Hillary Clinton’s “Ben Tre” Strategy?

Why should we take them seriously. The pundits have bben wrong at every turn. They are so out of touch with real America it is frightening. Gary Hart? Why listen to him? Hillary Clinton is doing what’s best for the Country. Let Obama, Howard Dean, and the other far left liberals leave the party.

I admire Senator Clinton. She’s tough and I hope she wins. I don’t want a president who hasn’t got a little scrap in him/her. Obama should go open a nice church somewhere, since what he really wants to be is a minister. I’m looking for a tough, hard as nails president who can clean house and take on the old boys in Washington. Politics is not a nice game, never has been and never will be.

I think the press has been afraid to stop on the Clinton’s toes. The Rezko incident has received uncountable headlines. The potential sum in question amounts to 150 thousand dollars most of which the Obama campaign has donated to charity. The Clinton scandals amount to tens of millions of dollars. I don’t understand how one can call himself a journalist and continue to proceed vetting these candidates in the same fashion.

HILLARY CLINTON IS POISON. She’s so sick by her greed for power and it’s showing by how she’s destroying even her own party for it. She is an OLD WOMAN stuck in the OLD WAYS of politics. As John Edwards once called her, she is the STATUS-QUO. And if anyone left to voted wants this style of destructive politics to end, then vote against it…vote against her! You have the power to do it! As a woman, I hope for the day to finally see another woman become president…but Hillary Clinton is not that woman. She spits on women by accepting hundreds and thousands of dollars from a firm that sexually harrasses their female employees…and stubbornly refuses to give it back because she claims the trial is still on-going. She’d rather give the benefit of the doubt to the accusers instead of the women who are victims in all this…for money. She’s not the champion for us, ladies. There will come a day when a woman with strong values, uncorrupted character and a promising vision will come…but this woman is none of those things and therefore, LET’S NOT SETTLE! To reward her would mean, that it’s okay for corporations to treat women like crap, as long as they don’t get caught. That’s basically what Hillary is saying. LET’S NOT SETTLE!!!

Hillary thinks Obama can not win the General Election. Why don’t we end him right now? It is reasonable!

Gary Hart need to go back to his little boat the Monkey Business that was really the last time he was even relevant. Peggy Noonan hates HIllary. So if I am to understand these opinions because Hillary doesnt drop out or if she doesnt do the Oprah love fest she’s damaging the party. Get Real…

Why are all these Obama supporter asking Hillary to back off when the same can be applied to Obama? And I’m so sick of all these personal name calling from Obama supporter…it does nothing good.

I think the people who are voting for Obama, already did.
I think that him (Obama) and his aides and advisors are doing a reayly good job damaging their own campaing, flip-flop on NAFTA,flip-flop on Irak are the most recent ones.

Barack Obama has his advisers constantly go behind the American people’s back by telling other Nations that all of his proposals are just rhetorical, insults his follower’s intelligence and clearly flies in the face of his judgment and ability to actually choose those who will assist him as President.
Obama and his advisors are the damaging their own campaing.

Pat-
It’s Clinton that’s insulting your intelligence. The same thing you’re accusing the Obama Camp of doing…your candidate is doing it as well! You’re confused!

It takes a different village, jpt:
“We had to destroy the village to save it” was said of Loc Ninh.
My Lai was the site of a massacre which was PHOTOGRAPHED, thereby becoming infamous.

twinmom48-
Clinton is the spoiled brat who lost Iowa and now wants to change the rules that she agreed to long before the primaries started. Clinton is the spoiled brat who knew she was in trouble so she had her campaign start smearing Obama. Clinton is the spoiled brat who knows she might not win the nomination, so if she isn’t the democrat to win it, she’ll make damn sure no other democrat wins it. Clinton is the spoiled brat who acts like this is owed to her…lying about her own record and afraid to release her schedule during her years as a first lady. This is the woman you are supporting? She’s the spoiler!

The one silver lining in all of this garbage is (politics aside) the amusing prospect of Hillary Clinton and John McCain going toe to toe for 3 or 4 months. They both struggle to control their legendary tempers (please spare me the passionate arguments. they’re becoming cliche). If HRC wins the nomination, the DNC and RNC should pay Eminem for the rights to “The Anger Managment Tour!” Get your tickets now. I don’t think it will be as civil as Slick Willie Clinton predicted.

clinton supporters seem to completely ignore all of the past scandals, underhanded politics, and complete hypocrisy. women supporters often claim that she is strong and good for women, yet hillary is the one that stood by a cheating husband to preserve her political career. a strong woman with spunk/fight/whatever would have stood up for herself and walked out on bill. the man chastised the american public, lying about not having sex, and was impeached because of it. how can you say that she is strong and stands up for women? how can you say that people are just bashing her because they are blindly following obama? clinton supporters have a conveniently short memory of their candidate and her “scorched earth” politics.
if she is such a strong candidate, why is she losing in the number of delegates, the number of states won, and the popular vote? why has she had to resort to this and not just stand on her record?
i think it has to do with her complete lack of character, morals and shame. look at the latest article on the tax stuff. this i didn’t know:
rom the page: “I’m a little busy right now; I hardly have time to sleep. But I will certainly work toward releasing [my tax returns], and we will get that done and in the public domain.”
–Hillary Clinton, MSNBC debate, Cleveland, Ohio, Feb. 26, 2008.
The Clinton camp has been trying to make hay on the income tax returns issue for weeks. During a campaign stop in Ithaca on July 7, the first lady said she found Lazio’s failure to make public his returns “frankly disturbing.”
–Associated Press report, Aug. 3, 2000.”
she can demand behavior by one candidate, yet completely ignore her own rules.
seriously… my biggest issue is her character. she has none. she has a sense of entitlement that is baffling. she is driven by enormous ego and blind ambition. i would rather take a risk on an unknown in obama. he may not turn out so great in the end… but we know EXACTLY what we are getting with the clintons.

lw-
Then you ought to be asking why Hillary Clinton is so afraid to release her tax records, and schedule during the White House years, and the list of donors to the Clinton Library…and why her campaign is going behind the American people, talking to Canada about Nafta. Why aren’t you asking those questions, because you know the Republicans will.

About three years ago a well known televangelist, Perry Stone, told his congregation that God spoke to him and said Sen. Clinton will be the next President. There is nothing ABC News or the other networks can do to stop Sen. Clinton from becoming President.

jim, to blame Hillary for her husband cheating is stupid.

judy, are are the morom, and a loser.

Obama will unite the country, just like he’s uniting the Democrats!

I was working at caucuses in North Texas on Tuesday, and what I saw from the Clinton camp was appalling. Her supporters were actively targeting African American voters to misdirect them over caucus rules and generally working to generate confusion in an already disorderly process. The Clinton Attack Machine has now moved from attacking Obama to attacking his supporters. I don’t know if I can vote for her in the General Election anymore.

Larry
That is my point. Both sides need to answer the tough questions now, and your guy should not get a pass just because you like his speeches. I am not whining about you wanting Clinton to release tax returns and other information, or about the Republican laundry list of inquiries from the Clinton years… I know we would hear about them again next fall if she is the nominee. Why should you complain when Obama is asked about Rezko and his sweetheart deal on his home, his wife’s very generous raise when he became Senator, his wife’s refusal to release her college thesis or to even recall what it was about, or his habit of blaming conflicting information on other people in his campaign when someone says something that gets him in trouble(lots of misunderstandings in the Obama campaign)? Clinton has already made him a much better candidate than he was when he started (just look at the debates)… people need to get the questions answered so he can have moved past them if he is the nominee when McCain and the Republicans open up fire in the fall.

1. If Hillary’s idea of “mentoring” the “less experienced” candidate is by drenching him with mud and innuendo, wonder how she’ll “care for” the American people as President.
2. Questioning the source of funding for the Clinton library is not attacking the wrong Clinton. It is a family business and a co-Presidency that’s on the ticket.

Does Mr. McCain really can afford to spend 780 Million dollars a day in Iraq for next hundred years? Mr. McCain is really an older, a fuzzier and more of a tempestuous version of Mr. Bush. While we spend on so much on foolish political misadventures overseas, United States is becoming a third world country domestically. Our economy is in shambles, dollar has declined so badly has never been before, lost the power and prestige in the world. US is crying out for a wise and prudent domestic and foreign policy. For example, US is in infant mortality is 40th in the world, our longevity is 41 in the world, not to mention, education, healthcare, infrastructure, and by all the standards of measurements, like it or not, United States is quickly becoming a part of the third world. Spending money on the military cannot save us. All you have to do is to take drive across the border to Canada to witness how badly American standards have declined. US is increasingly becoming more like Mexico than Canada. Mr. McCain’s plan to continue the same ill- conceived Bush-Republican policies such to keep the war going in Iraq and make the tax cuts for the rich permanent would guarantee the further decline of American power, prestige and prosperity. We need Hillary Clinton more than ever to be our president and end this Republican nightmare!

Do not provide ammunition to the opposition party that can be used to destroy your party’s nominee. This is a hyper-truth where the presidential contest is concerned. so says former Sen. Gary Hary!
First off, Obama is not the Party’s nominee as of today, but it is alright to distort things!
It is alright for your candidate to say things even on debates like:
Status Quo
Likeable enough
Polarizing
Former Sen. Gary Hary, you forget these words by your own Candidates lips? There a double standard in this election season? The people don’t think so, that is why the majority of voters according to the ABC numbers shows so!
False accussations is becoming the norm for Camp Obama, this the sort of change to believe in? Sorry but people are now questioning and thinking and voting against the empty words!

just imagine what would happen if Hillary would steal the nomination -
we would have our Blue Revolution in the USA!
MILLIONS of people will march to Washington!

To “mano”; Many of the voters in Ohio may be less sophisticated than those on either coast. However, we know a great candidate when we see one. As goes Ohio, so goes the election. We are hard working, educated, family oriented constituents. We are patriotic and proud. A large majority of voters in Ohio made their voices clear when they voted for Mrs. Clinton last week. Trust me when I say the voters in Ohio are not motivated by fear nor are we ignorant. We are informed and realize the Mr. Obama is not ready to be President. Perhaps in eight years with more real experience under his belt he will be ready. But pretty speeches and promises that can’t be kept are not what recovers a country. It’s experience and savvy. It’s Hillary Clinton. And btw, I have a masters degree in education and if you look hard enough, I imagine you’ll find that a great many people who voted for Mrs. Clinton are well educated beyond a high school diploma. We may be ignorant to think that people will finally see the light and vote the best way for the country, but only in that way can we be called as such.

Pretend your blind, put all three candidates on a corruption scale…so McCain would be at the top of the corruption scale for lobbyists and lying multiple times publicly, Clinton would be second for pre-politics scandals, whitewater, lying and indictments and then Barack Obama is last….becuase he has not done anything….oh, and if you say Rezko; his charges do not include obama, the media only reports that he bought a house from him…..

Clear choice
I’ll say it again… I worried at the beginning about Hillary running and her really sketchy shadow stuff that we are not allowed to talk about…but I supported her and Barack and Joe Biden when they were gearing up for NH…(in fact I registered with her first)…
Then I saw them all many times over the year and saw there was somebody who might bring us somewhere else finally…foolish at first but then listened to his reasoning (which luckily in NH we got to if you were so inclined)
I thought this primary would pass and we would miss the bullet of Hillary’s “lists”
I thought as a clear other choice came up the ranks…”whew, all the skeletons were not going to come out”
But then I realized not everyone gets to see them up close and hear them in person…they rely on there images and memories and the light that seemed to be back at the beginning of this tunnel…
…and those people (maybe like yourself) are so defensive of the Clintons from years of arguments with the republicans… you are immediately defensive…and selectively forgetful.
Hillary’s campaign is throwing stones now…and has thrown Barack’s name (and truly our only chance to win…because the Republicans are going to destroy Hillary on these exact issues that we all turn a blind and politicized eye to)… they are trying to trash him…that is what they need to do.
but Hillary is throwing stones at the only other man left on her team while standing in a mine field.
Someone needs to point out the minefield.

America wants somebody as tough as our current President. They want someone who can get down in the mud and sling it with gusto. We don’t need any fancy pants intelligent person with a background in Constitutional Law leading this country. We need someone like her who failed her first bar exam and then got it from Arkansas. We need someone like Clinton who can lie, cheat, and steal as well as any man. We need someone who has the backing of the military industrial complex with 30 generals supporting the hawkish ambitions of Clinton. We need the screaming and the Sybil-like multiple personality aspirations of power! We need Hillary to further the lies and deception of the last 8 years and bring this country to a world war by antagonizing every other country in the world the same way she runs a campaign, the old-fashioned way, beat them to a pulp. That’s what America wants! That what America shall have. We want to see bloody, burnt bodies on the campaign trail. We can’t have this namby-pamby debate focused issue oriented crap that Obama is pushing. How could anyone want that? It is so totally boring! Bring on the lies! Bring on the spin! Bring on the fear! That is what we Americans crave! We shall not be denied our ‘ounce of flesh’ (Shakespeare)!

Spin – the Clintons and their entourage are best at spin. They can take any story and spin it to their favor. It’s all words – ironic!

Clear choice…sad…just sad.

judd “just imagine what would happen if Obama would steal the nomination -
we would have our Women,Latinos and Poor people Revolution in the USA!
MILLIONS of people will march to Washington!

Strange headline to this story. I thought Obama’s woman just got fired for denigrating Hillary. The headline is factually out of sync with these developments. Try again.

Obama is not a messiah. He’s a Chicago politician who knows full well how to play the game. What do we know about him except for his ambition to be president and his feelings of entitlement to that position. He needs to be thoroughly vetted. We might find out that he is a complete sham.

What is it that makes Ohio so important? How does a beat up state with no 21st Century initiatives, ancient dying factories, and a lousy economy now for decades, determine who should be the Democratic Nominee? How do we skip Wyoming and Miss, and look ahead to PA? Doesnt EVERY State matter? Is Hillary trying to understand the will of the people, or simply targeting “big” states to get elected? Not only is this her only focus, the Press is playing along with her. Lets STOP the focus on “Big” states and appreciate the votes from ALL States. Every State counts. The Candidate with the MOST States and the MOST votes, should win. Plain and simple.
America will not accept a stolen election.

Unfortunately if Clinton wins, the Democrats will lose. And there will be another 4 yrs of Republican rule. Sad, her viciousness saddens me.

Fellow PROGRESSives,
Change takes courage and hope. Don’t let fear extinguish your passion for change, belief in a new way of politics and vision of a greater America.
You have two choice,
fear
or hope.
Period.

septemberlucy
ditto

Brilliant, insightful and painfully accurate pieces, one and all.
Thanks, Jake, for bringing them to the attention of the “wider World.”

Hillary Clinton is merely Karl Rove in a peach pantsuit.
THINK, people. *THINK.*

Ed, do you think McCain is going to ask Obama whether or not he’s ready to be CIC?
Btw, Ed, the democrats have given both Fl and MI to the republicans, Obama’s policy adviser called the Ohio folks stupid for voting Hillary which McCain will replay over and over again causing Ohio voters to lean republican. There are no caucuses in the general to run up the score, and McCain is very strong with Latinos along with Arnold in California putting that state into play. So, ED, what you’re strategy for winning the White House?

obama will be slammed and canned by the republicans if he makes it to the general election. he’ll be DOA.

Hey Sue, you might be just like the Obama campaign, no facts, just emotional blather. You can learn something from Dogsoldier if you pay attention.

nonna writes:
“What do we know about him except for his ambition to be president and his feelings of entitlement to that position.”

Hillary = Lieberman
She is thirsty for power.
She can as far as bringing the whole Democratic party if they can’t nominate her.
What a pity for a loser!
Do us a favor Hillary…get out of the race now before it is too late.

It is time for John Edwards, Bill Richardson, & Joe Biden to get on board with Obama and get this unstoppable train back on track.

Sam, I’m interested in your comments. Obama called Clinton “a crook”? Can you reference that one, with a date and a source or do you just make it up as you go along?

Barack won Texas!!

Obama’s Net Worth 1.5M
Clinton’s Net Worth 50M
Hillary, share your TAX Returns and also lets see which Corporation and Donors gave Millions to the Clinton Libray in exchange for Favors, Pardons, Gifts, Federal funds, and Tax Breaks.
This make Rezko look like mouse nuts.
THIS is what America needs to know!!!
Who is paying for Hillary’s run to Power???????

A reminder:
HILLARY RODHOM CLINTON = JOE LIEBERMAN

“Scorched earth,” “politics of personal destruction,”… HRC has engaged in it all starting with the coordinated effort to perpetuate the “drug” talk about Obama, HRC staffers spreading the “muslim” rumors via email, pigeon-holing Obama as the “Black candidate,” etc. Any Democrat who does not undersatnd and see now that HRC and Bill couldn’t care less about the Democratic Party’s well-being and that they are only concerned with their long held desire for power… at any cost, is delusional and HRC apologists.
What’s interesting in light of HRC’s disgusting denigration of Obama the candidate, the U.S. Senator, the man, is that HRC would consider Obama for her VP. The threshhold question for choosing a VP is picking someone who will be ready to be POTUS should circumstances require they step in. Apparently HRC must really think that Obama is ready on day one afterall.
Obama has to learn to turn these arguments to his favor.

