs. Your party is fractured so we need your vote. you know the Dems will not take away Obamas delegates. get out and spread the word for McCain.

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm

ELECTORAL COLLEGE votes from SWING STATES will be necessary to carry the candidate in a general election. Popular vote will not be a win factor – Ask Al Gore. This is why Senator Clinton is the more electable candidate. Obama can not carry-off the election. SWING STATES:
SENATOR CLINTON New Mexico – 5 , Ohio – 20 , Florida – 27, Wisconson – 10, Arkansas – 6, TOTAL ELECTORAL VOTES FOR
GENERAL ELECTION = 68
Obama – Utah – 5, colorado – 9, Missouri – 11 , vermont – 4, iowa – 7 TOTAL ELECTORAL VOTES FOR
GENERAL ELECTION = 38
SENATOR CLINTON IS WAY AHEAD based on electoral votes. HELLO ….Florida and Michigan WILL be voting in the general election.

Posted by: XTRA1XTRA2 | April 30, 2008, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm

Gawania, Obama is under attack simply because he is electable. The GOP is not bothering with Hillary because they know she is no threat. In fact, the GOP would love to see her as the party’s candidate.

Posted by: DennisNC | April 30, 2008, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm

From a human perspective we have such little faith. The “game’s over” when God say it’s over. Now, I don’t presume to know if Obama or Clinton will win the nomination however, I think Obama will win. Why?
Because this is in my opinion just a stumbling block and like all obstacles and stumbling block it presents an opportunity to show what one is made of. Obama showed his mettle by doing what he had too. He was cool yet tough. A man will not walk away from a friend unless a principle is greater than he or his friendship. His stance in my opinion will put him in good stead for the future because this incident enabled him to show his character.
I do think that some of the things that Rev. Wright articulated when held the spotlight was right on point unfortunately; his timing was way off in my opinion.
Obama must get back on message and work even harder to secure the nomination. I believe he will but ultimately, God will make the call.

Posted by: bigdipper | April 30, 2008, 4:58 pm 4:58 pm

The sudden denunciation of Rev. Wright by Senator Obama was clearly political. It’s not as though Wright said anything different that he’d been saying for years. This episode shows Obama’s inherent phoniness. He’s not some great new anti-politician, but just another typical politico. Hillary is on a roll and hopefully can save the party from itself.

Posted by: K.F. Miller | April 30, 2008, 4:58 pm 4:58 pm

The Rev. Wright will linger like Limburger for years, as long as he advocates a Marxist solution to America’s problems.
The concerns the voters have is how much this Marxist philosophy got through to Obama. The stench of Limburger is sticking on both Wright and Obama.
The Republicans don’t need to launch one swiftboat. The Dems have done it to themselves.

Posted by: Lance | April 30, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm

OK>>>
WHAT ABOUT CLINTON’S TWO PASTORS… REV. WILLIAM PROCANIK WHO WAS SENT TO JAIL MARCH 28 FIOR CHILD MOLESTATION AND REV. DOUGLAS COE THE NAZI LOVER?
WHAT ABOUT MCCAIN’S OLD FRIEND JERRY FALWALL? AND BOB JONES?
WHY DID BARBARA REYNOLDS A PRIME BLACK CLINTON SUPPORTER PAID FOR AND ARRANGED THE WRIGHT SPEEECH AT THE PRESS CLUB?
WHY IS NO ONE BUT THE NY DAILY NEWS TALKING ABOUT THAT?
THIS IS ALL CONTROLLED MEDIA PROPAGANDA.
OBAMA WANTS TO END THE WAR AND HILLARITY AND MCGUN ARE SECRETLY FOR THE WAR.
SMELL THE COFFEE.

Posted by: Chuck | April 30, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm

We need peoples help to get McCain elected. The Dem party will not win this year because it has fractured. The Dems sound like a drunken debate about race and religion while McCain is the guy who decided to go to bed early so he can take on the next day. The Republicans are a loyal party. You didn’t see Huckabee throw McCain under the bus. Dems cannot win this year. Get on the straight talk express. Vote McCain.

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm

Greg, I agree that MCain will win, and probably easily. But it has nothing to do with war. This country was at war in WWII. Currently, the only thing 95% of the country sacrifices to the war effort is cash. For the most part it is a voyeuristic war, which makes it all the more despicable. But you are correct that bigotry is alive and well in America.

Posted by: DennisNC | April 30, 2008, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm

Obamas negatives rise, and yet they are still WAY lower than Hillarys (Which ABC news choose to ignore) . In that same CBS Poll Obama leads Hillary by 8% (46 to 38 with 14% undecided) among democrat supporters (which ABC chooses to ignore). 51% expect Obama to win the nomination to 34% for Hillary ( Which ABC chooses to ignore). On who is more electable Obama 48% to hillarys 37% ( which ABC chooses to ignore).
I may have to go to CBS for my news because it seems ABC finds it impossible to give a balanced view of things. Things have really gone downhill since that shambles of a “debate” that ABC hosted and showed their impartiality to be a complete facade.

Posted by: vernonwerge | April 30, 2008, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm

ZRuss,
White Man Country !! The homeland of my forefathers for thousands of generation! I am still here, am I not? This is not Europe, never was and never will be – this land belong to humanity, we have Americans from every cultural communities and you are welcome to be a positive part of the USA – great country and people ZRuss, you should try to get to know some! Sincerely, Lake Hart, a Native American Writer.

Posted by: Lake Hart - A Native American Writer | April 30, 2008, 5:04 pm 5:04 pm

edith… yes I am inspired my Obama. I think he is a different kind of politician.. a good and decent one. HRC seems to me like someone possessed by her ambition.And is willing to absolutely say or do whatever she thinks is neccessary to win. HRC ONLY CARES ABOUT HRC.

Posted by: anniecla | April 30, 2008, 5:04 pm 5:04 pm

Chuck the answer is Obama is black. Like Bill Clinton says it is a fairy tale to believe Obama could win. Look how race and gender has divided your party. We need you to log in to http://www.johnmccain.com/ and start funding his campaign. We need to unite the country behind a leader who is willing to cross the isle and work with the Dems to move this country forward and fix the Bush mistakes.

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 5:05 pm 5:05 pm

From a human perspective we have such little faith. The “game’s over” when God say it’s over. Now, I don’t presume to know if Obama or Clinton will win the nomination however, I think Obama will win. Why?
Because this is in my opinion just a stumbling block and like all obstacles and stumbling block it presents an opportunity to show what one is made of. Obama showed his mettle by doing what he had too. He was cool yet tough. A man will not walk away from a friend unless a principle is greater than he or his friendship. His stance in my opinion will put him in good stead for the future because this incident enabled him to show his character.
I do think that some of the things that Rev. Wright articulated when held the spotlight was right on point unfortunately; his timing was way off in my opinion.
Obama must get back on message and work even harder to secure the nomination. I believe he will but ultimately, God will make the call.

Posted by: bigdipper | April 30, 2008, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm

The other part of the poll CBS:
Obama leads Clinton 46 percent to 38 percent among Democrats who have either already voted in a primary contest or still plan to, with 14 percent saying they are undecided or don’t know whom they support. The eight-point margin marks an increase from April 3rd, when Obama led Clinton by three points.
And while Obama continues to have an advantage over Clinton when it comes to which candidate is seen as more electable, the gap has narrowed there as well. Today, 48 percent of Democratic primary voters think Obama has the best chance of defeating McCain in November, down 8 points from a month ago. Thirty-seven percent say Clinton is more likely to beat McCain.
Obama’s unfavorable rating has risen over the past month. On April 3rd, he was viewed favorably by 43 percent of registered voters and unfavorably by 24 percent. Now he is viewed favorably by 39 percent and unfavorably by 34 percent – a ten point increase in unfavorable rating
Clinton is seen favorably by 36 percent of registered voters and unfavorably by 42 percent. McCain has a 33 percent favorability rating and 34 percent unfavorable.

Posted by: Thinking | April 30, 2008, 5:08 pm 5:08 pm

BLACKS DON’T UNDERSTAND IT!!!!!!!
HUSSEIN OBAMA IS UNELECTABLE IN NOVEMBER….
HE HAS THE WORST RESUME IN POLITICS.
OBAMA IS THE BIGGEST JOKE OF THE CENTURY…..
WHITE AMERICANS WOULD NOT VOTE FOR
OBAMA IN NOVEMBER.
OBAMA WILL JOIN THE TEAM OF
McGOVERN,MONDALE,DUKAKIS,GORE,KERRY.

Posted by: NIcholas | April 30, 2008, 5:08 pm 5:08 pm

Dear Lord (not the one for Obama and Reverend Wright)…..please let me be at home to watch Michelle Obama endorse Hillary Clinton for POTUS.

Posted by: PGHPAVOTER | April 30, 2008, 5:08 pm 5:08 pm

OT:
This confirm my suspicious:
Did Senator Obama have a Muslim Chilhood?
Please follow the link and read this Jerusalem Post article:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1208870533937&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Posted by: Tony | April 30, 2008, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm

ABC is clearly a bias net work. All Beloved Clinton(ABC). ABC your a deceptive network no different from the fix news channel. I am very dissapointed in your distortion of the facts.

Posted by: look1ng | April 30, 2008, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm

Dear Hilary,
You are doing fine- let not detractors woory you.
We want you in the White House, for sure
Wg Cdr E H Ohlmus -
Sri Lanka

Posted by: Wing Cdr E H Ohlmus | April 30, 2008, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm

ABC is clearly a bias net work. All Beloved Clinton(ABC). ABC your a deceptive network no different from the fix news channel. I am very dissapointed in your distortion of the facts.

Posted by: look1ng | April 30, 2008, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm

Dear Hilary,
You are doing fine- let not detractors worry you.
We want you in the White House, for sure
Wg Cdr E H Ohlmus -
Sri Lanka

Posted by: Wing Cdr E H Ohlmus | April 30, 2008, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm

It seems to me folks would believe a lie before they see the truth. Is this all you got on the man – this pastor issue, bitter blue collar workers? Hill has lied herself and still you choose her over this guy. McCain and the Reps. are going to blow her away if she is elected and yall know it.
VOTE REPUBLICAN!…ANOTHER 4 YRS OF HELL.

Posted by: bri | April 30, 2008, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm

I can’t believe anyone would vote for Hillary.I watched CNN and can’t believe how desperate she is!!She staged a whole meeting with someone at a gas station-how ridiculous & desperate.This war that we’re in Hillary voted for it and to this day has not retracted her vote but yet now she say’s something different, just like NAFTA,just like her being in the line of fire.Wake up people-She is a LIAR,LIAR,LIAR and cannot be trusted!

Posted by: Maria Kirchner | April 30, 2008, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm

The story fails to mention the following result of the same CBS-NYT poll:
Mr. Obama still holds an edge over Mrs. Clinton on several key measures; for example, 46 percent of the Democratic primary voters say he remains their choice for the nomination, while 38 percent preferred Mrs. Clinton, who has lost support among men in recent weeks.
See story in New York Times.

Posted by: John Adams | April 30, 2008, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm

As of this morning:
Oil prices, $115/barrel, two soldiers died in Iraq Tuesday, Home foreclosures are at an all time high; Oil companies posted record profits (again); Regular gas in this city $3.79/gal. Health care is in crisis, jobs are being shipped out daily.
The Republican/McCain/Clinton response? Smear ads featuring Barack Obama and his former pastor.
A gas tax “holiday” which may save $20 this summer season; but may bankrupt the funds responsible for our infrastructure. A health care plan which is essentially the Bush plan. (McCain). In other words, no plan.
Support of policies that have lead to the economic crisis and job losses we currently are in with China, Mexico, Colombia, and India (Clinton’s NAFTA, CAFTA, China trade deals “Most Favored Nation Status”; McCain’s endorsement of this plan.)
McCain’s 100 year war and the not so veiled insistence that we attack Iran. Clinton’s pledge to the oil sheiks of Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates that she would “obliterate Iran” with nuclear force if they were attacked.
Economy: McCain’s campaign was nearly bankrupt until he “lent” himself $4 million dollars violating campaign finance laws. Clinton’s “formidable” campaign, based on experience, has truly been bankrupt of money or ideas. Bills to small business owners in Ohio and Texas not being paid. Her employees’ OWN health care not being paid.
Given the above issues that are facing this country, paired with the Clinton/McCain responses, or lack thereof, are THE reason the debate for the presidency keeps being focused on smear tactics and innuendo.
Neither Clinton nor McCain truly give a rat’s arse about the American citizens who are truly suffering; the “blue collar” worker, the soldiers, the veterans, or anyone else. If they or their supporters truly cared, the issues would be paramount in their campaigns.
Posters on this site who routinely try to smear Obama with non issues; I’ve got a question for you. At the end of the day, when you’ve scored your various “gotcha” points of “Rezko, Wright, Ayers, Muslim, Hamas, terrorist, boogeyman”, do you honestly feel better about yourself and your campaign? Are any of the above smear points going to lower the price of gas? Bring our troops home? Save your house or job? Provide health care for your family?
Or are you going to continue to support candidates like Bush/McCain/Clinton, who will tell you what you want to hear, all the while enriching themselves while selling out the country. You supporters who are so virulent, and would never support Obama under any circumstances, is Clinton sharing her moneymaking secrets ($109 million) with you? What about McCain?
No, you will vote on hot button wedge issues like before, and get screwed again. They will be laughing all the way to the bank.
If for once, you can get by your biases, (racial, sexual, philosophical or other), and vote for your best interests, I’m confident that you will choose Obama.
Bottom line: do you want to do better the next four years than you have the last seven?

Posted by: the reason | April 30, 2008, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm

America demands the story of Hillary lying about Magnequench be covered by the media.
This is a major issue that ABC has just started covering.
This story makes the Bosnian sniper fire story look trivial compared to Hillary’s lying on this issue.
Hillary has intentionally lied about this. Andy Albers told Hillary and Evan Bayh the facts. They decided to change the facts and blame Bush instead of William Jefferson Clinton.

Posted by: Dan | April 30, 2008, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm

I was once a Obama supporter but after seeing how wright acted and the things that he said at the Press interview i have to vote for Hillary…..It really sad that a man like Obama did not leave wrights church years ago if Obama meant what he said yesterday….There is no way Obama did not see or hear him act or talk this way….

Posted by: Patty | April 30, 2008, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm

The emphasis on unfavorable views of candidates is nonsense. One can be viewed unfavorably by 50% of those that vote and still be elected. It is the ‘favorable’ views that matter.

Posted by: DennisNC | April 30, 2008, 5:13 pm 5:13 pm

YEAH I THINK YOU ARE RIGHT THEY DO WANT HILLARY CLINTON TO WIN THE NOMINATION BECAUSE ONLY A CLINTON COULD LOSE TO A REPUBLICAN AFTER THE BUSH ADM.. .. THE REPS WILL DESTROY MRS. CLINTON.. THEY WILL BRING OUT THE CAMPAIGN FRAUD, THE SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF VIC, HER OWN CRIMINAL CHARGES AS 1ST LADY. SHE WILL NEVER GET IN THE WHITE HOUSE.. SHE AND BILL LEFT A NASTY OVAL OFFICE.

Posted by: GAWANIA | April 30, 2008, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm

Americans think for yourselves:
A babbling brook runs shallow

Posted by: Vickie | April 30, 2008, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm

Everyone that is an adult in here knows that all this repetitive posting is nothing more than people from Obama’s camp…Children play these kinds of games and that is who he appeals to. True adults work from reason, children work from emotion.

Posted by: mgck59 | April 30, 2008, 5:16 pm 5:16 pm

Disgusted Dems you need to slow down your blood pressure and get behind McCain. He will unite the country behind a common cause. The Dems are fractured and will not forgive Obama for being black. Hillary will never be man enough to beat a true American hero. Plus, the Republicans won’t attack you because of your race or religion. Romney was never attacked by his fellow candidates because of his religious beliefs. Colin Powell is black and we are the party of Lincoln. So come on over and unite with us.http://www.johnmccain.com/ Yes we can!
McCain 2008. Help us destroy the liberal elite media!

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 5:16 pm 5:16 pm

BE CAREFUL OF THE CHARADE++++++++++++++++
There are some prevailing questions in leading up to the “divorce” between the Rev and Sen Obama. After the painful PA lost, pundits have been saying that the Wright controversy is one of the reasons for the loss. That Sen Obama has to distance himself from the Rev to improve his poll rating among Democrats and Independents. But how??? So what happens is interesting. A week before the IN and NC primary, for UNEXPLAINED reason, the Rev resurfaces. For two days, he makes a string of appearances/speeches to defend himself and spew the same sermon he did in the pew.++++ This NOW gives Sen Obama a chance to “COMPLETELY” distance himself from the Rev, something he failed to do in his first speech. Then Rev Wright now disappears in the shadow. Sen Obama now can put his controversial pastor behind him. +++++++++The uneasiness in me keep asking was it a real divorce or just a political charade???

Posted by: politicsIsdirty | April 30, 2008, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm

ARCHIE BUNKER & GEORGE JEFFERSON WERE SEPOSED TO HAVE BEEN FICTATIOUS CHARACTERS – SOME 40 YEARS AGO IN A LAND CALLED AMERICA.
SORRY TO DISAPOINT YOU FOLKS THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY AND ARCHIE & GEORGE IS STILL ARGUING ABOUT NOTHING, WHILE:
“THE FOX IS IN THE HEN HOUSE.” HILLARY AND BILL ARE MOVING BACK TO THE OVAL OFFICE – WHICH ONE OF YOU WILL SEND YOUR CHILD AS AN “INTERN” TO HILLARY’S OVAL OFFICE. YOU EMBRACE LIARS AND THAT IS WHAT YOU WILL GET, “BOSNIS” AND BILL, AN IMPEACHED LIAR. $109,000,000.00 “PUBLIC SERVICE” REWARDS – AND IF IT IS SET UP RIGHT IN A “TRUST FUND,” IS IT FOR TAX AVOIDANCE?

Posted by: Lake Hart - A Native American Writer | April 30, 2008, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm

Hi I’m Vickie and I’m a babbling brook running shallow. I have no good ideas I can only post lame statements

Posted by: a | April 30, 2008, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm

There is no statisticaly difference between the numbers given in any of the polls above. This a lot of noise over nothing.

Posted by: DennisNC | April 30, 2008, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm

CANT AGREE WITH THAT…REASONING WOULD NOT AFFORD ANY VOTES FOR HILLARY OR MCCAIN..

Posted by: GAWANIA | April 30, 2008, 5:19 pm 5:19 pm

Patty you are a staunch Hillary Supporter. Stop lieing, its not going to work. If you were an Obama suppoter what his pastor said would not change your mind. Don’t forget Hillary and her Bosnia trip. And more lies that she told will be uncovered in the future, which I am sure All Beloved Clinton(ABC)will not cover.

Posted by: look1ng | April 30, 2008, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm

OT:
This confirm my suspicious:
Did Senator Obama have a Muslim Chilhood?
Please follow the link and read this Jerusalem Post article:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1208870533937&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Posted by: Tony | April 30, 2008, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm

GAWANIA……this ia an emotional statement…..

Posted by: mgck59 | April 30, 2008, 5:22 pm 5:22 pm

you poor liberals
you have a fight you can’t control
the outcome might ruin your liberal nation.
a black man, and a white woman.
both of whom are not ready to be president of the USA. you all know that! you’re just afraid to admit it.
The USA is not ready for it. McCain will win, and you libeals can blame yourselves for letting edwards get away and hillary and obama in. ya’ll is crazy.

Posted by: davy | April 30, 2008, 5:22 pm 5:22 pm

What is Barack’s cousin Odinga’s position on the Kenyan constitution regarding Islam and sharia law now that he is co-president of Kenya? I know Mr. Obama campaigned for him when he lost the democratic run for President in that country. After the riots Odinga incited, he won a position. Will the Kenyan constitution change?

Posted by: PGHPAVOTER | April 30, 2008, 5:22 pm 5:22 pm

A few weeks ago wasn’t it, “Memo to DNC – End the Drama – Pull the Plug on Clinton!!!!”

Posted by: Neobaroque | April 30, 2008, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm

Oh Patty, I don’t believe for a second that you ever supported Obama. So why even post it. Does lying come easily for you, like Hillary.

Posted by: lulu | April 30, 2008, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm

I don’t believe this thing from Obama.
I think they just played politic, played game. I don’t trust, they tried to bullied the voter. Obama wanted to look like a victim.

Posted by: indo45 | April 30, 2008, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm

Everyone needs to cut their losses and line up behind McCain. Stop your silly divisions and come over to a true leader who does not lie and has plenty of experience. McCain supporters are the ones who hate Bush, Rush, Hannity, and Coulter. We need the moderate dems and African-American voters to move to McCain in order to beat Hillary in November. http://www.johnmccain.com/

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm

Brii….
I can’t believe anyone would vote for Barack:
Resko, Auchi, WRIGHT, lies about Kennedy and his dad, scared to debate, studders and stammers thru debates, sat in a racist church for 20 years, Ayers,voted present over 100 times….I could go on, but my fingers tired now.

Posted by: AK | April 30, 2008, 5:27 pm 5:27 pm

Obamacult, how is Hillary going to win. People keep saying this without explaining exactly how.

Posted by: erin | April 30, 2008, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm

If Obama REALLY wants to be a UNITER, he should step down to bring the Democrats together NOW.
If he REALLY wants to be a LEADER, he should help lead our party to victory by gracefully bowing out NOW, of his own volition.
If he wants to gain RESPECT of all DEMOCRATS, he must put the entire PARTY before his own political ambitions. In the long run, this will improve his future chances at the Oval Office.
He will NOT WIN in November. Die Hard Democrats distrust him & will easily sacrifice party loyalty to make sure Obama does NOT gain access to the office. It’s painful, but they will. They see McCain as better than Bush – and Obama as a threat.
Clinton is our only HOPE. Each day Obama remains in the race, he hurts us all.

Posted by: Day-by-Day | April 30, 2008, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm

Sen Clinton did great in the one on one interview with Oreilly. Very presidential. Not afraid of anybody. Can answer any question with conviction. =++++++++++ My kind of president.+++++++ Let us pray to God that the people of IN and NC will be enlightened this coming Tuesday.

Posted by: politicsIsdirty | April 30, 2008, 5:28 pm 5:28 pm

Memo to DNC — End the Drama – Pull the Plug on Obama!!!!
Obama is unelectable. The whole point is that Obama cant just give a ‘speech’ again, that will just contradict every speeches he gave before. Obama calls him my “UNCLE” and soul “MENTOR” when things go right. OBAMA now saying he is not my PASTOR anymore? His “UNCLE” and soul “MENTOR” for over 20 years. Like Wright said, OBAMA will say things as a politician and these are one of them.
Wright has been consistent. He is the same guy he was on those tapes 7 years ago. 10 years ago. 20 years ago. He was the same guy all along. Obama suggesting he is OUTRAGED only now, but not over the last 20 years is literally impossible.
There are liberal media who still thinks he will be the next president, and I can tell you nowhere near as many people today think he will be as they did last week or 6 weeks ago. They will STILL try to spin it for Obama.
Now we know why all the Obama supporters tried to FORCE Clinton out after Ohio and Texas, when they were SURE Obama would win those states and knock her out. Well, he lost there and then he lost big in PA after calling the HARD WORKING, SMALL-TOWN, RURAL BLUE COLLAR AMERICANS “BITTER” so they cling to GUNS, RELIGION and ANTIPATHY? How stupid can OBAMA get, assuming we will easily forget about his “BITTER” comments? He does not share my views and millions of hard working BLUE COLLARS in AMERICA and we will never forget and never vote for him.
The Wright situation will NOT go away.
The bomber Ayers situation will not disappear.
The “Bitter” comment had damaged his relationship with BLUE COLLAR WORKERS forever.
The Unpatriotic and Plagiarism issues will always be an issue.
The rank first Liberal Senator will always be his picture that every Conservative wouldn’t want to see
His involvement with indicted businessman REZKO will hunt him down a month or two from now.
THERE ARE SO MANY MORE GUNS THE REPUBLICANS CAN USE AGAINST OBAMA!
MOST OF ALL, He sat in the pew for 20 years. You can’t pretend to have amnesia — You can’t wish 20 years of your personal life away with a “pretty” speech.
HILLARY OR McCAIN IN 2008!

Posted by: ONECAROLINIAN | April 30, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm

READY999, don’t worry about it. We know the real you. For some reason names on this blog are hijacked all the time by simpletons.

Posted by: t | April 30, 2008, 5:30 pm 5:30 pm

Erin – She will win because Barack will, over time, become more unelectable as America gets to know him better. The superdelegates have got to consider the situation, and understand that a vote for Obama will deteriorate the next election in their respective districts. On the PA ballot, we were shown those down-ballot candidates who supported Clinton and those who supported Obama. Those down-ballot candidates who supported Obama lost pretty significantly to those who supported Clinton. A vote for BO will not only lose the presidency, but also the democratic majority in Congress.

Posted by: PGHPAVOTER | April 30, 2008, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm

All you Clinton lovers. Read this, and cry.
http://WWW.Paulvclinton.Com
Now laugh, I am a fraud law site on going as of 4-25-08
Go Obama

Posted by: spdestar | April 30, 2008, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm

Wow, the Dems used to be the party of civil rights. No more. Now the Republicans will no longer be viewed as being racist. Thank God. Come on Reagan Dems become a McCain Republican and lets move our country forward and move and away the racism and sexism of Democratic party.

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm

I really don’t care what you think….I know what i seen out of wright the other day and what Obama said yesterday…There is no way Obama can mean what he said about wright…And there is no way Obama did not see or hear wright acting this way or there was no way Obama did not hear him talking this way ….There is no way in 20 years…Obama was going to get my vote …But as a first time voter no way…

Posted by: Patty | April 30, 2008, 5:35 pm 5:35 pm

Obama is electable. I’m voting Obama. I’m a white, middle aged man and I own a business. Obama is not his pastor any more than I am my minster. It would be nuts to assume that all 430 families in my church share the identical views as our minister. I attend an Episcopal church. Our minister is very vocal about some things that I don’t feel the same way on. But I don’t quit my church of 16 yrs because he’s got some strong feelings that are out of alignment with mine. If I left every event or person who had strong views different than my own I’d eventually have to sit at home alone and cancel all of my newspaper and magazine subscriptions. I’m voting Obama.

Posted by: MidWest Roots | April 30, 2008, 5:36 pm 5:36 pm

As of this morning:
Oil prices, $115/barrel, two soldiers died in Iraq Tuesday, Home foreclosures are at an all time high; Oil companies posted record profits (again); Regular gas in this city $3.79/gal. Health care is in crisis, jobs are being shipped out daily.
The Republican/McCain/Clinton response? Smear ads featuring Barack Obama and his former pastor.
A gas tax “holiday” which may save $20 this summer season; but may bankrupt the funds responsible for our infrastructure. A health care plan which is essentially the Bush plan. (McCain). In other words, no plan.
Support of policies that have lead to the economic crisis and job losses we currently are in with China, Mexico, Colombia, and India (Clinton’s NAFTA, CAFTA, China trade deals “Most Favored Nation Status”; McCain’s endorsement of this plan.)
McCain’s 100 year war and the not so veiled insistence that we attack Iran. Clinton’s pledge to the oil sheiks of Dubai, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates that she would “obliterate Iran” with nuclear force if they were attacked.
Economy: McCain’s campaign was nearly bankrupt until he “lent” himself $4 million dollars violating campaign finance laws. Clinton’s “formidable” campaign, based on experience, has truly been bankrupt of money or ideas. Bills to small business owners in Ohio and Texas not being paid. Her employees’ OWN health care not being paid.
Given the above issues that are facing this country, paired with the Clinton/McCain responses, or lack thereof, are THE reason the debate for the presidency keeps being focused on smear tactics and innuendo.
Neither Clinton nor McCain truly give a rat’s arse about the American citizens who are truly suffering; the “blue collar” worker, the soldiers, the veterans, or anyone else. If they or their supporters truly cared, the issues would be paramount in their campaigns.
Posters on this site who routinely try to smear Obama with non issues; I’ve got a question for you. At the end of the day, when you’ve scored your various “gotcha” points of “Rezko, Wright, Ayers, Muslim, Hamas, terrorist, boogeyman”, do you honestly feel better about yourself and your campaign? Are any of the above smear points going to lower the price of gas? Bring our troops home? Save your house or job? Provide health care for your family?
Or are you going to continue to support candidates like Bush/McCain/Clinton, who will tell you what you want to hear, all the while enriching themselves while selling out the country.
You supporters who are so virulent, and would never support Obama under any circumstances, is Clinton sharing her moneymaking secrets ($109 million) with you? What about McCain?
No, you will vote on hot button wedge issues like before, and get screwed again. They will be laughing all the way to the bank.
If for once, you can get by your biases, (racial, sexual, philosophical or other), and vote for your best interests, I’m confident that you will choose Obama.
Bottom line: do you want to do better the next four years than you have the last seven?

