It’s Not Over…

Per the DNC rules, pledged delegates are not bound to the electorate. They can change their vote at the national convention. While the number of thme that have changed in the past elections has been small, this race is so close and unpredictable that it will matter. The superdelegates may not be the one to tip the election to Clinton. The pledged delegates can do it also. Currently Obama’s projected lead is 3.5% of the pledged delegates. It wont take many to change that. Voters need to realize the media sites are simply projecting a best guess and their margin of errors are greater than the margin of the projected lead. The race is not over by a longshot.
Remember when Obama said if he can get within 100 delegates, he has a shot? This is what his strategists in his camp were referring to. Clinton knows this is true also. Both camps have admitted that both of them will be going after pledged delegates (not just superdelegates) at the convention. There will be a lot more dirt known to the public by August.
I am seeing information about Obama coming out regarding stock purchases in a company that benefitted from his legislation, supposedly he got caught campaigning in his Senate office (federal offense), the outcome of the Rezko trial is not known yet and he has an advisor at the trial every day, and now a company headed up by one of his advisors employed the people who illegally peaked at passport records? Oh yeah… lots more to come! The accusations against Clinton that prompted the lawsuit on her schedules have been shown without merit now that the schedules were released. I suspect other accusations will also be shown without merit.
But in Obama’s case, he has consistently denied, lied, then admitted to lying while trying to turn the attention off of him. His judgment is being questioned on many fronts and his credibility continues its dive downward. The race is not over, stay with it Hillary!!!!!!!!

Hillary’s camp actually compared Bill Richardson to Judas. That tells me the Clinton people think they are in a Holy war. There is not going to be a pretty end to this. Hillary is going to take the whole Democratic party down with her…and she doesn’t care. Do we really want this woman running our country?

No, it shouldn’t be over either. I hope all campaigns take a day off tomorrow, I think the whole country needs a day off to really digest what has happened over the last week without new spin to divert from some very important concerns. Happy Easter everyone!

freedom20082009,
Please. It is common knowledge that the other group, Stanley Inc. Has ties to the Clinton Orginazation.
It is a non issue

Democrats should watch what they wish for, they’re liable to get it and in November wonder what happened. Obama is guaranteeing a McCain victory. I can’t believe that the democrats are going to blow it and keep the white house republican. Damn, what a bunch of idiots.

UNLESS THEY INTEND TO COME UP WITH ANOTHER DIRTY STRATEGY (INCLUDING, FURTHER SPLITTING THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY), THE HILARY CAMP SHOULD START PACKING UP. IT IS TIME FOR A WHOLE NEW VOICE AND A WHOLE NEW WAY OF RESTORING AMERICA’S GLORY AND PRESTIGE.

Hillary is a fighter and I am damn proud of her. B.O. is an embarassment to our counrty, he talks out of both sides of his mouth. He needs to focus on the issues, counting all the votes everywhere. You don’t count all the votes he is anti-american. Is he WRIGHT?

everytime there is an article about obama or hillary they are here somepeoples you may think they dont sleep and they are just waiting to bring their negative comments,for today im done i dont know where you guys are from,but its sad that you are americans

The Clinton machine will do anything and I mean ANYTHING to win this nomination even if it means destroying the Democratic party.
I was a Clinton supporter for months but no there is no way I would now vote for such a vile candiate. It’s over for her but still she’s in disbelief.

……If Obama wins I can honestly say we are facing some new kind of communism …..there is something about all of that hatred that makes me feel like this man does not have our best interest in mind…..

McCain is a very moderate Republican, and many dems hate Obama. If Obama gets the nomination, many will jump over the republican side this year.

Just how exactly does a mandated (as in if you don’t pay you go to JAIL) health care plan that directs what care you can and can NOT get (think HMO’s on steroids) on top of a war with Afghanistan, Iraq and IRAN, plus a new carbon tax, that taxes YOU and NOT big government subsidised corporate polluters (Not to mention China, India and all the other rapidly developing third world countries) supposed to be paid for with our crippling economy??? Any takers you big government DemoRepublicans??? Should we just print up some more money and cause more inflation? How about some more tax breaks for big corporations so they can offshore even more jobs overseas? Do you really think that anybody who was willing to change course in any meaningful way would be allowed to get this far? Then WHAT THE HELL are you arguing about. What’s tribalism worth to you when your economic welfare is being collapsed around you. The next president will not matter and undoubtedly will not last but one term. Why these morons want to be holding the bag when we collapse speaks more to their ego than their empty pledges of public service. Why the hell would you spend 100 million dollars to get a job that pays 100 thousand. Just think about that for a while. It sure as hell isn’t to “effect change.”

This is all so petty. She lost the end. She’s only holding on because 1/10 odds to be president is still better than 0. And there are no leaders with clout to tell her to quit. She’s married to the only person who had the clout.
I think we should just play along with Clinton, but basically ignore her. Obama has won.

its not over by any means – obama
delegates are moving to Hillary as we
speak!

Not 1 delegate has gone from Obama to Hillary though 60 have gone from Hillary to Obama…those are the facts..try to get it right if your going to try to play with the adults.

Right the Obama people are going to sit and let the Clinton machine run over them and run their mouths and spout lies and sit and take it? Get a life.

My stomach hurls when I hear Hillary speak. I abhore her and her husband and the Democrat Party.
But she will win the Dem nod. Barack`s days are numbered, not Hillary`s.

Hillary will prevail. The problem is the news media that has been one-sided. She is not far behind from Obama, and, let’s face it! If it it wasn’t 90% of black support that Obama enjoys for his skin color, Hillary should have been ahead of him. Hillary does not get 90% of support from women nor whites. That’s a strange to see in a democratic country like this, but that’s the face. Who says there is no racial sentiment in this campaign? That person ought be out of mind or simply blind to the fact, that black support is one of main driver of Obama’s campaign. No matter how crafty his campaign is to conceal that fact under such a beautiful rhetoric, you cannot deny the fact. Like, in those countries under development, American election seems to be driven by the news media rather than the candidates. It seems that the new media picked Obama for some reason for their own interests, and keep pushing him to be their candidate. Have you noticed how many many many more times Obama’s face shows up on their news coverage than Clinton’s? That itself is an unfair campaign and I think such unfair news coverage should be legally banned and punished. The news media should be mandated to cover both camps view on equal footage. Unfortunately, the stupid general public seems to be brainwashed by all these news media, especially CNN and Politico. Not sure if they were paid by Obama campaign, or received some promise to get a preferential treatment of some sort when Obama is eleceted as the President. Let’s be wise and depend on our own judgment rather than paying attention to those biased and pre-calculated remarks and coverage from those news media.

i wonder if it has occured to B.O supporters that more than half of this country is keeping Hillary in the race because we believe in her judgement and morals. No body is perfect and she is doing what every other American has the right to do — pursue her dream. and for those Americans that like to bring up a personal marital matter that should be between husband and wife, you shouldnt be quick to cast stones because you are only scratching a healed wound hoping for an infection. each candidate should be judged on their morals and their passions to make the American dream for each of us closer to reality.

jACKT51: hatred… racism… communism… twisted LIES and utter nonsense. You hit it dead on for the perfect description of Obama!!
He’ll never get elected! The delegates are VERY aware of this. They are charged with selecting an ELECTABLE candidate. Obama’s church is in DIRECT conflict with the goals of the Democratic party “Democrats are unwavering in our support of equal opportunity for all Americans.” Obama is TOAST….

I published an article in a hispanic newspaper in Texas calling Bill Richardson: Judas. I can’t even vote but hispanics take things personal. We have our way. Sad, that Bill Richardson was a fake. My next article will be Maria Magdalene: Michele Obama.

Well with all the fighting within the party I would say McCain has already won. Thanks a lot Democrats

SHE IS THE ONE !!!

It’s so cute the way people try to convince themselves that McCain has any chance against either of these two.

Obama’s Camp will not let anyone say anything. They just don’t want people to have fact finding question. Obama offers no hope. Let’s do American way. Not Obama’s dirty way. I am young and a democrat.
Thanks.

Ophrah and Obama have made this campaigs a total disgrace with resentment, segregationism and division even for the Democratic party. Hillay Clinton is being favored by the polls and the superdelegates will favor her in a secret votes. If Obama wants to avoid the embarrassement, he should concede.

This election is clearly going to a wrong direction. “Change” seems to be the change for the black people. I’ve seen many times in the past, if a sectarian goverment comes in, majority of high officials will be replaced by the sect that holds the power. I don’t mind seeing black leaders, but only when they are genuinely qualified. But the truth of the matter is that the first criteria for those high offices will be by his/her skin color. Our country needs changes like any other countries, but any drastic changes will be harmful. If Obama goes into the W.H. by the backing of the black votes, well, wouldn’t it be natural consequence that he will have to pay back to them with something sweet, such as a lot of offices that he will have right to nominate its head? And then chain reaction will occur down through the hierachy. Recession will be a long one this time, if that happens, and you know why.

Keep it up Clintons – keep excluding Barack and each time your racist statement improves the chances of Mclain getting into office and getting the black votes – if HIllary is selected.

I’m a 3rd generation democrat and I will vote republican before I would let this Anti-American Obama in the White House.

URETHA …. this is the silliest thing I can imagine: “Keep it up Clintons – keep excluding Barack and each time your racist statement improves the chances of Mclain getting into office and getting the black votes – if HIllary is selected
…. McCain is preferred by moderate and conservative Democrats, both black and white .. over NObama!!

I am a die-hard democrat and if Hillary Clinton is not the nominee, I will be voting for the Republican nominee in November. The End!

The Polls say Hilliary is ahead of Obama, the DNC forced old time friend of Clintons to support Obama in hopes to get the Hispanic vote, to make up for the women vote he will not get,, shows keep showing Obama doing worst, so Obama camp comes out with some off the wall statement that means nothing ,and says it is racist, Polls show that Hilliary supporter indeed will not support Obama,{his fault right from the beginning he said that her supporter would support him but his would not her} Polls show his supporter will indeed support Hilliary, DNC leader hate Hilliary and has done every thing in their to deny her her shot,The DNC and obama camp has tried to spin every thing that comes of the clinton camp, {mostly Bill} in a unfavourable light, but the american people the common ever day working man and woman have stood up and demanded to be heard, and in doing so the DNC leaders and Obama have destroyed the very party they are members of, that is what happens when you fight against the people ==============

hillary will win, she’s captured the swing votes from obama after disclosure of rev. wrights ‘GDA” sermon. if hillarys out mc-cain will take the nomination. a man w/o experience will not run a corporation, no more than the country. obama is ahead only because its a protest of the americans over the bush, fiasco. but when it comes down to the most experienced leader for the country, its either hillary or mc-cain. if it obama and mccain, mccain will take it.

This is what is great about being an American and living in the United States. We can all have our opinion and voice it on the internet, in the newspaper, on the radio, etc. Americans are going to vote for the candidate they like the best. i could care less what party afiliation my choice is a member of. Our country is in a bad state of affairs and it is going to take more than 1 person to get us on track. I live in NYS, am a registered republican, I am a WASP, and I am hoping I will get to vote for Obama in November. God bless America

Do party leaders really think we care if our governors are senators endorses someone. Do think we are going to follow behind them like sheep, we all have a mind and sure don’t need those people to think for us.we know they are crooks,and can be forced to do what every the party leaders want them to do,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

If Obama is running, I am voting McCain.

Hmmm…So we are going into an election with McCain with a candidate who won ONE big state which happened to be his own? And we expect to win? HA. What a joke. We are literally handing over the election to the Republicans. Senator Clinton has every right to stay in the race. She has large lead in the polls of WV and PA and if she over takes him in popular vote ( she is 100 thou less than him) and she has all the big states we would be foolish to hand the nomination to Obama. But then again…the DNC has been pretty foolish this year with all the voting controversy in FL and MI. If we loose the election, we will have beaten ourselves.

For Freedom2008…
Update:
Just announced on CNN…both Obama and Hillary’s camps had someone affiliated with their campaigns, to breach the passport files.

In Hillary’s March 17th speech she said she ran under sniper fire to the vehicles in Tuzia, Bosnia on March 15, 1996.
She lied. She was greeted by a group of people including an eight year old girl on the tarmac.
What kind of mother would land under sniper fire with her 16 year old daughter?
But, it did not happen. There are pictures of that event. There is not
one reporting of Hillary being in any danger.
She lies about this. What else has she lied about?
Bush lied to get us into Iraq.
Where would Hillary’s lies take us, next?

citizenvoter: Clinton is still in the race BECAUSE voters have short memories.

“He (Wolfson) also said that one of the reasons the Obama campaign has reacted with negative attacks since losing in Texas and Ohio…” “Following her mother’s victories in Ohio and Texas earlier this month…”
Who won Texas in terms of number of delegates?

Who won Texas in terms of number of delegates?___________Well seeing how texas has not finished counting its counties yet that would be hard to say

Let Hillary serve as a good senator. Let Obama unite the country. Let him fix the affirmative action and persuade people in it to find jobs and contribute to this nation. Let him show to the African American that racism exists among white, black, latinos and Asians and we need to do something about it.

If everyone remembers, Ross Perot was supposed to be the Democratic Nominee when Bill Clinton won his first term. Perot self-destructed just like Obama is. Of course Perot wans’t a racist anti-American like Obama and his preacher, but it wasn’t any prettier than this is now. The delegeates can change their minds, the superdelegates are allowed to vote for whomever they want, whether King Obama likes it or not, and there are lawsuits pending about the votes in FL and MI. Another one was dismissed yesterday because the man filed the suit before the FL vote so the court ruled he filed it before he was actually injured, but the judge then sat there and instructed him as to how to amend the suit and refile it, which he said he is going to do. Hillary should fight this all the wasy to the convention, and if she turned around and ran as an Independent, I would vote for her before I would vote for Obama/Richardson. And another point about FL and MI. Many people do not realise how the issue is more than just getting some delegates for Hillary. The denial of their right to vote will set a precedent. This will be able to be used in any further election, whenever it suits the DNC to deny anyone the right to be heard. So, just remember that in the future. If it is successful this time, who knows, maybe in 2012, Iowa or California or someone will tick Dean or whoever off, and they will be the ones denied.

Somebody should tell Wolfson that
Hillary didn’t win Texas, Obama did!
He emerged with more delegates from the primary and the caucus!
Therefore he Won Texas, she Lost!

Obama still has to beat her and until such time the race continue so all you Obama supporters stop your belly aching, we going state after state, he wants it he has to earn it.

Wolfson said he had no idea who the unnamed “important Clinton advisor” was, but said that the ten percent comment did not reflect sentiment within the campaign.
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Probably more like 0.001%.

Did I hear him say those things while I was sitting in the pews…YES!!!!
No wait, wait I heard some things not everything, I take that back uh uh… yes I was there sometimes not all the time …uh ..uh

“he wants it he has to earn it.”
He has earned it. He leads in popular vote, states won, and delegates won, and there is NO way that Clinton can gain the nomination without destroying the Democratic Party.
I keep reading people say that the Democrats should not step in and endorse anyone yet (thus basically asking voters to abandon a certain candidate) because Obama isn’t winning by much and Hillary still has a chance. Umm…Yes he is and No she doesn’t. She has lost the nomination, the media just wont report it for the sake of ratings and love for the Clinton name. Remember when Hillary came back from the dead in New Hampshire? I do, and then it mattered, but now it doesn’t matter anymore. She can “get back up from the dead again” (lame) and win all the remaining contests and she still would be behind in States Won, Popular Vote, and Delegates. Also, people forget that she had a rebound in New Hampshire, sure, but she was also knocked dead again by losing the majority of contests and delegates on Super Tuesday and then losing 13 in a row.
Let’s also not forget that she was FAVORED to win both Texas and Ohio. The media allowed her to define her own standard of victory by claiming that if she merely won both that she should be allowed to continue. This was false. She needed to win by HUGE margins and she failed to do that, and though it’s not official, she LOST the Texas Caucus, which we’ll all find out on March 29th.
THE TRUTH IS that this contest WAS over on Super Tuesday, but the media somehow allowed Hillary again to define own standards of winning or drawing by letting her claim that if she won California that she was still alive or even somehow won on Super Tuesday, despite the fact that SHE WAS FAVORED TO WIN CALIFORNIA, and Obama still took many of the delegates from her there.
This contest is over and Obama has won. Are Democratic Party leaders THAT stupid by not endorsing Obama to let it be known to the Democratic public that they do not support Hillary’s negative campaign that can no longer even win her the election, but rather simply help destroy Obama in the general election and sink the Democratic party not only in November but for potentially years to come?
Pelosi, Edwards, and Gore have a responsibility to their parties, and frankly, the fact that they don’t see that point, and don’t act on it, in my opinion, are hurting them personally and hurting the party. Democrats have gained the reputation of only doing the safe thing and not sticking their neck out for what they really believe, and here we go again; Pelosi, Gore, Edwards continue to do the safe thing and continue to not endorse anyone for their own political reasons, because they can’t see where this race is going to end (which is just bad sight) and what the safe bet is to make. The fact that Hillary has tried to bring the ENTIRE PARTY down with her sinking ship instead of bowing out gracefully in a “Choose me or I”ll kick more dirt on Obama than even McCain will or can” strategy that she is using now is all that ANY Democrat needs to see to know that The Democratic Party should be behind Obama (and that whole winning the popular vote, more states, more delegates doesn’t hurt either).
Gore, Edwards, and Pelosi need to do what many people think that Democrats are incapable of doing in recent years-showing some fortitude, spine, guts, resolve, and insight by sticking their neck out for a candidate and their party (and it wouldn’t be sticking it out much because this race is all but officially over and they can help make it officially over and concentrate on McCain). You remember that whole saying by Bush (regardless of how meaningless and empty it was) that “You may not always agree with me, but you know where I stand.” ?????? THAT WORKS! And, right now, people don’t know where The Democratic Party leadership stands in a race that has gone out of control and is hurting the part itself.
Back to the media, Bill Richardson, someone close to the Clinton family both personally and politically came out to endorse Obama. However, I suppose in the eyes of many media personalities that the endorsement of a former member (Tina Fey) of a TV show that hasn’t been funny in 15 years (SNL) carries more weight than the endorsement of a 5 time nominee for a Noble Peace Prize.
The media needs to stop this already! This is a sign that she has lost and that reality is in fact, reality.
In the James Carville World (and I suppose he just compared the Clintons to Jesus by comparing Richardson to Judas) Clinton still has a chance. In reality, and in terms most people will understand, Hillary is in a playoff race that “comes down to the wire”, but she down in the 7th inning by 15 runs. All she has to do now to move on is recapture the tie, convince the umpires that Spring Training games should be allowed to count as Regular Season games, and then convince the MLB that she should move on because she tied.
Shame on the media and all we hear about from those terrible spin machines in no other than New York is how Pro-Obama the media is. The fact that they haven’t declared her dead when she is, is evidence that they are Pro-Clinton and falling victim to the same thing that happened in 2000 with Bush-Gore (Guns, Lawyers, and Money), and it just goes to show, that the Clintons are fine with this because this is the type of campaign that they have run this season, and they don’t mind winning on the same terms that they’ve played this season- on Karl Rove Terms.

It’s over but Hillary has the right to continue to waste her donors money until it all gone which may be soon.
By the way, according New Federal Election Commission reports show Clinton raised $34.5 million in Feb, but counting her debts to vendors she ended with a net $3 million. And that’s not factoring the $5 million she lent her campaign and has not paid back. By contrast Obama raised nearly $2 million a day in February, with $30 million in the bank for March. I also suspect her donations will dry up with reports out there that she can’t possibly win.

How do you determine who won Texas if Hillary won the primary and Obama won the caucus. I find it confusing.

Cheryl – Some of that is publicly reported in the news and the damning accusation about the $50,000 stock purchase is from Judicial Watch. JW is a non-partisan conservative group who always goes after politicians who they consider not conservative. They are the people who sued the National Archives to release the First Lady schedules because they did not want to wait anymore. (Bill requested the release in 2002 but the Clintons dont control the archives.) The accusations made by JW about Clinton have now been shown to be without merit since the schedules were released as have the other accusations. But I have not seen any vetting of Obama yet on their accusations against him. We the voters deserve to know more.

