Clinton Sharpens Barbs Against Obama

Health coverage for every single American? Now I am being taxed for people’s ability to consume MacDonalds seven days a week? You are going to send people postal, lady. How about you just take away all freedom, all responsibility, and all choice, and make us into China. Communism is your thing, isn’t it?

When has Obama ever played the race card when he has been attacked? He’ll give his shots and take ‘em like the other candidates. At least he never broke into tears.

The News Media is trying to Help Hillary Clinton it want work?
Clinton loses Texas and Ohio by 60% of the vote to Obama. Hillary Clinton is a “Cry Baby”.
The Maching is no longer a threat to Obama.
Obama is the one.

hillary have nothing to say again that is why is try to talk negative about obama, mrs cliton you are a looser

Tommy,
I hear Ottawa is nice.

Tommy, you don’t have to wait that long. You can pack your bags today and leave, please. It will be one less moron in our beloved country.

John,
I was thinking more like Vancover.

MaCain Economic Advisor says, Obama’s (economic) plan. is the most shameless piece of potential plagiarism that I have ever seen. He basically took Clinton’s words and Clinton’s policies and called them his own. If I were a professor I’d give him an F and try to get him kicked out of school,” said Kevin Hassett, Sen. John McCain’s economic advisor and the Director of Economic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

Poll tracking by Real Clear Politics shows Obama beating Hillary in the general election. It also shows that Hillary will either lose or come close up short against McCain. Rasmussen Reports show Obama winning Nevada and Colorado from McCain, two red states, while Clinton does not.

We are about to all have a ring side seat as to the true character of Hillary. The ugly side of this person is about to break the skin. Strap yourself in!!

Sounds like the Clintons are spinning more fairy tales.

Given that Hillary Clinton has no coattails outside of highly liberal states, how does she expect to bring in enough Democrats in Congress to pass her healthcare plan?
She’s already made it clear that she’s willing to “go after people’s paychecks” to enforce manditory health care, which I think is political suicide on this issue.
Expect a billion dollars worth of health industry attack ads citing what mandates really mean — taking money from people who, for one reason or another, can’t afford to pay.
After that, there’s no way she could get her program passed. Frankly, she doesn’t even have a good chance of beating John McCain…
Barack Obama’s idea of having all the parties involved negotiate a plan while the American people watch and apply pressure on reluctant parties is really the best hope we have for getting healthcare for people.
Mandates, no mandates… who cares? What matters most is having national healthcare insurance that’s available and affordable for practically anyone, saving people’s lives.

Who cares, Pat?
First, any economic adviser to George W. McCain is simply promoting the failed policies of his political soulmate, George W. Bush, and thus is not worth spit.
Secondly, o*f course* George W. McCain’s advisers are going to try to prop up Clinton at the expense of Obama! You don’t seriously think George W. McCain wants to run against OBAMA, do you?

Obama is an empty box of candy, all wrapped up with nothing on the inside. BEWARE VOTERS, THIS GUY IS NOT WHAT YOU ARE BEING SOLD ON.

Interesting… those of you commenting on tears and scorned woman crap – just shows how misogynistic you people really are. Instead of taking cheap shots at her because she’s a woman, how about talking about the issues?

DESPERATE!!! LOL
Seems like Clinton needs a little Hope! Bill Clinton will endorse Obama just like his campaign manager.

ROTFLMAO Imagine my, and the rest of the United States, surprise that a Clinton has stooped to slamming LOLOL Makes my day when someone dysfunctional behaves just the way you knew they would! You go Hill…show everyone what your made of..as if we didn’t already know! That’s why your disliked.

Obama is good at lying, he lied in a smart way so that no one can notice it. He’s always behind the dirty tricks, when S.C blacks distorted Hillary’s comment about Dr. King and said Clintons didn’t respect their black leader, Obama was behind. When blacks in S.C distorted Bill Clinton’s comment about Obama’s record and hated Bill Clinton, Obama was behind. When MSNBC used very dirty language to distort Chelsea’s effort to help her mother, Obama was behind. But he always said he didn’t do it, someone else did it. Obama is a good actor.

Hillary Clinton will be old news come Mar 3 2008.
Hillary and Bill can continue to live off of some of the $10,000.000.00 to $50,000.000.00 that they are worth.
There will be a Tital Wave of support for Obama on Tuesday.
Obama is the one

Two adjectives may now be used to describe Hillary: shrill and desperate.

Hillary has to bring Obama down because there is no way that Hillary’s campaign is going to reach any higher ground than where she is sitting now. She has no intention of leading or inspiring Americans. She just wants to win the election. I can’t blame her for that, but I certainly don’t have to vote for her. I think Hillary is going to give it everything she’s got. I just think that everything she’s got is not good enough to beat Obama.

…and this is Hilarious’ conciliatory behavior with members of her OWN party! Just imagine how well she’s going to do when she needs to gain support from her fellow Dems in order to get them to write a bill that she supports, and then how easily she’ll be able to reach across the isle to get bipartisan support to get it passed. Yes sir!! We’re in for a very productive 4 years if she gets into the White House… [BTW, that was said with a VERY HEAVY dose of sarcasm!!] If you think THIS is ugly, wait until she meets the Republicans who REALLY love her.

Hillary signed a paper that she wouldn’t campaign in Florida. Then she went ahead and campaigned. So I don’t give much credibility to her signature. If she were in a position of power and were to sign a Treaty, for example, she probably wouldn’t have a qualm about reversing her commitment. That’s not just bad foreign policy, that’s political national suicide.

Hillary Clinton is a shameless woman. She refused to release her tax record, she refused to release her whitehouse record that is locked in their library. Exactly what does this woman want from the Americans? What are you hidding from the public? The Republicans alreday have her tax and record information with them. Hillary should please give up this presidency and save us from major embarrassment.

Obama is NOT a good leader. Many people who voted for him just simplly wanted to see a new face in White House, that’s all. Obama took advantage of some people’s hatred against Clinton team and made it a good show. I have to admit that Obama is smart and lucky, BUT he’s not honest as other people think, and he will never be a good president. Our country will in great danger if so many people continue to get crazy for this empty liar Obama

Someone like Clinton can’t give up even when she’s losing…look at her and Bill LOL ANYONE else would have left but that poor thing just can’t stand the though of losing…so she sells out her self respect and stays….She will drag the United States into a law suit over the FL and MI votes and will hand the election to the Republicans before she gives up. The Clintons are PRO’S at selling out the American Public.

It’s interesting that people are always talking about how Hillary has ‘stooped to slamming’ but when Obama does it, nothing is wrong with that. There certainly seems to be a double standard. I don’t support any of the current candidates, so it doesn’t matter one way or another to me who wins. But perhaps it should be fair for all involved?

It’s hard to slam someone with zero experience and no track record of doing a thing .. I.E. Obama

Finally!!!! Hillary needs to do this beacuse the media won’t. Now she has to do two jobs. Substance over Symbolism!!!!!!!!!!

Hillary spewing out lies? Oh No! Now what.
I know people it’s hard to accept sometimes that you lose. You’ll win in the end when Obama is president.

Here’s the deal: I’ll take either Obama or Clinton. The one I want is the most electable. What I fear most is another 4-8 year of a republican presidency.
What will be very upsetting is to see Obama win the democratic nomination and lose horribly in the national elections. Nobody says it, but we’re all thinking it. Are most Americans ready for a Black president? I have to think that there are still far too many Whites who harbor ill feelings toward black Americans, which sucks.
If I’m a republican, I would have to hope that Obama wins, because they know it will be hard for them to win in the nationals.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Obama win the democratic nod, and I don’t him losing to McCain, if that is what the people want, but if he is trounced in the nation elections… someone has to wonder if his winning the primaries was a republican scheme.

Ah, now we see the real HRC, this is the campaign she wanted to run. Where were you when Obama was voting against FISA HRC? You were in town, but you didn’t go to the vote. Hmmm.

The Republicans want Obama to win. They have a whole arsenal of information on his background and his closets’ full of secrets. No need to use it now, only if he secures the nomination. Remember that the Republicans are presently in power and have access to all of the “skeletons”. They have the government “machine” at their disposal and they will leave no stone unturned. You Obama-huggers are in for a huge shock should this play out the way you want it to. Be careful what you wish for because we will all pay the price with another 4 years of the Republicans in power.

hillary is making herself look like an idiot, and that is all she is doing

How has Obama lied? Where has he lied? How is his experience ‘less’ than Hillary’s? People need to get past what can be found on blogs and the internet and THINK.
Then again, that presumes I’m not talking to paid campaign staffers working for a campaign here. I’ve noticed at least a dozen ‘men’ over the past three days who support Hillary. That’s a dozen more than I know in real life. I know NO men who will support her regardless of circumstances–she, like the current President–is a divider, not someone who can unite the nation.

Hey Judy-
If you’re implying that HRC would be a better leader, you might want to pause and consider the following… if she is having trouble running her own campaign with all her FRIENDS around her, how does she plan on running this country with her ENEMIES even closer around her?

Riddle me this batman, why does the clinton campaign spend more time knocking his style of speech rather than his style of policy? Answer can be found in the California debate where we had 40 minutes of pure policy discussion with no mud flinging. That was just before Super Tuesday and we all know how it went from there.

Mary Miles, you said it all. The Clinton’s dirt is out there for everyone to play with all they want. But never underestimate the Republican machine. People are betting on a candidate that only the insiders know his Achille’s heel. They are saving it for one rainy day in November.