Posted by: the reason | April 30, 2008, 5:36 pm 5:36 pm

MidWestRoots – Were you inspired to write a book about your pastor’s point of view?

Posted by: PGHPAVOTER | April 30, 2008, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm

Yea my name hijacked too. ABC security sucks. But, hmmm it does seem like a Hillary supporter.

Posted by: Sanity Man | April 30, 2008, 5:39 pm 5:39 pm

Now that the Clinton sopporters know that the Florida and Michigan are not an option and that the superdelegates will not overturn the vote of the people, it is time to manipulate the Poll and the Media.
Obama was know liked by women nor by white since the beginning now they have an excuse for that.

Posted by: leche | April 30, 2008, 5:40 pm 5:40 pm

when obama was a young lad he use to shine my shoes and he could not even do that right so how do you think he could ever run our country?

Posted by: corn shuck | April 30, 2008, 5:41 pm 5:41 pm

PGHPAVOTER, thank you for answering me. Is it definately up to the superdelegates or can Hillary win the popular vote. Because I honestly think whoever has the popular vote will win. I asked this in another blog but no one ever answered me.

Posted by: erin | April 30, 2008, 5:41 pm 5:41 pm

Sen Clinton did great in the one on one interview with Oreilly. Very presidential. Not afraid of anybody. Can answer any question with conviction.
Posted by: politicsIsdirty | Apr 30, 2008 9:28:31 PM
Hey to the BLIND Hilary follower that calls themselves “politicsISDIRTY”
i WON’T EVEN CALL U ONE OF THE dummy “uneducated” so-called hard working blue collar voters. But I’ll give you benefit of the doubt.
You say HILARY answered tough questions,
but O’REILLY didn’t ask any!!! For example WHY DIDN’T O’REILLY ask HILARY about her major support GOV RENDELL from PA who is on a 60 minute video tape praising FARRAKHAN & THE NOI IN PHILLY?????????
Please answer me this??? I have video footage of this if you want to see. HERE IS PROOF FOR YOU DUDE!!!!!!

Posted by: Antoin, Chicago | April 30, 2008, 5:41 pm 5:41 pm

Leche – Aren’t John Kerry and Teddy Kennedy overturning the will of the people in their states? Massachusetts voted for Hillary. How about Claire McCaskill in Arizona? Same deal. Don’t be a hypocrite like your Wright-following/ using candidate.

Posted by: PGHPAVOTER | April 30, 2008, 5:43 pm 5:43 pm

Hey to all of you “I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT AND HILARY HAS ARRIVED” blind HILARY voters who are getting scammed.
You say HILARY answered tough questions,
but O’REILLY didn’t ask any!!! For example WHY DIDN’T O’REILLY ask HILARY about her major support GOV RENDELL from PA who is on a 60 minute video tape praising FARRAKHAN & THE NOI IN PHILLY?????????
Please answer me this??? I have video footage of this if you want to see. HERE IS PROOF FOR YOU.
Why hasn’t this BIG MOUTH HILARY went out and DENOUNCED GOV. ENDELL for his video tape footage of praising FARRAKHAN???????????

Posted by: Antoin, Chicago | April 30, 2008, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm

hillary rules, obama needs to fess up to being a wright supporter for 20 years and his muslim ways.

Posted by: cotton | April 30, 2008, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm

Careful PGHPAVOTER, if you start to point out that Obama supporters are guilty of the things they say shouldn’t happen, you will be called a racist. Super Delegates should vote the way of their state, right? So, Kerry and Kennedy are for Clinton…right?

Posted by: Proudakransas | April 30, 2008, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm

Face it america is not going to elect a blackman for president case closed

Posted by: joe blow | April 30, 2008, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm

DOH…mispelled my own name….I gotta slow down.

Posted by: proudarkansas | April 30, 2008, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm

You Obama followers don’t even make sense. Obama shouldn’t be held accountable for supporting and defending a man for 20 years, a man who WAS his spirtual advisor, someone very close to him in his life, who is a hate monger? Obama needs to do us dems a favor and drop out. He is so unelectable in november it’s not even funny. He is destroying the democratic party by continuing to run. His people are threatening race riots! It’s obscene. Obama didn’t have the courage to stand up to Wright for 20 years. He doesn’t have the courage to be our president.

Posted by: Disgusted | April 30, 2008, 5:48 pm 5:48 pm

Since the Dems hate “liars” they need to tell the DNC to stop lying!!!!
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/dnc_vs_mccain.html
The Democratic National Committee has produced two TV ads against McCain, hoping to soften him up while the party figures out who its own presidential nominee will be.
One ad shows selected portions of McCain’s comments that a 100-year U.S. presence in Iraq would be “fine with me.” The ad uses dramatic images of war and violence, and omits any mention that McCain was speaking of a peaceful presence like that in Japan or Korea.
An earlier ad attacks McCain for saying the nation’s economy is “prosperous” and “better off overall” than eight years ago. The ad uses a couple of incorrect statistics to argue otherwise. It says the country has lost 1.8 million jobs when, in fact, it has gained nearly 5.4 million, and it says gasoline prices have risen 200 percent, when the actual figure is 139 percent.

Posted by: tony | April 30, 2008, 5:48 pm 5:48 pm

joe blow, sadly I have to agree with you.

Posted by: t | April 30, 2008, 5:49 pm 5:49 pm

Our economy is in great shape, gas prices are at an all time low and things look real good in the future according to the poll I just did!
My poll is just as accurate and makes as much sense as the Hillary, McCain and media owned polls do.

Posted by: Jim | April 30, 2008, 5:50 pm 5:50 pm

Ready999, the more you acknowledge them, the more you encourage them. Treat them like a bad child. Pretend they aren’t there at all. I support Clinton, you support Obama. We are adults. Let’s not let children into our conversation. It is clear to every one when one of these clowns posts with your name. Just let it go man (or woman)

Posted by: Proudarkansan | April 30, 2008, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm

WRIGHT names OBAMA the MESSIAH
then he CRUCIFIES him.
JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE!
GO HILLARY

Posted by: XTRA1XTRA2 | April 30, 2008, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm

its really sad to go against your own pastor for 20 years and then talk trash about him, shame on you obama wazz up

Posted by: corn shuck | April 30, 2008, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm

Boy what a week this has been…Obama lies again to the faces of the American people….Obama doesn’t really think he can pull this B.S again does he..LOL….Obama needs to step down and its time for the DNC to step in and take control of all this B.S…. Obama is a laying waste destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined ….Hillary all the way to the white house with Bill by her side…

Posted by: onechance2bheard | April 30, 2008, 5:52 pm 5:52 pm

Vote for the woman who sells her dignity and self respect,by desperately hanging on to a mate, who has totally demoralised,disrespected,and emotionally abused her,in full view of the nation over and over.Simply because,she is singularly unimpressive,and needs his former influence and power,to boost her candidacy.Any woman worth her salt,would not have allowed herself to be dragged in the dirt like that and then joke about it.Soooo pitiful,sooo weak,such a bad example to (strong) women.Well Obama has denounced his pastor,who has done him no wrong personally.Your turn to redeem yourself,and prove that you can fight on your own strength.Failure to do so,proves that you are no more than a political prostitute.And your backers have no clue to the meaning of morality.I wonder if they can even spell the word.

Posted by: michelle | April 30, 2008, 5:52 pm 5:52 pm

lets all get together and sign a petition to give GEORGE W BUSH a 3rd term, we really need him now more than ever.

Posted by: cotton | April 30, 2008, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm

lets all get together and sign a petition to give GEORGE W BUSH a 3rd term, we really need him now more than ever.

Posted by: cotton | April 30, 2008, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm

All the Cons or conservatives making all there negative remarks about democrats on this blog, you are all despicable. I have got news for you, McSame will not be our next president. I guarantee you that. So all you cons on this blog berating us democrats why don’t you just go watch your precious Fox News or read some of Hitlers speeches or listen to Hannity or the Fat guy Rush Limhog. Thats what you guys do best spread hate and violence and call it peace and love. If I was a republician I would be more concern about Mcsame than with Hillary or Obama. As a Democrat is in the white house and we get the Bush disease out. Either Obama or Clinton as president will clean up all the mess that this country is now in. Fact of the day; 90% of people that vote does not blog.

Posted by: look1ng | April 30, 2008, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm

HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT? SURELY YOU JEST!!
Hillary has two ex DNC chairs working for her, an exPresident fighting her battle for her, and most of the democratic state campaign machinery behind her.
…can you imagine if she had to stand on her own. They get double the free publicity…I see Bill’s face on the Tv as much as Hillary’s… the clintons get double the online headlines as Obama…and she is still losing…even with decades of practice at gross old poltical tactics…
All the while obama is fighting off the four of them…Hillary, Bill, Mccain and the media. Obama withstood it all and showed his superiority from day one.And continues to pull away,making her more desperate daily.
Anyone who thinks Hillary is the fighter isn’t really watching. With all the guys fighting for her…she has lost,and in her stronghold too!!!with the wind at her back….The clinton legacy hasn’t helped her,the powerful connections,the years of so called experience,the overwhelming odds she started with,have all been easily erroded by the “inexperienced” senator, who is actually coasting and running rings around her.Obama catches the missiles she hurls at him,smiles ,and hardly even bothers to throw them back.Her campaign is clueless as to how to counter him.The appropriate questions should be:Why is she unable to put him away? Why has she lost so many states by 20+% margins,and only barely won the few by single digits?.Why has her campaign failed,financially,organisationally,and stragetically,and why can’t she appeal to the future pollitical generation(young people),the educated masses,and independents.?And most importantly for the party’s success,..Why has she lost the black ethnic vote?.Take this in context with her lack of trustworthiness,corrupt practices,negativity,and willingness to destroy the party for selfish gain.And ask yourselves,what would happen when the republicans unleash their ammo on her.I dare say,her history has supplied them with ammo of a nuclear scale.Questions about Barack pales in comparison,therefore this plus his stand on the war,makes him a much stronger candidate.YES WE CAN!!!!

Posted by: marlon | April 30, 2008, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm

Most of the people who announce that they will vote for McCain – who claim to be Democrats aren’t Democrats. People lie to pollsters all the time.
People lie when they post to comments pages – or they are paid to post ridiculous statements.
Real Democrats will vote for whomever the Party nominates.
I happen to believe that Obama will fare better getting votes from indies. Have no love for Clinton but will vote for her if she is the nominee, though I think she would lose in the GE.

Posted by: ll | April 30, 2008, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm

Michelle -
Check your own spelling and grammar and spelling.
“Well Obama has denounced his pastor,who has done him no wrong personally” – ah, hello…. Obama said he was done wrong – dose that make him a liar? so in saying – Failure to do so,proves that you are no more than a political prostitute – i guess you are referring to yourself?
WRIGHT names OBAMA the MESSIAH
then he CRUCIFIES him.
JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE!
GO HILLARY
wow

Posted by: XTRA1XTRA2 | April 30, 2008, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm

obama needs to step down and go back to what he does best, picking pineapples in hawaii

Posted by: corn shuck | April 30, 2008, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm

Ok Michelle, I am sick of this arguement. No clue about morality. This woman went through one of the hardest things a person can go through, in full view of the public. It is unfortunate that she had to do it in front of stupid, judgemental people like yourself. The fact that she was able to forgive the man she loves and promised to spend her life with took guts, and a moral fortitude that I doubt you would understand. Divorce is easy. Sticking it out is not. And this allegation of “abuse” is enough to make me sick. You are judging her because she didn’t give up on her marriage? That is your attack? I applaud her. Too many people duck behind the divorce umbrella. Bill was weak, stupid, and apparently horny. I see no evidence that he has continued on that path. You are comparing a measure of love for one’s mate to sitting and listening to a man spew hate to you and your kids for 20 years. She had a choice to make and she made the one that was harder, but she felt was right. She kept her family intact. I bet you are either single or divorced. What a joke.

Posted by: Proudarkansan | April 30, 2008, 5:58 pm 5:58 pm

memo to DNC:
End the Drama – Pull the Plug on Obama!

Posted by: s. valenti | April 30, 2008, 5:59 pm 5:59 pm

BLACKS DON’T GET IT!!!!!!!!
OBAMA LOST ALL THE BIG STATES
WITH THE MAJORITY OF THE ELECTORAL
VOTES IN GENERAL ELECTIONS.
YOU NEED 270 VOTES TO WIN.
HE IS UNELECTABLE.
WHITE VOTERS WILL NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA
IN NOVEMBER.
OBAMA’S ELECTABILITY IS ZERO.

Posted by: NIcholas | April 30, 2008, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm

SEE What I mean, nobody will step up and answer my questions.
This shows that the HILARY followers are truly “uneducated” and are just accepting this woman for whatever she throws at them.
The HILARY followers are desperate and are reaching badly.
They really believe that O’REILLY was tough on HILARY and shes this fighter in the white house. WHY DIDN’T O’REILLY ASK HILARY (A DEMOCRAT) ABOUT HER MAJOR SUPPORTER GOV. RENDELL FROM PA WHO IS ON A 60 MINUTE VIDEO TAPE PRAISING FARRAKHAN & THE NOI IN BACK IN PHILLY??? O’reilly didn’t bring it up nor did he ask HILARY to seperate herself from RENDELL.
OH BUT O’REILLY WAS TOUGH!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Antoin, Chicago | April 30, 2008, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm

Hey II…..Radical democrats…the ones who usurped the party in this election…will vote for whomever the party chooses. The rest of the distribution is majorly torn. At least a third won’t support Obama under any circumstances.

Posted by: PGHPAVOTER | April 30, 2008, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm

It is a great attitude to stand behind your party no matter what. A lot of people are just now becoming registered voters and may have never had an allegiance before. It would be insane for people to vote REPUB just because they may have a personal issue for Hillary. She has a LOT of great ideas for this country!

Posted by: Darla | April 30, 2008, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm

This is great. McCain looked like he was toast a few months ago but now it looks like he has it wrapped up. The Dems are divided, they have no choice but to take the delegates away from Obama now that the white vote is not there leaving you guys with the fighter candidate. LOL. McCain will beat her like a drum. She has nothing on him. Plus all the young voters and African-Americans will stay home since Obama can’t even get a VP position. This is Great. I love watching these Blogs progressively get worse. Ha, ha. LOLOLOLOLOL.

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm

DITTO NICHOLAS
I DON’T THINK THEY’VE HEARD ABOUT THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE -
HILLARY IS WAY AHEAD. MORE THAN 30 POINTS OVER OBAMA.

Posted by: XTRA1XTRA2 | April 30, 2008, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm

NIcholas, why are you addressing your post only to AA. Are you racist. I am not AA but voted for Obama in the primary and hopes he will be the nominee. It’s not only AA that are supporting him so please remember that.

Posted by: lisa | April 30, 2008, 6:05 pm 6:05 pm

…Obama lies again to the faces of the American people….Obama doesn’t really think he can pull this B.S again does he..LOL….Obama needs to step down and its time for the DNC to step in and take control of all this B.S…. Obama is a laying waste destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined ….Hillary all the way to the white house with Bill by her side…

Posted by: onechance2bheard | April 30, 2008, 6:05 pm 6:05 pm

…Obama lies again to the faces of the American people….Obama doesn’t really think he can pull this B.S again does he..LOL….Obama needs to step down and its time for the DNC to step in and take control of all this B.S…. Obama is a laying waste destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined ….Hillary all the way to the white house with Bill by her side…

Posted by: onechance2bheard | April 30, 2008, 6:05 pm 6:05 pm

The comments on this site (most of them) contain the most unthoughtful, flaming rhetoric I have ever read. Fox News, eat your heart out. The spammers and flamers should be ashamed. No wonder other countries think we’re ignorant, unthoughtful people; they must read the comments on news sites like this one. Anyone who uses these comments to change their choice for anything, especially a candidate, should go back to college. Take a research and argumentative writing class.

Posted by: chris | April 30, 2008, 6:07 pm 6:07 pm

Like Howard Dean said on “Meet The Press” last Sunday: the ability of the party to heal after this will depend on how the loser reacts…
Do you see Hillary Clinton as a gracious loser?
I don’t. She hasn’t shown any grace as a candidate, so she certainly won’t be making a graceful exit. It seems most of her supporters can’t see the big picture anyway, so they probably will vote for McCain. Stupid is as stupid does.
If she can’t have it, she’ll break all the toys before she goes home. I am embarassed by her.

Posted by: lulu | April 30, 2008, 6:11 pm 6:11 pm

P.S. If Obama should be held responsible for the words and actions of his pastor, Hillary should be responsible for the words and actions of her husband, if not more so. It is not only fair, it logically follows.

Posted by: chris | April 30, 2008, 6:11 pm 6:11 pm

In the landmark civil fraud case against Bill Clinton in Los Angeles, where the former President is charged with defrauding a Hollywood dot com millionaire to help Hillary Clinton obtain more than $1.2 million from him for her 2000 Senate campaign, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Aurelio Munoz ruled on Friday, April 25 that Hillary Clinton would not be required to testify in a sworn deposition as a material witness in the case until AFTER the November election!
Equally surprising as the ruling was the judge’s request to Hillary defense lawyer David Kendall to “say hello to his ( Judge Munoz”) friend Bill, also a partner in Kendall’s law firm”
Same Old, Same old

Posted by: Thinking | April 30, 2008, 6:12 pm 6:12 pm

Chris – Way moreso than with Hillary Clinton..the buzz is that if Obama doesn’t win, there will be riots in the streets.

Posted by: PGHPAVOTER | April 30, 2008, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm

Now this is news Obama’s Negatives Rise, Clinton Tops McCain in New Poll….Yes we will….You go Hillary…

Posted by: onechance2bheard | April 30, 2008, 6:13 pm 6:13 pm

George: You better be prepared to stay home because Obama is not going to win the nomination (we hope) and Hillary will go against McCain. Get real and face the facts. Obama cannot win the states that Hillary won and will not win them in a general election. They didn’t want him to begin with and they are not going to vote for him now. Obama also lied when he said he didn’t hear his pastor say those comments in church when he was sitting in the pew. I am glad Wright did what he did because Obama has it coming for attending a racist church for 20 years.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | April 30, 2008, 6:15 pm 6:15 pm

Go McCain 08, Obama is done, he just doesn’t know it yet. Rev. Wright is just another example of how out of touch Obama has become. He might still win the nomination but he won’t beat McCain. Clinton is too much of a democratic liability to win. McCain will win by not having to do much of anything.

Posted by: Al | April 30, 2008, 6:16 pm 6:16 pm

You people re SAAAAD. This is why we are stuck with political leaders like W who hood winked you’ll 4 yrs. ago. Now Hill is doing the same. Same story different year.

Posted by: tukss | April 30, 2008, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm

Over 33% of lifelong Democrats WILL vote for McCain if Obama is the nominee. WE ARE THE REAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY– The democrats that don’t answer to the likes of Howie “the scream” Dean, Kennedy, Kerry, Pelosi and the rest of the ultra-left wing.
Bill Clinton is a moderate democrat who served two successful terms. Every left-wing candidate since then has failed miserably, and so will Obama.
Obama’s drop in the polls is just the beginning. It’s a trend that will continue through every remaining primary.
Obama is NOT a victim. He maintained the relationship with his “uncle,” Rev. Wright, and he chose to participate in, and listen to, racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-American dogma for twenty years.
He’s also chosen to maintain close friendships with a host of other unscrupulous people including Bill “the bomber” Ayers, and Tony Rezko.
Obama’s judgment is the unparalleled worst, and there’s nobody to blame for that bad judgment except Obama.
With Obama’s brand of judgment, imagine what damage he will inflict on America if he’s ever elected.

Posted by: Emily | April 30, 2008, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm

K people listen up news just in from IRAN not happy with her statement and not only does she have us in one war Iran is saying it will defend itself also.Good going you wench….Hope all you loud mouths vote for her and you can go defend us against another one of her wonderful blunders…

Posted by: h | April 30, 2008, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm

Mission accomplished, ABC News. Thank you for your participation in Operation Chaos.

Posted by: kevinbgoode | April 30, 2008, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm

Anyone watching Michelle Obama on CNN tonight?
Well, Michelle believes Barack has answered quite enough questions about the Wright issue – thank you very much.
Michelle wants to turn the page and return to the issues.
Who in the Obama campaign believes that this woman is the most effective spokesperson for Obama?
They are delusional – she is the most unlikeable person I could imagine.
Keep talking Michelle – He’s sinking faster than a stone.
It’s a little slimy to have her talking about pledged delegates, most money raised, etc.
Isn’t that the job of the other surrogates? Maybe they’ve already started bailing.

Posted by: s. valenti | April 30, 2008, 6:18 pm 6:18 pm

When you take into account that obama polls 5 to 6 points higher than he performs and overall Hillary usually performs 3 to 5 points better than she polls this is very good news….
Hillary is on the rise!

Posted by: Jackie | April 30, 2008, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm

We know the Clintons don’t believe in rules and it seems some of her devotee’s share those values.If Obama had loss 11 primaries in a row the party would have forced him out.They could never share the ticket together.Incidently McCain reports he’s a conservative and therefore the next supreme court picks would come from him.If her supporters want to diminish womens rights by voting for McCain rather than Obama that just points out they are not for women anyway.

Posted by: t | April 30, 2008, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm

Obama, yout time has come and gone, resign. Your own pastor, mentor, uncle, friend, spiritual guide, and religious campaign advisor ratted you out. Birds of a feather…

Posted by: John W. in FL | April 30, 2008, 6:20 pm 6:20 pm

So, let’s focus on Barack Obama and his campaign and see where things stand in aftermath of latest Rev. Wright events.
In his exclusive blog on ABCNews.com, former Bush campaign strategist and ABC News political contributor Matthew Dowd opined that “Obama’s statements in last 24 hours of being passionately critical of Wright and saying he was out of step with America were the only choice he had left. It was his only option and he seized it well.”
—————————————
Why in the hell would any Democrat care what some Bush operative thinks? Has this network completely flipped its lid? This is a DEMOCRATIC nomination, not a con-artist conservative campaign.
I am increasingly convinced that this news network is nothing but an operative of a right-wing special interest group. It has an amazingly ill-conceived grasp on news ethics, and any criticism is treated with utter arrogance. There needs to be a movement to have this network removed from the public airwaves.

Posted by: kevinbgoode | April 30, 2008, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm

Good God. I really am appalled at how immature, ignorant and racist some of the folks are on here.
It’s disgusting. And frankly makes me embarrassed to be part of such a population.
“only good jigger is a dead jigger” ?
Jesus. It’s because of stupid people like you our country is in the crappy state its in.
Go get yourself an actual education. OR, do us all a favor. Make yourself useful, and go on over and fight in Iraq. Which I’m sure you fully support too. Who knows, maybe it’d open your eyes a little.
On another note…
DEMS: we’re killing ourselves. The media is now reporting like an f’ing political hollywood drama. Can we please ignore the gossip? And for christ sake, this day in age you should already know to stop believing EVERYTHING YOU READ OR HEAR to be true.
Stop believing everything the media says! They’re there for a paycheck, believe it or not.
Smarten yourself up. Or as sure as hell we can kiss that presidency goodbye. And I’m sure all you right wing racist douches will be just tickled.

Posted by: Lianne, 23 from WNY | April 30, 2008, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm

PGHPAVOTER: Who cares about the riots in the streets. This is America and people can vote the way they want and pick whoever they want. If they want to burn their house down let them. They did it in the Watts area so what’s the difference. The blacks want what they want and will destroy if they don’t get it. The whites don’t do that because they have more common sense. Blacks will vote for Obama if he was in prison and had a long record because he is part black. Obama doesn’t want to go in the black neighborhoods he likes to go in the white neighborhoods but I believe him to be racial like his pastor. He is using the whites for votes and they are so dumb they don’t even know what is going on.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | April 30, 2008, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm

If Obama wins the nomination, there are going to be a lot of voters waking up holding their head in their hands like a bad hangover thinking “What have I done.” Watching him stutter, stammer, and George Bush his way through that press conference yesterday, I saw what a really inexperienced and weak candidate he really is. The only way out of this mess is if IN and NC see the light, otherwise, it’s a replay of Bush and Carter I’m afraid.

Posted by: dw | April 30, 2008, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm

Obama is at the top of the scale; dumb, dumber and the you have BO. It took him 20 years and sinking polls to dump his “uncle” rev. wright.

Posted by: FL Bob | April 30, 2008, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm

Who does he think he’s fooling? Obama was down in the polls so he threw Wright under the bus. If I was Wright I would be outraged at Obama.

Posted by: Ernie | April 30, 2008, 6:23 pm 6:23 pm

Perfect example.
DISGUSTING!

Posted by: Lianne, 23 from WNY | April 30, 2008, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm

Once current admin. started to pose as a defender of freedom and supporter of democracy. Now this administration does not support countries who are fighting for freedom such as Georgia. Moreover White House, State Dept. including HIllary Clinton (who visited Uzbekistan and warmly greeted by ruling regime) are silent about horrendous massacre in Uzbekistan in 2005.

Posted by: Political animal | April 30, 2008, 6:24 pm 6:24 pm

This is not really about Rev. Wright. It is about the character and judgment of someone (Obama) who would join a racist black liberation theology church; stay for 20 years; formulate a close relationship with the racist and anti-American pastor such that he calls him his “mentor and spiritual adviser;” try to conceal this from the public by continually saying that he is a “Christian;” and then expect us to forget about those 20 years, merely because he himself is finally “outraged.” Rev. Wright admits that he preaches black liberation theology, and after 20 years of attendance, Obama knew it, too. Where in the Bible do you find anything both consistent with the tenets of Christianity and consistent with these statements by James Cone, one of the founders of black liberation theology?
(1) “To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people.” (2) “While it is true that blacks do hate whites, black hatred is not racism.” (3) “All white men are responsible for white oppression.” (4) “Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man “the devil.” (5) “If there is any contemporary meaning of the Antichrist, the white church seems to be a manifestation of it.” (6) “Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community. Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.”
Now, if you don’t think that the statements above are racist, then you and I can agree to disagree. The real issue is that Americans in general need to know about the racist nature of Obama’s religion, because it goes to the heart of his character and judgment. Then, once America understands this issue, if they agree with the racist bent of his church, so be it. I have a feeling, however, that once people find out about this issue, he will be losing supporters by the droves. If it doesn’t happen now, it will in the general election if, God forbid, he is the Democratic nominee.

Posted by: James | April 30, 2008, 6:27 pm 6:27 pm

Mariann Pepitone, I cringe with your remark about Obama and racism because I believe you are the racist. It is not only the AA that support him, obviously. I also find you narrow minded to think he is using white people. I think you are scared of having an AA for president.

Posted by: lisa | April 30, 2008, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm

Thiking: Remember the old saying one hand washes the other. That’s been going on for years before Clinton’s were in Washington. Where have you been. Politicians have be washing each others hands and judges hands since time. Anytime you can get help and you have to wash someone’s hand to get it that’s what you do and you would do it too.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | April 30, 2008, 6:29 pm 6:29 pm

To DNC
End the Drama – Pull the Plug on Obama!

Posted by: s. valenti | April 30, 2008, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm

Hillary leads in Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Puerto Rico. She has closed to within 5 points in North Carolina. IF she wins North Carolina and the states in which she now leads, Obama’s campaign will fold. Super delegates would be insane to support the candidate consistently losing every contest. And nominating Hillary would give the Dems a fighting chance in Florida and Michigan that Obama has not got.

Posted by: Doug | April 30, 2008, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm

I still can’t believe how many Obama supporters still can’t see, or refuse to believe, that Sen. Obama lies too! Just count em up in the Wright saga alone, not to mention the story about when his parents met, his father’s Kennedy connection, his connections with Rezko, and many more. All politicians lie, so if you think you are electing a man who never lies, you are delusional. Obama supporters can’t give any real answers when asked what he will do if elected, they just keep taking cheap shots at Bill and Hillary Clinton. That is why many will never vote for Obama, he seems to bring out the worst in a lot of people. So much for “Change we can believe in.”

