Ready, Aim, Fire

I think Obama will do well because of the African American vote, but I agree with the writer that attacking Bill Clinton is not helping Obama. He has his own star power.
Since the writer is ignoring the third front runner, I will predict that John Edwards will finish a strong second. He knows the people in SC. They aren’t interested in playground fights. They want results and someone who represents the adult wing of the Democratic party.

i’m disappointed, matthew dowd, how you could write that whole column and not mention john edwards. this was the first time i had ‘clicked on’ your blog and looks like i won’t be visiting much. that is just plain wrong. like this is a 2 person race– this is a prime example of the uphill battle je has faced. it is sad for the people not to get the information, i thought that was your job..unless you are just manipulators

The Clintons tactics might appear admirable when they are being used as a defense against a republican attack machine. But seeing these tactics applied within a democratic primary is repulsive. Not only will I not vote for Hillary should she win the democratic primary, if McCain gets the republican nomination, I will likely vote for him. Then Obama can beat him in 2012.

When my reeducation camps open for people who apposed my vision for AmerikA, I will make sure that Obama, Limbaugh, and all white males are properly re-educated.

“OBAMA PORTRAIT MUSIC VIDEO” on Youtube – Don’t Miss It!
For those of you who still have not heard:
There is a WONDERFUL and INSPIRING music video on Youtube.com entitled “Obama Portrait Music Video by Bjarne O.”
You can use the free downloaded high-quality stereo version from the composer’s website in DVD form to show at house parties and fundraisers. Even people who knew nothing at all about Obama have been moved: either a thrilling introduction, or further inspiration for those of us who already know and fight for Obama.
The music soundtrack, which incorporates excerpts from the famous 2004 speech, can also be downloaded separately in high-quality.
So please, SPREAD THE WORD!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mCPwbozpIzM
YES WE CAN
Anne

Clinton is devisive and is burning bridges withing the party as well as putting republicans even further away from any bi-partisanship by vilifying them. The Clintons know they don’t need the black vote if they can get the latino vote. But against a ticket with McCain on it, she doesn’t have a chance.

Millie is right! We must make clear to Hillary and Bill that they have to behave with civility within the primaries or they will not be supported ever again.
BTW, there are a few ignorant racists on this board right now. Thank goodness they’re predictably Republican.

One things for sure. If Hillary wins the White House. She won’t cheat on performance. Because if their is any cheating to be done, Bill is going to do it.

Bill lauds Rove
Check this out:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/14/AR2007081401722.html
“Hey, you did a marvelous job, it was just marvelous what you did,” Clinton told Rove, according to the book “The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008,” by John F. Harris and Mark Halperin. “I want to get you down to the [William J. Clinton Presidential] library. I want to talk politics with you. You just did an incredible job, and I’d like to really get together with you and I think we could have a great conversation.”

Obama has all losers in his campaign and you want them to win a hard war????
Look back at his past campaigns, he was very lucky to meet all weak opponents.
But this is the real world and his opponent is the most formidable rival.
If he win some primaries it is good enough. This campaign may destroy his political future when he run out of luck.

MyLe clearly you like to roll in the slime the Clintons are spewing out. The Clintons appear to be establishing a monarchy and a very ugly one at that. If you think it is in the best interest of the Democratic Party to destroy Obama’s political future, you are extremely short-sighted. Hopefully more intelligent minds will prevail in the Democratic Party to reign in the Clinton’s massive path of destruction.

I see Clinton bashing is thriving in these posts…..hmmmm. I wonder why that is?

The Clintons(yes i mean plural) are running for president.
You don’t get the Senator without the former President.
Has anyone thought of the political mess that will create.
Democrats need to wake up.
I am a registered democrat , and i wouldnt vote for the Clintons even if George Bush sought a third term

Oh, he really is desperate and looking again like a very sore loser. Because his “rough and tumble Chicago politics” have not worked, I guess this perpetual whining and complaining about the Clintons is the only tactic he has left. Upon reading the Las Vegas Sun accounts of union intimidation, it seemed to me that charges could easily be made by Hillary against Obama’s supporters. And what about that nasty radio ad calling her a “disgrace?” What do John Kerry and tom Daschle think about that? Unfortunately Sen. Obama has done a poor job of showing the American people why he should be president. This alone is the reason he is losing.

My view of the Clintons have changed. I am for Obama. We do need a change. I agree that he shouldn’t play their game, but he also can’t afford not to respond to their attacks. It’s a hard place to be in.