To esv: If you believe the media hype about Hillary, shake it off. The “Most Sexist Nasty Boys Club” aren’t her friends, the media can’t get enough inspiration from the empty high school slogans and Hillary is leading in the latest polls up 21 points in Ohio – 16 points in PA. Her campaign is alive and doing well, despite the media pile on.

whne she gets behind she lies smears attacks or crys. she is not what this nation needs.

I wish Hillary should not have chosen that field of going negative. Its like she is negative against herself. This remind people of her own and Bill scandals. Are they really scandal-proof??

I’m so tired of hearing Obama’s promises of change and I’m so tired of people supporting him without knowing anything about him. TALK is TALK!!! There is nothing in this man’s record that show’s me that he is capable of running a country and making tough decisions. In fact, his record shows me quite the opposite. Voting “present” so many times tells me that he is unwilling to take a stand on many issues. It also leads me to believe that he had his eyes on the White House a long time ago. One can always argue that they were “for” or “against” something if there is nothing in their voting record that proves otherwise and that is exactly what he has done as a senator. I’m glad to see that Hillary is finally exposing this man for what he is… he’s smooth talker who has star power but no substance. I’m tired of hearing the words “he inspires me”. Fine, I’m glad to hear that you’re inspired by someone… but how is your inspiration going to keep us safe from terrorists? How is your inspiration going to keep our economy from crumbling? I for one would rather KNOW that there is someone in the Oval Office who is working on my behalf every day to make this country safe and prosperous. Hillary has demonstrated to me that she can and does WALK the TALK. Wake up America!

A crybaby prez? I don’t think so. Is she going to try to pull crocodile tears when she can’t get Congress to agree with her, too?

Hey Obama, you scream about lobbyists. I was just wondering why you claim you voted present 130 times rather than yes or no on crucial legislation, yet you claim it was because in several instances, PLANNED PARENT HOOD TOLD YOU TOO. Wow, are you sure you will be able to handle decisions? Will you need Hillary to give you the right answers?

Not sure where she is coming from.
She has not done anything for the american people as well. 35 years of experience my ????.

CNL – instead of repeating Hillary Clinton talking points about voting “present”, do some research on Illinois’ political process before jumping to your conclusion of it means he didn’t vote. Voting “present” has a different meaning than the one they want you to believe. Not showing up to vote is the real dodge of an issue. Like Hillary did this last week when the vote regarding the illegal wiretapping hit the floor. She was in the area yet she didn’t show up for one of the most critical issues that the democrats stand for. Doesn’t they make you lovers of the constitution feel good inside?

FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS:
In Clinton’s six year term on the Senate, she has authored and passed 20 pieces of legislation. two to rename courthouses, two to rename post offices, 2 to congratulate university lacrosse teams on winning championships.
His first year in the U.S. Senate, Obama authored 152 bills and co-sponsored another 427. These inculded: **The Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 (became law), **The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act, (became law), **The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, passed the Senate, **The 2007 Government Ethics Bill, (biggest in history), **The Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill, (In committee), and many more.
As a Republican, I’d be honored to have him serve as our next U.S. President.

Telling us the truth is not negative attack. I want to know more on Sen. Obama before we vote for him. If Sen. Obama is not liar and he can spend more time on his economic and green energy plans instead of copy Hillary’s, he will win his nomination.

Ummm…wasn’t she making a speech??
That’s not making healthcare affordable.
That’s not putting food on my table.
I can see why she does best with less educated people. It takes ignorance to buy into her argument. They’re all making speeches to get the chance to lead this country in the way they think best!

“I am 100% behind my president”
Hillary Clinton.
Just before the war is waged.
No need for any more truth searching.
Obama camp better use this!

None of these canidates are worthy of leading this nation. I would rather see GW stay in office for four more years and I am a Democrat.

The Definition of HOPE.
1. To wish for something with expectation of its fulfillment.
2. Archaic To have confidence; trust.
v.tr.
1. To look forward to with confidence or expectation:
2. To expect and desire.

“Speeches don’t put food on the table. Speeches don’t fill up your tank, or fill your prescription, or do anything about that stack of bills that keeps you up at night.”
Neither does working in the White House on Health Care Non-Reform, or sitting in Congress passing votes in favor of big industries. That’s right, Hillary voted for the same bill that she’s attacking Obama for in her latest interview.
When’s the last time she laid up at night wondering if her mortgage was going to get paid or not. Sure, let’s discuss how Obama has a nice house – but then let’s also look into how Hillary got her vast estate in NY.
Oh, unless we aren’t supposed to ask Hillary where she gets her money from, because that might be “sexist”.
Clinton has never given a damn about anything unless it benefitted her. Now *that* is the truth, and I’ve seen her in action for nearly 20 years now. She’s a two faced liar who has demeaned women and non-whites both by her actions and words. She’s insulted those who voted against her as “activists” and irrelevant, even if those activists voted for her!!
Just when I think she can’t say anything more stupid than before, she opens her mouth.
She doesn’t deserve the presidency. Full stop.

Hillary is giving speeches too but lack any luster. Go ahead Hillary, Deny Americans “HOPE”. That is a great platform to run on.

Hey Obama, you scream about lobbyists. I was just wondering why you claim you voted present 130 times rather than yes or no on crucial legislation, yet you claim it was because in several instances, PLANNED PARENT HOOD TOLD YOU TOO. Wow, are you sure you will be able to handle decisions? Will you need Hillary to give you the right answers?

Terry-
I’m with you. There is something strange and frightening when both husband and wife seek such power in our life time. Sounds more like a monarchy than a democracy to me. Scary

Blind devotion? Well, we have experience with the Clintons! That is hardly blind devotion. They were great for the country and a lot of Democrats know it. On the other hand, Obama’s supporters can’t even speak of any real accomplishment he has made that backs his philosophy. Hillary has always been about the kids. I am a teacher and I know what her cause is. I was a supporter of “It Takes a Village” even though it was attacked. There are a lot of us who know what she means. We know her and we agree with her. Hillary Clinton’s record with her cause is evident from her past works. Hillary is highly intelligent, capable and a born leader. It’s not blind, it’s deep knowledge of her and respect for her. Her site has a wonderful letter from a Canadian rescuer who ran into Hillary on September 12, 2001. It depicts the stoic Hillary we know.

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Her and her husband’s NAFTA support is why we don’t have more American jobs.

Some of you people crack me up. How do you expect Obama to change things NOW? Hello! He’s got to get ELECTED first. What’s wrong with universal health care? I already pay $9000 a year in insurance and still have to pay copays. I’d rather that go to one place and everybody benefits. Maybe we can take some of that money we are sending to foreign nations who squander it and pay to keep AMERICANS healthy. You want a better America? Educate and take care of our own first.

This is a very desperate woman.

The Clintons have always enjoyed playing victim, whilst being far nastier and far more aggressive than anyway else on the field. I have not seen anything in the way of positive comments from the Clinton campaign for a while now, the only way they seem to know how to campaign is to hit and hit hard. Are they going to be able to hit at McCain in the same way? Do you really want four years of Hillary acting as victim in the White House?

Benry-
That’s right…but it gets worse, while we were losing those american jobs, Hillary and Bill were making hundreds and thousands of dollars. See, they have stock with the companies that ship our jobs overseas…when those companies do well, the Clintons do very well…might just be where she got the $5 million to invest in her campaign. Maybe that’s why she doesn’t release her tax records.

To those of you who wish to move to Canada – please go ahead! P.S. Don’t forget to take the Clintons and their baggage. Since the Canadian $ is greater than ours, they’ll even have tons of more millions they can spend. Don’t forgef people, NAFTA can with Clinton – now they speak of creating jobs!! Well, why in the you know what did they take them out of this country to begin with. Better yet – send them to China!

Universal (Federal) Healthcare – brought to you by the same government that provided “help” to Katrina victims, and poisonous FEMA trailers. Are you kidding me?

She’s right about this one.

I’m happy to see Hillary pointing out the flaws in Obama’s campaign…we all know the media isn’t doing it.
It’s one thing to talk the talk like Obama does. It’s completely another to understand what needs to get done and how to do, like Hillary Clinton does.
I’m supporting Hillary! She’s the only person who can turn this country around right now.
And if by some chance Obama wins the nomination, I’ll be voting for McCain (and I’m an ultra-liberal from Massachusetts!).

William T Sherman: Are you kidding? Hillary has managed to review healthcare for over a decade without getting a damn thing done. She has been the wife of a president. That is not experience. She claims 35 years experience. Even if you count her time as first lady in the WH and Arkansas, which is tenuous at best, it only adds up to 27years. Obama has held elected office for longer than her. She only has elected office because she was married to a president, she could not get elected on her own merits, as she does not have any.

It’s about time she remark on Obama. People need to realize she has action and Obama just has words. People wake up…we all need healthcare coverage because if we don’t all have it we end up paying for the uninsured. People do you really think the uninsured go to hospitals and pay their bill. Who do you think pays it. Hillary has a plan. Also, does anyone question why Obama did not support the president when our agencies ie CIA said their were weopons of mass destruction? Is he a profit or fortune teller? Why did he vote no when our nation was at crises? Is he going to not rely on our Inteligence in future decisions. Our nation is at risk with this guy people…wake up and vote for someone who cares and has represented and helped people their entire life like Hillary.

Hillary claims to have spent her entire life helping people. Well, yes. But mostly she’s been helping herself to what she thinks she’s entitled to. She’s the first and main recipient of her own helping. Why her? Well, because, she’s, uh, Hillary.

Funny how she slams Obama for making inspiring speeches….while making one intended to inspire herself. Hypocrisy topped with frothy piles of megalomania is just way too rich for my palate. Ugggghhh. Turn the page and quick, please!