Posted by: dw | April 30, 2008, 6:33 pm 6:33 pm

Obama is the official drama queen. He bought a house – Rezko drama, got married – Michelle drama, went to church – Wright drama, spoke about his grandma – Typical White Person drama, campaigned in PA – Bitter drama. Now why is it we want him to run this country?

Posted by: Wendy | April 30, 2008, 6:34 pm 6:34 pm

Having done tons of market research, I’m stunned at how often professionals read the findings and fail to put them in context.
Barak Obama has run — to the extent possible — a positive campaign that resonates better with most democratic voters than any candidate in history. His goal is to win.
Hillary Clinton — as the surprising underdog — has targeted most of her campaign’s messages against Senator Obama. Her goal is to defeat Obama.
Clinton has successfully made Obama “the enemy” to her supporters. In that context, is it any wonder that the polls show her supporters “unlikely” to support Barak Obama? I think not.
Will things look different in November when Barak Obama and John McCain battle each other for the Presidency? Bet on it.

Posted by: ll | April 30, 2008, 6:34 pm 6:34 pm

obama is getting more super deligates, in this week only 7, as of Apr 30,08.(In the time like this)….thanks super deligates that’s why you guys are suppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrr!

Posted by: joni | April 30, 2008, 6:35 pm 6:35 pm

obama is getting more super deligates, in this week only 7, as of Apr 30,08.(In the time like this)….thanks super deligates that’s why you guys are suppppppppppeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrr!

Posted by: joni | April 30, 2008, 6:35 pm 6:35 pm

MORE STATES WON + MORE VOTES + MORE DELEGATES = NOMINEE. That’s how a primary works…any questions? If Hillary can’t beat a first term Senator with her political machine, all her “experience” (real or mispoken), and ABC NEWS, she does not deserve and will not get the nomination. PRESIDENT OBAMA…get used to it.

Posted by: dave in VA | April 30, 2008, 6:36 pm 6:36 pm

Hillary is really going to look good in that Oval Office ….Then she can write a book called….. A Womans Life in the Oval Office…Or it could be called …This woman’s work In The Oval Office
…..Hillary 08

Posted by: onechanceto2bheard | April 30, 2008, 6:36 pm 6:36 pm

So, then all the Catholic church goer should have left the church 20 – 30 years ago as we learned about pedophiles? No, you still go to church. That’s what Obama did.

Posted by: john | April 30, 2008, 6:36 pm 6:36 pm

OBAMA SUPPORTERS: HERE IS HOW OBAMA OBTAINED HIS FIRST ELECTIVE OFFICE: Chicago Sun-Times—A close examination of Obama’s first campaign clouds the image he has cultivated throughout his political career: Obama, who runs on a message of giving a voice to the voiceless, first entered public office not by leveling the playing field, but by clearing it. Alice Palmer, friend and mentor to Obama, served the district in the Illinois Senate for much of the 1990s. Decades earlier, she was a community organizer in the area when Obama was growing up in Hawaii. She risked her safe seat to run for Congress and touted Obama as a suitable successor. But when Palmer lost the congressional race, her supporters asked Obama to fold his campaign so she could easily retain her state Senate seat. Obama not only refused to step aside for the woman who was his friend and had recommended him for the seat, he filed challenges that nullified Palmer’s hastily gathered nominating petitions, forcing her to withdraw. Had Palmer survived the petition challenge, Obama would have faced the daunting task of taking on an incumbent senator. “He wondered if we should knock everybody off the ballot. How would that look?” said Ronald Davis, the paid Obama campaign consultant whom Obama referred to as his “guru of petitions.” Davis filed objections to all four of Obama’s Democratic rivals at the candidate’s behest. All other candidates were disposed of by Obama’s challenges. He then went on to win the election.
http://tinyurl.com/2zwwte

Posted by: James | April 30, 2008, 6:37 pm 6:37 pm

Obama / Wright in ’08
If you can’t trust your pastor, who can you trust?

Posted by: dalton | April 30, 2008, 6:37 pm 6:37 pm

NIcholas, why are you addressing your post only to AA. Are you racist. I am not AA but voted for Obama in the primary and hopes he will be the nominee. It’s not only AA that are supporting him so please remember that.
Posted by: lisa | Apr 30, 2008 10:05:04 PM
=====================================
LISA: 90% OF OBAMA’S VOTERS ARE BLACK.
THE REST 10% ARE ULTRA LEFT WING
LIBERALS.
NO LIBERAL EVER WON THE WHITE HOUSE.
YOU NEED 270 ELECTORAL VOTES TO WIN
IN NOVEMBER.
OBAMA’S ELECTABILITY IS ZERO.

Posted by: NIcholas | April 30, 2008, 6:37 pm 6:37 pm

lisa, you are in need of some serious help. Just because someone has a different opinion than you they become racist. Please take your meds.

Posted by: Concerned | April 30, 2008, 6:37 pm 6:37 pm

Obama can fool many people but his chicanery is over and I am disgusted that Obama was not vetted sooner and not questioned or investigated by the lib media. Every time I hear his preacher of 20 years talk, I cringe of how hateful propaganda has been spread and is being spread in the black churches and people in Obama’s position have endorsed/encouraged it for many years. Obama should also resign from the Senate.

Posted by: Bill | April 30, 2008, 6:38 pm 6:38 pm

Reading these comments I come to conclusion that there is still white- supremacy mentalitet in this country. I am Asian myself. I think blacks have been in frontline in struggle for their dignity. Other races and nationalities (jews, indians, arabs, chinese etc) now reaping benefits of these struggles. I will vote for American ideals such as Justice, Freedom and Equality for all.
Obama is electable! Why he can’t his chance in this election. If Bush can be president why not Obama?

Posted by: Gyro man | April 30, 2008, 6:38 pm 6:38 pm

IF you bother to check wikipedia it gives a comprehensive state by state delegate count and recent poll results for all remaining states and PR. If FL and MI results are recognized, Hillary has a clear lead in the popular vote – not seriously disputed; momentum in the polls – not disputed; and a delegate deficit of 40 which she can erase with a strong finish – as is likely, according to the state by state polls – and win the delegate count as well. Hillary is looking very, VERY good.

Posted by: Doug | April 30, 2008, 6:39 pm 6:39 pm

The MSM can not keep protecting him every-time something negative happens. The media especially NBC/MSNBC fall all over him to make it better. Does the media really think they can keep this up for six months.

Posted by: Tina D | April 30, 2008, 6:40 pm 6:40 pm

You Obamaphiles can excuse his lack of judgement for whatever reasons you want, but the fact remains that 1/3 or more of Hillary supporters will vote McCain if Obama gets the Democratic nomination to run. He will never win. He is unelectable.

Posted by: SM | April 30, 2008, 6:41 pm 6:41 pm

OBAMA HAS BEEN CAUGHT AGAIN IN HIS DECEPTIVE POLITICAL ADS: Fact Check: Obama and the gas taxes. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Barack Obama accuses his presidential rivals of pandering to voters by supporting the “gimmick” of temporarily lifting federal taxes on gasoline, despite his own past support for a similar tax holiday. As a state legislator voting for a tax break, Obama even joked that he wanted signs on gas pumps telling motorists that he was responsible for lowering prices. Most experts criticize the idea of a federal tax suspension, but Obama’s political opponents accuse him of flip-flopping and ignoring the financial pain caused by today’s rising gas prices. THE FACTS: In 2000, gasoline prices were climbing quickly, reaching $2 a gallon in the Chicago area — a remarkable price back then. Illinois legislators scrambled to offer some election-year relief to angry motorists. Obama voted three times for a tax holiday. The version that ended up becoming law required a six-month suspension of the state’s share of the sales tax on gasoline, a 5 percent tax paid directly by consumers rather than gas stations. It also required gas stations to post signs on their pumps saying that the Illinois General Assembly had lowered taxes and the price should reflect that cut.

Posted by: James | April 30, 2008, 6:41 pm 6:41 pm

LMAO Concened, sorry she IS a racist. Read her post again, please. Oh, why do I need meds. That is what Hillary supporters always say. LOL

Posted by: lisa | April 30, 2008, 6:42 pm 6:42 pm

ABC – Anti Barack Campaign -
How I miss the days of Peter Jennings, a true journalist.

Posted by: kamldp | April 30, 2008, 6:44 pm 6:44 pm

High five, Lisa. High five.
:D

Posted by: Lianne, 23 from WNY | April 30, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm

dave in VA :
Hillary has more votes in the democratic primary. Based on this fact, Hillary will be the democratic nominee/president.

Posted by: martha S. | April 30, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm

Hey, ABC! LEAVE THIS OUT BY “ACCIDENT”?
Here’s what ABC chose not to include from the same poll:
OBAMA 46-38 among democrats (+8)
OBAMA 48-37 best chance to beat McCain (+9)
ALL VOTERS – Obama 44% Clinton 39% (+5)
I mean seriously, ABC doesn’t even TRY to look impartial. Hillary’s lemmings love it though. Makes them feel like it’s a “close” race. Shame they haven’t realize it was over in FEB. Barack gets 7 more supers to Hillary’s 4 this week!
Man this is FUN!
BARACK ON! One down, one to go!

Posted by: marshall | April 30, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm

Obama has already won the nomination. He holds a delegate lead that Clinton CANNOT catch up to mathematically. All this drama and analysis is meaningless. When Obama wins North Carolina next Tuesday and takes the majority of delegates from the largest delegate state left, this whole race will hopefully come to an end as Clinton realizes she’s toast. And the country will be well served by President Obama.

Posted by: Eric | April 30, 2008, 6:46 pm 6:46 pm

New poll in NC has Clinton ahead……
Clinton 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: keith1212 | April 30, 2008, 6:47 pm 6:47 pm

To all the Obamanations out there….
“Denial is not just a river in Egypt”….
Obama’s campaign is mortally wounded, and it’s bleeding the democratic party and other candidates to a bitter end…

Posted by: frisco girl | April 30, 2008, 6:48 pm 6:48 pm

Just like our good friend Reverend Wright said. . . . “that was just Obama saying what he has to say as a politician”. . . . . lol, that’s a classic!!

Posted by: Dave B | April 30, 2008, 6:48 pm 6:48 pm

Obama is a joke. The only thing is it’s not funny.

Posted by: Gerry | April 30, 2008, 6:48 pm 6:48 pm

PUT UNDER THE FILE; OBAMA HAD NO IDEA HIS PASTOR WAS CONTROVERSIAL: CNN: April 30, 2008 — Perhaps onlookers were surprised by Obama’s harsh words when he denounced Rev. Wright, but Wright predicted such an outcome in an interview in The New York Times more than a year ago. “If Barack gets past the primary, he might have to publicly distance himself from me,” he said in April 2007. “I said it to Barack personally, and he said, ‘Yeah, that might have to happen.’ “

Posted by: James | April 30, 2008, 6:48 pm 6:48 pm

If the below is true, Obama should quit now for the good of the Party and let Clinton get the nomination.
“Obama is going to prison. Obama is going to Prison. Obama is going to prison.
Obama laundered $112,000.00 thru his law firm as a Illinois State Senator.
The Los Angeles Times article reports Illinois State Senator Obama laundered money $112,000 salary Obama received from a political supporter Robert Blackwell through Obama’s law firm to hide the fact it came from Robert Blackwell who received political monetary favors from Obama totaling $320,000 in Illinois State Grants. Obama committed an illegal crime of money laundering and has a punishment of prison time. Obama supporters, the DNC and Super-delegates. Obama will eventually be indicted and charged with this crime and others. The DNC, Obama supporters and Super-delegates are giving the election to McCain if Obama is the Democratic Nominee for President. It’s time for Obama to quit the race for President before he gets arrested and goes to prison.. The people of the Democratic Party, the DNC and Super-delegates need to unite, vote and support Hillary Clinton for President. Go to Hillary Clinton’s web page read her speeches and solutions for real changes that will benefit all American’s. Make donations of your time, phone calls, go door to door and give money generously to her campaign. Hillary has solutions for real substantial changes that will benefit all the people of the USA. Go to Hillary Clinton’s web page Donate and Vote for Hillary.
Posted by: Bob4USA | Apr 30, 2008 6:55:45 PM

Posted by: concerned | April 30, 2008, 6:49 pm 6:49 pm

I find it ironic that the person to hinder Obama’s bid to become the first black President is also a black man.
Several months ago I thought Obama would be a great leader and that we, as a nation, are ready to embrace someone of African heritage in the Oval Office; But “Reverend” Wright has illustrated the radical, militant and seperatist attitudes of the majority of black Americans. -I back that statement up with the simple fact that the NAACP and many other black organizations are actually INVITING Wright to speak. I do find it humorous watching Obama squirm and attempt to act as though his 20 year relationship with Wright has not influenced his opinions and stances on race-relations in America. The bottom line is only NOW, when his campaign is being affected adversely, is Barrack attempting to sever a relationship that either should have never been forged or ended long before now.

Posted by: glenn | April 30, 2008, 6:50 pm 6:50 pm

big word is IF, concerned. you’ll be swayed by anything, huh.

Posted by: Lianne, 23 from WNY | April 30, 2008, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm

So much negative…so sad regarding Senator Obama. Here is a man who is not for africian americans, white americans but he is for ALL AMERICANS. It is so sad we as a nation cannot see what Senator Obama can do for all americans if he is elect president of the United States. We need to pull our selves (Americans) together. We are all in the same boat and it is sinking fast. We need to pull together as the powerful nation we are and we as american are proud and strong people; we need to stay focus and stop trying to bring a good man down; to get our ecomony back on track, get out of foreclosure, job security for us all and to continue to protect our country from danger. There was no black nor white when we was attack on 9/11; on that day we was all americans and this is how it should always be.

Posted by: Della | April 30, 2008, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm

Just as a typical politician, Obama is no different than others. Whenever there is a need, he will do and say whatever is necessary to get him elected.
Unfortunately I’m quite concerned about his political future, not only his current bid for white house.
He won the senator sit by bitting Alan Keys, who moved to Illinos for only a couple of months. Conjuction with unpopular George Ryan’s corruption scandel. With Rod’s problem now, I’m sure he’ll face a tough battle in four years.
America deserves a sincere president!

Posted by: John Doe | April 30, 2008, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm

WHAT A SAD SPECTACLE. For weeks now, Obama supporters, political pundits, talk show hosts, and even “The View” panel members have been defending Rev. Wright; defending the statements of Rev. Wright; saying that they were taken out of context; even saying that they were true; all in order to defend their candidate, Barack Obama. And now, with one fell swoop, Obama himself has taken the rug out from underneath all of these supporters and de-legitimized their arguments by saying that he himself, is “outraged” by the statements of Rev. Wright, and that he no longer wishes to have any relationship with him. Interestingly, the things said by Rev. Wright in his recent public appearances and interviews were pretty much what we all know he has said before. The only thing materially different was when Rev. Wright twice stated that Obama says what he has to say, because he is a politician. So, what is the lesson of this sad spectacle? Three things. Firstly, it is that Rev. Wright can say anything he wants about “white people” and America, no matter how disgusting or untrue, but if he dares “diss” Obama personally, then Obama is finally “OUTRAGED.” Secondly, it has shown the extent to which some Obama supporters and apologists will go to justify and rationalize any action on the part of Obama or one of his advisers, even to the extent of sanctioning racist and anti-American hate speech, in order to defend Obama and promote his campaign. Finally, it has shown once again that Obama will do anything, and jettison anyone, in his quest for power and the Presidency. The “denunciation” of Wright by Obama is self-serving damage control, and nothing more. The actions by some of his supporters in trying to defend the indefensible, represent a shameful combination of political expediency, lack of objectivity, and hypocrisy.

Posted by: James | April 30, 2008, 6:53 pm 6:53 pm

Have you noticed how sick Obama looks? How in the world his he going to look in six months. I don’t think he can make it even with the media in his pocket.

Posted by: tww | April 30, 2008, 6:53 pm 6:53 pm

With Bush’s ratings in the toilet, this election is gift wrapped for the democrats. If they blow this one (and it looks like they’re headed that way) they should just give up politics. They’ll never win again.

Posted by: Dave B | April 30, 2008, 6:53 pm 6:53 pm

Does anyone else sense that we’re getting to the bottom of the ninth round and the blood is about to start flying? Oh, I forgot about granny and all the other people thrown under the bus, who’s next?

Posted by: rs | April 30, 2008, 6:55 pm 6:55 pm

The only thing that holds true in the Obama campaign is that tomorrow will be worse than today.

Posted by: Bob | April 30, 2008, 6:55 pm 6:55 pm

The thing that bothers me most about this entire issue is that no one seems to be able to stay focused on the one of the real issues to roll out of this entire mess: that Sen. Obama lied when first confronted and said he didn’t know about Wright’s sermons … he lied a second time the following Monday by saying he wasn’t in the pews when Wright said inflammatory things … he lied a third time during his speech, saying he couldn’t disavow Wright … when confronted a fourth time, he then switched gears entirely … and he only decided to denounce Wright [another reversal of his position] when it became obvious that Wright was impacting Obama’s campaign.
By the time Sen. Obama finishes with a controversial subject, it seems nearly everyone has forgotten that he lied repeatedly in the process of “coming clean.”
Has television inculcated a lack of the inability to pay attention to a sequence of events for longer than 15 minutes?
What in the world has happened to us that we can lose sight of something as basic as someone evidencing a history of lying and so easily fall sway to someone who continually “revises” the truth until no one remembers what the original problem was?

Posted by: SM White, Irvine, CA | April 30, 2008, 6:56 pm 6:56 pm

I don’t believe for a minute that Obama disagrees with his pastor on those hateful things. We all know he sat in his church for twenty years soaking it all up. At first, he begrudgingly denounced “some” of the things Rev. Wright said, and suddenly now he is divorcing him, he is “deeply offended by his ridiculous rants”?
He is divorcing Wright ONLY because Wright inferred that Obama secretly believes what he believes.
I don’t trust Obama at all and I, for one, don’t think he’s electable.

Posted by: Ed | April 30, 2008, 6:56 pm 6:56 pm

Latest poll from NC-Insider Advantage- Clinton is up 44 to Obama 42. For all you Obama cult followers, who kept trashing Hillary and their supporters, too bad you assumed this was a done deal because the polls weeks ago said Obama was up 25 points. Even if Hillary looses NC by single digits it will still be a victory for her since she was down 25 points not long ago.

Posted by: Persio | April 30, 2008, 6:56 pm 6:56 pm

North Carolina Democratic Primary Insider Advantage Obama 42, Clinton 44, Und. 14 Clinton +2.0
Obama is losing the support of the white voters in NC……
Clinton 2008 !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: keith1212 | April 30, 2008, 6:56 pm 6:56 pm

HUSSEIN OBAMA IS AN OPPORTUNIST.IF HE
WAS WHITE,HE WOULDN’T GONE NOWHERE.
I CARE LESS IF HE GETS THE NOMINATION.
I FEEL SORRY FOR THE DEMOCRATS THIS
TIME.THEY ALLOW THE ACTIVISTS AND THE BLACKS TO CONTROL THE PARTY.
HUSSEIN OBAMA IS UNELECTABLE IN NOVEMBER.

Posted by: NIcholas | April 30, 2008, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm

It appears to me that ABC is trying to justify there rude treatment of Obama in there less than professional journalistic integrity in the last debate!

Posted by: David from Fondy | April 30, 2008, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm

I thought from the beginning that this whole Wright thing the last couple of days was a setup. After Obama’s speech I thought that if Wright came out and defended himself (he’s now an egomaniac according to the Obama supporters) it might be true. Has anyone heard from Wright? I thought so!

Posted by: Tony | April 30, 2008, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm

All the Cons or conservatives making all there negative remarks about democrats on this blog, you are all despicable. I have got news for you, McSame will not be our next president. I guarantee you that. So all you cons on this blog berating us democrats why don’t you just go watch your precious Fox News or read some of Hitlers speeches or listen to Hannity or the Fat guy Rush Limhog. Thats what you guys do best spread hate and violence and call it peace and love. If I was a republician I would be more concern about Mcsame than with Hillary or Obama. As a Democrat is in the white house and we get the Bush disease out. Either Obama or Clinton as president will clean up all the mess that this country is now in. Fact of the day; 90% of people that vote does not blog.

Posted by: look1ng | April 30, 2008, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm

The truth is, the Clintons were responsible for NAFTA, and while Hill can say “I was secretly against it back then,” the reality is, it was the signature of the Clinton years. And it was her own campaign head, Harold Ickes, who as part of the DNC rules committee, stripped FL and MI of their seats. She agreed with him until she started losing, and she’s trying to spin the fact that she wouldn’t allow people who had voted GOP in the first MI vote to vote Dem in the revote as promoting a legitimate revote, when it’s not b/c a lot of people knowing the original wouldn’t count had switched over. And when people talk baggage, it’s funny- Bill was almost impeached, Hill is being arraigned in a few months (not someone she knows but she herself)in the Paul v Clinton case, objects were stolen by the Clintons from the White House when they left, documents went missing, Hill obtained a criminal pardon for her brother’s criminal friends, Vince Foster was murdered, Monica, Jennifer- the list goes on. It’s just that Obama wanted to keep it clean so he didn’t mention any of these, but the reality is nobody has more baggage and shadiness than the Clintons. The Clintons had even bombed Iraq, if anybody cares to remember. It was not a rainbow and unicorns peaceful time. Even Hill’s claim to be active in the administration was proven false by the records; she started out strong, but when her health care efforts failed, she became another tea and tourist first lady. People even forget her outrageous lies and her constant smearing with the absurd excuse of preparing Obama for Republicans, as if that were her job. A former governor’s wife and then the president’s wife, Hill has 100 million dollars in her pocket and grew up well-off, to become a member of the head board of anti-Union Walmart- yet she pretends now to have any semblance of connection to grassroots America. From moving to NY, a state she never lived in, to take advantage of an easy election that would put a big state in her hand come 08, to her episodes of tears, to her whining about speaking first in debates and her willingness to put McCain above Obama, Hill has shown that she has been planning a long time for the throne that was her birthright. The only reason that the 90s was prosperous was because there was a computer, internet and technology boom which is now over. Even the concept of a president’s wife now becoming president is inherently ridiculous- it smacks of royalty. Now, her campaign, badly managed, is in debt, and she’s had to fire 3 top campaign strategists. She didn’t even bother to read the Iraq intelligence reports when she voted to send our boys to war. There is simply, absolutely nothing that would make her qualified.

Posted by: Sally | April 30, 2008, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm

IF Obama loses North Carolina, it’s all over. The entire dynamics of the Democratic race change. That indicates a polarisation of the white vote for Hillary and against Obama and may indicate a softening of support among the black vote. And if Hillary wins NC she will win Indiana in a landslide. At which point it is wake up time for super delegates. I don’t believe any of them should commit themselves before IN and NC are decided, because Hillary is on the charge.

Posted by: Doug | April 30, 2008, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm

Nicholas = Racist. Go to bed.

Posted by: Lianne, 23 from WNY | April 30, 2008, 7:01 pm 7:01 pm

Obama is losing the support of the white voters……..
Throwing Wright under the bus isn’t helping him !!!!!!!

Posted by: keith1212 | April 30, 2008, 7:02 pm 7:02 pm

It appears to me that ABC is trying to justify there rude treatment of Obama in there less than professional journalistic integrity in the last debate!

Posted by: Dave from Fondy | April 30, 2008, 7:02 pm 7:02 pm

Obama’s buddies include Rev. Wright, Rev. Meeks, Bill Ayers, Farrakan, Rezko. A bunch of racist, anti-American, anti-semitic, unrepentant terrorists and crooks. With this in mind and the fact Obama has a very scant record or actually accomplishing anything significant, you would think Obama’s supporters would start asking Obama for a little more than a bunch of empty words by now.

Posted by: Sally | April 30, 2008, 7:03 pm 7:03 pm

I agree Lianne :)

Posted by: lisa | April 30, 2008, 7:03 pm 7:03 pm

It is over Hillary!!!! As soon as Obama wins N.C.(the largest state delegates remaining), the supers will flock to Obama as they already have this week(7 to Hillary’s 4) She cannot mathematically win and the supers will never overturn the delegate lead the voters gave Obama. Cry all you want HIllary supporters, she is toast and I bet she knows it because she is only trying to weaken Obama for McCain.

Posted by: rockychance | April 30, 2008, 7:03 pm 7:03 pm

Jeremiah Wright is a racist. If you believe what he’s saying then you’re a racist, too. If his goal was racial equality then he would act more like the Christian Martin Luther King, Jr. and less like the muslim Lewis Farrakhan. There is absolutely no difference between Mr. Wright and the scum affiliated with the KKK. He’s a pathetic excuse for an American. Shame on any American who looks up to this man…and I use the term ‘man’ loosely.

Posted by: Joe | April 30, 2008, 7:04 pm 7:04 pm

Well said James. This whole Wright fiasco had to have been set up by Obama’s campaign, and it backfired badly because Wright must have gone off script when talking about Obama lying like a politician, and praying in the basement with him in hiding before his presidential bid announcement. Does anyone know if Obama has released his tax returns for the years when he was receiving the Blackwell (and it must be assumed there may be others) payments? Hillary was demanding that Obama release them, but it doesn’t seem like he ever did. This must be why. But I’m expecting a full frontal assault on Hillary tomorrow, what will be the next Hillary scandal – with CNN and MSNBC in full participation of broadcasting it 24/7.
GO HILLARY 08!

Posted by: calli | April 30, 2008, 7:05 pm 7:05 pm

rockeychance:
You must not know how to read the polls…
Clinton is now ahead in NC…..
The white voters no longer support Obama !!!!!!

Posted by: keith1212 | April 30, 2008, 7:06 pm 7:06 pm

Cry silly Hillary dope heads. She is toast after the N.C. Primary and there is nothing any of you paid Hillary people can do about it! Period. The N.C. people are still saying in overwhelming numbers they want Obama.

Posted by: rockychance | April 30, 2008, 7:07 pm 7:07 pm

Shame on you people !!!
KEEP IT UP Let the Media keep us distracted by these stupid articles.
They love it, it making them rich!
We lost a lot of Americans especially this month in Iraq,
Bush and McCain is taking us into a war with Iran.
Our prices of food and cost of living is going out of sight,
Cannot buy gasoline,
Cannot pay for health care,
We are losing hundredths of thousands of dollars by the devaluation of our homes.
Our kids can go to college,
And Hillary want to obliterate Iran .
The federal bank keep printing money and the dollar is now worthless (It now worth 4 cents).
I am 70 years old so I won’t be around to see the destruction of our beloved country — but you will.

Posted by: GHM | April 30, 2008, 7:07 pm 7:07 pm

You Republican trolls are scum. You mindless, uncompensated sycophants are so far down the food chain what you gain from your foolish and traitorous activities wouldn’t feed your upline dingleberry.
You’ve been pushing for Shillary for over 2 years.
Well it ain’t going to happen.

Posted by: Truth_to_tell | April 30, 2008, 7:07 pm 7:07 pm

What does this tell us about Hillary Clinton?
By her supporters saying they will not vote for the Democratic candidate if it is not Clinton, that means her campaign has pushed more people away from the Democratic party than anyone thought possible.
How can the Democrats expect to win with a candidate that can’t even bring her own party together?
We know she won’t pull any Republicans or Independents, while we have seen Obama do that in unprecedented numbers.

Posted by: jj | April 30, 2008, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm

Caroline & Michelle were on CNN tonight talking about Obama. What plant have they been on the past couple of weeks?

Posted by: Gale | April 30, 2008, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm

well said GHM! High five for you too.

Posted by: Lianne, 23 from WNY | April 30, 2008, 7:09 pm 7:09 pm

SALLY!!!!!!!
YOU’RE CORRECT 100%.
HUSSEIN OBAMA IS A TOAST!!!!!
OBAMA IS FAKE!!!!!!
HOPE,CHANGE ARE SLOGANS FOR POLITICAL
PURPOSE!!!!!!
OBAMA’S ELECTABILITY IS ZERO!!!!

Posted by: NIcholas | April 30, 2008, 7:13 pm 7:13 pm

rockychance:
Why don’t you check the latest poll of NC?
Clinton is now ahead in NC!!!!!!
Obama has lost the white vote there
Clinton 2008 !!!!!!!

Posted by: keith1212 | April 30, 2008, 7:13 pm 7:13 pm

Oh, Gale, you saw that interview tonight? Caroline Kennedy had to babysit Michelle Obama’s interview with CNN! What a joke. They don’t trust Michelle to talk to the press without a Kennedy (puppet master) sitting next to her and pulling her strings! It was unbelievable to see the woman that wants to be first lady have to check with Caroline Kennedy before opening her mouth to answer a question. Does this make Caroline Kennedy first lady in waiting?