Dogsoldier…you really need to go down the trends of each state for the past few elections…look at the numbers that people came out for and you will see that Hillary does not “deliver”(a 1-5% lead over barack is not delivery…because barack is in essence just as strong in those states for all intensive purposes…they are almost tied…and I would say that in states the other direction too)besides Ohio and we will see about Penn….look at all the states and their numbers …you brought up california…and how you think that it would go McCain if Barack were the nominee…look at the past two elections and the numbers that came out democrat vs. republican… we are not going to lose that state…
…and with barack we may gain a bunch of states that were close but went republican last time…that Barack significantly won in the primaries…
these are the states that cost us the election in 2000 and 2004…not California or Massachusetts…these states are going to go democrat…
The biggest influence we may lose with… over throw by superdelegates weakening our own and Hillary strenthening their base.
but go compare all the numbers from the priimaries this year with the last few presidential elections… and the numbers of people switching over to the democratic party.

PS – freeme, what exactly is HRC’s actual experience? Rumsfeld, Cheney, etc., have all had first row seats to the WH for years and been in close quarters with a number of presidents, yet their experience didn;t add up to a hill of beans when it came to making sound judgment calls.
HRC’s “vicarious experience” doesn’t make her any more qualified to be POTUS than Obama. If you look at what they’ve actually accomplished in the U.S. Senate, in his 3+ year Senate career, Obama has passed more legislation/bills and has his name attahced to more legislation as sponsor or co-sponsor than HRC does. Do some research.

OBAMA HAS EXPERIENCE ON THE ECONOMY AND FOREIGH POLICY, HE KEPT AFLOAT THE COLOMBIAN ECONOMY IN THE 1980′s.
I was a good decade for the Medellin Cartel.
Hahahaha

So many of the comments on this board accurately reflect the demographics of Clinton’s supporters vs Obama’s supporters; Clinton supporters are significantly less educated, and here it shows and glows like dumb on Bush or neon in Vegas. They don’t realize that she’s exploiting their relative ignorance to serve her pathological sense of entitlement to be President. This candidate is scary ambitious.
She apparently never expected Barack Obama to be much of an obstacle to her getting the Democratic nomination, but when he caught up and slipped ahead of her, she clearly lost her balance, and any sense of fair play. Trying to retroactively change the rules for the Florida and Michigan primaries, where Obama’s name wasn’t even on the ballot and where he didn’t campaign, as per mutual arrangement, is indefensible. We’ve had enough of politicians not playing by the rules in the current administration, and I for one will not elect another ambitious cheater with a sense of entitlement.
Another dangerous quality in a President is not being able to control your temper when things don’t go your way, and not knowing how to pick your fights in the first place.
Remember after (the first) Super Tuesday when she held that press conference to express her moral outrage at the Obama mailers that compared their healthcare plans? The woman practically went POSTAL, wild-eyed, red-faced, absolutely LIVID, and over what? The fact that he drew the logical and probably accurate conclusion that there would be some penalty for not purchasing the mandated Clinton National Insurance she plans to require everyone to purchase? If she loses it that badly over something like that, she’s just too volatile to be a levelheaded President. Unless she’s in front of thousands of Hillary-sign-carrying supporters, since she fell behind she’s often been one tick away from a full-on tantrum. And it’s NOT gender-bias- John McCain’s almost as bad.
Personally, as a 57-yr old female Democrat, I’ve been waiting DECADES for our first female (and/or non-white) President- I’d hoped Barbara Jordan in particular (or maybe Ann Richards) would want the job, but they didn’t. And while Hillary Clinton fills the bill as a woman, unfortunately she is a deeply flawed candidate, a fact she proves by breaking (or trying to break) the written and unwritten rules of Presidential primaries, and giving McCain daily ammunition to use against Obama in the general election if he wins the nomination, defiantly throwing the whole Democratic party under the bus for not just “crowning her” President.
She’s as much of a “situational ethicist” as McCain, with a similar temper and the Bush-Cheney sense of entitlement to break the rules. So even though I was working for Eugene McCarthy before Hillary switched from being a Republican, if the Superdelegates hand her the nomination, I may very well vote, with a heavy, heavy heart, for McCain.

Legit questions on NAFTA, Iraq, Rezko, etc. Obama needs to do a 60 Minutes “Gennifer Flowers” type 1-hour interview where he addresses all of those issues once and for all, head on, so he can move on and let the American people decide on his integrity based on those answers. He can’t keep letting MSM and HRC dictate how those subjects will be handled or when they’ll pop up without taking the steam out them by getting ahead of it.

The Republicans already went after the Clintons for many years: remember they spent over $100 Millions investigating them. They ran against President Bill Clinton’s reelection bid using that same list. HE WON! They initiated impeachment – THEY FAILED! Senator Clinton run for the senate from New York. Everyone said the List would sink her. SHE WON. AND SHE WON AGAIN. Now, you say the GOP will bring the List again. WELL, GUESS WHAT? SHE WILL WIN AGAIN.
If Sen Obama tries to use the List too, he knows it will not work. And he knows the GOP will not make it either if that’s all they have to run with.
Now, Sen. Clinton has not damaged the party. She has saved the party. You would have preferred the Dem Party to front a candidate who cannot stand to take the pressure. You would want the Dem to be represented by a candidate whose campaign is unraveling already with senior advisors in dissaray and Sen Obama not in control of his campaign team. You would prefer the Dem Party to be represented by someone who comes riding the WHITE HORSE and yet has so many unanswered questions regarding the Rezko connection, and then it comes out someone who says one thing to the voters and another thing to foreign countries, someone whose senior advisors say is presenting policies which they know he will not implement once he is president, etc.
There was a time when Se Obama and Sen Edwards were a TAG TEAM in a handicap match against Sen Clinton. They attacked her with such negativity as: polarizing, divisive, old politics, untruthful, power hungry, etc. At that time, no one worried this could damage the Dem Party. Remember, over 50% of Democrats support her. Sen Obama COMPLETELY DISMISSED Sen Clinton and showed such disrespect towards her while he was winning. He was sure he had been crowned already. I guess the Media Worship had gotten into his head.
If you were Sen Clinton, what would you do? The Media stopped even presenting her arguments to the public. It was Obama all over. She was facing not only Sen Obama but also the whole Media system.
Faced with such adversity, she gathered her courage to puh back. She shook the voters to wake them up from their DREAM. She forced all of us to THINK, something we seemed to have forgotten to do (Hope had taken over)! She GOT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO THINK AGAIN. You know if we really would learn from this, we can apply this lesson to many areas of our lives (marriage, career, relationships, etc.). THINK. DO NOT JUST DREAM OR PRETEND THIS IS GOING TO TURN OUT GOOD!
When Sen Obama realized that THE PEOPLE ARE NOW THINKING and ASKING HARD QUESTIONS, what happened? As all inexperienced people do, HE PANICKED! His Senior Advisors started running all over the place. TRUE CHARACTER IS ONLY REVEALED THROUGH FIRE. And the fire revealed to the voters Sen Obama’s true character.
The Dem and the whole nation should be thankful to Sen Clinton. We could have prematurely crowned Sen Obama as our KING just to wake up one day into a nightmare.
We made that mistake once. We chose someone we could have a beer with as president. The last 7 years are a bear witness to the foolishness of such wishful attitude. Yet, we do not seem to have learned. We were way too happy to shoot ourselves in the foot again. Not that Sen Obama would turn out as bad as President Bush. But the point is clear: WE DO NOT KNOW! AND WHEN IT COMES TO THE PRESIDENCY OF THE US, I NEED TO KNOW.
Now, if that is what qualifies Sen Clinton to be called “monster”, then I guess the Obama camp has ran out of ideas, strategies, techniques. They now have only one thing left: CALLING NAMES! It is a sign of a DEFEATED INEXPERIENCED UNWISE FIGHTER WHO CANNOT ACCEPT DEFEAT BECAUSE THE WHOLE OBAMA CAMP FELT ENTITLED TO THE PRESIDENCY NOW, RIGHT NOW! RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT NOW!
Hey!!!! Wake up those of you who are still asleep. Just read through this blog and you’ll notice the Obama Supporters really are unable to articulate any arguments in an intelligent manner. Just like their candidate, they only have INSULTS to hurl at Sen Clinton. I guess this thing works from top down, right? Sen Obama truly has captured his supporters to the point they have fallen into a transe they cannot engage in an intelligent discourse.
Now, talk to me, will you folks? Meanwhile, LET’S VOTE FOR SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!

Open your eyes folks!!
Hillary = Lieberman
What’s wrong with you guys who support hillary?
Can’t you see the resemblance between Hillary and Lieberman?
Wake up people and support the Democratic Party from the deceptives like Lieberman (who’s independante now but in reality he is a republican disguised) and Hillary who’s following his footsteps…

OBAMA HAS EXPERIENCE ON THE ECONOMY AND FOREIGN POLICY, HE KEPT AFLOAT THE COLOMBIAN ECONOMY IN THE 1980′s.
I was a good decade for the Medellin Cartel.

SAM, SAM, SAM,….
Over a Million voters have contributed to Obama’s campaign in 25 and 50 dollar online donations. This is by far the largest “movement” of Democrats we have seen in our lifetime. Obama has brought more new voters to the party than any other candidate.
The “Hollywood” influence I’ve seen is Jack (Who made a video for Hillary), and Ted Danson (On the plane with Hillary having a beer with her) and the Old Guard Hollywood left.
The super large turnout you see in EVERY state (not just “big” states) is for OBAMA!!!!

Does it get any more hateful then this

Interesting ….
Now I understand what Raph Nader was talking about … protectign the status quo of two party system.
As voters we deserve the best … otherwise we use the Putin style and have some dictator select a successor for us.
Obama wants to change washington … and yet you want teh old washington to protect him?
Would he accept that? dont think so .. unless his talk of change and hope has a plan B like his nafta and Iraq withdrawal plans B.

OBAMA DOES NOT NEED TO GET NASTY TO WIN !
The only theink he needs to do is to fire some of his advisers which made him\handle badly the nasty things thrown by Hillary and of course not yield to the outrageous request of Hillary to seat the delegates of Florida and Michigan as spuriously voted
in January (if a new primaries or caucus are held, Obama would win easily Michigan and any difference of votes in
Florida would be irrelevant)
BUT THE DELAY OF THE FACTUAL NOMINATION
WHICH SUCH IMPLY WILL DOOM THE POSSIBILTIES OF THE DEM IN DECEMBER !!
TOM

Obama is leading 59-40 in the Wyoming Caucus w/78% of the vote reporting.

I am a UK citizen and from the coverage we have had over here it would appear that this article highlights Clinton for what she is.
Come on Americans, do the right thing and elect Obama. The whole world is crying out for a US president who can bring people together again.

Open your eyes folks!!
Hillary = Lieberman
What’s wrong with you guys who support hillary?
Can’t you see the resemblance between Hillary and Lieberman?
Wake up people and support the Democratic Party from the deceptives like Lieberman (who’s independante now but in reality he is a republican disguised) and Hillary who’s following his footsteps…

Mehsm- There are lots of strong women who should be in power…and need to be. I want to see that but this is not it. Hillary Clinton is not that woman.

Frankly it is amusing to see Peggy Noonan being concerned about the fate of Obama, a potential democratic nominee. MR.OBAMA is their only hope for retaining the whitehouse. The 3 am ad in TX and the furore it caused has proved it all.
Despite huge media support propping him up, the entire electronic media totally rooting for Mr.Obama most of the low income white voters, women, hispanics, and catholics (in BIG SWING STATES which will be crucial in DECIDING THE ELECTION in November)……have not been sold on the Obamamania. In fact it seems they are very very skeptical of the whole idea of an Obama presidency.
Nominating Mr.Obama will ensure a McCain sweep of Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and even California. Peggy Noonan knows this. She is just being cute.

James and the other half will never vote Obama. Now, throw in the Clinton supporters and with this kind of hysterical rage from the Obama supporters as evident on these blogs where do you think Clinton folks will lean in the general?

You people are fools if you think that Hillary is giving the Republicans ammunition. She is stating the obvious.
*Hello* – the Republicans are experts at exploiting the opposition’s weaknesses, and IT IS A GIVEN:
That the Republicans will portray Barack as “An inexperienced anti-war liberal,”
He won’t be able to run on his judgment because of Rezko, and the Republicans will exploit that to a hilt too…
No one can say or do anything more bad about the Clintons that hasn’t been said or done before.
But the Republicans strategists have said that they are “mean” – and they will “eviscerate” whoever the candidate is. They have already eviscerated Hillary, that is why too many of you seen them negatively, why she always gets put on the defensive – she has been viciously attacked in politics her entire career. She started out as a very compassionate, intelligent woman who wanted to make a difference in politics – and her opponents have unfairly attacked her from the start. Truly attacking her – the people who know her, like her.
Look how unfair the Obama camp is being. They have tried to dismiss the Clintons and their entire legacy, when it was one of the most socio-economically successful we have ever had.
If our nominee is Barack, McCain will win.
There will be a lot of important swing voters who will not want to take a chance on a such an inexperienced, untested, unproven, candidate at a time such a this.
No matter what he says.
No matter how they market him.
No matter how much he talks about hope, change, and unity.
No matter how much he tries to say the opposition are the ones employing the politics of division or fear.
People will be afraid of the unknown.
People will want proof.
And he doesn’t have enough.
People will vote for the known security of McCain.
You can’t outsmart the Republicans with words. Ultimately, words and idea will never be more powerful, than fear and fear itself.
We will lose if Barack is our nominee.

If Hillary has SO many supporters, how come they rarely make it to any caucuses???? Are they too busy writing on these blogs?
Somebody check the voting machines…especially in Ohio and Texas!!!! Obama is about to win the Texas Caucus, too.
And PLEASE! Lets stop wasting this talk of an Obama/Clinton ticket. She carries WAY to much baggage.
Go Obama!!!!

Say No to Obama’08! Say No to Stupidity! Anyone else but Obama’08!

Too many Democrats refuse to believe that the Clintons are just much divisive to this country as Republicans. People outside of die-hard Clintons see them for what they are: slick politicians who will do anything to gain and keep power. I am an Independent. I don’t know who I will vote for in November but it surely won’t be Hillary if she is nominated. And I have voted Democrat every year since 1984. It is no wonder why many voters wish there was a 3rd party. Democrats, why not call it a deadlock and for the good of the party and the country give the nomination to one of your better candidates (Edwards, Richardson, Biden). I know that is not going to happen. Hillary and Bill’s ego will not allow it.

Shelby, If you look at the exit polls, you will find that her strongest support comes from older folks like me who do not have energy to spend three four hours in a caucus.

Well this is a hard campaigng after I have read some of the comments in the CNN comments. I hope the american people will stay sane and not to think of dirty landry that Hillary hang out. I read a comment about Obama not havin a chance in Pennsylvania, this young man that write this comment is out of touch with the world all of the other commenters was defending obama or Hillary. This young man said that they are people in Pennslyvania who has never seen a black person. I think it was very out of touch with this world after all our for fathers has tried to bring justice, equality to this word. Obama is a honest person. He has based his campaign on people not to look at the color of their. I hope that the people of Pennsayvaia who has read this comment will focus on who can make this country a better place to live. Obama can bring this country together. Hillary is a mean and cruel lady. To be the formal first lady she is acting out of touch with this world. I never know what will be next with her. Do we nedd her to be president of the Unied staes out of anger wuth other countries. Obama will know how to handle this country ewith oter counties when a problem should a rise. Hillary you are a very disrespectful woman. I am thinking long and hard about you. I wonder do you have a heart? I hope obama will remain sane. I am a Obama supporter and will be one his suppoters until the end. If you belive in a person capabilty you will stand by them no matter what. Experience is out of the question for me after I see you speaking in such tone of voice as if you hate your opponet. Hillary you chanmge to many out fits one moment I see you in pants then dresses. Be what you are a woman. You will gain more respect from the american people. You do not have to let the word know that you can be in differnt forms. I see you as a woman and that is what the american people should want. I hope obama will win. God bless Obama and his campaign.

“Stacy”, are you really saying we should not vote for Hillary because she’s an “OLD WOMAN”? Good grief. How about if we vote for you for the job of Secretary of WaterBoarding for the Bush Administration?

I’m not really sure how Clinton thinks she is going to win this. There is very little chance of her coming out ahead in delegates, and her claim of better electability is a wash at best. The polls tend to show otherwise. I have nothing against Clinton, but let’s have the people decide.

Obama is a gentleman. Hillary is so thirsty for power
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LOL!!! Who do you think will win in November? Someone who is thirsty to win or the one who pretends to be a gentleman???
Republicans have solid ammunition against Obama. He’ll be shredded in no time.
He has never EVER faced a tough election fight in his entire life.
The proof is in the pudding. He was doing fine and dandy when the media was swooning over him, and winning several caucuses (with uber-liberals intimidating ordinary voters, and republicans in UT, Idaho strategically voting for him to get rid of Hillary).
Just when Hillary truned uo the heat a tiny weeny bit, him and his campaign have started looking like real wimps this last week.