Glad to see Hillary’s on the offensive again. Truth is Obama IS all words, with no credibility. Stop the rhetoric, Obama. Let’s see what’s really there!

Hillary’s and Bill Clinton’s Pitbull tactics want work.
Obama wins Ohio and Texas with 60% of the vote.
I do not want to see this dysfuntional family back in the White House.
Obama is the one

I’m glad she is going after his weaknesses. Why doesn’t he answer the specific issues directly? I to have some of the same questions regarding his failed energy bill that he lied about in an earlier debate.

If Obama wins nomination, I will vote for Republican. It is very simple, because I don’t want to see this country will be destroyed by Obama.

Hey, Hillary, if you want the Hispanic vote so bad why did your secret service agents make a Hispanic man get off of the sidewalk just because you were walking down it??!! Shouldn’t you at lease pretend that you care?

Hey Keith-
It doesn’t count when you say “oops, if I had known then what I know now…” Tell that to the families of all those children, fathers, mothers, friends who died in this war. And let’s not forget…Chaffee also saw the info that Hillary had and he still voted NO…the only one in Congress to have done so…he lost re-election because of it. So don’t sit on that excuse anymore.

If Obama wins nomination, Republican will win. Vote for Obama = vote for Republican.

Obama offers nothing more than platitudes. He may copy Hillary’s ideas, but he lacks the experience to execute them.
Republicans are sure happy to vote for him to tear him down in the general or after 4 years of a failed Presidency.

RO, for you….He is empty rhetoric. He has nothing in his past works or lack of works that support his philosophy, therefore he is continuously copying someone or something else.Obama has not done ANYTHING in his past for people, I mean there is NOTHING he has done that supports his philosophy, one that keeps sounding like Hillary’s. Obama started off with Bill Clintons ‘92 campaign of Hope. Took the United Farm Workers mantra of “Si Se Puede,” even though that union supports Hillary. Is pushing off his deficient health care plan as Universal. Doesn’t want to debate, because as we all know….he is no good at it. Fails to answer real questions on the Rezko and Exelon incidents. Didn’t seem to know it was breaking the rules to run ads in Florida, when they were’nt suppose to. Had supporters run a vote against Hillary campaign in Michigan, where she still won especially after voters found Kucinich was also on the ballot, yet no mention of this in the media. His supporters were going crazy on radio and tv in California for Michigan to vote against Clinton. National radio ran shows supporting this effort. He mis quotes and mis represents his opponents. Then, when he lost the teleprompter connection at his Virginia speech, he had to ad lib while flipping through his notes, which came off as an angry liberal and not the uniter in his speeches. To which we ask, “Will the real Obama please step aside and perhaps let your speech writer run for office since they are responsible for your following, or rather those who are ‘Coming to Obama’.” Sure, she can take him, he Is a superficial mimic.

Hey Mike-
don’t give Hillary all that credit. And while you’re at it, you might want to include in her qualifications that:
1.While Americans were losing their jobs because of outsourcing (a practice that the Clintons created) the Clintons were making money off of it…hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Pretty hypocritical of her to say she’s worried about the unemployment level and poverty level…well, she helped create it and there is NO defending that.

Hey Nancy
Don’t blame the whole war on Hillary Clinton. Her vote did not cause or start the war. Obama just happened to luck out in his vote…half of the time, he is not even there to vote! He is not the Golden Child you and the News Media make him out to be….he is sneaky and it DOES come thru.

Maybe we keep getting confused if Hillary Clinton really *IS* running the show, when she keeps mentioning things like “Well, my husband lost caucuses too”.
Had Hillary gone out and won any elected office WITHOUT the help of the Bill Clinton Collective (such as Sen. D’amato), then perhaps it would be easier to see her as her own person. When things got bad in the early primaries, she brought her husband out of mothballs to slam Obama as a “fairy tale”. She then started talking about how she was a “co-president” in the administration of Clinton I , and that you’d get “two for the price of one” this time as well.
She isn’t doing ANYTHING on her own, unless it’s *easy*. That’s why she’s campaigning alone in Texas, as she thinks this is a cakewalk to win.
She isn’t anything close to being a feminist. Rice, Pelosi, Sebelius – THEY are feminists.

MORE OF THE SAME FROM HILLARY CLINTON.
SHE JUST COULDN’T RESIST TWISTING THE TRUTH.
AND TO ALL OF THOSE THAT SAY OBAMA DOESN’T CLEARLY LAY OUT HOW HE IS GOING TO CHANGE GOVERNMENT – THEN YOU’RE NOT LISTENING TO HIS SPEECHES AND JUST GOING OFF MEDIA SOUND BITES! BEFORE YOU GO BASH SOMEONE – MAKE SURE YOU TAKE THE TIME TO KNOW ALL OF THE FACTS. BE AN INFORMED VOTER – NOT JUST ONE OF THE FLOCK OF MEDIA SHEEP!!!!!
OBAMA IS THE ANSWER – WHY DO YOU THINK HE IS WINNING EVERY STATE RECENTLY BY HUGE MARGINS?!?!! THEY LISTEN TO WHAT HE HAS TO SAY AND THEY BELIEVE IN HIS MESSAGE! YES WORDS CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!!!!
OBAMA 08 OBAMA 08 OBAMA O8
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!

After 7 years George Bush, we can not afford 4 more years Obama.

Matthew-
If Hillary wins the nomination. I will vote for McCain as well! and I’m ultra conservative Democrate

Okay Obama, it’s happening. You have been found out. Come out from behind the curtain oh great and powerful one.

Jill Mitchell-I don’t think people think its “cool” to vote for a black President, they just want the right one. That’s mighty white of you to bring up race like that, though.

Clinton wants to extend the Bush-Clinton Monarchy. It’s been 20 years free people of America. Let’s break out of that cycle and Vote Obama!
Mark my words, vote for a Clinton, a Bush will follow:
1988-1992 George HW Bush
1992-2000 Bill Clinton
2000-2008 George W Bush
2008-2012 Hillary Clinton
2012-2020 Jeb Bush

John McCain is old school (The Bush Doctrine) and has seen his best days.
Obama is the only Democrat running that can beat him.
Senator Hillary Clinton is part of the problem.
Obama is the one

Keith-
It was not put in Obama’s hands to decide…it was put in the hands of the congress…and HRC was there! It was not about luck, it was about sound judgement. And HRC can’t run on the idea that she would be ready on day one or that she has the experience…when it mattered the most to exercise those qualities…she failed.
While I have your attention, what do you make on the issue of Hillary supporting and lobbying for outsourcing…and making hundreds of thousands of dollars from that practice while americans lose their jobs. Pretty immoral for our next president to benefit financially from Americans losing their jobs, wouldn’t you say?

Now this is great, on one side Hillary claims Obama is an empty suit, and on the other side she ALSO claims he is copying her policies left right and center.. So what is true? Is he a empty suit or she an empty pant-suit? Rather, I guess herein the emperor has no clothes!

If Obama wins nomination, Republican will win. Vote for Obama = vote for Republican.Posted by: Mike,NC | Feb 14, 2008 2:50:28 PM xxxxxxxxx Hey, Mike,NC–If Clinton wins nomination, Republican will win. Vote for Clinton = vote for Republican. Looks like either way, the Reps will win!!!

Obama has a mandate for children on his health plan- what’s he going to shake down a 2 year old’s piggy bank to get that premium? if you have children there will be a mandate so Obama clearly doesn’t have a problem with mandates in his own health care plan and if you don’t pay the premium there’s no potential for garnishment in his plan then? I would assume it would be similar to what Clinton has stated in that there would be a focus on making premiums affordable and capping the amount one can charge for a premium

Bomb Pakistan. Now that’s a smart move, Obama.

Obama has not played the race card — but it sure has been played for him by others. And as far as the gender card — that is played out everyday by the media against Senator Clinton. Obama does not have one single plan of his own that he has not stolen from someone, whether it be economic, creating green jobs, healthcare (his plan leaves a bunch of folks out), the mortgage crisis which he has completely ignored and which Senator Clinton has been talking about for more than a year as the crisis was looming — an no one bothered to listen to her. All Obama does is give inspiring speeches of hope and fluff that are, underneath the rhetoric, not of any substance whatsoever. Yeah, he’s the one we should put in the White House so he can make it up as he goes along. No wonder Canadians are flooding the web with messages of support for McCain and Clinton. Even our neighbors to the north are frightened of an Obama Presidency. Be very careful what you wish for!

The current data and evidences show: when people study more and become more knowledgeable about what has been going on, or becoming “better educated” so to speak, they tend to vote Senator Obama. Senator Clinton surely cares about education and also wants to win badly.

Joe: Hillary Clinton can’t run her household let alone the White House.
Obama wins with 60% of the vote.
Obama is the one.