Posted by: frisco girl | April 30, 2008, 7:13 pm 7:13 pm

Obama new buzz word is “turn the page”. Dah, things are going so bad for him that he “hopes” he can turn the page.

Posted by: Thomas | April 30, 2008, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm

“Neither Clinton nor McCain truly give a rat’s arse about the American citizens who are truly suffering; the “blue collar” worker, the soldiers, the veterans, or anyone else. If they or their supporters truly cared, the issues would be paramount in their campaigns. Posters on this site who routinely try to smear Obama with non issues; I’ve got a question for you. At the end of the day, when you’ve scored your various “gotcha” points of “Rezko, Wright, Ayers, Muslim, Hamas, terrorist, boogeyman”, do you honestly feel better about yourself and your campaign? Are any of the above smear points going to lower the price of gas? Bring our troops home? Save your house or job? Provide health care for your family? Or are you going to continue to support candidates like Bush/McCain/Clinton, who will tell you what you want to hear, all the while enriching themselves while selling out the country. You supporters who are so virulent, and would never support Obama under any circumstances, is Clinton sharing her moneymaking secrets ($109 million) with you? What about McCain? No, you will vote on hot button wedge issues like before, and get screwed again. They will be laughing all the way to the bank.”

Posted by: the reason | April 30, 2008, 7:16 pm 7:16 pm

Obama’s campaign is mortally wounded. The Rev Wright fiasco was NEVER going to go away. And now Hillary has hit the lead in North Carolina. NC! Outstanding! If Obama barely hangs on , let alone loses NC, his elctability is shot. If Hillary takes IN and NC, the writing is on the wall. Obama will be the one making the early exit.

Posted by: Doug | April 30, 2008, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm

Obama…I don’t know how you can possibly turn it around now. This looks like an implosion coming on. One more gasp and you’re over and out. Even with 9 lives, you are 1 life away from being history. I feel sorry for your followers and their dying dreams. Goodbye Obama.

Posted by: Roger King | April 30, 2008, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm

Obama has Rev. Wright, Rev. Meeks, Bill Ayers and Rezco to count on as his close friends. Hillary has Bill. So who has the the most baggage? If only the voters could make the final decision. Too bad in the Democratic Party it is the super delegates ,not the people, who will decide.

Posted by: maria | April 30, 2008, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm

And Obama is dividing the same country that he claims to be uniting. Obama is so full of it that he claims to work across party lines. Hey Obama have you seen the latest ads GOP have out with you and Rev Wright in NC, MS and who know what other states?

Posted by: Persio | April 30, 2008, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm

Rev. Wright has given blacks “permission” to Not vote for Obama.

Posted by: paul | April 30, 2008, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm

Easy win for Hillary in NC. If she can’t close the door on him this time then the Dems have no chance.

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 7:19 pm 7:19 pm

LOL Persio, who MADE those ads? THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
Its not his fault they resort to that kind of crap. Jeez, think please.

Posted by: Lianne, 23 from WNY | April 30, 2008, 7:20 pm 7:20 pm

You gotta vote for Hilliary. She is not dishonest. She just sometimes changes her mind depending on she needs to win over. She doesn’t lie – she just says somethings that she knows do not align with what she knows to be true. Common girls, we gotta vote for our own! Obama may be black but he is still a man.

Posted by: Sandy | April 30, 2008, 7:21 pm 7:21 pm

My question is why did Obama wait until Wright attacked him as a “politician” to renounce him? I think Obama knows that he is unelectable now, this Wright “yoke” will continue to hang around Obama’s neck. Obama tried to ride the middle of the fence and now has basically lost the nomination. I see his campaign to continue to implode and eventually, he will concede. Clinton is carrying the blue collar and Catholic vote in America. These voters are needed to win the GE. The SuperD’s are seeing his unelectibility and will endorse Hillary. Next Wednesday morning, you will see the endorsements coming in for Hillary after she wins North Carolina and Indiana. Obama supporters, you need to practice saying, “Madame President, Hillary Clinton!” Hillary 08!!!!!

Posted by: david from texas | April 30, 2008, 7:24 pm 7:24 pm

Obama will lose the race because his pastor dropped a dime on him. What a way to go…

Posted by: Bob in NC | April 30, 2008, 7:24 pm 7:24 pm

Hillary is the slickest guy out there. Obama thought people were ready for change. Nope not Hope. McCain is good old reliable. Stay home Dems Republicans are going to whip your butts. LOL.

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 7:24 pm 7:24 pm

Marcia and Mark; Sharing it with me email buddies. Thanks.
Obama’s Kenyan birth father: In Islam, religion passes from the father to the child. Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (1936-1982) was a Muslim who named his boy Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
• Obama’s Indonesian family: His stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, was also a Muslim. In fact, as Obama’s half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng explained to Jodi Kantor of The New York Times: “My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.” An Indonesian publication, The Banjarmasin Post, reports a former classmate, Rony Amir, recalling that “All the relatives of Barry’s father were very devout Muslims.”
• Obama’s Catholic school in Jakarta: Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press reports that “documents showed he enrolled as a Muslim” while at a Catholic school during first through third grades. Kim Barker of The Chicago Tribune confirms that Obama was “listed as a Muslim on the registration form for the Catholic school.”
• The public school: Paul Watson of The Los Angeles Times learned from Indonesians familiar with Obama when he lived in Jakarta that he “was registered by his family as a Muslim at both schools he attended.” Haroon Siddiqui of The Toronto Star visited the Jakarta public school Obama attended and found that “Three of his teachers have said he was enrolled as a Muslim.” Although Siddiqui cautions that “With the school records missing, eaten by bugs, one has to rely on people’s shifting memories,” he cites only one retired teacher, Tine Hahiyari, retracting her earlier certainty about Obama’s being registered as a Muslim.
• Barack Obama’s public school in Jakarta, Koran class: In his autobiography, Dreams of My Father, Obama relates how he got into trouble for making faces during Koran studies. Indeed, Obama still retains knowledge from that class: Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times reports that Obama “recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them [to Kristof] with a first-rate accent.”
• Mosque attendance: Obama’s half-sister recalled that the family attended the mosque “for big communal events.” Watson learned from childhood friends that “Obama sometimes went to Friday prayers at the local mosque.” Barker found that “Obama occasionally followed his stepfather to the mosque for Friday prayers.” One Indonesia friend, Zulfin Adi, states that Obama “was Muslim. He went to the mosque. I remember him wearing a sarong” (a garment associated with Muslims).
• Piety: Obama himself says that while living in Indonesia, a Muslim country, he “didn’t practice [Islam].” Indonesians differ in their memories of him. One, Rony Amir, describes Obama as “previously quite religious in Islam.”
OBAMA’S HAVING been born and raised a Muslim and having left the faith to become a Christian make him neither more nor less qualified to become president of the United States. But if he was born and raised a Muslim and is now hiding that fact, this points to a major deceit, a fundamental misrepresentation about himself that has profound implications about his character and his suitability as president.

Posted by: Stacy | April 30, 2008, 7:25 pm 7:25 pm

Marcia and Mark; Sharing it with me email buddies. Thanks.
Obama’s Kenyan birth father: In Islam, religion passes from the father to the child. Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. (1936-1982) was a Muslim who named his boy Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.
• Obama’s Indonesian family: His stepfather, Lolo Soetoro, was also a Muslim. In fact, as Obama’s half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng explained to Jodi Kantor of The New York Times: “My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.” An Indonesian publication, The Banjarmasin Post, reports a former classmate, Rony Amir, recalling that “All the relatives of Barry’s father were very devout Muslims.”
• Obama’s Catholic school in Jakarta: Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press reports that “documents showed he enrolled as a Muslim” while at a Catholic school during first through third grades. Kim Barker of The Chicago Tribune confirms that Obama was “listed as a Muslim on the registration form for the Catholic school.”
• The public school: Paul Watson of The Los Angeles Times learned from Indonesians familiar with Obama when he lived in Jakarta that he “was registered by his family as a Muslim at both schools he attended.” Haroon Siddiqui of The Toronto Star visited the Jakarta public school Obama attended and found that “Three of his teachers have said he was enrolled as a Muslim.” Although Siddiqui cautions that “With the school records missing, eaten by bugs, one has to rely on people’s shifting memories,” he cites only one retired teacher, Tine Hahiyari, retracting her earlier certainty about Obama’s being registered as a Muslim.
• Barack Obama’s public school in Jakarta, Koran class: In his autobiography, Dreams of My Father, Obama relates how he got into trouble for making faces during Koran studies. Indeed, Obama still retains knowledge from that class: Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times reports that Obama “recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them [to Kristof] with a first-rate accent.”
• Mosque attendance: Obama’s half-sister recalled that the family attended the mosque “for big communal events.” Watson learned from childhood friends that “Obama sometimes went to Friday prayers at the local mosque.” Barker found that “Obama occasionally followed his stepfather to the mosque for Friday prayers.” One Indonesia friend, Zulfin Adi, states that Obama “was Muslim. He went to the mosque. I remember him wearing a sarong” (a garment associated with Muslims).
• Piety: Obama himself says that while living in Indonesia, a Muslim country, he “didn’t practice [Islam].” Indonesians differ in their memories of him. One, Rony Amir, describes Obama as “previously quite religious in Islam.”
OBAMA’S HAVING been born and raised a Muslim and having left the faith to become a Christian make him neither more nor less qualified to become president of the United States. But if he was born and raised a Muslim and is now hiding that fact, this points to a major deceit, a fundamental misrepresentation about himself that has profound implications about his character and his suitability as president.

Posted by: Stacy | April 30, 2008, 7:25 pm 7:25 pm

Lianne <—–My point is that Obama claims to work better across parties than Hillary and that's one of the reason why we should vote for him. NOT!

Posted by: Persio | April 30, 2008, 7:26 pm 7:26 pm

Just a reminder that Obama told the Chicago newspapers in March, when he sat down to talk about Rezko, that he still considers Rezko a “good friend”. Obama is now implicated in receiving payments not only through straw donors (which he gave to charity) but also for payment for “legal services” at a law firm at which Obama was no longer employed. Is Rezko next to be thrown under the bus? Should we start a “under the bus count?” What was wrong with Harold Ford Jr.? Next time DNC, pick a candidate that is not from Chicago – nice city, dirty politics.

Posted by: rs | April 30, 2008, 7:27 pm 7:27 pm

Stacy, please stop. What is your point with cut and paste. I didn’t even read it because I don’t read long posts here.

Posted by: lisa | April 30, 2008, 7:27 pm 7:27 pm

Mariann Pepitone,
You said Obama is using the whites for votes. I think that he uses blacks, too.
Earlier in the campaign, he spread the message (after Jesse Jackson) that more young black men are in prison than in college.
In matter of fact, those in college outnumber those in prison 4:1!
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2007/10/young_black_males_headed_for_e_1.html

Posted by: magda | April 30, 2008, 7:28 pm 7:28 pm

I can hardly stand to watch CNN anymore. Their interview with Michelle O’belle Obama was the worst I have ever seen. Embarrassing at best.

Posted by: Ted | April 30, 2008, 7:28 pm 7:28 pm

I read these comments and I can’t believe how ignorant some of them are.Barak Obama is a terroist sympathizer? Really what proof do you have? He listened to hate sermons for 20 years? Were you in the pew next to him? This is the problem with some of us. If you don’t like Obama then support your candidate of choice and be positive about it. Why do you have to support rumors and sound bytes that have no basis in reality. Why are we so lazy as a people that we fail to really investigate for ourselves who these people are? Read his books! Read her book! More importantly look at their voting records,visit their web sites and look at the positions they take on issues you care about. Grow a brain!! Husain is an Arabic name it has a beautiful meaning. I challenge you to look it up. Of course you won’t because some of you enjoy not knowing and being scared and hateful while you judge others. Do you also call yourselves religious? Well judge not lest ye be judged! It’s time to stop being lazy apathetic voters who believe what whoever wants you to believe.Start looking for yourselves. We have the technology.Ask yourself these questions as you seek the truth, from whom am I getting this information and what do they have to gain.Then make up your own minds for a change.Really that’s what needs to change.People need to wake up and take responsibility for the crap they let seep into their brains as truth. I could come to any one of your towns and start a vicious rumor about any one of you and if I had the dough I could make it stick to you and you would have to use whatever resource you could to defend yourself.Come on people do you really want to go on this way? Vote for the person who speaks to the issues you believe in.

Posted by: India in Ohio | April 30, 2008, 7:29 pm 7:29 pm

Perhaps its because of the negativity injected by Sen Clinton’s campaign that fires up her supporters to be dissatisfied with Sen Obama. Sen Clinton is repsonsible for setting the negative tone, however much Pres Bill Clinton wags his finger accusing Sen OBama’s campaign of doing it to them. They should all stop behaving like children – he said, she said – and start acting like mature responsible adults who are facing real challenges ahead in the 21st century.
Its a sad commentary on the state of affairs. We are the same nation that elected Bush, not once but twice. We are same nation that went to war with Iraq when the rest of the world was saying, no! Wait! The world is sadly watching the drama, perhaps reconciling to the mistake America is about to make once again, by not electing Sen Obama.

Posted by: a | April 30, 2008, 7:31 pm 7:31 pm

The price of gas is all about supply and demand. China and the rest of the world are competing with the USA for oil and OPEC is controlling the supply so prices go up. If Obama and Clinton were for the USA drilling for oil in Alaska, building new refineries and nuclear power plants, I might think they were really interested in lowering the price of gas and food for blue collar workers and the middle class. Fact is Obama and Clinton are in the tank with the green loons who will do anything to stop the USA from getting more energy for the people at cheaper prices. Instead both Obama and Clinton lie to the people about the so called pipe dreams of alternative energy like bio fuels that are causing food prices to go sky high. Obama and Clinton are false prophets who hold out empty promises of a Utopian world run and ruled by them. Problem is their vision of a Utopian world will put us all into the poor house while the State worker, politicians and Rezko types are laughing all the way to the bank with the people’s money in their pockets.

Posted by: Sherry | April 30, 2008, 7:32 pm 7:32 pm

Omentum: Who are you trying to preach to here? Obamanations are like those “holier than thou” Republicans who scream and yell about extramarital sex. We all know the story. We don’t care. Many Hillary supporters have lived through the same thing, and it’s certain there are a lot of Republican women out there who will enjoy a certain secret happiness when they vote for Hillary in November, and dutifully tell their Republican husbands that they voted for McCain.

Posted by: frisco girl | April 30, 2008, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm

historically we will look back on these ridiculous attacks on obama like we look back on similar attacks on prominent black leaders 30-40-50-60 years ago?
Basically——-It won’t look good-

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Posted by: abei | April 30, 2008, 7:35 pm 7:35 pm

frisco girl, are you kidding me, republican women vothing for Hillary. LMAO and you say the obama supporters are drinking the kool ade. They can’t stand her.

Posted by: lisa | April 30, 2008, 7:37 pm 7:37 pm

I am surprised to know that abcnews has pollsters. My take is the results are made up to boost Hillary Rodham Clinton’s ego and to continue to campaign thinking she would destroy Sen. Obama’s chance come November. The poll is like the abc debate where Sen. Obama faced three opponents.
They are all in vain. Abcnews is so pro Hillary that they blocked me out of the regular abcnews.com blog site. I am surprised that this site – the political radar allows my comments to be posted.
You all in abcnews will be so ashamed when Mr. Obama becomes president. It will definitely happen.

Posted by: Kizeem | April 30, 2008, 7:38 pm 7:38 pm

Ready999: Your bigotry is showing. Catholics didn’t “subject” their children to pedophiles; for that to have been true, the pedophiles would have had to announce to the parents that it was their intent to molest their children. Should I really have to explain this to you? Geez.

Posted by: James | April 30, 2008, 7:38 pm 7:38 pm

Calli: With respect to Obama and his tax returns, he has released the years 2000 to 2007. However, he has refused to release his records relating to his Illinois state senate tenure, please see my next post, if it will go through.

Posted by: James | April 30, 2008, 7:40 pm 7:40 pm

Jr you seem to be focused on the rev wright. Hillary is the master LIAR don’t you think.

Posted by: karma | April 30, 2008, 7:40 pm 7:40 pm

The Real Clear Politics poll of polls nationally is Obama +3 today.
The RCP poll of polls on April 22 (Pennsylvania primary) showed Obama 50.10% and Clinton 39.70% or Obama +10.4.
The RCP poll of polls will change. However, Obama “united” message is wounded.

Posted by: Angel | April 30, 2008, 7:41 pm 7:41 pm

I am livid of how the media and most of the people here are trying to trivialize Barack’s Campaign.
Hillary’s broke
NO WAY she can get a pledge delegate lead
Campaign in fighting like ravinous wolves
Lead strategist is lobbying against her
She provided legal services to the radical black panthers
Clintons released 2 weathermen underground folks who DID get convicted
Husband’s getting millions from foreign leaders
Bill and Hillary have litigation against them
We got the bosnia adventure
and all this slips under the radar and she is skating scot free from all this
And all we can talk about is how long did BO sat in a friggin church and the he sat on a board devising HEINOUS ACTS OF PHILANTROPHY in Chicago
DOUBLE STANDARD. DOUBLE STANDARD
its soooo sad….. GROW UP PEOPLE AND REALIZE THIS IS A TERRIBLE VOID OF FAIRNESS HERE

Posted by: Omentum | April 30, 2008, 7:41 pm 7:41 pm

Omentum, no worries. Obama will win the nomination. Most of the bloggers here are republicans trying to split the party, just have fun with them

Posted by: lisa | April 30, 2008, 7:45 pm 7:45 pm

Hillary will win NC and Indiana without any problem, 10 or more points.

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 7:47 pm 7:47 pm

I feel this raleigh voter hasn’t read this blog hard enough.

Posted by: Lianne, 23 from WNY | April 30, 2008, 7:48 pm 7:48 pm

obama just lies and lies and lies to cover up his other lies.
the american people are not stupid. they can look at his saying one thing in march and another in april on the same subject and know that he’s just lying to save his behind.
the american people are also smart enough to look at obama’s actions, like giving over $25,000 to wright’s church last year, disinviting him to the announcement of his candidacy a year ago because it would look bad for him, then trying to tell us he didn’t know the truth about the guy after 20 years.
the american people are smart enough to read obama’s words, such as in his books, where he talks about the things wright said, and know that he’s now lying when he pretends he’s surprised about those same things.
obama hopes we’re stupid.
we’re not.
the democratic party leaders should tell obama he must withdraw, because he’s not only unelectable in a general election but he’s also going to cause a lot of democratic house and senate members to lose their seats.

Posted by: so saddened | April 30, 2008, 7:48 pm 7:48 pm

Omentum
I dont know what planet you are on but money is going in to the Clinton Campaign and neither one can win enough pledged delegates before the convention nice try but it is p[ledged delegates plus superdelegates and they only have to vote that way once and since neither can win on the first ballot……..you Obamaites refuse to look at actual news and analysis of the whole thing

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 7:49 pm 7:49 pm

So anyone who dares say anything critical of Obama is a racist? I say those who say you can’t be critical of Obama because of his skin color are the real racists. Skin color is not the issue. Facts are, Obama has such a scant history of accomplishments, the best way of judging his qualifications for the job of President of the United State is who he associates with. Letting his children sit in the pews of an avowed America hater says a lot about Obama’s judgment and character whether you like it or not.

Posted by: Carrie | April 30, 2008, 7:49 pm 7:49 pm

The public was generous and gave Obama the benefit, more or less, after the first Wright firestorm. But this latest round of Wright flareups concretized the Wright concerns. It reinforced that 1)Obama either shared Wright’s views
2)Was playing us a politician does, to paraphrase Wright or
3)Was so out-of-touch he couldn’t see what Wright was about even though the REST OF AMERICA KNEW WHAT WRIGHT WAS ABOUT. In any case, a knockout blow to anyone running for president. Possibly good VP material but absolutely not ready for the big leagues yet.

Posted by: hopesprings52 | April 30, 2008, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm

Obama’s punits are all corners of the world: china, europe, and middle east and Africa. i had thread with this guy who wrote better english than mine but when i wrote simple every day language he didnt understand which got me curious to ask where he was blogging from. He or she said they spoke 5 languages different chinese dialect and malay and little talal ,whatever that is but he or she wouldn’t tell be where from. Humm Malaysia? Indonisia? And Im suppose to let him convince me Omaba is the better candidate? Hello!!Are the polls purely from american voters? Big question. Who are the voters with lap tops? clicking 24/7 blue collars?

Posted by: ruthmatters | April 30, 2008, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm

so saddened, the word is all the supers have already decided. Hillary is not looking good, sorry

Posted by: lisa | April 30, 2008, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm

IM saddened by the way the wright thing came out did you see Michelle she looked like she saw a ghost when shewas being asked about the wright controversy I think the Obamas are good people but you cant quite be so arrogant as to assume that the nomination will be given to you on nonpolicy grounds and by short changing the democratic process

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm

I think half the people writing here in ABC is paid by Hillary supporters… Wright is just looking for cheap popularity, he can’t stand a fellow African American growing… Or probably he is paid by Republicans or Hillary…

Posted by: Siv | April 30, 2008, 7:52 pm 7:52 pm

Really Lisa? My Republican girlfriends can’t stand McCain, and they admire what Hillary is doing and the way she has shown tenacity and toughness in her campaign. Hillary’s positions are moderate and acceptable to many middle of the road Republicans, especially if they are against the war but don’t really want to say so out loud. Plus, it would be great for our daughters to see a woman president. The Neocons are a different story – they should get together with the NeoLiberals and have some kind of wrestling smackdown with each other.

Posted by: frisco girl | April 30, 2008, 7:53 pm 7:53 pm

I have been very disturbed by the media consistent focus on Rev. Wright. I think what he did these past few days was extremely reprehensible, and offensive, and VERY selfish. It only served to PROVE that he is hateful. What I cannot get though is why equal time and focus isnt spent on the Clintons’ pending California trial for corruption, or the recent conviction of her former Pastor for child molestation. This is just completely unjust and unfair, and seems that the MEDIA is who decides who wins the nomination with the selective provision of information.
In light of all the focus on Rev Wright, I am led to believe that he is just an EXCUSE for those who just didnt want to see BHO win. As for the news media which is consistently Wholly complicit in this national deception… how come I am not hearing ANYTHING about these stories
http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=45528
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56868
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/80486/

Posted by: Kevin | April 30, 2008, 7:53 pm 7:53 pm

Carrie
If anything Obama is a reverse racist in every election Character counts if it doesnt get in in the nomination process it will in the GE

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 7:54 pm 7:54 pm

Clinton v McCain. Sniper fire v POW. McCain wins.

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 7:54 pm 7:54 pm

Hopesprings
before this latest wright thing I thought that Obama would be good VP material but now I think its Clinton?edwards and Obama for Atty Gen … since he claims to be this wonderful Constitutional law proffessor!

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 7:57 pm 7:57 pm

frisco how may republican girlfriends do you have. None that would change this election. And I don’t want a woman president because it would be good for out daughters to see. How irresponsible is that.

Posted by: lisa | April 30, 2008, 7:58 pm 7:58 pm

Lisa
The Democratic Party will not nominate Obama now the Pres Carter said the supers should wait and they will thats a bit of wishful thinking!

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 7:59 pm 7:59 pm

Siv
keep hoping its gonna be that way Obama is out now!

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:00 pm 8:00 pm

Why do people keep playing the Muslim card????
Observer: If the man says he’s Christian, then he’s Christian! No one HAS to be a Muslim here. It’s america. Not the middle east.

Posted by: Lianne, 23 from WNY | April 30, 2008, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm

Stay home Dems. Hillary was able to kill Hope. McCain will kick Hills butt come november and make her cry. LOL. Putin will make Hill cry and then she will say he is picking on her because she is a woman. McCain will destroy Clinton. LOL.

Posted by: Greg | April 30, 2008, 8:02 pm 8:02 pm

I have been reading a lot of these posts. The Obama supporters accuse Hillary of being a liar and a crook. The Clinton supporters accuse Obama of being a liar and a crook with a lot of shady characters as friends. Only thing I can say as the GOP should have a field day whoever is nominated by the Dems.

Posted by: Reba | April 30, 2008, 8:02 pm 8:02 pm

Lisa
nobody that suppports Clinton is a closet repulican just doing it for kicks
there is real support try the entire democratic party base

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:03 pm 8:03 pm

staniam, I would love to bet you on this. They will go for Obama because he is ahead, How many ways can Hillary spin this

Posted by: lisa | April 30, 2008, 8:03 pm 8:03 pm

I Was There: What Obama Really Said About Pennsylvania
Posted April 14, 2008 by David Coleman
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-coleman/i-was-there-what-obama-re_b_96553.html
Last Sunday evening I attended the San Francisco fundraiser that has been the center of recent political jousting. The next day, when asked about the talk Obama delivered, I too commented about his answer to a question he was asked about Pennsylvania. Over the past week, though, I have had a Rashomon-like experience concerning those remarks.
Clinton, McCain, and media pundits have parsed a blogger’s audio tape of Obama’s remarks and criticized a sentence or two characterizing some parts of Pennsylvania and the attitudes of some Pennsylvanians. In context and in person, Senator Obama’s remarks about Pennsylvania voters left an impression diametrically opposed to that being trumpeted by his competitor’s campaigns.
At the end of Obama’s remarks standing between two rooms of guests — the fourth appearance in California after traveling earlier in the day from Montana — a questioner asked, “some of us are going to Pennsylvania to campaign for you. What should we be telling the voters we encounter?”
Obama’s response to the questioner was that there are many, many different sections in Pennsylvania comprised of a range of racial, geographic, class, and economic groupings from Appalachia to Philadelphia. So there was not one thing to say to such diverse constituencies in Pennsylvania. But having said that, Obama went on say that his campaign staff in Pennsylvania could provide the questioner (an imminent Pennsylvania volunteer) with all the talking points he needed. But Obama cautioned that such talking points were really not what should be stressed with Pennsylvania voters.
Instead he urged the volunteer to tell Pennsylvania voters he encountered that Obama’s campaign is about something more than programs and talking points.
It was at this point that Obama began to talk about addressing the bitter feelings that many in some rural communities in Pennsylvania have about being brushed aside in the wake of the global economy. Senator Obama appeared to theorize, perhaps improvidently given the coverage this week, that some of the people in those communities take refuge in political concerns about guns, religion and immigration.
But what has not so far been reported is that those statements preceded and were joined with additional observations that black youth in urban areas are told they are no longer “relevant” in the global economy and, feeling marginalized, they engage in destructive behavior. Unlike the week’s commentators who have seized upon the remarks about “bitter feelings” in some depressed communities in Pennsylvania, I gleaned a different meaning from the entire answer.
First, I noted immediately how dismissive his answer had been about “talking points” and ten point programs and how he used the question to urge the future volunteer to put forward a larger message central to his campaign. That pivot, I thought, was remarkable and unique.
Rather than his seizing the opportunity to recite stump-worn talking points at that time to the audience — as I believe Senator Clinton, Senator McCain and most other more conventional (or more disciplined) politicians at such an appearance might do — Senator Obama took a different political course in that moment, one that symbolizes important differences about his candidacy.
The response that followed sounded unscripted, in the moment, as if he were really trying to answer a question with intelligent conversation that explained more about what was going on in the Pennsylvania communities than what was germane to his political agenda. I had never heard him or any politician ever give such insightful, analytical responses. The statements were neither didactic nor contrived to convince. They were simply hypotheses (not unlike the kind made by de Tocqueville three centuries ago ) offered by an observer familiar with American communities. And that kind of thoughtfulness was quite unexpected in the middle of a political event. In my view, the way he answered the question was more important than the sociological accuracy or the cause and effect hypotheses contained in the answer.
It was a moment of authenticity demonstrating informed intelligence, and the speaker’s desire to have the audience join him in a deeper understanding of American politics.
There has been little or no reaction to the part of the answer that was addressed to the hopelessness of inner city youth who have been rendered “irrelevant” to the global economy. No one has seized upon those words as “talking down” to the inner city youth whose plight he was addressing. If extracted from an audio tape HuffPost Blogger Fowler, those remarks could (and may yet) be taken out of context as “Obama excuses alienation and violence by urban youth.” But in context, Senator Obama’s response sounded like empathetic conclusions and opinions of a keen observer: more like Margaret Mead than Machiavelli.
As the week’s firestorm evolved over these remarks at which I was an accidental observer, I have reflected upon the regrettable irony that has emerged from Senator Obama’s response to a friendly question: no good effort at intelligent analysis, candor — and what I heard as an attempt to convey a profound understanding of both what people feel and why they feel it – goes unpunished. Such insights by a political candidate might otherwise be valued. In a national campaign subject to opposition research, his analytical musing has instead created an immense amount of political flak.
Now and “in this time,” to invoke one of the candidate’s favorite riffs, such observations and remarks shared among supporters are just a push of a record button on a tape recorder away from being spread across the internet to be dissected by political nabobs. What struck me immediately after the fundraiser as so refreshing turned out to be a moment Senator Obama is forced to regret. Today we marvel at de Tocqueville insights about American communities. Apparently, such commentary is valued as long as it is three centuries old and doesn’t come from the mouth of a contemporary observer who might be elected president.
So much for the political ironies. But there is one more personal observation that was missed.
I happened to be on the balcony when Senator Obama’s vehicles arrived and he emerged from the Secret Service SUV. Obama shouted the friendly greeting “How are you guys up there doing?” to the group of us looking down from the balcony and then said, “You have to excuse me, I need to call my kids in Chicago now.” All of us stood and watched the leadingcandidate for the Democratic party nomination for president have a short conversation with his kids before he entered a fundraiser to make his remarks.
No tape of that conversation has emerged as yet. Who knows how casual remarks of a father to his children or his wife on a cell phone could be spun to support the argument that as a father speaking to his kids two time zones away before they go to bed, his comments sounded as if he “looked down” upon them. Given his relative height and the age of his kids, he probably does. But that would be precisely as relevant to his capacity to unite and lead this country as were the remarks at the fundraiser that have been so deconstructed over this past week.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-coleman/i-was-there-what-obama-re_b_96553.html

Posted by: msdmo | April 30, 2008, 8:04 pm 8:04 pm

Greg
Hope and Change are just words that innocent people that never had donr anything in their lives clung to now they see Obama doesnt believe his own mantra so stay home if you want to

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:05 pm 8:05 pm

Lisa
Obama cannot dictate process he is ahead now but short of the 2024 delegates and will not get there by the convention and Hillary will have the popular vote you are just wrong but its ok to be wrong sometimes

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:07 pm 8:07 pm

November is a long way off, but I know that I will never vote for Obama and I will continue to hope that Senator Clinton will prevail as the Democratic nominee. It boils down to a matter of credibility and trust. And, no, I am not blind to Clinton’s faults. She is to me, quite simply, the better choice.
Obama joined and continued to support Trinity with his presence and money for 20 years. He simply cannot expect people to believe that he didn’t realize the basic premise of Black Libertion Theology, which is what Trinity is all about.
James Cone, an architect of Black Liberation Theology, and a mentor to Rev. Wright, has described their theology thusly: “Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community … Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.”
Obama accepted and supported this theology. This directly reflects on his poor judgment and proves that he was willing to support radical views. How credible could anyone find his sudden realization that these views were being preached for 20 years by Rev. Wright when this doctrine is clearly outlined on his church’s website? His denouncement of Wright rings false and simply comes too late. 20 years too late.
To me, Obama has been masquerading as the great uniter. The mask was stripped away by Wright and what we are left with is someone who still seems to be coming to grips with his idenity and value system. He is not ready to be the Commander in Chief, the leader of the greatest nation in the world. I do think that the Obama’s have been genuinely enlightened through this experience as to how out of touch their church doctrine is with the America of 2008. His race has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with why he is unelectable at this time. It is the choices that he has made in the past that directly reflects upon his values,integrity, and character. Wright, Rezko, Ayers, the condescending remarks about people clinging to guns and religion. These are important issues to those of us who cannot support him. These issues may not seem relevant to Obama supporters, but they are to many fellow Democrats who might in effect be supporting Clinton by either default or choice.