I think many misconstrue Hillary Clinton.
First of all, the Democratic National Committe DISENFRANCHISED 5.1 Million Voters! 5.1 Million. Now I don’t believe for a second that if your state didn’t count, there would not be Hell to pay!
I actually would NOT blame Clinton for leaving the Democratic Party. Mr. Dean must think of himself as GOD. He should resign for the Good of the Party.
Clinton is NOT throwing any jabs at Obama that HE HIMSELF has not thrown at her!
He continuously says he has better judgement and is right about the war in Iraq. He took off the gloves when he LIED about her Healthcare plan…and NAFTA. He did know better.
But this article STILL shows Sexism is a greater problem in America today.

HILLARY LIEBERMAN IS SO THIRSTY FOR POWER THAT SHE IS DETERMINED TO DESTROY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IF SHE IS NOT “GIVEN” THE NOMINATION!!!

Yes that does come as a surprise that there are rules in politics. Didn’t seem like anybody was worrying about the “rules” when Obama’s main competitor for his senate seat was shamed out of the race based on allegations that were proved to be untrue only *after* the election, and it didn’t seem like there were any “rules” when Obama was pitted against stooge-candidate Alan Keyes for one of the sleaziest electoral victories in U.S. History. What also comes as a surpise is this feigned nobility stance he wants to employ now. In a word: “audacity”.

Well, let’s’ see: Obama won Texas after all. I thought HRC was supposed to get out if she didn’t win both.
Now, he’s kicking her tail in Wyoming, and will take Mississippi.
Time to go, Hillary. Take your sleaze with you. Fresh air.. Fresh air.

Audry who does Osama support?

We will lose if Obama is our nominee.
The Clintons are very good people, and we need their expertise.
If you believe otherwise, you are just believing the Republican attack machine, and now the Obama campaign’s strategy of attacking the Clintons personally as well as all their accomplishments.
Barack has a huge ego. He wants to win. He acts like it should be his, when he’s had hardly any national experience, and he dismisses Hillary’s experience when she’s had so much more than his?
It’s ludicrous.
And his campaign and supporters act like questions can’t be raised about his qualifications, and experience?
They could not be more ridiculous to ask us not to think, or seriously questions these issues.
Barak is very crafty when he frames his arguments, but he is employing a great degree of hypocritical, self-serving, double-speak and craft.
They are all saying anything about the Clintons to try to win.

Sen. Gary Hary backing Obama points out “there are rules in politics”. Seemingly he would like us to only have that rule apply to Clinton. Obama’s inspirational quest for Presidential fame lacks substantive experience to manage the innuendo’s associated with being able to work effectively within the governing bodies of the US and world leaders. Clinton’s Senate years demonstrate she has the skill with which to cross party lines and enlist support for programs that are of benefit for the people of the US. Obama’s Washington years lean otherwise.

And in the end clinton was one of the best Presidents we have had they impeched him for a sex act and the core that are behind her were many of his core supporters I have children and grabdchildren and the last 8 years have not been great and I ready for change and I know what the Clintons did for th US he still had a 65% approvalwhen he left Office Have you ever heard of americorp.It helped Obama to do his outreach

TS is swearing on Clinton meant to drive the Clinton supporter away from EVER supporting Obama?

Folks, Obama is just your typical charlatan, snake oil salesperson, attempting to sell hollow promises. And for those who are entranced and believe that he is the be all answer for universal peace, I say you’re delusional. Listen closely to his words when he says, “I will require you to work. I will demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. I will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.” Who is he to demand? Who is he to require? What authority does he have to meddle in our God given right to free will? Who is this guy? History tells us of individuals like such as this one. They come to power when peoples are most vulnerable. Folks our nation may be entering its darkest hour. Let us not be led astray.

Get your facts straight Bishop–Clinton was impeached and disbarred for breaking the law–LYING UNDER OATH, PERJURY–Not for having an affair with Monica Lewinsky–Thanks for reminding of of all of the daily soap opera of having the Clintons in the white house–Pretty disgusting actually.

Clintonistas, you make a valid point with regards to politics being dirty and revelling in her “toughness”. If you truly feel that the ends justifies the means, then do us all a favor and remember that in the fall if she is the Democratic nominee. Spare us all the whining when the GOP smear machine is operating a full steam. Don’t defend her actions as “hard-fought legitimate politics” now only to climb back on your soap boxes in the fall. With regards to HRC being fully vetted, you are all misinformed if you believe all her skeletons have been revealed from her walk – in closet. This is the 1st national campaign the Clintons have been in since several scandals. The intensity of the mutiny scrutiny will increase tenfold, and with the Clintons there are always new scandals forthcoming (see Kazhakstan, library donor questions, and tax returns). They are a part of a shady generation of corrupt leaders (Dem and Repub) who actually believe they have a teflon forcefield. Fully vetted? They’ve got more dirty laundry than a family of octuplets.

>>>At long last Mrs. Clinton, have you no shame? <<<<
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It's funny to see the sense of entitlement amongst Obamamaniacs. For months now Obama and his cult was going around generally dissing Hillary…she is not likable, has lots of negatives, he is just holier than anyone else cockamime…………… Hillary was the gentle lady taking all thse things and made a mistake talking about "issues".. Now the Hillary camp is returning the favor, giving the their own bitter medicine, Obamabots cry like babies.

I don’t know how Hillary won our state except for the Hispanic and Republican votes. The Hispanics she rounded up may not have all even been US citizens. She got some Republicans from strategic votes because they know McCAN WILL BEAT HER. Obama got Republicans because they know he will be the better president. I am one of those.
With all that having been said, the media did the rest. As far as her views on foreign policy, ask the Canadians about NAFTA. SHE WAS THE ONE WHO SAID BACKING OUT OF NAFTA WAS ALL RHETORIC…NOT OBAMA. The Canadians are very upset over her deceitful actions. Her divisive foreign policy has already been seen in Canada.
Now let’s talk about the FIGHTER HILLARY. Lord don’t we know. She is so divisive, so polarizing she will destroy anything in her path. Destruction is NOT THE PATH TO VICTORY.
Looks like Wyoming is speaking up for change. I’m betting Mississippi will too along with a large number of people in Pennsylvania.
Please Pennsylvania voters, get informed on the latest revelation on NAFTA in Canada. It was NOT Obama saying one thing and doing another…it WAS HILLARY.

Hillary is a ruthless socialist and woe be to America if she gets in the White House. She is a fake who will do anything to get what she wants….ask Bill.

These opinions reflect one thing and one thing only. These pundits dislike Senator Clinton, and want to see Senator Obama in the white house. They want to influence future voters in PA by painting Senator Clinton as the “monster” without actually using the word “monster.”
Why can’t they let voters decide based on the voters’ own intelligence, opinions and judgments? Why do these pundits feel a need to weigh in with their idiotic biased opinions at this time? Why do their opinions matter to begin with?

Peggy Noonan is foolsh. She thinks she is writing about what she saw at “The Revolution.” Why can’t she shut-up and concentrate on her screwed-up Republicans? They pick an old man who wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years after declaring MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, only to have 4,000 soldiers die after that. Give me a break!! Stay clear Noonan, Clinton is no Reagan!

dem, The problem with your logic is this…The country is divided almost equally in half….Actually, more like 40 percent who will vote Republican regardless of who the nominee is, 40 percent who will vote Democrat no matter who the nominee is, and 20 percent who, like me are in the middle and will be swayed one way or another. We view that, from a governing standpoint, there isn’t a lick of difference between the parties and a reason we always interested in 3rd party candidates. Personally, I voted for Clinton twice and always felt a bit of sympathy for them because of the way Republicans relentlessly pursued them. However, it always seemed that the Clintons gave them something to pursue and ultimately I felt a sense of betrayal. But I did not dislike them….until now. The way have run this campaign shows that they are no better than Republicans. They will say and do anything to get elected. If Hillary wins the nomination I (and I expect many of the 20 percent in he middle) will view McCain, (unlike Hillary), as an honorable man worthy of our vote. We’ve seen the Clinton act before…Democrats need to wake up to this..

Thank you “A Texas Voter” for saying it again–The Canadian GlobeMail front page–Clinton was the one who was flip flop on NAFTA–not Obama! God save us–we are heading towards McCain/Bush or Clinton and the differences are getting slimmer by the day.

We will all come together in November. The truth is that less than 1% of the popular vote seperates Obama and Hillary. Neither of these two candidates will destroy the party. It is refreshing to have 50 states count for a change and the will count even if FL and MI end up voting again…
If the “red phone” ad is seriously perceived as being so negative I just have to laugh at what McCain would have done.
Make no mistake we will be experienced and inspired come November!

j allen
If they are less % apart – why not go with the one that rakes in the most money for the race, inspires the most voter turnout and is less entrenched in washington?
Come on!!! You know you want to!!
OBAMA!!

Hillary has been First Lady, a Senator, a Mother and and she is still just Mrs. Clinton, a “nobody” !

The Democratic party has always been about hope and change, that is a given – that is why we are Democrats. Now you need to work on unifying.
Hillary is not a monster. People who truly know her, like her. Now, not only has she been unfairly attacked for political purposes by the Republicans her entire career, now she is being attacked by the Obama campaign and it’s supporters.
You are believing smear tactics and lies.
All of it stems from ridiculous smear tactics and lies.
The first Clinton administration was one of the best we’ve ever had – they didn’t just talk about hope and change -they truly brought hope and change to our country.
You are truly betraying hope, change, and unity.
The Clintons have never been found of wrongdoing in all the ‘scandals’ they were *accused* of being associated with.
*The Republicans wasted millions of tax dollars* trying him over a personal marital affair.
JFK had many more affairs while he was in office, but his family is lucky that was before the time of ruthlessly and relentlessly scandalizing people’s personal marital affairs.
No other country in the world has ever tried to impeach it’s leader over what should have been only a personal marital issue because they know it’s ridiculous and a waste of tax payer dollars and time. The rest of the world thought it was crazy.
And the Clintons are loved all over the world – I have had many people on the web and elsewhere tell me so.
It is disgraceful and despicable that the Obama campaign is doing so much to try to damage the Clintons.

Here we have another caucus where anyone can cross the floor and vote for Obama while the Obama supporters celebrate their win, I guess a win is a win for them while they ignore the fact that in a GE these same people may not vote the way they did in the caucus.
If I was a Obama supporter I would be very concerned that he seems to be doing well with the cross over voters, while most of the registered democrats vote against him.
Then again the point is not winning this election at the moment its only winning the nomination, to prove what I really don’t know I must prefer a democrat win this election.

D, I don’t believe for a minute that it is only Hillary running….It is a Hillary\Bill show just like last time. Bill is,I assume, a close advisor to the candidate and is therefore fair game…

If the democratic establishement doesn’t want to destroy the party as well, the only thing to do is supporting the winner of the contest, Barack OBAMA, NOW. What are the superdelegates waiting for???

Tom then 13 plus million and counting Clinton supporters are not democrats then. Guess we’ll just have to vote McCain as we’ve been just thrown out of this version of the democratic party.

Hillary is the best weapon in the Republican arsenal. If Obama gets the nomination Hillary has already given the Republicans plenty of ammunition. If she gets the Democratic nod she has angered enough Obama supporters to make them stay home in droves. Add to that her natural ability to offend everyone and the blood trail behind the Clintons I doubt she has much of a chance. ….. I do wonder why the military service that the Democrats and the news media held so important a few years ago hasn’t even been discussed. What branch was Obama in anyway? It could be said that Hillary saw combat just living with Bill.

I’m a registered democrat and will vote democrat in the general election. UNLESS clinton gets the nomination. She wants the white house so bad she is doing any and everything possible to get it. She spouts about her “experience” in answering the phone in times of crisis, but when she got the call, she voted FOR the war.
Need I mention all the scandals associated with the clintons
I can understand though why many of us are reluctant to embrace barack obama, after all he is black and what will happen to our country if he gets in office? I say it will be better. Better because he is the person who can bring our country together as a whole, not just as white, black, hispanic or native america, but as AMERICANS.

Wyoming has a population of about 500,000 and not even 10,000 came out to vote in this caucus I wonder why?? Sure does not seem to me that this is a win for any Democrat so I will not be celebrating too much on this.

Read Robert Reich’s blog about Hillary. Her lust for power know no bounds. If she wins, we will regret it.

The differences in policies between Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton are fairly small, so it all comes down to personal qualities. As a European following American politics I believe Mr Obama has the best possibillities to deal with the challenges facing the world. His grounded personality, vision, bright mind and communicative skills are badly needed both in the US and the rest of the world.

Hillary advisers are the ones acting like Ken Starr. Trying to tie Obama to Rezko when it hasn’t been proven in a court of law? Didn’t the Clintons learn anything from the name-besmirching experience of the Whitewater affair?

Daniel Georgiev I saw the interview by the republicans who produced this movie. Furthermore, they also say they are working on the Obama version of this movie to be used against Obama during the general.

Obama took favors from Rezko after it was well known that Rezko was under investigation for fraud, extortion, money laundering, etc.
This is not illegal, but it shows extremely bad judgement.
This has been proven.
He cannot run on his judgement.
The Republicans *will* exploit this – they are already talking about this and *more.*
He doesn’t have enough experience.
People like John McCain.
They will trust John McCain, and not Barack.
All of you who truly think Barack could win in the general election have no idea who you are up against in terms of the Republicans.
You are being extremely naive, and if he wins the nomination, we will lose, and you will find out just how extremely naive you are being.
That is why we have Superdelegates, because before we had Superdelegates we always lost, because Democrats are nice and naive, and don’t realize what the Republicans will do, and the qualifications our candidate has to have until it is too late.
All of the bad things you are saying about the Clintons were started by the Republicans. And now the Obama campaign is co-opting them.
All adminstrations make mistakes. With all his inexperience, a Barack administration would make a lot of mistakes.
Ultimately the Republicans voted for McCain because they knew he had the best chance against the Democrats, and that’s why they want Barack to be our nominee, because they think he will be the easiest to beat.

SBNilsson perhaps you might check your facts. All democrat normal voting states chose Clinton, plus swing states such as Fl, MI and Ohio to name a few.

Obama isn’t ready to lead this country (yet) and somebody has to point out his deficiencies. Obviously, the media is so enamored of him and his pep rallies that they fawn over themselves to prop him up while they attack Clinton. I am sooooooo tired of biased reporting in the democratic primary! Only two stories (Rezko and NAFTA) were enough to send Obama’s campaign into a tail spin last week. He isn’t tough enough and he won’t be up to the Republican challenge this fall. America needs Hillary. If anyone is ruining the democratic party, it’s all the old guard democrats (Kennedy, Kerry) supporting his campaign because they don’t want a Clinton and especially a woman in the White House.

Lauren:How do you know the Clinton’s are good People. Do you know them personally? I think she is showing how great she is to the American people now. With that altitude. You talk about doing anything to Win, what do you call what Hillary is doing. If Obama blinks his eyes twice she gets on a microphone…Did you see that America people? Did you hear him? Is this really the person, you guys want in office? While she is nodding her head with that fake smile. He has not said a word these people are trying to speak for him…I will give him this even if he loses, i am so glad to see him taking high road with her and responding to her comments without negative attacks. Can you say the same?

Truthfully??? Let’s pray McCain can beg Mitt Romney to be his running mate, and then after they are elected that he and CINDY decide to take a medical leave. I certainly need one…all those left running certainly make ME sick~!!

There will be riots in the streets in Denver (and throughout America) if Hillary and the Clintons are allowed to steal this election.
The Democratic Party will be no more and Hillary will go down in history as the evil vile woman she is. She will make history all right. But in a way which even the revisionists cannot gloss over.
Face it. The Era of Clinton is over. And all that is left now, is for her to leave under whatever grace she can muster and allow the rest of her fanatic tribe the opportunity for a funeral moment in the passing of a bygone era.
Obama ’08!

DQuinn hey buddy. Perhaps you could explain Obama’s new Iraq policy as outlined by Powers in her BBC interview. Regards to your question, I was democrat when being a democrat wasn’t cool. And you?

James wrote “There will be riots in the streets in Denver (and throughout America) if Hillary and the Clintons are allowed to steal this election.”
The votes for Clinton have also value, especially because they represent the Democratic vote. And threating with riots is called “harassment”. This is what Obamania is: bullying to cover emptiness.

Again, for all of you HRC supporters, what exactly is HRC’s actual experience? Rumsfeld, Cheney, etc., have all had first row seats to the WH for years and been in close quarters with a number of presidents, yet their experience didn’t add up to a hill of beans when it came to making sound judgment calls.
HRC’s “vicarious, virtual experience” doesn’t make her any more qualified to be POTUS than Obama. If you look at what they’ve actually accomplished in the U.S. Senate, in his 3+ year Senate career, Obama has passed more legislation/bills and has his name attahced to more legislation as sponsor or co-sponsor than HRC does. Do some research and gain some objectivity.
PS – Obama denounced the actions of his staff who put out the “punjab” comment and apologized directly to HRC for it and made it clear he would not stand for that type of “smear” campaign. Other than Power’s recent comment that was dealt with swiftly, what other “scorched earth” stuff has Obama personally engaged in or his campaign that has not been addressed?