Obama will lose and crawl back to the cesspool he and Rezko made out of Chicago

Obama band-aiding his disastrous defeat in Nevada? Sour-graping that he lost when he expected to win? Unwittingly, Obama is going against his own self. With his latest tantrums over his primary and caucus losses and poll frustrations, he is not UNIFYING the Democrats, but DIVIDING them to serve his self-interest and indirectly to aid the Republicans. How can he UNIFY when he insults the voters in Nevada and other states who voted overwhelmingly for Hillary? How can he preach CHANGE and HOPE now with his recent manifestations of HOPELESSNESS and his defiant insistence to CHANGE the course of Hillary’s steady march to nomination victory? Barack, you were doing well before towards the Iowa caucus, but you’re doing worse now towards Super Tuesday. And who is benefiting from your stumbling – it’s Hillary.

Why are people more angry over Hillary Clinton than an administration that has allowed 4000 American’s die, and probabaly more. Why are you not mad at illegal wire tapping, torture and the basic destruction of our civil liberties??? Hillary Clinton is human, she has made mistakes, but the hatred you have for her should be focused on what we have allowed our country to become over the last 7 years. Hillary Clinton will restore America to her greatness.

Comparing Obama to Kennedy? What a joke! Also, if Obama can’t handle a debate with two democrats, how will he be able to handle a debate with a republican? Didn’t you see his answer to the 30% interest cap limitation question from Edwards? His answer (which I truly beleive he did not want to say that) was stupid. He did not notice what he was saying. It proves he can’t handle the pressure of a debate when he is asked tough questions.

Obama is taking the Clintons on and actually holding them accountable for their words. While they’ll do everything they can to muddy the waters and make him look like he’s the one with the negative campaigning, this is beginning to backfire on the Clintons.
How tragic that she keeps talking about how she’s running on her record, but then sends out her surrogates to lie about Obama and slander his name. Bill Clinton needs to point his fingers back at himself. Shame on the Clintons. They’re making a disgrace of this entire process and people across all racial and socio-economic lines are beginning to see just that.
And this is just the beginning. They’re doing the equivalent of torching their own campaign and fueling the fire of why America (Democrat, Republican, and Independent alike) wants out of the partisan politics of the past 20 years under the Bush/Clinton dynasty.

Mr. Dowd,
What you you do if people went about spreading lies about your positions and distorting your statements. Say nothing? I doubt it. The fact is, rumours catch fire, whether we like it or not.
Clinton, the so-called first black president, is being racist by trying to pigeonhole Obama as popular in SC because he is blacki.
Most of all Clinton is acting in a way unbecoming a former president. His behavior represents a new low – even for him, which means a lot.
Stop this mess, Bill. Here is a link to a petition to the DNC asking Bill to cease and desist with the smear:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/566752872

He probably should take the tactic of rising above the petty politics of the Clinton machine, however then he’ll lose because we all know american politics has become an american idle special effects show. At least he’d be able to sleep at night without tranquilizers.
What curious about both of these ‘parties’ (and they are parties to be certain) is that neither has addressed their base exclusivity strategy (which makes our vote worthless), and neither has addressed the basic constitutional problem of a dictatorial executive (other than to say its bad), nor have they even hinted (perhaps mccain has in his own way) in how they intend to apply law in an essentially lawless nation.
Seems it has devolved into a soap opera rather quickly, once again with for-profit medias help. I’d suggest they run the next debate as a WWF event (either party), with costumes and catchy psuedonyms and all.

First of all, Chicago is not a cesspool. Obama won Iowa and the Clinton’s went on the attack. Then Hillary cried and got the sympathy vote and the momentum back. They decided to change tactics after they lost Iowa. I was in Iowa knocking on doors and talking to lots of white people. I am African-American with locks and country white folk all over Iowa loved Obama. 72 year old white ladies loved Obama. Now the press is focused on race and other non-issues. Same old lies and mis-truths. Obama will prevail if people turn off the TV and vote with their hearts and minds.

if Hillary and McCain win the nominations it will be the first and last time i vote for a Republican. If Hillary gets it and McCain doesn’t I will sit this one out. I understand that Democrats have to stick together to defeat the Republicans, but it seems like they will do and say anything to win. Even if it means destroying the Democratic party to do it.
While I was typing this I finally understand why Bloomberg thinks he has a good shot to win if its between Hillary and Romney or Huckabee. If its down to them I will have no choice but to vote for Bloomberg.
I think its fitting that all this is happening in South Carolina. This is where Bush smeared McCain with half-truths and racist subtexts, and Billary is doing the exact same thing.
Could Obama be our last best hope to take back this country for rational people?

if Hillary and McCain win the nominations it will be the first and last time i vote for a Republican. If Hillary gets it and McCain doesn’t I will sit this one out. I understand that Democrats have to stick together to defeat the Republicans, but it seems like they will do and say anything to win. Even if it means destroying the Democratic party to do it.
While I was typing this I finally understand why Bloomberg thinks he has a good shot to win if its between Hillary and Romney or Huckabee. If its down to them I will have no choice but to vote for Bloomberg.
I think its fitting that all this is happening in South Carolina. This is where Bush smeared McCain with half-truths and racist subtexts, and Billary is doing the exact same thing.
Could Obama be our last best hope to take back this country for rational people?