Posted by: Bea | April 30, 2008, 8:08 pm 8:08 pm

What everyone fails to see is that Obama wins in the parts of the state where Dems win the general election..
Hillary is dancing with the devil and if she would in some bizarre way get the dem nomination, she would not win in the places she’s winning now.
Believe me the young and african american will not support her given how she and bill ran their rancid campaign
You Clintonites should wake up…. This rev wrong thing is dissipating and Barack Obama is getting ready to go for her jugular.
Barack Obama 08

Posted by: Omentum | April 30, 2008, 8:09 pm 8:09 pm

Hillary is the candidate of choice of DEMOCRATS. Obama has been carried by the Dems left faction, bloc black voting and independent/Republican ring ins. Look at any primary at the county level and Hillary is winning ordinary people statewide. Obame is an elitist, urban candidate. His vacuous campaign has only delivered detail in terms of him not wanting to be associated with Rev Wright when the polls turn against him. Too late. You’re toast Obama.

Posted by: Doug | April 30, 2008, 8:09 pm 8:09 pm

Umm the entire democratic base, oh really. How do you justify that staniam. Sorry if I don’t answer it’s because I’m going to bed. But I will read it tomorrow.

Posted by: lisa | April 30, 2008, 8:09 pm 8:09 pm

Obama is going to prison. Obama is going to Prison. Obama is going to prison.
Obama laundered $112,000.00 thru his law firm as a Illinois State Senator.
The Los Angeles Times article reports Illinois State Senator Obama laundered money $112,000 salary Obama received from a political supporter Robert Blackwell through Obama’s law firm to hide the fact it came from Robert Blackwell who received political monetary favors from Obama totaling $320,000 in Illinois State Grants. Obama committed an illegal crime of money laundering and has a punishment of prison time. Obama supporters, the DNC and Super-delegates. Obama will eventually be indicted and charged with this crime and others. The DNC, Obama supporters and Super-delegates are giving the election to McCain if Obama is the Democratic Nominee for President. It’s time for Obama to quit the race for President before he gets arrested and goes to prison.. The people of the Democratic Party, the DNC and Super-delegates need to unite, vote and support Hillary Clinton for President. Go to Hillary Clinton’s web page read her speeches and solutions for real changes that will benefit all American’s. Make donations of your time, phone calls, go door to door and give money generously to her campaign. Hillary has solutions for real substantial changes that will benefit all the people of the USA. Go to Hillary Clinton’s web page Donate and Vote for Hillary.

Posted by: Bob4USA | April 30, 2008, 8:09 pm 8:09 pm

The real Obama is a con man, racist, terrorist supporter, radicaIslamic extremeist supporter and criminal. Once this money laundering scam of Obama’s picks up a head of steam in the TV and Radio media, Obama will be the one who has to quit and withdraw his name from the race for the nomination for President. He will be indicted charged and convicted. This ought to give the Republicans more fodder for the general election. O golly gee Obama will be taken off in handcuffs what pretty sight for the DNC and Democrats. The Republicans will be dancing in the streets. Oh Yeah. We Democrats better get used to Obama behind bars in a state penitentiary now. We Democrats and the DNC need to unite and make Hillary our Democratic Nominee for President before it’s too late or McCain will be the next President. OUCH that will really hurt American’s pocket books, jobs, education and war will reign supreme for greed of money and power for the few. Obama supporters it time to abandon Obama or suffer the consequences of Obama’s criminal deeds with Obama.

Posted by: Bob4USA | April 30, 2008, 8:10 pm 8:10 pm

Bea
Good for you for stating the obvious! Im not being sarcastic! THe Obamaites dont seem to get the obvious:)

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm

Lisa, I am a former Republican who voted Democratic in the last two general elections, and changed my registration in PA to Democratic just this year for only one reason – Hillary Clinton. There are many former Republican women like me, I work with three of them, and Hillary Clinton has brought us to the Democratic Party. However, our run back to the Republicans in November will be fast and furious if this so-called “Democratic” Party doesn’t get its act together and stop pushing the inexperienced, unvetted, arrogant Barack Obama down our throats. John McCain and people like me will paint this country red in November if Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee, you can count on it.

Posted by: Grammy Barb | April 30, 2008, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm

Omentum which part of which states that Hillary has one might that be… you are deluded!

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:13 pm 8:13 pm

Doug, Obama is not an elitist. And Hillary is not the choice of the dems. Get a life and get educated.

Posted by: candy | April 30, 2008, 8:13 pm 8:13 pm

I am starting to think the Obama supporters are utterly insane.
First they all defended wright because Obama did. Then they all throw him under the bus because Obama did.
Now, one guy on here says he doesnt care if Obama ends up in jail -he will STILL vote for him.
This to me is a CULT movement.
Obama cant win the general election.

Posted by: tomdavie | April 30, 2008, 8:14 pm 8:14 pm

Your right Doug is time for the true Democrats to take back their party

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:14 pm 8:14 pm

If you want to bet your hard earned cash on the presidential race- Obama 75% chance of winning and Hillary 22% chance. That is the only objective news you will get from this site- Intrade quotes-

Posted by: discernment | April 30, 2008, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm

On the contrary, it is Obama’s support base that is utterly useless in a Presidential campaign. The South votes Republican en masse. And the Midwest is staunch Republican territory too. Hillary has won the Democratic heartland – Obama has won caucuses and primaries that are electoral dead ends. Hillary has won NY NJ PA CA TX OH MA TN FL and MI. And she is odds on to win IN KY WV PR and now leads in NC. That’s the portfolio of a winning candidate who has won the broad support of America.

Posted by: Doug | April 30, 2008, 8:16 pm 8:16 pm

Greammy
Im with you if the dems nominate Obama Im goingto vote republican for the first time in my life

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:17 pm 8:17 pm

Obama is the spoiler of 08 . If he gets the nomination he will lose the big one . He is very UN electable . He is racist and the fact that he stayed with Wright and the church for 20 yrs proves he has very poor judgement . He will never win . Lets get real .

Posted by: monyneen | April 30, 2008, 8:17 pm 8:17 pm

Obama is the spoiler of 08 . If he gets the nomination he will lose the big one . He is very UN electable . He is racist and the fact that he stayed with Wright and the church for 20 yrs proves he has very poor judgement . He will never win . Lets get real .

Posted by: monyneen | April 30, 2008, 8:18 pm 8:18 pm

Grammy Barb you are 1 person and I honestly don’t believe that republican women would vote for Hillary. I guess you are betraying your own party because a woman is running.

Posted by: lisa | April 30, 2008, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm

mdsdmo, Good try at trying to spin for Obama. Point is Obama believes government is the answer to all the Nation’s problems when it is the people who makes the Nation what it is. Reality is government uses a stick to take from the people and than uses the dead hand of government to decide who gets what back if anything. If the people are allowed to keep what they have than the carrot of the free market will prevail and everyone will have a chance to prosper. Given Obama’s choice of a Pastor, who he let his kids listen to for the past twenty years, I would not trust Obama with two cents of anyones hard earned money.

Posted by: Sally | April 30, 2008, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm

Candy
Wrong again he is not yet nor will he be the choice of the dems if you Obamakins would get over your delusion we might be able to move things forward!

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:20 pm 8:20 pm

Discernment
according to a main stream poll today it is down to 51-49 for Obama hes slipping get used to it

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:22 pm 8:22 pm

MEMO TO ALL YOU BITTER HILLARY SUPPORTERS. YOUR TIME WILL NEVER COME. SHE WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT. IT’S YOUR CHOICE, KEEP THE SAME BUSH POLICIES YOU CLAIM TO BE AGAINST, OR GET ON THE TRAIN WITH THE REST OF US AND MAKE THIS HAPPEN. IT’S YOUR CHOICE, PEACE OR OBLITERATION.

Posted by: Mike D. | April 30, 2008, 8:22 pm 8:22 pm

lisa tells me that the superdelegates have already decided. i read that same story. lisa is clearly younger than i am – she still believes crap she reads from biased sources.
however, even assuming arguendo that the story were true, lisa forgets that the supers can change their minds thousands of times between now and the convention.
even more importantly, she forgets that the supers don’t decide the general election. the american people do.
the dem party may or may not be stupid enough to commit political suicide and nominate obama.
the american people are NOT stupid enough to elect him in november.
good night lisa, it’s past your bed time.

Posted by: so saddened | April 30, 2008, 8:23 pm 8:23 pm

when people talk about Obama sitting in church for 20 years, so i ask, america has lynched, enslaved, killed both balcks and indians, they invented HIV to kill the minorities…why are all you white people sitting around here in this racist country, why dont you all reject,denounce and move out…..and while at it…how come KRUMMER said racist things on TV and the next day their DVD sales sky rocketed?…..is this what we call modern day lynching?….we’ll i have news for you, this not the early nineties…this time around we are smarte unlike our grandparents, we have millitary training and weapons to back it up…and like malcolm said it…we’ll defend ourseolves by any means necessary…..you can have the presidency coz we dont really care who sits in a racist house called white house……..Rev WRIGHT is GOD… and FARAKHAN is GOD too…new black revolution will be printed in HOLY QUORAN

Posted by: jakisumu | April 30, 2008, 8:23 pm 8:23 pm

You are talking about my delusions staniam. LOL How about yours. He will be the canidate. He is ahead in everything. How do you justify Hillary winning.

Posted by: candy | April 30, 2008, 8:24 pm 8:24 pm

It is outrageous that a candidate utterly out of touch with blue collar white Americans and women – the majority in both the Democratic Party and the US population generally – is mounting a challenge for the nomination based on racist black bloc voting – imagine if WHITES bloc voted for Hillary or McCain the same way! – and an elitist ‘we know better, educated urban under 40s’. And caucuses. Hello? You people need to get real. Instead of denying popular votes involving millions of Americans; instead of talking about discounting by half their delegates and awarding half the delegates in Michigan to a guy who chose not to be on the ballot; instead of setting arbitrary deadlines for a candidate to drop out; maybe these folks should start LISTENING to the American voter and SCRUTINISING candidates a bit more thoroughly. The people want Hillary.

Posted by: Doug | April 30, 2008, 8:24 pm 8:24 pm

Showustherealobama
yea the Obama people are trying to say that this was a coordinated effort by wright and Obama guess its the silly season Obama talks about Wright was confirmed by other pastors that have been in that church that thats the way it has always been there

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:26 pm 8:26 pm

Mike D
I wouldnt threaten hillary people if I were you!

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:27 pm 8:27 pm

so saddened, I am in my 50′s LOL And the supers will decide this. What don’t you understand about that. We voted but that is not enough to select a canidate. We ae done, it is not up to us.

Posted by: lisa | April 30, 2008, 8:29 pm 8:29 pm

Erin
Hillary can and will win the popular vote… Obama people are scared to the point of being sick that she will

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:29 pm 8:29 pm

This argument that all these super delegates are LINED UP to vote for Obama is BS.
There is no remaining swing states. Every single day this contest goes on, Obama gets weaker. All the states remaining after this -except Oregon- are Clinton states.
But only Oregon and west virginia (if clinton is the nominee) will go democratic in the fall. Indiana and north carolina etc etc will go for Mc Cain in November….
So there is NO POINT to this whatsoever if the superdelegates are going to nominate Obama anyways.
They would have all come out to stop the nonsense. Heaven knows several Obama supporters and the corrupt liberal media have kept hammering the message .
The fact is, Obama needs to just SEAL THE DEAL. He just needs to prove he can win the blue collar vote.
But I dont think he will. I dont think there is any chance of that.

Posted by: tomdavie | April 30, 2008, 8:30 pm 8:30 pm

Lisa
yea the supers will decide the nomination for hillary … just go away if you cant be rational

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:30 pm 8:30 pm

omentum unintentionally pointed out one of obama’s thousands of weaknesses.
he says he, and obama, gave wright the benefit of the doubt (about all his anti-american, racist, sexist, stuff). but then when wright
“disrespected this campaign”
they threw him under the bus.
that is exactly what happened. obama agrees with wright’s rantings. he’s just mad about the harm to his CAMPAIGN. THAT was the thing that caused wright to have to be denounced.
thinking people already knew this. obamabots can’t grasp it, even when they write the words themselves.

Posted by: so saddened | April 30, 2008, 8:31 pm 8:31 pm

Sorry I don’t think the supers will go for Hill, staniam. Why am I not rational. Is it because I disagree with you.

Posted by: lisa | April 30, 2008, 8:33 pm 8:33 pm

lisa, sorry for thinking you were young – i read your comments and reached that conclusion.

Posted by: so saddened | April 30, 2008, 8:33 pm 8:33 pm

Good point Tomdavie
Hillary is head by 30 or so in WV and now leads in some polls in NC the momemntum is swinging and it is all about coalition that can beat the republicans in the fall nothing else

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:33 pm 8:33 pm

Lisa
you dont think but you hope the supers dont go for Hillary if she is head in pop vote and wins the last few states they will have to period!

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm

staniam
Don’t know if you read the memo but DELEGATES determine the winner. Given your argument, Hill’s last chance to rack up popular votes passed once the PA polls closed. She is done. At best she will match Barack’s popular vote from here on out.
We have a statesman … tested by the most formidable most well know name in Democratic history (CLINTON) and fighting the GOP at the same time.
You have a kitchen sink strategist whose plan has utterly FAILED…..
barack obama 2008, 2012

Posted by: Omentum | April 30, 2008, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm

Lisa.
The fact that the voters were never going to decide this has been a fact since super tuesday.
Ergo the corrupt liberal media began the plan to BRAINWASH the very argument you now hear from Obama lovers.
-hes AHEAD in delegates . He MUST win .
-no SMOKE FILLED ROOMS etc……
This is what the corrupt liberal media wanted them to believe.
The fact is this :
HERE YE HERE YE
-the decision of who will the democratic nominee WILL be determined by the ‘smoke filled rooms’ of super delegates for either Obama or Clinton.
What EXUSE they give us to why they nominate either one is of course to APPEASE us voters.
For Obama?
he has more delegates. His mighty 2% lead in delegates somehow constitutes the WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
Real reason ? They dont want to tick off african americans or youngsters.
For Clinton?
-she won the popular vote by a mighty .01%
-she won the major primaries and core democrat bases.
Real reason?
- Obama will become Mc Govern. the multi millions of blue collar whites will defect to mc Cain in the major swing states.

Posted by: tomdavie | April 30, 2008, 8:36 pm 8:36 pm

So saddened
your right its like which ever way the wind blows the Obamaites will follow their fearless leader its sortof like … let me think um George W Bush thats what its all about defeating a populist message they are gonna come after the unfairly rich and put the middle class back where it used to be

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:38 pm 8:38 pm

so saddended thank you for your apology. You are a gem, even though we disagree :)

Posted by: lisa | April 30, 2008, 8:38 pm 8:38 pm

Omentum
nope nope nope the process didnt end in Pa it has only just begun you are flat wrong and its delegates and superdelegates and depending on the momentum and electablilty issues you are obviously a dedicated soldier of Change but it aint gonna happen Obama will not be the nominee or president

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:42 pm 8:42 pm

Past my bed time. Night all. Please just pick the dem no matter who it is. This economyy sucks and I don’t want my kids going to war. I just have a bad feeling that there will be a draft if McCain is our president. Let’s do the right thing…..bring our troops home

Posted by: lisa | April 30, 2008, 8:44 pm 8:44 pm

Tomdavie
right you are again Mcgovernites are the part of the party that can afford to screw themselves but there are people with informed good intentions that will effect the outcome

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:45 pm 8:45 pm

Lisa, maybe my girlfriends won’t change the outcome, but start adding up all the girlfriends across the country, and it will change the outcome. Our daughters do deserve to see a woman of courage and tenacity become president – and Hillary has shown that she is made of “true grit” and the “right stuff” to run this country. Even Chris Matthews has had to begrudge her that in the last few days. I will not vote for a man who has ties to radical, left wing, anti-american, anti-semitic, and terrorist connections. Ever. The democratic party will drive the bus off the cliff with Obama’s granny and a whole host of other former Obama friends and supporters underneath if Obama is the nominee.

Posted by: frisco girl | April 30, 2008, 8:45 pm 8:45 pm

Obama dropped from a 23 point lead in North Carolina to 5 points.
We know Obama supporters are all about math. So, anything below 10% win, Obama needs to drop out to unite the party.

Posted by: Martin | April 30, 2008, 8:46 pm 8:46 pm

Obama dropped from a 23 point lead in North Carolina to 5 points.
We know Obama supporters are all about math. So, anything below 10% win, Obama needs to drop out to unite the party.

Posted by: Martin | April 30, 2008, 8:46 pm 8:46 pm

Supers are now starting to think about their own political futures as more and more of them realize that a core Democratic revolt from the party if Obama is the nominee will result in down-ticket Dems being defeated by the rush to vote Republican at the top of the ticket. This is just common sense. There are already ads in Mississippi and North Carolina pointing out that a candidate’s opposition supports Obama, and this is just the beginning of it. Supers are scared that an Obama coronation will hurt the entire party in November, and that’s a real possibility.

Posted by: Grammy Barb | April 30, 2008, 8:46 pm 8:46 pm

Lisa
there will be people that will not vote for Obama so that means thats its ok with us for Mccain to win in order to keep corruption out of the white house

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:47 pm 8:47 pm

Martin
Thank you very much for b eing sensible if that happens Obama and his wife will come out more grim faced than usual and say they will be suspbending their campaign the day after NC I predict it here!

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:48 pm 8:48 pm

Obama is playing the race card against white people.
He sat and agreed with Wright for 20 years.

Posted by: Tina | April 30, 2008, 8:49 pm 8:49 pm

Obama is playing the race card against white people.
He sat and agreed with Wright for 20 years.

Posted by: Tina | April 30, 2008, 8:49 pm 8:49 pm

Frico girl
from the San Fran bay to the cape fear river in NC we have to take this party back from the brink of a mistake :)

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:50 pm 8:50 pm

now lisa brings up the draft scare. she knows that’s propaganda. if she doesn’t, that’s even more sad.
sorry, lisa, the fear trolling won’t work. it’s either hillary or mccain, no other option.

Posted by: so saddened | April 30, 2008, 8:51 pm 8:51 pm

Grammy
I caught on to the new revolt that Hillary said she was starting in Philadelphia after she won PA thats the way it has to be!

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:52 pm 8:52 pm

NEW POLL:
Hillary leading by 2% in North Carolina.
Bye Bye Wright/Obama Drama

Posted by: Steve | April 30, 2008, 8:53 pm 8:53 pm

NEW POLL:
Hillary leading by 2% in North Carolina.
Bye Bye Wright/Obama Drama

Posted by: Steve | April 30, 2008, 8:53 pm 8:53 pm

Amazing to see these Obama supporters now trying to play nice after months and months of attacks against Hillary and her supporters.
“We need to unite”….bullshi*t
HILLARY or McCAIN

Posted by: Joe | April 30, 2008, 8:55 pm 8:55 pm

Amazing to see these Obama supporters now trying to play nice after months and months of attacks against Hillary and her supporters.
“We need to unite”….bullshi*t
HILLARY or McCAIN

Posted by: Joe | April 30, 2008, 8:55 pm 8:55 pm

Steve
If she holds IN by two and wins NC by 2 then he will have to give up !its just the not ready for primetime amateur hour they tried to impose thankfully the core democrats have stuck with Hillary

Posted by: Staniam | April 30, 2008, 8:56 pm 8:56 pm

Rev Wright and Obama’s Brand of Black Liberation Theology!
Rev. Wright believes in and preaches black liberation theology. His church scrubbed the web site for offensive materials in an effort to conceal their true nature. Here are a few quotes from a founder of black liberation theology (and Rev. Wright’s theological mentor), Rev. James Cone, about Obama’s religion: (1) “To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people.” (2) “While it is true that blacks do hate whites, black hatred is not racism.” (3) “All white men are responsible for white oppression.” (4) “Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man “the devil.” (5) “If there is any contemporary meaning of the Antichrist, the white church seems to be a manifestation of it.” (6) “Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community. Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.” Now, if you don’t think that the statements above are racist, then you and I can agree to disagree. The real issue is that Americans in general need to know about the racist nature of Obama’s religion, because it goes to the heart of his character and judgment. Then, once America understands this issue, if they agree with the racist bent of his church, so be it. I have a feeling, however, that once people find out about this issue, he will be losing supporters by the droves. If it doesn’t happen now, it will in the general election if, God forbid, he is the Democratic nominee and he chooses Rev. Wright for Vice President.

Posted by: Bob4USA | April 30, 2008, 8:57 pm 8:57 pm

The simple truth is, had Saddam adhered to UN resolution 1441 the US would not have invaded Iraq. Documents secured from Saddam now show that Saddam had every intention of restarting his WMD program as he did not think the US would invade him. So sooner or later, the world would have had to face up to the immediate threat Saddam posed to the world. Post 9/11, the US decided it would not wait and be attacked by a known enemy of the West . An enemy who cheered 9/11 , provided aid to Hamas , and who every intelligence agency reported had WMDs. Thus Iraq was invaded. In my opinion, whether it would have been better let Saddam stay in power is a moot point at this time. The facts on the ground now in Iraq are that Al Qaeda is there and if the USA retreats and turns Iraq over to them, Al Qaeda will have access to Iraq’s large oil reserves and thus the means and opportunity to attack us and attack us hard. Our Middle Eastern allies will abandon us and hook up with Al Queda, not to mention the boost a withdrawal from Iraq will give to Iran, Syria and Hamas. Think WWIII, A lot of people on these posts seem think the worse of the USA, again as embodied in the anti-American sermons of Rev. Wright. Further, they scoff at the threat Al Qaeda and the rest of their ilk poses to the security of the US and future of the Western World. I say stop thinking the worse of America and save a little of your vitriol for our true enemies.
In conclusion, if Obama or Clinton are elected their defeatist policies will put us all at more risk of another 9/11 attack. Even worse a defeat in Iraq could lead to a broader more deadly war in the middle east and beyond. Just like what happened in WWII when people like Obama and Clinton thought that the Hitler types of the world could be appeased and they were wrong, very wrong.

Posted by: think | April 30, 2008, 9:00 pm 9:00 pm

Many of you bloggers know I am a true Clinton supporter.
But this latest poll showing Clinton winning North Carolina is pretty far fetched. Rasmusen has Obama by 14, but that too is far fetched, and came before the Govenor endorsment and the newest Wright scandal.
I trust SUSA , which came out before the guv and wright stories.
It had Obama by 5.
Now Obama still has 5 days to save himself there. There could be a rebound. But on the other hand, the RNC is running negative ads using wright and Obama in it.
So a ten point win by Obama there seems unlikely . But so does an outright Clinton victory.

Posted by: tomdavie | April 30, 2008, 9:04 pm 9:04 pm

think: I really don’t think your living up to your name.

Posted by: ron | April 30, 2008, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm

Omentum
are you trully that much out of touch Rev Wright was behind closed doors in prayer with Sen Obama and Michelle before he announced they would not let him to a public invocation! he has been with them the whole time and for 20 years he didnt just “come out from under a rock” last week! your candidate is done end of story!

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm

tomdavie, i agree re hillary winning nc being unlikely.
but if she wins indiana and loses nc just by a little, she’s made a huge point that the supers might listen to.
if she loses both, i think he’ll be the nominee. of course, then mccain will win the general. to me, that’s preferable to obama.
i’m still holding out hope that my idiotic party will come to its senses and realize obama is mcgovern redux.