Well, basically this is what Obama supporters are doing, so call it straight. They are launching a scorched earth policy in this campaign too. Many have displayed their visceral hatred even making disgusting sexist remarks against the possible candidate Clinton. Calling for her to drop out, calling her more of the same, alleging she is ‘the most secretive politician in america’. So don’t play this game with me. I’m not stupid, and I’m not bought out by the Obamanation.
When you can’t get my vote, don’t start smearing my candidate then expect me to hold my nose and vote for you.
This argument works both ways.

I hope that the Democratic party does something before people make a big switch to to the independent middle.

Chris – If Obama had lost 11 in a row… or say 5 in a row, the powers in the DNC would have forced him to concede. It’s only because of HRC and Bill’s tenacles in the DNC/DLC that the calls for her to concede have come so late and by so little.

Educated voters back Obama and will not vote for Hillary. Nuff said!

1.I have stayed glued to the tv with this election.
2. I see how the media a roll in determaning who will become the democratic nominee
3. If Obama is not given a fair chance it will forever change America. The world will know how weak of a country we really are. It will destroy almost everything we stand for as a people.
4. Not just Amarican’s want change, but the world wants change. The world would like to see America change its ways. What better way to show the world that we are not full of evil white men like Bush and divisive white women like Hillary Clinton, than to play by the rules. let the people have their say.

another rule of politics is you don’t come on stage to make your winning speech until your opponent has finsished their concession speech. where was gary hart when obama did that.
and obamaa has been calling hillary unlectable, divisive and “nice enough” since day one. and now we know what the obama camp says about her when the cameras and tape recorders aren’t rolling – or when they think they aren’t anyway

Absolutely ~ the leaders in the Democratic party should not let the Clinton’s destroy our party while trying to get back into the WH. I am happy to see that Gary Hart spoke out. Where are the others? Whre is John Kerry, where is Teddy? Where is Bill Richardson and where in the world is John Edwards, the man of integrity????If the Demo party does not get some backbone, and quick, I am going to have to make a stand and visit the Independent party. Now I am not saying I would vote Repub, but I want to be with a party that has integrity and ethics. Thanks for the article!

There is a real story here….it’s about what a great negotiator Hillary is to get 50 superdelegates to back off by proving her point.
The real story is that the woman continues to stand up for Universal Health care despite the political expediancy of the postion of Obama/
The real story here is how vital she was as a “First Lady” and that “words do matter” in places like China where she stood up for Human and Womens’ Rights when it was not so politically expediant.
The real story here is that even with the most negative press that anyone has ever had to endure she has earned her right to continue on with this campaign.
The real story here is that Obama is developing positions and learning how to manage people rather than just inspire them with words.
Make no mistake Democrats are on the rise. I can feel the change coming just around the bend and Bush is not on that train.

Nobody has harmed the Democratic party yet. We have two good candidates, debating Democratic issues, and bringing record numbers of new voters out to the polls, while John McCain is busy begging Republicans to vote for him. McCain wouldn’t have a chance against either of these two.

Karen,
What does “clined” mean?

Only Senator Clinton will work for and achieve those policies and proposals that are in the best interest of our children, our troops and America…..we all know this to be true, but there are some who don’t want to publicly admit it

Take notice folks, “The People” are going to determine the outcome in this election, not the media, get use to it. We followed the media last election and look at what we’ve got now. My memory is not as short as your research would suggest. OBAMA ’08

I have to say that equating Hillary’s campaign with the heinous crimes of the My Lai massacre is really outrageous. Tapper may as well say that he agrees with Samantha Power. Historically, our presidents have usually had governor experience or senate experience. Obama has had a few years in the Senate in which he admits he wasn’t able to fully carry out his duties “because he was runnng for president.” Is it not appropriate to test this person before he steps into the most powerful job in the world?

To all of you who seem to love bashing Hillary Clinton I am going to give you something to ponder. Obama is being endorsed by two of the biggest racists in this country. You know who they are. Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton. hat i am seeing here to me is Deja-Vu. While living in NYC between the years 1989-1993 I saw a great city fall apart due to someone who made promises he could not keep. His name is David M Dinkins who at the time won the election for Mayor of the City of new York. He just barely squeaked out the win over (R) Rudy Giuliani. He was saying he wanted to unite the city as one. He fell short big time. At the end of his term there was more racial divide then there was when he took office. He not only pissed of the blacks in NYC he pissed off everyone. I see he is now supporting Mrs Clinton. Maybe he realized that Obama is running his presidential campaign just like he ran his mayoral run and does not want to see this happen again in a bigger arena. This is coming from a man who back in 1984 and 1988 supported Jessie Jackson for president. Here is a quote from Mr Dinkins during his race for Mayor and tell me this does not sound just like Obama. Just substitute President for Mayor “I’m confident that, were I mayor, I would do some things differently than he has. But I think there’s a world of difference between him and his immediate predecessor.” Unfortunately the person he took over for was Mayor Ed Koch who did a great job in NYC. 4 years later when Dinkins who ran unopposed in the Democratic Mayoral primary lost by a landslide running up against Rudy G for a second time. It’s all there in black and white. All you need to do is search for David M Dinkins and let the rest speak for it self. A good deal of the black people in this country are following Obama simply because he is black and for no other reasons. One may even wonder that if Obama had been in the Senate when the vote to invade Iraq if he would have been for it. Since he was not he is using that as an excuse to go after Hillary. People do make mistakes and if Obama is elected president it may be just as big of a mistake as having Bush in office. THINK ABOUT THAT AND THINK HARD.

Hillary may have years of experience they’re not accompanied by accomplishments. She bungled the health care initiative so badly that it completely disappeared off the Clinton agenda and contributed to the loss of the Democratic congressional majority in ’94. This after 19 years of “experience” as she claims 35 now. In 1999 (with 26 years of experience) she embraced and kissed Suha Arafat after Arafat accused Israel of using poison gas on Palestinian children and poisoning the water in the occupied territories. Is this who we want dealing with foreign leaders? Do we want another 4 or 8 years of White Water, Travelgate, renting the Lincoln bedroom, the funny business after Vince Foster’s suicide, questionable pardons, Monica-gate and on and on? She has no regard for party or, for that matter, for the country – only for her own ambitions.

chris, you do NOT speak for all of us!
I will not admit what isn’t true – which brings us to another campaign issue…I will not vote for Clinton. Clinton has no honor. Clinton has no integrity. I WILL, however, vote for someone who DOES have honor and integrity – that person is Obama!
Honor and Integrity in our President FIRST!!!

I never voted for Bush, I did vote for Clinton and he was as “In experienced” as Obama, actually when he ran for governor of Arkansas he was only 32 – should he have had this chance?

I was confused when a veteran wrote that having My Lai in the title was offensive. Did not quite understand. I am a vet who served 69-72 and knew exactly what the author was saying. The defense the soldiers gave was that “They needed to destroy the village of My Lai to save it.” Convoluted thinking but true so do not know why you were offended since it matched what he was blogging about. Hillary was going to destroy the party to save it. You may not agree with what he writes but the reference would be correct. You might let me know if I totally missed your point. Thanks.

Hillary Clinton is not morally qualified to be president of the United States – period.

Hillary is short-sighted and doesn’t have a vision except to capture power and win at all cost.
When asked about her negative campaign hurting democrats her reply is ‘memories are short’ people will get over it. Cannot believe her attitude. If she is the democratic nominee, I’m voting mccain or not voting at all.

Nice pick-up on my thought Mark Twain (check 2:56:40 pm).

Im sorry, Mark Twain…I gave Lauren credit for your comments…forgive.

James:——-.There will be riots in the streets in Denver (and throughout America) if Hillary and the Clintons are allowed to steal this election.
The Democratic Party will be no more and Hillary will go down in history as the evil vile woman she is. She will make history all right. But in a way which even the revisionists cannot gloss over.
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If there are riots throughout America from the Obama’s supporters, you better believe that all Hillary’s supporters will join together with the Republican Party. Not because we support the Republican’s issues because we support America. Hillary’s supporters will do whatever is needed to save our streets from being destroy from Obama’s supporters. If we have to stand strong as one with Republican for our country, we will stand as one.

If Hillary cannot manage her family of 3, how can she manage 250 million people? She couldn’t even manage 1 man, America has 250 million. If she says she’s tough it should have reflected in her ability to manage Bill. Wat was wrong with her upping her sex game to wear Bill out preventing him from going out, that would have shown her strength, determination and drive.

Ken,
tell me then just what have they said about Barack that has not been true?
It’s true that many of the people who are voting for Hillary are older, wiser, have been around longer, and believe the results they see, not the rumors and gossip they hear.
We know what has happened, what they have been through, and what they accomplished in spite of it all.
There are far more Obama supporters who are ‘haters’ in general – could you please *be* *more* hypocritical?
Hillary is offering to put Obama on the ticket because she is a true Democrat, she has always been about Hope, Change, and Unity – it is why she became a Democrat – that is what her husband delievered when he was President – that is what she has tried to do in her life.
If Barack were truly about hope, change, and unity – what is best for our party, and what more than half of the people in our party actually want Hillary more than him – he would consider being on the ticket with Hillary.
But is he really just all talk after all?
We’ll see.

It’s not so much the fact that we are a democracy that people dislike — it’s more that we are arrogant, stubborn, paranoid, and self-righteous to no end. It is not our place to tell people how to live. If people see that our country is progressing well and that our government works, maybe they’ll adopt one similar. Right now all we are doing is falling behind, as most of western Europe passes us by and much of Asia begins the process of catching up. Take a look at Norway, for example — democratic country, forward-looking, humble, cooperative — way ahead of the US in human development index, and in far less danger of terrorism.

Hillary floats the idea that Obama might be a good running mate. However, anyone who knows her is aware that she will never be second banana to Obama. Her ego would never allow that. She will take down the party before she bows out. This goes all the way to the convention. McCain smiles all they way.

I think there is an issue of amnesia here:
Jonathan Chait forgot that Obama did not got return of investment (ROI) in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island primary where he spent twice the millions of dollars than what Hillary spent for making the case that Clinton is unfit to set foot in the White House
Peggy Noonan forgot that Obama have demonstrated that he is also a most divisive figure between White collars and Blue collars, Blacks, Whites and Latinos.
Sen. Gary Hary have forgot the NAFTA Canada case where Obama’s advisor did the double talk with Canada and US, damaging Democrats and US credibility to become Presidential nominee.
Jonathan Chait, Peggy Noonan and Sen. Gary Hary are the ones that ignoring the facts on Obama and crying “Wolf” on Hillary to cover the Truth.

Did any of you listen to Obama on the news tonight when asked about a Clinton-Obama ticket? He came right out and said NO WAY would he be the VP under Clinton.

Peggy Noonan is a disgrace. She is making it her life’s work to attack Hillary Clinton. She writes of nothing else and attacks Senator Clinton in the most vile ways. Who can listen to her and hear anything worthwhile since she is so biased? I can hear both sides of an argument but only if both sides are presented. Peggy never does that. Hillary Clinton isn’t “destroying” anything. She’s campaigning and has every right to do so. Why is Obama entitled to this nomination and not her? Why are his attacks okay? His mocking, arrogant tone allowed to pass, but her attacks are the equivalent of killing small children in the minds of the press? For some reason the press and the Obama-ites have decided that SHE should give up, not him. It’s disturbing and yet it continues. He can’t get to 2025 either and he isn’t winning the states the dems need to win. Don’t listen to Peggy Noonan, republican extraordinare. She shouldn’t be discussing a race where she won’t be supporting either candidate.

Obama is conducting a far gentler campaign than Clinton. He has not resorted to most of the smear tactics the Clinton campaign has used.
Also, Obama will never be Clinton’s VP. You cannot slander and character assasinate someone in order to defeat him and then ask him to be your VP.
In this world, there are builders, maintainers, and destroyers. Obama is a builder; the Clintons are destroyers. The Democratic party will be severely scarred by the Clintons by the time November arrives.

I can’t believe that some of you so-called Democrats would vote for McCain over Hillary or Obama. Do you want to stay in Iraq for 100 years? Or watch the dollar depreciate even more? NO!
Don’t let the media fracture our party and split our vote. Wake up!
Democrats will be united in November.

For all you kids out there who do not remember who Gary Hart is well I can tell you that he did not lose the primary to Mondale because of attacks by Mondale. He lost because he said that rumors about him and other women were lies and he invited the press to follow him. Well they took him up on it and a picture was taken with a woman not his wife on his lap on a boat with the name Monkey Business. Mr. Harts demise had nothing to do with tough political tactics rather it was ask and ye shall receive.

Starting with Senior Bush as VP for Reagan if Clinton win it would be a Bush or Clinton in the White House from 1981 to 2016 if Clinton runs 2 terms.How could any one with a straight face call this a democracy with hundreds of scandals between the 2 families.That alone is enough to vote far Barack.Who’s next Chelsea or Bush nephew.

I think the Democrats have already lost the general election, but it’s naive to place sole blame on the Clinton campaign. Howard Dean and the DNC have proven themselves more pompous, dictatorial, and far less “democratic” than the RNC in their attempts to punish states for not following their rules. And, Obama just doesn’t GET why his “message” ISN’T inspiring so many of us. (His popular vote lead is quite small compared to the total number of people who voted as Democrats in the various primaries.) The media and his supporters call us “uneducated, racists, Latinos, and old women”, as if labelling us in that manner makes it O.K. to totally ignore what is important to us. Bad strategy.

Americans have shown a persistent character this days. They ellect what they trully deserve. They voted for George Bush and that was what they deseved seven years ago. The consequence of that vote was the 9/11 disaster and the Iraq quagmire. The raping of their privacy and hate by most people in the world. Do they learn? Seems not. So this time arround, once again, they deserve Hillary Clinton.

Obama is a dirty, corrupt politican.
It’s just a matter of time before the REZKO trial plays out and we ALL see him exactly for what he is. Nothing by a dirty, lying, corrupt thief of a politican!
REZKO, REZKO, REZKO, REZKO, REZKO,
Before Obama totally disgraces our party, he should bow out now so we can build some real unity!
Hillary Clinton / Harold Ford ’08!

My mother used to say that I should be wary of people who tear others down just to build themselves up. Hillary seems to fit that statement.

Truthbetold: Now there’s a winning ticket! Hillary/Ford 08! Yes we got ourselves a winner!

Russell – good point, but she clarified her position further in that interview to mean that until you’ve been POTUS and had to take that call, we won’t know who’s ready and can only make that judgment based of what each candidate has shown. Obama was right on Iraq, right on Pakistan, and right on our neglect of Latin America, especially in light of events this past week. HRC and McCain showed poor judgment on Iraq and HRC continued to follow Bush on Iran.
Check out the whole Rice interview and not just the soundbite being tossed out there.

Darrell,
We need to raise legitimate questions about qualifications.
I guarantee you if Barack were an eloquent white man with only 3 years national senate experience, all the same questions would come up.
After all the success of the Clinton years, and all the failures of the Bush years, no issue is more important to me than qualifications.
From CBS’s “For the Record”
Clinton set her sights on more manageable goals, like creating the State Children’s Health Care Program and increasing vaccination rates.
Still, behind the scenes she had the last word on so many issues, staffers had a nickname for her: “The Supreme Court.”
It was her idea to tap Janet Reno for attorney general … and Madeleine Albright for secretary of state.
Clinton has cited her extensive travel – 80 trips as First Lady – as part of her foreign policy experience. She promoted microfinance in Latin America, peace in Bosnia and, famously, human rights in China.
In the Senate:
“She went into the Senate not as a show horse but as a work horse,” said former Hillary Clinton press secretary Lisa Caputo.
Learning the Senate power structure, landing a coveted spot on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and reaching out to former Republican foes.
She teamed with Bill Frist on modernizing medical record – and with Tom DeLay on foster care. She teamed with Lindsay Graham, who had led the impeachment effort against her husband, on benefits for veterans. She worked with Newt Gingrich on health care policy.
“We were agreeing with each other so much, I think people were thinking: ‘the end is near!’” Clinton said about her collaboration with Gingrich.
“The most fascinating thing about Clinton in the Senate was to hear the conservative Republicans that had gone back home and often advanced their own political careers by using Hillary as the great whipping person,” said Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, “going around saying privately and for some of them publicly, ‘wow what a nice person and what a terrific colleague.’”
– End quote

Sue: Look at the video again. She did say that he was not prepared to take the call. I know they think Hillary is not prepared. Ms. Powers also said to the BBC that Mr. Obama’s promise to have all U.S. forces out of Iraq in 16 mo. was based on a plan he is putting out for the election and should not be taken as to what he would do if elected sound familar. Similar to what the told the Canadians about Nafta.