What everyone seems to be missing is that Obama is not “black”. He has a white mother. Why does he feel the need to hide that part of his heritage and only play up the black part? Doesn’t that tell us anything about who he will be for if he gets elected?

He is Black because he looks black. He will always be treated as a black man and refered to as a black man. It would be fair to call him a white man too. But to do so is to deny what you actually see. Obama is a black man and Hillary Clinton is a devil woman.

January 24, 2008
To Whom It May Concern:
Mr. Obama should be ashamed. Dance Mr. Bojangles, dance.
During the Democratic Debate held in S.C. on MLK day. Mr. Obama was asked to comment on Toni Morrison’s quote that former President Clinton was, “the first black President”. It was apparent throughout the debate that Mr. Obama was angry with President Clinton. After a few gratuitous words of inelegant praise from an otherwise elegantly poetic speaker Obama chose to end his discourse with a racial joke. “Well, I’d have to see how well he danced to see if he was really a brother.” The audience roared.
How is this acceptable or funny? This joke plays into the exact racial subtexts and stereotypes that divide this country. Mr. Obama’s platform is one of change and unity. This joke at the expense of President Clinton is demeaning, and denigrates the truly inspirational work that President Clinton has done for the African American community. This joke divides. This joke promotes racial stereotypes. Can you imagine if Hillary Clinton had been asked the question and responded with the same comment, that she’d have to see how well her husband danced before she could tell if he was black? There would have been pandemonium! It would have been the end of her race for the presidency. Why is there such a double standard?
Some may argue that it is acceptable for a black man to joke about black people. I disagree, and this was also a slur against President Clinton and whites in general. In Denver yesterday a listener of the radio show KHOW called in to discuss this very issue. The response from one of the hosts was that it was acceptable because it was funny and he was trying to bring levity to a serious situation. What?! Humor is subjective. This was not a comedy review. This was a presidential candidate vying for the most powerful position in the world. Is he going to make jokes and slurs when he feels under attack from other racial, ethnic, and minority groups? Is this how he will further our foreign policy? Is this how he will unite our country and world?
The irony is that this racial joke was done on the very day we were honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. Mr. Obama, who has been trying overly hard to show that he is worthy to step into Mr. King’s shoes has shown us very clearly that he is not. His behavior was outrageous and certainly not Presidential. Martin Luther King, Jr. would never have made that joke, especially about President Clinton. Neither Toni Morrison nor Martin Luther King, Jr. would have been amused.
Dance Mr. Bojangles, dance. Goodbye Mr. Obama.
Sincerely,
Robert Jameson

Clintons are running, Hate Politics! and Hillary Voted for the War In Iraq.To me thats like Voting to send our Son’s & Daughter’s off to die!

McCain in the past has been a middle of the road kind of senator. He voted and worked for america. After he gets elected, I expect to see the same guy at work.

Has anyone informed Sen Obama that he is vying for one of the highest offices in the world and that feel good speeches are not all it takes to obtain the keys to the White House?
Has anyone informed Sen Obama that when you throw mud, you had best be ready to be retaliated upon?
Has anyone informed Sen Obama that using hypothetical stances as an outsider does not bode well with those who were actually inside dealing with presented facts only privy to them nor is it a foundation for providing superior policies in the future?
Has anyone informed Sen Obama that by simply branding yourself doesn’t make you better without proof and having a solid record that your brand is better?
Has anyone informed Sen Obama that in this day and age of the information highway provides access of verification?

FOR ALL OF YOU THAT WOULD VOTE FOR A REPUBLICAN IF HILLARY IS NOMINATED MAKES ME SICK! YOU CARE NOTHING ABOUT AMERICA OR OUR CHILDREN AND THE ENVIROMENT! GO AHEAD YOU LOW LIFE VOTE REPUBLICAN AND I HOPE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN TORN FROM WAR AND SCANDALS FROM THE BUSH ADMINSTRATION COMES OUT AND KICKS YOUR ASS! STUPID AMERICA THE TRUTH IS YOU DONT WANT A WOMEN IN THE WHITE HOUSE BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT THE CLINTONS WOULD NEVER DAMAGE AMERICA LIKE BUSH BUT YOU RATHER HAVE A YOUNG PUNK THAT CAN’T EVEN STAND ON HIS OWN IN A DEBATE AND IS STUPID! IN A SCANDAL RIGHT NOW! JUST GO AWAY STUPID PEOPLE YOU REALLY SCARE ME!