Come on JJ. The voter count is undemocratic? That’s the biggest pile of deuce since “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!”
I’m sure all the voters across the country would be very surprised to find out that their vote wasn’t democratic. Where were all those Hilliary supporters when it came to getting that last 1/3 of the delegates? Every HilLiary supporter had the opportunity to go to the caucuses as well. Sadly, the Clinton campaign seemed surprised by the way Texas ran their primary (which is odd since Bill was crucial in getting the “two-step” set up). So Texas isn’t won and democracy lives on despite what JJ says.

I shed tears of joy after hearing Obama’s speech at the DNC in 2004. Now, I am shedding tears of overwhelming disappointment. I really had FAITH in this guy. He was so BELIEVABLE. Obama has lied & denied. The more I read, the more depressed I get. My belief in him has completely evaporated. Now, I support HILLARY CLINTON. She’s not perfect but given her SCHIP/TBI legislation, I know she’ll fight for ALL American families.

FYI. Obama didn’t move the Michigan and Florida primaries up. Obama didn’t decide to not have their delegates count. Obama went along with the plan that the DNC came up with. Clinton and Edwards and all the candidates agreed to the DNC ruling. Only when HilLiary was losing did she start calling for Michigan and Florida to count. She didn’t give a hoot until she could use those two states like she used Ohio.

Keep fighting Hillary — becasue the reality is you are our hope. OBAMA has no chance of winning a general election. I have never known so many of my friends who are loyal Democrats (White, Black, Latino, Asian, Jewish) who have now decided that there is no way they can support Obama if he wins the nomination.

Clinton is gaining strength. Obama is LOSING support. Right before the Texas/Ohio primaries, all the news agencies ran stories about how Hillary can’t win, that Obama’s beating her in the polls & that she should simply drop out. Of course, VOTERS PICKED HILLARY OVER OBAMA. In Texas, Obama commercials were plastered on TV, night & day. She still BEAT HIM! Hillary Clinton is gaining strength which is why the Obama folks want her to drop out. How amusing.

Right JJ and if according to Obama supers should not go against the will of the people so how do you expalin Kerry, Richardson and Kenndy’s vote??

Karl, the caucus count is not over in Texas, and Clinton supporters did go to it, the only counties they have counted is the major cites like Houston, and there is a controversy over the people running the caucus it appears they were paid for by Obama, and they were lying to the people voting and stealing the votes, so if that turns out to be true and from my own experience I believe it to be true, they handed you the paper and told you not to write in who you supported only write your name, and address they would fill out the rest, and guess who name they would put at the top, Obama’s, so that has to be settled first ,and the laws was called on severals polling places because Obama supporter were not letting Clinton supporter in to vote,,,,,,,,,,,,

Ah, I see where you wingnuts are going with this passport brouhaha.
The Obama campaign has a staffer who owns a corporations who employs a contractor with the State Department who triggers an alarm.
Therefore, in your version, maybe the Obama campaign wanted to look at their own candidates passport information so they could get their own candidates social security number! Scandal! Brilliant!
If you want to be useful to the Clinton campaign, maybe you should do what Obama supporters do and volunteer some time, or send some money. Oh, but wait, you can’t do that. You’re all Republicans!
71% agree with Obama’s speech and think he handled the Wright controversy.

Both Obama and Clinton had multiple chances to strike a mortal blow, BUT did not. And at this point why should the Super delegates do the candidates’ jobs for them by ending it. This will go all the way to Puerto Rico in June… might as well – let everyone vote. Then from that point until Convention each camp will make their pitch to the Supers and pledged (even the pledged delegates can change their mind). And on top of this the Convention must make a decision on Florida and Michigan.

I love it when the media and the Obama camp try to push this “it’s over” theme. It just fires up the Clinton supporters. I voted for Clinton in Texas because they were trying to count her out. It also makes Clinton look better when she wins in PA. The Comeback Kid!!! Keep saying it’s over so the couch potatoes will be even more energized to go to the polls and prove you wrong.

Cheryl __________he posted them all earlier, maybe he is tried of posting them for people and figured if they cared they would go find them, I know one was on fox,

Totally, Mona!!!

OK – YES the general election is electoral college – however it is winner take all and it is not a cacaus – so please go back to your history books.. and if the nominating process followed the electoral system – hillary would be about 200 delegates ahead of obama.. so please do not talk to me about democracy…. there is no porportionality in the general election – 1 vote more means you get all the electoral votes..
and let it go to the convention.
at this point all mccain has to sit back is watch and he will be president…
the democrats can;t run anything .. just look at this nominaitng mess

Michigan and Florida both held legal elections and the votes should be counted!! All candidates were on the Democratic ballot but Obama chose to have his name removed later from just the Michigan ballot. Seems odd he stayed on the Florida ballot though, huh? Maybe he thought he might have a chance in FL especially since he had national cable ads running (even though all candidates agreed not to advertise in both states to appease the DNC). I’m sure both states will thank the DNC in the Fall with their overwhelming support for McCain or an independent candidate.

Hillary supporter here who will absolutely not support Obama in November and everyone I know feels the same. Our party is falling apart.

Obama is a radical and McCain is just moderate enough to pacify the Reagan democrats and the independents. There is no way Obama can win in November. And if you think he can, you’re living in the Land of Oz.

DC Voter — you are dreaming about any “huge shift” to Clinton — today’s polls were split on that issue — and if you look ahead to the coming weeks, my guess is that any “huge shift will be AWAY from Clinton.

I was gonna vote for Obama until I realized he was a fraud. It all sounded good until those videos came out on ABC and then I saw the true Obama. I just don’t think our country can handle a race war that he would bring on. I know Hillary has the experience to lead from DAY 1!

I know Hillary has the experience to lead and fight McCain. Obama can’t win the general election so we for the sake of the party need to rally around Hillary. We have to think of the party first! Right people?

Michigan and Florida held their elections early with full knowledge that the DNC wouldn’t count them. Both Obama and Clinton agreed that they wouldn’t count. Of course, once she realized that she was screwed, Clinton tried to change the rules. Obama, on the other hand, has repeatedly maintained that he would abide by whatever the DNC decided. Michigan and Florida tried to organized revotes with the DNC, but those plans have fallen through. Try as you might, you can’t blame Obama for any of this.
And the desperation starts to take over…

so, the clinton camp is saying, “we never promised or intended to run a positive campaign, but obama did, and now he’s being negative, so he’s worse than we are, because we were honest in admitting from the beginning that we had no plans to shy aware from being dirty and nasty.”
wow, i’ve really gained a newfound faith in hillary.
this is so absurd that it almost can’t be a serious response.
i can’t be the only one who sees how preposterous this is.

Karl: TX is not done counting votes from the first round of the caucuses. TX SOS said maybe Monday. But the subsequent conventions can change the count anyway. You ask where were the Clinton supporter in the caucuses? Many had to go to work or take care of the kids and could not keep waiting all night. Many caucus locations did not even open until 930 pm even though people were waiting since 7 pm. Many Clinton supporters who tried to wait were told the caucuses were cancelled (falsely). In TX the first person in the door gets to control the caucus. There were reports of several instances where Clinton supporters were kept out of the buildings where caucuses were being held. There were some cases with video evidence from cell phones and blackberries. There were reports of primary officials illegally accepting caucus sign in sheets before the primaries were closed. TX caucus is not like other states where the stay and bicker back and forth. You simply submit your sign in sheet with your vote and leave. The state was unable to handle the turnout and had said in writing that either candidate could audit the results. The Clinton camp requested an audit and TX is refusing to allow it. Independent groups will likely file suit and possibly the Clinton camp which is their right. If the TX caucus has nothing to hide and did not cheat, why are they refusing the audit? TX results are not going to be known for some time unfortunately. But as with any caucus, the time limits prevent many core democrats from participating. The TX SOS said Clinton won TX because the caucus voters are the same ones who voted in the primaries which she won by a significant margin.

Not over, they say?!
Have a look at today’s Gallup daily tracking poll -
now the end game for Hillary has really begun. She’ll not get past June.
Obama wins 6% since March 19, the toughest day in a bad week, Clinton loses 4%. From -7 Obama jumps to + 3.
So, he ALREADY recovered from the blows. Now THAT is a fighter, THAT is an incredible candidate, THAT would make a once-in-a-lifetime President!

It is not a surprise that Mrs. Clinton’s campaign is saying what it has to say in order to continue.
It is nearly certain that the race card and stroke-the-guilt strategy of Mr. Obama’s campaign will win him the nomination. What he has played is a dangerous card and will do ill-service to the country in the long run. Of course, he may not care as long as he wins the election. A man imbibing a separatist and ethno-centric preaching for 20 years wants to bridge the racial divide? One must be kidding!
For all the “unconventional” nature of the campaign that Mr. Obama’s camp claims to engage in, it has done nothing more than a “slice and dice” conventional campaign. But this time with race and the American guilt.
Unfortunately, I will have to vote for him in the general mainly due to the current imbalance in the US supreme court.

ITS NOT OVER!
Reading the comments, I can’t help think about a famous scene from a movie.
Did you say over? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!……And it ain’t over now. Cause when the goin gets tough ….. the tough get goin! Who’s with me? Let’s go!……LET’S DO IT!!
Alright Clinton wingnuts GO DO IT!!!!!
IT IS NOT OVAH!

Here’s the amazingly good Gallup Daily Tracking Poll news yoday:
“Barack Obama has quickly made up the deficit he faced with Hillary Clinton earlier this week, with the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update on Democratic presidential nomination preferences showing 48% of Democratic voters favoring Obama and 45% Clinton.
Obama’s campaign clearly suffered in recent days from negative press, mostly centering around his association with the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Perhaps as a result, Clinton moved into the lead in Gallup’s Wednesday release, covering March 16-18 polling. But Obama has now edged back ahead of Clinton due to a strong showing for him in Friday night’s polling, perhaps in response to the endorsement he received from well-respected New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a former rival for the nomination.”

Barack Obama is presented as the Democratic option, McCain leads 59% to 30% in Arkansas. OH YEAH HE IS A WINNER,For Obama, the reviews are 35% favorable and 62% unfavorable.Georgia found that John McCain has a solid lead over both potential Democratic candidates. McCain leads Barack Obama 53% to 40%New polling shows McCain leading both Democrats in Georgia and Arkansas. In Minnesota, the race is very close.On Saturday, Obama’s favorable ratings slipped a little further—46% favorable, 51% unfavorable. Before the Pastor Problem became big news, Obama was viewed favorably by 52%. One month ago, he was viewed favorably by 56%. McCain is viewed favorably by 54% of voters nationwide and unfavorably by 43%.

According to Dem. Party Chair in Florida, there is historical record that the DNC eventually allowed the delegates to be countede from Iowa, NH and Navada when they had voilated the DNC canlender, just the way that Florida and Michigan did. So, why wouldn’t the DNC count the vote from Florida? Because Howard Dean is backing Obama??? And of course we blame Obama for not allowing a Michgan revote!!!

This is the most exciting election season in a long time. It wonderful that almost all states will have the opportunity to have their voices heard and votes counted in the primaries. When the nominee wins to early then the voters in other states were not heard. Lets go through the end and see what the rest of the country has to say!

DCVoter…
I have seen info that Hillary Clinton was investigated for
cattle Futures with a miraculous winfall of 10,000% after her husband had a donation to his campaign from the head of Tyson and that same man gave ehr the stock tip and Bill Clinton raised the laws in arkansas for weight of trucks…
I have seen her go through lengthy and costly battles with the ability to pull strings as the first lady for the white water scandal
I have seen her thank a man on video for throwing her a multi-million dollar party and Bill Clinton saying he was going to work with this same man’s company…only to later have the Clinton’s say they had nothing to do with this man and he was a liar…and then have the federal gov’t fine them 35, 000 for inapproapriate reporting of funds…
I have seen investigations over FBI files that were taken and used by the Clintons against their eneimies
I have seen people who donated to the campaign get quid pro quo staying in the Lincoln Bedroom
I have seen camapaign finance come from Chinese officials
I have seen
I do not have time for this …so if you want to throw out a scandal because Sen. Clinton refuses to let go of her “inherent” marriage right to the seat of the Presidency of the US
Then bring it if you are going to bring it…
The Clinton campaign goes further down this road of being a kamikaze and putting their own self interests and brain washed stupporters first…
it’s time to change …and they haven’t seen anything Kamikaze like us letting out all the Clinton scandals.
so DON’T start dropping “I heard”‘s…
and scandals… The Clintons do not and have not a prayer on that front…

The premise of the article is flawed, and so the whole article is flawed. It presumes that the superdelegates are going to vote as a bloc. However, the superdelegates are INDIVIDUALS, and if an undecided superdelegate comes from a state, district, county, etc. that Hillary WON, it will be very easy for them to “overturn the national will.” That is, after all, THEIR JOB…to represent their local interests, the will of the local people…..not to mention (in the privacy of their mind) their own personal preference of the 2 candidates. What the Politico columnist is missing is that, rightly or wrongly, this Rev. Wright stuff has done SERIOUS damage to Obama. It has begun the (unfortunate, but real) polarizing of Obama as a “racial” candidate. Even if Obama is as innocent and decent as the driven snow (which I believe he is), the JUDGEMENT issue, in consorting with Wright (and Wright’s blessing of Farrakhan, etc.), is going to haunt him. And, frankly, there are enough whites that resent that kind of Wright hysteria, conspiracy-theory delusion, etc., that they will WALK AWAY from Obama, on this basis. Hillary wins PA by 20 points, WV by 20 points, KY by 20 points, PR by 20 points. Scores a surprise 2-5 point victory in NC. You get the get the picture. Sure, she is still behind in pledged delegates, but who cares; she has the momentum, and that is a BIG DEAL. She will have won ALL of the 10 or so largest states (EXCEPT Illinois). Maybe even the popular vote. What the Politico article misses is that Obama’s winning an exaggeratedly LARGE share of the votes in small states sets up a problem for him. There are more (I believe) remaining uncommitted superdelegates from areas that Hillary WON. They are not going to be worried about the “national will,” when the national will is 1) yesterday’s news 2) Hillary has big time momentum 3) NATIONAL polls start showing Hillary, say 5 points or more ahead of Obama and a stronger opponent vs. McCain and 4) their going for Hillary only represents “the will of my local constituency”

Dear Democratic Super-Delegates, Delegates, and Most Importantly the Voters in The Great States of Florida, and Michigan, and as important the Great States yet to vote…Please think about this:
To hear Nancy Polosi the Democratic Speaker of the House, say to honor the will of the voters…Makes me sick. As, the will of not one, but two States are not being counted. If this were the case, the votes, would put Hillary Clinton at just 100,000 votes (possibly) then Mr. Obama. It is clear to me, that to disenfranchise these voters, no matter who wins is totally un-democratc. If my sources are correct, the Florida date was changed by the Repulican controlled Government, if true, then, wouldn’t it be fair to let the results stand, as both did not campaign, but both WERE on the BALLOT. The voters of Florida have indeed spoken, and have fallen apon deaf ears. Also, Michigan, would do a re-vote, paid by private funds, thus taking away the excuse that the DNC cannot afford to pay for a re-vote, due to using this money for the actual Presidential race. There must be fairness to all the voters, not the cronies that made these bad decisions, to be counted. Even the candidates, or should I say Mr. Obama should be over-ruled to protect the Constitutional right to be counted. It seems, just as the issue I mentioned about Mr. Obama’s church and Pastor, were known in 2007, no one in mass media would report it, can anyone say voter manipulation? Florida and Michigan voters and delegates should count, there still is plenty of time, yet, Mr. Obama “the great Uniter” is already dividing the Country by leaving out two whole states. If you stand by your principles, than you would not be afraid of the POSSIBILITY of losing, but, living, and standing by your Campaign promises, if you don’t, then it is all about power and winning at any cost, the cost of two Democratic Primaries…is this the change you are refering to Mr. Obama???!!!

dl
your so called cattle future’s info is about 30 years old…..and has been since discredited……yawn

Fact: Obama says one thing, but does something else in action. And he DID NOT support Michgan revote!!! Check the fact before making your statement.
Note: Neither Obama nor Hillary can be considered to be legitimate nominee unless both Florida and Michgan’s votes are counted. This is very simple.

I have never heard so much noise from 10-20 people
It’s Over

Mattohio
It is has never had an official investigation the statute of limitations ran out but nice try…
here is the “official results of that 1 controversy …it is similar to most…the big Republican conspiracy where she was vetted supposedly…didn’t focus on anything after they found him lying on the stand …you all don’t get that these “things” these scandals…have not been vetted …and most that have ended up in lawsuits, fines and deaths…
Thank you Ms. Williams-come-campaign-manager for cleaning the dead man’s office before investigators got there.
and releasing schedules and blacking that info out.

I am a lifelong Democrat. However, if the Democrats insist on running a racist, empty-suited, inexperienced liar just because he gives speeches that make their legs tingle, then the party should be destroyed. It’s pretty clear that McCain will be our next president. I want Hill to run this thing until there is political blood all over the campaign trail. The Dems aren’t going to win the White House anyway, and the party needs a wakeup call.

GHM: I am not a democrat nor republican. I am a thinker and I look at the facts. And I am sorry to tell you (assuming you are one of those blind Obama supporter) that I and all in my whole family will vote for McCain if Obama is the nominee! Obama is a liar and racist, we would be doing this country a great disservice if we would elect him to be our President.

dl,
like DCVoter said RNC spent anywhere between $40 and $70 million to rake the cattle future’s issue, but got no where….maybe we should use Obama’s $55million from February to investigate this….oh wait…..he wasted it in TX, OH and RI for nothing….

In 2000, the Clintons and their divisive Monica scandal DENIED AL GORE & doomed the Dems.
Bush took advantage of Clintons’ disgrace, and is now destroying even Americans’ homes.
Fast forward to 2008, and the divisive Clintons are AGAIN destroying Dems chances and enabling McBush, who will destroy even more of America!
And yes, some Americans don’t mind America’s doom and gloom of a THIRD TERM McBush or divisive Clintons
Americans have themselves to blaming for voting and re-voting Bush destruction of America.
America WILL AGAIN have themselves to blame if through SPITE they re-vote McBush or divisive Clintons.

Why should Hillary give up for a man who is destroying the Democratic Party and its prospects for November. You hang on in there Hillary and don’t be pulled down into the gutter by that two-bit arrogant and cocky Chicago local politician. They’ll have to widen the White House doors to accommodate his ego should he ever be elected.Take it all the way to the convention Hillary and if Obama doesn’t ok. the seating of the Florida and Michigan delegates then he doesn’t believe in democracy other than when it suits his ego trip.

DCVoter…
I don’t need to rely on wikipedia…
I urge everyone to type in Clinton and scandals and see what happens…
type in Clinton and almost anything and you will come up with atleast one…
type in Clinton and Cattle
Clinton and lawsuit
Clinton and trust
Clinton and self
for that matter type in Hillary and those same words…
everyone should see for themselves.
Enough with what ever spin you are trying to scorch this earth with…
As angry as some of you see …just watch how angry people will be if Sen. Clinton somehow spun some info into something because SHE needs to win.
Which candidate put the other party ahead of their own but behind themselves…
that is what you should be asking.

Take it to the floor Hill!

I will never vote for Obama! He is a creep who does not want MI and FL votes to count!

if she left her desire to be Queen of America at the door ______________I have a ideal how about Obama stay there and leave his desire to be the Messiah at the dump,

“It’s not over”??
The first leading indicator is Hillary’s funding will dry up.
Bill Clinton’s library and “Global Initiative” will also see funding shrivel. Funding was being provided as a “bank shot” to curry access to the Clintons. That’s now ending.
Next, the Clinton campaign will come unglued as staff and volunteers read the handwriting. They will move quickly to join Obama and remain politically relevant.
Next, the Clinton campaigns phone calls will get returned. Reporters and pundits will “predict” the end of the Clinton campaign so they will be on the record as being “first”.
The national press, crowds, and interest in anything Hillary says will begin to drop precipitously. That process has already begun.
Salvage has already begun. What can Hillary salvage out of all the contacts, funders, contacts and unfulfilled promises?
Her strategy will now turn to consolidating whatever power she can retain in the Senate in case Obama loses. The Clintons could lay claim to the DNC apparatus and begin undermining McCain who will be 75 years old by the next election. Hillary will be 64.
Bill will be in California playing off his celebrity. He will have fulfilled his obligation to Hillary, balanced his debt to her, and will cut her loose.