Posted by: so saddened | April 30, 2008, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm

Tomdavie
thats true we have to be realistic it was Rev wright that was doign a victory dance on Obama at the national Press Club and the NAACP in NC there is a poster “we arent bitter we are just better”

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm

The debates and primaries are for show casing the strengths and weaknesses of the candidates and their solutions for issues for the voters. The debates and the primaries are for the people so they can make an informed decision and vote for who is the best candidate who demonstrates Presidential qualities, experience, able to answer question easily with real substance and to the point, support the plans and solutions for issues that will benefit the people not the elitist aristocracy or hidden radical agendas. Obama refuses to do any more debates because he is a sore loser he performed miserably by not answering the questions with straight forward to the point answers and lost all of the debates. Obama is scared that his elitist beliefs and attitudes towards the people of the USA and his disrespect and hate of the USA and its people will be completely exposed. Obama is scared that his true greedy desires in obtaining power and money will be completely exposed. Late breaking news Illinois Senator Obama laundered money (person income) from Blackwell through his the lawyer firm he worked for prior to his being elected to the Illinois Senate. Blackwell who received political favors from Obama and Obama received donations for campaigns and hidden personal income. Obama will be indicted for these criminal actions. Obama is scared his actions, lack of action and very questionable associates clearly demonstrate Obama’s true intentions and agendas. Obama is scared that all the negative things Obama has accused Hillary of doing and saying in this campaign are actually the very actions and things Obama has been doing and saying not Hillary. Obama is scared his lack of confidence and inexperience will be completely exposed. Another very important reason Obama is scared and will not debate is Obama can’t remember all the lies he has told during his campaign. Here are 76 lies and counting that Obama has told us at http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/?page_id=15 Find more lies told by Obama at http://www.hillaryclinton.com Click on the icon Fact Check. If Obama loses the Democratic Nomination for President his supporters say they will riot in the streets. Obama supporters want to turn the USA into third world countries like Kenya and Zimbabwe. Rioting in the streets because, Obama has been exposed as a spoiled brat; weak, wimpy, arrogant, elitist, inexperienced, corrupt, racist and radical to the extremes are character traits, beliefs and actions of Obama that will cause him to lose this race for the President of the USA. Rioting in the streets is very immature and stupid like Odinga, Obama’s cousin who incited riots and death squads in Kenya. Mugabe did the same in Zimbabwe because he is a mentally challenged immature violent sore loser like Odinga. The USA is a country that provides many freedoms for its people example: right of free speech and the right to vote as we please. Be smart make an informed decision and vote for the most qualified and experienced candidate for President of the USA Hillary Clinton who respects the people, who listens to the people, has compassion for the people of the USA. Hillary will fix the economy and fight for the people of the USA by creating solutions for real changes that benefits all the people of the USA. Hillary will unite the people of the USA, restore the US Constitution and win back the respect of our people and the respect for our government of the USA world wide. Hillary has real substantial solutions for real changes that make sense and will help all of us. Go to Hillary’s web site and explore it http://www.hillaryclinton.com Look at Hillary’s detailed solutions for real changes on the economy, healthcare, education, veterans benefits, Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Read Hillary’s speeches, fact check, attack timeline (of Obama attacks on Hillary), Women for Hillary, and all the other great places on Hillary’s web site to find out more about Hillary so you can make a informed decision and vote for Hillary. While you are visiting Hillary’s web site http://www.hillaryclinton.com make donations to Hillary’s campaign.

Posted by: Bob4USA | April 30, 2008, 9:12 pm 9:12 pm

tomdavie
I had you wrong… you do have sense. The truth of the matter is Barack is going to win…. He absoutely has to. It’s just a matter of time. BO has slogged through all the manure that has been flung at him by Hill Bill and the GOP clan and he is still standing…..
So please don’t be sore losers and not support this guy… He can’t help it if he has drawn so many people who want to support his campaign. Hillary totally dismissed BO until he was coasting to the nomination.
Imagine if BO was the terrorist (as some are portraying him) what does that say about her vigilant 3am eye seeking out threats to the US.
She already failed that test when she voted for this quagmire we are now in.

Posted by: Omentum | April 30, 2008, 9:12 pm 9:12 pm

I had you wrong… you do have sense. The truth of the matter is Barack is going to win…. He absoutely has to. It’s just a matter of time. BO has slogged through all the manure that has been flung at him by Hill Bill and the GOP clan and he is still standing….. She already failed that test when she voted for this quagmire we are now in.
THere go the Obamakins with their temper tamtrums if Obama doesnt win the truth hurts really it was Wright himself that brought all this stuff out and Hill and Bill largely stayed out of it and the Iraq war plea is so yesterday aor last year both of them would try to get us out of iraq but neither will be able to right away so the most important thing is the economny and Obama cant deal with that cause hes a rich out of touch elitist and we are going to through all of you out if you overturn the will of the Democratic party and impose Obama on us!

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm

whatever happens…. we’ve got to get rid of this super delegate garbage for next time.
how do they pick them?
I heard that Michelle’s mom is one.
(MM mm, can you imagine Michelle in the white house….. along with Rev Meeks, Rshid Khalidi, Farrakhan, William Ayers, and Bernadine Dohrn and a couple of members of Hamas a-smoking and a-spouting international policy up in the oval office.)
OH=MY-GOD!!!!!
i guess us olde, uneducated folk better put our heads together right quick to pull our country out of the B O stew pot!
Coming. Maw!
Wait. There! On that White Steed!
It’s…IT’S HILLARY , COME TO SAVE US!
GIVE ‘EM HELL, HILLARY!

Posted by: questioner | April 30, 2008, 9:18 pm 9:18 pm

OMG
lets look and see who thinks he has ettiquette IM suprised you have that in your vocabulary ! and you dont want to discuss just get out of the way of the train thats gonna run you down now

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 9:20 pm 9:20 pm

So if the USA retreats from Iraq and leaves Iraq to the tender mercies of Al Qaeda. Than what? Al Qaeda will have control of Iraq’s oil and the Iraq people who counted on us to stand by them will be at the mercy of Al Qaeda. Iran and Syria will be emboldened and not think twice about pursuing nukes. So ron, what do you think Al Qaeda, Iran, Syria and the rest of the Middle East will do if the USA retreats from Iraq? Will Al Qaeda leave Iraq along with all of Iraq’s oil? Will Iran and Syria stop developing nukes? Will the rest of the Middle East have any reason to trust the US’s good word any longer?

Posted by: think | April 30, 2008, 9:22 pm 9:22 pm

New poll shows Clinton in the lead in NC by 2 points with 14% undecided. That makes NC a projected tie. I am not sure if that will hold true but it is very telling of public opinion shifting or being uncertain where it as certain before. Just as Obama stated he needed to keep PA close to stay in the race, Clinton needs to keep NC close to stay in the race. If she were to somehow win NC and IN, are we seeing the will of the voters change enough to convince the SD’s? I guess we will find out next week!

Posted by: DCVoter | April 30, 2008, 9:25 pm 9:25 pm

its Omentum thats nuts how can you already have won when the contest isnt over yet the Obamabots just got complacent in their greed and ambition is all amateur mistake:)

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 9:27 pm 9:27 pm

Omentum: Get this and get it now – there are many true, core Dems that will never, ever support Barack Obama if he is the nominee, so tell your friends to quit the “let’s play nice” tactics with the Clinton supporters now that you think your guy has it in the bag ’cause it won’t work. I am an American first, a Democrat second, and my vote will go to McCain if Obama is given the nomination. McCain is an American patriot – Obama is a self-serving politician with a gift for making a pretty speech in front of teleprompters, period. He has no backbone, and has set back race relations in this country 50 years. I don’t need him to give me a speech on race relations – he should have given that “inspirational” speech to Reverend Wright and his church years ago.

Posted by: Grammy Barb | April 30, 2008, 9:28 pm 9:28 pm

DCvoter Im going to go work the phones again this weekend to get people out to vote we had good responses for Hillary the last two weekends in NC

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 9:29 pm 9:29 pm

Grammybarb
Well said… Omentum reminds me of that annoying Obama supporter on the CNN election night coverage!its all false false hope false change etc Wright said it himself that Obama wasnt serious

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 9:33 pm 9:33 pm

Omentum
simply stated Wright and Obama are both oppotunists and I wouldnt be surprised if they didnt plan this years ago

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 9:35 pm 9:35 pm

Obama finally demonstrated good judgment in breaking away from Wright completely. It only took him 20 years! He wont have the luxury of hindsight and political posturing as POTUS when it comes to lives and our economy.
We need a POTUS who has enough experience politically, and who listens to all Americans, to take on the corporations and find a middle ground. In other words, we need a centrist humanitarian with the political savvy, fortitude, and international respect to get the job done. We need a President that can mend the left and right wings and carry the body of the eagle to victory now and in the future.
That person is Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Posted by: DCVoter | April 30, 2008, 9:39 pm 9:39 pm

Want another 4 years of this Republican disaster ? OK vote for Hillary , the Republicans have a catoluge of things to attack her on ( which Obama has refused to do )but so far the Republicans and Clinton have been working together against Obama as the Republicans want Clinton , they don’t want to face Obama . Basing your vote on Wright is simply foolish , has no bearing on how Obama would govern , they are two different people , not one and the same man . If you are a member of or attend Catholic church and it has or had a problem with a priest and child molestation , would that mean you share the same values as that Priest or that you approve of his bahavior or of the cover up if there was one ? Of course not , think ! We have real problems folks , serious problems , the Wright deal is a big whoop dee doo over nothing , it’s the media and it’s politics . I will vote Obama any day over a Republican or a candidate who’s history is corporate lawyer , member of the board at WalMart , very close friend of the corporations and lobbyists and they’re money , supporter of NAFTA a proven liar and the Pork Queen of DC . This is not character assassination or smearing but is fact if you don’t know it . PS Obama is still gaining delegates on Clinton , she is not gaining any ground on him . You folks are dreaming if you think she is going to win the nomination , highly unlikely at best .

Posted by: Ray | April 30, 2008, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm

things that repulse me over you candidate but that alone is enough

Posted by: Omentum | April 30, 2008, 9:42 pm 9:42 pm

Thursday, May 01
Race Poll Results Spread
North Carolina Democratic Primary Insider Advantage Obama 42, Clinton 44, Und. 14 Clinton +2.0
Democratic Presidential Nomination FOX News Obama 41, Clinton 44 Clinton +3.0
General Election: McCain vs. Clinton FOX News McCain 44, Clinton 45, Und. 11 Clinton +1.0
General Election: McCain vs. Obama FOX News McCain 46, Obama 43, Und. 11 McCain +3.0
Democratic Presidential Nomination CBS News/NY Times Obama 46, Clinton 38 Obama +8.0
Democratic Presidential Nomination NBC/WSJ Obama 46, Clinton 43 Obama +3.0
General Election: McCain vs. Clinton CBS News/NY Times McCain 43, Clinton 48, Und. 4 Clinton +5.0
General Election: McCain vs. Clinton NBC/WSJ McCain 44, Clinton 45 Clinton +1.0
General Election: McCain vs. Obama CBS News/NY Times McCain 45, Obama 45, Und. 5 Tie
General Election: McCain vs. Obama NBC/WSJ McCain 43, Obama 46 Obama +3.0

Posted by: DCVoter | April 30, 2008, 9:44 pm 9:44 pm

Amen Ray
I guess that happens when you run against a respectable opponent.
But old Hill has done all the dirty work for the GOP.

Posted by: Omentum | April 30, 2008, 9:44 pm 9:44 pm

“I vote four Hilarry…she nice…she help to ejucate me and mi familee….if she sucesss in ejucating mi, she due wunders four countree… she definittly winn Appalachy country!”
How dare you to have the audacity to not only paint of picture of ignorance on my home, but tie our alleged stupidity to our support of Senator Clinton. It’s the divisive tactics of supporters on BOTH sides which are at the forefront of the feud between our party. I can’t even begin to count the number of arrogant and demeaning comments that I’ve read from Obama supporters to Clinton supporters just from this news article. To personally attack me because of my geographic location is not only petty, but elitist. It’s your ignorance which will ultimately cause the fall of Senator Obama’s presidential bid and the Democrats’ hope at the White House. I assure you, if your candidate and supporters continue to alienate the working class, which has always been the core of our party, then I’ll be the first to congratulate President McCain.
Hillary 2008

Posted by: Student from Appalachy | April 30, 2008, 9:47 pm 9:47 pm

I think David Axelrod must have a new strategy with his paid Obama bloggers – start being nice to Hillary supporters, talk about unity in the party, anything’s better than a Republican in November, blah, blah, blah. Sorry, David, it isn’t going to work – it’s Clinton or McCain, what part of that don’t you understand?

Posted by: Grammy Barb | April 30, 2008, 9:47 pm 9:47 pm

If your guys’s logic is that we should blame Obama for the actions of his pastor, than we should also start blaming Catholics for going to churches where pedophile priests preyed on children. It’s as simple as that.
You don’t get it both ways.

Posted by: kate | April 30, 2008, 9:47 pm 9:47 pm

Heard that Senator Clinton does not know what a red bull energy drink is? Now tell me who is the real elitist. She doesnt know how to use the fuel pump and now does not know what a red bull is? Thank God this was not a mistake from Obama, Clinton would have seized on it to roast him further.

Posted by: vinny | April 30, 2008, 9:49 pm 9:49 pm

“I vote four Hilarry…she nice…she help to ejucate me and mi familee….if she sucesss in ejucating mi, she due wunders four countree… she definittly winn Appalachy country!” YEEHAH!!!

Posted by: Joe-Bob | April 30, 2008, 9:49 pm 9:49 pm

Obviously reporting headlining that Obama leads Clinton by 8% in a head to head race in this same poll would be too fair and balanced for ABC. I’m so sick of ABC and their bias ever since their travesty of a so-called “debate”

Posted by: ABC Bias | April 30, 2008, 9:52 pm 9:52 pm

Obviously headlining that Obama leads Clinton by 8% in a head to head race in this same poll would be too fair and balanced for ABC. I’m so sick of ABC and their bias ever since their travesty of a so-called “debate”

Posted by: ABC Bias | April 30, 2008, 9:52 pm 9:52 pm

staniam – keep up the good work and goodnight.

Posted by: DCVoter | April 30, 2008, 9:52 pm 9:52 pm

Heard that Senator Clinton does not know what a red bull energy drink is? Now tell me who is the real elitist. She doesnt know how to use the fuel pump and now does not know what a red bull is? Thank God this was not a mistake from Obama, Clinton would have seized on it to roast him further.

Posted by: vinny | April 30, 2008, 9:54 pm 9:54 pm

Omentum
VA eh guess you wasted your vote then since that was just the beginning you just cant justify the confligration of events you cant help Obama now :)

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 9:54 pm 9:54 pm

Grammy
yea paying money to people so they can smoothe talk for votes isnt that bribery ?

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 9:57 pm 9:57 pm

staniam: I haven’t “waisted” my vote yet, and Im voting for Obama!

Posted by: Bob | April 30, 2008, 9:58 pm 9:58 pm

so I guess its the Obamabots that need redbull to help them get fake energy they need to pull themselves out of this hole!

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 10:00 pm 10:00 pm

My 46 yo husband has always been for Obama not a zealot just a simple straight forward “I like the guy and I’m going to vote for him”. We have agreed to disagree as I favour Clinton.
He recently said he would vote for Clinton in our upcoming primary. I was like “HUH, Why? Is it the Wright thing?” He said “no that doesn’t surprise me at all. I mean if he can say what he did about his grandmother then Wright is easy to throw away”
Turns out he decided the guy was no good when he said what he called her racist. He found it disgusting and said the guys got no class. As far as my husband is concerned his grandmother was accomplished and successful and most importantly she there for him when his mum took off on her exploits and left him and later him and his sister in her care. She educated, fed and clothed them and most importantly absolutely nobody corroborates his accusations against his grandmother. In fact everyone who has known her says it is unbelievable that she would say that. He thinks Obama is ungrateful, disrespectful and untruthful. He believes he doesn’t care who he steps on to get to his winning post.
So its funny what can swing a vote.

Posted by: funny that | April 30, 2008, 10:02 pm 10:02 pm

Student from Appalachy: Just ignore the “more educated” Obama supporters, they can’t help themselves – ignorance is still ignorance no matter how many degrees they claim to have.

Posted by: Grammy Barb | April 30, 2008, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm

NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT REV. WILLIAM PROCANICK, HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON’S PASTOR WHO IS IN JAIL FOR CHILD MOLESTATION.
CHILD MOLESTATION? INCREDIBLE.

Posted by: kizeem | April 30, 2008, 10:06 pm 10:06 pm

Tom
if you are a paid blogger for Obama lets see who is the more ignorant one you all shouldve know that that kind of stuff you spew wouldnt work with the general democratic electorate so cease and desist

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 10:07 pm 10:07 pm

staniam: I am a voter who will be voting this month for Obama.

Posted by: tom | April 30, 2008, 10:09 pm 10:09 pm

Omentum
once again thats what you hope looks like its not gonna be that way so I guess you all failed didnt you? its ok to be a failure :)

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 10:09 pm 10:09 pm

Kizeem
cmon you gotta do better than that sound liek the rest of the Obamakins sortof eh efeminate !

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 10:12 pm 10:12 pm

Omentum weve all beeen sittign here waitign for your Oenlightenment but its just the same old diversonary rhetoric its not going to work anymore

Posted by: stamniam | April 30, 2008, 10:13 pm 10:13 pm

A green snake in a green grass is a very dangerous snake because it is difficult to see it coming, and boom it bites before you know it. That is what Hillary is.

Posted by: kizeem | April 30, 2008, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm

OBAMA’S FATHER WAS A KENYAN MUSLIM.
HIS INDONESIAN STEPFATHER WAS A MUSLIM.
HE RAISED IN MUSLIM HOUSEHOLD UNDER MUSLIM TRADITIONS,CULTURES.HE MUST BE
A MUSLIM HIMSELF.
HE PRETEND HE’S A CHRISTIAN.
I THINK HE’S A BIG TIME LIAR……
ANYWAY:HE IS UNELECTABLE IN NOVEMBER.

Posted by: NIcholas | April 30, 2008, 10:15 pm 10:15 pm

please do not insult like that any further at least Hillary people have class

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 10:16 pm 10:16 pm

ah Kizeem thinks hes a regular rydyard Kipling wait probably never heard of him

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm

staniam
We are about to turn the page on this tired lady next week.
Lets talk on the blog “OBAMA WINS NC AND ID” NOW HILLARY MUST MAKE HER EXIT” or something to that effect on May 7th or 8th….
I will be looking for you ….. i tell you now I AM GOING TO LAUGH UNCONTROLLABLY AT YOU and sluggo ….that is if you two have took a dive from a bridge somewhere.
gotta go

Posted by: Omentum | April 30, 2008, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm

Omentum
Obama has lost his Omentum I suggest you not show yourself next week get over it you cant rationalize it or “change” it

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 10:21 pm 10:21 pm

Omentum it is demeaning only for yourself to continue this stuff go away you cant convince anyone of anything

Posted by: staniam | April 30, 2008, 10:22 pm 10:22 pm

Omentum :
I know this may be hard for you to understand , but I will try to say it anyways.
Many of us who paid attention knew his Chicago church as a ‘black value church’, but we knew it could be brushed off with the double standard that blacks are allowed to do that but whites arent. We would look like NAZI’s if we founded a ‘white value’ church.
When we found out how RADICAL this Wright guy was, we were honestly offended. Having a pastor ranting on and on about hating whites and hating the goverment and aids and all that is just going TOO FAR.
How can Obama be this big uniter, but sit in this church 20 years, call this guy his mentor, marry there and have his daughters baptized there???
None of it added up to the SPEECHES he was giving. This is why the Wright thing was a BIG DEAL.
The problem isnt wright. Its Obama.
You see….meanwhile, Barack Obama has been going around telling everyone he is a UNITER . Race doesnt matter. Gender doesnt matter. Republican or Democrat , it doesnt matter.
This is the Obama that you fell in love with. In spite of his thin resume, his promise of healing and hope inspired us all.
Heck, it even INSPIRED ME . But I felt he was too inexperienced yet to become president.
But to find out that his longtime friend and pastor is a racist anti american LUNATIC , reminded me of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson on STEROIDS.
We slowly begin to see that Obama is no such uniter. He is a LIBERAL.
Now moveon.org, and MSNBC and all the other liberals he was attracting made a LOT more sense.
Kerry and Kennedy are the landmark Liberals in the party. It all started to make sense to me.
Now this is fine and all, except he was TELLING US he was a uniter who was right in the CENTER. He isnt.
The fact that he tried to defend Wright, and came up with 3 different versions of what he knew, sealed this for me.
Its about OBAMA. The people he attracts. The person he SAID he was, vs the person he actually is.
The way he tried to lie his way out of the Wright thing. Having no intention of getting rid of him off his campaign until the tapes broke. Telling us he never knew about the inflamatory comments.
His famous Philly speech about race. He twisted the situation into a conversation about race, instead of just setting the record straight about sitting in the church 20 years.
Now Wright blows it all back in Obama’s face and chucks him under the bus. So Obama then chucks Wright under the bus.
I feel for many Obama fans who honestly thought he could appeal to everyone, when he is just your standard Liberal in the democratic party. He is not above lying, or tap dancing, or anything else .
I know you guys still love Obama, but in all fairness,nobody believes he is a great uniter anymore.
He has a very serious credibility problem now. Its not because of Wright either.
Its the way he HANDLED it. He should have just fessed up that he was stupid to stay in the church all those years.
Cut ties with the church, and pastor and move on. Instead he does nothing until FORCED with the tapes, then Wrights own ranting .
He should have just admitted that he characterized middle class folks as dumbo bigots to elitist lefties in San Fran.
Just like Clinton lied about her stupid sniper fire, she admitted she ‘misspoke’ AKA lied. She took the heat and moved on.
Obama should have done the same in several cases.

Posted by: tomdavie | April 30, 2008, 10:25 pm 10:25 pm

I LOVE Obama and I really hope he gets the nomination. Hillary is o.k., but she is a liar and I’m just not o.k. with that, and McCain’s going to continue Bush”s policies.
I like Obama’s positions on the issues. I think he is very very smart. He is thoughtful and he is inspirational. If you just think about it for a minute, it is AMAZING that he is now the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination (against the Clintons and the GOP machines).
Do not underestimate Barack Hussein Obama. He is an a great candidate and I believe he will be a great president for us.

Posted by: Marilyn | April 30, 2008, 10:35 pm 10:35 pm

Hillary is leading today by 1 point according to the Gallup poll.
Here’s a link to the daily Gallup poll:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/106918/Gallup-Daily-Virtual-Tie-Persists-Democratic-Race.aspx

Posted by: Remy | April 30, 2008, 10:45 pm 10:45 pm

I welcome to clinton era( Good economy in the clinton era). American people and pennsylvania people are welcome to Clinton era( Bill clinton & Hillary clinton)(1993-2000).Obama outspent 3:1 on hillary but American people don’t trust obama . American people only trust Hillary. Super deligate must choose Hillary for democratic nominee because she won traditional democratic states and swing states against McCain. Hillary has won all the states democrat have to win in the general election. Super deligate must not choose obama because 80 % white (Democratic & Republican ) people don’t like obama. Another big factors are obama with muslim terrorist dress, his muslim back ground, his chicago church paster anti -white comment, His bitter anti-white comment , his relationship with terrorist professor willam ayer. I think he is a muslim spy (pretend to be a christian ) of muslim governments .Obama don’t believe Jesus. Democratic nominee is on Hillary Clinton side. Obama should quit the race because he didn’t win core democratic big states and swing states.
South Carolina for obama but North Carolina for Hillary because north carolina governor endosed hillary. Hillary will win north carolina because 70 % of democratic are white. Washington state for obama but Oregon for Hillary. Wisconson for obama but Indiana and Kentucky for Hillary.
Hillary should not be rocky . She sould be former british prime minister Margret Thetchar. Hillary surpass obama in total deligates and super deligates if hillary win in all last 9 states with 70% of votes.Hillary said Tide is turning. She is very right.
Obama played race card because 90 % black support obama. So 95 % all white people must vote Hillary. Obama will loss in general election if he get democratic nominee because hillary supporters and republican white people won’t vote obama. Hillary will win in general election if she get democratic nominee because some republican white people will vote Hillary.Now only Hillary can compete McCain in Novrmber election because She lead McCcain 8 points lead. .American faver Hillary.

Posted by: andrew | April 30, 2008, 10:55 pm 10:55 pm

Hey….heads up. When you’re around Obama, make sure there are no buses around! Just might get thrown under one. (Sorry couldn’t resist).

Posted by: AK | April 30, 2008, 11:11 pm 11:11 pm

Why should the rules change to suit Hillary. According to the Clinton Cult Members, why even have primaries? The SD should just read polls and then vote for whomever has the highest polls. Who cares about the first 80% of the primaries. Queen Hillary has spoken and we must pick her and to hell with my vote.

Posted by: The Unshrub | April 30, 2008, 11:17 pm 11:17 pm

USA needs to elect a president that belongs to a family that is not only Bush or Clinton. Or is it family power that dictates who keeps power?
I hope Americans have the courage and foresight to elect an intellegent and resonable man and not let the wolves slow bite away his flesh from behind until he can not fight longer. I am a Republican who wants to vote for Obama if given that chance.
Harold

Posted by: Harold | April 30, 2008, 11:51 pm 11:51 pm

the price price decision show one n\more time that Obama is better decision maker than Hillary. America should elect Obama or they will say we didnot know as what happen with Bush.

Posted by: leche | April 30, 2008, 11:54 pm 11:54 pm

Obama is right on the gaz issue. The japanese cancelled the gaz tax months ego they put it back today.
Ask them why you will learn from that.

Posted by: leche | May 1, 2008, 12:00 am 12:00 am

It’s really amazing – the Democrats have one sure-fire candidate likely to win the election and ably lead the country for 4 years. And they also have a candidate with little or no track record, questionable relationships, down in the polls who can only talk of hope and change. And it seems they will pick the latter….

Posted by: Marl | May 1, 2008, 12:08 am 12:08 am

THIS WHOLE THING OBAMA WILL STILL WIN THE NOMINATION AND THE GENERAL ELECTION. HE WILL IN BOTH INDIANA AND NORTH CAROLINA. FRNAKLY SPEAKING HILLARY IS UNELECTABLE.
SHE IS NOT TRUSTWORTHY.
OBAMA ’08.

Posted by: I.A.T.SMITH | May 1, 2008, 12:11 am 12:11 am

wait a second its Obama that will not win the nomination or the GE now you are Uninformed

Posted by: staniam | May 1, 2008, 12:27 am 12:27 am

Obama is Bush dont you forget that!

Posted by: staniam | May 1, 2008, 12:28 am 12:28 am

The time for eloquence and charm has passed, Camelot has seen it’s days, and they are far gone. We are a nation at war, a two-front war at that. We are a nation on the brink of a major economic crisis. We are a nation that has seen it’s currency devaluated less and less every day, much like the value of our standing in the international community. We are a nation in need of a solid leader. A leader who has the experience, to forge ahead and lead us through the dark days ahead. We don’t need eloquence and poise and speech after speech of change, we need action, commitment and strength to stand up, once again and take back our country. We need a leader who doesn’t offer a “yes we can!” attitude and slogan, but rather one who will give us a “yes we did!” statement when its all said and done. The time for fanciful, and “above the rhetoric” talk has passed. We need Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Jay | May 1, 2008, 12:31 am 12:31 am

Hillary Clinton will lead us out of the Bushy wilderness no time for shrinking violets like Obama

Posted by: staniam | May 1, 2008, 12:36 am 12:36 am

My question is this.
How many super delegates are going to vote for Obama no matter what?
He has serious issues. He cant win major primaries. He cant win blue collar white vote. He has some fundamental electability issues.
If the super delegates are going to support Obama no matter what, they are WASTING tens of millions of dollars in donations that Hillary supporters need to feed their families with.
I think the super delegates who are commited to Obama need to endorse TODAY. Right now.
There is no point in going thru all this and wasting peoples money and time if Hillary cannot win.
Lets have all the super delegates who have decided Obama is their man no matter what to ENDORSE and see if Hillary can still win.
All we see is this ‘leaky bucket’ approach to maximize media coverage.
Nobody in their right mind would endorse Obama right now if they were REALLY undecided.
So lets get it all out in the open.

Posted by: tomdavie | May 1, 2008, 12:50 am 12:50 am

Tomdavie
thats right they are all scared because Obama told them that this wright thing wasnt anything but now it is

Posted by: staniam | May 1, 2008, 12:53 am 12:53 am

staniam.
Look. We all know Obama has some serious problems and isnt the candidate he was in february.
but my concern is that apparently it doesnt MATTER.
Apparently , super delegates are STILL endorsing Obama everyday.
It doesnt take a rocket scientist that a TRULEY UNDECIDED super delegate cant endorse Obama right now.
If you were really still undecided when Obama was WINNING all the time, why would you NOW endorse the guy when he is looking like a FOOL ???????
He is losing in spite of outspending Hillary by a wide margin and having CNN and MSNBC as perpetual INFORMERCIALS .
He has some serious problems for the general election that werent an issue 2 months ago.
If these superdelegates werent for him then, WHY NOW ?
I want all the super delegates who are going to vote for Obama no matter what to ENDORSE right now .
If hillary still has a chance to win , great. If not, we can save tens of millions in donations and a lot of time spent supporting her.