Everybody chill. What a sensitive bunch! This is a political campaign. What do you expect? One question I have: Why does Obama talk one way to “his” people and another way to the whites. Who is he, really? Yesterday I heard a speech in which he chided the Clintons for calling “hope” a “fairy tale”. If that’s not a distortion, what is? He is not the all-holy savior the media and everyone else makes him out to be.

I can not believe the post. several months back when Mrs Edward and Michelle Obama was trashing Hillary nothing was said. But when she starts fighting back everybody gets mad. President Clinton has a right to campaign for his wife. If you really listen to all the debates she has won most of them. I think lots of people can not stand the thought of a woman Pres

i;m not a american peoples. but my suggestion to all of you, i think hillary and mr obama. they from same parties.if u peoples think. it;s hillary time for her. if u think obama can do it more. vote for him just. look a way forward for american peoples future. vote for the right person. dont think about race or gender all human beign we are one one. not bcus of white of black or yellow or blues. think of the person can lift american peoples up. thats my advise for all american

i;m not a american peoples. but my suggestion to all of you, i think hillary / mr obama. they from same parties.if u peoples think. it;s hillary time and she can help american peoples to proud of america again vote for her. if u think obama can do it more. vote for him just. look a way forward for all american peoples to move on and to be proud of america again in the world think of america future. vote for the right person. dont think about race or gender all human beign we are all one.in front of (GOD ALLMIGHT) not bcus of white of black or yellow or blues. race think of the person who can lift america up. and rebuild american image in the front of others country in the world.that,s my advise for all american peoples. a little word is enough for a wise. jesus said love everybody as u love your self. and try to forgive, even peoples who kill jesus. he still ask GOD to forgive them bcus they dont know what they are doing. if u are good christinan who will know. this. forgive obama for is past. and even clintons.

hes gotta engage them, he walked into the trap and nows he gotta get out of it.
If Hillary ran 4 years ago shed have been a lock for all the rank and file, but we want Obama. We want to feel hopeful again, RFK and JFK were stolen from us, we dont need some ordained cyborg wonk like Hillary running the country now. America needs to evolve, and Hillary is just a master of the game that needs to change.
I think we’re especially fearful since there was a 13 point swing in 24 hours in New Hampshire, that Hillary is as Obama says: “Bush Lite”. Seriously, ask all your liberal friends if they dont feel slightly “wrong” about New Hampshire. If they dont feel like NV was a little fishy either.
Hillary was set to lose, and all of a sudden through a miracle of modern technology she pulled off an historic 13 point swing beating all projections and exit polls to win in New Hampshire. Now we get the double tandem saturation of Bill and Hillary all over, with a comparison over who is blacker than whom, a white lady or an african american senator.
If Obama plays nice and lets Hillary and Bill dominate the airwaves like some twisted siamese twin where one is really the other and any and all success are the aggregated sum of this androgynous super political proto-deity, then yea hell lose. He needs to separate their parts, get Bill to overreact and marginalize himself, and focus on Hillary’s record in a standalone fashion.
Bill isnt the candidate, Hillary is. It seems the media forgot that. Obama cant sit back. Especially in the wrongness of the characterizations being proffered by Bill. He doesnt lose his brand by hitting back, hes just gotta be careful about how he hits back. Because if he doesnt respond, he’ll be history.

Wake up people. If by some strange twist Obama gets the nomination I will be voting for a Republican for the 1st time. He has no experience to be president.