Bill has his ire up.
Hillery’s girdle is too tight.
She is in serious trouble.
Let’s face it — it’s over!

Neither were born in Illinois. Both were educated by life’s challenges. Both were faced with wars not of their choosing. Both had to confront racial divides. Both emerged from Illinois. Both Great men of stature.
Lincoln & Obama

dl – when you begin to judge Senator Clinton without referring to or consideration of Bill Clinton you might have some credibility. I have tried hard not to judge Obama because of his wife. For argument’s sake, let’s set aside the charges of corruption on both sides because after all we are talking about politicians.
The differences are clear between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton:
Throw out the First Lady years and compare resumes, accomplishments, and voting records. Clinton is heads above Obama.
Now compare campaign proposals – 95% the same with Clinton saving money and with Obama significantly increasing personal and capital gains taxes.
Now compare the campaigns themselves – Obama has unlimited monies and is not getting a good ROI indicating he is an inexperienced executive. Clinton had an unprepared manager but quickly turned the campaign around to efficiently manage her ROI. The Clinton camp has gone negative on the issues. The Obama camp has gone negative with attacks of a personal nature.
On preparedness, Obama has never lived and worked in the WH as the spouse of a President and represented or participated in foreign relations in over 80 countries. Some included work to help handle crises and support our troops. Clinton is fully aware of the challenges faced every day by the President and is respected around the world. Obama is a relative unknown only having been overseas 3 times as Senator. The media certainly has exposed him but this is not the same as working relationships with heads of state.
On electability, the facts on electoral count and the current polling trends indicate Obama is no longer electable. We will see what the remaining voters have to say, what the court decisions are, and what the delegates and superdelegates have to say in August.
ALL that is left is judgment, credibility, and patriotism. These are all subjective. Until the convention, let’s try to stay credible with facts and clearly sell our cases on subjective traits instead of personal attacks on other posters. How about that?

The fight is’nt over yet, have you not heard the news, that brothel owners association is backing Hillary Clinton’s campaign, that all the prostitutes were out there working for her, watch this is hillarious he he he he.

Lee – any of them will still be Senators unless they resign to take the office of President. One key thing I think most of the voters are forgetting is they all still have those jobs and that they all are rich enough that they will not be affected financially if the other ones fail to improve the economy over the next 4 years. All of them can run again in 4 years and easily blame the failure of their opponents. This is politics and it realy comes down to who you have faith in after reviewing all the data, resumes, speeches, etc.

Both were educated by life’s challenges=====wait Obama went to the best schools was born into a wealthy family, Lincoln was born in a cabin with no floor and learned how read by candle lite, in that cabin, and Obama and his friends say that Lincoln his self was a racist,

She will stay in until she raises enough money to pay herself back. After that, she is out.

The entire family campaigning against one man.
Dang!

It is over when Obama drops out. We won’t allow him to steal the election by disenfranchizing voters in FL and MI. His poor judgment and lies in the case of his pastor and the fact that he can NOT win the swing states such as Ohio and Pennsilvania and are too much of liability for the Democrats in GE. Above all, there is sure a lot of other stuff as Bill said that will keep poping up about Obama and that’s because Obama is a fraud. Hillary will fight all the way to the end to make sure this guy doesn’t ruin our chances for November.
Give ‘em hell Hillary.

Greg – if you only rely on the Gallup, yesterday it was just the opposite of today. LOL Rasmussen flips back and forth also and they are as respected as Gallup. I look at things from a statistics perspective and check the details. That is why the combined trends are much more indicative.
I dont think Richardson was that much of a blow personally. He is an opportunist and always has been. I am sure they know that. Politically, we will see if he has any impact on the hispanic voters (I doubt he will because he has done little for them and he didnt have their support when he was a candidate).

atypicalwhitewomen… Obama did go on fox. Look at the website.

We demand in re-vote in Ohio. The voters deserve the whole truth about NAFTA.

“It’s not that the Clinton campaign is claiming they haven’t been negative in their attacks on Obama. They seemed to concede that they, too, have launched negative attacks. But they contend that Obama promised his supporters something different, a better kind of politics, and in their view, he isn’t keeping his word.”
Promising a better kind of politics and letting someone use you as a punching baq are two different things.

You may be right Jannet
Make sure you lump in Bill since he endorsed Farrakan twice
LOL look it up
this is silly
it is over for Hillary

Glad you enjoyed it, MattOhio. Thought Big Brother would blot that one out. Haven’t heard much about Larry. The repubs will have fun with that one.

A Word To The Wise……Judge not, that ye be not judged. and what with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye. Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and,behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

To ALL Obama Supporters: The more you insult and attack those who hold different views from you, the less likely that Obama will win the general election. If you think Obama is such a worthy candidate, why don’t you just present his merits to win the support for him, rather than attacking others? Maybe you do not have enough lists of his accomplishments to present, thus attacking others and asking Hillary to quit now are the only way to go?

words of Louis Farrakhan ====In this presidential campaign, Sen. Obama “has been groomed, and wisely so, to be seen more as a unifier,

On an academic note, atypicalwhitewoman brought up a very interesting point about Lincoln. As I noted a few posts ago, by today’s standards, Lincoln was racist. He and Charles Darwin (born the same day, same year) were both ahead of their time, but also products of their times. As a scientist I battle with creationists who harp upon the “racist” comments of Darwin. One could also, by modern standards, call Darwin a sexist. But both Lincoln and Darwin set the stage for greater objectivity, greater understanding. Like Obama, I strongly disagree with some of Rev. Wrights statements. But, like Lincoln and Darwin, Wright is a product of his times, as correctly noted by Obama in his “More perfect Union” speech. Let’s move forward. Of the three remaining candidates on either side of the aisle, I see Obama as the most insightful one to take us forward.

A good place read about Obama views and stands is a web site called The Final Call

atypicalwhitewomen….And your point is?

Jock: well said!

And Paula if you say the Boston Globe is not telling the truth because they are backing Obama then we can conclude that all media outlets are not telling the truth about the canidates they didn’t endorse. So how can we believe anything they say.

Let’s review what Lincoln said at a time when the country was faced with racial division and he was having toconsider who to stand by and who to denounce (the north or the south):
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”
Yes, Lincoln was ahead of his time but he was not so ambitious that he did not hold true to what was right and stand with the racists of that time who embraced slavery. Obama does not have the good judgment to part with Wright and his chuch’s teachings. This leads to the perception that he therefore thinks they are right, whether he publicly denies it or not.

Obama is so much more talented than Hillary – he has had to work so much harder to get where he is in this race since he didn’t have the benefit of 8 years of publicity being the wife of the president of the US.
I’ll be saddened if he doesn’t get the nomination and yes, I would write it off as a failing of the electorate. But I’m not so stupid as some to taunt that I’ll vote for McCain in revenge. I’ll hold my nose and vote for a Hillary as the much lesser of two evils.

To West Coast Messenger and More on Obama:
Excellent job of keeping the focus where it should be.
The endorsement by Richardson was a DNC attempt to divert attention from Wright and disenfranchising MI/FL voters.

Malthusian,
I have to question your claim of “science” credentials since you are making a quantum leap away from the actual data, by stating that Obama is the most “insightful” candidate. How exactly is this shown? Are you suggesting that his twenty year history with Reverend Wright, where Obama stood silent as a mouse, shows insight? Did he show insight by bringing Wright on his campaign after he knew that Wright speaks in a publicly inappropriate manner. Today, your hypothesis seems to be based on alchemy, not real science.
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HAVE the AUDACITY to HOPE the DNC does not disenfranchise Michigan and Florida.
CAN WE COUNT Michigan and Florida???
YES we can, yes we can, yes we can!!!!!
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DC … we meet again. Nice to hear from you, and good quote from Lincoln. But the fact is that Lincoln considered the “negroes” (as I recall the term) to be “inferior” (as I definitely recall the term.) I’ll find the quotes (there were more than one.)

there is a story at the final call that the watchers here do not want posted, is say that Obama knows where is loyalties lie and on who shoulders he stands,

This is a pattern I see when ever the election is closing, the Clinton camapign gets the media or manipulate the media saying that Clintons cannot win causing the people and its campaign to get fired up (negative motivation which is powerful one)or always playing the victim card this is how they won New Hampshire, Ohio and Texas. So Obama camp should watch themselves and should send measured responses without being cocky and as well as give confidence to the superdelegates that they will still keep the lead.

“Yaaaawwwwnnnnn!!!”
“Hoo Hum???”

citizenvoter – a woman has to work much harder than a black man in our society. The statistics clearly support that and the media/societal acceptance of sexism clearly illustrates that. Obama did not work hard to get where he is today. He went to private schools. Clinton went to public schools. He did not face racism in Hawaii and was raised by well to do white grandparents and his mother. Both of his fathers where also not economic victims. Clinton was raised in middle class and worked hard even today to break the glass ceiling as a female in a male dominated profession as an attorney and as a Senator. She is much more accomplished in spite of the challenges she has faced. While black men do tend to have the highest rate of unemployment, there is no disparity in pay for those employed. Women still make 70 cents on the dollar compared to men and face sexism every day of their lives in society and the workplace.

that is ok i cause I don’t believe a word he says either, I read the speeches that Farrakhan and X and Sharpton have wrote and they are the same speeches that Obama is feeding to the american people , the only difference is when the others spoke them they were speaking to only black people, and it was to unify the black people against the whites,

It is interesting that so many people think that Obama sitting in that church for 20 years makes him somehow ineligible to be President, when none of you have any idea what Obama actually heard during those 20 years. But I guess if you don’t know you can just make it up.

PaseoDelMar – What are you talking about? Hillary is not out front in anything, and is not likely to become so.

You republicans are pathetic. Quit pretending you’re a democrat. And the rest of you just plain stupid for falling for this. Can’t you see what’s happening here.

I agree with you Jayhawk. The black people would be so up in arms if the shoe were on the other foot! Anyway, if most of the people havent noticed there are certain news channels, radio stations, that are very biased about each canidate. You cant believe anything they say either. The Obama campaign wants the country to FORGET about the words from his pastor and move on to race unity, PLEASE. Don you know hes just scrambling around now trying to find any little thing to take all eyes off him?? And for all you people that dont know there are more people of non color in the United States so this means that if every black voted for Obama he still couldnt win. Some of you need to top listening to this jive turkey, as so many others have said Mccain got this in the bag.You wait until the Mccain campaign gets a hold of him, he wont survive and a lot of his supporters are going to look real silly. Go Hillary.

I wish Obama would have waited his turn and paid his dues to run for the presidency. Now he’s come and and really torn this party apart. So sad.

DCVoter,
Well said. Sexism is alive and well in our society, and this is the real sacred cow that the Democratic Party has not faced. Sexism does not run as deep in our party as it does with the R’s but there is vast room for improvement. When have we had a female head of the DNC? Ron Brown was a person of color in such a role, supported by none other than Bill Clinton, so the color barrier has already been broken by the Democrats. However, you’ve had had one male patriarch-type after another in charge. Women can seize control if they so choose, they outnumber male voters. They haven’t been about seizing control up to this point, but there will undoubtedly come a point in time where they are mad as hell and are not going to take this anymore.
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HAVE the AUDACITY to HOPE the DNC does not disenfranchise Michigan and Florida.
CAN WE COUNT Michigan and Florida???
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The Obama camp is now misleading the voters by saying about Hillary to quit. They are now defensive because the reamining superdelegates are watching the polls opinion and the Penn primary. the truth is Obama was scared to withdrwa because of pride and the sponsors’s money. Their kind of politics is downgrading because they mislead and twist the fact that Obama was prodded by the six powerful superdelegates to withdraw for the sake of the party and here they go making disinformation about Hillary’s to stop her bid. i hope the voters would think with reasons about Obama’s campaign as a complete insult to them.

Jock, as of thursday National Public Radio has Clinton ahead by 7 points. There was a brief article on MSN that said about the same thing.

Charles, Obama isn’t tearing the party apart. It’s every democrat tearing it apart. To blame it just on him is ignorant.

scott – the current Congress does not have enough of a dem majority to affect change… the reps block it… our terms for Senators require we vote dems in at least 2 cycles so keep voting for a dem congress so they can get close to or achive a filibuster proof congress… the other thing that is needed is a moderate in the WH, preferably a dem… mccain is a moderate also and is more qualified than Obama so my choices are Clinton or McCain… the only way for that to be our choices in Nov is to work hard for Clinton to get the nom

It sounds like you are saying now that trying to get blacks to vote is a bad thing??

Conservative columnist David Brooks said last night: “…no one can say that what Wright believes Obama believes. That’s just not true.”

jock – viewing voters by race is a bad thing so yes pursuing them by race is a bad thing… Clinton puts forth a plan and philosophy that unifies people behind common goals that benefot all people… unlike Obama who plays the race card consistently… the buyer’s remorse that the analysts are seeing indicated in the polls relate to that aspect… people are starting to see he used race to his benefit… no other ethnic group is voting for him based on race.. the numbers dont lie

To jock59801: Then, what does Obama believe? He has lied so much. We really no longer know what’s true any more.

Joseph – thank you for your service.
As a retired NCO I am sure you honored the non-prejudicial policies of the military. What is your opinion of General McPeak making sexist statements about Senator Clinton? What is your opinion of Obama needing McPeak on stage with him to criticize Bill Clinton? What is your view of Obama not denouncing the sexist remark as he said he would prior to that if it was done by any of his campaign? What do you think of someone denigrating a woman who is not only a respected Senator but also a former First Lady of the country you serve who has done much to support our troops then and now? Is this truly a man that you believe reflects the values of the military and our country?

myst – rewarding positive behaviors does not negate punishing negative ones… Hitler did a lot of good for uniting his country and grwoing his economy. Do we ignore his racism?

1proud – Judicial Watch found the max $2300 contributions to Obama’s campaign under the name of babies in diapers. Of course Obama had to return the ones found by the media. FEC rules do not require age to be revealed when donating so there is no way to know how many people are getting around campaign law. Richardson had similar contributions mothers made in the names of their kids (mothers admitted to the transgressions). Peas in a pod?

PaseoDelMar – Who wins the Democratic primary has nothing to do with who will win in Nov – and the link was broken

Barbie13607
I’ll not post any more here and end with, I believe that few of the posters live lives that reflect the values held by members of America’s armned forces. Duty, Honor, Country. Most of you think only of yourselves and of what will politically benefit yourselves.
By the way, I thought the decision to go to war in Iraq was crazy. I e-mailed Washington D.C. every day leading up to the war. America ends wars we do not start them.

the visous comments about Hillary drives me mad!she is the best running,Obama is nothing but a big mouth!he is full of lies, he needs to go some where else, and leave our country alone,he will never get our country under his control by the office of president,this man can sure put on a good show but that is all it is,we as Americans will never put him in office, he studied in yale to be a speaker and that is all, if we have to do it we will go to the other side and vote for mccain, it is not his color that turns me off, but his past, and his policy of lies

DCVoter, what I am saying is that some people don’t consider Rev Wright to be a racist otherwise he never would have been a recipient of those Commendations.

DC voter: Thats political crrectness gone mad… he is no different the the white hate groups

I think it is time for the Superdelegates to decide. This has gone on long enough. Obama and Hillary are destroying each other, the winner is McCain. I am an Obama supporter, but if he did not win the nomination, I will support her in the General Election. But it is getting so bad now, that many Obama supporters will not support Hillary, and many Hillary supporters will not support Obama. Winner, McCain. Superdelegates, do your freaking job and end this. Decide now, before it is too late. The Democratic Party is in danger of losing the Presidency. This should have been a slam dunk election but now, McCain is looking like a freaking saint. Superdelegates save the Party and decide now.

Mcain has a secret weapon that will help him defeat either Hillary or Barack….Mitt Romney! That’s right Mitt as running mate to Mcain. The conservatives uniting with the Moderate Republicans to defeat Marxist communist liberals who for their own in fighting have doomed their party and possibility to win the White House!

Wonder if this will get posted? “A status conference hearing is scheduled for April 25, 2008 in Los Angeles to set a trial date in Paul vs. Clinton. The court delayed setting a trial date back in February, but a new trial date is expected to be announced three days after the all important Pennsylvania primary. Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell is on the witness list in Paul v Clinton. He is a key witness and is going to be asked questions about money he failed to report.”

Here in the real world, Brother Wright, opened the door to his other world, the world of bigotry, racism, and anti-Americanism that only Obama could have known. Trust me, you can spin it how you wish but middle America is smart enough to understand that twenty years of listening to Wright was no silent protest on Obama’s part.

I am so sick of hearing the whining, mud slinging tactics that have far to often become acceptable displays of reactions in the public eye. Some of you love to pick at the lives of others,and why shouldnt we, we want the best person man or woman to run this country, however you will always have those people who hate on Hilliary ( becuz of Bill, or whatever simple reason one can come up with) The media is too quick to dismiss Hillary, and I will say it again Obama wants to DISTRACT the public right now, he wants to paint a perfect picture of himself and what better way to do it then to create the “perfect” speech.. Yea, whatever.

Philly – I agree and was very disturbed to find the hate groups that support Obama openly and dismiss his denunciations as just politics. having grown up in an area controlled by the KKK I can attest to their tactics. A candidate cannot control who endorses them but they can reject on principle. Obama did not reject Farrahan until he was publcily pressured by Clinton in the debate. He now does not reject the support of a church that honors hate group activities and beliefs. Claims to personally not agree with black separatism does not negate his actions to remain a member of the church and expose his kids to it. It enables black separatism and reeks of judgment issues. A person who is uncomfortable with his own heritage and who has been described by those who grew up with him as needing to be liked by everyone does not have the strength of character needed in a President. Clinton had no problem rejecting a hate group that tried to endorse her in 2000. She did not have to rescue him in that debate by pressuring him to reject. She is a true democrat and an American who stands on principles and exhibits good judgment unlike Obama.

Obama on Don Imus: “He didn’t just cross the line,” Obama said. “He fed into some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with today in America. It was a degrading comment. It’s one that I’m not interested in supporting.”
“Insults, humor that degrades women, humor that is based in racism and racial stereotypes isn’t fun,” the senator told ABC News.
“We all have First Amendment rights. And I am a constitutional lawyer and strongly believe in free speech, but as a culture, we really have to do some soul-searching to think about what kind of toxic information are we feeding our kids,” he concluded.
Can anyone say, WRIGHT?

Rev. Wright talked in nasty tones about Natalie Holloway being killed and Obama says nada.
But he’s all over Don Imus??
You got to be freakin kidding me! Can you imagine the commercials the GOP is working on as we speak??
President McCain — get used to it!

An article in the Washington Post today from a woman who left Rev. Wright’s crazy hatemongering church.
At least someone had the COURAGE….question is, why didn’t Obama leave?

It’s not over till it’s over and those desperate people supporting Obama that want to call it over, shame on you. He’s nowhere near the magic number, more states will vote, its a close race, so why are some people calling it over????? Obama who keeps saying this race is about the voters, THEN SHUT THE HELL UP AND LET THE PEOPLE VOTE!!!!! Stop deceiving the voters to think that its over and u have won or that you can’t be beaten. YOU ARE UNELECTABLE OBAMA. You are lying your way to everyday you are still on this race. QUIT NOW OBAMA AND TAKE YOUR NEW BFF RICHARDSON WITH YOU.

Bobby – that is not the same as the sr advisor IN the Obama camp who “heads up” the other company, in other words that person not only directly employs its violators but has a vested interest working inside the Obama camp. The tie you posted is not a direct tie like the one with the Obama camp. There are many people who donated to both campaigns.

Just trying to help: Clinton 64% to Obama 36% in EVERY REMAINING CONTEST. If Hillary can’t do that, she can’t win (without a superdelegate over-ride… in which case about half the Dem Party will abandon her).

dog
under the bus….as many as you want.
So the Answer be….how many ever times to make you happy.