Wasn’t it Mr. Obama who kept harping on the Iraq war vote and kept bringing Hillary down? Mr. Hart needs to look back to Iowa and the weeks before Iowa. If it was okay for Obama to pull Hillary down, it is fair game for Hillary to question Obama too. There is nothing in his background to point to his strength as commander-in-chief. If there is, he better speak-up and prove himself. Speaking out against the Iraq war does not make you fit enough to be a commander-in-chief. If it was, I would make one too. Yet, Mr. Hart knows that Mr. Obama kept at it again and again. He is doing that with the income taxes, he did that in Ohio with Nafta. No one likes double standards and that is why Mr. Obama is losing in the big states like Ohio.

Sen. Clinton is positioning herself as the experienced democrat, however, Sen. McCain can, arguably, beat her in the “experience” department. He’s been a senator longer, served in the armed services and is older.
She is not only hurting Obama, she is self-destructing.

df,
Count me too. I want to vote for someone at least we know his background well enough and what he stands for.

How is it that Hillary wants everybody to believe that Obama is not experienced enough to be President, yet she would pick him as Vice-President if she is the nominee. Sounds to me like she wants to have her cake and eat it too. She wants to tear him down to get the nomination, but she wants his supporters to believe that he will still be on the ticket in Nov if she wins the nomination so that she can get his supporters votes now. Obviously, she knows that there is no way that she can win in November without Obama on the ticket. Obama’s supporters, however, know that he does not need her on the ticket if he wins the nomination. Obama has demonstrated time and again that he is the energy and life of the Democratic Party, not Clinton.

The Democrats will lose the White House if Hillary Clinton is nominated. She does not have enough “supporters” to win but she definitely has enough “enemies” to lose. Even if there is an agreement to a duo ticket, if Hillary Clinton is first on the ticket they will lose many, many Democrats and definitely Independents and America will be saying “Hello President-Elect McCain, Hello Iraq for 100 years, Hello more wars around the world, Hello more attacks on America from around the world”.

I think it right time the leaders of Dem Party and the people to end this political suicide mission.
Her Kamikaze mission is without any merits. At best, the chance of Dem Party will be fatally wounded.
If this family feud goes on, I am sure we will have another 4 years of Bush.

Hillary herself has said that she is like a Rorshact test, and it is true.
By offering to share the ticket with Barack, she is proving that she is truly a Democrat, devoted to her party and to Hope, Change, and Unity.
That is what our party has always been about. We are always about unifying for Hope and Change. That is what her husband delivered. That is what she has always tried to deliver.
If Barack is not willing to do so, it proves that he is more about talk, and saying what they think will help him win, than actuality and follow-through.
I am a devoted democrat, and I decided I didn’t think Barack was truly qualified or ready before I heard any one else say it. It is relatively obvious if you truly think about the issues.
In an emergency, he could become a President.
But he is so inexperienced.
He seems so unprepared in so many ways.
And I truly don’t think he could beat McCain in the general.
So stop blaming Hillary, there are many, many people who think deeply and comprehensively about these issues and reach the same conclusions.

Lauren,
Hillary is not suggesting Obama as VP for the good of the party. She’s trying to get the party bigwigs to force Obama out of the race. And as for Obama’s inexperience, he has more than Lincoln had at America’s most crucial moment.

Mr. Hart seems to think that Obama is similar to himself. He fails to recognize that he had won several big states including California and Ohio. I guess he does not want to lose again — desperation, Mr. Hart?

If the democrats nominate Obama, he will be the Walter Mondale of 1984 — lose 49 states (except Illinois) to McCain!

The following comments made by President Bill Clinton’s in 2005 comments are valid in 2008
“I mean, you know, this idea that somebody we disagree with on economic or social policy or something we have to turn into some kind of ogre or demon, I think, is a mistake. I mean, it’s like telling the American people or half the American people that don’t agree with you they’re all fools. That’s just not true.” – BILL CLINTON, interview on Larry King Live, June 1, 2005
Obams who said “Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.-BARACK OBAMA, The New Yorker, May 31, 2004″ should learn some thing from Bill Clinton.

voter, from one “voter” to another, sorry but you are wrong. I mean I am not a math major but it does not take one to figure out that the pubs have been grossly outnumbered already this year in terms of turn out. They are in trouble whether they want to admit it or not. However, I respect your opinion.

Voter post,
“Wasn’t it Mr. Obama who kept harping on the Iraq war vote and kept bringing Hillary down?”
I think Mr. Obama learn more to criticize than actually get the work done in school and experience in public work if any in his 3 years in US Senate. Tell me what he will do and says if he was US Senator in 2002-2003 given he had same faulty information about Iraq as Hillary Clinton did.

Don’t forget it was a caucus, I witnessed Texas caucus. His supporters suppressed the vote. I don’t think they truly are democrats…first time voters who do not know the importance of respect. I saw the videos. This is sad. I think these naive buffoons don’t realize that OBAMA NOR CLINTON will not have the delegates. IT is simple, reach magic number and you are the candidate, if NOT, it is decided at the convention. This has happened many times before in history. RESPECT THE RIGHT TO VOTE.

So all I have to do is say I’m for hope and change and I am?
The more I say it, the more I AM IT
And IT IS ME
I OWN IT
BECAUSE I TALK ABOUT IT THE MOST
And even though the other candidate has spent her life working for hope and change, and not just talking about it so much, it’s more valid with the person who doesn’t have much of a record?
What’s going to happen when Barack makes the mistakes that all polticians eventually make?
What happens if hope and change is actually a lot more complicated and slow, and messy, and there’s a lot more grey area than black and white? And it seems more like politics as usual than you wanted or expected?
Will you be let down again?
Because you over-simplify everything?
Will you become disenchanted with Barack when reality has to be attended to?

ha! i am such an old woman. i meant roller-derby, which probably is such a dated reference that no one would get it anyway.
lauren: i do not believe that the clintons, when they are in the midst of a campaign, can be characterized as “good” or “compassionate.” but you are definitely correct in saying that hillary has a group of women supporters who have been with her for years, if not decades, and stand by her and believe in her. i wish that in this campaign she had stuck with them and followed their advice, rather than turning her strategy over to penn and wolfson. before late february, it was an honorable campaign and a fair one. but those days are over – and we’re back to the old-clinton style – which is to win at any cost.

Remember folks these are only primaries — no caucuses in the general election. Obama as a nominee will mean 49 states for McCain. Mr. Hart will remember 1984 very well. In 2004, in Wyoming, 167,000+ voted for GWB and 70,000+ voted for Kerry. Under 8,000 voted today. There are many, many, many people out there. A few loud voices do not make for big wins.

QUESTIONER: 1) Reread the article, but substitute “Hillary Clinton” for Obama. The arguments against Obama hold true for Clinton. Both came in with star power, both sought the guidance of powerful men, and apparently both had higher goals than the US Senate. We all know Hillary did from Day One. 2) This article appeared front and center, on the first page of the New York Times. It is not a news article, it is an editorial under the guise of a news article. This is a growing tendency on the part of the New York Times, which has endorsed Senator Clinton. It is also beneath them and sullies a legacy of decent, fairly unbiased reporting.

There is current information about Nafta gate on Fact Check. org. Obama’s economic advisor was contacted by the Canadian consul in Chicago and he met with him to clarify Obama’s position on trade. The information was consistent with what Obama said while campaigning. this is also confirmed in an article by Paul Roeb. The Clinton campaign may have been dis ingenuous or just did not know the truth. But now that the truth is out let’s be genuine.

I get the headline hillary would rather destroy the Dem party in order to save it from obama who she sees as the enemy,rather than the rebuplicans.Is she a democrat or rebuplican ?

James’ Obama’s supports, you wrote…….There will be riots in the streets in Denver (and throughout America) if Hillary and the Clintons are allowed to steal this election.
The Democratic Party will be no more and Hillary will go down in history as the evil vile woman she is. She will make history all right. But in a way which even the revisionists cannot gloss over.
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If there are riots throughout America from the Obama’s supporters, you better believe that all Hillary’s supporters will join together with the Republican Party. Not because we support the Republican’s issues because we support America. Hillary’s supporters will do whatever is needed to save our streets from being destroy from Obama’s supporters. If we have to stand strong as one with Republican for our country, we will stand as one.

Can anyone say where Hillary said that McCain was better suited to lead than Obama? Lies, Lies and more Lies. Why is Gary Hart spreading lies?

Clinton is far far far from bulletproof. The Republicans are DYING to go after her as well as the 527s. Obama is fighting a clean fight. It doesnt mean however that her skeletons (Tax returns, white house records and Lord knows what else) have yet to be flushed out. Not only will she lose MILLIONs of Democrats who support Obama who has won more states and more votes, she will also be exposed for the Fraud that she is.
Hillary is a divider and she cares little about the people of this country with her actions. She only craves power and cares about Hillary.

Sj7465…. it is just me or did you just prove that this article is at least partly true?? ANYONE?? Is that right?
“If we have to stand strong as one with Republican for our country, we will stand as one.”
And the thing you said about Obama supporters in the streets….hmm..I am army for 10 years… do I represent those rioters you are speaking of? I believe in Barack Obama…so that makes me a criminal even though I went to war on behalf of my Country?? Am I bad person, or naive…or stupid because I support Barack?? I think you are small-minded… but I still respect your opinion…how about giving me the same respect?

Good Argument Russell. Do you think that HRC could have minimized her criticism from not only Obama but the anti-war crowd if she had just come out and apologized for her vote as Edwards, Dodd, and others have or at least if she had said that she regretted it as she admitted in the last debate?
I don’t think that HRC should be condemned for her vote but let’s face it, there’s a large segment of the population who want to change the mindset that manipulated us in to war. Obama pushes their view and HRC’s fumbling explanation for her vote hasn’t endeared her to that crowd.
I would say that when Obama made his speech and constant opposition against the war in 2003, he was running for his U.S. Senate seat at a time when the war effort was very popular and not very many notable folks were taking such a strong stand with so much on the line.
As far as Obama’s “hedging” on the vote, that was during the Democratic Convention when he did not want to embarrass Kerry/Edwards by challenging their votes, as has been acknowledged by Obama and Kerry.
Ultimately, the Iraq vote is no different than HRC’s distinctions with Obama over whose healthcare plan is better and why Obama won’t fight the moral fight for what HRC sees as universal helathcare coverage.

Lauren,
She has never been part of any wrongdoing?!? Do a little research. Do a web search-Hillary Clinton, scandal. You’ll be amazed if you open your eyes and educate yourself.

It would appear as though Obama is running a campaign premised upon he being one of many while Hillary is running a campaign premised upon being every woman.
So, the entire idea that Hillary is running a scorched earth campaign is total nonsense. After all, she is only running a campaign to represent the rest of her.

I have to go…
But Sue – the “scandals” were part of a Republican attack campaign, and the Clintons were never found or convicted of any wrongdoing.
You have to learn that you can’t believe everything that’s written out there, or everything you hear.
It’s like the tabloids.
You people who are so negative on the Clintons have your priorities all messed up.
Bill’s administration was one of the most socio-economically successful we have ever had. His approval ratings were huge. Even with the Republicans scheming all the way.
George Bush has done so much more that has actually hurt our country in every way – economically, globally, environmentally, politically, socially.
So please do get your priorities straight. This is what is wrong with our country. People are so focused on ‘hating,’ that they don’t even know what’s really important – what truly affects their lives and makes them better or worse.

Peggy Noonan ghost writing speeches for Obama? Now the pieces are starting to fit.It’s one thing to vote across party lines to advance the weaker candidate but to enlist the Gippers’ fave wordsmith…I think the money would’ve been better spent on a speech therapist to help manage Obamas’ STUTTERING problem.

Ohio is a pathetic state. Has been for decades. Dumb enough to vote Bush twice and now a sucker for Hillary. Not every state will get it right. FDR won without Ohio, JFK won without Ohio, and this year, Obama can win without Ohio.

sj7465 , I dont like the fact that you were harassed for supporting ANYONE… but I have to say that it was not me and I would not do that. Yes, I did see that some people on this board said the bit about rioting in the streets… but again, I am an Obama supporter… but I can honestly tell you that I DO NOT support him because he is black. I really dont. Like I said before I bet almost everyone on this board are good people standing up for what they believe in.. and I think thats admirable. I think you have every right to do that. But from my point of view it is Hillary supporters that are more often using insults etc. to make their points. I will say now.. saying you are small-minded was based on one or two of your posts and probably was not called for.. So if we can continue this debate with respect… I would like it very much. I really believe in Barack…like you believe in Hillary…. that is fine. Neither of us are bad people or idiots. Lets have a good debate and show the republicans that we have a common purpose… because they are watching… (yeah I see you there)

come on people….essentially most of us want the same things. We are just very passionate about our candidates. Ordinarily this would be a good thing but with the pubs loving this I believe they are doing everything they can to keep it going….lets debate…respectfully

Ken…thank you for understanding our problem in the black community. I no longer listen to Michael Bisden, Warren Ballentine, and Al Sharpton’s talk shows. I do want the democrat party to wins but some negative is growing the black community that does concern me. I have a black son and want to see a black man as President but this is not the way to do it. What I am hearing from my black community, Obama/Hillary ticket is not acceptable and they will fight it if push by the DNC. The last 7 years have been hard for me and my family. I want peace, a job, financial security, etc. not this talk about riots. Thank you again for understanding and we need to hear from more Obama’s supporters like you.

sj7465 , you are very welcome! I hate to hear that is going on. Do you think it is nationwide or local? I do not get that from my groups… but I am only one person.. I am pretty involved though…everyday thing for me. Actually that is one of the things that has been refreshing to me about Barack’s campaign. I explain my view this way in regards to Hillary: I did have a very postive opinion of her, and I still do not hate her even though I do upset with her. To me she represents the politcs of the past…please dont take offense…but she does. I do not think Barack is God or perfect.. but I do believe in him. Now that can be taken for naivety, but if someone says that then it seems they are attacking me personally and sometimes I get defensive too… I think there is room for discussion rather than yelling though…..and again I do not like hearing that you are treated that way…I think its something that should be addressed.

The first child featured in the ad — which asks people who they want to answer the phone in the White House at 3:00 AM — is actually Casey Knowles, an Obama volunteer in the state of Washington. The footage was shot eight years ago when she worked as a TV extra. Getty Images owns the footage and can do with it as it pleases.
Knowles, who turns 18 in April, told KING 5 in Seattle that she is for Barack all the way: “It’s really sort of ironic that my image would be used to advocate for Hillary when I myself do not.”

Dear Democrats:
We need to stop fighting. I voted for Hillary, but if Obama is the nominee, I will vote for him. We need to come together in November!!

Hillary’s campaign is a glimpse of what her administration would be like -no different than the divisive, the end justifies the means and entitled administration we have right now. I will vote for Obama even if she is the nominee.

Ken…If you have time, listen to so of the black radio shows and you will hear what I was hearing. Michael Basiden, Warren Ballentine, and others. You can search the internet for radio station in your area

Hillary is not trying to ‘steal’ anything.
Both sides want their candidate.
Both sides are talking to the Superdelegates.
Last time I heard, the Obama campaign had paid the Superdelegates even more money trying to influence them.
More than half of the popular vote has been for Hillary.
I will vote for Barack if I have to, but I don’t want to – I don’t feel really good about it – I don’t think he has had enough experience, or is truly qualified at this time.
I don’t see why some in our party are jumping the gun with him and trying to get him into office when he’s so inexperienced.
He will be an even more promising and qualified candidate in the future with more experience.
The people who think he could win in a general election don’t understand swing voters won’t want to take a chance on such an unknown candidate during such uncertain times.
Especially after the Republican attack ads.
If Barack really cared about hope, change, unity, and what’s best for our party and this country, he would be VP.
He is being incredibly hypocritical, if
he won’t.
There are many people, voters in our party who do not feel is our best or most qualified candidate to win.
As for calling me and ‘idiot’ demo-rules, I am an Award-winning scholar. I do not usually tell most people this, but I was told by many of my professors that I was one of the brightest students they have ever had. It is just one more example of how you could not be more wrong.
And by the way, one of my cousins is a rocket scientist! (It’s true and funny!)

To Lauren, u stated in your post that more than half of the popular vote has been for HILARY, HUH? What campaign have u been watching? OBAMA has won nearly 30 states, CLINTON can barely pull off a win in a state like TEXAS OR CALI where she had damn near 20 point leads. Check your records OBAMA leads in popular vote

Unfortunately, winning in itself doesn’t really mean that you are ‘better.’
Bush won twice?
Proof of anything?
It’s what you do with the win that counts.
Honestly, I don’t think Barack would be ahead if it weren’t for the caucus bullying.

Bob -
Being a Harvard grad, does not automatically qualify you to be President.
She respects Barack. But he has very little experience or proof of what he says he can do, and that is important.
He has been belittling her, when she truly has so much more experience than him – at least 20 years.
Could you imagine if it were the other way around?
If Barack had Hillary’s qualifications, and had spent all the time she has in politics, and then in a campaign a younger eloquent white woman with 3 years national experience tried to belittle and dismiss his experience?
Wouldn’t that seem absurd?
That’s because it is absurd.
That’s how sexism works.