Why every body is so jelous and envy of the Clintos ? becauase they are going to make history in this country, and they are smart, and are doing great things for the country ?. Do you let be brain wash with speeches, some somebody that no body new before Oprah endorse him. Be real. be smart, dont let nobody insult you intelegencie

I’m an independent and I support Obama (and for the first time in my life I will put a sign on my front lawn supporting him if he is the nominee) but I will NOT vote for Hillary if she is the nominee even if Barack is the VP which I think would be a big mistake on his part (the vindictive Clintons will suck the life out of him).The Clintons are the most disingenuous and duplicitous individuals there are in political circles today. They are all that is wrong with Washington politics and if Hillary (I’ve accomplished nothing but talk in her career) is elected will not change anything in Washington. Her attack dog of a husband Bill Clinton will lie right to your face if it serves his purpose, just as he did when he was the President. They will do or say anything to get back to the White House. Its not about concern for Americas welfare its there own ego driven need for power. Hillary is not about change… she never even mention herself as a change agent until she saw that Mr. Obama’s message had resonance with the American psyche. Unfortunately I fear Hillary will get the nomination, and if that is the case I will never vote for a democrat for President ever again. I’m very disturbed at the lack of insight by people who support Hillary. She has never accomplished anything in her political career… yet people continue to think she is experienced. What is this great experience you all think she has? What great piece of legislation has she championed and has been passed into law that is helping you today. We would have had some type of national health care today, if Hillary would have been willing to compromise back in the early 90s. During her time in the White House she did not even have National Security clearance …, yep that’s real experience she’s had during her years in White House. The Clintons championed NAFTA and promoted China… These two moves have diminished the US as an economic power and have caused the loss of millions of good paying jobs to foreign companies. She was completely in support of the Bush and his invasion of Iraq , now she tries to change history. The reason she supported the war was a purely political move for her future plans to run for the White House, she hoped to use it to stave off any attacks by the Republicans that she was not strong in defense issues. Listen to the double talk she is using to cover up her purely political motivated vote to go to war .. does she really believe we are that stupid (I guess so). Listen to her dance around the answer, and look at what she said in the debate in California, this is the Commander and Chief you want sitting behind the desk… Quote from the debate:
“Knowing that he was a megalomanic, knowing he would not want to compete for attention with Osama bin Laden, there were legitimate concerns about what he might do. So I think I made a reasoned judgment.”
Yeah where have I heard that before (Bush and Cheney) NO Thanks!!
She did not care for the soldiers being sent off to a needless war that did not address actual national security priorities. … Hillary’s views and opinions are blown by the wind… done for political expediency not out of belief. I’ve talked with a number of Obama supports who also will not support Hillary if she is the nominee. It will be another sad day in America, when the Clintons return to the White House.

Obama supporters sound like students; they’re regurgitating his sound bites.
Okay Obama, it’s happening. You have been found out. Come out from behind the curtain oh great and powerful one

HEY GUYS, I THINK ITS HIGH TIME PEOPLE SHUT UP AND USE THEIR HEADS TO THINK. HILLARY CLINTON CANNOT EVEN CONTROL HER OWN CAMPAIGN. TWO MANAGAERS HAVE ALREADY RESIGNED. HOW CAN SHE RULE THE COUNTRY WHEN SHE CANNOT EVEN MANAGE HER CAMPAIGN. I WILL NOT VOTE FOR HER, AND WILL NEVER VOTE FOR THR CLINTONS!!!!!! I HATE THEIR TRICKS AND LIES TELLING. OBAMA, U HAVE MY VOTE OBAMA 2008!!!!!

HRC tells it like it is. You Obama cultist haven see nothing yet. By the way how about someone telling the Goverment to put on a self distruct system on satallites, so we don’t have to spend so much money shooting them down. The satallite comeing down was up in Dec 2006. How about some cabeza.

Can somebody tell me what obama track record is? what he has done . No body new him, if he is that special person . why nobody new him, he is 46 yrs old , old enough to have a record and been reconocided for something, nice speeches
rethoric,
ok america wake up before is too late

Shawn-
The vote was for MILITARY ACTIONS, not sanctions. Believe me, I understand the anger and pain that all of us felt after 9/11. But one thing I learned is that you can never make decisions in that state of mind that are going to affect millions of more people. You have to step back and ask all the hard questions and consider hard what you’re about to vote on. If Chaffee was willing to do that…why couldn’t someone who claims is experienced enough and ready enough do the same?

“How are you holding up?” HRC response: sniffle, sniffle, tear drop. If this is how she reacts to campaign pressure, imagine her under presidential pressure. This is not a swipe at her being a woman. It just demonstrates a lack of strong leadership. As they say, there is no crying in baseball. Can you imagine what would happen if the president of the great USA cried during a press briefing? How about in front of the U.N.? Emotional choices tend to be bad choices. I want someone with a clear head to lead my country, not someone who breaks down just because they were asked how they are doing.

Is anyone else seeing a pattern here of putting disingenuous comments about Obama! Not only that they being cut and pasted amoungst multiple articles, but also personalized with names of other respondents within the page! Eg. The law suite thing, or Obama is a muslim, and rather than saying it directly, someone is putting it as a question! It’s like using reverse pyscology to put one’s knowhow in question! Swiftboating but inside out I guess! Carefull people!

Hillary was asked why she didn’t disclosed her income tax return in a television interview.
Did Hillary answer the question? NO! All Hillary did was to place attention on Barack Obama with a half truth.
Well Benjamin Franklin must of had Hillary in mind when he said: “A Half Truth Is A Big Lie.”

People: Please check out your facts:
When Hillary Clinton tried to pass her Health Care program thorough, the Republicans had the House and they rejected every proposal she presented. AT least she put one together!
It was the Republicans lead by the Newt that rejected her plan.
Check it out please
ok?

So yesterday, John McCain attacked Barack Obama for lacking specifics. Also yesterday, McCain’s economic advisor, Kevin “Dow 36,000″ Hassett attacked Obama for allegedly pilfering Clinton’s economic stimulus program. (The criticism, and Obama’s denial of it, can be found here.)
I noted yesterday that it’s odd McCain would be attacking Obama for lacking specifics, when McCain is far vaguer and more ill-informed than Obama. It’s even odder that McCain’s campaign is jumping into the question of which Democrat came out with which stimulus plan first. I expected MCain to go after Obama, I just thought it would be on grounds of being a liberal liberal liberal peacenik.
Could the answer be that… McCain’s goal is not to hurt Obama in the general election but to hurt him in the primary? Every poll now shows Obama performing better than Clinton against McCain. On average, he does five and a half points better than her, which is a very significant margin.
So it’s quite likely that the reason that McCain is amplifying Clinton’s attacks on McCain, rather than make attacks that would fit his general election audience, is that they’re targetted to the primary. If McCain attacks Obama for wanting to withdraw from Iraq, that helps Obama in the primary. If he attacks him for lacking domestic policy proposals, it helps Clinton. I suspect McCain is trying to pick his opponent here, the way Richard Nixon tried to sink Ed Muskie’s primary campaign in 1972, but without the illegality. (I’m not suggesting there’s anything immoral about the tactic — if I were McCain I’d do the same thing.)
–Jonathan Chait
See people….there is a reason for everything!

Socialized medicine does not work with for-profit health insurers. Her plan will garnish your paycheck while doing nothing to stop the money grabbing taking place in our health insurance industry. Force you to pay but not control how much they can charge you? This is not a solution to the problem. This throws fuel on the fire.

Kate you are so misinformed,
I hope your not one of those people who thinking it is cool to vote for OBama cuz he has a video, and the OBama girl. that is not what this election is about! Which raises another issue. on the debate in CA, OBama said,” I have two girls of my own I care deeply about what they watch on TV.” OH yeah Obama, why did you have a pole dancer showing her rear on the Superbowl commercial. You guys can believe this two faced project. I don’t, he’s all show , no tell. Instead of just arguing with people and me about it , read , read, and when your done , research deeper. read his book . Obama can’t even remember the people he wrote about. (THIS IS A FACT PEOPLE LOOK IT UP< USE GOOGLE)(I refuse to vote for him , ill go republican, the stuff on this guy is BAD! The only thing I can figure is that the republicans who have control over clear channel are getting him nominated.)I mean come on you really want someone who can't remember who he wrote about to be your pres??? How bout this and look this up too. Obama claims he was the product of his parents marching on the selma bridge. well that took place 4 years after he was born???? Do you want a president who forgot when he was born?? or did he make that up , it's one or the other, ask him , he said it . Google it!!! research people please.
While your at it , look up how the republicans run two campains, one for the republicans and one for who they want to run against. I know they will eat him alive, you watch as soon as Obama gets the nom, and it looks like he's getting it, all the trash will flow on the front pages of news papers and websites across the nation. all his endorsers will look like fools for not see the hidden republican treasures, and will have another republican inthe white house.
A few other items to look up
*Nuclear and obama<— opps did i miss something
*Obama and his kenyan cousin <— genocide?
*Obama attends a racist church<– Oh no , he never played the race card.
*Obama Likes single payer insurance? <—- Oh no he didn't
*Obama lies about guns<— Is he for or against it , we will never know???
*Obama and Resko<——How did he get his house again?
*Obama Was A Constitutional Law Professor<– no you weren't you are just registered as a speaker.
*Obama's record on choice is less than 50%. He pretends to be pro-choice while voting for anti-choice justices who have vowed to end choice. Obama even voted for cloture on Priscilla Owen, a justice Alberto Gonzales felt was too far to the right
*Obama's pretense at being anti-war is a fraud on the American people. His actions are fully pro-war. He has voted anti-choice and to keep the USA-PATRIOT Act. A win for Obama will be a win for the neo-con agenda. An Obama nomination is a guaranteed loss for the American people who would have no major candidates to support in 2008.
What do you really know about Obama, seems to me , not much!

Obama won’t be even a meal for McCain, in fact he is not even a snack. Send out our best fighter HRC. Obama and his friend REZCO are not capable of beating JM.

Irma claims to be a school teacher and stumping hard for Hillary due to “It takes a village”. Well, I hate to point out, it’s teachers like Irma who have no judgement of right or wrong, good or bad, that bogged down our country’s education system. I would not allow people like that teach my children. Look at her posting hours – shouldn’t she be at classes if she is a real teacher?

eleven22
Please save America the pain of having that intern-friendly person loose in the whitehouse. VOTE FOR OBAMA…

kene,,
im sure you know nobody who has ever cheated or has cheated on their spouse and stayed because they love eachother. oh thats right this is America, christian people here don’t believe in staying to gether through thick and thin. But yet they want to keep if from the gay and lesbians. Freaking american idiots I swear!