I think people need to realize that when HRC says it’s not over, there is quite a bit of precedence. In 1992, her husband’s candidancy was believed to be over with the Gennifer Flowers scandal. Then there is the Monica Lewinsky and all of the other associated scandals. They survived. There is also the impeachment. He survived. To Obama supporters, nothing, and I mean nothing is in the bag. Expect this fight to become even uglier because you’re not dealing with someone “typical.” HRC believes this is her destiny, and no one will take that away from her. Her worst nightmare is to go up against Obama.

Biggest reason to oppose Hillary Clinton: Her strong, longtime relationship with the DLC … the “Republican Wing of the Democratic Party”

ratmatch – i applaud your effort to apply simple math. Unfortunately, that is not how it works. The pledged delegates can change they vote up to the national convention time when they actually cast them. Usually there is a small percentage that does change but the margin between candidates is too large to tip the nomination. This is race is so close that it matters. Currently, Obama is only ahead in delegates by 3.5%. The remaining votes will likely reduce that difference even smaller. So this is not just about superdelegates even though the media hypes it as so. It wont take many of the pledged delegates changing their allegiance at the convention to tip the nomination either way.

I think that Obama just should drop of the race and unite the party. He is a liar and not electable!!!

Nobody should be counting the Clintons out because they really don’t care about anybody but themselves and will destroy Democrats chances so that she can have another bite at the apple in ’12.
Anybody who doesn’t see that really hasn’t been paying attention the last year . . .

Kiwi et al – if you want to do research step back and look at Senator Clinton’s work on behalf of civil rights and the numerous awards she has been given from many races and denominations. She is also Methodist and not associated with radical right wing churches. She has been a humanitarian all her life and has a record to prove it. You might want to consider the sources and look at all the facts.

@DCVoter: I agree that the candidates beating each other up a little is a good thing in the end. The problem I see with the superdelegates is that at this point they will likely need to override the pledged delegates of Senator Obama. Well, in some ways, that’s no big deal because it is their job to do what’s best for the party. However, in most conceivable scenarios this will be considered “stealing” the nomination by Senator Clinton. I think it’s been widely supposed and reported that she has extensive support among the superdelegates. So let them vote now. There aren’t enough to let either win at this point and the remaining States/territories will decide the rest. Again, I think most have decided by this point on which of the two is their preference. So why bleed the donors in a protracted race that is no longer being run on the issues? Save the money and effort for the general election.

TCG-Huumm? Let me see . . . was it before Obama threw his grandmother under the bus the first time . . . or was it when Obama threw his grandmother under the bus for the second time? Nope. Could be just before the U KKK of A . . . nope. Was it around G*d D*mn America . . . nope. Let me get back to you on that.

TCG-Rush is a bad, bad, boy!

MIguy – I am sure that Dean’s failed fundraising efforts for the DNC would love to be supplemented by funds from the campaigns (not sure that is legal though). He wanted this to not happen but the DNC committee controls many of these decisions like the schedules. He really has no power to make decisions unfortunately. We can if if if all day long but it wont change reality. Many of the SDs are uncommitted and I think they all should have stayed uncommitted so as to not influence the voters. If you notice, it is the seniors and elders who are wise enough to wait. It is their job to ensure the most electable candidate is nominated. My guess is they will wait until the pledged delegate votes are cast at the convention and hope that results in who they think is most electable. If that is not the case, I think they will have to deal with reality and it is their job to educate the party voters as to why they tip the nomination. Think about it – no matter what they do, half the party could say the superdelegates played favorites and went against the voters. If we had a national primary (same day)and pledged delegates were equally apportioned then it would reflect the will of the voters. The way we have it now, it does not reflect the will of the voters in the same snapshot of time. The SDs will have to deal with the buyers remorse that is happening too unless the pledged delegates responsibly cast votes based on what they think the will of the voters in their areas are at the time of the convention. That is how it is supposed to work in principle. We have to wait and see if it does.

Wow. I sure hope most of the self-proclaimed Clinton supporters on here are lying. I mean, I’d bet anything that nearly all of them are Limbaugh-sent Busheep in disguise. But if not, if these really ARE Clinton backers …. well then, Hillary is even worse than we thought!

Dog you like to spout off at the mouth but you really don’t like answering questions do you. You would rather belittle people. Why is that.

Shevotedforwar!-Do you condemn every single one of Obama’s Super delegates who voter with Clinton on Iraq? Will you insist and write the Obama campaign and demand they be dropped from supporting Obama?

Myst-Boo!

I can vote for Obama knowing I am voting for someone who had the courage to stand up and did not support the war to prove toughness.___________________You might want to go back and check his record on that , he has supported the war on every vote, and he did not vote for the war ,cause he was not there,

I can’t believe that a true Dem would vote for Mc Cain….. He may very well win but to vote his in is just plain crazy. If Obama doesn’t win I will just stay home or write him in. But I will not vote for Mc Cain

Hillary Clinton is just BARELY a Democrat. So if she quits now, maybe she could hitch a ride with McCain as his VP?

At least when Huckabee kept going and going when everyone knew it was a losing battle, an exercise in futility, he did so with a pleasant demeanor and not a whiff of a desire to destroy his party or the eventual nominee. To bad the girl from Arkansas can’t learn a lesson from him.

What the Clinton people never address is the math. There is no possibility of Hillary ever getting more pledged delegates or the more of the popular vote than Obama. To win, she would have to get the superdelegates to overturn the will of the voters. Not going to happen. Clinton people need to wake up.

Only wingnuts Like Hillary,
Sad And True..
Its the Axis of Incoherence, I guess.

Shevoted – you obviously havent watched the debates and interviews. Clinton said specifically if there is one vote she could take back it would be the 2002 authorization. Obama was not a US Senator but specifically stated in 2004 he did not know how he would have voted since he didnt have all the information to review. After that, he voted exactly the same way as Clinton did EVERY time. Then he followed her lead to work to end the war. He is simply using the issue to play politics… his record speaks loudly if you listen.

The only thing that can be had with Clinton’s continuation is the destruction of the Democratic Party. She will not get the black vote.
You’re wrong. THIS RACE IS OVER. This is as if one team in the Superbowl has been blown out early, but the commentators are trying to keep you watching by saying that there is still a chance that they can come back.
Hillary can’t win in November, and she has already lost the nomination of her own party. Obama has more states, more popular vote, and more delegates.
“Sorry, it`s not emotional, just the math as Obamabots always like to point to in this primary and the delegate lead”
Tell that to the MAJORITY of people who have voted for Obama because he has won more states, popular vote, and delegates. I suppose we spent millions of dollars on elections all around the country for nothing because in the end we just have to give the nomination to the person that YOU LIKE. **** You. This is not Gore-Bush 2000 again. You cannot have this election without winning it, and as the math points out, you will not win the election, all she can do now is try and bring down as many people in the party with her in her sunken ship.

DCVoter,
I appreciate your intelligence and passion and the simple fact you’re articulate puts you far ahead most of the people posting here. However, it’s frustrating that you fail to realize that intelligent people can disagree.
Clinton may have never been my first choice, but I respected her and would have accepted it if she had won the nomination fairly and squarely. I’ve researched policy and actually find Obama and Clinton to be fairly close on most issues. However, her behavior during this campaign has been very disillusioning. She consistently dismisses most of the country as “not mattering”, tries to change the rules to suit her, and generally basks in a sense of entitlement. She didn’t even have a plan for after Super Tuesday, which is why Obama was able to sweep twelve states in a row. To come from being consistently twenty points behind to becoming the all-but-certain winner is a political miracle, and I think it speaks well for his ability to sit in the Oval Office while strengthening the Democratic majority in Congress. While Clinton has spent all of her time in the “important” states, Obama has been, state by state, a grassroots coalition what will not only support him but other Democratic candidates in areas where they usually struggle. This, among other things (especially the last week, where he responded to controversy by giving one of the greatest political speeches in decades), really gives me sense that Obama wants to lead while Clinton just wants to be the President.
And this shift towards Clinton you keep talking about? I just don’t see it happening. Today’s Gallup poll puts Obama three points ahead, and there’s never been a consistent dip for Obama in any polls I’ve seen. These things tend to fluctuate (I’m sure they’ll each slip and rise a few points in the weeks to come), but there’s nothing to suggest that the Wright controversy is seriously endangering Obama’s support. We’d be seeing it by now.
What’s next? Clinton will probably win Pennsylvania (No one really expected Obama to win it even before the controversy, and he hasn’t been counting on it), but now that the Florida and Michigan revotes are all but dead, that’s the only card she has left. She’ll likely win West Virginia and Kentucky, but that won’t be anywhere near enough. As for the superdelegates, his response to Wright, his ten-delegate gain in Iowa last weekend, and Richardson’s endorsement all point in Obama’s favor, but I can’t be certain. I can just judge the circumstances and make a guess, and I think I’m making an educated one. You, on the other hand, seem to be pounding a round peg into a square hole.
I don’t expect to change your mind about anything; I’d just like you to maybe accept that others can study policy, observe the campaign, read the events, and then come to a different decision than you. That’s all.

Go Hillary! There are more states to be won, more money pouring into your campaign, more superdelegates to win over, and Pennyslyvania yet to come!
If the Obama campaign was so sure that it’s “over” then they wouldn’t be so anxious and virulent in their attacks.

Anthony: You’re right. And I don’t know what Hillary thinks will happen if she DOES manage to win the nomination. Since the ONLY way she can do it is with some kind of back-room superdelegate deal at the convention, what does she think THAT will accomplish. It’ll not only mean blacks will stay home in the fall, it also means most young people, and virtually all liberals/progressives will stay home too. In other words, Hillary would get BLOWN OUT in the general. All I can figure is it’s the old, “If I can’t win, then I’m taking you down with me” mindset.

“Not bas enough that Rev. Wright wrote most of Obama’s lauded Race speech years ago and that Obama holds on to WRIGHT as a family member even though they are not connected by blood. ”
This proves right now and here that you are an idiot or misinformed. By the way, it was James Carville who compared the Clinton’s to Christ today.

I’d love to see ONE… even ONE… Clinton supporter back up their claims with some math.

OregonVoter
You have GOT to be kidding me! Obama is playing an incredibly dirty campaign. Only issue is you Obamabots refuse to acknowlege it. That doesn’t mean he isn’t doing it. I think a big part of the problem is that a lot of his supporters are very young and have no clue how hard Hillary has worked all her LIFE for us. THey don’t remember her at the table during the congressional hearings for Watergate. Hell, they weren’t even born. That must be why they dismiss her incredible experience and commitment to civil rights to healthcare and many many more issues. Her record as a Senator is exemplary. They just hate o her because they are caught up in the Obama fever.
I sure hope it breaks soon. We need to win in November and we can’t do that unless Hillary is the nominee. It isn’t HER fault Obama is in this situation! He created it HIMSELF.
If you choose not to vote or vote McCain because Hillary gets the nomination, don’t complain when you are in Iraq for 100 years. Obama can not win now.

DCVoter: I have been checking as many sites as possible on all of the candidates for months. How much elected experience does DRC have? She has only her Senate elected experience and a number of her bills are to name places in New York. Let us not get into her Health Bill which even a Dem Congress would not pass. And, I firmly support the 10th Amendment which makes Health Issues a State issue not a Fed take over. Obama does have three elected terms to the Illinois State Legislature with 4,000 votes in addition to the Present votes that is an Illinois choice. As a 67 years old white female voter who is not poorly educated or in a low paying job, I am not at all easily led by the nose! I have been around since JFK though to see how the policies of one Administration do not suddenly end on the day they leave office. How interested would WalMart have been in Hillary Diane Rodham, being able to win the NY Senatorial seat or in running for President? I want a woman who has got where she is on her own two feet without a name handle. At this time, I am on the fence again about all of them! But, I want no dynasties – some are even thinking about Chelsea for the future. This is not the England!

I am calling Sinbad a liar. The acting President of Bosnia, alittle girl and one other person does not make a “Welcoming Committee” fit for a First Lady. It was low key and private. If you look at the remainder of the video you will see that Former Secretary of the Army/Secretary of the VA, Togo West, stands by Hillary’s account of the trip to Bosnia. I have more respect for Togo West than I would have for some comedien.

I’m a 28 yr old Independent. I’ve been a huge supporter of Barack Obama as has my wife since he announced his candidacy. We are beyond tired of Bush’s Presidency and are excited for CHANGE after many disapointing years of Republican rule. I’ve been reading many different blogs and find the debating between Democratic supporters both amusing and troubling. I find it troubling that some people can consider themselves a Democrat and declare that they will vote Republican if their Democratic choice doesn’t make it to the general….news flash on that one folks – this makes you a flip flopper. You might as well be honest and consider yourself an Independent. Better yet, go ahead and vote for McCain..one flip flopper to another. The way I see things, Hillary is going to stay in this to the end. She will not win the nomination, but will further divide the Democratic Party which is too bad. My last point is to those BRIGHT individuals who like to so elliquently type “Osama” instead of Obama or find it mentally stimulating to reference Hussein in EVERYTHING they write… My comment to you is to turn of your computer and forget about politics for awhile. I’m sorry, but some people just shouldn’t be allowed spread their stupidity.
Obama ’08

You Obama supporters need to understand something here. the McCain or the Clinton campaigns did not put Obama in this downward spiral. His own actions and behavior did. Beat him up instead of us. He has cost himself the nomination, not us. Or do you not beleive your own eyes.

Well, Hillary, after you have been kicked in the stomach over and over, you have to defend yourself sometime.
Once this is over and he is no longer having to compete with you, maybe he can get on with the business of making things better for the country, which is why he is running. With him, it is not about power.
Please drop out gracefully. If you keep your dignity in tact, you can still be effective in the Senate. Surely you don’t want to lose that.

Gotta go. Checking out Blue ray machine.

So far Obama has more delegates. I can’t wait to see what happens when the elitist Democratic party bosses choose Clinton instead. I wouldn’t be near the convention site.

Anthont—Here is your math. Put simply and without any spin. The Wright massacre has not even reached it’s peak. The TAC thing is still comming to fruition. Obamas credibility is shot.
the supers will vote for the most electable candidate. And you are SOL.

DCV
I am concerned about the lack of candor on the war vote.
It is possible that that to error is human is it not?
She HAS BEEN EXCEEDINGLY LAME here.
Sorry. But it is true.

Obama won most of the western states that always go to Republicans in every general election. He also won in the Deep South, again, extremely Republican. Most of the states Obama has won are already projected wins for the Rep. nominee. Clinton on the other hand has won every major swing state that the Dem. Party needs in order to win. She is also ahead in many recent polls about the General Elction showing her ahead of McCain in many Mid-western states that we need to win in order to gain the White House. Clinton is the only one who can do it!
Hillary ’08!!

But isn’t Hillary still good? I’ll still vote for her if she’s still good.

Obama won most of the western states that always go to Republicans in every general election. He also won in the Deep South, again, extremely Republican. Most of the states Obama has won are already projected wins for the Rep. nominee. Clinton on the other hand has won every major swing state that the Dem. Party needs in order to win. She is also ahead in many recent polls about the General Elction showing her ahead of McCain in many Mid-western states that we need to win in order to gain the White House. Clinton is the only one who can do it!
Hillary ’08!!
lol.. And what are those swing states again…Give me a break! The states she did win wasn’t by a great enough majority and Texas was a wash! If you’re going to debate, speak the facts. She has no chance unless a heavy majority of Superdelegate go her way (unlikely considering HEAVY disgust by party old-timers of the downfall of Democratic Majority after the Clinton presidency) and also unlikely unless she wins the remaining states by 20% or more (dream on). Pack it in Pant Suit.
GOBAMA!

Tim.. How is it that Obama is preventing these people from voting. FL and Michigan were warned and decided to go against the DNC…Cry me a river.

DCV thank you for all the information you provide. I read the first post, yours.

It sure will be nice in Nov,, when we can all thank the DNC leaders for this mess, and we can give our New President a big congrats, President McCain,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

irma – thanks keep up the good work!
Tim – I agree, refusing to honor the DNC’s decision on MI was a clear block of voting rights. I expect a lawsuit will get filed similar to the one ongoing for FL.

DCVoter: Oh my god, you gotta be kidding. You seriously believe it’s Obama that Repubs are voting for bacause they think HE is the weaker candidate? Maybe you haven’t heard: In Mississippi 38,000 Repubs voted for Clinton (per exit polls); 100,000 in Ohio, and 120,000 in Texas. Oh, and one more thing: Did you know that a criminal investigation has been initiated in Ohio into “voter fraud” by Repubs who lied when they gave their reasons for switching parties “for one day only” so they could vote for Hillary? Did you know that the investigation is also targetting Rush “Vote for Hillary” Limbaugh?

Tim, the Wright virus is only the tip of the iceberg. Rev. Wright was just the March kickoff. The media hasn’t even gotten started yet with Tony Rezko, let alone William Ayers and Larry Sinclair, whom we will start hearing about over the ensuing months. The math likely won’t matter anymore by June, as by then it should be time for Obama to step down.

Hillary Clinton is CLEARLY GAINING SUPPORT. We know this because the media isn’t reporting her huge lead in Pennsylvania. She is gaining momentum but it is not being advertised in the press. The average, fence sitter is now showing a preference towards chosing Clinton, not Obama. This is the reason we are seeing a huge media push which is pro-Obama & anti-Clinton. The media bias only motivates MORE CLINTON supporters to donate money & become more active. Obama’s shining armor is starting to tarnish. Hillary Clinton in 2008.

Richard Sincox,
Th Quinepac poll shows her up 53-41% over Obama in PA, so yes you are correct. Too bad the rest of the media doesn’t carry anything good about Hillary.

PDC: Sitting out an election also means you do not get to vote on your Congressional choices if on the ballot in your State or on local issues either. Something like being between a rock and a hard place! Obamadefector: I was surprised at how many Hispanics, educated and decent jobs, are already Republican in my area, San Antonio, Texas. Co-workers told me they objected to being constantly considered part of the poorly educated and low income group to be a Dem vote. I think the Dems need to rethink their manifesto or whatever they call it as to what is their core voter base. I considered your math, but think McCain might stand a better chance than you think against Clinton. The younger voters and Independents may make a big difference by veering off. Also, a lot might depend on his choice of VP. We don’t really know how skewed the Dem cauceses and primaries were since the Dem process is not limited to registered Dems – daffy process to say the least!

J – Forbes has gotten into the game and is projecting Clinton takes PA with 57%.
edvard – I think a lot of people dont realize that we cannot have another immature president who cant handle communications with other cultures. If he cant handle the this little benign stuff in this race, how will he handle other country’s leaders who will not be using kid gloves?

Wolfson is right: why should Hillary quit when plenty of Pennsylvanians cannot wait to vote for her? It would be cruel.
However, I’m surprised that Wolfson is just now speaking out about Obama’s negative tactics. It’s a little late. Obama has been attacking Hillary since the start of the primary.
As an American citizen, I’m against Obama becoming president. By voting for Obama, I would be condoning:
–disenfranchisement
–plagiarism
–double-speak
–accusing people who do not support him of being racists
–accepting hate
–incompetence
By voting for Hillary Clinton, I support:
–enfranchisement
–hard work
–determination
–toughness
Hillary Clinton has faced Republicans for 16 years, and they still haven’t stopped her. Obama has outspent her in every state, has had all the media attention, and yet has NOT closed the deal.

DC VOTER,
Well, that’s even better! :)

The basic thing is.. Hillary supporters think Obama is inexperienced and will vote McCain is he is the nominee. Obama supporters find Hillary to be old school politics and want a change from the Bush-Clinton-Bush(Clinton*) rerun and will vote MCain if she somehow wins. It will be interesting to watch, but I still don’t see her winning guys and gals!