I have followed and viewed the pro-choice, Reagan, war, present votes accusations carefully and every fact check site I have seen comes to the same conclusion I did. The Clintons have repeatedly distorted and lied about Sen. Obama’s positions using MSM, through ads and flyers. Their tactics and tone have gone far beyond what we should think is acceptable. I voted for Bill Clinton twice but at this point I don’t think I could in good conscience vote for Hillary right now. How is what they are doing any different than what Bush did to win primary and general elections? I don’t think I could vote for McCain either. I’m a 50 yr. old woman and have voted in every election since I was old enough to vote. I hope I don’t have to make a choice between Clinton and McCain. I don’t think either of them are what this country needs right now to move forward.
FYI: The “present” votes that were made such a big deal were out of over 4,000 votes and are very common in Illinois legislature. They are often a result of one party or the other voting in blocks as part of a strategy as was done in the case of several votes regarding abortion and done at the request of Planned Parenthood. Some things are difficult to explain in a 30 second sound bite.
I think Obama is in a difficult position because of all the lies the Clintons are pushing. If he doesn’t answer them, we have another “Swiftboat” situation and if he does answer them it takes him off message and makes it difficult to create the different kind of politics we need to begin working together to get anything done. If we only have 50% agreeing on anything, it doesn’t matter who is president, nothing will get done.
All the scandals and during and after Monica, Bill Clinton had difficulty getting anything done because he had lost his credibility and political capital. He also needs to bear some responsibility for the severe division in this country and the elections that followed. Is Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton really the best we can do? If 50% of the country says they would never vote for Hillary, can she even win in November? Especially if so many democrats stay disenchanted with her tactics and tone while campaigning?
I think it’s time to give someone new a chance. Do we really want to relive all the chaos and tabloid fodder from the 90s? How can that be good for the country.

Who is Obama, is he an agent of Change or is he an agent for Black only? I can not tell now.

Hallihunt, you were only wrong about McCain not being a uniter. McCain the warmonger will unite us when our dead bodies are thrown in together in a hole, after fighting during WWIII

Obama’s campaign was over when he started comparing himself to Martin Luther King Jr. What did he think was going to happen? He and his campaign know when the holiday was being celebrated. He set himself up and wrote his own obituary in this campaign. No one else did that.

With all this back and forth, what is lost is that Bill and Hillary started it. The problem with them, is they just will not stop. They run people and reputations down. Let’s face it they just don’t have any morals. Here is a past president famous quote, “To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”
You do know that these two are not the only ones in this primary race and we do have 3 Democratic candidates running for the nominee, right?

After seeing the way the Clintons are behaving, if Hillary gets nomination, I will vote for Republican in November, for the first time in my life! What a shame.
Republicans are praying that Hillary gets it, because it’s the only chance they can win, while they aren’t sure of their chance with Obama.

Excellet article and right on the money. Obama is above all of this. Let them make fools of themselves.

Obama and Edwards started the attack first, and Clinton tried to ignore it. Good for clinton that she doesn’t take the back of the hand from them. I’m glad she’s finally answering back.
The press is doing to her what they did to Al Gore. All kinds of negative press for her and good press for Obama (like Bush). Polls saying that she is doing worse, then does great (Remember all gore was supposedly losing in the polls and Bush was taking a “victory lap around the country” prior to the election? –only to find that Al Gore actually WON the election??). 8 years after living under a slimeball President, then she’ll receive the good press.

Obama has a lot of hateful supporters that have the same speech he does… They want to unify the Dems but spread nothing but hate. His supporters say they hate the Clintons, obviously Obamas message of unity does not apply to his supporters. Intimidating people into voting for Obama in Nevada says much about the people who campaign and support him.
So much for Mr. Unifier a.k.a Barack Obama
Get real people, if he can’t take on Hillary, the Republicans will not pitty him and he will be attacked much..much worse.
As Hillary said “If you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen!”

STILL MY VOTE GOS FOR SEN. CLINTON, A TRUE AMERICAN, WHO IS FOR ALL OF US.

Obama’s supporters, can some please explain to me what Obama is trying to say. We are all immigrants and all immigrants are American. Is he trying to say illegal immigrants? Who is he talking about?
From Obama’s MLK speech: 1) For too long, some of us have seen immigrants as competitors for jobs instead of companions in the fight for opportunity. Link to the speech: http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/rospars/CGxG9
From Obama’s MLK speech: 2) For most of this country’s history, we in the African-American community have been at the receiving end of man’s inhumanity to man. And all of us understand intimately the insidious role that race still sometimes plays – on the job, in the schools, in our health care system, and in our criminal justice system.
And yet, if we are honest with ourselves, we must admit that none of our hands are entirely clean. If we’re honest with ourselves, we’ll acknowledge that our own community has not always been true to King’s vision of a beloved community.

please come on people. Politics have been nasty ever since Thomas Jefferson. What makes you think that politics in 08 are going to be any better then when Jefferson was alive?! Politics will never be clean or honest. That is the thing about Politics. It is your job to be informed because it is to easy to tell a lie. Hillary has expirence, Obama has charisma and wit. Look at what you value most and don’t vote because of gender or race. Any one of these canidates are qualified to be president (republican or democrat) and they need to be given the proper respect. What they are doing is not easy. They want to make a change.