She can’t beat him on ideas. She can’t beat him with name recognition. Her husband attacks and he gains popularity, So, now she’s just decided beat him literally. If this doesn’t work, look for a Nancy Kerrigan like attack where a fat, white haired ex-President hits Obama in the knee with a stick.

tcnz, to you.. Firstly, you din’t even come close to discussing or arguing or questioning the premise of my post! All you were doing was attack! Anyway, 100% I am sure all q’s you have put have been beyond satisfactortly answere here and elsewhere.. now don’t say this is hogwash, just google or something or try huffpost or something… secondly, just because Hillary had a high profile carrier (no thanks to her self, but rather largely to Bill) it doesn’t mean Obama was counting the stars in his public service years! I am sure the ratio to Obama’s bill’s to Hillay’s like 20 to 1! And when it comes to even more substantial bills the ratio would be like 50 to 1 in favor of Obama! This is again no hogwash, just google for Obama’s legislative history! And while you are at it just count the propotion of bills that hillary put out to rename buildings, roads etc! you will shock your self, and perhaps to the realms of reality! cheers!

Well cancell this vote . For me its HRC or McCain. I will not vote for someone who visits a racist church. So many out there to pick from and this IDIOT has to choose that church , wake up America.

caralyn, if you want to see countries run by and for religion take a nice long look at the middle east for results of that recipe for disaster.

The fat Lady is getting ready to sing.
A landslide for Barack Obama on Mar 4.

For those people that Barack Obama lacks substance and specifics, you are just echoing what the mass media tells you. Go to his website, read his policy proposals, read The Audacity of Hope. If you still aren’t convinced he has laid out substantive and specific policy on many different issues then I feel sorry for you. At least Obama has stuck with the same position and message of change while Hillary Clinton desperate to win is trying out every angle and position she can if it will get her votes.

omentum , I want change to , but when I take my item to the counter I wnat to know how much money is in my wallet, I dont want to hope taht I have enough. With Obama its all about hope, with Clinton I know how all people were doing min my neighborhood , and they were doing better then anyother time during my lifetime and i’m pretty old.

Anyone who simply goes to a candidates website and reads only the issues there and doesn’t do any fact checking for themselves are simply dillusional! Those websites are self-bias, compare, research, and figure out for yourself!
Only change ever in Washington is th moderate flip flop Congress/Senators! Hard core Party Congress/Sentaors will ever change!
Proven under pressure of simple debates, Obama falls apart every time! These are serious days ahead, want a President who will toot an old useless stump speech to an anti-war demonstration when the going gets tough and real decissions need to be made?
Choice is likeable: hands down Obama!
Choice is get the job done: hands down Clinton!
Come Jan 20th/09 a serious, very serious situation will face the Government, magnify todays problems by a minimum of 125% worse off!
McCain will bring 4 more years of Bush!
Obama will bring loads of talk and nothing done, proven by his record of 4 yrs in the US Senate and writing only 2 Bills that have passed into law, while defending himself against core Republican smear tactics!
Clinton will bring change in direction both at home and abroad while core Republicans do their ususal smear tactics!
In the end, the choice is to either get things done in Washington or to have 4 yrs of the same or have 4 yrs of complete termoil with nothing done at the hands of a person who has proven nothing but giving good speeches!

Mnay negatives things have been said about Obama by the Clintons but still he keeps on beating them in in this race. He is the real candidate for the DEMOCRAT. We are tired with the failed policies of CLINTONS AND BUSHES. We need some kind of new fresh ploicies in Washington. Someone with good visions and hopes who can re-unite both DEMOCART and the Republicains. Obama ’08

omentum,
If your so righteous in what Obama has done for his district, look up his district. Yes he has passed a lot of Bills, but has done very little for his own district. Why is this? It’s completely fine I’m just trying to see why people like Obama convince me to look his way. I have been trying to understand what policy he comes up with himself that is good. all I have found is someone who takes other peoples stuff and claims it for his own. For example he compares himself to JFK and MLK , but they never compared themselves to anyone , they were the bar, then knew they didn’t do it for prestige. When I see Obama I see someone who wnats the lime light. Someone who is more intersted in the idea of the presendency then the job. With Hillary I see someone who wants the job.

Beth , she co sponsored the bill , but Obama gutted it afterwards when pressured. Look it up if your so on top of things.
this right here shows me how thoughtless you really are:
“Wal-Mart Board Member – no universal employee healthcare”
Funny thing is you people don’t realize that Wal-Mart was a great company back when Sam was running it. Then his kid took it over and made it what it is today. If you want to know how the company use to be look at the company’s motto. Very differnet when Clinton was there, which was when Sam was ALIVE. Also you go and tell your company to change something , and come back and let us know how you did. Next your going to say taht she went to so and so High school , and there was no universal health care there too. Please get real people , stop spinning wheels on really thoughtless ideas.

Umm….. if any has been paying attention, obama is leading the delegate count, he’s won the most states, and he has the over all popular vote. Oh ya and bill clintons own political strategist just endorced him. If superdelegates decide to make hillary the nominee, it will be to lose trust in american democracy ( which is kind of an oxymoron to begin with) but if these party bosses decide to go against the majority of people in the democratic party it would be to lose the faith of the american people in a system which is already on the rocks.

eleven22: nice try, but the NY Times does not promote the Clinton healthcare plan. It speaks of a likely “evisceration” (presumably in Congress) of the Clinton healthcare plan, even if it is potentially better than Obama’s plan. Don’t forget, there is still a Congress to pass such a bill through…

What’s in Hillary’s TAX RETURNS that she dosn’t want us to know about unless she is the nominee.
It’s a little late to find out there is stuff that could cost the Democrates the election after she is the nominee.
Is this as example of the open style of Goverment, sounds like same old style Washington coverups.
Time for her to be open and honest.

ABOUT TIME!!!!
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!
CLINTON NEEDS TO TAKE OBAMA ON – HEAD ON!
ALL TALK, NO ACTION!

Uh, she’s got solutions?
Like last time she brought us universal coverage?
Like when she stood up with Bush and voted for the idiotic war in Iraq?
Like when she whipped the entire Republican party into a frenzy with her arrogant self righteousness?
THOSE SOLUTIONS? NO THANKS, HILL.

Poor Hillary no matter which mask she trys it doesn’t fit == how do you fight optimism and HOPE when Americans are just sick and tired of the darkness and fear mongering, plus the drama of the Clinton’s and Bush’s.
The dislike of Hillary is not gender based it’s CLINTON based — and if we wound up with Hillary in office it would be as bad as Bush and no other woman for many generations would be able to try for it again.
Obama offers the change from the same ole, same ole that people are attracted to — the difference between banging our heads against the wall or risk trying something new — that in great numbers cannot be fought — and those speeches contain solutions — Hillary just isn’t listening.

still haven’t told me what Obama has done for his own district?? I’m Waiting…….

I am with you Rich
I am with you all the way…..
MBH MCCAIN BEFORE HILLARY.
I hear that all day at the office.

Just listen to Hill-lair-y speeches, does she really sound sincere? She is too dry. She cried just before New Hampshire primary, you know what people did not see her in person while she attempted to cry, but the people who were in the room with her actually recognized as a political drama. The lady who asked that question did not even vote for her. She had said Clinton is doing orchestrated drama.

Hillary isn’t the real deal. The people in TX see right through her empty promises. I’m not gonna vote for her because she is loosing and wants me to feel sorry for her. That dog won’t hunt.
The only way she could do it is winning most of the rest of the contests by 25 to 30 points, and there is not a single contest on the calendar left where any polls project her to win by those margins.
Now members of CNN’s political team are saying that she must steal some of John Edwards speaches to get enough voters. She already sounding more and more like Obama. Complaining that she is a victim because, she doesn’t do well in caucuses. Complaing that she can’t get the crowd all wooped up like the Sentator from IL. It’s not looking good for the home team.

eleven22
If your state hasnt voted yet… There’s still time for you.

Go Hillary, go!!! And take Bill with you back to your trailer park.

Lets not forget that Sen. Obama will say anything to manipulate the uneducated.

When 1,600 jobs were being lost, the people say he (Obama) didn’t do a thing to help.”
What do you say about that people?

Obama told people he stood up to the nuclear industry and passed a bill against them. But he actually let the nuclear industry water down his bill – the bill never actually passed. On top of that, the same company that watered down that bill lobbied for Dick Cheney’s energy bill. And my opponent voted for the energy bill, with its billions of dollars of breaks for the oil industry. I voted against it.”

I will not vote for someone with Hussein
as his middle name. As far as the promises he makes, how will he do all this? Will everyone just lie down and
let him do all he wants. He is not criticized for many mistakes due to the
fact that he has not been around long
enough to make many. Only those who do
nothing do not make errors. We still
remember all the promises Bush made to
get in the W.H. If Obama Hussein Barak
gets the nomination I will vote for the
republic candidate.

Obama adopted the goal of five million green collar jobs months after I announced I would create five million green collar jobs. I was also glad to see that he modeled his $60 billion infrastructure bank on a bill I co-sponsored last summer to create a $60 billion infrastructure bank.
How pathetic you are Obama

I have not once heard Obama have an original plan.

march madness should be fun I hope everyone on this site is young and new to this process I good to debate but let’s not get to ugly

Barrack HUSSEIN Obaama and his teenage sheep say…….. “Obaama Akbar, Obaama Akbar! ” ha ha

Why wont you debate Hillary Obama?
Are you afraid? It sure looks like it.