Luke,
It seems as if you cannot produce any real substance with the words you write. Why don’t you do some research and get back to me, and then we’ll talk. I know what i am talking about, but you surely don’t.
Hillary ’08

The pledged Delegates will start to “unpledge” for Obama and re-pledge for Hillary,..Obama is done,..he is so flawed that he can never win the general election at this point!! First Pastor Wrong and now Passportgate!! This guy is done!!
NOBAMA 08

ATYPWW – the media stated last week they have to fill the time and you bet they are vetting and hyping. There is no doubt we will be seeing more soon. One thing I noticed is the chronology of the passport thing.
1) reporter gets tip from Obama camp and asks Condi Rice about passport breach
2) Condi knew nothing about it and launches investigation
3) Obama expresses outrage (looks fake)
4) McCain and Clinton also had breaches and the first company appears to have no political ties (both look into it)
5) Turns out there was a second company headed up by one of Obama’s sr advisors OOPS
It looks to me like that couldve been a setup by the Obama camp that backfired.

Senator Obama’s campaign, based solely on empty slogans and meaningless rhetoric, has “flourished” thus far, mainly from strong support across racial lines and some “affluent” left-wingers whose only challenge daily is determining which Starbucks will be honored with their presence, although hobbling as of late due to primary losses in Ohio and Texas, questions regarding patriotism of both the Senator and his wife, and coupled with the Reverend Wright debacle. Simple arithmetic tells me that neither Obama nor Clinton will have the necessary delegates to win the nomination and, therefore, if the Democratic Party wants to put up its strongest candidate in November, without question, that candidate is Senator Clinton. The Obama campaign, at present, appears to be quite unraveled and desperately resorting to spreading false rumors and slinging mud which, at the rate it is being slung, may dry up America’s river beds. Once again, the wise choice for the Democratic nomination is Senator Clinton.

Many on this blog are republicans and would not vote for Barack Obama or any black person for that matter.

I frankly believe it is good that this campaign will be decided in Denver. It’s invigorating to see that every vote from every state is making a difference. The Democrats will be foolish to ignore the Florida and Michigan voters especially since a Republican legislature in Florida moved the dates.
p.s. I agree with Millie’s remarks. At the beginning I was voting for Hillary. Now I’m voting for Hillary but voting against Obama.

I think a big part of the problem is that a lot of his supporters are very young and have no clue how hard Hillary has worked all her LIFE for us.
Thanks for the compliment I am 54 years young

I think it very disingenous when people talk as if they “know” how others will vote. The only vote you know for sure is your own. If you support Clinton or Obama, but would rather vote for McCain if your candidate loses the nomination then it is clear you are not voting on the issues. I’m convinced a Democrat will win the Presidency this year; mostly because of the economy.

Republicans have screwed up the country and the economy so bad, perhaps they should be elected to clean up the mess that Bush made. The again, we will never get to the bottom of the investigations on why Bush went to war, torture, wiretapping, Wrecking the economy at the expense of the middle class, bailling out the hedge fund managers. One hedge fund manage made 1 billion dollars in one year and now the Fed is using tax dollars to bailout a private investment bank where the 10,000 executive got six figure bonuses last christmas. Beat up on welfare (Black) mothers, but nary a word about wall street with their hand in our pockets.

Hillary needs to stay in it until the end, at this point Obama will self destruct and people will start to realize she is the Dems only hope against McSame,…Obama is losing ground daily!!

@RM: We shouldn’t talk to our enemies? What then? And I’m not convinced a puppet government in Pakistan are allies of the U.S. – I’m even less convinced that we have allies in Waziristan.

yes mongo -
One point many of the Obama supporters dont realize is that the liberal latte behind Obama will fair just fine economically no matter what happens and they can play their little political game in 2012 if they dont get their way. This has always been their way, they dont care about the majority of Americans who are suffering at the hands of the Rep party’s failed policies. The liberal latte benefits no matter who is in power UNLESS it is a democrat like Clinton who truly works for and cares for the middle class and all the races and genders. They didnt like Bill taking control of the party and are mad. They take it out on Hillary because she stands up to them and makes sure that we do have bipartisan progress even if it isnt exactly what she wants.
She has earned the respect of many Democrats and Republicans as a result of her hard work, due diligence, foreign relations experience, and outstanding political prowess. She is a humanitarian turned politician so she can bring about the changes needed for everyone to prosper and have the basic necessities in life like adequate healthcare and equal opportunity.
Obama is a career politician who uses disguised humanitarian efforts to advance his position. We have already seen some shady deals to be vetted: Rezko, state earmarks to his wifes employer, earmarks for nuclear companies who fund his campaigns, and now stock in a biotech firm that benefitted from his legislation. His claim to lobbying transparency was to vote against the original bill then pass a new one tht allows lobbyists to still wine and dine without transparency as long as the “diners” stand up to eat.

PDC – I agree. Many of the young voters do not know what it was like before the 90′s (bad), during the 90′s (good), and that many of them have the opportunities they have today because of work she and others have done to create them. My mother, social researcher/statistician/psychologist told me earlier that one of the primary reasons they are finding for young voters supporting Obama is… get this… because he wont make them pay for health insurance.

@DCVoter: She still has very high negative poll numbers in spite of what you noted. The mud that the Republicans slung 15 years ago is still sticking whether rightly or wrongly. I think the folks in Senator Obama’s camp feel just as strongly in what you are saying, except replacing his name for Senator Clinton’s.
Anyway, I concede the evening to you. G’night and best wishes to all.

MIguy – great sentiments but I want to be sure you know I am looking at things from a statistical perspective and dont necessarily think I “know” how another person will vote unless they tell me… statistics can be a good predictor of mass voting patterns when analyzed properly… this is a primary tool of every political campaign and action… when they use bad stats or bad judgment like Bush things backfire and put us into historic elections like we are in now

Jerry: I assume you think Richardson is stupid, right? Why else would he endorse a “loser”? He abandons his long-time friends for a “loser”. He’s so stupid that he doesn’t realize a bunch of other Supers are gonna leave Obama and go over to Hillary, right?. What an idiot this Richardson guy must be!

Obama’s got some more “Splanin” to do!!! He is proving that he is old school politics as usual!!! People are finally seeing that it is all smoke and mirrors with Obama!!
Watch him dance,…..

Ratmach,
I sent an email to Richardson’s office today to tell him thanks for setting the precedent for not following the will of his state. He has gone against what Pelosi said and has set a precedent that will come into play down the road,..especially since I believe the momentum will now be with Hillary. I believe that based on the people that I know throughout the country that a lot of people wish they could take their votes back now!! I will wait to see how this new scandel will play out with his connection to passportgate, but yes in my opinion, Richardson is a traitor and Judas,…what a loser.

MIguy – I agree and have never said anyone should quit. This country needs it to playout, be involved, etc for the reasons I previously posted. Night to all, its been engaging, have a great Easter!

DCVoter you are right on the Money!!
Opportunistic!!

Been wanting to ask this: Why does Hillary feel the need to make up a story about her visit to Bosnia? I mean, it’s laughable … “We landed under sniper fire … we had to run with our heads down.” And lots more. How come? And it IS clear she’s making it up. Over 100 news reports, and not ONE of them says anything at all happened. Even a VIDEO showing her doing a photo op at the time she was supposedly running for her life. So what’s up with her anyway?

Thanks DCVoter! I enjoyed reading all of the various comments, but your posts were my favorite. Hillary in 2008.

M. Saint……you are a truly Clinton fan…..fanatics.

Obama our next President. I am heading to Cuba

John Prescot, you want to move to Cuba if Obama becomes president?
Well, at least Obama will give you that opportunity. We will be talking to our ‘enemies’ again. And instead of acting like a school yard bully have diplomatic relations to this small poor island country 90 miles off our cost.
We are so lucky to have someone like Obama making it this close to becoming our President. And we need a president right now that will begin to bring us together again and represent us to the world as a decent people.

Looks like somebody is reading just headlines.
Correct, it says – Obama’s supporter is a CEO of one contractor company. The article aslo stated, than Clinton’s supporter is a CEO of another contractor’s company.
So, if You can not read- I guess, shouls not write here to bother.
Her file was used for training, but other files where breached.
Feel the difference.
Clintons have amazing ability to dig and create dirt.
Time for us to get out of it. And from them as well.
It is time to.

The ceo of the one company contributed 1,000 to Hillary’s campaign.
The other guy is THE FOREIGN POLICY ADVISOR for Obama,…HUGE difference!!
John O. Brennan, president and CEO of the Analysis Corp., advises the Illinois Democrat on foreign policy and intelligence issues, the source said.
Brennan briefed the media on behalf of the campaign this month.
The executive is a former senior CIA official and former interim director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
He contributed $2,300 to the Obama campaign in January.

Robert ,
You need to look at the other polls,..you picked the only one that says that.

I wouldn’t presume to know what is really going on but I think it looks pretty bad,…..

Sometimes I think, after reading the comments on a high quality post, from citizens and fellow countrymen, that if an Alien Culture read these comments long after our existence they would think we were all fools.
The discourse shines a light into the souls of Americans because they think that the anonymous cover allows them to bear their heart without consequence. The consequence is we can see the social stratifications we once thought dying exist under surface. Someimes i am grateful that truth is being said no matter how vulgar so I at least know how much farther we have to go. I swear that I now can see just how critical education is.
I bought Hilary’s and Obama’s Books. I as a veteran respect McCain also. They are both (Obama and Hilary) are great civil servants. And the second you let political emotion impact your views you become like the audience of David Copperfield magic Show, which simply cannot see the illusion. The truth is somewhere in the middle. It never changes just our observation point. I hope who ever wins the election wins and I will save the drama for those who unable to express their feelings without losing their sense of courtesy! (We have too many conspiracy theorist who thrive on the emotion of the tabloid generations!)

“the strangest thing I have witnessed politically in my lifetime” ….. So where have you been the past 7 years (Bush, Cheney, and their minions)?

Rat you have a point,…Nothing compares to the last 7 years!!

You nailed it.

I belive Richardson gambled with his endorsement in the hopes of maybe the VP slot? He has made a huge error in judgement which is ironic because so has his candidate!! They belong together,..I like the fact that he broke away from the will of the voters in his state,against Pelosi’s advice because now they won’t be able to cry foul as the Superdelegates support Hillary.

This whole Passport issue is just coming to light,..I do not know what the real motive here is but it stinks. Is it really a coincidence that the Foreign policy advisor to Obamas campaign is the CEO of the company that peeked? an ex-CIA operative? sounds like an amazing conicidence? How much of this are we supposed to believe?

And who will pick up the pieces after Obama Implodes?

Actually it seems that Obama has shown amazing resilience. Despite all of the negative stuff that has come his way, he is hanging tough. We will see some major surprises in the results in PA and the race should end by North Carolina for all intents and purposes. Although Obama is behind McCain in the polls these days, by the time the general rolls around the country will decide that they would rather have a new plan on the war and the economy. This will be particularly evident since we will have had an official recession by then (i.e. 6 months of negative growth in the GDP). The country will decide that they prefer the honest guy with the pastor problem and a new vision for the country over the eternal war guy who will continue the Bush “economic plan”. The choice will be simple. Do you want the guy with the “bad pastor” or do you want to live in a card board box after you lose your house and your job so that we can borrow more money to fight an endless war. You decide. As far as Hillary goes, she is welcome to work on the Obama campaign and help campaign in Ohio.

We’re behind you all the way, Hillary, all the way to the White House. Obama has made this campaign a joke, and I’m ashamed of Democrats who blindly support him. He’s the biggest “nothing” candidate I’ve seen in 30 years. The DNC will end up backpeddling big time if Obama wins the nomination, because McCain will then win the election. No to Obama, Yes to Clinton.

Obama has set the Democratic party back for the next 8 years.

In the 90s I was working in California, as I was in the 80s. I appreciate being called a kid and I welcome all young voters to the new majority. This recent week has proven to be an indication of how Obama will be able to obtain the necessary votes to win the general election. Those who analyze things based on old models will be surprised to see the results of this election. It is evident that Obama will be able to parry the thrusts of his opposition. You may think him young, but consider that he started out 100 delegates behind due to Hillary’s early lead in the super delegates. He has put together the best campaign that anyone has ever seen and has been able to defeat (yes defeat) a candidate who has had every advantage including a former president as a husband. He has been bombarded with negative attacks and even has one network which is entirely dedicated to his defeat. Yet despite all of this he has climbed back in recent polls and continues to attract support. He will overcome these obstacles and will become our next president. Mark my words.
Obama/Richardson 08

I suspect that the most visceral attacks on Obama come from people who support McCain. The Obama/Clinton attacks seem different. What I am wondering is: what do you McCain people think that you will be getting personally out of a McCain administration? You are obviously not Christians, at least the sense I have known Christianity. And you certainly are not the CEO’s of big corporations. So I wonder what it is that McBush is really going to do for you? Are you really willing to vote against your own self-interest just because you hate somebody?

Actually 9 years ago was the last millennium. It was a really long time ago.

Are we all sick of this he said, she said yet? Our country is lost because Obama’s group can’t bet past the school yard bully talk. We live in Illinois and we are astounded that people are flocking to vote for this guy. The Democratic election isn’t even here yet and thee is suppose to be a winner….well, then why spend the millions to have a Democratic convention? I thought the delegates picked the person to run, not the media. All the Democratic politicians pileing on for Obama are doing it for there own personal reasons, not the countries. They should all stay out of it and do there thing at the convention. The Democratic party look like a bunch fom Animal House, running around causing everyone trouble…The Trouble in our country Ladies and Gentleman is, The Loss of Thousands of Jobs everyday, The high and higher cost of gasoline, the mortage forecloursers, the illegal aliens coming in taking American jobs, the illegals coming in with drugs to sell to our people. The corrupt police and government people who are out to make a buck on your dime, The influz of tainted goods and toys and medicine from China. Our young people who just care about guns, handing out, shooting up drugs, beating up on old people, terrorizing neighbor-hoods. All this other arguing is meaningless. Obama hasn’t done nothing for Illinois except try and get drivers license for Illegal aliends and try and pass the Dream Act, so children (adults really) of illegals cound go to Illinois colleges, tuition free. Obama has hung with a bad crowd, they are using guestope tachtiques to imtimadate white people and black people who don’t agree with them.. This plan had been implemented a long time ago by the group that will benefit mightly with Obama should he become President. This all will result in a revealution by the citizens of America who have been forgotten in this argument of who”s the best for President.
Many Democrats will vote for McCain and this will ensure that some of the people involved with some of these crimes will be drafted and go off to war and will be able to shoot their guns and kill more people, legally.
So, hold your nose, vote for McCain and vote to continue the war for another 100 years and for thousands of American lives. Learn to speak Chinese and Spanish, they will become our national languages. Know the route North to Canada or where the airport is located that can get you and your family out of America. My father’s family came here in 1635, we have been here long enough, it is time to go back to England.

NO Chance. R they crazy? With all the skeletons starting to come out of baracks closet, i think Hillary has a great chance. We should have never known what was in the closed. Hillary should be winning by landslide. Some time, a used car salesmsn and make a junker look like your dream ride. He will insert foot in mouth again. Hillary 08

everything Obama says is a reaction to make control damage. nothing is pro-active or original. his race speech was made to defend his lack of judgment and his support of racist remarks.

Hahaha…He says it’s over but he can’t win a big state except his own. This makes me laugh! Who believes this? Sheesh.

It does not matter if Obama is the non-plus-ultra greek god of change, he is unelectable

Obama has survived Hillary’s kitchen sink and Rev Wright’s toilet mouth!!! ======================================
Gallup – PRINCETON, NJ — March 22, 2008
Barack Obama has quickly made up the deficit he faced with Hillary Clinton earlier this week, with the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update on Democratic presidential nomination preferences showing 48% of Democratic voters favoring Obama and 45% Clinton. Obama’s campaign clearly suffered in recent days from negative press, mostly centering around his association with the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Perhaps as a result, Clinton moved into the lead in Gallup’s Wednesday release, covering March 16-18 polling. But Obama has now edged back ahead of Clinton due to a strong showing for him in Friday night’s polling, perhaps in response to the endorsement he received from well-respected New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a former rival for the nomination.

Here’s a thought for Hillary. After Senator Obama wins the Democratic nomination, her good friend John McCain can select her as his VP partner. Birds of a feather etc. etc.

i keep reading that hillary should withdraw from the race if she cares about the democratic party and the country. i see it the other way. obama should withdraw. he will not win the general election when all that wright stuff will be played over and over again. and there is the rezko scandel etc. he is not my messiah – my messiah tore up the temple when it was not used in the spirt of God. my messiah didn’t sit there and say, oh…this hateful preaching is just fine for whatever reason. obama should go…

I have read several comments the last few days where Obama supporters say the Clinton supporters are not educated or very smart. I have studied the post for several days and have come to the conclusion that the Clinton supporters are the most educated and smart, use less bad language. I’m not that well educated either with only two years college, but common sense is better than education in most cases. McCain will win the election if the DNC doesn’t change and let Florida and Michigan delegates be seated. Howard dean should be fired from his job. Obama can never win, the circus has started in a different direction in the last two weeks.

Trinity UCC church was where Barack first became a Christian and where he was married and his children were baptized. That church has done great things for the community and has wonderful outreach programs to help the poor and others in need across the country and the world. Not an easy decision to leave based on some random stupid comments by the minister.

IF the superdelegates would show some leadership and get off their butts and start coming out for Hillary, she would take the last 10 states with landslides and their would be no question of who should win the nomination.

If the Hilary campaign would stop the nasty attacks then most would have no problem with her staying in the race until the end. She should turn her focus of attack to McCain and the Republicans not Obama.

growup – If Hillary is not the democratic nominee I will vote for McCain and it isn’t because of revenge or lack of maturity. I vote as I choose not by party. I just don’t like Obama. Each time I try to like him something else comes up to reinforce the way I feel. I want Universal Health Insurance and I feel that we will have some sort of a chance for something with Hillary. I don’t care if we have to pay into it, at least we would have it. This has been a main focus in her campaign. I feel if Hillary isn’t the nominee that the next best candidate would be McCain. I think Obama is full of promises and immature and Universal Health Insurance will not be taken as seriously in his presidency. I think the experience factor is big and Obama lacks it.

Hillary ows it to her supporters to stay in the race. It’s not her personal choice to quit.
She’s going to be the democratic nominee and she’s going to be the next President.

I can’t believe ANYBODY is snowed by that speech on race. It would be different if he’d made it 2 months ago, but NO!! It was a direct, obvious attempt to SAVE HIS OWN POLITICAL BUTT. There was no challenge to America in that crap, designed to use his gift of verbosity to steer attention away from his association with the clearest BIGOT to date who has come to light. Clinton’s momentum means both that 1) people don’t like Obama the more they know and 2) THIS RACE IS FAR FROM OVER.

To Joy… I dont know what you are reading but I am definately not voting for O-bomination… Read my blogs again…i desribe his voting record and pattern and his angry wifes job etc etc etc …. The obamas are not the chosen ones–no matter what the Media is trying to tell you !!!!

To Syl….Hillary won both New York and California so Obama vs McCain in those states doesn’t mean jack……
Hillary has the better chance against McCain if the media would stop treating Obomination as if he was the Prom King !!!
Pennsylvania will show you just what most of middle America thinks about O-bomination. !! Wait and see …He can always go on Oprah and practice his fake black southern accent with her like they did in Iowa and S Carolina. Total snow job…even better than Tony Snow coulda done !!!

If Democrats will be so stupid to vote for another Republican for the White House after Bush because Obama wins the Democratic nomination, then I think they should NOT complain when billions are spent in Iraq while this nation’s infrastructure crumbles, few have health care coverage and the Supreme Court is filled up.
Democrats should think, think and think and not be so dumb!

I’ve seen postings that show Obama winning. THAT ISN’T TRUE.
I just pulled this from the Gallup website. Th It was posted on Friday:
The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking shows Hillary Clinton with a five percentage point lead over Barack Obama in national Democratic voters’ nomination preferences, 48% to 43%. Other polls show similar results.
Hillary needs to stay in this race. Obama is self-destructing!! The truth about Obama is finally starting to get exposed!

It is over with with Obama. This alll has changed in the last two weeks. I have lived a long time and in all elections have seen people in public and they supported different candidates. Four years ago, some would say they were voting for Kerry and some for Bush. In the last two weeks I have not heard of one that is voting for Obama. If you want to know who is going to be elected just sit in a barber shop, keep your mouth closed and ears open and you will find out who it will be. It’s not Obama.