Senator Obama really has to be more aggressive in responding to this attack from Clinton regarding McCain and herself having crossed some threshold to be Commander in Chief whereas he hasn’t. I think that this is important for a number of reasons. First, it makes him look weak and unprepared to assume this role. Her charge is very effective for some voters. Second, it’s a slap in the face for someone in your own party to seem to endorse a rival in the other party at your expense. It brings into question, if he doesn’t properly counterattack this kind of attack, how will he respond when a nation attacks us. In other words, if he doesn’t stand up for himself and his supporters now, how will he stand up for the nation. I know there are arguments that can be made to say that this isn’t how her assault should be seen However, the fact is that there will be many people who do see it this way, even if they aren’t fully cognizant of what they are thinking.
He should simply call her out on it. Clinton has been winning because of her partisan base. True blue Democrats have been voting for her much more than Obama and this is why she’s been able to win in the big true blue states but not in the red or purple states. He can use her McCain attack to counter this. He should simply say something like: Remember when Kennedy was running in the primaries against Johnson. That was a very close and bitter race between. Now could you imagine Johnson saying, “I think John is too inexperienced. I’ve passed the threshold to become Commander in Chief, Richard Nixon has passed that threshold, but John isn’t ready.” This might not be the best example but you see where I’m going. The point is get true blue Democrats to see what an insult it is to them and to the party for her to endorse a Republican over a fellow Democrat. He could then go on to say in an almost joking way, “it’s almost as though she’s a Republican running for McCain’s VP spot. ”
He has to avoid any personal attacks, any misleading or dirty attacks, but he needs to forcefully counter her Rovian tactics by clearly exposing what she’s doing. If he doesn’t, she will continue to do it and become even more emboldened. A new kind of politics, bringing unity to the country, also mean aggressively fighting against wrongs. Bringing honesty to politics also means honestly saying when someone is wrong or misleading.

I’ve figured out what the Clintons are up to. They know that they can’t win the delegate count, and very likely not the popular vote, so they are smearing Obama to try to make him un-electable in the eyes of the Superdelegates. But, I’ll tell you something, if the Clintons do manage to muscle their way into the nomination with all of their dirty tactics, I, a lifelong Democrat, will leave the Democratic party. And I think a lot of others will too!

Deputy_bob,
I knew I ran the risk of a response such as yours. But I assure you I do not have a big ego – I am here because of how much I care about our country. I hardly ever talk about my own credentials.
I am devoted democrat because I have always wanting hope and change for the better – that is what most democrats want – that is not ‘new.’
Hillary will also bring a lot of new change, and hope, she is and always has been progressive. She started out more liberal, but learned that you have to be centrist to get anything accomplished. Centrism is where unity happens.
Barack does not by any means own hope, change, or unity – and I am sure that when he is more qualified he will get his chance to be president.

On the question of electibility, Obama supporters always mention his strength with independents and cross-over republicans or “Obamacans”. But, Obama has a weakness with the democratic base of low income/education whites – so called “Archie Bunker” types. There will be a mass defection of this part of the democratic base (so called McCainocrats) to McCain if Obama is the nominee. In addition, how successful will Obama be at retaining the Latino vote from McCain considering McCain’s favorable stance on immigration? The Latino vote may become the swing vote in the general election.

so tired of the spin that hillary is divisive. obama has done more to divide the party than any candidate i’ve seen in my many, many years. he’s extremely slick, plus the media want so badly for him to win that they cover his flaws, but he’s just another dirty politician. still, if he had actually served a term or two in the senate, learned a little something, and supported his party instead of just himself, the party would’ve supported him. and hillary would have, too. and i would have, too. but now i will never, ever, vote for him, even if he actually becomes qualified at some future date and i’m still around.

Thank you sj.
I think the real question is this, in the end, after everyone has gotten their chance to vote, (or maybe even before) are we going to have hope, change, and unity? Because no one candidate owns it.

I firmly support Hillary, she is a fighter. I was for Obama, but now the truth is public regarding his backgroung, he is yesterday. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is…

Obama has more savviness than Clintons and would be a better leader of this world than the Clintons.
How can anyone claim to bring peace and security to this country and in facing international issues by propagating friction, and insulting people. Creating this feeling that being a Muslim is a bad thing is not a way for an important world figure to conduct herself/himself.
Clintons seem to bring out and pull those who are afraid or not willing to reach out to other groups. In Ohio, there was a Clinton supporter wearing a shirt that said, “Osama is for Obama”.
Clinton may claim ‘experience’ but I’d choose a man with little experience with good judgement and wanting to unite over whatever experience Clintons claim to have.

Obama is unqualified to lead this country, period. People support Hillary, not because she is a woman, but because she is the best candidate for the presidency. We do not need a democratic party’s version of George W. Bush when we face so many challenges both at home and abroad.

Obama supporters in the republican states are “democrats for a day”. The idea is get the weak link, Obama, nominated and in the general election, McCain will win in a landslide. The republicans are not stupid, how do you think Bush was elected? Go Hillary or be ruled by republicans for 4 more!

Yeah John, Gary; you mean like when BO made all those other comments about Reagan, Republicans, using words like “emotional”, “desperate”, “whining”when referring to Hillary. Michelle threw in quite a lot of cheap shots long before Bill started speaking up. Saying something over and over, will not make me go against my better judgement. BO plays just as “dirty” as the rest of them. He and his supporters acting as though he doesn’t is bizzare. Fog and mirrors. I think all this “above the fray” pretense, is a way to justify the whole Rezko thing as part of “dirty politics” against him. See, we are not allowed to know BO lied over and over about his relationship with Tony Rezko. Everyone knew Rezko was being indicted when BO agreed on a house deal with him. They’re friends etc.

Hillary will beat McCain. They both have more experience than Obama, but that doesn’t mean that McCain’s experience or philosophy is preferable to Hillary’s. Hillary’s populism is reaching blue collar people across the board. Hillary also holds a lot of anti-war voters.

There will be Republican attack ads 527s that will be independent of McCain and not condoned by him.
But they will want their candidate to win, and they will use any tactics they think will work. They will exploit and exaggerate everything and every fear they can come up with. That is what they always do. They have admitted that they are mean. They have admitted that they want to win. They have said they will “eviscerate” (= disembowel) the Democratic candidate whoever it is. They can’t really eviscerate Hillary any more than they have.
They will portray Barack as an ‘inexperienced anti-war liberal,’ and that will scare swing voters. They will even try worse tactics.
Do not underestimate them. They have no scruples. They just want to win, and no matter what Barack says, he is an “unknown” candidate in terms of what he will do.
His negativity ratings could change big time.
They have already done everything to Hillary they could possibly do – that is why her negativity ratings are where they are now – but it would just be more of the same – everyone’s heard so many stories before.
The swing voters want whoever will help the economy the most – and that is Hillary.

In the past two weeks or so, Obama and his advisors have been inflicting all the damage on themselves. Their inexperience and naivete is spilling out all over the print, broadcast and internet media. I honestly think he’s already peaked. He is no longer inevitable.

The most important fact is that the first Clinton administration was one of the most socio-economically successful we’ve ever had:
“By the end of the Clinton presidency, the numbers were uniformly impressive. Besides the record-high surpluses and the record-low poverty rates, the economy could boast the longest economic expansion in history; the lowest unemployment since the early 1970s; and the lowest poverty rates for single mothers, black Americans, and the aged. Real wages, after declining over the course of the Reagan and Bush years, rose under Clinton. To be sure, the gap between the very rich and everyone else widened—as it has continued to do since—but gains for the rich, for once, didn’t leave behind the poor and lower middle class.”
–From “Memo to Obama fans: Clinton-ism worked.” By David Greenberg, Rutger’s University Professor of History and Media
They are smart people who know how to do good things for this country. They know how to create prosperity. In politics things are always complicated, and your opponents will always try to smear you as best they can. Even Barack’s campaign has been smearing and dismissive of the Clintons from the start. They have been trying to weaken them by attacking them personally. The most successful administration Democrats have ever had. I don’t know how the Obama camp expects me to respect them after doing that. They are fooling themselves if they think they have not caused a lot of their own damage.

Whoops again.
I meant to say that the fact that Hillary took on Mark Penn as her chief advisor made it very clear that she did not plan to run a clean campaign – it meant the Clintons were going to get ruthless if they were in trouble. Burston-Marsteller actually set up a group called the “National Smoker’s Alliance” to aid Phillip Morris. I don’t have to make this stuff up.

well congratulations alex. obama isn’t the only lawyer running….and certainly wasnt the first. neither is he the youngest person to disagree with the war…but good luck to your candidate and the party.

I love the title it almost seems like it was written for Fox news.

I have to admit. All 7 of the Hillary supporters out there are spewing enough hate to make her proud…very proud.
Keep up the good work. She has 6 weeks before we drop kick her (AND BILL) for GOOD!
Ba-Bye Hillary!!!!

A lot of people are saying things out of anger and frustration that they won’t do later.

The by-line of this column should say PAID FOR and approved by the Barak Obama Campaign

What I would really like to know is how Obama has gotten this far so fast in American politics without their being any corruption behind him, especially with such a slim resume? I personally I can’t believe his history is as clean as he would ilke us to believe. So he had 8 years as a part time Senator in which he hardly voted and in which he sued to clear all his running mates off the ticket on some flimsy excuses on his first run and then two years in the US Senate where he has not voted more than 40% of the time, and he is ready to be President of the USA? He never votes on any controversial or politically sensitive issues. Come on now. Something is not kosher in Denmark.

by the way, obama’s a hypocrite…..he doesn’t take money from special interest corporations and groups….just their high-ranking officials…..

he doesn’t compromise his principles for his donors…..he just weakens legislation in favor of their employers….

Hillary Clinton is making every effort to split the Democratic Party. I am a 65-year-old white woman who would NOT vote for Hillary Clinton for Dogcatcher!At the present time in the U.S. we are honored and blessed to have a wonderful Presidential candidate in Barack Obama. Candidates like this come along only once in a generation. I hereby make my PROMISE to the Democratic Party: If Hillary Clinton is the nominee, I will leave the Democratic Party. Needless to say, especially after Bush, I could NEVER vote for a Republican. In the event that Hillary becomes the Democratic nominee, it won’t even be worth my time and effort to vote at all. Voting would simply be meaningless.

obama had to be reminded by Senator Clinton to notify pakistan in the instance that actionable intelligence existed which would prompt an attack and possible invasion within pakistani borders in order to prevent the remote possibility of a mistake which could lead to a NUCLEAR CONFRONTATION….

The Whitewater controversy was a series of events and actions that had its origins in 1978. While in Arkansas, the Clintons were partners with Jim and Susan McDougal in a real estate venture known as the Whitewater Development Corporation. According to reports, the Clintons lost their financial investment in the Whitewater business projects. At the time the McDougals operated a savings and loan that retained Hillary Clinton’s legal services at Rose Law Firm. When the McDougals’ savings and loan failed in 1994, federal investigators subpoenaed Clinton’s legal billing records for auditing purposes. Hillary Clinton claimed to be unable to produce these records. After an extensive, two-year search, the records were found in the first lady’s book room in the White House and delivered to investigators in 1996. The delayed appearance of the billing records sparked intense interest and another investigation about how they surfaced and where they had been; Clinton attributed the problem to disorganization that resulted from her move from the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion to the White House. After the discovery of the ‘lost’ records, on January 26, 1996, Clinton made history by becoming the first First Lady to testify before a grand jury.

i know, deep down, that Senator Clinton is America’s best hope for a better future

Samantha Power, Obama’s advisor said is not true that Barack will end Iraq occupation by 2009, that his promise is really only a “best case scenario” Again exactly what Hillary directly said he copies hiding it in lies

mccain’s ignorance of the how and why of terrorism would doom our troops, our country and our world to an eternity of fear, overbearing security measures and the shadow of death every time we step out of our homes

In recent Newsweek mock polls Clinton beats McCain 48% to 46%. Obama beats McCain 46% to 45%. Something has changed. Clinton’s margin has stayed the same but Obama has slipped. In two previous polls Obama was beating McCain 53% to 42% and 47% to 38%.

By claiming that she has experience in foreign policy and taking credit “for accomplishing more than some of those who were active in foreign policy during the Clinton years recall” Hillary is probably lying to the public something that should be investigated thoroughly before another GOP kenn star make her tell the extent of the truth

given what i’ve heard in here about the quality and quantity of obama’s credentials and qualifications for the job and what he will do, i have no choice but to vote for him lol

i feel sorry for those in here who are completely unable to cheer on their own candidate (obama, mccain)……we can only hope that their children do not grow up learning that one can only succeed by tearing another down……

good night all….and remember, only one candidate will be the BEST President and Commander-in-Chief that our children, our troops, our America and our world so desperately need and deserve right now: Senator Hillary Clinton

If Obama is such a great and a wonderful candidate then how come he is only leading one ethnic group (by a large margin I must say). Based on exit polls, Nationally
Obama Clinton
Blacks 80% 17%
Whites 39% 53%
Hispanic 39% 58%
Asians 25% 71% (California)
These are Nationwide numbers but the pattern is the same in all states except Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, New Mexico, and Illinois where he has gotten more White votes than Hillary. There are only two states Illinois (50/49) and Connecticutt (53/43) where Obama got more Hispanic votes than Hillary.
This inspite of the fact that so much negativity and venom has been spewed about Hillary.
By looking at these numbers, can anyone honestly believe that Race is not a factor in this nominating process and it will not be a factor in the general election. Draw your own conclusion.

Look the Clintons have been through this before.
They know people are going to want to see their tax records – they know Hillary is running for President – they don’t have anything to hide.
But they are not just going to do it the second the other campaign tells them to. They are not children.

The rest of the world are in shock as to how anyone could vote for Hillary Clinton. She is clearly so power obsessed that she would destroy her own party to get what she wants. Is this who America wants to represent them? I think Democrats need to look long and hard before they destroy their own party.

Hillary clinton has proven time and time again that she(they… because her experience is really Bills)Are Professional Politcal strategists. they are at best Hypocrites. As she pounds the table saying he (Obama) lacks in experience that only she posesses. It is important to draw a comparison… She was only First Lady from 1992-2001 Not ambasador, Not Secretary of State , Not senator, Not an elected official of any kind… Last I checked we elect a President and Vice Predident.. not their wives..So that being said we have to conclude that her vast experience in foriegn affairs is her Husbands. Right.. So that being said what credentials did Bill Posess in 1992 to be the leader of the free world?… Was it his Charisma? His ability to draw voters out that had been ailienated by the process? was it his ability to connect with the populous? sounds pretty familiuar.. Hilly Honey, You dont play fair. you dont answer tough Questions. You are a bully and a liar. If you intimidate the DNC to flip flop on itself and destroy any credibility the dems have you will have for PERSONAL BENEFIT not the needs of the people destroyed any hope of a DEM Pres in 08. The Good News is Mccain is too old to run in 2012 and you will be polital MUD by then and OBAMA will still have the strenght and curage to carry on. IT IS TRUE…. when Democrats form a firing squad they do it in a circle… UNITE DONT divide…..GET OUT HILLY

Obama is in doing well in Democratic nomination because of two reasons
1.Black vote
2.Proportional allocation of delegates.
He may win the Democratic nomination but will loose the general election because Black vote will be a smaller percentage of general election and it is winner take all. If he looses any of the big Blue states Hillary has won, Republicans will win the general election.

They all suck. No matter who’s elected I’ll be homeless in a year’s time and so will alot of others.

Not true that Barack Obama is only winning the “Black” vote. I’m white and I’m proud to have voted for him in Virginia. Stop spreading fear. When people say outragous things like the won’t vot for Barrack Obama because he’s black, doesn’t that mean Mrs. Clinton is getting the vote because she’s white. Please let’s not go back to the 50′s. Be brave America you can do it!

Attention Delegates/Super Delegates; Hillary made her mistake by Praising John McCain on National T.V. To back Hillary now will show, you to are not True Democrats!

If Hillary Clinton wins, that will be the end , a lot of democrats will be given their votes to McCain ( I will be one of them). No more CLINTON, no more BUSH in the White House, we need new airs, new ideas, don’t you people realize that?

Well sid Michelle.. jennifer now do you see the difference between the intelect of divide/ fear or the intelect of reason…

FACT: Hillary comes with major baggage.
FACT: It drives her high negative numbers.
FACT: Nobody is overlooking that.
FACt: It gives the election to McCain.
My choice is Obama first, McCain second and I am seriously not alone.

Hillary is a Republican, why else would she Praise McCain, it only comes to reason that either one of this 2 will get us into WWIII.