He voted ‘ABSENT’ on the Iran resolution. He voted ‘Present’ on issues when a little Obama CON-viction would have mattered.
Ok, this sweet-sweet talker gave a great anti-war speech, I wonder though if he would have voted ‘PRESENT/ABSENT’ WHEN IT REALLY MATTERED?

Please check your facts before you go spreading them on the internet.
Go to barackobama.com

I keep hearing people talking about the OBAMA brand! Not yet!
Lets face it, when in the history of a country a total unknown politician without credentials, real records, or even family history have raise to the top in less than 2 years? That sounds like a good movie plot or a nice story, right? This only can happen when big corporations, corrupt individuals, and opportunistic politicians -some of then sore losers like Dashle, Bradley, Kerry-, and powerful political machine knew they can come with a “fairy tale” and touch the heart of many people and that’s wrong. They are playing with all of us including Obama they poured millions of dollars and they created this all of the sudden super-hero, hyped the wave and were ready to claim the prize way to quickly. This power struggle is more than the bickering between Hillary and Obama is the behind scenes real fight between the sore losers that never agreed with Bill Clinton and resented the fact his wife was running for the wife house.
Those are the same machines that crashed Governor Dean’s campaign 4 years ago and are trying to crash Edwards campaign now. Those machines don’t care about the future of the party, all they care is about their own entrenched interests; they don’t care about who they put on the White House -just like the Republicans did with Bush- all they care is to elect a President they can manipulate and serve their interest. I became and Independent 3 years ago; but now I will vote for Edwards.

AMERICA HAS GIVEN SOOO MUCH TO ALL OF US. TODAY SHE IS IN PAIN AND SHE IS CRYING FOR HELP.IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES, I FIND IT SHAMEFUL THAT ALL WE CAN DO IS THINK OF OUR RACE AND GENDER.ARE WE GOING TO RISE ABOVE THIS AND OBJECTIVELY VOTE FOR THE DESPERATELY NEEDED CHANGE, OR WATCH AMERICA SLOWLY DIE……

MY VOTE GO
FOR SEN. CLINTON

He pushed the wrong button, he asserted at the time. Two of the admitted flubs were on hotly contested issues.
By Peter Wallsten, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 24, 2008
Barack Obama angered fellow Democrats in the Illinois Senate when he voted to strip millions of dollars from a child welfare office on Chicago’s West Side. But Obama had a ready explanation: He goofed.
“I was not aware that I had voted no,” he said that day in June 2002, asking that the record be changed to reflect that he “intended to vote yes
This is why Hillary has my vote!

http://opensecrets.org/pres08/sector.asp?id=N00009638&cycle=2008

Am very suprised that the Obama people are complaing about attacks but they forgot when Obama called president Clinton and his wife the senator from punjab or when he printed some stuff that Clinton is a fraudstar. If Obama cannot stand ordinary campaign attacks and clarifications, then tell me how he can withstand Putin and Chinese president in the security council who will do anything to put America in a tight conrner

Hil all the way! Stop being wusses and stop crying. Hil will win the General Election. I am not sure how she will fare as a President, but the Clintons do know how to win an election. Everything they are doing is part of their plan, so it is foolish to think they are destroying their chances.
And I cant believe those out there that say they will vote for Rep over Hil. The beliefs of a Rep are so diff from the Dems, that I cant believe you would ever vote the other way.
Like the New York Times says, Hil is the best canidate, and the polls show that more Dems are in favor of her also. While you Ovama folk are all on here crying, the real people are out there in the real world.

I disagree with the writer. We have seen what may occur when one candidate lashes out and the other candidate fails to respond. Ala, John Kerry campaign. In the political arena one must demonstrate that one can take a punch as well as return one. In this the Democratic campaigns the Clinton’s have reached a new low or high depending, on one’s persuasion. Never before have we seen a former President of the United State turn his stature from a place of admiration to a disingenuous place of dirt. He has indeed become a political hit man for his wife. Obama has a difficult task to try and maintain his campaign of hope against such a well oil organized dirt machine.

The prince whom the media put on the pedestal ran a campaign based on the ideal of hope and self righteous purity. He forgets he is a politician, he is not fighting colonialism or the civil rights movement of Gandhi and MLK respectively. At the SC debate he dived into the mud pool by taking the first punch, in fact he initiated it. It was a self inflicted wound and when the punch came form the opponent, he doesn’t know what hit him! He reminds me of a student who starts an ambitious and unrealistic project and half way through realized, “Oops, I’m stuck, help!” This is the big league, if he can’t take the punches now how is he going to withstand the far right neo-cons? Do you guys really think that they will embrace him and open the doors of the white house for him to sail in?