Posted by: tomdavie | May 1, 2008, 1:00 am 1:00 am

Tom
thats why I say I will vote for Hillary or against Obama I think she will stop anyone else from going to Obama after Tuesday

Posted by: staniam | May 1, 2008, 1:14 am 1:14 am

THIS IS NEWS NOT JEREMIAH WRIGHT !!!!!
“Joe Andrew, who was Democratic National Committee chairman from 1999-2001, planned a news conference Thursday in his hometown of Indianapolis to urge other Hoosiers to support Obama in Tuesday’s primary, perhaps the most important contest left in the White House race. He also has written a lengthy letter explaining his decision that he plans to send to other superdelegates.
Taken from yahoo news

Posted by: Ted | May 1, 2008, 1:45 am 1:45 am

Americans are scared to be treated like grown ups, they are afraid of facing the truth, of rolling up their sleeves to do what it takes to fix things – Sen Obama is the only one of the 3 candidates who treats all of us with RESPECT, as grown ups. Now is that a negative?
Or would you rather have a President like Bush who fooled us into a war – aided by Sen Clinton and Sen McCain?
Both Sen Clinton and McCain have shown us, proved to us – that instead of doing what it takes, the real hard solutions, they would rather provide band-aid solutions, pandering and gimmicks…
Ask any well respected economist and they will tell you how bad this gas tax holiday is!
GROW UP, AMERICA, our kids need you to behave grown-up – Sen Obama is the only one – even though he is young, he is really the wise one, uncorrupted by the ways of Washington beltway.

Posted by: geekay | May 1, 2008, 1:57 am 1:57 am

I say stop with all the BS. I am a TRUE Clinton supporter. I am not old. I am still in my youth. I have a college degree. You dont have to some redneck or fossil to support Hillary.
The point is that hillary is starting to make a solid argument to superdelegates that she is the better candidate.
A month ago it was pretty far fetched. But now it isnt.
What I am mad about is the fact Obama keeps getting super delegates every day it seems even though there is no common sense reason for it.
His recent behavoir over the last month has been pathetic by political standards. Bitter gate. Rev Wright. His debate performance. His losses in the primaries in spite of some pretty HEFTY financial advantages.
His bowling 37 ….lol.
The point is, if you are a TRUELY undecided superdelegate. You DIDNT endorse Obama when he was WINNING all the time, but the MINUITE Obama really start to look like WILL lose, you NOW endorse the guy????
Thats impossible.
So there is a bunch of super delegates who are endorsing him no matter how pathetic he performs. They were always going to endorse him anyways.
So whats the POINT to having Hillary SWEAT her brains out to prove she is the better nominee, if the super delegates could CARE LESS anyways?
Its not fair to Hillary or Bill. Its not fair to the millions who support the campaign with donations. They can use the money to feed their families.
I want all super delegates who are going to endorse Obama REGARDLESS of what happens to do so NOW .
Stop wasting everyones time. Its the super delegates who are pulling this crap.
If you want Obama. Come out and say so. If you REALLY havent decided. Stay undecided.

Posted by: tomdavie | May 1, 2008, 2:43 am 2:43 am

Why do people keep bringing up racial arguments against Obama? You folks seem so irrational.

Posted by: chris in chicago | May 1, 2008, 2:45 am 2:45 am

If all of you haven’t fiquired it out yet, the fix is in for Obama and we can blame the party for this. Dean is pathetic as a party leader and that goes for Pelosi and Reid.
Yesterday I switched to independent because I am disgusted with the direction I see the party going. You superdelegates will be sorry in the fall for dividing this party and you have yourselves to blame.
Do you really think the voters in Michigan and Florida are going to forgive you for taking away their vote? You let the republicans in those states have their way and this is just another example of the incompetence of Dean.

Posted by: Average Joe | May 1, 2008, 3:35 am 3:35 am

I TOOK OFFENCE TO MANY OBAMA SUPPORTORS CALLING HILLARY SUPPORTORS UNEDUCATED AND WORKING CLASS BECAUSE I AM NEITHER BOTH. MANY OF MY COLLEAGUES ARE HIGHLY EDUCATED AND UPPER INCOME.WE AGREE THAT SHE HAS THE EXPERIENCE AND WILLINGNESS TO GET THE JOB DONE. WHEN HIRING SOMEONE FOR A POSTION,EXPERIENCE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT. I WANT TO KNOW THAT SOMEONE HAS THE EXPERIENCE TO GET THE JOB DONE. BO SUPPORTS WOULD SAY WHAT SORT OF EXPERIENCE. SOMEONE SUMS IT UP BY SAYING THAT SHE LIVED WITH BILL IN THE WHITE HOUSE, WHO I AM SURE DISCUSSED EVERY MATTER WITH HIM BY HAVING HER INPUT INTO EVERY MATTER OF THE NATION.

Posted by: DOLL | May 1, 2008, 3:53 am 3:53 am

Hillary has the momentum, Barack is fading BUT that can all change in next week’s primaries. If Hillary wins Indiana then the race aggressivley continues. Barack needs a sweep to effectively shut down her momentum and close out the nomination. But, Indiana, North Carolina and super delegates need to look at who is most electable. As a Democrat we need to win the White House, not just the democratic nomination. Our hope for change is lost if we can’t win the Presidency. Please realize the general election is a different ballgame with different voting rules. We have to win 270 electoral votes.

Posted by: JD, Pittsburgh, PA | May 1, 2008, 4:06 am 4:06 am

Grumpy Ole Woman – I totally agree!! The racism must end now!! The question is how can Obama end all of this talk of racism when he seems to only IGNITE it with his black liberation theology religion and Pastor Wright?? This isn’t going to be forgotten by the voters and certainly will be brought up time and time again by the GOP. I like Obama too, but he seems to have ignited a real race war at this point (at least within the democratic party). He needs to suspend his campaign and we need to nominate someone else (maybe not HRC either at this point) in order to defeat the GOP in November. OBAMA PLEASE STOP ALL OF THE DIVISION AND SUSPEND YOUR CAMPAIGN FOR THE GOOD OF THE PARTY — PLEASE!!!

Posted by: fairsuperdelegates08 | May 1, 2008, 4:22 am 4:22 am

Wright is nothing more than tabloid journalism that through sheer intellectual laziness is allowing Clinton spin to drive news cycles.
And isn’t this a form of McCarthyism? Attacking Obama not because of things he said but things people he knows said?
I thought Clinton was opposed to McCarthyism. Oh well, personal convictions often fall short to campaign expediency.

Posted by: Paul | May 1, 2008, 4:23 am 4:23 am

fairsuperdelegates – I suppose its all in the eyes of the beholder, but I’d say the Clinton camp is more responsible than the Obama camp for igniting racial tensions.

Posted by: Paul | May 1, 2008, 4:28 am 4:28 am

I saw on a blog yesterday that the superdelegates’ votes are FOR SALE!! Is this true?? Someone needs to start checking out whether Obama and HRC are giving money to their pledged superdelegates NOW!! What type of watchdog organization could do this for us???

Posted by: fairsuperdelegates08 | May 1, 2008, 4:29 am 4:29 am

Paul, please notice that I did NOT say that HRC should be the nominee either. I am an undecided voter that wants to WIN against the GOP in November. We don’t stand a chance with EITHER candidate in my opinion, but we have to stop this race baiting NOW. With Wright constantly out there stirring things up, how in the #### will this ever go away for our party??? DNC WE NEED AN ELECTABLE NOMINEE – BRING ON GORE – ANYONE WHO CAN WIN AGAINST MCCAIN!!!! ANYONE EXCEPT THESE 2 LOSERS!!!! HELP US!!!

Posted by: fairsuperdelegates08 | May 1, 2008, 4:34 am 4:34 am

fairsuperdelegates – that last post gets into an interesting point. For a while I was thinking this could go to a true brokered convention. And with that, I was seriously thinking there was a good chance a brokered convention would come up with a new name.
The thing is, there’s a lot of Democrats who realize how polarizing Clinton is, and there’s a lot who don’t. Those who do are adverse to that risk – they don’t even want her on the ticket as a vice presidential candidate, believing that she would energize Republicans and repel independents like no one else could.
We heard this talk last January – 15 months ago – when the initial round of electability discussion was focused entirely on Clinton. And its this talk that led to a lot of people looking for an alternative to fund, which translated into Obama’s phenomenal early quarterly reports to the FEC. For good or bad, the people who didn’t want Clinton gravitated towards Obama (because Mark Warner wasn’t running).
So if this went to a brokered convention, my guess is that Obama would either be found to be an acceptable nominee, or we’d see someone drafted. Maybe Evan Bayh, maybe Mark Warner, maybe Kathleen Sebellius… who knows. It would be a placeholder who, while a win would be great, would mostly be given the job of not screwing up the congressional elections.
Now it looks like the momentum is back toward going with Obama, simply because his lead is so large it would be dangerous to the party to deny him the nomination.

Posted by: Paul | May 1, 2008, 4:42 am 4:42 am

It would be wonderful if people would separate church and state here. I see god bless American – god D— america and there is no god or – like Oprah ther are an endless amount of paths that lead to god. You all should know by now to stop using god as some kind of shield for you hate and anger towards everyone around you. People seem to think it’s ok to lash out in hate – the put a god sticker on it and poof they are justified. There is no god in politics – it’s all about hate and anger and most of all winning.
The united states are already in a civil war and the blood shed is becomming increasingly aparent. I will not vote for anyone this year, I don’t care to be a part of this, I don’t care who wins. At some point in your life – you need to step back and take a look at what you have become. There is no winner in politics, just more fuel for more anger and hate. Children are killing children in our schools – planning to blow schools up and where do you think this comes from? They learned it from the grownups. They learned to hate people so much, that they can justify killing them.

Posted by: Ronan | May 1, 2008, 5:35 am 5:35 am

Obama has always been a relatiave unknown – his charisma and “change” approach has got people swept up in a Pied Piper energy. Clinton is known and seen as “same ole same ole.” Now, perhaps, we are seeing more about Obama than we saw before, and the reality that he is imperfect is coming home. Give him a few more years to “green up” and he might make a great President, but for now, I trust Hillary who is a KNOWN quantity.

Posted by: Kate | May 1, 2008, 5:41 am 5:41 am

WHOSE FAULT IS IT? Many Obama supporters cannot face the truth about their candidate, period. They began supporting him when they knew nothing about him, and now that they’ve invested so much of themselves in the “change” he pretended to represent, there is just no turning back for them. No, they will not let information which does not support their image of this man intrude upon their dreams. I blame Obama for this, more than his supporters. He knew he was perpetrating a terrible hoax on the voters of this country from the start. He knew the kinds of ruthless tactics he had used from the beginning to jumpstart his political career. He knew about his dubious associations and how they flew in the face of his calls for “change” and “unification.” He knew about the racist theology to which he subscribed for 20 years, and how destructive such ideas are to the progress of race relations in this country. No, I do not place primary blame for our current unfortunate situation on his supporters; I place it squarely on Obama, who has shown an almost criminal lack of concern about the damage his tactics have done not only to the Democratic Party, but more importantly, to relations between the races about which, ironically, he professes to care so much.

Posted by: James | May 1, 2008, 5:45 am 5:45 am

Hillary can beat McCain; Obama can’t. Joe Andrew (he must have taken character lessons from Bill Richardson) urges Superdelegates to unite behind Obama. Is there some kind of twisted logic here that is too subtle for me to grasp? Or—should Democrats be uniting behind the candidate who can get the Republicans out of the White House, Hillary Clinton?

Posted by: Marty | May 1, 2008, 6:13 am 6:13 am

Have any of you just checked out what Pastor Wright said? You know, “trust but verify.” If he’s lying surely tis can be proved in a Google search. Is your animosity towards critical thinking new, or did you lose it after college, or worse, high school? Why are you getting your answers from the corporate media. Don’t be lazy, check the facts. They are stubborn things. If he is lying a five minute article search will prove it. Lord knows Hilliary and Bill have falsely been given the benefit of the doubt, for far too long. Go ahead try it. Don’t be a puppet led on by invisible strings. Do you believe everything you are told by the corporate media? You are NOT as dumb as George W. BUSH, are you?

Posted by: Blog | May 1, 2008, 6:35 am 6:35 am

Superdelagates are too afraid to let Hillary have this…afraid of what, I don’t know. They are willing to give McCain the Presidency because they are pretty sure Obama can’t beat him but too wimpy to go with Hillary. Any superdelate in office who goes against the state popular vote (hear me Bob Casey???) should get voted out next time they are up (or defeated for any other position)…that means Senator Kerry, Gov Richardson, Sen Ed Kennedy etc etc.

Posted by: babs | May 1, 2008, 6:49 am 6:49 am

Obama says that Wright is not the man he met 20 years ago…same way Obama is not the candidate that the sheep voted for 2 months ago.
Fact is, they are BOTH the same before and now. For Obama’s head in the cloud supporters, he would have to murder someone for them to think that maybe he is not the best Democratic nominee.
Dean will let Obama take a dive…McCain will win (I won’t vote for Obama) and Obama will fade away in politics…
A disgusted “Reagan” Democrat.

Posted by: babs | May 1, 2008, 7:03 am 7:03 am

black liberation theology = race baiting segregationist political indoctrination… it certainly is not a religion!

Posted by: Nick | May 1, 2008, 7:06 am 7:06 am

Its amazing how all of Obama’s friends must keep their mouth shut including his wife… i wonder why?

Posted by: Nick | May 1, 2008, 7:08 am 7:08 am

Obama will lose NC or Hillary will tie him it can happen

Posted by: staniam | May 1, 2008, 7:10 am 7:10 am

Senator Barack Obama has always been what he claims not to be; namely, a “typical Washington politician”. To claim otherwise is complete and utter hypocrisy.

Posted by: PhillyPaul | May 1, 2008, 7:11 am 7:11 am

Babs: The superdelegates have a vested interest in who wins the nomination. Not only have some of the, in my opinion (like Richardson), had discussions about their positions in an Obama administration, but Obama has given much more money to the delegates than has Hillary.
OBAMA BUYING THE DELEGATES:
These are the latest figures from an article in the Seattle Times:
Since 2005, Obama’s PAC has donated $710,900 to superdelegates, more than three times as much as Clinton’s PAC. Her PAC distributed $236,100 to superdelegates during the same time.
The study found that the presidential candidate who gave more money to the superdelegates received their endorsements 82 percent of the time. That’s based on a review of elected officials who are serving as superdelegates and who had endorsed a candidate as of Feb. 25.

Posted by: James | May 1, 2008, 7:12 am 7:12 am

Hey blog: I like to check facts out too especially with the media and their agendas and spin… you need to fact check your candidate though… frankly this guy is not what he appears to be… check out his writings and his struggles with his racial make up… I certainly have some serious reservations about his loyalty to ALL of america and where he wants to take us… and in my view these atre two critical necessities of being President of the USA …

Posted by: Nick | May 1, 2008, 7:13 am 7:13 am

Is anyone else getting tired of being told by the likes of Senator John Kerry, what I should and should not care about in this campaign? An American citizen is not an idiot or being “fooled by the media” if he simply desires to understand what makes Senator Barack Obama’s character and judgement. Senator Kerry, its called being “an informed citizen”!

Posted by: PhillyPaul | May 1, 2008, 7:17 am 7:17 am

BO STATED THAT HE IS GOING TO CHANGE THE ATMOSPHER OF WASHINGTON BY BRINING REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS TOGETHER. THAT IS A JOKE. GEORGE W SAID THE SAME THING WHEN HE WAS RUNNING FOR OFFICE. BY THE WAY WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO HIS CHANGE BANDWAGON, I GUESS THAT IT ROLLED OFF A CLIFF WITH HIM AS PASTOR W. PREVIOUSLY HE TAUNTED HILL ABOUT JUDGEMENT. ALWAYS ASKING WHO HAS THE BEST JUDGEMENT TO LEAD THIS NATION IN EVERY NICELY CRAFTED SPEACHES. I GUESS THAT HE NO LONGER TALKS ABOUT JUDGEMENT. BACK TO THE SUPERDELEGATES. DO THEY REALY BELIEVE THAT BO WILL WIN IN THE GE. THEY ARE ONLY LOOKING OUT FOR THEIR OWN BEST INTEREST. WHAT EVER HAPPEN TO RICHARDSON, KERRY AND TED SINCE PA AND REV WRIGHT. HAVEN’T SEEN THEM LATELY.

Posted by: CHANGE | May 1, 2008, 7:22 am 7:22 am

I read some of the comments from Hillary supporters quoting Fox polls and I question your thinking. Why has the GOP embraced Hillary when it has been that channels mission to destroy her and Bill. Why is her campaign manager touting Fox as the best news channel and why is she spouting the same gas tax as John McCain? In your quest to get her elected you haven’t asked those fundamental questions and how this behavior is affecting the Democratic Party. What I find interesting is the race baiting going on by the media and in part by the Hillary campaign, by telling you over and over that white blue collar workers will not vote for Barack Obama, when the facts are not true. He won more contest than Hillary in states like Iowa, Minnesota, Alaska just a few of the majority white states. And if you are relying on OH or PA results to justify this, there are 48 states in the Union and EVERYONE counts. Instead of worrying about someone’s pastor, what you should be concerend about is jobs, April being the most deadliest month in Iraq since the surge, or that 2 U.S. carriers have taken a posture against Iran in the Persian Gulf. Which by the way Hillary said she would “obliterate” if it launched a nuclear attack against Israel. By the way Israel has nukes Iran don’t, and why would America respond? Wake Up Sheeple, America is facing some hard times, and we need people with their thinking caps on, not this racist, rose colored glasses you Hillary freaks are wearing. By the way, I’m an Independent and will support whoever the Democratic nominee is. My choice of nominee would be Obama. If Hillary is the nominee the GOP base is going to rally and EAT HER ALIVE. Vote DEMS for local and state races to balance the McCain presidency if she is the nominee.

Posted by: Rhonda | May 1, 2008, 7:40 am 7:40 am

Carter = endorses Obama
Carter = professorial & ineffective
Carter = Obama
Obama = eek!!!!

Posted by: cathy | May 1, 2008, 7:40 am 7:40 am

Obama is buying the Super-delegates and promising them the moon, stars and the sun in other words Obama is promising very big political favors and perhaps long term income from some of his wealthier supporters. This explains why so many Super-delegates are supporting and switching to Obama plain and simple isn’t it. Every one of the Super-delegates has a price they will accept. It’s all about how much money and power can be given to the Super-delegates.

Posted by: Bob4USA | May 1, 2008, 7:45 am 7:45 am

The superdelagates are just as greedy as Obama is for power and money.

Posted by: Bob4USA | May 1, 2008, 7:51 am 7:51 am

NEWS FLASH! The STUPOR-DELEGATES have reported to judge Dean that they are hopelessly dead locked. They do, however, feel they can reach a decision before the Denver convention. Their only request was for more KOOL-AID and 3 cases of extra-strength Tylenol.

Posted by: Darrel | May 1, 2008, 8:02 am 8:02 am

I cannot believe the DNC is so very stupid as to not see the handwriting on the wall. If obama is nominated, then all Hillary has to do is go Independent. She may not win the election, but she will STOP obama from getting elected and that in itself is the best thing she can do. The DNC has become the joke of the century and its just time for them to get some guts and do the right thing and the right thing to do is dump obama NOW. I know many people that I’ve spoken to about this will do the same as I, we will vote for McCain and re-register as Republicans. Screw the Dems.

Posted by: Lou | May 1, 2008, 8:02 am 8:02 am

The arrogant elitist Obama is buying the Super-delegates and promising them the moon, stars and the sun in other words Obama is promising very big political favors and perhaps long term income from some of his wealthier supporters. This explains why so many Super-delegates are supporting and switching to Obama plain and simple isn’t it. Every one of the Super-delegates has a price they will accept. It’s all about how much money and power can be given to the Super-delegates. The Super-delegates are just as and greedy as Obama is for power and money. Oh the arrogance of it all.

Posted by: Bob4USA | May 1, 2008, 8:03 am 8:03 am

To bad you can’t trust the polls because all the polls are just BS and people can make the polls look any way they want them to.
But anyway I find this democratic nomination so funny. The Dems are tearing themselfs up and I can sit on the sidelines and laugh at them. McCain will have an easy victory in Novemeber and the democratic party will be a thing of the past. Someone here mentioned Bill and Hillery should build a working class party, yeah they already have something like that, its called Communisim!!

Posted by: Zach | May 1, 2008, 8:07 am 8:07 am

I cannot believe the DNC is so very stupid as to not see the handwriting on the wall. If obama is nominated, then all Hillary has to do is go Independent. She may not win the election, but she will STOP obama from getting elected and that in itself is the best thing she can do. The DNC has become the joke of the century and its just time for them to get some guts and do the right thing and the right thing to do is dump obama NOW. I know many people that I’ve spoken to about this will do the same as I, we will vote for McCain and re-register as Republicans.

Posted by: Lou | May 1, 2008, 8:09 am 8:09 am

Alfredo – you should try to get facts from other sources than the Clinton campaign. Obama didn’t outspend Clinton in Pennsylvania 5 to 1. That was a Clinton… let’s just call it a mistatement, or exaggeration. The actual ratio was 2.4 to 1.
And why, might you ask? Because he managed his finances well and had the money. Clinton didn’t.

Posted by: Paul | May 1, 2008, 8:26 am 8:26 am

Guess who was right about the so called “gas tax holliday”..
To bad nobody givers credit where credit is due.

Posted by: BlueJersey | May 1, 2008, 8:32 am 8:32 am

NEW YORK (May 1) – U.S. companies’ planned layoffs jumped 68 percent in April from the prior month to the highest since September 2006, pointing to further deterioration in the labor market, a report showed on Thursday.
Planned job cuts in U.S. companies totaled 90,015 last month, up from 53,579 in March and up 27 percent from a year earlier, employment consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc. reported.
The April layoffs were the steepest since the 100,315 cuts announced in September 2006.
Thanks repugs.

Posted by: BlueJersey | May 1, 2008, 8:37 am 8:37 am

Carter couldn’t even beat Reagan’s third rate self. Who cares what that loser thinks.

Posted by: livegap | May 1, 2008, 8:38 am 8:38 am

NEWS FLASH! Hillary is giving Obama one last chance for VP job……Obama’s response….”This is your last chance for a BJ job”. Oh these bitter, bitter wealthy Americans. They cling to their lies, ego’s, power trips, racists remarks, false promises, fear-mongering, mud-slinging, and hatred. But we know in the end that Howard Dean has a wedding planned in DENVER.NOT!

Posted by: Darrel | May 1, 2008, 8:46 am 8:46 am

Obama keeps looking down on Americans believing that we are fools. Nobody buys the staged fallout charade with Rev Wright. Even if it was true, we can not a have a President that takes 20 years to realize that what he defended was wrong.

Posted by: libre | May 1, 2008, 9:01 am 9:01 am

CBS and ABC have tried everything to help Obama.but you can not fool all the people all the time. Obama is unelectable.

Posted by: libre | May 1, 2008, 9:04 am 9:04 am

In my opinion Obama has one thing in mind. Power, and all the benefits that come with it. Not for America but for Obama. The recent story about his connection with Robert Blackwell and the good ol’ boy game in play there coupled with the “data based” Obama has collected over the course of this campaiogn season that is now valued at 200 million, and makes him the numbrer one power broker in the Democratic party. Whenever Obama hasn’t had enough money for his expensive tastes he has used friends like Rezko and Blackwell to get what he wants. I really hope people see the similarities in Obama and George W. Bush. Obama has been quite the opportunist. He used Wright to get the favor with the black community, now he’s using Wright to get the favor of the white blue collar community. So he thinks. Bush has consistently played the same type of spin game to get what he wants and to get what his cronies want. Obama is doing the very same thing. Americans bought Bush’s lies for years after 9/11. Finally America is waking up to the mess he has created, and seeing that Bush and cronies don’t care. They got what they wanted. That’s all that matters. America can’t afford Barack Obama any more that we could afford George Bush, you know that “compassionate conservative” that “uniter” that guy who tickled the American people’s ears with all the right words. Talk is cheap. Quoting great men doesn’t not make a man great, any more than being an orator make a great leader.

Posted by: Texas Lil | May 1, 2008, 9:07 am 9:07 am

Do we want a Democrat or a Republican in November?
OBAMA CAN NOT BEAT MCCAIN, it is that simple. Whether you like Hillary as a person or not, we need her to beat MCCAIN. Her and OBAMA are both very clrealy in favor of mostly the same things. Vote for the candidate that can beat John McCain.

Posted by: Joyce | May 1, 2008, 9:15 am 9:15 am

Can’t we all just get along…
Both candidates will be better then anything the GOP has to offer. Democrats (and I am not one of them as an independent voter who votes for the man/woman and not the herd) need to support whomever wins the popular vote…Right now, Obama is winning so I believe he will be the choice come the convention. If the tide changes I will support Hillary just as vehemently. Stop HATING…Stop acting like children and start realizing the greater good…
OBAMA/CLINTON 08′

Posted by: jason | May 1, 2008, 9:23 am 9:23 am

Outspent her 2.4 to one and she still kicked his butt. What’s your point?

Posted by: livegap | May 1, 2008, 9:24 am 9:24 am

Barack can’t expect to cozy up to the blue collar “lunch bucket” crowd after standing in line for a free lunch all his life. We’re different. We do the best we can. We eat what our families provide and are thankful for it.

Posted by: livegap | May 1, 2008, 9:27 am 9:27 am

livegap – my point is 1) Clinton “exaggerated” yet again, 2) Obama spent more because he managed his campaign funds better, and thus had more to spend, and 3) he reduced a 20+ point deficit in a state tailor-made for Clinton to under 10 percent, so maybe those ads had some effect.

Posted by: Paul | May 1, 2008, 9:33 am 9:33 am

Joyce – its not that simple, because a lot of us think Obama can beat McCain, and Clinton can’t.

Posted by: Paul | May 1, 2008, 9:35 am 9:35 am

It amuses me to hear some Obamites make fools of themselves by saying that the whole thing of Rev Wright was set up by Hillary campaign??? I believe that those people have no brains or they have just been released from some mental facilities in US. It’s scary to see these people have the right to vote!

Posted by: Dallas | May 1, 2008, 10:07 am 10:07 am

Rhonda, Rhonda, please…..your boy Obama is so adorned by MSNBC and CNN that the reporters and Obama should get a hotel room. Chris Matthews loves him so much he gets a tingle up his leg!! You Obama people must only half a half a brain…the one that registers judgement, morality and intelligence is not there! Sorry!

Posted by: rosariarachael | May 1, 2008, 10:08 am 10:08 am

Hillary Supporters—please read yesterday’s article in the New York Post.
Explains why Rev.Wright went off on Obama. Obama’s lies are coming out.

Posted by: cindy in nc | May 1, 2008, 10:42 am 10:42 am

Senator Obama and Michelle
The TODAY Show, May 1, 2008:
“After those San Francisco remarks, he was hit with the elitist tag.
Obama knows why he’s attracted the attacks. “Here I am. An African-American named Barack Obama who’s running for president,” he said with a chuckle. “I mean, that’s a leap for folks.””

Posted by: LindaJ | May 1, 2008, 10:51 am 10:51 am

Posted by: RELD1127″ I THINK THAT THE REV WRIGHT,HAS BEEN THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS STAYED TRUE TO WHAT HE BELEIVES AND HE DOSE SHOW CORAGE OF CONNVICTION FOR DOING OR SAYING WHAT HE HAS TO SAY AS A MINISTER, HE IS THE ONE TELLING THE TRUTH, AND I FIND IT HARD AS HELL TO BELEIVE YOU COULD FALL ASLEEP TRU ANY OF HIS RANTINGS! BO IS A LIER AND CON MAN JUST LIKE WRIGHT IS TRYING TO TELL YOU!”
What he said!

Posted by: LindaJ | May 1, 2008, 10:58 am 10:58 am

Wright and Obama owe America an Apology — is an interesting article to read indeed

Posted by: DNCisCorrupt | May 1, 2008, 11:00 am 11:00 am

I think these polls reflect a nervousness about Obama follwoing the Clinton blitz in Pennsylvania. I think the long campaign hurt him there, as it allowed the Clinton campaign full licence to chuck anything in his direction. I think that the numbers in this poll are a bit on the soft side on either side. And given a better run for Obama (winning NC convingly together with runnig Indian close or even winning in the Hoosier state) could tip things back in Obam’s favour. Its also interesting that polls for the Democratic nomination consistently still have Obama in front.

Posted by: markymark | May 1, 2008, 11:10 am 11:10 am

All Superdelegates who support Obama should be voted out if they hold or desire to hold elected seats. And they should never hold appointed government jobs paid for of funded by taxpaying voters. Their extremely poor judgement, greed and lack of moral character has been exposed!