The people who are saying those things about Hillary are the ones who have been misled or are lying.
I have watched her, her whole career.
We need her expertise.
Her baggage is over-rated.
Contrary to all your denials of reality, she is the really knowledgeable one with the best plans and policy, who would govern and help our economy the most efficiently and effectively.

this country have been governed by EXPERTISES LAST 16 YEARS, ( INCLUDES MR. CLINTON’S AND HILLARY ?) and THAT IS THE REASON why the country is the way it is……..EXPERTISE CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE US A BREAK, LET’S GIVE A CHANCE TO A ROOKIE, PERHAPS HE COULD DO A BETTER JOB…..YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW IF YOU DOESN’T GIVE A TRY……CHANGE, CHANGE, AND CHANGE , THE USA NEEDS A CHANGE

If Hillary wins by tearing down Obama their will be six less Democratic voters in November from this family. My four college age children got very motivated and involved for the first time and voted for Obama in our primary. I was very surprised they showed any interest at all. I voted for Hillary and my Husband for Obama. I will vote for her if she wins but only if she does not go negative any further. My Husband will vote for McCain and the kids will stay home.

I have always been a devoted democrat.
She is just acknowledging the credentials that John McCain has.
They are friendly and bi-partisan, and that is what Barack is talking about with unifying.

Satish,
I agreed. As matter of fact, I am wonder if the so called independent and well educated voters, who vote for Mr. Barack Hussein Obama in red states still supporting him in November 04 general election or not? Many of them could be the Republicans crossing the party line voting for Obama to beat Hillary in the Dem. primary.

The little girl in Hillary’s 3 A.M. call is now grown up! And guess what America, she Supports Obama! lol

NO – the reason this country is the way it is – is because of Bush.
The Clinton administration was one of the most socio-economically successful we have ever had. When he came into office we were in a recession with a huge deficit, and by the end we were into record surpluses and prosperity. They created more jobs than almost anyone. We were loved around the world.
You all sound like a bunch of brain-washed zombies just repeating Barack’s talking points with no real idea of reality or of the actual truth and history.
This is why I am so mad at him and his campaign. They are the ones who started by being divisive, misrepresenting, and attacking the Clintons when his Bill’s Administration was the most successful Democratic administration we have ever had, and that is inexcusable.

Sarah,
I see the different, “if Mr. Barack Hussein Obama wins nomination, the next president of the USA will be Senator McCain, I am a democratic but my vote will go to him”. I can’t vote for anyone who doesn’t have a well known background and experience. So far, every one knew Clinton’s scandal if any but not much from Mr. Obama and I think the GOP and media will get him once Hillary is out.

I think Obama has shown us two very important things:
1. That he is just another politician and that he may be even more crooked than what we have seen. I hope not though. But NAFTA-gate, Rezko, Pastor Wright, unpatriotic wife, and chairing a committee that he never shows up for gives great insight.
2. He seems to have a glass jaw and his main people do foolish and dumb things. This may be an indication of an Obama presidency.

Go to both candidates websites and read their plans for their Presidency’s, there is not much difference between what they both pan to do. Don’t get baited into hatred.
Mrs. Clinton said many of those racial postings on the internet are by people spreading fear and they have nothing to do with her. She said they are the same people who didn’t want a Catholic in the White House when JFK ran. She doesn’t condone it. And we, the intelligent voter, has to do our homework because the bloggers spread things that just aren’t true and they cause panic (by design).

Brian, that’s a good thought!

Use your search engine to locate and read the Clinton scandal list and look in to all the “suicides” and suspicious
deaths surrounding the Clinton’s. They are known for dirty politics and dirty business deals! If Obama loses the primary it will be because of voter fraud. I do not want another election decided in Florida!!! Why is this comming up now? We will “redo” the votes until Hillary wins – this is third world politics!! Seems to me we could spend a little time spreading democracy at home.

Demo Rules,
Voting for a not very well known background candidate could land us into WWIII but not Senator John McCain or Hillary. They have been tested in public service job for so long.

sarah, play fair.. we dont use Hillary’s middle name ….. just both her last names..Stop the Hussein fear rhetoric, facts not fear in 08

Lauren :–From “Memo to Obama fans: Clinton-ism worked.” By David Greenberg, Rutger’s University Professor of History and Media…. They just dont want it to work against them..

by the way lauren I read the slate article…. it is OP ED..
FACTS NOT FEAR 2008

Ijust can’t understand why so many American are so stipud to believe what Obama said, he is a 1000% lier, you can just want to have a change that to make a change, does he deserve so? Hillary may be not perfect, but she has experience & ability to work with international affairs, may be she is no good in local, but whoelse can?

Lauren I re read the article. because I do believe in fair play. what I read as an underlying theme not touted to loudly.Is that they got in and hit a few deep. then their unifying MOJO lost the house and senate in 1994 and they wrode the coat tails of previous success through out the remaining scandalaous and disgracefull years.. Ask anyone who survived the sudan, or Ruwanda how strong Clinton Foriegn Policy is. and Can Bill take credit for anything or has She been in charge all along.. or if it is Vice versa will Bill really be in charge….

This is Hillary’s scorched earth policy, slash and burn. If she can’t win then her policy is to destroy everything and everyone including the Democratic Party. She is willing to loose her legacy and her dignity all in the name of power. I feel really bad for her if she does this she will regret it later in life.

Hillary is the best choice. We can’t afford to have someone who “probably would be a good president” The challenges are just to serious to not be adressed properly.
Look at history people! The books are full of people elected because they ‘talked good’ then went on to destroy their countries.
I applaud Hillary for having the courage, the right vision, and the ability to get the United States of America back on the right track!
Hillary is the best choice!

Jennifer, “Does anyone else think that this is possible? That Republicans could be voting for Obama?” I do think so, DEM is so liberal and un-organized, they should learn from GOP, never let anyone other than their members voting in primary. Also, they should apply the rule of winner take all and stop the caucus.

Yes, this shows Hillary in her full character: she would prefer to tear the Party to ashes rather than to lose the nomination. “If it’s not for me, it’s for nobody” seems to be her logo. And the party Elderly Council (Gore, Dean, Daschle, Pelosi, Reid) does not seem to be concerned) Everyday, she gives me more nausea…. I can tell for sure: if she wins with the support of the superdelegates, I will happily vote for Mac Cain in November….

Oh shut up. Obama is the one who is damaging the party, not Hillary.

BREAKING NEWS: Obama just won another one of the important swing states this time the all important blue state of Wyoming! He won the caucus by a large margin and therefore won the lions share of delegates 7 to 5. What a blowout! Now it’s on to Mississippi where the outcome is still in doubt.

Senator Obama is a flip-flopper. In 2006, which was after his anti-war rhetoric speech, Obama endorsed and spoke on behalf of the reelection of Senator Lieberman, a Democratic war hawk, who lost his primary to an anti-war Democrat so Lieberman just ran as an Independent and was reelected. So where is the change? Obama is says one thing then does another.

Go read Obama’s policies …because I am sure most of you have not read both sides policies…and look at who actually represents everything we want in a President.
It’s not empty words …but the spin machine keeps trying to make them seem that way…ugh.

Why is it no one is concerned about the 1/3 of the delegates virtually stolen from Hillary Clinton in Texas? She wins the popular vote, yet a third of the delegates are awarded based on who can return that night?? That would leave out a lot of blue collar workers, people with young children, older adults…need I go on? In fact, isn’t that how Obama has won MOST of his delegates? Not by a vote of the people, but rather a process that favors some Americans over others. How about a “do over” in every caucus state, to allow a TRUE primary where delegates at least pretend to be based on popular vote?

“That Republicans could be voting for Obama?”

Jennifer
I don’t think you want to talk about the Joe Lieberman issue…
This title below is the reference to which everyone is speaking…notice the date…
“Obama rallies state Democrats, throws support behind Lieberman”
By Stephanie Reitz, Associated Press Writer | March 31, 2006
This statement below fromHillary…was on July 4th of that year…
“I’ve known Joe Lieberman for more than 30 years. I have been pleased to support him in his campaign for reelection, and hope that he is our party’s nominee,” the former first lady said in a statement issued by aides.
Both of them put the party first.
They both supported Lieberman…but here we go again…with the spin…Lieberman helped Barack back when he was still in favor with everyone (remember he was the VP with gore?)…
I am not a fan of Lieberman…Never have been…but Hillary had an additinonal axe to grind too …
but if you’ll remember part of the reason people point to, for the reason Lieberman getting the VP position, was to balance out all the crap…that came from the 90′s and the Clinton’s…Lieberman gave the speech denouncing all the crap on the Senate floor.

Obama yikes…
If you want to talk about pissing off part of the democratic party…
You may be a Hillary supporter that won’t back Obama…but I can tell you there is more of a chance of us losing if Obama loses and his supporters fall away.
For years to come.
Can you imagine the party the world will have with the US (and their rejoining or reinvigorated with our team against the terrorists…) if we elect Obama? Think about the difference how we would lead by a beacon again?

Ron …the war is an issue you should debate in a debate…he should challenge her on that. Don’t you think? Just like she was attacking him in that same debate about healthcare …
This is the debate people should have… the negative is all the other stuff that came out when she fell behind…

Geeeeeeesh didn’t Lieberman support Mc Cain huh?????I like how you guys are picking the VP.

Well, it shows media bias against the Clintons. Obama has been doing damaging campaigning from the start: accusing the Clintons of racism, making Harry and Louise attacks on UHC, etc. Almost everything said above applies more to Obama than to Hillary: not caring how much he damages the party if he doesn’t get his own way, right now!
Now, after taking his own name off the MI ballot, whining for a re-do — when he’s offered a re-do he won’t take that either, waaaa, waaaa. It looks like he wants the FL/MI dispute to go to the credentials committee or become a floor fight — so his people can threaten to riot in the streets.
Or maybe he’s trying to delay so long that any FL/MI re-do would have to be a caucus? — more destructive publicity for the Dems, as in the TX caucuses.
Being willing to destroy the prize if you don’t get it — is an Obama tactic, not a Clinton tactic.

Edwards isn’t running anymore and the VP candidate …to be honest…I personally don’t care that much (atleast I don’t think that is really a big point who the VP candidate supported in the CT senate race between an indie and a dem.
I care about spin.

Geevil, it sounds like you’re the far left, and need to leave the party. Its amazing how many Republican bloggers, pretending to be Dems are on the blogs with propaganda & slant to misinform, stir conflict and create discord between Dems who have controlled the political buzz since day one. Take off your masks, and go blog with other Republicans, if you’re so firmly sure of your coming November victory, instead of twisting truths…theres enough of that already!

When Obama was asked why he did not hold a single hearing of Afghanistan oversight committee, of which Obama is the chairman, he responded that he was too busy compaigning and did not have time to devote. My question would be what is more important, security of the country or compaigning for the presidency?

Hillary is DESPERATE for power! How can she align herself with McCain? Hillary has lost my vote if she becomes the democratic nominee. I will cross party lines and vote for McCain especially since she is saying the she and McCain have the same strengths!
JED

Hillary is so desparate that she probably will win. When someone wants something so badly that they will do anything to attain it they usually win. I don’t think that either hillary or obama have even a clue as to what being President is all about nor do they have the experience to perform that job. However, the voters are so clueless that they will elect one of them. When the consequences start occuring watch how everyone forgets who they voted for.

Hahahahah “Hillary Clinton is doing what’s best for the country…” That is laughable. Hillary Clinton is doing whatever she can to gain power. Hillary Clinton does not care one iota about the country or the party – just winning. “Hillary Clinton is burning down the village in order to save it”. Sounds a whole lot like George W. “I know best so play along as I burn down your village” approach. I look forward to voting McCain because if Hillary Clinton wins the nomination – essentially rewarded for her despicable campaign – the Dems will have shown themselves to be a weak, disorganized, spine-less cabal.

While I think the networks do a decent job of offering fair and balanced coverage of general news, When it comes to any thing Clinton,
I am unable to decide if its dislike for Hillary or love of Barack that effects the coverage.
superlatives for him win or lose, for her daming praise at best

The comments by these Obama (or Reps.) supporters are irrelevant and self-serving. The fact is that out of 27 million people that voted each has about 50%. There is NO reason to abort the democratic primary race. Thes epeople should sut up and let the people have their saying. There will be plento of time starting June 1st for them to speak up.
These statements make them look desperate; as if they are afraid of what could happen if people in the remaining states are left to choose….
All the talk about “damaging the dem. party” is nonsense. There is *nothing* at all being said that the Reps. won’t say on their own, without anyones’s help. Thinking otherwise is infantile.

And thank you for finally bringing up the scandals of the Clinton years. Hillary can not tout her “experience” as part of the administration of an impeached, disbarred president without addressing what that experience entailed – Whitewater, cattle futures, presidential pardons of fugitives and donors, etc. Certainly, these parts of her “experience” are relevant to her qualifications as president.

clinton is boring. !!!

Glad to hear it James. I know of people who feel the same if Obama wins.

To paraphrase Harry Truman:
When given the choice between a fake Fear-mongering, millitaristic, Repuboican corporate tool and a real Fear-mongering, millitaristic, Repuboican corporate tool, voters will pick the real thing. We need to run as real Democrats, not pseudo Republicans.
Hillary, you blew it.

“If one candidate is trying to scare you, and the other one is trying to make you think, if one candidate’s appealing to your fears, and the other one’s appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.” ( Bill Clinton.)

Lauren,
The problem with Hillary is not that she isn’t steeped in politics…since college she’s been nothing but politics.
The problem is her character -her willingness to say or do anything to get her way. There is no one she won’t mow down, no lie she won’t tell, no law she won’t bend or figure out how to break to get where she thinks she should be. You should read Hitchens or Morris on this, both of whom know her extremely well and think the prospect of her as the most powerful person in the world is horrifying. I personally know some very influential Democrats who are for Obama because of things Hillary has done and these are people who were given great favor by Bill.
It’s about more than being a policy wonk, you have to have the character to do the right thing for everyone, not just yourself. For me, Hillary setting out to destroy the women her husband accosted was enough for me. That is just sick.

Here’s the Hillary Clinton argument: we are vicious, ruthless fighters who are the only ones who can win against the vicious, ruthless Republicans. And, by the way, Obama is lying for saying we’re vicious and ruthless.
If you support Hillary Clinton, why not tell the truth? You support a politician who has no limit on how much she’ll bend the truth to win, no low to which she will not stoop. If you like that, vote for her (if you haven’t already). If you don’t, vote for Obama.

Most of the “influential democrats who are for Obama” are just jealous of the Clintons and all their success in the party.
I heard Tom Daschle essentially admitted that he thinks this is true about some in the party, on Charlie Rose.
Well the Clintons accomplished so much because they are so intelligent, knowledgeable, and dedicated, and we need their expertise.
Many of these people are using the inexperienced Barack as their puppet, having him say all the perfect things, when he hasn’t proven any of them.
The Clintons are strong and competent.
We need them.
Sexism plays a big role, and some try to belittle Hillary. Imagine if she were a man with all her experience. They would never treat her the same way.
Many men, who wrote those books, are scared by a strong, intelligent, competent woman, and try to demonize her.
What do you think the Salem witch trials were about?
Everyone in politics makes mistakes at times, everyone has to change positions at times.
Barack has already made a lot of mistakes, and changed positions.
But we can’t afford to have another inexperienced President right now.
I do want to have to wait, as he goes through the experience of his learning curve.
He wouldn’t be able beat McCain anyway, after the Republicans are through with him.
The country is now even more concerned about the economy than the War in Iraq.
And Hillary has the best plans and politcies, the most knowledge, and expertise. She has worked across the aisle, the people who really know her and don’t have some personal issues, like her a lot. She would be an excellent negotiator.
Look at her with open eyes in the debates.
She is excellent.

Well John, most of that has been put up there by their opponents – they have never been found of any wrongdoing.
It just means that you are buying all the negative spin and hype. Bill had huge approval ratings at the end of his administration.
The Republicans will not change, they will drag Barack throught the mud as much as they can too, and then you will feel sick of him, and all those issues.
The Clintons don’t at all deserve to be treated that way.
And it is a shallow reason to not choose our most qualified leader, do what is in the best interest of our country.
She is truly the one who would help our country the most at this time.

Not found any wrong doing? Do you remember a little episode called impeachment? Beleive me. I voted and stood up for the man for 8 years. No way I do it for another 4.

I keep asking, and none of the Barack supporters have answered, what exactly do you think she is doing or has done?
She is married to Bill Clinton and her husband was impeached.

Suzie Q:
You are just biased.
Although it is not what is truly important, there are a lot of people who are jealous of their political success. People in the party have said so.
Everyone makes mistakes. I am sure you have. How would you like to be defined *only* by your mistakes?
Mistakes are how people learn.
Barack got favors from Rezko when he knew Rezko was under investigation for fraud, extortion, money laundering, and more.
Is that all we should focus on? The Republicans will make it one thing.
Christopher Hitchens makes his living by being a critic. He is critical of everyone and everything. He is critical of himself.
And he’s an extreme conservative.
Hillary gets her greatest satisfaction out of helping people.
That is why she works so hard.
She would never have stayed involved in politics if she were selfish – she would never have gone through all this additional hassle. She could have gotten a cushy job at anytime. Helping people is her passion.