Edward Franco
That’s because you are not listening. Just like your candidate. She is not listening to America. She drag out this tired health care plan that she has been trying to pass for the past 35 years – WE DONT WANT IT…. And then she bash obama – WE WANT CHANGE. She also doesnt listen when America was telling her this war was WRONG. She doenst listen to America ask her to admit she made a mistake – be human hillary (we all make mistakes) We’ve had a stubborn president for the last seven years. Yeah how has that worked out for us.

Obaama is a Populist. Populist always inspire their naive flocks with vague dreams and ideals. Spreading propaganda about changing the world from all the problems that only like minded youth people can see. They are harmless until they gain power. Chavez, Hitler, Castro etc.. ALL Populist.. we’ll at least they were before they gained power!

Hillary would be well advised to refrain from attacking Obama over legislation she co-sponsored. She would be well advised to return the PAC and lobbyist money she has collected before talking about taking on special interests, and to explain why she didn’t vote against a bankruptcy bill she claims to have opposed (she voted for it in 2001, and then sat on the sidelines and watched it pass while collecting banking industry money in 2005).
She has a great future in the Senate, and could be one of the workhorses of the new Democratic majority. Her attempts to attack Obama keep breaking her house’s windows, however, and her supporters’ continued attempts to play the race card further push away many of the voters she would need in November.

Obama said the florida democratic primary vote was like a beauty contest. Obama did campaign in florida thru cable tv. Disenfrancised , in the primaries , if our delegates are not seated , I will not vote in the General Election. There are over 1.7 million democrats that voted in florida and i bet most feel the same way.One way or the other Florida will make or break the democratic nominee. 3 other states also moved their primaries and no disenfrancisement. The republicans took half of florida delegates. Donna Brazzle and Howard Dean have no business not following party rules .

Carol – HA LOL

Carol
And a beauty contest it was. The ugly contest is the one hillary to go against HER WORD and now try to have Florida count. Where was her big fight for the people of florida when she agreed to the deal.. JUST another reason why I would NEVER vote for hillary. Your word is your bond. And her word is not worth a dime.

Edward Franco
Obviously, you are echoing Hill-lair-y rhetoric’s, but the fact is
“Barack Obama doesn’t need any lectures on special interests from the candidate who’s taken more money from Washington lobbyists than any Republican running for President,” said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.”
“Hillary Clinton should tell the people of Ohio the truth — she once bragged about helping to pass the nuclear bill she’s now criticizing Obama for, she came out with her plan for green jobs one month after Obama did, and she’s said she’d ‘go after’ people’s wages if they couldn’t afford health insurance under her plan. Senator Clinton may have said that attacks and distortions are the ‘fun’ and ‘exciting’ part of the campaign, but they’re exactly what everyone else in America is tired of,” he said.

von_marko ,
no they don’t Obama has the same hope statement Bush had. Remember all teh changes Bush was going to bring. Obama even uses the exact same theme music at his rallys. Talk about scary.

What is Hill-lair-y’s lie?
“Barack Obama doesn’t need any lectures on special interests from the candidate who’s taken more money from Washington lobbyists than any Republican running for President,” said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.”
“Hillary Clinton should tell the people of Ohio the truth — she once bragged about helping to pass the nuclear bill she’s now criticizing Obama for, she came out with her plan for green jobs one month after Obama did, and she’s said she’d ‘go after’ people’s wages if they couldn’t afford health insurance under her plan. Senator Clinton may have said that attacks and distortions are the ‘fun’ and ‘exciting’ part of the campaign, but they’re exactly what everyone else in America is tired of,” he said.

I think she should be Hannah’s VP. I think hannah is drawing a bigger crown than hillary these days

Jeb, your post highlights the most pressing problem in the United States, the failure of our education system to provide a quality education to all Americans. Go to Obama’s website and read his education policy. He would distribute money where needed, reward exceptional teachers for their hard work and decisions to work in lower income neighborhoods.

Attacking Obama is the very worst thing Hillary could be doing right now. It proves that Hillary wants self-glorification rather than what is best for the country. Now, my mind is totally made up for Obama and that position only strengthens with every attack on Obama. Hillary, it makes you look desperate and weak. You might be a great President but this country is not a Clinton/Bush monarchy.

Headline spotted on todays’ Cincinnati Enquier:
“Ohio Republicans pulling for Clinton to win: If she’s Dems’ nominee, GOP faithful think she’ll unite GOP”
What say you, my friends who wish to defeat John McCain and, by extension, the policies of GW Bush?

WHY do all obama supporters ALWAYS say to go to his website to learn the truth??? ha ha This cracks me up! They should go to his official US Sennate website at senate.us.gov and see his voting record on all these issues.. (Or total lack of voting record) I should say.

sorry Tommy, but we’re standing up for change in Canada. Maybe you can try mexico.
Obamabot in Toronto

why does hillary run as a woman? she’s been playing the men’s game of politics from the start, the decision to attack obama just further shows how cold and calculated she is. I will vote for either dem in 08 but these tactics are going to split the party, its time to play uniter Hillary, play positive.

omentum ,
Funny how both sides we sit on have to deal with people who have no clue , yet think they do. If you were in Austin , i’d buy you a beer. I’m out for now, too many people just making things up on both sides now.

edward franco, just your question about the school Obama’s young girls attend….lol you guys are off the charts!
You must support hillary because some of the stuff you are typing is just truly stupid. Must be the under 50K crowd…
You guys really need to get a grip about this election and what the job of a president really is, and maybe then you will stop asking such stupid questions.
Why don’t you find out what type schools Chelsea Clinton attended when her father was in Arkansas. Did she attend a public school?
Amazing!

Obama is addicting! Well at least to drugs and cigarettes. His slogan should be “Obama 08 – What’s In Your Pipe”

Barack Obama is ducking debates?
“After 18 debates, with two more coming, Hillary says Barack Obama is ducking debates? It’s the same old politics, of phony charges and false attacks. On health care, even Bill Clinton’s own Labor Secretary says Obama covers more people than Hillary and does more to cut costs, saving $2,500 for the typical family. Obama’s housing plan — it stems foreclosures and cracks down on crooked lenders. That’s change we can believe in.

Obama = uneducated
Simple but true

How come somebody can lead a country while failed to lead a healthy family? Where there is chronic Infidelity after infidelity!

Can someone tell me what exactly Obama has done in his senate career that equate to big and drastic changes? What exactly has he done?…I listen and listen and listen and outside of the oscar performance speeches, I am clueless on his past great and drastic changes. Obama has a line that he uses again and again and again that goes like this…stand by me and you and I will change this country and the world. Ok, lets inject some reality into this hollywood movie…what exactly does that mean? If I vote for him, what and how exactly is he going to inspire me to help him change the economy, social policies, national security, immigration? When you step outside of the sparkle and shinning speeches, you are left with absolutely no specifics to fill up the over-inflated promises. The big problem here is that Obama supporters are like many others who falls for the fascade and the well crafted image…like followers of jim jones…without ever asking the crutial, specific, logical questions…and this is the shame of it all. Hillary does not need to talk the talk as long as she continues to take actions for changes….and this is why I’m a Hillary supporter all the way.

Edward Franco –
you are contradicting your self. You said “Obama = uneducated”, I don’t want to mention that he is top Harvard graduate, but he actually appeal more educated people…read what has been said until you are like Hill-lair-y

The only Hillary is not the clear choice here is because she is a woman. Sexism is alive and well….just heard a talk show host say he can’t imagine a woman being a comander in chief…please….I run my house like a military barack! I urge all women to recognize the double standards and sexist treatment that’s being played out against HIllary and make your vote count. 2008 is the year women will rise break that highest glass ceiling. we should not stand idle and watch a woman with 35 yrs of experience being pushed aside for a man who’s began campainging for president 2 yrs after he came to the senate. This is the kind of practice I pray my daughter will not have to deal with and I hope my vote for HIllary will count.

You Hillary haters will get your just deserts if Obama is the nominee. He has shown little depth about anything except for the plans he copied from Hillary and called his own. Sounding good on the stump and being treated like an idol cannot continue to prop him up. No amount of endorsements, such as Kennedy and Kerry who must dislike southern men like Carter and Clinton, can hold him up against McCain. Or will he forego debates with McCain so the voters cannot see his lack of depth. Hillary is not any of the mean and vicious descriptions you have given. She has been a very intelligent and caring woman who has made a difference for the good in many peoples’ lives. It is easy to see that you are working very hard to bring people together. Your vision does not bode well for this country’s future.
Geo

Clinton-thing? sounds like you caught the non-specifics bug!!! typical Obama supporter….just a bunch of fancy empty phrases that means nothing.

Excuse me, but there are plenty of differences on issues btw. Obama and Hillary. 1. Iraq war – He was against from the beginning while she voted “for” it and refused to recant the vote on many occasions. 2. Health Care Reform – Hillary’s proposal is mandatory in that if you do not take it you will be penalized just like a fine for not having a driver’s license. Also, she did not take cost control into consideration. Estimated to absorb more than 16% of our economy, her proposal is simply a pandering promise without realistic judgment. Bill Clinton warned in 1993 that if the Health Care cost share of our national income passed 12%, we would face an economic disaster. (I wonder what he’d say about his wife’s plan, now). Barack Obama on the other hand, focuses on the lowering of the cost. Isn’t it true that many of us would love to be covered by the Health Care, but cannot afford to? His plan provides a pragmatic approach that we all can work on. 3. Wiretapping – Hillary did not show up to vote against the provision that granted immunity for telecom companies of illegal wiretapping this week. She was in the area and managed not to show up to vote. Unlike her, Barack Obama did show up and did vote against the provision. He is one of the 31 democratic Senators who voted against it and deeply care about our civil rights. *** If you look into it, there are numerous issues they differ from each other. They may look more similar when compared to the Rep. ideas and proposals. P.s. *1. telecom companies are one of the 5 most powerful lobbying forces in Washington and Hillary is backed by the telecom companies. *2. Guess who’s also backing Hillary up – the insurance and drug companies who defeated Hillary’s 1993 Health Care Reform are big donators for the Hill’s campaign.