We just love watching the democaratic party implode. This is more fun than
going to a party! No one should drop out, it would just spoil the fun!

to RC- my dirty politics of fear ?? Why would u say that ? Because I am exposing your buddy Obamas voting record ? Or because he spoke out against the Iraq war before HE VOTED for it 10 times or more while in the Senate. Truth is not dirty politics.? Being misled by the media or by Baracxk and Michelle Obama is…. Look up his voting record RC and then go drink the kool aid again

we are SO AWARE that in OHIO …
Hillary WON THIS STATE IN 84 out of 88
counties
if the democratic party insiders and major political dumos don’t understand WHAT THAT MEANS…
and When she WON EVERY DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPING IN THIS STATE except the urban vote in three major cities…
THEN I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF ANY ONE UNDERSTANDS PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS 101
CertAINLY JOHN KERRY OUGHT TO…
I know…bil and hilary and millions of us …were present for KERRY
along b. Bruce Springsteen…in 04
can you say truly Obama would be
able to win this state …truly
or Pa in the fall????
think about Hillary’s serious WHOPPER size win in Ohio ..and then
say…”she’s out of the race”
if so..you may as well concede the
White House…now

Please please please don’t elect Obama. The NAFTA thing in Canada due to Obama, saying he is not going to scrap NAFTA to Canadian government and telling the American population something else and after the leak came his officials were threatening the Canadian government that he would get tough with Canada.This man is arrogant and supports racism by permitting it to happen in his Wrightful presence with the approval of his proud to be American wife and kids.

just to add also…
Hillary won Ohio against very serious uphill fight and a GIANT media blitz against…and ALL THE SO CALLED MOMENTEUM
and a ugly deceptive NAFTA campaign brought to our doors very deceptive by OBAMA’s main campaign…
he also outspent her, in Ohi 4 to 1
and SHE STILL WON W/60% or more in every critical swing voter region in this state…
Obama’s major supporters like Kennedy and Rockefeller and Jimmy “no neck” Hoffa
were simply left stunned and reeling
from the TOTAL VICTORY she acheived her
mainly by the force of her own personality, intelligence and gritty determination…
she’s the fighter we need for the middle class of this nation right now
and she proved herself on March 4th in Ohio and Texas to be the kind of populist leader this country is looking for among those w/ real complex jobs situations..and real serious issues going forward

Thanks Ohio – we appreciate your logic and your FACTS. PENNSYLVANIA will follow suit and Hillary will win big there too – then we can expect another speech on how unfairly Obama was treated in that State…BLAH BLAH BLAH…. Like most of you have already said….had the media given out the truth on Obama months ago he would not have won alot of those primaries. Teddy Bare Kennedy and John Kerry must really feel foolish now and the bad hairpiece Richardson will soon see the error of his ways.

Regarding the post about Obama being ahead in delegates, votes, states etc.
Hillary Clinton is ahead on two counts that really matter – LOVE FOR COUNTRY and FIGHTING FOR THE WORKING CLASS.
Go Hillary!!

in the remaining 9 or 10 states left
Hillary will likely win Pa, West Virginia, Kentucky and possibly Indiana where the former two term and beloved U.S. Senator Evan Byah is strongly in her camp…
She will likely win in Latino areas like Puerto Rico as well
but the west is the rest…but i don’t see him “running off” with the states that are remaining
West Virginia despite Rockerfeller is polling almost 3 to 1 against Obama
and this was BEFORE REV Wright and all this mess about NAFTA AND CANDADA
and i don’t think the indies are frimly in his camp as before…since the same…
so…
Does anyone realy think this guy can win against McCAin either in South Carolina or Georgia AND in PA and Ohio and West Virginia and Tennessee and
Oklahoma, much less
silly little non “blue” states like
Wyoming and Idaho…
if obama dude can’t win Ohio and
Pa and WVA in the primaries…
what hope is left for him in the fall
in the so called “29″ ????
come on now…
Let a good fiery preacher would say…
quoting the famous prophet
“Come let us reasons…together..here”
get real obamaniacs…
take your addicted selves to the
nearest rehab…and get off that
Obama kool aide … and join
the rest of h umanity who sees him
for what he truly is…
a mere human being w/ flaws…like
everyone who happens to have alot
of very rich and powerful Harvard friends…

Miracle happens…Hillary wins by hook and crook.
Now she faces McCain. A man with lots of political experience.
Then, America remembers the ‘smoke & mirrors’ that was the Clinton White House. Everything is fine. Dot Coms will be around and profitable forever. NAFTA absolutely rocks. Bill got a BJ in the Oval Office.
MCCAIN BY A LANDSLIDE.
pick a winner people…

I have a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach that the Clinton political connections are going to find a way to steal this nomination away from the will of the people. I don’t think she’d be a bad President, but this country will go right back to business as usual – a heavily divided electorate, and at least 4 more years of the hated Clinton name being dragged through the mud.

Hillary can always change to indep. if she loses to Obama ..wonder how many votes in the general election Wonder Boy would get lol ..Makes for a sure win for McCain….All you racist fools keep backing Obama and his unamercian pastor .

Washington media establishment, the same people who brought us Iraq war, wants Sen. Obama to be the Democratic nominee; they have been dictating that to the whole country from the begining and I know it would be a big mistake! I am sure the Republicans are going to make Rev. Wright his running-mate in the fall. They will tie Rev. Wright around Sen. Obama’s neck like an albatross! Having not won even one major state during the primaries and having manipulated the caucuses with small groups of zealots, but now not in play for the presidential election, your candidate Mr. Obama is going to find himself stuck! After the Rezko and Wright scandals Sen. Obama is quickly losing support among independents and men. The comming primaries are going to demonstrait that fact Remember, old Ralph is in the game too. If Sen. Obama is the nominee, that will be end of story for Democrats. The best chance of winning the White House for the Democrats is still with Sen. Hillary Clinton. There’s no hard and fast rule you can find that in the Democratic National Committee’s Nomination Rule Book that Superdelegates are supposed to do was ratify the delegate leader, isn’t that why have superdelegates are there in the first place? Democratic party superdeligates can save America from having George Bush’s third term from voting for Sen. Hillary Clinton.
Sen.Obama can’t save anybody from anyhting “wright now” and we still have to see how he saves himself?

It is time the Obama Campaign engaged the Clinton Campaign in its own terms.
Who gave the Clinton Campaign the pass to attack and attack with all those NEGATIVES and then hide behind Senator Obama’s promise to run a different and uplifting campaign.
He has done that for a long time. The electorate has rewarded him with voting and caucusing for him. But, the electorate also would like some facts to be highlighted.
If, one of the requests Senator Clinton makes is “HIGHER ME AS THE NEXT COMMANDER IN CHIEF”, then as every body who has ever applied for a job knows, she has to present a copy and origional for all qualifiction and experience claims made. The interviewer – in this case the electorate- is obliged to cross check for the copy BEING A TRUE copy. Further, has to check about if the documents are true and source verifieable.
These process is applicable to any and all applicats. Mrs. Clinton made a lot of claims, her White House Office schedulle came out and all information within has to be cross checked.
During such a normal practice it showed that “SHE WAS PRO NAFTA AND DID TALK TO 120 LADIES AND ASKED THEM TO LOBY FOR THE PASSAGE OF NAFTA”. This is an inconsistancy between her claim and the documents she presented to prove her claim. Senator Obama and his Camaign are not responsible for this. Senator Clinton and her Campaign are.
If an ordinary person does this in an interview, he/she will be considered fraud and Kicked out of the place of the interview.He/She will be shamed and leave in digrace. If he/she speakes against the Bussiness he/she will be asking for further action against oneself. Fortunately, in the case of all “THE CLAIMS” made by Mrs. Clinton or her Campain the quencequense is loss of the nomination.
That is a resonable price to pay.

When Bush took office gas was $1.47 per gallon,…

Now that the DNC has given Obama a veto over the re-vote in Mich and Fla, the voters of which, apparently, scares him, the DNC is requiring that the superdelegates decide the race. Well done!

Real, Obama has no chance of reaching enough votes to win the nomination if Hilliary does not drop out.
It is going to go down to the superdelegates……….who may after watching Obama’s support fall into the big black hole that has just appeared will be forced to make tuff decisions.
I didn’t think it possible before, but I can’t believe the dems have found someone more hated than even Hilliary. Eeek…Obama is unelectable, Hell he may even be in jail by November giving his scams are coming to light.

why should Hillary drop out she could still win I am tierd of Obama’s gang mentality and the lies the media tells I don’t think he can get Hillary’s votes like they all claim nor can he win the GE

I am getting soooo tired of all of this. Clinton is starting to remind me of the cyborg in terminator one–Even when the body is blown up–that horrible metal hand starts inching forward–I keep hearing Arnold’s voice…I’ll be back! Clinton would have to win by 70% to approach the delegate count–If the roles were reversed Obama would have already been pushed out! She is like Mike Huckabee on steriods…only not as charitable.

Clinton is staying in until the end she gave her word to her supporters so to bad get over it. And stop all the bs about her not being able to win she can win in Nov. and Obama can’t

I’m a True Democrat that will vote for Ralph Nader if she wins the nomination. She is more Republican than McCain and there’s no way I’ll ever vote Republican.

Why do people always threaten to vote for McCain if Hillary doesn’t win or if Obama doesn’t win. Oh, that’s because you are a republican anyway.

the longer Hillary stay the race, the more damage clintons legacy would suffer. Charactor and personality are very important issues that voters would weight in their dicision. Clintons just under estimated them. the two fighters are fighting for Clinton’s third terms. That’s all.

I say forget about running for president, Obama should be in jail.

Why is the media even giving this press? Just because someone runs there mouth does not mean it is press worthy. Hillary is not going to drop out of the race when it is this close and no Obama does not have any more of a lock on the nomination then Hillary does. In fact let me tell you how this is all going to end. Hillary will win more votes and delegates the Obama in the last 10 races but not enough to over come Obama’s lead in delegates. She will gain the lead in popular votes however. Then in Denver a motion to accept the votes and delegates from Florida and Michigan will be put forth and on national TV the floor will have no choice but to seat them because to do otherwise would look anti democracy. This will give Hillary the lead in delegates and the popular vote and that will give the super delegates the reason to make her the nominee! Why do you think Obama and his supporter and the bias media are really trying to promote Hillary dropping out before Denver, They know this and are afraid!

The superdelegates jobs are to safeguard the integrity of the Democratic Party, and ensure they put forth the candidate that has the best chance of winning in November. It is not the superdelegates job to reflect the constituency, even though Barack Obama would have you to believe so. I’m not sure even he believes that considering Hillary won Massachusettes and New Mexico, but Kerry, Kennedy and Richardson support Obama. He can’t have it both ways here. With Obama on self destruct mode and sticking his foot into his mouth all the time now, it will behoove the Party to wait and see what else happens. The worst thing is to award the nomination to Obama, force Hillary out now which would cause half the party to revolt and defect in outrage, and then find out Obama is so tainted as a candidate that he couldn’t win in November. The superdelegates will have to step in and do their job, and do what they can to preserve the Democratic Party. But truth be told, I really do think it is too late for that. There will be no party unity, and there will be a Republican in the White House.

Yo! this is NOT some ball game, one win one loose go home, sleep on it, life continues situation. No it is not! This is real politics that will affect your whole life and your country. It will have dire consequences if you sell out your country foolishly to some embittered muslim senator shouting “change” without even knowing what the change might be!!! He can’t even represent all Americans!
Shame on you all that support the impostor with racist inspirations. Is this what our troops died for????????
Vote for someone who is proud to be American, and will lead and protect what is yours!
CLINTON + EDWARDS for President 2008!

This is great to see the democrats split over two candidates with same policies. I hope you Dems follow thru by voting for McCain if Obama gets the nomination. 4 more years of Bush sounds good to me. I’ve pick up a lot of cheap real estate under the Bush presidency and this econonmy isn’t so bad for everybody.

Retro Vision: Well written and I agree with you. I also would like to see Edwards as VP with Clinton. He was really my first choice for president. At his age, if he could be VP and in 4 to 8 years run for President. He is still young. Anyone but Obama and I say that because of his background and the company he has kept, not because of race. I could easily vote for Colin Powell and a few other blacks. Just pray that people wake up. I feel we will have a republican in the white house, but Clinton may have a good chance of winning. Obama has no chance in November.

Neither Hillary nor Obama is responsible for the current tempest within the democratic party. Murdoch’s Fox News and the Limbaugh-Coulter cattle are once again exploiting this nation’s anguish as it struggles to reconcile its “melting pot” mythology with matters of religion, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and economic inequality. The politics of inclusion, for which both Hillary and Obama stand, are anathema to those right of the center.
Murdoch a Hillary supporter? More likely that the Easter Bunny and Santa Clause actually make all their deliveries in person.

The only reason so many people keep putting Hillary down and saying she should quit and has no chance is because THEY ARE SCARED! BE AFRAID IDIOTS! Obama is useless and wrong.

today Obama said following words:
I lied to voters when I said “change” because I voted 129 times for “present”
Iied to voters when I said “we are one nation” because I was so honored to have Pathner’s support, and list its name on my official website. although I knew Pathner is a separist organisition.
I lied to voters when I said ‘unify ‘ because I went to a black anti -America church for 20 years.
I lied to voters when I said I had good judge,because I believed in Wright 20 years.
I lied to voters when I said that I will end war in Iraq, because my adviser told the foreign reports that my plan are just words as president I won’t depend on it.
NAFTA -gate.you all know I lied to you .
I defends Wright and wants to throw my white grandmother , a typical white person under the bus
do you want to vote for me?

Note to supporters of any candidate except Obama: You may already know this, but there are numerous media outlets which are in the bag for Obama, and will not allow any, or many criticisms of him on their blogs. Some of them are: The Baltimore Sun, Huffington Post, CNN, MSNBC, and the Los Angeles Times. There are probably many more, but these are the ones I’ve noticed so far. Obviously, there are some very powerful people who are trying to sway this election towards Obama. It reminds me very much of the way the media helped George Bush so much in his early years. Very scary.

Please people of this country wake up. Obama will ensure a McCain victory in the General Election. Do we want more Republican rule? No. If you people of this country make Obama the Nominee for the Democratic Party – you will kiss this election goodbye for the Democrats in November. Be smart. Choose wisely. This is the country’s future at stake. This is no laughing matter. You’ve got two choices. Don’t make the wrong choice because of a “rock star” status candidate with no experience and who is full of fluff speeches and no real plans for America.

So are people still saying that Obama is the change and uniter canidate?

Greetings to Hillary from Pennsylania. Happy Easter. The Lord’s infinite mercy and grace be with you and family. Peace.

It’s past the 5th inning and its raining hard and even lightening on the field. Obama leads and we just need the refs to call the game.

If Hillary does not win the nomination I will vote for McCain.

very concerned, vote for whoever you want. Sorry your candidate will not be coronated. Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States. And you know what? There is nothing you can do about it.

Saw Richardson and Rendell on Sunday talk this morning. Richardson not making too much sense. He was pressured to make the endorsement, wasn’t he?

I PERSONALLY THINK OBAMA SHOULD GET THE DEMOCRACTIC DOMINATION BECAUSE HE EMBODIES THE CHANGE THIS COUNTRY AND WORLD IS LOOKING FOR. I UNDERSTAND WHY CLINTON IS FIGHTING HARD TO GET IT AS WELL. IF YOU LOOK AT MATH, SHE CAN FORGET IT, IT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, EVEN WITH THE 10 OR SO STATES LEFT TO VOTE IN THE PRIMARY.

Sorry Fred, they are democratic policies, not Hillary’s. I assume you know what the democratic agenda is

There are still about a dozen states that haven’t been heard. Why not let them have their say by voting? If the DNC is worried about the effects of primaries going on until June, then why didn’t they say something last year when these primaries were scheduled? Maybe for the next cycle, all primaries should end by the middle of April?
I think it is premature to ask Clinton to step aside. Frankly, if the nomination process hadn’t lasted this long, these controversies surrounding Obama wouldn’t surfaced these past few weeks but they would have eventually come out in the fall. Obama now has time to prepare for them.
Would you ask all the contenders in the US trial for the marathon to drop out now so that the favorite can rest up for the Olympics? Maybe the lowly seeded team playing the favorite in the first round of the NCAA basketball final should withdraw so the favorite can prepare for the more important game against the other top seeds? No, let the competition go on. You never know what surprises or upsets lay ahead.

I was a Hillary supporter, but after viewing this blog with all this hate,on both sides, I’ve decided to vote for Ralph Nader.
How can any of you say that you will vote for McCain when the war has killed and maimed so many our troops? Stop thinking about “me” and start thinking of “US”.
I’ve done my research, and found that the Clinton Administration has done a lot of damage over the past 15 years to ruin the Democratic Party.
It looks like they have finally succeeded.
As for Reverend Wright, why don’t some of you take the time to look at the complete sermons before passing judgment?
The bottom line form my viewpoint is
-Obama, not experienced enough
-Clinton, too many lies, and baggage!

One thing for sure if everyone is telling the truth, we will have a republican president again. All Obama supporters will vote McCain if hillary is the nominee and all Hillary supporters will vote McCain if Obama is the nominee. No way will I vote for Obama and I now believe the majority of people still backing him< I said majority not all are black.

Earlier today one of the Mainstream news station stated that if Hilary won the nomination that the Obama followers would not vote for her, but if Obama won the Hilary supporters would vote for Obama. Not on your life. Where do they get this informaion. Anyone who votes for Obama votes for hate, racism and 4 years of communism. I rather see McCain in office

shaarona
don’t waste your vote on ralph nader
its a throw away and it will lead only to a McCain and a Bush led policey for another 8 years…
hillary is NOT an evil person and she is NOT ruining the dem party
she is running on the white female voter and the white working and poor classes vote
and she has strong appeal to a constituent she served for YEARS before
she EVER was thirty years of old
the latinos…
AND AS FEMALE you ought to be very careful voting for someone who is NOT
in favor of true women’s isues
and i’m not talking abortion but
health care for women, children and
education…
so many teachers in southern ohio
showed up for HIllary EVERYWHERE SHE WENT
and they LOVED HER
and many many young women did also
the major media did NOT display this to the world
you must judge Hillary by not what you read “about” her
but by her own dedicated efforts to help end poverty, hunger, and inequality in educational opportunites
and her strong stance against the oil companies profiteering…
She’s the ONLY one who is calling for a windfall profits tax
in a very seroius and open manner
so please…consider your vote
and do NOT throw it away to a guy
who gave us…basically george
bush…instead of Al Gore…
please…read about that 200 election and nader’s ugly role in handing the white house issue to the corporations he claims he fights against…
he more than any other person…
kept Gore from winning Florida
other than the corrupt system there
so don’t vote for him…

TO: Shaarona — It is your privilege to vote for whomever you choose. However, voting for Nader will NOT end the killing in Iraq. Voting Democrat might.

Obama has enjoyed unparalleled latitude and adulation from the press so far, but he is beginning to experience the scrutiny that should have been applied a long while ago. His credibility is fading FAST. If Clinton is out, then McCain is the next president, so be careful what you wish for.

It’s become increasingly clear that the vast majority of Hillary supporters will never vote for Obama. Obama’s supporters still cling to the idea that Obama can beat McCain. The reality is that he can’t win in the G.E. without the rest of the democratic party. It is, however, still possible for Hillary to win the nomination. Here’s how: Obama’s appeal has dwindled exponentially since Wright, Rezko, his abysmal voting record, and more recent discoveries about his camps’s involvement in the passport conspiracy. With these things in voters minds, the remaining primaries spell disaster for Obama, which may well prompt the superdelegates and some pledged delegates to swing support for Hillary. This is a likely scenario at this stage, but even if through the recklessness of his supporters, Obama pulls off the nomination, he’ll lose handily to McCain. If the dems lose the G.E. to McBush, the legacy of Barrack Obama will be the tremendous damage he inflicted on our party, with the help of Howard Dean.