I disagree that Obama is using the same campaign strategy as the Clinton’s, even as he rises to challenge the accusations made by the Clinton’s. He has always remained upbeat and inspiring, and he has never displayed the same need to step on any Democratic nominee out of fear of losing the nomination. The Clinton’s on the other hand are using the strategy that they claim Republicans will use on Obama, so perhaps Congressman Clyburn (D-SC) is correct that this will toughen Obama for the general election. The issue really is whether these Billary tactics will work, and whether the Democratic faithful will allow them to get away with dividing what should be a unified period for our party. I don’t agree with Hillary that Democrats will unite behind whomever the nominee is at the rate that her husband is going. I am more apt to vote for McCain, and that’s because I’ve voted Democrat in every presidential election. Republicans will unite if Hillary is the nominee, and if the Clinton’s really believe that Hillary isn’t divisive, then just look at what they’re doing to the Democratic base in these primaries.

The Clintons have perfected the art of dirty politics. They are masters at the politics of division. If Hillary gets the nomination, she loses in November because Americans are sick of divisive politics.
Looking at the 2004 electoral map and margins of victory in each state, 4 red states were carried by Bush by a margin of less than 2.5%: IA, NM, NV, OH. And, 5 blues states were won by Kerry with a margin under 3.5%: MI, MN, NH, PA, WI. Can you honestly see Hillary changing any of those red states? And, how many of these blue states does she turn red? You can forget all of the current trends being polled because the general election comes down to a choice between 2 personalities, not parties.
With Obama, his ability to unite people will give the Democrats the chance to carry the close red states, keep the blue states, and add VA, LA, AR, GA, FL, CO, AZ to “in play” status. Plus, by uniting people, he would be able to get things done in Washington. He could get 60 senators to go along with him on many issues. In fact, with Obama at the top of the ticket, the Democrats will probably pick up seats in both the Senate and the House.
Wake up to reality all of you Clinton defenders. It’s time to turn the page.

Clintons remind all Americans how to be a pig. If one chooses to fight the pigs, then, better send a butcher. John Edwards can do it, but he is fighting for his own survival. Hill and Bill are two are slimy, sweet talking, dirty and corrupt politicians to the core. They represent all that is wrong with Washington. Fellow Democrats should think for the party, turn the page on the Clintons and allow us to start a cleaner country.

If you have the cards, play them.
Awesome article on this at the BlogZine SAVAGE POLITICS.
Wow all I have to say!
“The Boom Generation and their Pathetic Spawn” at http://www.SAVAGEPOLITICS.com

Sandra: It appears that the media is promoting Obama because they are afraid of the Clinton’s being in the white house again and they don’t want Bill Clinton to be making the speeches for Hillary. That will not happen. Hillary know how to talk for herself and could teach Obama so he can get rid of that accent. He will never be a JFK or MLK so if he said he is like tham all I can say is good luck!

OBAMA has rightfully turned the Race into a War againt the BLACKS and The WHITES!
Blacks will now support him for this reason only and nothing else will matter.
Whites don’t like us blacks so they won’t make a black vote!
Obama is finally a Stand for us African Americans! White Folks beware!

TO KMEL and his uneducated comments about black people listed above…
GET OUT OF THIS COUNTRY…WE DON”T NEED YOU! MOVE TO SAUDI ARABIA OR SOMEPLACE WHERE BIGOTRY IS ENCOURAGED!

Black people have always supported white candidates, we are more open to voting issues as opposed to race. Isn’t it time we move beyond this? Look at this country…you can’t blame this on black folks

Obama was never above politics, he is a Chicago politician with deep connections to people like Resko, the slumlord, they live next door to each other. The media just repeated for months Obama’s fictional speech of {” bringing to Washington a new type of politics.” Whe I heard him the first time, I knew I was hearing a charlatan, he is from Washington, and the whole USA knows what “type” of politics is necessary to winning in Chicago. Thank you Bill Clinton for taking on the media, and on this “inspirational” speaker that can not take the heat.

At the end of the day people will vote their favorite candidate, rhetoric will not help either candidate.
I suspect Hilary will surprise us all once again and win or tie in with Obi, and that will be the beginning of the end for
Obama, as it should be.
Hilary Clinton is the only candidate ready to take the job of president from day one.
She is well known to Europe and all other industrialized nations, and that is good for trade foreign investment and stock markets.
While Obi (Obama) is already on the no list of many
international papers and negative TV reports from Italy to Japan.