Republicans wasted millions of tax dollars and time, trying to impeach Bill over what should have always been only a personal marital affair.
No other country in the world has ever put their leader on trial because of a personal marital affair, because they know it’s a ridiculous unimportant waste of time.
They all thought we were out of our minds.
JFK had more affairs while he was in office, but fortunately for him and his family, it was before the time of scandalizing personal marital affairs.

Hitchens a conservative?????!!!!!! You think Hillary would have allowed him in the front door for personal dinners if he were a conservative? Hillary doesn’t think that conservatives are decent people and doesn’t want them in her house. Hitchens is a well known LEFTIST and wrote a book called No One Left to Lie To about the Clintons. Same thing David Geffin said about them, actually – that they’re liars.
The Democrats I know turned against Hillary because of specific things she did – one of which was against Gore who is a personal friend of theirs.
You think Hillary is in politics because she is unselfish? Is that why she and Bill are now multi-millionaires who won’t release their tax returns because they might show how unselfish they are?
Did she care about the White House travel office employees when she fired them so she could give the “slots” to her friends from Hollywood and then put the employees through legal hell from which they were eventually vindicated? The list of things like this is absolutely endless. Hillary once chewed Bill out for hanging out with people who aren’t rich and successful. One thing you can say for her – she knows which way is up.
I could more understand if you said…OK, she’s capable of being a snake but I’m voting for her anyway because at least I know what I”m getting. To me that would make more sense than a portrayal of Saint Hillary.

Lauren, Bill did have high approval ratings at the end of his term (in the 60s’, up from his all-time low of 34%). But his personal ratings were not so good:
“Yet this is also a president [Clinton] with truly dismal personal ratings: Sixty-seven percent of Americans say he’s not honest and trustworthy. Seventy-seven percent say he lacks high moral and ethical standards. And just 44 percent view him favorably “as a person.” (ABC News).
The Clintons insist on projecting themselves as a team. Bill has referred to “we” in reference to a potential presidency several times in MS. So right or wrong, that mistrust is also projected onto Hillary.
I don’t want a another co-presidency, and the more I learn about the decision-making process in the Clinton years (the decision for airstrikes in Bosnia, for example), the more disturbing I find this possibility. We have a constitution – and co-presidency is not mentioned. We’re supposed to elect the leaders who answer that phone call at 3 am.

Deb, You resent that the majority of more educated people are voting for Barack Obama, or the Exit Polls which prove that, that is the case???
As to the theory that Hillary is going to help the lower classes, I think you should take a good look at what each Candidate did immediately after College.
Hillary went to work at the Rose Law Firm, making very good money. Which, incidentally, took her into infamy over Whitewater. (She didn’t think that she was making enough money)
Barack Obama was offered a very well paying position, but he turned it down to be a very low paid Community Organizer on the Streets of Chicago, working for the poorest of poor. His next position was as a Public Defender.
Sometimes it pays to check into the background of someone before you take what they say at face value.

Hope is a powerful thing… but will it trump realism? The DNC Convention will thrash that out. I don’t envy you guys! But I do appreciate your sincere efforts in providing us with entertainment… and for giving us hope for an easier election.

Lauren, It’s hard to prove wrongdoing by anyone when all the witnesses are ***silenced.***
“Just a quick refresher course, lest we forget what has happened to some ‘friends’ and ‘employees’ of the Clintons.
1 – James McDougal – Clinton’s convicted Whitewater partner died of an apparent heart attack, while in solitary confinement. He was a key witness in Ken Starr’s investigation.
2 – Mary Mahoney – A former White House intern was murdered July 1997 at a Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown . The murder happened just before she was to go public with her story of sexual harassment in the Whitehouse.
3 – Vince Foster – Former White House counselor and colleague of Hillary Clinton at Little Rock ‘s Rose Law firm. Died of a gunshot wound to the head, ruled a suicide. (With a gun that wouldn’t fire by his side)
4 – Ron Brown – Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Chairman. Reported to have died by impact in a plane crash. A pathologist close to the investigation reported that there was a hole in the top of Brown’s skull resembling a gunshot wound. At the time of his death Brown was being investigated, and spoke publicly of his willingness to cut a deal with prosecutors. The rest of the people on the plane also died. A few days later the air Traffic controller committed suicide.
5 – C. Victor Raiser II – Raiser, a major player in the Clinton fund raising organization died in a private plane crash in July 1992
6 – Ed Willey – Clinton fund raiser, found dead November 1993 deep in the woods in VA of a gunshot wound to the head. Ruled a suicide. Ed Willey died on the same day his wife Kathleen Willey claimed Bill Clinton groped her in the oval office in the White House. Ed Willey was involved in several Clinton fund raising events.
7 – Jerry Parks – Head of Clinton’s gubernatorial security team in Little Rock . Gunned down in his car at a deserted intersection outside Little Rock. Park’s son said his father was building a dossier on Clinton . He allegedly threatened to reveal this information. After he died the files were mysteriously removed from his house.
8 – James Bunch – Died from a gunshot suicide. It was reported that he had a ‘Black Book’ of people which contained names of influential people who visited prostitutes in Texas and Arkansas.
9 – Suzanne Coleman – Reportedly had an affair with Clinton when he was Arkansas Attorney General. Died of a gunshot; wound to the back of the head, ruled a suicide. Was pregnant at the time of her death.
10 – THE FOLLOWING CLINTON BODYGUARDS ARE DEAD:
1 – Major William S. Barkley Jr.
2 – Captain Scott J. Reynolds
3 – Sgt. Brian Hanley
4 – Sgt. Tim Sabel
5 – Major General William Robertson
6 – Col. William Densberger
7 – Col. Robert Kelly
8 – Spec. Gary Rhodes
9 – Steve Willis
10 – Robert Williams
11 – Conway LeBleu
12 – Todd McKeehan
And that is just a partial list.

SuzieQ -
I just read Hitchen’s Wiki entry, and like I said he is first and foremost a critic – he just kind of blows around with whatever choice winds of change, criticizing everything at his convenience. During the interview I remember most, he was in his “neo-conservative” period. I will include some quotes, but you can read it for yourself.
“Hitchens is noted for his acerbic wit as a polemicist and intellectual. While he was once identified with the Anglo-American radical political left, he has latterly embraced some right-wing causes, notably the war in Iraq.”
Hitchens described himself as “on the same side as the neo-conservatives.”
I would also mention for the record, that while some polls may seem to show a
higher percentage of college grads going for Obama, there are still very high percentages of college grads going for Hillary. And myself and most of my friends with Master’s degrees and higher, support Hillary.
So that’s just another campaign oversimplification and exaggeration.
Most of the posts I see from Hillary supporters are well thought out, and backed-up, while most of the posts I see from Obama supporters are just full of the most hideous insults and lies.
I am not impressed by most Obama supporters in the least; indeed many seem to just recite his talking points and not be able to think for themselves, or have very accurate memories of history or reality.
They are just full of negativity, and falsehoods.

Add “spoiler” to the Clintons’ record of private, public and financial misdeeds.
A party of change cannot be a party to corruption.
The good thing about taking a bridge to the 21st century is that you do get to the other side–no replays of the awfulness the Clintons and a bunch of brain dead GOPers visited on this country …
“Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom,” sayeth Barack.
Let’s get this country moving again.

Look, you people can believe all the lies you want – but just remember you don’t really know the truth until you personally know Hillary yourself – or until you have walked in her shoes, you truly have no right to judge or think you really know.
How would you like other people to come and judge you and your life – without even knowing you – to believe a bunch of lies about you?
If you have a pre-formed strong negative opinion of someone, you will see everything they do as negative. You will see everything through the lens of your strong negative opinion.
If she smiles, she’s fake, if she does something good, she’s scheming. This is prejudice at work. This is the same psychological dynamic that used to make people think that certain minorities or classes were dumb, or any other number of self-fufilling perceptions. So just keep that in mind. I assure you, she is a good woman. There are many people who truly know her, who really like her. Both in politics – like James Carville who said on GMA the other day that she’s one of the people he loves the most in this world, and it hurts him so much when he hears the things people say about her, because they are so false. Or the famous author John Grisham who loves her and thinks she’s a wonderful woman, or Steven Spielberg supports her and is her friend. These are people who actually know her and are not her opponents.
So let’s keep a grip on reality in mind, and try to be objective, and realize that there are a lot of ‘haters’ on-line who love to spew hate, lies, and false accusations.
From CBS’s “For the Record”
“She went into the Senate not as a show horse but as a work horse,” said former Hillary Clinton press secretary Lisa Caputo.
Learning the Senate power structure, landing a coveted spot on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and reaching out to former Republican foes.
She teamed with Bill Frist on modernizing medical record – and with Tom DeLay on foster care. She teamed with Lindsay Graham, who had led the impeachment effort against her husband, on benefits for veterans. She worked with Newt Gingrich on health care policy.
“We were agreeing with each other so much, I think people were thinking: ‘the end is near!’” Clinton said about her collaboration with Gingrich.
“The most fascinating thing about Clinton in the Senate was to hear the conservative Republicans that had gone back home and often advanced their own political careers by using Hillary as the great whipping person,” said Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, “going around saying privately and for some of them publicly, ‘wow what a nice person and what a terrific colleague.’”

For all of you that think good things of Hillary, you need to check multiple sites that will inform you all the issues both her and Bill did. A number of murders are related to them, one a female that was taking him to court regarding sexual advances, (not Monica), about 45 people mysteriously died of gunshot wounds that were giving information about them to the courts. A number of Whitehouse employees moving to other countries, standing on the 5th. Having a Co-President is very illegal. Is That what you would want again? They would do whatever to be in the Whitehouse another 8 yrs. breaking alot of laws, lying, doing whatever it takes to get what they want.
If Hillary is really for the poor, why did they steal millions of dollars, feeling they need/want more money. She is a fake/lier/lazy/damaging to our country. She is one that got the businesses moving out of country (NAFTA), costing us millions of jobs and dollars.
I heard a female that has worked with Hillary for 35 yrs. on TV stating how lazy she is, how she told the Democrates to wreck the Whitehouse upon their leaving it, that she poured coffee down files, (what would she want to cover up), phone cords were cut, graffeti painted on a number of walls, a number of rooms had a lot of garbage in it, the letter w was removed from several (100?) computers. Damages cost triple diget,(thousands of dollars) to clean the Whitehouse.
Who/what kind of person would want that back in our Whitehouse? It isn’t the media that is giving her the reputation, the Clinton’s have earned that all by themselfs.
Pictures of the President and Vice President is normally hung in a number of places in the Whitehouse, not with them, the pictures were of the Clinton’s not the vice-President. Clinton lovers need to really accept them for the people they are. Not the lies they have been telling us.
What has Hillary accomplished that gives her the experience to be the best canidate. Just living in the Whitehouse doesn’t give her experience. The health care project Bill gave her she couldn’t accomplish getting that approved.
Obama is a Born Again Christian. He will be one that will be able to turn this country around, working with the general public to get things changed. He will not be giving money to the richest people and keeping some himself. He is one that is dedicated to help the poor, including the homeless, with no home, medical, money etc. What would Hillary do? He is also going to help the veterans get the medical care, needing not driving hundreds of miles/hours away from home, waiting weeks, months, yrs. for medical care. He has lived in a number of countries, and knows how to communicate with them, he will be the best one to serve our country. I want someone that is caring, giving, intelligent, honest, hard worker, a good speaker, a good communicator, and one that knows how to do planning to accomplish getting things done. Obama is the one that has gotten thousands of people in every state to vote that never voted, gave up voting (I’m one of them) to vote again.
Obama has 20 yrs. experience.
Voters Please Think Hard, do research on the canidates before voting.

Sharon,
Those things you are listing and believing about the Clintons are lies.
The Clintons have never been found of ANY WRONGDOING.
It’s really scary that people believe in that crap.
All that in your post about the Clintons are lies and crap.
Especially the murder lies – they are so incredibly false and insane.
People die everyday of different causes, and guess what – the Clintons aren’t murdering all of them.

Clintons never found guilty of any wrong doing?
Errrr….how about perjury for which Bill lost his license to practice law?
Plus all the things that were outright wrong, un=presidential behavior – like pardoning Marc Rich – that weren’t technically a crime.

“Look, you people can believe all the lies (about Clintons) you want … ”
Right, everything negative about Clinton is a lie, according to Clintons. But, he can also lie to grand jury. Well, that takes a lot of guts and calculation. Of course, it also means huge damage to the party that protected them: DEMOCRATS.
Looking back, I think many democrats start to realize there could be some truth in the provocative (and nasty) statements made by right-wing repulicans (those that we democrats disagree on every single sentence) about Clintons.
Clintons are just plain cancerous to democratic party. They always believe they are above the law. They have no respect to the rules.
Many Obama supporters will admit that their candidate is not perfect. His color is a bit dark which may give some people a bit excuse not to vote for him. He has a funy name. He gives extremely good speech. He inspires people. He does not play negative politics. And, he is sometimes a bit naive for not attacking Clintons.
Other than these, he is just by far a lot cleaner than Clintons (although it does not look that from their skin colors).

Obama is a product of mediahype and nothing more. He is the Golden Boy of Ophra and the darling of the press. This Rezko trial has tainted his Mr. Clean image and his double talk Nafta made him a sly politician. Now comes the his paln for Iraq war with this Smamntha Power loud mouth interview, he is again caught. He is now trouble on whether to fight dirty since he is campiagning for clean piolitics ( jus wondering how he runhis candidacy in Chicago with Rezko as his supporters for 17 years) or just play a lamb and give his left cheek instead. He wants to let the media take more easy on him by not posting his picture with Rezko because people might have an intelligent discenment on who he is. He wants to stay the darling of the press and the messiah of change. Please people in the nedia listen to his prayers so he can win the superdelagates and become a nominee. Please voters for Mississippi, Pensylvania, North Carolina..” please . listen to my speeches once more” he prayed every day. He wants to punch Hillary down because she is so tough he can not beat her in Ohio and Texas. He wants also to beat up the poeple who leak the memo and Power for her loud mouth that to put him to shame, having as adviser who is a loud mouth whne they are supposed to be belong to a camp of gentle and good people.. Obama wants to unite the Blacks and divide the White. He wants to unite the radicals and conservatives for his vision of peace. Please understand his predicament now because he is agitating within himself if he is capable to become a leader because Hillary with all her outspoken words always remind him of his only speech in 2002 when he has delivered more speeches and copied more words. He is exposed now and afraid that he will burn to his fire he created and beated up by a tough woman who derails his goals. He prayed that this woman should not be his VP because it is premature.. and he is counting that Hillary will lose in the next primary.

This whole Obama thing makes me sick. Why would anyone in their right mind vote for him. He is a junior senator. He goes to a church that puts Africa before the USA and the black race before the human race. He and wife both hate America. What are people thinking. I will never, ever, ever vote for him. I will vote John McCain if he is the nominee. At least John McCain loves and wants to protect America.

If Clinton steals the primary and is on the ticket come November I hope Nader has a good message – he just may be getting my vote. I am an Independent that the Democrats had in their palm of their hand, but Clinton in the past week has made me sour and questioning the whole DNC – they can’t seem to control the Clinton Machine – the Machine will control the DNC to destruction in 08 (my prediction)

Hillary Clinton lies, cheats, and plays dirty. She has “brazened out” more scandals than anyone I am aware of in the history of this country. Is that the experience she wants to bring to the White House? She wants to claim victories in Florida and Michigan….let’s call her what she is: a cheater! If Obama had done the same thing, she would be on a rant about it. By trying to overturn the agreement she signed on to, she is making the party look bad once again. She is willing to give the impression that Democrats are disenfranchising people. I’m sure that will come back to haunt the Democratic nominee whomever it may be. She has been campaigning for John McCain, and it’s certainly helped him in the polls.
I think this nation should start choosing candidates based not upon the color of their skin or their gender, but on their character. Hillary wouldn’t qualify as a dogcatcher if character were a criterion.
She might be able to henpeck Bill, but I sure don’t want her sending me to MY room without supper. How can anyone watch her shaking her finger at anyone else and saying, “Shame on YOU…” when she’s never shown any shame for her own or her husband’s perfidy and shady dealings. They both pretend they are “just like us common folk,” but they actually consider themselves superior…They think they’re smarter than the rest of us, and that we’re all too dumb to see through their act.
Hillary is pure, unadulterated (well, she was actually adulterated a few times)ambition. She thinks it’s her “turn,” and that she’s “owed” this nomination. Several years ago I heard she was considering Alan Page (former Minnesota Viking, currently on the Minnesota Supreme Court) as her running mate. At the time, I thought she was way too full of herself. Now I realize that she’s full of much, much more than herself. She’s full of rage, vengeance, and hatred…..and she’s going to run over anyone that gets in her way.
I’m very sad that Barack Obama,someone with the stature, dignity, and maturity that Hillary Clinton lacks, has been dragged down by the typical Clinton dirty tactics. Meanwhile, it looks like the American electorate is as dumb as the Clintons think we are. She’s succeeded in fooling so many of the people so much of the time. Is it any wonder that she thinks no one can stop her from stopping a nothing?
Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, Al Gore, John Edwards…..I beseech you and any other Democrats of stature who might be able to stop this runaway train, DO something. Do it soon.