Addendum: McCain will offer an alternative choice if the Democratic nominee is Obama. McCain’s main negative
is, perhaps, a longer stay in Iraq and the Middle East. If that is the case, this country may have to reinstitute the draft. Don’t worry. Everyone will have jobs and the economy can put all the bloggers back to work, unless they are already blogging on the job. McCain is a moderate, however, and his presidency will be a big CHANGE from George Bush! And I am sure that is the change you are all looking for–The change that will bring everybody together again. Hallelujah!

Notice Hillary is the only one running negative campaigning. Obama wants to bring our nation up and fill them with hope, while all she does is rip on Obama. The Clinton’s are running a dirty campaign and the man behind the curtain is her sleazy husband. Her campaigning and attitude reminds me of Bush and thats exactly the person we don’t need in the white house.

The Clintons are not running negative campaigning….they’re running a pissed off campaign. I can’t blame them. If I was Hillary with all the hard work and experience earned…just to be criticized and minimized because of her gender…while someone who is barely out of diaper and who can regergitate great speeches of the past is being applauded as the next JFK, I would be mad as hell. I feel what HIllary’s feeling…this treatment of minimizing a woman’s experience and ability has gone on in corporate america for a long time and it does not surprise me that an inexperience man is getting all the attention over the well qualify woman. It is a really sad thing that is happenning to all women in this country.

Philip, you’re right, I should not minimize their differences. I am all for Obama. But, my point is – if you think that universal health care is worth having in this country, then come Nov., we should all support whichever candidate takes the nom, because they both do. And really, any candidate’s plan in this regard is just a starting point for congressional wrangling anyway. Or, if you support troop withdrawal more quickly than McCain does, than either Dem.s’ plan should make you happier than the other side. I hate that so many people are so anti-the other guy when we should all try our very hardest to end up on the same side. This will have to be our best shot, can Dems please avoid not blowing it???

You’re right…his speeches is not the place to get specifics from him. His debate is not he place to get specifics from him…..you really should go to his website where you’ll get some things…that look strangely similiar to all of HIllary’s proposals. But his past voting records is what’s fascinating…two glaring things….1) no votes, absents and present votes 2) check out the things he did vote for…sex shop to be build next to schools, credit card companies to be no ceilings on interest rates, voted for funding the war…but wait, he was against the war..hmmm
So yes, I urge all voters to dig deeper into Obama’s past voting records and you’ll see that the records do not reflect the slogan. This is the classic 101 sales pitch!!! sell people the image, the fascade, the idea……especially when you have no real substantial product or in this case substance to back it up. Obama is a fraud and the shame is that he may just deny one of the best qualify president the country will have. Hillary is all about about hard work and persistent…her presidency will bring drastic changes and this country will be nurtured with such greatness with her as president.

Strange isn’t it. The Clinton camp has split itself into three candidates (Hill, Bill, and now Chelsea) and Obama is left to go it alone. Not that it will matter. It is time for Hillary to hang up her hat so that we can move forward.

Well, Hillary talking about somebody copying her? We see her flip-floping all the time. She was presenting herself as the anti-change SUPERWOMAN, then she adopted finally Obama style. Like Obama, we saw her trying to read great and inspiring speech, it didn’t work. Her friend John McCain, Mitt Romney, they all copied Obama and Edwards. Did you hear McCain saying ” I am ready to go! Fired up. Hillary didn’t tell us either how she is going to succeed this time with her Universal Health Plan.
The truth is as long as you continue to eat in the hands of lobbyists, this Universal Health Plan is gonna be a fairy tale.

TO ALL OBAMA’S VOTER:
I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE OBAMA. I AM A FRESHMEN IN COLLEGE AND PLANNING TO BECOME THE NEXT VETERINARIAN WITHOUT ANY EXPERIENCE WHATS SOEVER BUT JUST LIKE OBAMA RIGHT ITS ALL ABOUT WORDS AND PROMISES NOT ACTIONS OR EXPERIENCE!!!!
AND NAENETTE ARE YOU SURE YOUR OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE BECAUSE YOU DONT SOUND EDUCATED!!!
I SUPPORT HILLARY!!!!
SHE HAS THE EXPIERENCE AND THE SOLUTION!!!!
IF OBAMA WINS WE WOULD BE LIVING IN A COUNTRY FULL OF IGNORANT PEOPLE!!!!

Hey folks: You gotta choose. It’s going to be McCain or Obama. For me it all hinges on the VP Pics. Because longevity might also be a factor here. Know what I mean?

Bad news, Karina: we may well be living in a country full of ignorant people already. (For the record, the electorate doesn’t change after the election, just the elected)

Gosh Mannewell Darby…you sound like one of those Jim Jones supporter chanting slogans while fantasizing about fairy tales and little blue smurfs. Snap out of it!…reality calls for experience, lesson’s learned, knowledge, persistent, strenghth, dedication…..all this spells hard work and Hillary’s got it. You can stop the fantasies….just vote for Hillary and it’ll be a reality. BTW….bet you can’t name 3 changes he’s done while in the senate that matches his slogan of “changes we can believe in”…..the slogan is no more then a focus group pick campaign sales pitch. Wake up people, Obama is selling his country stupid…..just do some homework on his past voting records and ‘changes’ and you’ll see that you’ve been dupped!

Soundbites, signifying nothing. You cannot even think for yourselves! Do you ever read anything? History, The Constitution, peoples’ personal histories, the real daily news and current events? You are living in another world. You resort to ridicule, sexism, distortion, and name-calling to make any point. So much for bringing people together. Just which peoples are you planning to bring together? And how?
It’s time for a war hero to bring us together, and if he can’t, maybe he’ll be better on security.
Geo

There is a reason why Hilary’s base is “mainly lower income, lower education” from a corporate Walmart lawyer being bankrolled by millionaires from Kazakhstan
What dont they know? You say talk is cheap? your character is cheap

This is not a quantitative objection, but a qualitative one. There was a revealing moment in the debate at St. Anselm’s College, when Clinton unleashed what was supposed to be her rhetorical masterstroke: “Words are not actions.” This provoked Obama to explain that words are actions: “The truth is actually words do inspire. Words do help people get involved… .
The refulgence of Obama’s oratory, with its passages of re-moralizing lyricism, is a political and even a cultural gain. Yet an argument about the centrality of eloquence for politics from Barack Obama makes me uneasy… I worry that it is most of what he has and most of what he knows. When, as in the debates, Obama cannot resort to his silken swelling sentences, he seems pretty conventional. The closer he comes to the stuff of policy, the swifter the magic is gone. Perhaps policy is just not magical. Still, he seems more prepared for the aria of politics than for the recitative of government.
This has something to do with “experience,” the other moronic mantra of this race. Plainly experience is no promise of wisdom or success…but I must admit that when, at the St. Anselm’s debate, Obama began a sentence with “As commander-in-chief I will … ” I shuddered. There were about ten years in my life as a citizen when I would not have so shuddered. They were the years – a second youth, historically speaking – between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the fall of the World Trade Center.
Since I am once again a national security and foreign policy voter – nobody cares equally about everything – I am unenthusiastic about the prospect of electing a president from the Illinois state legislature. How, really, can Obama’s years in the United States Senate be described as distinguished? There was no time, at least for that.
Then there is the disjunction between his inexperience and his assuredness. Obama’s popularity is owed in no small measure to the charisma of his confidence in himself. He has a redeemer’s gait, and enters a hall like he has come to save it. This leaves me cold; and I was dismayed by his reference, in his concession speech in New Hampshire, to skeptics as cynics: a familiar feature of the righteousness of the candidate who beat him. But people believe in people who believe in themselves, and Obama’s belief in himself is devout, innate, and of Seinfeldian proportions. I hope it is educable, though I dread the ordeal of yet another president’s “education.”
I hear a lot about Obama as a “post-racial” candidate, and I am not sure what this means. I understand that he is a hybridity idol, Kansas and Kenya and all that – “our first Benetton candidate,” as a friend admiringly remarked…. All this adoring talk has the consequence of making Obama stand for little more than his own identity. But every identity, even the most exotic one, is narrow, until life widens it. Nobody is adequately equipped by their origins to manage human affairs.

Hillary has a lot of nerve standing there talking about all the jobs she’s going to create, when the tide of jobs leaving America began under her husband’s administration…

It’s time for someone to start thinking about how Americans will put food on the table, stay in their homes, get healthcare, have something for retirement, etc. I don’t think that any political party has done anything for the people of this country once Reagan was elected. The chickens are coming home to roost as our young people forgo marriage because they simply can’t afford to start a family. When I started working my employer and union provided me with the peace of mind – including 100% of the cost of health insurance for my entire young family, a vacation, paid sick time, disability benefits, a pension, tuition assistance, and overtime if I worked extra hours or on holidays – that encouraged us to settle down and raise a family. Young people today simply can’t afford to raise a family. Where is the commitment to family values the Republicans talk about? The middle class has been picked clean. It has no future until Americans demand and achieve restoration of the compensation and working conditions that we earned with our productivity everday. We must not settle for the political choices that the corporatocracy select for us.