You guys are all WRONG…..
Election 2008
Once again, the Democrat voters and voters in general, are going to let the Republican Party dictates how they should vote. The “Fear Tactic” was use in the 2004 election and now in 2008, it is the “Likeability Tactic”.
The Republicans Party knows they will lose if Hillary R. Clinton wins the democratic nomination. They are also aware they will win if Senator Obama wins.
Yes, we all know Senator Obama is more likeable than Senator Clinton and Senator Edwards but what does that means when it comes to voting for the candidate to become our next President?
Republican Party’s Likeability Tactics:
Dictate to voters, whether democrats, independents, and republicans for that matter who’s thinking of jumping ship, to vote democratic by using Senator Obama as a decoy to distort the voters’ choice.
Mitt Romney alluded to this tactic in the latest Republican’s debate. He said the Republicans Party is ready and excited to run against Hillary Clinton and they (Republicans) know the American people don’t want the Clintons to run the country again. They want the American People to like the idea of casting their vote for Senator Obama rather than Senator Clinton or Senator Edwards because Senator Obama seems/appears more likeable than Senator Clinton and Senator Edwards by democrats, independents and by republicans as well. I heard someone said “He (Senator Obama) will be the nominee that can bridge the gap in the parties division”. No one can bridge that gap because both parties have different agendas and values. They see the country in a different way from a different binocular. Therefore, there’s no bridge to gap and there’s no reaching across the isle. The Republican party is belligerent when it comes to making decision that will benefit them not to benefit the Democratic party.
The Republican Party knows if they put enough support behind Obama, he will mostly get nominated and it will be a win for them come November.
This is the reason why you see Obama is receiving a lot of support from Republicans alike in these caucuses and primaries.
The Media as well is biting on this tactic by displaying the likeability factor of Senator Obama in the campaign trail. The more likeable he is the more publicity he will get and the more the name Obama will resonate with voters.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not lack of confidence that an African American cannot become President of this great nation. Furthermore, I’m not alluding that Senator Obama should not win the nomination of the Democratic Party but due to his lack of experience in the Senate and/or in politic, the Republicans will use that factor against him to become victorious come November election of 2008. I’m not saying Senator Clinton is the right choice neither, but she can sustain the blows from the Republican Party. People seem to forget Senator John Edward is also running. He’s a capable individual as well who can do a better job than both Obama and Clinton. What I’m saying is voters need to wake up and be smart when it comes to voting for any candidate in this election. Our great nation is facing the greatest threat and it’s not a terrorist threat; it is the threat of self-defeat. We are defeating ourselves which is the reason why we’re becoming more vulnerable to terrorist around the world. They are attacking us when we’re at our weakest moment. Let’s be smart and vote consciously. Pick a candidate that you know can do the job and not a candidate you think can do the job.
Vote for a candidate you trust will be a factor in the upcoming election and not fresh meat for the Republican Party to use as a treat. Choose a candidate that will sustain against all of the Republican Party bullying. Make a choice you know that’s right and not one you think is the right thing to do.
Kerson L. Raymond

You can all say what you want, but in the end, you all (whites) will not vote for Obama for President. You claim the Clintons are using race,which you all like which gives you a reason not to vote for Hillary, because you all claim she is playing dirty, and in the end you won’t vote for Obama, because he is Black.

Well I see the Clintons know Tony Rezko , and they was yelling at Obama! The Clintons will Deny anything till we get Picture proof, you could say! Im just amazed on how alot of Americans can be fooled by them!

Obama will win in SC because all of the blacks will vote for the black candidate. Iowa voted for Obama in their primary because they don’t know any black people personally, so they bought into the media image of the smart funny black guy in their favorite commercial, and the sensible black guy who lives next to the white dufus in their favorite sitcom.

Race is irrelevant to most white democrats whom I know. Obama is a fine leader but he needs more experience in Washington and in the world. He would make a great Vice President now, and a great President in 2012.

I am black but find the feuding between the Obama and Clintons very pathetic. Yet, I still believe the best chance America has to recover from the disastrous policies of the current administration lies with the Clintons. If anything I am more convinced only the Clintons can get us out of our current mess. Bill did it with Bush senior, Hillay can do it with Bush junior. It would be a catastrophe for America to place anyone besides the Clintons ask an amateur to do a professional job.

Barack Obama is no
“Mr. Bojangles”.
Nor is he the white
huckster currently trying to divide and conquer along race lines.
If Clintons win the nomination,
it won’t be so easy to glue
everything back together as
they assume.

I think we are seeing double standard here. If the Obama side does something negative, very little coverage. But if Hillary did something negative it is called below the belt. Politics is dominated by men and one of them is Ted Kennedy who thinks he is the God Father of democrats. WOMEN when are you going to stand for yourself. It is time that woman’s contribution to this country be recognize.