Posted by: DNCisCorrupt | May 1, 2008, 11:12 am 11:12 am

“The biggest damage to him is that he held a brand of being an unconventional candidate in a time America wants a shift from the conduct of politics as usual. But he and his campaign have seemed very conventional of late.” That’s exactly what I predicted last year when Obama announced his name in the presidential race. I’m very cynical about big politics so when all my friends were excited with this “new politician”, I told them, “Just watch and see…”

Posted by: mm.a. | May 1, 2008, 11:21 am 11:21 am

The fricking media are going to town. Bill is calling caucus states irrelavent. More lies by hillary. Baracks getting more supers every day.People that have known the slime for years are jumping ship.Yet every 5 minutes on msm stations the liar is closing the gap Knock out these despicable people Ind.& No.Car.This crap is unbelievable.There is no way she can catch him. The dem party needs to end this bull.

Posted by: steve mn | May 1, 2008, 11:34 am 11:34 am

Actually the saddest part of this all is that regardless of who gets your vote, it’s the same person. We’ve had 20 years of the liberal mentality in the White House and we’re no where. If you want to be free, then it’s time for a tough decision.
This election cycle has produced people who are going to screw us any way they can to get ahead and get re-elected.
None of the candidates today represent the promise of freedom, only slavery. Democrats are for more slavery than McCain will be but still more than we should have.
We are not free when we elect people to take from one and give it to another. No matter how you look at that, it’s wrong. So it’s time for Freedom!

Posted by: Robb | May 1, 2008, 11:39 am 11:39 am

uh steve,mn its too late your going through a grieving process because your Oman will not win now… he will be replaced by Hillary as the nominee its the will of the people!

Posted by: staniam | May 1, 2008, 11:45 am 11:45 am

Draft John Edwards!!!

Posted by: Todd | May 1, 2008, 12:06 pm 12:06 pm

I cannot understand how, after 20 years, Obama is just now getting to know his pastor. What type of pastor has he been for 20 years? Am I to believe that all of sudden pastor Wright is speaking out against racial injustices? He never did that before? In the last 20 years he never denounced the United States? In the last 20 years he never accused the United States of racial germ warfare? My impression is that Obama and Wright were close friends. Am I to believe that not once in 20 years Wright and Obama ever discussed race, politics, war, love, hate,wives, children, life and all the other things that friends discuss (because that is how you get to know each other)? And yet, Obama denounces his past, his friend, his confidant. Sounds like the same old politics to me.

Posted by: peaches | May 1, 2008, 12:30 pm 12:30 pm

Obama is only 19 superdelegates behind Clinton. Four months ago, he was behind by 160. More superdelegates are going to him every day…its finished…Obama has won…the truth must really hurt.

Posted by: tom | May 1, 2008, 12:34 pm 12:34 pm

After reviewing the foregoing comments, I am amazed at the enmity and hate that so many people have for either Clinton or Obama. Unless these comments were made by Republicans spoiling for a longer Demo controversy, the Demo party is in REAL trouble. It’s time to cool down the Rovian style personal attacks and focus on the issues. Both Clinton and Obama are more than qualified for the job. It’s time to look forward instead of backwards.

Posted by: JRT | May 1, 2008, 12:43 pm 12:43 pm

Polls change daily – even hourly. One cannot take these “straw” polls as gospel. There is a summer ahead, and I still believe that in the long run, the super delegates will win out and Obama will indeed secure the nomination. For this contention to continue will surely spell a demise in the Democratic Party. For a party that has spent so long hating Bush, they will implode if they can’t direct their energies towards a profitable ending.

Posted by: Jill | May 1, 2008, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm

I find it amusing that whenever something negative pops up about Obama it’s a non-issue to his supporters. If Hillary does something they beat it to death.

Posted by: J | May 1, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm

Clinton’s support consists of people over the age of 65 and uneducated blue collar hillbillies…the truth must hurt.

Posted by: jeff | May 1, 2008, 1:59 pm 1:59 pm

jeff,
I am 48 so so that blows that theory. I am not a hillbilly either and I am educated.That’s funny all of PA is not what you described and she won that handily.

Posted by: J | May 1, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm

J: That’s where your wrong. Pennsylvania is the second oldest state in the country i.e. 65 and older…the truth must hurt

Posted by: jeff | May 1, 2008, 3:03 pm 3:03 pm

This is not really about Rev. Wright. It is about the character and judgment of someone (Obama) who would join a racist black liberation theology church; stay for 20 years; formulate a close relationship with the racist and anti-American pastor such that he calls him his “mentor and spiritual adviser;” try to conceal this from the public by continually saying that he is a “Christian;” and then expect us to forget about those 20 years, merely because he himself is finally “outraged.” Rev. Wright admits that he preaches black liberation theology, and after 20 years of attendance, Obama knew it, too. Where in the Bible do you find anything both consistent with the tenets of Christianity and consistent with these statements by James Cone, one of the founders of black liberation theology?
(1) “To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people.” (2) “While it is true that blacks do hate whites, black hatred is not racism.” (3) “All white men are responsible for white oppression.” (4) “Theologically, Malcolm X was not far wrong when he called the white man “the devil.” (5) “If there is any contemporary meaning of the Antichrist, the white church seems to be a manifestation of it.” (6) “Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community. Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.”
Now, if you don’t think that the statements above are racist, then you and I can agree to disagree. The real issue is that Americans in general need to know about the racist nature of Obama’s religion, because it goes to the heart of his character and judgment. Then, once America understands this issue, if they agree with the racist bent of his church, so be it. I have a feeling, however, that once people find out about this issue, he will be losing supporters by the droves. If it doesn’t happen now, it will in the general election if, God forbid, he is the Democratic nominee.

Posted by: James | May 1, 2008, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm

J: Obama won the mosy populated counties…Clinton won the counties where the only thing there is a gas station and “friendly folks.”

Posted by: jeff | May 1, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm

Jeff,
I happen to live in PA. He won Philly, predominantly AA. He won Dauphin County, which is AA populated because it encompasses Harrisburg. He didn’t win over the thinking people of PA because they see what he is all about.
What you are saying is that 3/4 of PA is friendly folk and gas stations. I think Pittsburgh is more than gas stations. Typical Obamabibot.

Posted by: J | May 1, 2008, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm

It’s over Johnny…

Posted by: jlb1234567 | May 1, 2008, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm

Bea,
You are correct. Just because people are book smart doesn’t mean they can handle everyday life. You can have knowledge from books and can still be the biggest village idiot with no common sense.

Posted by: J | May 1, 2008, 4:13 pm 4:13 pm

Millions of “white people” go to churches where their pastors do not tell them that Jesus was a Jew of distinctly Semitic appearance and not “white” by any genetic stretching. Leading Democratic and Republican politicians go to such churches, and milliong of “black people” regularly vote for them. Now, some quite unfair “white people” are fleeing Obama because his ex-pastor supports black liberation theology. Never in the history of Presidential politics has any candidate said: “There is not a white America, nor a Hispanic America, nor a black America. There is only the United States of America.” And you flee from such a vision?

Posted by: voltear7 | May 1, 2008, 4:17 pm 4:17 pm

It’s all over boys and girls, move along.
Barry O will go down in history as a candle that burned bright but 100 times faster.
It was nice while it lasted Barry.

Posted by: JA | May 1, 2008, 4:46 pm 4:46 pm

The original role of the superdelegates, the reason they were created by the Democratic Party to begin with, was to act as the final independent decision-makers in the event the people were about to make an immensely stupid decision, which is exactly what is happening right now. If the superdelegates now fail to objectively assess the situation before them, and fail to nominate Hillary, then they will be fully to blame for handing the Republicans a presidential victory yet again!

Posted by: Johnny D. in NE | May 1, 2008, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm

1. Obama doesn’t have the experience to be commander-in-chief.
2. He was talking about change, I never heard any detailed changes he would do if elected.
3. He kept talking about good judgment, for over 20 years he was listening to Rev. Wright. Pastors usually feed you of what you have to believe. Rev. Wright fed him good for over 20 years. How could I trust him?
4. He is a politician like anyone else, ambitious and not trustworthy.
Therefore: This coming November, My wife and I will vote for Clinton. If Obama will be the Democratic Presidential Candidate, We will vote for Mc Cain. I want someone who will take care of the security of my family–Not someone who is an ellitist and novice.

Posted by: Christian Paul | May 1, 2008, 4:58 pm 4:58 pm

voltear: Yes, Obama SAYS some pretty nice things. It’s what he does that is frightening (e.g. having a racist and anti-American “mentor and spiritual adviser,” going to a racist black liberation theology church for 20 years, having a terrorist friend who bombed the Pentagon, having a wife who is only now proud of her country because her husband is running for President, etc)

Posted by: James | May 1, 2008, 5:25 pm 5:25 pm

Obama DID NOT condemn the remarks of Wright at the National Press Conference! The only thing that Obama said was that Wright said ALL OF THESE THINGS AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE AND THAT HE SHOWED DISRESPECT TO OBAMA! AND THAT HE DID IT AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE1 WRIGHT DID NOT SAY ANYTHING DIFFERENT EXCEPT THAT OBAMA HAD TO SAY WHAT HE DID BECAUSE HE WAS A POLITICIAN! IF OBAMA GETS THE NOMINATION I WILL VOTE FOR MCCAIN EVEN THO HE IS A LITTLE ON THE WOBBLY SIDE1 BETTER MCCAIN BECAUSE HE HAS CHARACTER AND OBAMA IS NOT ONLY A LIAR BUT HE HAS TOO MUCH INVOLVEMENT WITH SHADY CHARACTERS! NOT TO MENTION THAT WHEN MEREDITH VIERA ASKED MICHELLE OBAMA IF SHE THOUGHT WRIGHT HURT HER HUSBANDS CAMPAIGN SHE CHANGED THE SUBJECT! THAT SPOKE VOLUMES TO ME…I THINK OBAMA AND MICHELLE ARE STILL INVOLVED WITH THE SURROGATE DADDY WRIGHT!

Posted by: michafiath | May 1, 2008, 5:59 pm 5:59 pm

Any intelligent parent would not expose their children to the hatred and lies week after week in a church for many years!.. Like Bill Cosby says” people like Wright promotes a culture that sets up blacks for failure”! Bill Cosby has denounced the black culture of victimhood that Wright preaches!
Apparenty Bill Cosby would be a better candidate than Obama because Obama and his angry wife don’t even know how to raise their children properly!

Posted by: michafiath | May 1, 2008, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm

Obama’s campainge had “donated” $790,000 to the super delegate fund and Clinton campaign has donated $278,000!
Guess money can buy you super delegates these days! This so-called democratic system is a joke! Vote McCain…anything is better than giving the country away to Obama and the Wright family….next reality show on
NBC!

Posted by: michafiath | May 1, 2008, 6:22 pm 6:22 pm

You know how you can tell that Obama will not recover? Because inspite of MSNBC and CNN playing 24/7 damage control for OB, his numbers keep declining. The whole Andrews thing btw was worked on VIGOROUSLY when they realized there was no way he would win PA. Obama is very indebted to people….especially the Kennedy’s. Bobby Jr. simply went with Hillary because she has a better environmental plan and he is loyal to a very intelligent, respected woman. We don’t like to see Hillary treated the way the Obama camp has treated her.

Posted by: irma | May 1, 2008, 6:38 pm 6:38 pm

I hope you are right, Irma, and I cannot figure out for the life of me why MSNBC and CNN love this guy! I can only think that these are men who can’t believe that a woman can be president!I do not trust this Obama or Wright! My gut reaction is that this is all a political move to get sympathy for Obama because you know how soft we Americans are!

Posted by: michafiath | May 1, 2008, 6:48 pm 6:48 pm

Speaking of the Rev. Wright negative, is there anyone besides me who is a little puzzled as to why Wright spoke at the Natiional Press Club to respeak his negative rantings? Did Obama think the issue was not going to go away, so they plotted to let Wright come on the national stage to say his crazy things again just to give Obama a national stage to ditch him? How else could he have ditched him? He could not have done it without having a new speech by Wright to be able to reject him. It’s a ploy! He thinks now that the Wright issue has gone away and he can go on to the nomination without that baggage. Can he? A 20-year relationship is not easy to run away from. You would have to be awfully dumb to believe that he did not know Wright was saying all those words all along and meaning them. How in the world does anyone think he can win the general election with all of his baggage? Elephants don’t forget, and neither do I.

Posted by: georgia | May 1, 2008, 8:02 pm 8:02 pm

Georgia
It was a ploy the two of them have been planning somethihis for a long time and at least the voters in NC see right through that I heard from someone who knows that he could lose NC just because of that

Posted by: stanaim | May 1, 2008, 8:13 pm 8:13 pm

We cannot trust Obama this feels like the ’92 campaign all over again the energy the people and the rockstar who gets followed around but in the end substance common sense and fortitude not people that say “spiffy” will get elected
Clinton08

Posted by: staniam | May 1, 2008, 8:18 pm 8:18 pm

I have been reading a lot of information regarding voter suppression in NC. As an African American this really concerns me as it has been aimed at the AA community. What is going on, and why are you not reporting it!
Posted by: Anette | Apr 30, 2008 7:08:20 PM
_______________________________________
They shouldn’t permit drunks to vote anyhow without first passing a breathalyzer test…………. Sorry, I just couldn’t resist.

Posted by: dk | May 1, 2008, 8:38 pm 8:38 pm

OBAMA IS BUYING THE SUPER-DELEGATES: The arrogant elitist Obama is buying the Super-delegates giving them large sums of money, promising them the moon, stars and the sun in other words Obama is promising very big political favors and perhaps long term income from some of his wealthier supporters. This explains why so many Super-delegates are supporting and switching to Obama plain and simple isn’t it. Every one of the Super-delegates has a price they will accept. It’s all about how much money and power can be given to the Super-delegates. The Super-delegates are just as and greedy as Obama is for power and money. Oh the arrogance and greed of it all.

Posted by: Bob4USA | May 1, 2008, 9:18 pm 9:18 pm

Obama says Rev Wright doesn’t know him..after 20 years? How can we begin to think that we know this man,Obama?

Posted by: mpwdc | May 1, 2008, 9:19 pm 9:19 pm

I registered Republican when Carter ran so I guess I will do that again if Obama runs. I am loyal to the candidate not the Party. Clinton/Edwards ’08 OR McCain/Romney ’08

Posted by: mpwdc | May 1, 2008, 9:41 pm 9:41 pm

Rezko: Tell us more

Posted by: mpwdc | May 1, 2008, 9:44 pm 9:44 pm

I hear Obama has changed the menu from bread and wine to Kool-aid and balogna. That’s change we can believe in.

Posted by: mpwdc | May 1, 2008, 9:51 pm 9:51 pm

Barak O’Wright is now throwing his “spritial adviser” under the bus. Is his white grandmother next ? If it’s a political necessity he will, hope be danmed. Now he’ll just have to run on his record, too bad he doesn’t have one. Wasn’t one Jimmy Carter enough for America ?

Posted by: kneedermyer | May 1, 2008, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm

Rev. Wright is not an Obama “association” is his spiritual guide, his mentor for twenty years. The charade about Obama being offended and in shock of Wright’s words is unbelievable He just repeated the same words he has speak for more than twenty years and Obama always agreed with him until he saw the damage in the polls. He is still out of touch with blue-collar workers and also he is still unelectable.

Posted by: libre | May 2, 2008, 12:23 am 12:23 am

The news media spin is having an effect on Obama. We havn’t see this kind of rubbish since the ganster used to control the Clint W House.

Posted by: John | May 2, 2008, 1:07 am 1:07 am

I’m sure that this is overstated by the George Stephenaoldpslis new team.

Posted by: John | May 2, 2008, 1:10 am 1:10 am

Obama will lose both NC and IN he is a fake

Posted by: staniam | May 2, 2008, 4:09 am 4:09 am

When Obama and the democrats go down in flames this november, who do you think will take the blame?

Posted by: Average Joe | May 2, 2008, 4:26 am 4:26 am

Hillary Clinton offers a clear-eyed view of the way things are. She offers nuanced positions on how to address the war in Iraq, trade with China and economic expansion. Her depth of knowledge is remarkable.
Obama no time to debtae huh?? you are so full of it…

Posted by: James B. | May 2, 2008, 5:04 am 5:04 am

This article came out before the media (such as ABC) decided to post anything positive they could find about OBummer and anything negative they could about Hillary, to try and tip the scales back. But America won’t forget!
Based on the posts here, it’s clear what is the will of the people…..
Hillary ’08

Posted by: april | May 2, 2008, 5:25 am 5:25 am

Isn’t obvious that while Sen. Obama is getting weaker as a candidate, Sen. Clinton is getting stronger. Each time I see him on TV he’s frazzled and weak, looking depressed! The new polls show Sen. Hillary Clinton is surging dramatically in the latest polls. (See Real Clear Politics) She’s catching up with Obama even in N. Carolina where 40% percent of the voters are balck American and Sen. Obama’s double digit lead has simply vanished. And now Sen. Clinton is clearly has a lead in Indiana. Meanwhile, Obama campaign seems to be in doldrums. Why have they not won a race for so long? I don’t think Joe Andrew or anyone else can save Sen. Obama from a back-breaking defeat in Indiana or repair all the damage done to him by Rev. Wright. Rev. Wright devastated Sen. Obama; I think this simple fact is coming clearer and clearer to the voters in this country ─that Sen. Obama is simply not electable, with Rev. Wright is hanging around his neck like an albatross! Rev. Wright could do serious damage to other democratic candidates who would happen to support and endorse Sen. Obama. I know Republicans are going to make Rev. Wright Sen. Obama’s running mate. How come Sen. Obama who promises to bring the entire nation together when he can’t even handle his old pal wild Rev. Wright? In match up contests in major battleground states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida─ Sen. Clinton is doing far better than Sen. Obama. The New York Times reports that Sen. Obama has dropped 19 points in “electability” just in few weeks and this was just before Rev. Wright re-appeared in the media. It is obvious Sen. Obama’s situation is very precarious. Sen. Hillary Clinton is dramatically rising in the polls while Sen. Obama’s support is dwindling ─ and the best chance of winning the white House for the Democrats is with obviously with Sen. Clinton.

Posted by: charleychaplin | May 2, 2008, 5:56 am 5:56 am

Sen. Barak Obama was made by the same cookie-cutter that was used by David Axelrod to make Gov. Duval Patrick of Massachusetts. CHANGE and HOPE were the same slogans that Duval Patrick used; and there’s nothing new in Barak Obama’s campaign. All the stuff about hope and change were re-cycled and reconstituted by political fixes from Chicago David Axelrod and David Plouff for the manipulation of American voters! We know Sen. Obama even used Duval Patrick’s speeches─ lifting them word for word! If you really want to find out what’s happening with “CHANGE” lately, you should look in to what’s going on with Barak Obama’s carbon-copy Duval Patrick and how he’s doing in Massachusetts!

Posted by: charleychaplin | May 2, 2008, 6:03 am 6:03 am

If the ineffective DNC denies Hillary CLinton the candidacy for November she shoudl run as an Independant. The DNC only voices concern over the youth and black voters. Well, the female vote is a huge block that got previous Democratic candidates elected to the white house. If the DNC disenfranchises the female voter,they will fully support Hillary as an Independant. Obama cannot win. Hillary is so obviously the strongest and most qualified and most capable to win in November and to unite across party lines to get GOOD things done for this country. Obama’s youth and black voters have nt even been able to get him to close the deal in just the primaries. They will not get Obama into the white house. Obama is divisive and the race issue he has not transcended. Do not fear black riots and support another losing Democratic candidate. You will lose female voters and damage the party for a long long time. Seriously, Hillary should run as an Independant if the DNC turns their back on her and common sense.

Posted by: this election counts | May 2, 2008, 6:36 am 6:36 am

Say what you want to about Hillary but she clearly loves this country and all who are in it. She is a fighter, she is resilient and tenacious. She is brilliant and tough and can stand up to China, Iran, etc. The superdelegates may vote for Obama and make him win but the voters have decided that Hillary is the best person for the job at this time. I say Hillary should go Independent if she loses this nomination The whole process has been gravely unfair! The way she has been treated by the DNC and the media is unreal. They deserve whatever president they get if she is not the nominee. Don’t forget Carter and Bush!

Posted by: Sharbob | May 2, 2008, 6:50 am 6:50 am

If the ineffective DNC denies Hillary CLinton the candidacy for November she shoudl run as an Independant. The DNC only voices concern over the youth and black voters. Well, the female vote is a huge block that got previous Democratic candidates elected to the white house. If the DNC disenfranchises the female voter,they will fully support Hillary as an Independant. Obama cannot win. Hillary is so obviously the strongest and most qualified and most capable to win in November and to unite across party lines to get GOOD things done for this country. Obama’s youth and black voters have nt even been able to get him to close the deal in just the primaries. They will not get Obama into the white house. Obama is divisive and the race issue he has not transcended. Do not fear black riots and support another losing Democratic candidate. You will lose female voters and damage the party for a long long time. Seriously, Hillary should run as an Independant if the DNC turns their back on her and common sense.

Posted by: this election counts | May 2, 2008, 7:20 am 7:20 am

Some of these posts are just incredible! After the major cable news networks have done nothing but spin negatives on Clinton, while pumping up a godly image for Obama, Hillary survived and came back with some wins and a rise in the polls. It is ironic that CNN is now totally in the category of rigidly biased news with MSNBC (Morning Joe excluded), while FOX is giving “fair and balanced” coverage to Hillary. I never thought I would say it. Obama is just now receiving the scrutiny he should have had in the beginning. He played the race card, courted the college students for first-time voters, won a number of the skewed caucuses, and became an “American idol”. I do not believe that the so called “most talented” is the one who always wins. Thank goodness for the wisdom of many long time Democrats, they are not buying the packaged image of Obama. We want someone with intelligence, a deep knowledge of the issues and solutions, and the experience to make decisions now. Obama is green. If he is the nominee, the Democrats will lose, including the Senate and House races we really need in order to make real change. CHANGE and UNITY are mere soundbites if you do not have the knowlege to make it happen. Instead of calling the other side “political whores”, take another look at Jeremiah Wright’s words calling Obama a politician who is saying what he has to say while finally ditching Wright. Political expediency, indeed. After twenty years, he really didn’t know. We are so uneducated and stupid, aren’t we?

Posted by: georgia | May 2, 2008, 8:25 am 8:25 am

Tris….if you want Mr. Obama-Wright then wait until the Republicans get at him!!! They really know how to dish the dirt….and there are a lot of days before the GE…and as Paul Harvey says “now you know the rest of the story”!!! Can’t wait!!!! Hillary or McCain….no Mr. Obama-Wright! BTW, I drive a Cadillac Escalade!! Big warranty attached!

Posted by: rosariarachael | May 2, 2008, 10:46 am 10:46 am

Wright’s comments are not going away

Posted by: livegap | May 2, 2008, 11:23 am 11:23 am

Michelle says this debate is not “helping her kids”. I don’t think exposing them to Wright’s hatred of white people is helping mine.

Posted by: livegap | May 2, 2008, 11:25 am 11:25 am

I love it. The Democrats have shot themselves in the foot big time. If the Democrats ran their primary like the Republicans, Hillary would already be the nominee. Instead, they’re going to draw this out for months with super delegates and hand the White House over to McCain. Or maybe that’s what they want?

Posted by: kathryn | May 2, 2008, 11:30 am 11:30 am

I hope Americans are smart enough not to elect Obama–we can do without him and his racist wife and his 3 amigos: Tony Rezco, the indicted fixer; Jeremiah Wright, the racist reverend; William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist. We are beginning to see the things that most reveal character and core beliefs. I hope it’s not too late!!!

Posted by: virginia | May 2, 2008, 11:31 am 11:31 am

James!! You people don’t like being found out do ya??? The Blue collars in this country will never let HIM be the leader of this Country!
We do not need half an American we need a Whole American!

Posted by: Fern | May 2, 2008, 4:48 pm 4:48 pm

By now most Americans paying attention can see that the “fix” for Obama with the MSM and the neolib DNC was in from the very beginning. No vetting of Obama, disenfranchising the voters in MI and FL, constant attacks for Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race “for the good of the party”, biased media coverage that has seen no equal ever in the history of this country, repeating the “talking points” of the Obama campaign without any investigation into their veracity, on and on ad nauseum. And now if you watch Obama’s speeches, they’re more of the same old rhetoric with no substance, and he seems only half there, mumbling and forgetting his lines. Getting too hard for you to keep remembering all those positions and solutions that others wrote for you, Senator Obama? Or is it just that the phony outer personna of a “man of change” is just getting too hard for you to maintain, and we are seeing more and more of the empty soul behind those pretty speeches? Obama is fading fast, and he wants to be the leader of the free world? Did they forget to tell him that it’s the most demanding job in the world? Gosh, maybe if someone tells hin what a darn hard, grueling job it is he’ll drop out and let the real work begin with the person who wants to work for all of us, Senator Clinton.

Posted by: Grammy Barb | May 2, 2008, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm

Grammy…..I have been noticing the same thing about Obama. He is almost lethargic and alot of ummms / ahhhs when he speaks, I think he is on the ropes.
Hillary is out there stumping with energy and staying focused on the issues. She is a fighter for sure and I for one, like her tenacity.

Posted by: Average Joe | May 3, 2008, 2:18 am 2:18 am

Put me in the category of “none of the above”. None of these candidates are worthy to stand with Jefferson, Lincoln, etc. Hillary as President?

Posted by: Ken | May 3, 2008, 3:22 am 3:22 am

I am a collage educated young red blooded american man. I support HILLARY CLINTON 100%
Posted by: KURT | Apr 30, 2008 7:32:40 PM
I HAVE A MASTER’S DEGREE AND ALSO A RED-BLOODED AMERICAN MAN….AND ME AND ALL MY FRIENDS ARE NOT GOING FOR ANTI-AMERICAN OBAMA.
HILLARY WILL BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT!

Posted by: John Pen | May 3, 2008, 6:10 am 6:10 am

By now most Americans paying attention can see that the “fix” for Obama with the MSM and the neolib DNC was in from the very beginning. No vetting of Obama, disenfranchising the voters in MI and FL, constant attacks for Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race “for the good of the party”, biased media coverage that has seen no equal ever in the history of this country, repeating the “talking points” of the Obama campaign without any investigation
Posted by: Grammy Barb | May 3, 2008 1:07:13 AM
I AGREE WITH THIS.
INDIANA AND NORTH CAROLINA WILL VOTE FOR HILLARY.
HILLARY WILL BE PRESIDENT!

Posted by: John Pen | May 3, 2008, 6:28 am 6:28 am

The media loves a comeback story, and that is what they want to have with Mrs. Clinton. God love ‘em. It is part of the American Folklore. It is probably even a universal human aspiration to see the person who is “down” come back.
But, what about the story of Barack Obama? Here is a guy that wasn’t even supposed to be a factor this year. He was supposed to be done after Super Tuesday. And, here he is in May with the lead in popular vote and delegates. What about that story? Isn’t that inspiring, too? Isn’t it exciting how despite various problems that seem to crop up against him, he manages to still overcome them?
Y’all in the media need to wake up and re-connect with the amazing story and hopeful vision of Barack Obama! Yes, we can.

Posted by: w_roos | May 3, 2008, 7:19 am 7:19 am

you know what? you’re right! i see the light now! finally! thank you thank you ABC!
go Hillary!!!

Posted by: tris | May 3, 2008, 7:26 am 7:26 am

Yes if the democratic party was winner take all delegates in the states this would be wrapped up and hillary would have accounted for enough delegates to secure the nomination. Hillary represents the majority of american people and their values and is the candidate to win the general election

Posted by: sandra | May 3, 2008, 10:13 am 10:13 am

Get Real Jeff, There are plenty people over 65 who have degress and money. Obama gets the young people but they may or may not show up for the general election. The young identify with obama because the idea of change appeals to them. They could care less if his platform makes any sense. He also gets the majority of the Black vote. Hilary on the other hand get a mix match of all.
I am a democrat, but if the democratic party is stupid enough to nominate the unelectable Obama, McCain will get my vote

Posted by: Decided | May 3, 2008, 1:43 pm 1:43 pm

I cannot understand why the media goes after Obama for his ministers remarks. What if he was catholic – all the disgraced priests would be his fault? How about Bill being back in the White House? Hillary has no problem with bringing him back after he blatently lied to everyone while in office. This was his personal wrongdoing. Obama’s ministers ranting is not his personal wrongdoing! Let’s get back to the real issues- use a little journalism!

Posted by: Jan | May 4, 2008, 11:31 am 11:31 am

This blog won’t display correctly on my i phone – you may wanna try and repair that

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