“Is this what our troops died for????????”
@retro…
Our troops died because Hillary Clinton and John McCain authorized a war that was a mistake from the beginning and has caused only pain and suffering in thousands of American and Iraqi families without achieving anything in return, a war that has created a new breeding and training ground for terrorists in the Middle East…
And you are seriously suggesting that same woman to be commander in chief?!

EMILY– The one who damage the party was HILLIARY. She cant catch up and she have defintely damage the party for years to come. Its look like BUSH-CLINTON-BUSH-McCAIN. OBAMA cant be PRESIDENT but VP either though he the forerunner per {HILLIARY}–NO WAY.

I believe it is good that this campaign will be decided in Denver. It’s invigorating to see that every vote from every state is making a difference. The Democrats will be foolish to ignore the Florida and Michigan voters especially since a Republican legislature in Florida moved the dates. Hillary has received my support and my monetary donations.

It’ll be tough for the die-hard Hillary fans after Hillary finally concedes. They’ll have to go through the 7 stages of grief. And then there will be a slow turnaround. By 2012, if Obama is running for reelection, Hillary will be forgotten.
This is what happens every election that there’s a tough primary. Whichever side wins, the other has to experience it. And the strongest of supporters have set themselves up for the worst of the experience.

Mark Jensen This time you don’t know what you don’t know what you are talking about. McCain is not as far to the right as some of you think and I think he will win if Obama is the nominee. I have voted democrat all my life, but nothing can keep me from voting McCain if Obama is the nominee. I think there are millions of people that feel this way. He can’t win. Too much have come out on him the last couple of weeks and I think there will be much more in the future.

It’s also clear Obama supporters don’t understand why an overwhelming majority of legislators supported the initial Iraq conflict. They additionally don’t understand that Obama’s dissent only came as a convenient afterthought.
When you vilify Hillary Clinton for her original stance on the war, keep in mind what she was faced with at that time. New York State, her senatorial responsibility, was in the throws of disaster after 9/11. Her constituents were devastated, demoralized, and afraid. New Yorkers were in mourning, as was the rest of the country. She was also presented with data (we now know was erroneous) from the administration that imminent danger from the Iraqi’s was a real eventuality. She, like many of her colleagues on both sides of the aisle, made a tough decision. When she realized the administrations data was unfounded, she reversed her decision. Obama wasn’t even a player in Washington when the original votes were cast. It was easy for him, in hindsight, to oppose their decision. As a New Yorker myself, I can tell you in all honesty, that if I had been in Hillary’s position at that time, given the information she was provided with and the mood of her constituents, I probably would have made the same decision she did. I’m a pacifist and I abhor war, but given the same conditions, I would have done the same thing Hillary did.

GS for that matter what would Hillary say about it. McCain has a great talking point with that one

Why do you think Hillary continues with this grueling schedule and having mud thrown at her and her family everyday? Could it be that she believes she is the best candidate and that she has the backing of at least half of the Democrats? Don’t discount the Republicans that voted for Hillary. Can you imagine that there are Republicans out there that want an end to the war but don’t want Obama for President?? Well, imagine it because it’s real. And the gender bias in some of these posts demonstrate that not only is there a racial bias but a gender bias as well. Why wouldn’t we want a woman to be President, Janet? There is still a lot to come out about Obama. This thing is far from over. What happened about the superdelegates voting for the way their states went?? Well, I guess Gov Richardson, Sen Kerry, Sen Kennedy and Gov Patrick ,to name a few,will have to go over for Hillary afterall. It may get nasty, so be it. Hillary ’08

To: READY999 — When selecting between two Democratic candidates, I believe “common sense” would lead one to select the candidate who has the most experience. This would make Hillary Clinton the best candidate for the job. “Wise decisions” often come with a mixture of education, experience and age. Again, Hillary Clinton earns my vote. Thanks Emily for your insightful posts!

Obama is a disgrace to the democratic party.
Let’s all write letters to Howard Dean about how mad we are that Florida will not count and Michigan will not be a redo. We do not need a Florida redo b/c Hillary won fair and square but we need the votes in both states to count.
I challenge all the democrats who posted their dislike and or distrust of Obama to write Howard Dean a letter.

Amongst all the bogus claims of Obama camp,the most amazing one- for its falsehood and blatant hypocrisy- is the claim that Obama opposed the Iraq war from the beginning. People who didn’t know anything about him were told this evidently proves his “better judgment”.
What gall.
Once you get to know Mr.Obama reading about his life story, his love for Marxist professors, his heritage, it’s obvious Mr.Obama’s opposition to war was NOT based on some unbiased wise analysis of national security data, but simply a knee jerk reaction.
Mr.Obama knows this himself. The way he has tried to sell this bogus claim to voters (never forgot to bring this up in every single debate) raises serious doubts about his character. The man is a charlatan.

I really liked John Edwards. But I’m secretly hoping Gore will jump in the race. Then all this nonsense would be over.

You are very much correct Maryland. But, I’ve seen on many blogs that its usually the Obama supporters who start the name calling. I’m not saying there shouldn’t be debates, but once it gets hostile, it’s truly a sad thing. Democrats should unite with their common goals of Universal Healthcare, Ending the War in Iraq and so on.
Hillary ’08

Jonath, I have yet to see any debate on anything other than race and he said this and she said that. And some of these posts are downright scary. I would love to see the issues debated. I belong to a political forum where there are many opinions but everyone is respectful of each other. And I feel there are a lot of republicans here just trying to keep the dems fighting because it really hurts us.

Obama is brilliant! To be so young and take on a seasoned pair from Washington and do so well is a testimony to his leadership. Dynasties are now officially a thing of the past. Obama ’08

I really feel that we all should demand that Howard Dean be removed. He has completely destroyed the democrat party. He Kennedy, Kerry (and I voted for him) all need to go. Noone respects them.

I like Evan Bayh but I just don’t see anyway Clinton gets the nomination no matter which scenario I come up with…
John Edwards/Evan Byah works for me.

Yo, outragious008:
Clinton and McCaine did the patriotic thing of voting to stop the enemy of the USA. Not everyone has access to CIA and Interpol and FBI files around the world, but some Presidents and Prime Ministers. So, George Bush mislead his congress and his people to go to war, the same way as Tony Blair mislead his people to build a legal case for war, suggesting that Saddam can attack the UK within 48 hours. Senators in the US and Ministers of Parliament in the UK believe their President or Prime Minister. How can they not? It was unthinkeable that they would lie about something as serious as waging war… and you know what? They both did. It has come out at the end.
Everyone at that time thought that Hans Bliks will go to Iraq and finish the inspection – to prove that there were no WMD. The war started before he could do it.
The war therefore was not the Congress or the House of Common’s fault….
Hope this helps you jog memory and reconcile discrepancies.
PS:
Obama was not in the picture then, he was not asked to do anyting, but since he became senator, he voted with Clinton on every aspect of the war.

Hillary, Fight for us!
The notion that caucuses have anything to do with elections is ridiculous. In Texas, you had to be there from 9pm to 11pm, to vote in the caucus. So there were not too many working moms, or older people, and it was not democratic at all.
Therefore we should look only to the popular vote, including Michigan and Florida…they are states too aren’t they? What is so special about Iowa, that it should precede Michigan and yet have its votes counted? Mr. Dean is clearly an Obama person, and a party hack whom we should ignore, in favor of the popular vote.
Hillary will save social security, keep our country strong, end the terrible concept of preexisting conditions, and reduce the debt like her husband did.
Do not let Oprah and the Hollywood money buy this process. Vote for Hillary, and honor the popular vote totals after the last ten states have voted… and all the remaining contests are elections, not caucuses, so they will be fair, and represent the way we will vote in November.
Incidentally, the Democratic party should abandon caucuses, or at least recognize they have very little to do with democracy.
Hillary, Fight For Us!

Dem is was acutally Caroline Kennedy who first compared Obama to her father. And it got picked up from there.

I love Hillary, but it’s over.
Her best case scenario is America’s worst. She can “win” only by
1) working with the republicans to swift boat Obama. Unfortunately, this is what she’s been doing for weeks by pushing the Wright nonsense to superdelegates and by working more and more to convince her lingering more math deficient more cult-like supporters that Obama would be a worse president than even John McCain, and that “as far as she knows,” he’s not an anti-American muslim jihadist. And so on, and on and on. Meanwhile, the conservative news media are having a field day working WITH Hillary to trash Obama using out of context soundbytes (ooh, he said, “typical white person!”). Really, as much as I like Hillary, this is just stupid and depressing. Meanwhile, McCain is resting and building a national campaign organization.
2) After marking Obama as damaged goods because of his connection with Black American religion, convincing establishment party members to vote for her instead of the candidate who, like him or not, ordinary, non-establishment people picked. Really, as much as I wish that Hill would have won, we can just forget about unifying the party if she “wins” this way. A fractured party would be a best case scenario; worst case: SUMMER RACE RIOTS.
This is the direction that Hillary is going in. And I supported her until she turned herself into Siva, Eater of Worlds. So the rest of you lunatics can follow her into destruction if you really want.
Not me. It’s time now to put this mess behind us as quickly as possible (you listening PA?) and to turn our attentions to the needs of the country.

Inner Vision,
I agree with you! People erroneously assume that the job of first lady is only relegated to hosting parties. In some cases, first ladies chose to only perform duties commensurate with their respective interests and abilities– which may be lighter fare. However, as first lady, Hillary Clinton chose to work on myriad challenging projects that benefited all Americans. As a US senator, first lady, attorney, and advocate, she’s also worked tirelessly on healthcare, poverty, childcare, foreign policy, and crime. I suppose I’m just baffled that people don’t see the good work she’s accomplished, or beyond the constant media pillory.

It ain’t over till it’s over as Yogi use to say and dont count to much on Bill richardson. He was employed 8 years by Bill and 8 years as NM Gov. Now he is looking for a job. However, he may have hung his lasso on a falling star.

Inner Vision,
EXACTLY!! I love your story about the hunger dinner! I too have actually heard Hill speak. I’m a New Yorker, and have attended a few of her events. I’m also a college professor; one of those quirky academicians you mentioned. You’re right, she IS brilliant. She’s not only a brilliant orator, but she’s a woman of action and great courage. I just wish other people could experience her the way you and I have.

My issue with Hillary Clinton is that I feel she is only motivated by her own ambition. She may earnestly believe that her ambition and the interests of the Democratic Party and that of the American people are one and the same, but they are not.
Barack has given us a framework to discuss not just the thorny issue of race or gender, but several others that afflict every American. Issues like our disastrous adventure in Iraq, the continuing and impending disaster looming in the sub prime mortgage debacle, education, corporate greed, and so on. Rather than join in and constructively add to or even expand the thoughtful and mature discussion on some of the issues that divide us, and how we might go forward and tackle the issues we both share, she sends her husband out as attack dog to play to tired reactionaries with his Jesse Jackson statement, and question this great American Barack Obama’s patriotism with his more recent ones.
This is the politics of divisiveness that thankfully I believe we are turning the page on. We once had a great Democrat that when campaigning said something along the lines of this – If you are given the choice of candidates and one is preaching hope and the other is talking fear, you better choose the one with the hope. That candidate was Bill Clinton but Hillary is not Bill.

Does anyone have and reliable and recent polls for the state of Indiana? I know Clinton has been gaining some ground there, but I would like to see some good poll numbers. Any good websites?
Hillary ’08

Ann O., I hate to play devil’s advocate yet again but one could argue that what Senator Obama said was actually proof that he’s not racist. His first comment in that interview is that his grandmother is not racist, she is a “typical white person”. One could easily argue that he is saying the typical white person is not racist but rather allows certain feelings to play our in ways that get miscontrued.
Why the Obama camp hasn’t spun it that way is beyond me.

Though i think Hillary Supporter has been a little extreme, I think there is a point there. Obama’s electability has been reduced significantly. If Obama gains the nomination he is only going to get more accusations from the Republicans, more than he could ever be able to stand up against. If he clinches the nomination, the day he starts campaigning for November, the Reps. are going to put video after video out about Rev. Wright, and that i going to question Obama’s judgement and its going to speculate what he is truly thinking.
Hillary ’08

Being black, a native of Dallas County (Selma), Alabama, who was born in 1937 into a fully segregated, southern baptist environment, I want to offer my opinion on a few things.
1)Rev Jeremiah Wright type racism was never preacher at the church I attended each and every Sunday morning. Had such racist comments been uttered, as a pretense for spiritual enlightment, I would have immediately walked out of my church and urged others to do the same. 2) I remember Malcolm X, after the assassination of President Kennedy, using the words: “The chickens are coming home to roost.” Malcolm was castigated, rightly so, by the main-stream media; however, the African American press and populace, as in the current case involving Sen Obama and Rev Wright, found every excuse possibe to defend and justify Malcolm’s comments. 3) If Sen Obama did not have the cry of “racism” to yell, just what would he be saying? I mean, this man threw his grandmother under the bus of racism. 4) Please, what would the media, especially the African American media and the MSNBC commentators, be saying if Sen Clinton had said someone she knows, who had been instrumental in her growth, behaved like the “typical” black person? 5) What would the media, especially MSNBC competitors, be saying if an MSMBC commentator had used the word “Pimp” in reference to a member of the Obama family? 6) Has anyone notice how Sen Obama has all of a sudden stopped using the “Hope” message in his speeches? Or, is it, after the plagiarism charges, Sen Obama no longer feels comfortable sermonizing about “hope” and “change?” It could be that the press is failing to show these type speeches anymore. 8)
The debate on “race” has been going on for as long as I’ve been alive and will continue long after I’m dead and buried. 9) I’m sick and tired of people stealing in the name of “Race,” “Patriotism,” “Religion,” and “War.” I simply want someone who is competent, smart, caring, loyal, and who can bring joy, laughter, happiness, health care of all, peace, and a sense of pride for all of us.

Does not anyone remember Colin Powell, a highly respected General,speaking to the United Nations about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? I suppose Barak Obama had better sources than the General and most of the US Congress when the vote was taken, right? I cannot help myself from wondering why Obama was so sure of himself when Gen Powell was saying otherwise. Which makes me wonder whether he would listen to his Generals as President or just go with his gut? Sure, I want healthcare,good economy, soldiers out of Iraq etc but first of all and foremost, I want national security. That is why Hillary supporters will vote for McCain if she does not get the nomination. An Obama supporter said they wouldn’t support Hillary, well guess what..the street runs both ways.I’d take McCain before Obama any day.
Hillary ’08

OBAMA IS A WHITE MAN AND HE IS A BLACK MAN!
Now that I got your attention, Obama is his own man. Vote or not vote for him because of the substantive issues and not what someone else has said. We have friends and family who speaks cr@p all the time and we are presumably smart enough to separate the good from the bad. Reading comments here and in other posts, I now know why Obama was reluctant to talk about race, because it’s easier to fall back to ignorant stereotypical beliefs than to challenge oneself… and just reflexively vote for white candidate.
Let’s get back to real issues at hand, such as the economy and the war in Iraq. McCain is sounding better by the minute and you idiots are making the case for him. Let’s get back on message.

Innervision…….I support what I believe is true and your post, along with Percy’s, hit the nail on the head. Obama, no matter what the media says, or whoever, has turned this race into a fiasco. I like what Debra said as well, why can’t we get to the real topics? The reason being, is because Obama has played this “race” card and now it has to be “dealt” with. I honestly believe he will come out the “loser”. As I’ve said earlier, you have not heard a “peep”, no pun intended, out of Oprah, Caroline Kennedy, or Ted Kennedy. I bet they are wishing they had their endorsements back. You can’t play the race card in America, undo everything that Dr. King tried to achieve, and expect to win the Presidency. It just won’t happen. And, I bet if Dr. King were alive today, he would have STRONG words for Sen. Obama and Rev Wright….also, if you have noticed, NONE of Dr. King’s children are coming forth and endorsing Obama either.

BONJAA SAO—I agree. Very well said.

Dean, Kennedy, Kerry and Polosi are definitely responsible for what happened to the Democratic Party. They should get out of the Party. Our family and our friends are all lifetime democrats. However, our consciousness will let us vote for any democratic candidates this fall.

Correction to the previous post:
However, our consciousness will NOT let us vote for any democratic candidates this fall.

Obama you know it is over for because your judgement is the worst. First Resko and now Wright. Next is Lous Farrakhan. Your judgement is not bad it is disgusting. At 3 am go to bed and let Hillary do her job. The Resko trial is going to bring your name out that you did criminal activity. If I was you go step down and maybe Bush will pardon you. You said you personally did not hear those comments of wright. Year Wright….I mean right. You are not intelligent and you are a bad liar.

Emily — Thanks for acknowledging the 800 pound gorilla in the room that many people want to dismiss as existing. Sexism runs rampant across corporate America and people seem to think that we are all able to transcend gender in this election. I’m not sure how that works.

LOM,
You’re right! It is an “800 pound gorilla.” I think it’s easier for people to focus on race than it is to look at sexism. I say this because women are the oldest oppressed group in the world. Older than the subjugation of blacks or even Jews. It’s so ancient, in fact, that people don’t notice it; even when it’s 800 pounds!

Great points you posted earlier, DAVID!!!!!
You’re completely accurate about Martin Luther King. Obama isn’t even a fraction of the man MLK was.
MLK once said:
“There must be freedom for oppressor and oppressed. Unless all of us are free, then none of us will be.”
Apparently Obama, like his mentor Rev. Wright, doesn’t subscribe to this enlightened philosophy.

hillary clinton is a disgrace to our political system and our society. she and her husband bill should go to the kitchen and make cookies!
her try at national healthcare in bill’s first administration only triggered the unbelieveable price escalation in prescription drugs.it would have been impossible to install a healthcare program at that time with no bipartisan cooperation. i think the clintons were in cohoots with the pharmaceuticals.
she lied about her duties as first lady. she merely did as other first ladies have done in the past.
as a board member of the walmart board she was never observed going against the anti american worker leaders of that company. she does not support the working man or woman.
she was staunch supporter of nafta which has sent thousands of our better paying jobs overseas.
she showed no pride or class after being embarrassed by bill. she was’t too sharp at what was going on right under her nose.
her 35 years expperience is not valid. Merely being along for the ride doesn’t mean you’re savvy.
religion is an important part of a persons character so why doesn’t hillary practice some of her own. i have never heard the kind of emotion and calming coming from her that i have from others. nobody can tell their religious teachers how to teach. all religions and religious leaders step over the line at times. they are human.
i am just really tired clinton rhetoric.

Do you just go to sleep and dream up your facts? How said 50% of Clinton supporters would not vote for Obama?
All polls I have seem reported Clinton supporters more likely to support Obama than Obama supporters to vote for Hillary. Maybe Clinton supporters feel aattracted to McClain because there’s not that much difference. And didn’t Clinton endorse him as more qualified to to be commander-in-chief than Obama?
Way to go Hillary111 Loyal Democrat (I think not)11111
Amd in case you have not been listening the money spent on campaign is from contributors or lobbist. I’m not certain how much the President’s salsry
is but I am certain it is at least $200,000 plus staff and travel expenses aand all the rent you can collect for renting the Lincoln bedroom and selling ppardons on the way out the door.
REMEMBER?
C’MON NOW PEOPLE1111111

Thank you Emily. I feel Dr. King would sit Obama down and read him the rights about race in America. As I said earlier, it’s apparant that none of the King children have come out publicly to endorse Obama. Since the Wright explosion, you havent heard Caroline Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, or Oprah saying anything in support of him. Most of Oprah’s fans are American white women, she can’t afford to be supporting Obama now after he has turned into the “racist” that he is. I am truly disappointed in him….I really thought he had his ducks in a row. I’m from Texas and was going to vote for him, but then, one day, a lady at my school where I teach called him the “messiah”, the “hope of the world”. Then, I started doing my research about this guy and at every corner, I kept finding double-standards on his part. I voted for Clinton in our primary, as did everyone else….she won the popular vote, however, Texas has this “two-step” for delegates, and he got that. Then all hell broke loose with the Wright scandal, then Obama putting down white people, his grandmother, etc. and many, many Democrats in Texas that voted for him feel ashamed and said that if he is the nominee, they would vote for McCain to keep Obama out of office. I see that nation wide now, the polls show it,a nd even the political analysts are having to report it now. The GOP doesn’t want Hillary in office because she would be hard for McCain to beat, Obama is going to be a cake walk for them. Also, posts on here are saying that Hillary is bashing Obama,,,,,I don’t see it….its the other way around. She’s actually sitting back and letting his race card he has played, demolish his campaign. HRC will win Pennslyvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, and Oregon. Then, I feel she will get the endorsement of Al Gore, BIG, BIG endorsement and I see John Edwards following suit. Murthers endorsement, the Pittsburg mayors endorsement, and the Phillidelphia Mayor’s endorsement of her are big too…don’t think the Super Delegates are seeing this. As was mentioned earlier this evening, the pledged delegates supporting Obama are beginning to recant their support to Clinton…..Obama is basically self destructing at this point, he’s finished, and America will is better because of it.