WHY SENATOR OBAMA AFRAID TO HAVE A DEBATE WITH SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON?
DEBATE IS A WAY YOU CAN GAUGE OR FIND OUT WHAT KIND OF CANDIDATE YOU ARE ELECTING OR VOTING.
HERE’S THE FOLLOWING LOGICAL REASON:
1. THEIR ELECTABILITY AND EXPERIENCE 2. WHAT IS THERE PLANS FOR OUR COUNTRY 3. HOW THEY HANDLE THEMSELVES UNDER PRESSURE 4. IF THIS CANDIDATE IS JUST BLUFFING – THAT WILL SHOW THE WAY THEY ANSWER THE QUESTION.
PLUS VOTERS NEED TO KNOW WHO THEY ARE VOTING – YOU ARE ELECTING A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – WE CANNOT JUST TAKE TO CHANCE IN ELECTING A WRONG PRESIDENT AGAIN! NOR WE CANNOT AFFORD AN ON THE JOB TRAINING PRESIDENT! BEAUTIFUL SPEECHES AND RHETORIC IS NOT ENOUGH TO SOLVED OUR COUNTRY PROBLEMS: ECONOMY , IRAQ WAR, IMMIGRATION AND SO ON… VOTERS DESERVE TO FIND OUT WHO ARE THEY ELECTING – WE CANNOT JUST GO WITH THE FLOW WHAT THE MEDIA IS TRYING TO FEED US. FOR AMERICA CANNOT AFFORD ANOTHER BLOW. THAT’S WHY DEBATE IS REALLY ESSENTIAL IN THE ELECTION PROCESS THE MORE THE BETTER. MY QUESTION IS WHY SENATOR OBAMA IS SO AFRAID TO HAVE A DEBATE WITH SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON – UNLESS YOU ARE HIDING SOMETHING THAT YOU DON’T WANT THE VOTER TO KNOW OR PICK UP.

Sam Lim–Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have debated 18 times thus far. If you haven’t picked up on THAT yet, you’re never going to. If you would like to view them all, I’m sure you can find many of them on Youtube. If you would like to open your eyes, I’m sure you’d find that a good Presidential candidte would rather meet and listen to new people in different parts of the country they’ve never met before, than to one person they’ve met and listened to 18 time before. Does that make sense to you Sam?

No More Bush (includes McCain), No More Clinton, and sorry to Bush’s twin now runing for the Republicans ….
It’s OBAMATIME!!

Do you Obama supporters realize the hate you spill? All that does is make more people vote for Hillary Clinton,doesn’t it?

Im no fan of Rush Limbaugh, but he was pretty funny on the radio yesterday and today:
He has a new theme song for Obama – “The Candy Man” because you know the Candy Man can because he covers it with sugar and makes you feel good.
He also has a new campaign add with the beauty contestant from South Carolina “We as US American citizens need change because ya know change is change, etc etc etc”

I am a black male age 53. I am so appalled that most black people are supporting Obama because he is of the same color.Would we not be upset if all white people were supporting Hillary because of her being white. Lets not play the race card here. Please vote for a leader that can beat mccain.

Hillary Clinton will work hard for us – she is serious and extremely intelligent. She understands how to get the job done. She knows policy inside and out and she won’t let us down. This is nothing against Obama, except that he is all words and no action. What has he done? Your vote has serious consequences and will affect your life over the next 4 years. Have you not had enough with George Bush, that you are ready to vote for another emty suit? Good grief are you really listening or do you think this is a vote for the new American Idol. If you want to feel good, go watch a good movie, but save your vote for someone who really knows what they’re doing. Vote HILLARY!

If OBAMA HUSSIEN get nominee will movin to philippines. OBAMA is a full of speeches i dont believe in him at all!!! ist just to good to be true!!!

I am a Japanese and do not have a voting right in the US. But, looking at the Democrate Presidential campaign, I see Mr. Obama’s sincerity and his leadership skill being able to unite Americans regardless of race, sex, age, etc. which makes America strong. By the way I do not see a medical doctor’s wife for my disease no mater how capable he is in medicine. Is it called “experience”?

Senator Obama –During the first eight years of Senator Obama’s elected service he sponsored over 820 bills. He introduced:
233 regarding healthcare reform,
125 on poverty and public assistance,
112 crime fighting bills,
97 economic bills,
60 human rights and anti-discrimination bills,
21 ethics reform bills,
15 gun control,
6 veterans affairs and many others.
His first year in the U.S. Senate, he authored 152 bills and co-sponsored another 427. These included:
- the Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 (became law),
- The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act, (became law),
- The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, passed the Senate,
- The 2007 Government Ethics Bill, (became law),
- The Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill, (In committee)
Senator Clinton — Senator Clinton’s, who has served only one full term (6yrs.), and another year campaigning, has managed to author and pass into law, (20) twenty pieces of legislation.
1. Establish the Kate Mullany National Historic Site.
2. Support the goals and ideals of Better Hearing and Speech Month.
3. Recognize the Ellis Island Medal of Hon
4. Name courthouse after Thurgood Marshall.
5. Name courthouse after James L. Watson.
6. Name post office after Jonn A. O’Shea.
7. Designate Aug. 7, 2003, as National Purple Heart Recognition Day.
8. Support the goals and ideals of National Purple Heart Recognition Day.
9. Honor the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton on the bicentennial of his death.
10. Congratulate the Syracuse Univ. Orange Men’s Lacrosse Team on winning the championship.
11. Congratulate the Le Moyne College Dolphins Men’s Lacrosse Team on winning the championship.
12. Establish the 225th Anniversary of the American Revolution Commemorative Program.
13. Name post office after Sergeant Riayan A. Tejeda.
14. Honor Shirley Chisholm for her service to the nation and express condolences on her death.
15. Honor John J. Downing, Brian Fahey, and Harry Ford, firefighters who lost their lives on duty.
Only five of Senator Clinton’s bills are more substantive:
16. Extend period of unemployment assistance to victims of 9/11.
17. Pay for city projects in response to 9/11
18. Assist landmine victims in other countries.
19. Assist family caregivers in accessing affordable respite care.
20. Designate part of the National Forest System in Puerto Rico as protected in the wilderness preservation system.
In Conclusion, you now have the facts straight from the Senate Records vault.

Speeches don’t put food on the table? Neither do debates, Hilary.

Uniter vs. a divider?
I’ve lived enough of my life in the Red States and Blue States of America and I’m over it. I’d like to live in the UNITED States of America for a change. I respect Hillary but the only uniting I see her capable of is uniting the Republican party in November. For me, Obama is our obvious choice.

Everybody wants to be on a winning team. While Obama is talented and gives a moving motivating speech, Clinton has the experience, intelligence and understands how Washington works. As President, Obama stated that he would televise the “inner workings” of our gov. institutions so that the american people could keep things in-check. How nieve can you get? Sorry Obama, while I truly respect you, I will take experience any day over hype. Lucky for Obama the “average” American voters “political” attention span is short on substance and big on dreams. Clinton would be the better candidate but, as we saw with the tragic elections of GWBush – the American populace loves to be spoon fed. Regardless, Jan. 20, 2009 Hang in there American – the end of the GWBush “error”.

Obama its time for us to STOP your words with no actions
Obama its time for us to STOP your speeches with no solutions
Obama its time for us to STOP your talk with no actions
Obama its time for us to STOP your cheap speeches words
Obama its time for us to STOP biased media that’s in your favor
Obama words are not change- Truth will speak out. Anti Clinton media might helped you but not all the way will STOP you.

…Except when it’s you and your husband giving the speeches right, Hill? What is the going rate these days? 100K? 200K?
Right, like I’m sure that isn’t putting lots and lots of food on your table.

“Talk is cheap.” Tell that to the generations who heard or read A.
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, or
ML King’s “I Have a Dream” speech
or JFK’s inaugural address.
Words can inspire, move people to
action, create a shift in how
society operates.

In my lifetime, I’ve never seen more of a divider than Obama !

I find these repeated observations that Senator Obama has divided the Democratic Party to be so baseless as to be laughable. This party has so much more to be united about in resistance to the continued divide and conquer tactics of Republicans since Ronald Reagan that this polite rift between two candidates for the Democratic nomination won’t raise a ripple by November. I don’t see evidence for anything wound that won’t heal with a band aid and a kiss. It makes me question the motivation of those who want to see wounds that won’t heal. No one who knows ANYTHING about the history of political campaigns could see this as a bitter feud, when what it clearly is is evidence of a better candidate. The presumption that all of the voters who agree with me enough to vote for Barack Obama are somehow duped by his excellent rhetoric is not merely insulting it is ridiculous. I see no evidence of superior intelligence in the writing of those who repeatedly express that opinion to justify their claim to superior incite into the candidates.

Addenda:
I hope all Americans have a better option, to the extension of Republican bigotry and incompetence, than Hillary Clinton offers. I believe Barack Obama is that better option. I believe he offers the possibility of a dynamic unity that could make the best of both parties.
I don’t like big government but big bad-government is intolerable. Big-bad government is what the Bush administration has give us. The only way I know to end the domination of a bully is to put him on his back. Once that’s done, it is possible to improve his manners. Democrats do not have all the answers; they tend to be economic imbeciles while Republicans, when they go bad, are pirates.
To turn this oil tanker of a republic around, America needs more than hope, but without hope it makes no difference what we do with the rudder, because we’re going nowhere.