If, and thats a BIG IF, Sadama Obama is the nominee, you can bet, Sadama Supporters that the Republicans will play the Wright tapes over and over again, as well as Sadama Obama skewering his grandmother, making racist remarks, the Rezko incident where Sadama Obama illegally bought/sold property, all the times he voted absent as a senator, his racist wife’s comments, etc. etc, etc….the list goes on and on and on. One political analyst tonite said that Obama will be an easy win, because he has already defeated himself…..the GOP is lickin their chops for him…..they will harp on the race card that he’s played, his double standard on Nafta, etc. It’s over Sadama Obama, give it up…you’re a fraud and America knows it! This “Pied Piper” Sadama Hussein Obama has played his last tune….to bad he can’t decide what race he is, because even that, according to practices and statements is a double-standard as well! Go Hillary !

Debra and LOM……what really makes me mad is the way the media puts Obama at the forefront and can hardly say anything positive about Hillary. I think you are right….because she is a strong, passionate woman, this is intimidating to most. I don’t see her as power hungry, coniving, deceitful, etc. Just think what would happen if she had made reference to “black” America, or a typical “black” view of things…..the press would be all over her. It’s ashamed that she doesn’t get an equal playing field when it comes to the press. Maybe, they too, like Obama, are racial, that they are afraid to put him down for his racist attitude. What I like about HRC, she has said nothing about race and no one, NO ONE,can find anything reference where she has. This has mad Obama and his supporters extremely upset, he can’t handle it…HRC is keeping her cool, he’s losing and has lost his! I laugh at him when I see him on tv now, not because he’s funny, but because he is so pathetic I have to laugh instead of crying because he has led so many American’s astray with his false lies, hope (btw, he has dropped that adjective from his campaign now) and change. The only “change” Obama has brought about is the division of race in America, and he has done that very well. As far as the economy, Iraq war, health, education, etc. he has NO plan, No vision for the future, and NO support. Congres and the House would not support him on anything….he’s like cheap wine, watered down and has no flavor.

Obama may very well the nomination, but it will be political suicide come the general election. Folks who don’t see this truly don’t understand 1. the republican attack machine and 2. how the electoral college works.

I honestly think that it is apparent that she can’t catch up in pledged delegates and the popular vote, although, she will remain very close in both areas. If the difference remains relatively constant between now and June, she will effectively reduce the margin percentage (the difference in delegates would make up 2-3% of the total).
Of course, these totals do not take into account MI and FL, critical swing states in the general election. Whereas these states currently have no representation at the convention, it would be unwise to overlook the performance of the candidates in these states’ primaries. Of course, there are some that can’t seem to do the math in the absence of Senator Obama’s name on the MI ballot, but it’s not difficult to deduce that Senator Clinton’s performed quite well.
The superdelegates have the awesome responsibility to do what’s best for the Democratic party, which ultimately means their independent judgment has to decide how they best win back the White House.
Let’s assume that a likely democratic state will still go to whichever candidate gets the nomination. However, it is the swing states like OH, FL, MI, PA, etc. that will be HUGE deciding factors in the GE. Senator Clinton has proven she does well in these states.
When you complement the latest controversies surrounding Senator Obama, the superdelegates are going to have a difficult time justifying a vote for him. So, I think we will see superdelegates supporting her, especially if she wins big or stays competitive in remaining states, with her eventual nomination.

In most modern United States presidential primaries, the Democratic nominee is known well in advance of the official nomination at the Democratic National Convention. Typically, a presumptive nominee emerges when one candidate receives a majority of the available pledged delegates and superdelegates, and all other candidates drop out of the race.
If no candidate receives a clear majority of delegates, the party may head into the convention without a nominee. This is known as a brokered convention. The nominee is then determined by a series of floor votes at the convention, which may be preceded by negotiations among the party leaders and candidates. Pledged delegates and superdelegates may switch their support, and negotiations continue until one candidate receives a majority of votes. The last brokered Democratic convention was in 1952.
Sometimes the term “brokered convention” is used loosely to refer to any process by which party leaders negotiate among themselves to bring an end to the nominating process. For example, in 2008, if neither of the candidates were to receive a majority of delegates by the final primaries on June 3, party leaders could step in to broker a deal by which superdelegates could come together to provide clear support for a candidate before the August 25 convention

The only deal that will save the Dems and win the White House in November is a Clinton-Obama ticket..in that order. If Obama and his supporters don’t like that then it will be a McCain win in Nov if the Obama supporters don’t support a Clinton ticket of any kind. Hillary ’08

Based on what I’ve been reading in the news, many voters still think that politics today is the same as the politics of yesteryears. If you recall the 2000 election, candidates Bush and Gore focus their campaign to big states where they have big numbers of electoral delegates. Three or four states are “must” to win. These are Ohio, Pennsylvannia, Florida, Missouri, and possibly Michigan. These four states vote either Republican or Democrat in any given election. The rest of the states are either Red or Blue. However, this election, New York, California, and New Jersey may join these states. If you’ve noticed, these big states were all won by Clinton. Obama won the smaller states and most of them were Republican states.
Also, Obama’s campaign is aware of this bbut they twist the mind of the electorate by stating that he won more states that Hillary. People not involve in the U.S. political process do not quite understand how this contest is being played. Of course, the superdelegates will play a major part in deciding the Democratic nominee. This is basically why DNC created this group as a “safety valve” in the nomination process of the party.

How is a Bi-racial President going to change anything about race relations by virtue of being elected? It’s not the color of his skin or his genealogy or his speeches that make any diffeence to me. It’s his inexperience and lately, his poor judgment regarding the company he keeps, and I’m not referring to Pastor Wright. One of the most respected “Black” Generals told the United Nations that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Secretary and General Colin Powell would never deliberately lie to the UN. So why did Barack Obama think differently? Did he have a better source of information on which to base his decision than did Colin Powell? Would a President Obama listen to his Generals and Secretary of State or would he fly by the seat of his pants? Just listen to his gut and go with it? I don’t know and that is why I cannot support him for President this year.
Race relations still need lots of work but sitting in churches that preach inequality and racism, Black or White, does not help us to come together. Yet Barack Obama was comfortable in that environment.He is so comfortable that he does not recognize that others would not see it as a racist church. I want a person in the White House who is color blind. We do not need a President who will be scrutinized for racial parity every time he does anything.

Hillary is a fighter. She knows her fight and she knows Obama has lost the confidence of the superdelegates and in fact they are already requesting him to just settle for VP but she would not offer him that position because she will be pushed down by Obama’s association with his pastor. Too risky for her bid for the presidency. the Obama campaign just run a dirty tactic of demoralizing her supporters but no way…

Obama is so crafty and deceitful that he can take a major error he made and turn it around and blame Hillary, as he escapes like the sleaze he really is.
I am one of the growing number of Democrats who will stay home in November and not vote if Sen. Obama is the nominee for the Democrats.

We donated over three hundred dollars to Obama’s campaign. We regret that today.
We were devoted John Edwards supporters and did what a number of Edwards’ supporters did once John dropped out — we automatically went over to Obama.
We were fools. More importantly, we were fooled. Obama is not just inexperienced and unready for the massive job of President; but he is every bit as dishonest as President Bush.
God help our party and our country.

Inner Vision:
Wasn’t that the assumption Hillary made when she began to discount the African American vote in late January? Wasn’t she expecting the African American vote to stay home in on Super Tuesday? Didn’t the highest profile super delegate in GA endorse Senator Clinton and the “rank and file” not only voted overwhelmingly for Obama but also showed up in record numbers?
There’s no doubt the African American vote is less likely to vote for McCain than the Hillary supporters, (a topic for another debate) however the fact that the turnout has been so high this primary season is a good indication that tide is turning with respect to turnout.
Here’s the bottom line – You’ve essentially said the African American vote isn’t important and that’s the message they are getting from Bill’s comments (right or wrong).
As a person that believes the Democrats can ill afford to open the door for the Republicans to begin courting the African American vote I think you are grossly underestimating their importance.
Time will tell. No need to debate the point.

MI and FL will be seated! One way or the other. And that is because Hillary will be the nominee. That is the only chance the dems have of winning in NOV. Obama is even tied with McCain in MA!!! Now that is unheard of. Pastor Wright was fatal to his campaign. Obamamaniacs can however continue to fool themselves to the contrary

Obama keeps insisting Pastor Wright is Wright and the rest of us are wrong!!!!!!! I just cant believe it!! Is Obama stupid, crazy or delusional? Or All of the Above! And this is the best the Dems have to offer? A national shame!!

Obama will not be democratic ticket, because then the republicans will win and we will have 4 more of Bush.

The race should be over for ol’ Hillary. Her disingenuous pleas for Michigan and Florida voters, her marginalizing Gov. Richardson’s endorsement and hiding her true NAFTA support is indicative of Hillary Clinton’s “Borg” mentality. She will denigrate, any uncommitted superdelegate that will not come to her aid. If Gov. Richardson is the biblical Judas, does that make Hillary the messiah? Hillary would welcome the destruction of her party rather than yield to Sen. Obama’s nomination. The Clinton’s would surely facilitate a McCain victory to prepare for thier own 2012 presidential run.

Obama will be an easier win for the Republicans. Don’t be naive. The GOP attack machine will slaughter Obama in the GE. If you are sick of hearing the Wright tapes now, just wait….they will be playing at every turn…Michelle Obama’s incideous remarks about her lack of patriotism of the US will be on the forefront…..Obama’s skewering of the “typical” white people remarks will be embedded in every mind of the American citizen…added to this the fact that Obama has good rhetoric, but that’s all it is, he has no plan of action….he spends most of his time putting down white people and attacking Clinton. BTW, Hillary won the popular vote in Texas….do your research…the only reason Obama got more delegates is because of the crazy way Texas does the “two-step”, which is ridiculous. I can say that, I’m from Texas. And now, in Texas, many, many citizens are recanting their support of Obama….many have said they will vot Republican to keep this racist liar out of office…its sad, but true. Its a shame that people have to forfeit their party to keep a liar out of office. Face the facts…..Obama has drawn this racial line, this divide that Martin Luther King worked so hard to heal, which will be his downfall. Have you noticed, NONE of Dr. Kings children have come out to endorse Obama? Oprah will not say anything in support of him after his racial speech, why, because it would kill her ratings. America is sick of Obama and his lies…..go back and read the post from Percy, an older African-American, who, btw has a right to speak the truth about race, and his feelings of the manipulated lies of Obama and what he has done to racial issues in the 21st Century America. Obama supporters, you have let this “Pied Piper” lead you down the road of destruction….its not to late to turn back.

Hi Folks with all the negitive talk about Hilary Clinton she can do it.With God’s Blessings he will giude her to the path of victory.Good things are goona come Her way in the coming Months which will leave poeple amazed.
Hilary Supporter

The way I see it four years of Mccain would be better than 4 years of Obama. I hate Bush/Cheney But I would vote for them before I would vote for Obama.
At least we would have a chance in 2012. Really if Obama gets the nomination I am hoping for Bloomberg/Gore though…

TEXAS MIKE…Yes the caucases are a nightmare and should be done away with. It just happens to be based on who knows when to show up and who can at that time.
CONNIE…I don’t know where you get your info from, but with Bill Clinton was in office there was money to spend because we had a balanced budget! If Obama can’t handle the heat within his own party, he will NOT last in the General.
AMY…Don’t give up now. It wasn’t over since TX and OH showed the nation to get it and work for that Hillary vote! PA shows an even better ground for Hillary and that is the momentum she needs!
BOB- Hillary did win the popluar vote by 100,000 and I thought got more delegates? The caucuses in TX have still not been official due to county conventions March 29th and then the state convention after that for those delegates.
Common SENSE…Thanks for your insight. 70% would push Hillary over the top. THe current polls in PA indicate 55 to 35 in her favor. If you weigh in the 10% undecided…that could get her 65% easy. Hillary supporters have GOT TO GET THE VOTE OUT BIG TIME IN PA! The biggest swing is for white males who would go for McCain!

Notice that Obama no longer includes the word “hope” in his campaign slogan, just “change”. Yeah, we see the change he wants to make to reek havic and rip America apart at her seems with his platform of “racial divide”. He’s a sad, sad, pathetic man!

And as far as Bin Laden’s plan is going, It’s working perfectly. He wanted to draw us into a long drawn out conflict that would bankrupt us and damage our morale like Viet Nam did.. so far it seems to be working and you want to blame Obama for that?

CommonSense, Blaming Obama for the Iraqi war is almost the same as equating Bill to McCarthy! What is good for the goose…. My point is that Obama MUST share some of his Pastor’s hate and that alone is as scary as Osama

Actually this is out of our hands. The super delegates will decide who the nominee is. So why all the bickering back and forth.

Typically White People Love America. Someone should make sure Obama never forgets that. The moron!

David – Obama spends all of his time attacking white people? Wow.. that’s got to be hard on him since he’s half white and was raised by a white, Kansas family.
Please show me where you are reading that the republicans would rather face Obama.. everything I have seen says otherwise. Obama has the ability to go after the independents. They are terrified of Obama – which is why Rush Limbaugh is urging republicans to vote for Clinton.
And again.. I call BS on this idea that Dems are going to vote for McCain. Are you kidding me?

I don’t think either one will beat McCain at this point. All this fighting has damaged this party and it’s just going to get worse. What a shame.

Any syllable in the english dictionary used to criticise Obama is rascist! Unbelievable!! I know he wont win but we gat to be very careful. Soon, “hello”, depending on HOW/WHEN/WHERE it is said will be rascist statement too. Do you really think America can survive Obama if we all have to ask Axelrod permission to speak for fear of being called rascist. The Obama camp just seems to lie in wait for the next word to attach their rascist label. How sad?

I agree with the comment that probably neither Hillary or Obama can win anymore.
The Democrats are a MESS! Votes from Florida and Michigan not counting? Obama working to make sure there isn’t a re-vote. If he’s the nominee, how will he go to those states and then campaign for those votes? The media will have a field day!
Obama got lucky. This Wright sickness didn’t hit the press until now. How many of those states on super-Tuesday would he have lost if the truth were known? That is something the super-delegates NEED to consider.
I would like to have Obama explain the difference between his church and the schools that teach hate in the Arab world?
Any Democrat that believes a candidate can worship at a church that wishes to “God Damn America” and still in the election isn’t thinking logically. THIS IS A PROBLEM FOLKS!
Also, just imagine the chaos that would have happened if Clinton had referred to Obama’s supporters as “typical black men.”
After all of this and reading these blogs, it’s VERY clear that Clinton supporters will not vote for Obama.
Since Obama seems such a fan for math, he cannot possibly win the election and knows it, but he is willing to destroy the Democrat party for years.

One this is for sure, whoever gets the Presidency is inheriting a huge mess from Bush. They are campaigning for this mess and I have to give them props.!!
Obama has admitted he will make mistakes but unfortunately we cannot afford them right now.
I like Hillary’s style of questions and answer sessions like Town Hall meeting.
She is able to discuss in detail any subject she is asked.
Would you go to a Dr. or Accountant with only 2 years experience or 8?
Go Hillary!!!!

I’m serious when I say Hillary voters will NOT go to Obama. I know 7 Hillary supporters who will not vote for McCain.
My mother discussed it with a Hillary supporter at Minnesota’s caucus.
How can you defend Wright’s sermons?
GIVE ME A BREAK. This is the sickness of America! People will defend anything so long as it is Anti-American!
Obama is preventing a re-vote because HIS supporters in the respective legislatures…in the respective states…will not allow a re-vote.
Yes, Obama is ahead for now. However, he has brought disgrace on himself and the party with his racist views. He needs to withdraw before it splinters in a million pieces.
He can’t win the general. Obama has peaked. .

If Hillary is so favored and loved by the democrates why isn’t she leading in delagates,without FL and MI? The US is made of 50 states not just the blue states. Why didn’t she keep the ball after TX and Ohio? Why wasen’t it over after Super Tuesday # 1 ? If Ohio has the history for picking the president why did only 10% thinks so? why can’t her supportes only vote for her in a voting booth,and not stand up for her in public and be counted ? may be some americans are waking up !
OBAMA 08 !

Well, Hillary is at it again. Just like Bill, she’s lies with the greatest of ease. She had to run and duck gunfire when landing in Europe? Although the small girl who gave her flowers stood her ground and gave flowers to Hillary and Chelsie, she had to run. What a farse. She will say anything as long as it isn’t the truth. The worse part is that this lie involves her daughter. What a role model. And people want her to be president?

Well I’m up for having a 3rd party.

There is nothing clear about Obama. What exactly does he believe in and what exactly are the changes he wants to make and why? His speeches are so vague and high level. As though he always tried to paint this image of a great present packaged with all the latest and greatest ribbons and wrappings…yet, never open it for folks to look inside. I still do not know what exactly his vision is for america…domestically, internationally, millitarily and economically. All the generalities and vague rehorics is getting old…..I’m so sick of seeing him talk now that each time he talks I find myself getting real sleepy. What’s up with the long pauses between each words? does he really need 5 seconds between words just to say….”I…(pause)…do…(pause)…believe…(pause)…that america…(pause)…wants….(pause)..change” Geeze, that takes much brain cells to come up with….have anyone met anyone who does not want change? Give me a break! Obama is a phony! Hillary is the only true warrior and capable candidate in this race.

No wondered Kerry endorsed Obama. I guess flip floppers do recognize their own. It does take one to know one. Lets see a list of flip flopping judgements Mr. Obama has showned us: 1) he attacked Nafta then turned out days later and told the candian governement he didn’t really mean it 2) he minimized fund raiser ties with Rezko then just weeks ago said..oops, I guess he raised 100K more for my senate campaign then I thought 3) He stearnly campaigned to pull troops out of Irag then his senior advisor went on a UK interview and said…oh no, Obama can’t committ to withdraw right now, things could change when he is the president 4)Obama went on TV and said he never was awared of wrights divisive rehorics and made his speech where he admitted he was in the audience when some of it was spoken then went to Larry king recently and said…oh no, I was not aware of it. 5) Obama campaigned against lobbyist yet he had big lobbyist connections while running for the senate and used to have regular basketball games with lobbyist while in the IL legislature 6) Obama attacked Hillary for dirty campaigning tactics yet he injected race after each primary that he lost to imply racism 7) Obama is attempting to now become the crusader of race unity in america now that he is running for the presidency but opted to not speak out for race unity for 20 years prior to his presidential run. I rest my case! Obama is a fraud and his character is leave much to be desired.

Michael Smerconish, an African American radio talk show host interviewed Obama this weekend, asked him pointed questions about Wright and his defamation of America, Smerconish was amazed, it seems, that Obama still defended this guy……..this just goes to show that Obama is a racist and will divide our country if he were ever to be President. New polls just out on Fox, Obama has a 52% unfavorable vote, 35% VERY UNFAVORABLE! Obama is losing it, BIG TIME!

Obama is losing support every day. If Hillary stops fighting, then it will be the neocons for another 4 years…or maybe forever at the rate the constitution is eroding.
Karl Rove will be so happy if Obama gets the nomination. The right wing evangelicals believe Obama to be the Anti Christ. You can be sure McCain will get their votes in millions.
McCain can now take have a more moderate VP such as Lieberman,to pull in the independants.
It is quite frightening how americans are so easily manipulated by the media. I guess they don’t understand that big buisness owns them.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill