Obama: ‘Clinton Can Run as Long as She Wants’

this is so nice of him to give permission to her,gag,how vain and pompas ,hey obama go talk to the not so rev wright will ya.

He sounds like John McCain. Like I said yesterday, Hillary is the new Huckabee.
And we all know what happened to Huckabee.

This is what is called BLOWBACK! I don’t think they will be making noise like this for awhile! Come on try and force her out! MAKE OUR DAY!

Did he have that stupid smirk on his face when he said it? He’s just trying to deflect the fact that Rev. Wright will just not go away.

Yea, and despite Rev. Wright,
Obama is leading in the polls
Gallup: 7 point lead
Ras…: 6 point lead
Pew: 10 point lead
This must really worry Hillary if the Rev. Wright “will just not go away”

This isn’t anything new from Obama. First he says one thing then he says another. He is a flip flopper. I hear the swift boat bells a ringing with this guy. Hillary is our best chance.

this is not the first time i have noted a condescending tone to his comments about hillary – trust me obama she is at the very least your equal if not a great deal more -

AS if he permission was needed. Please this man has a big ego. And he is also wrong there are only 48 states votes that are counting not the 50 states of the Union.

I agree. Hillary Clinton is still a formidable candidate. Plus I’m reminded of Mike Huckabee’s position. Huckabee wanted to stay in the race so that voters have a choice of whom they want to support before a candidate wins the party nomination.

He has always treated and said he respects mrs clinton

Does Obama think people don’t notice when he speaks that he shows no respect to people? I think it’s all the hate that is in him from Wright and Michelle.

The only poll that matters is the one that shows 30% of Hillary supporters would NEVER and I mean NEVER vote for Obama. Ya know what that means Obama folks – McCain WINS! Bye Barack, bye Michelle,

The only reason for his comments is that he is loosing badly in PA and just want the voters there to believe that he cares about their votes; so he needs to recant his comments from yesterday. A 2 year old kid can see through him

At some point, this will stop being about race and voters will FINALLY notice BHO’s politics. His cult followers, for the most part, have no clue how far left he is. Obama talks like a moderate, but his voting record says otherwise. We need to get away from the mess Bush has made, but we DON’T need an extreme leftist just because we’re getting rid of a right-wing theocrat. Hillary is a moderate, and that’s what we need.

The GOP will be HURTING in the next elections!!!!
The GOP/Republican tools on these forums wouldn’t dare talk about Republicans and their failed policies. Instead they help themselves feel better about blind support for the Republicans, by attacking Democrats trying to fan the flames of dissent within the DNC.
Well now I know, a vote for a Republican is literally a vote for ignorance, and misguided spending in an unnecessary war in Iraq, which causes more hate……..
Democrats ROCK!!!!!!!!!!
Obama is an amazing speaker! I have never heard any politician speak so candidly and clearly about so many topics, much less the state of racism in America. I’d love to see a Republican address this subject in such a direct and intelligent way.
MAJOR APLAUSE FOR BARRAK OBAMA!!
I’m proud to be a part of such a historic election. We can have our first woman or African-American President!!! This country has some healing to do and Republicans just GET IN THE WAY.
This election will be historic, and it’s not about Hillary versus Obama, it’s about Democrat versus Republican.
Hillary or Obama, or both. Go Democrats!

Huckabee was behind at one point by 800 del this race is alot closer the rally’s that Hillary and Bill are holding are drawing thousands she has rasied plenty of money she has Millions and millions and millions of supporters and there are alot of Democrats in leadership who are backing her and Buffet so she will be in this until they count FL. and MI. and dean should know we will not fall for BS about seat the DEL after the nom. is in OBAMA’s hand And TD Jakes would be a better Pastor for Obama he uses his race like so many others do

Interesting for the Democratic Party to note some democrats have a brain. Those are the ones who will vote McCain or not vote at all if the party chooses Obama. And the most important poll is the one that shows that about 30% of Hillary’s supporters will not vote for Obama if he is the candidate.

Our party will be called…the SORE LOSERS!
Now, who’s with me?!?!

Not that I know of.

I still believe that all of the states should have their say in who represents either party in the up coming election. Too many years we have heard that you only need two states to win an election, Ohio and Florida. I am glad both Clinton and Obama agree.
If this was the policy-based contest of mutual respect we witnessed in February than we would all say let’s keep it up until the convention. Let every state make their decision and learn all we can about the candidates and their plans for this country. Unfortunate the campaign has become far too personal and turned away from anything remotely constructive for any of the candidates, their parties, or the voters. Frankly comments like these are exactly why people are suggesting that this campaign should end. It is no longer about supporting your candidate as it should be. It is more like people are watching a stock car race hoping someone will hit the wall.
I think is more important that we pull this country together a get on with the job of fixing the things that desperately need fixing. Frankly knowing whom exaggerated their background or what someone’s pastor said would not matter at 3:00 AM for any candidate.

People relax. You are getting overwrought. Hillary and her sniper incident. Obama and the not so reverend Wright. You are missing the big picture. The big picture is the implosion of the Republican Party. Republicans like a bunch of lemmings that are following George W. Bush over the cliff of Iraq. They have earned it. They deserve it. And in November they are going to get it. Sorry, McCain
The GOP truly is the grand-OLD party. Full of old and out of date ideas, most of which have already proven to fail…….
“Couple that with 8 years of failure by conservatives and you have a cocktail for a beatdown. How is John McCain going to inspire the voter turnout for his party? His great speeches? Conservative talk radio? His flip-flop talk express bus overstuffed with Lobbyists? We all love to engage in punditry but the facts are the facts. Repubs do not have the votes to win. Outside of a total collapse (And I mean TOTAL colapse, not merely a split of the electorate)the Dem party they can offer up a broccoli f-art in a jar and still gain the White House. What planet are you conservatives living on?”
Since when were Americans so afraid of competition? ………tell you what…….
I would rather have a “inexperienced” Democrat wasting a billion on helping the poor or disabled or uneducated, than have a neo-con Republican blow a billion on killing tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi and thousands of US service men and women.
In the last 8 years or so Republicans have shown me that they will do anything and everything in their power to keep you from retaining an opinion based on the facts that their incompetence is comprised of.

How insulting of Obama. This will just drive up the support for her.

I heard that Obama is on a magical bus tour. Is this a real tour or just a metaphor for the people he threw under the bus: granny, wright, leahy, rezko?

There is NO way she can overcome the delegate/raw vote deficit so she has decided to bring down the party and stir her voters support to John McCain. You tell me if that serves the interest of the Democrat party. Hilliary was a “Goldwater girl” in the 60′s. And every action she has taken has been to increase the power of the state, over the individual, with her coup de grace to be this madated (as in garnish your wages to pay for less than you get now) health care plan. If that is what the Democrat party wants to hang it’s hat on; An explosion of government authority over what you can do for your own personal health choices (HMO’s on steroids) then go ahead. Bankrupt the country. After all we can pay for three major wars with an overburdened and breaking down military. With soldiers on their 3rd and 4th tours without a break. We can pay to bomb and rebuild overseas. We can spend all kinds of money in places other than the US. And we can print up even more money causing inflation and making food, energy and things like water unaffordable, while our borders are merged allowing anybody to come in and qualify for benefits without having to pay into the system; and depleting our resources like critical care with unfunded prescription drug coverage subsidies and benefits to lawbreakers. Why not. It’s not like there’s a finite limit to what we can do, as long as we take money from people, and spend it without their imput or will at hand. Big government is the answer to all our problems, until they can’t print more money and the value of your wealth and property evaporate overnight and crime will explode. Then you will see the effect of what this outsourcing of our economy, where we produce nothing while exporting debt with a falling dollar is a recipe of destruction. Emulating the fall of Russia on a more massive scale, is NOT sound economic policy. And not one canidate left is willing to address or even change that. As long as that is the case, nothing will improve. No matter who gets in. Hence, your vote DOES NOT MATTER.

Looks like Obama just realized what the rest of us have always known, and that is that you can’t call yourself democaratic if you are agaist letting people vote! I learned that in high school, doesn’t look like a Harvard education means as much as it use to! Glad to see he is getting with the program!

As the polls indicate, a lot of Clinton supporters tend to be immature. Like Hillary Clinton who wants to throw a Tonya Harding fit and throw all her toys out of the pram, they’ll just have to get over it. They are behaving like spoiled children threatening not to love their parents if they don’t get their way, and we shouldn’t pay too much attention to their threats. Once Hillary is out the race, they will find that they have nothing to threaten with. However when their tears have cleared and they consider the cold reality of another four years under the republicans, they will forget about their idle threats. If they love their country, they’ll come around and join the new wave, and back the change for a better government.

I spell an upset in PA… Rendell and his good old white boys, may not be able to save the day for the queen and her coronation there.

Well, those that say they will vote for McCain just because their candidate won’t win are the fools. I certainly have NO DELUSION whatsoever that I’ll vote for McCain if Hillary gets the nomination, which she won’t. I will just hold my nose really tight and shut my eyes and pull the lever for the lying bat.

Obama is a passive-aggressive liar. His surrogates are following Obama’s script while Obama maintains deniability.

Oh Brother…LIKE OBAMA THINKS HE PLAYS THE ROLL OF GIVING CLINTON PERMISSION TO CONTINUE IN THE RACE!!!
Typical gutter tactic…Prace out your supporters…call for Clinton to quit…hoping the MEDIA and voters will buy into your line that she can’t win.
Well…Clinton is a FIGHTER and there are 10 Primaries left to go…so Obama…you might want to hold off thinking you are the President.

hhhmmm Obama the passive agressive liar… I don’t think he was the one that said he had to run for cover from sniper fire on the tarmac in Bosnia… lol… get real jaime… GET REAL.

Jim, I think you are right. I’m from PA and I can already see the excitement over Obama. I also think that the Bob Casey endorsement was HUGE. In another week the polls will show that it is too close to call.
Also, the sniper-fire comment is really hurting Clinton. This was not only a lie, it was a BAD lie and insulting to the troops that are in harms way everyday. Even if it were true was it supposed to make me want to vote for her because she ran to her car with her head covered, I don’t get it. Hillary can still have a good career as senator of NY. Obama 2008 will be GREAT!.

The fake Messiah Obama (pun intended) spoke. Hillary now that you have been given the ok by the fake Messian to continue on this race, we need to win this. Who the hell is this guy? His arrogance is so blinding and he is so condescending that its making me think, if he’s the nominee i most likely vote for anyone but him.

The king has spoken. Now all us little people should go about our business. Hail to the King!!!!

Obama is right, he and hillary agree on the majority of issues and its the small number of differences which separates them. Yet still people say if their candidate doesn’t get the nod they’ll vote for McCain. Sell-outs!
Voting for McCain means that you support the following:
1.Staying in Iraq for and indefinate amount of time.
2.Continuing giving tax breaks to the wealthiest.
3.Having a nominee that admits he knows very little about economic policy.

Oldharleyguy, count me in.

The fake Messiah Obama (pun intended) spoke. Hillary now that you have been given the ok by the fake Messiah to continue on this race, we need to win this. Who the hell is this guy? His arrogance is so blinding and he is so condescending that its making me think, if he’s the nominee i most likely vote for anyone but him.

hey I’m fromPa. and I dont think its helped him

All this means is the Barack Obama has seen the polls that say that 29% of Hillary voters will not support him against McCain. Sorry, buddy, too little, too late. You lost my vote when your campaign started the “race-baiting” against two of the best friends minorities have ever had in the history of this country. No experience, no judgment, and absolutely no respect for you from us ever.

Bill and Hillary are running around PA right now telling the Union Coal Miners that they won’t shut down any more coal reserves for Mexico and Indonesia again!
We promise this time, RIGHT

maria, never heard about BO threatening the Gov. Tell me more

melchg,
YOU KNOW WHAT’S GONNA HAPPEN AND CALLING US SELLOUTS AIN’T GONNA CHANGE
A THING.

Its time for clinton to bow out. Obama should be getting ready for the General Election. Clinton can not win, unless she finds a way to cheat. Or, because she won a few big states she can drag this out. But, she is losing everywhere else.
She needs to go back to corporate law. She is not telling the truth about NAFTA or anything else.

Yes they would like her to drop out before all the dels. are counted and the xtra one all the last ten states get for going last could net a lot of xtra ones for Hillary Pa is more like a mountain not a hill for Obama

I didn’t know Hillary needed Obamas permission.

of course they all got xtra del that can add up to abut fifty or so. the math is still there Obama can not win with out the supers so she is staying in until the end and Wright is still not going away

Ahh, the great uniter brings all the people together again. Thank you for allowing us to stay in the race. How gracious you are.

Another lie on Obama’s part. He gets his supporters to call on Hillary to drop out and then denies it. He is fearful that more dirt will be coming out that will destroy his chances of winning.

Obama has once proved that he is an honorable man who transcends party and racial differences in his judgement of what is good for americans. He is clearly the president we need at this time for this country. Repubicans, Democrats and Independents please behold your president-in-the-waiting! God bless america!

RS- FL and MI aren’t going to have a revote that’s been settled and the DNC are finding a way to seat their delegates (i think its stupid since the states were supposed to have been punished in the first place, Hillary agreed to that).
And what’s this about you thinking she’s gonna win the next 9 primaries…how delusional are you. Obama will most likely take NC among other states.

Obama has once more demonstrated that he is an honorable man who transcends party and racial affiliations, even in difficult times, in his judgement of what is good for americans. He is clearly the president we need at this time for this country. Repubicans, Democrats and Independents please behold your president-in-the-waiting! God bless america!

never thought I would ever see a left wing conspiracy against illary Clinton, but we are in the midst of one. Howard Dean said things are being done.

Who does he think he is…. so arrogant. She will stay in the race because SHE wants to. Why doesn’t Obama give it up and go home to two little children who need him… We certainly don’t.

melchg,
HAVE YOU EVER TAKEN ANY MATH COURSES? IT’S GOING TO BE A CLOSE ELECTION EVEN IF THE DEMOCRATS GET IT TOGETHER, THE GOP HAS THEIR “SWIFT BOAT TACTICS” ,LOT’S OF MONEY, AND INCUMBENT
CONTROL. GET REAL, WILL YA? BY THE WAY
I HATE THE WAR ALSO, AND WAS NEVER IN FAVOR OF INVADING IRAQ.

see the new National Enquirer for a shocking Obama/Wright story.

To “fletch” on this post — we dont need obama’s opinion on whether hillary should run or not…OKAY!!! She has the fundamental right to stay in as long as she wants. He is not going to get 2024 without superdelegates and so none of u Obama supporters — better say anything.
To “9jkotwo7″…before u wax eloquence on ur Nobama — recall that he said yesterday that this primary was a extra long movie. He has no business or the right to approve or disapprove any candidate’s decision to run or not.He is yet to secure the requisite delegates and so he should focus on doing well in the next 10 primaries!!
He has more elected delegates and i congratulate him…and he seems to inspire a lot of folks who r frustrated with the current government. But so are Hillary’s supporters and we want change as well –but through Hillary!! It is not as if he has a 300 delegate or a 400 delegate lead,okay!!!
He claims he can unite the country better than her — well let him earn his nomination 100% and then he can try to unite Hillary supporters behind him! All u bloggers who favour him — my advise is to tone down your negative rhetoric about hillary if u want any chance at him getting our support.
I live in michigan and all of u say that the party leaders here messed up and the rules cannot be changed? But u are not even willing to have a revote..? Why — because u run the risk of losing in popular vote eventually!!!
He is not willing to find out if we michiganders want him or hillary as the nominee and yet he will have the gall to come here later on in Fall season to seek a victory? You may seat the delegates 50% to each candidateNOW….but dont expect the voters who ultimately decide in November to just give in meekly to the leadership flaws of Michigan!
SO AGAIN…ALL U OBAMA SUPPORTERS — BETTER TONE DOWN UR RHETORIC ON ALL BLOGS IF U HOPE TO GET OUR VOTES. TRUST ME…I AM NOT ALONE ON THIS.

Us white Obama supporters do not mind waiting out the primarys to beat Hillary because it will just be more agonizing for you Hillraisers.
Remember you can say anything tough on the blogs but Hillary just can’t possibly win because when the 50 percent of us Democrats that dont like her join with the 100 percent of Republicans that don’t like her? well then sit on it Hillraisers, You Lose!

Just think: Hillary Clinton for President AND Obama for Vice-President!!!!! What a winning ticket that would be……..

I have a question for the Hillary supporters who say they will never vote for Obama. I know you are passionate about Hillary. But if you are true dems how could you give up the Supreme Court. You would rather have 20 plus years of a conservative Supreme Court than 4 years of Obama. Think of what that would mean….no stem cell research, which really can’t wait, Roe vs Wade would be overturned, etc. This is my #1 priority for voting for a dem no matter who it is. I am just having a hard time understanding this.

The pressure that Obama is feeling because of his separatist church is like a squirt gun compared to the firehose that the Repulicans are going to whip out if he wins the nomination.

If Hillary does not get to be nominated, Obama looses the election to McCain. Hillary will become the Governer of NY and president in 2012.
Obama and his supporters will be a bunch of losers like Kerry & Kennedy after their loss.

As the governor of Philadelphia, PA said today on TV, Obama is only saying this today to try to get the voters from PA; the problem is that it is a little too late; they know that their votes are not important to him. How many of the Obama supporters in this blog have not had the opportunity to vote? Would you be happy if you were not given the opportunity to vote?

Well that’s what he gets for thinking when he is not used to it..I know MANY who will vote for McCain if he wins the nomination

Old Harley Guy- I think Iraq is gonna be the Top issues by this fall. Most of america is sick of this war. Bush said that the current fight in Iraq at Basra is a defining moment, the next day officials say that the Basra fight is not going well and threatens to end the 7 month cease fire in Iraq by Mahdi Army. If that cease fire ends the violence will increase and everyone who said the surge worked will by scratching their heads and people will be sending a clear message this fall that they want an end to this war. The only way McCain gets the nod is if there are remarkable improvements in Iraq from now to november.

MCCAIN WILL BEAT OBAMA BUT IF HILLARY DOESN’T GET THE NOMINATION I’LL VOTE FOR NADER

Obama does not speak for himself – he speaks for Kennedy, Kerry, Dean, Pelosi and Reid. All these dems are expecting big payback once their Golden Boy wins the nomination and ultimately the presidency. That’s why you won’t see Hillary supporters voting for Obama, we know Hillary will stand up to these idiots that are destroying the Democratic party. As for saying that Hillary can stay in the race after Leahy’s Big Press Conference covered live on big donor networks CNN and MSNBC, does Obama really think we are that stupid? Obama didn’t know Leahy was going to give a big press conference and demand Hillary to get out? Why won’t this girl listen to the big boys? The nerve of her!

How sweet Obama has given Hillary permission to run as long as she wants.
Maybe Obama did not hear her she already said she is staying in for how long it takes, so I don’t know who he is giving permission to.
You can only give permission to someone if they are asking you for it, and I don’t think Hillary is asking Obama for anything at the moment.

russell, you seem to read and digest the news the same way I do. Yesterday, the movie was too long for him; today, she can “run as long as she wants” and her followers “should be able to support her as long as they are willing or able.” That sounds like a little step back from yesterday to me. But, you know what, I still detect that egocentric put down. He does not get it. He says he did not talk to Pat (Leahy) about it. I believe that as much as I believe that he and Bill Richardson were not in cahoots and planning for weeks before his endorsement. His entire northeastern gang of senator buddies seem to be trying a full assault to get Hillary out before the primaries are finished. What are they afraid of at this point? That Obama is not strong enough of a candidate to compete against McCain? They should have thought of that from the beginning.
They want to blame Hillary for damaging the Party’s chances? She is the one with poise and dignity. They really should know that strong Democrats make up their own minds. I have been in the Party too long to be treated like all of a sudden I am not concerned about the success of the Party. At what costs?
Hillary did not create Reverend Wright’s hate speech; he is not her mentor or spiritual advisor. Hillary did not create Rezko; the newspapers and media already knew a lot. It only became relevant for debate after Obama tried to slander Hillary for once being on the board for Walmart in Arkansas. Even crazier, Michelle just dropped off her connection with Walmart. Hillary did not give a noted speech that Obama gave as his own when another public figure had already given it. Obama got caught in double talk about NAFTA with Canada. The Obama camp has played the race card at every opportunity to ignite their base; now, he says the country needs to have a conversation about race?
What a double-talker!

I’m struck by the “end-game” positions of the two camps.
Hillary’s supporters say “We’ll vote McCain if we feel the process is unfair”
Obama supporters call up visions of riots, burnings, uprisings.
Hmmmm, who’s stuck in the 1960′s? and who as the recognized underdog made the heartfelt call to rally her supporters that whatever happened, we would support the eventual democratic nominee? Hillary Clinton. Well guess what, we love you Hillary, we support you fiercely, but we need to make sure that the DNC never again attempts to sideline a viable, worthy candidate again. So, on this, we respectfully reserve the right to follow our own course if the worst happens.

Regarding Hillary’s Bosnia-trip embellishment (which some keep bringing up): This type of “resume-padding” is quite common among politicians running for office and various presidential candidates have done it to various degrees in the past. These instances are usually overlooked or barely covered by the media unless the “embellishment” is serious or the press wants to sensationalize something because it makes a good story. The Hillary-Bosnia story was brought to the press by the Obama campaign, along with the videos that made it a “juicy” story. The media lapped it up and made a big deal of it. But what they haven’t made a big deal about is all the times Obama has done this kind of thing and his history of lies and embellishments. Here are just some of the “embellishments” and untrue things he has said: 1) His parents met at the Selma march (in fact, he was born 4 years before Selma). 2) He was fluent in Indonesian as a child (his teacher has said he was not). 3) He was involved in a campaign against Asbestos in public housing. 4) At age 9 he had a “racial awakening” when he read an article in Ebony magazine which he described in detail (there was no such article). 5) He has exaggerated his role in immigration reform and housing policy and community organizing 6) He claims credit for passing nuclear leak legislation that never got out of committee. 7) He claims to have been a Constitutional Law Professor (the proper title is “Senior Lecturer”). 8) He said lobbyists won’t work in his White House and later contradicted himself 9) He originally said he didn’t have knowledge of Rezko’s wrongdoing and not much of a relationship with him and that Rezko didn’t raise much money for him. All lies, and Obama keeps increasing the amount he says Rezko contributed. 10) He said he didn’t get contribution from oil companies (he did) 11) Obama has contradicted himself a few times about his knowledge of Rev. Wright’s troubling views. 12) In Obama’s books he has exaggerated, embellished (or invented) stories of his life to “pump himself up” (etc)… for example, this account (by an Obama supporter!) on one of his past jobs: http://www.analyzethis.net/blog/2005/07/09/barack-obama-embellishes-his-resume/ … There are even more instances of embellishments, exaggerations and outright lies from Obama. Yes, Hillary may have embellished the Bosnia story, but what she described is what they told her to prepare for… and at least she was there and was willing to face a dangerous situation… and she has been to about 80 countries… and met all kinds of challenges!!! Let’s focus on her long record of accomplishments and her great proposals for our nation!

Here I thought Clinton got to decide all on her own whether or not she stays in the race. I had no idea she had to ask permission of Obama. He seems to think that he gets to speak for everyone: Florida, Michigan, all the states that haven’t voted, and now Clinton herself.
I could give a crap about abortion versus my right to choose my own candidate and vote for her. Do you really think a bunch of men care about your reproductive rights? Do you think if men choose your candidate that they will make sure they always choose one who supports abortion? Your right to vote is your protection of your viewpoint.

melchg,
YOU ARE MAKING YOUR BED SO DON’T COMPLAIN ABOUT SLEEPING IN IT. I VOTED
FOR GWB THE FIRST TIME, AFTER 2 MONTHS
I REALIZED MY TERRIBLE MISTAKE. THE WAR
IN IRAQ IS AND ALWAYS BEEN BAD, BUT CAN YOU RELY ON OBAMA TO FIX ANYTHING? LOOK
AT HIS LIPS WHEN HE SPEAKS,IF YOU REALLY FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT, HE’S YOUR MAN. REST EASY, NIGHTY, NIGHT.

Vanessa I was the one who mentioned how a conservative Supreme Court would take away our right to choose, which is what will happen if McCain is our next president. That post should have been directed at me

I’m confused. Yesterday he said she should drop out and today he says she can stay in. Would the real Barack Obama please step forward?

Several posts I’ve followed mention how Obama has mis-stated and exaggerated his accomplishments. Find the N.Y. Times article from 1990 or 1991 following his electon as editor of the Harvard Law Review. As a 28 year old man – certainly qualifies him as an adult – he lied about his father’s position. He told the interviewer that his dad had been the “Finance Minister of Kenya”. He wasn’t. He also claimed that his mother was an anthropologist. If she was, where’s her research? The point is: who was he trying to impress back then. Was he so uncomfortable in his own skin that he had to invent a background. It is troubling that the little we know about Obama’s family is what he wants us to know. – and that he lied about his background when it couldn’t possibly make any difference.

Speeches aren’t going to be enough to win over the “values voters” that voted for Bush in the last 2 elections.

Pennsylvania is really not a race between Clinton and Obama; it is a race about whether the battle will go on and on, or we put an end to this in Pennsylvania. The state cannot make Clinton the nominee. Even if Clinton wins, as expected, it will only mean that the contest goes on the North Carolina and Indiana. On the other hand, if Obama pulls an upset, that will end the race. I know the Hillaryites and Obama-haters will never vote for Obama, but most democratic voters, including most leaning to Clinton, would be satisfied with either candidate in November. Those who feel that way, but are leaning to Hillary, need to ask themselves: Do you want this damaging, knock-down, drag-out fight to continue, or do you really want to decide this in Pennsylvania and vote for Obama to end the contest on April 22?

I am worried about the Supreme Court and will vote for a dem whether it’s Hillary or Obama. I don’t care as long as we keep our court in balance. Face it, we could lose some of them within the next 4 years.

If Obama is the nominated candidate the Democratic Party will implode. Clinton’s supporters know and understand very clearly that he espouses no galvanazing political idea. He is unable to say what he means by “change” or “hope” or “the future.” And he has failed to say and his actions clearly demonstrate that he is not a “unifier.” By the evidence of his slight political record (130 “present” votes in the IL state legislature, little achievement in the U.S. Senate) Barack Obama stacks up as something of a mediocrity. And when you read the posts of his followers, you understand that they know no reasoning but follow the path of him as well as Rev. Wrigth of hate and insults. That is why the Democratic Party will loose the elections if he is the candidate.

I would like it to go to the end take that back to your leader are you folks not up to hearing do not talk to Hillary supporters about droping out.and count FL and MI cheaters never win

bgjd1979: Actually, all we Hillary supporters want is for a fair nomination process with the voices of voters in every state heard. I think they call that democracy – what a novel idea!

OBama supporters keep dreaming about PA.If not Hillary its going to McCain.

After seeing all the lies that the Obama camp said about Hillary I now realize that they are also not telling the truth about McCain. I did my own research and that’s why I would vote for McCain if Hillary does not get the nomination. I’m not as easily led as the Obama cult members.

Posted by: lois | Mar 29, 2008 9:48:19 PM
Apparently lois what you want is a president that insults the military by lying to boost her resume. She basically said the soldiers new she was coming because she said there was suppose to be a ceremony but they didn’t do their jobs and secure the area. All lies cause she thought she would get away with it. Yeah she would be a great commander in cheif.

By the way, some Massachusetts citizens feel that Patrick had no choice but to “strike while the irons hot”. It seems that Patrick is feeling that the window on interest in anything he might say in a book, might be limited since we can’t be sure that his friend, Obama can even obtain the nomination, much less the presidency.

PT: Keep dreaming. PA residents are too smart; they will not fall for Obama; you can write that down

Obama supporters are fighting to win the battle and lose the war. He can’t win the GE. Sometimes the truth hurts, but you have to face it sooner of later.

I think Obama can win against McCain easily. You think the youth will vote McCain, think again. And Obama has them all out there voting.

How many people do you think vote in the GE there are not enough youth why do you think they keep talking about the party falling apart they can’t get the money for Den people are refusing to donate. because we know an unfair set up race when we see one

Sorry, no one has energized the youth like Obama. What canidate was the last to do this. My kids are in college and you have no idea the movement Obama has started. Like it or not, these kids want their voices heard.

Mack, well said. I don’t know why that is so hard for some to understand.

Who CARES if obama “energized the youth”?? There are SOOOOOO many older people who also vote——call them Senior Citizens, but they are voting Democrats—–they are the ones who will out-vote ALL Democrats—–they care about whether they will have Social Security, they care whether they have to either buy food or choose to buy their medicines each month, they care if they will have Healthcare coverage when they retire soon……”YOUNG DEMOCRATS” have their WHOLE LIVES—-and obama is still young and will be around for the next 12 years when Hillary gets the Nomination this time around.
“Young Democrats” are NOT the ONLY voting segment in the Democratic Party….

My new adjective to describe Senator Barack Obama = “Patronizing”. This man continues to astound me; his arrogance knows no bounds and grows larger and more painful to watch with each new campaign stump speech. I am admiring Senator Hillary Clinton’s toughness and class in the face of daunting odds. She reminds me of Rocky; and being a Philadelphia native, thats a GREAT thing. Hillary DO NOT GIVE UP!!!

Real commong sense, are you saying DC will vote for Hillary or did I misread your post

I am a Republican and I am actually rooting for Obama to win. He is such a joke that the Republicans can take this years campaigning off the calendar and go relax. It is going to be an easy win with Obama. Hillary, McCain may have to work a little bit harder just because she is an established politician.

Maryland: that’s all good and well for the future of Democratic politics, but these youngsters of today can be smart as a whip, but they have no life experience to draw on when considering WHAT ISSUES are really important to the Democratic Party as a whole. The youth are just out for themselves—-they don’t care about the rest of what the Democratic Party members want……they are too young to be mature enough to consider others’ needs and values outside of themselves……..oh, but they will be SO GREAT in the politics of TOMORROW—-about 8-12 years from now, when they have paid their dues, like obama has to do yet…..

No, I am telling you that a lot of the youth that voted in DC and VA for BO will now vote for Hillary in the elections; they have seen his true colors; and it is happening in all the universities in DC and VA; it is also happening with the youth in my office; the youth are really smart and when you tell them to focus and get out of the “Obama Mania trend” and see the real issues, they do. The youth go with the trend momentarily, but they have brains and many things have happened and they are changing their preferences

If Obama couldn’t change his church in 20 years why do you think he could change this country?

Who cares if they count the votes in Florida, the Republicans didn’t disenfranchise the voters. How sad for the Democrats. Again, proof of cut and run being their mantra, they even cut the voters rights in Florida and Michigan. Obama says nay to allow the voters and Hillary says yea to allow them and they all say, MCCAIN!

The Commander Guy: what I would be interested in knowing is: demographically, are the “young voters” white, black, or a mixture of black white, and brown?
That is, is this “youth vote” that is “inspired” by obama a color thing? or a “young” thing? If there were another YOUNG, say white Man OR woman running, would the “Young voters” still be inspired I wonder?
Wish I could find some demographics regarding “young voters” from every state that has voted so far, but it would take a long time to find the answer…

Jackie, if Hillary couldn’t run her own campaign, how can she run this country

Can someone tell me why Obama is being blamed for MI & FL?
Hillary said in 10/07 that those states didn’t count.
Then she said she won those states, even though Obama wasn’t on the ballot in MI.
Now she’s crying voter suppression?
GIVE ME A BREAK!

Once again, Obama proves to be the more gracious and classy of the two Democratic candidates. He has the most votes, the most primary delegates, the most caucus delegates, the most states, the popular vote, and the best poll numbers. But the Clintons will still try to come up with some spin that says they deserve the nomination. Fine, let’s play it out to the end and then make a decision well before the convention. Barack has it EXACTLY right.

Jan, you know that Obama will win and that is more than good news to us, the Republicans who are watching this play out. Obama’s church will be an issue, his cut and run attitude will be an issue, his stance against the war in Iraq and failure to support the troops in Afghanistan by not doing his job in the Senate on NATO will be another issue. He is so screwed when he comes up against the Republicans, that is all before his personal life of lies and blunder hit him in the campaign and then we have Rezko to throw at him. He is an open market for the Repubicans to take aim. He will be so easy, McCain won’t have to say anything, the news media will do it for him. Funny, life just keeps getting better.

Obama knows his days are numbered and wants a place in Hillary’s administration. Rev. wright killed his chances. 76% of the survey stated Obama is a “hypocrite”.

when obama team say Clinton should drop out her supports cry when Obama say that she should stay in the race if she want her supporters cry. Why do you want you guys?

Do the math Hillary is done? So all your points of views don’t matter at this time! Just key strokes! ;-)
Maybe all of you can ask your pastors to pray for her and bring about some sudden change you can believe in!

Stock please tell me why Obama should bow out when he is leading

Apparently Mr. Obama did not get the news she never was going to get out! Thanks anyway!

COUNT THE MICHIGAN & FLORIDA VOTES–SEAT THEIR DELEGATES
Who the youth voters are? You gotta look at polls. Say college campuses may be a good place to get part of the equation.
But, it’ll ultimately take time. Lots of time to figure out just what has inspired the youth vote, if anything, over the last 8 years.
Short answer: nobody knows.
Long Answer: Its complicated…

Wow… Obama is slick and smooth isn’t he? He sends his surrogates in to do his dirty work and then acts like he would never ask Mrs. Clinton to leave the race. How sweet…how patronizing. Come on America…vote Hillary before it’s too late!

For weeks Sen Obama has been giving that proud and arrogant smile whenever his supporters and the liberal media pressure Sen Clinton to withdraw. Suddenly he became supportive of Sen Clinton to continue to run as long as she wants to.
Hmmmmmmm. Must be the 30% of the democrats he stands to loose. Must be the donors.
Sen Obama has to realize that the only way we(the 30% of Clinton democrats) will vote for him is if he runs as the vice president of Sen Clinton.

Obama has been in politics for over 20 years. Do you honestly think he has been sitting in the pews EVERY Sunday?

Rush is a joke and that is all that anyone can say about him. He even said that he was against McCain, so who can trust what he says. I know what the Republicans are saying, I live with them, work with them and pray with them.

….you know it is time to more or less set aside this race card deal….yes, it will haunt obama for the rest of the campaign, but let us not forget the anti-american sentiment from the rev. wright that obama will not disown. obama said ‘if i disown him it would be like disowning the black community..’ what about the rest of the community, like the men and women in afganistan and iraq…..and the proud veterans that fought for our country and our freedom…..and the ones who have lost their lives for us. we would be idiots to allow obama and his anti-american buddies to get into the white house. the most appalling thing the rev. wright said in my opinion was…..GD America…….i just bet our vets and troops fighting in the current wars love hearing that…..and then the candidate who ‘won’t disown’ him. i would give the rev. his one-way ticket to anywhere but here in our great country. God Bless the USA!

“He was a community orginizer.”
Interesting. Being the wife of the President for 8 years is not a sufficent qualification for Hillary. But being a community organizer with a wife is a qualification enough for Obama to become the POTUS?!!

No, W A I T !!!
I take that back…….
what would be FUNNIER, STILL, is to see obama get the Presidency, and see the Republicans squirm for the first 4 years……..oh, now THAT would be FUNNY !!!!!!!!!!!!

Obama has to say that. It would look bad for him if he did’nt. So lets not give him to much credit… greg

Yeah after Obama loses the White House all those that voted for Obama will be saying, “I didn’t vote for him!” Yeah, it will be funny. But the Republicans will never let go of the White House to a woman or a black man. Democrats have done well this election year. I can see a woman but a black man, no, we will not let that happen.

Anyone in favor of a registration system to post comments?
That way losers could just get their IP address banned from the site.
Sounds like a good idea to me.

I’m so relieved it’s okay with Obama if she stays in the race. I’m sure Hillary is relieved, too. I wonder if Michele asks his permission before leaving the house. This guy gets worse every day.

Yes Chuck,
This is yet another example of the Clintons doing ANYTHING they can to get back in the white house.
They don’t care about us, just their own agendas.

The “kitchen sink” didn’t work and did the “Tonya Harding”.
What’s next??

Ok so Hillary runs as an independent. Think about this. The dems votes would be split and the independents vote for McCain or Obama. What a stupid idea

Even if Wright didn’t say a word, at the end of the day, Obama still belongs to a black separatist church. Wright just added fuel to the fire. When you’re running on your judgment and claiming to be a uniter, it just doesn’t flush.

George and Mack and everyone else, who are you to judge people you don’t know. You hear sound bites. What if I heard soundbites from your life, what would I hear. And how would I judge you.

It’s amusing to see how the bitter spiteful individuals react to this simple comment from Barack (in response to inane media questions) despite the fact that all that he stated was the simple fact that Hilary can run as long as she wants. Personally, I think that she should run longer. The longer she runs – the deeper she digs her campaign’s grave. True, her campaign’s negativity and attacks on her opponent are taking a large toll on the Democratic Party by turning off conservative and independent voters but she’s not going to find anything of substance that the Clinton spin machine can make stick to Obama. In the end, it will only drive more Democrats over to support Barack.

Hillary could possibly win as an independent. Many republicans do not like McCain, about half the democrats do not like Obama. I would vote for her. This is really a change !!!!!!

Obama has never led anything more than a pep rally or a parade.
If this race is draining him so much that he’s got to go to the VIRGIN ISLES to take some down time from signing autographs, how the hex is he going to survive four years of non-stop crisis?
America’s currently in a RECESSION & some say heading into a DEPRESSION. Struggling citizens need HILLARY CLINTON in the WHITE HOUSE over a media darling like OBAMA. It’s not just a vote. It’s a LIFE or DEATH decision to many.

UScitizen2144, Did Obama vote against the Iraq war? I don’t think so. He was not US Senator at the time we invaded Iraq in 2003. It means he has no right to criticize Hillary for supporting Bush regarding the military action against Sadam Hussein. In fact, I wonder what he will do and act if he was US Senator at that time given him the same information Hillary had.

Apparently Kennedy, Kerry, Dean, Pelosi, Richardson are feeling a little insecure about their future and that of Saint Obama. So now they are gonna try and play nice? Sorry, for 30% of us Hillary supporters, it makes no difference what they say.
See, it’s not that we don’t like Obama, it’s that he is a pathological liar and hypocrite with virtualy no real experience. That’s not too comforting for many Dems and we’re not willing to sit back a let the left wing liberals highjack our party. We’ll simply leave them, before they leave us. Oh, and Obama…..you can stay in the race if you want to.

There is no way this will be over until the voters in Michigan and Florida are counted. And Obama is the one who is stopping this from happening. Way to go, he’s such a uniter. When people don’t fall in line, he finds a way to suppress them. Like the bully tactics at play by his supporters in the Texas caucus.

I liked Obama to begin with. But I’ve now concluded that I will go Independent if he becomes the nominee. It’s difficult to overlook the amount of back-flips and lies he has managed to get away with, thanks to a fawning media.

I saw ralph nader on TV today and if Obama get’s nominated I’ll go with him. I figure the republicans will have the advantage anyway if Obama wins.
I kinda like Nader though. He is a very modest guy and he has done a lot for our country. If only he wasn’t so darn hippie.
I just wish al gore would step in and say it was his and he would choose Hillary as VP.

I wish I could give more money to Hillary. But I am a broke right now.
I see Obama as more of the same. GWB had some experience but not the right kind.

Tomorrow’s show is George Stephanopolous’ show with several different people: (don’t know when it is on, or what channel)—-the guests are Hillary’s campaign person, obama’s campaign person, and McCain’s campaign person. Should be interesting……
Goodnight all !

What’s this about Maggie Williams being
Director for a failed subprime lender?
Didn’t Hillary say that she was against predatory lending?
Another example of “politics as usual”

LA in Indiana,
I’m not sure where you are getting your data on Texas. The report I just read on CNN has Hillary leading 60% to 40% in the shake out. That’s quite a disparity. Sounds like the Reverend Wright has had an impact and that buyer’s remorse is setting in in Texas.
By the time the state convention rolls around you should be able to stick the fork in the Reverend Wright story.
Heh heh.

He respects her as do I. Obama wins the Texas Primary. The delegates just finished the count Obama 39, Clinton 28. Clinton has the heart of a Lion, but the choice is evident. Obama ’08

aaahhhhh, so the lying is ok, because hillary is doing it.
That would be called a double standard, just like most other incidents in this race.
If the situation were reversed and Obama was behind, clinton and all her animals would be howling for him to get out of the race, and saying he was ruining the party, and blah, blah blah, blah blah
You guys are too much!

ahem….Barack Obama WON the Texas Two Step Caucus with pledged delegate win 38-29.
:op
I love it when a plan comes together!

I sure am glad the candidates are acting like adults because many of their supporters are not. Of course you can’t blame the candidates for all the bitter internet commenters that happen to support them. Why does supporting your candidate have to involve insulting or telling lies about the other one? We have two exceptional candidates here. Pick one and tell us why; we don’t need to hear the latest internet rumors about the other one.

I hope the reports from Texas are the 60-40 Clinton. Perhaps people are waking up and figuring this is only step one of the road to the White House for the democrats and Obama will loose to McCain in a landslide…do the math – zero from Florida…zero from Michigan…-30% Clinton supporters – slam dunk for McCain. Don’t know Obama and from what I have read about him – never want to. I don’t like people who condone racism…condone hatred…and do deals behind the back of the voters (NAFTA/Canada)…too many lies…come on Texas Clinton supporters…stand your ground!!!!!!!!! Gooooo Senator Clinton – even though you did not need Camp Obama permission :-)

matt lolol say what???
I wear the uniform for this country so people like you can continue to spout your venom. I’m unpatriotic because I’m not a hellary supporter???
puuuleeeeze
GO OBAMA!!!

DCVoter,
I don’t hate Obama. I’ll support Obama in 8 years when he has politically matured. I would like to see him admit that his appointment of Wright was a boneheaded move and I could forgive him that. So far he has just weaseled around that subject.

You hillary supporters are supposed to be smart….what REALLY happened with nafta??
And why did Brodie say he was assured by the clinton campaign….hmmmmm
But you didn’t see THAT truth in the news reports, did ya?!

Jock59801 – He did do all those things and more..read up because your naive uninformed side is showing.
He does support nuclear weapons, he does want to have his foreign policy patterned after Regan and Bush41, he did lie about being present for the hatred spewed from Reverend Wright, etc. etc. etc. Get informed dude.

LA in Indiana,
I’m not saying I doubt your claim, but it still sounds like the results that were posted by the original 41% of Texas precincts. I’m just not seeing a current number that supports it. Do you have a citation you can point to?

Without Hillary, Barack loses his voice. He has nothing to offer on his own. He Parrots nearly ever progressive policy initiative and tries to take credit as if they were original Obama ideas.

no citation wcm, you’ll just have to wait for the news reports.
LAgirl, Obama said he was not present during the soundbite sermons that were put on the 30 second loop on television. And trust me, they scoured those tapes to see if he was there.
He also stated he knew his pastor was controversial and had some controversial sermons. No he did not elaborate on exactly what those were. The sermons played on the news were the ones that were considered the ‘most offensive’. And they tried to say Obama was in attendance….Fox had reported he was there, until they checked his campaign records and found out he was in FL that day.
The main issue here, since you hillary supporters like to continuously question his character….just like his parents aren’t running for President, neither is his pastor.
Stop listening to Hannity, he’ll surely make you into a clinton zombie.

LA in Indiana,
So you are projecting that it will turn out that way, right? Nothing substantive yet? Texas is already out to pasture, so it doesn’t really matter in the momentum game, I’d just like to know the facts.

Come on LA Girl, he’s alreasy been vetted on that, so has Hillary on Bosnia. Pick another subject you’re boring everyone.

LA Girl,
OK, I don’t feel quite the same way about Obama’s relationship with the pastor. I think we can reach a summary agreement that the pastor engages in hate speak. That being said, Obama is more than entitled to have a relationship with whoever he chooses. I believe, though, he crossed the line when he placed the man on his campaign, because at that moment Wright became more than an association, he was in fact endorsed by Obama, meaning that Obama accepted him as is in the political realm, hate speech and all. If he would have kept this in the personal realm, then I would not have a problem with him. I understand that you see it differently. At the end of the day, we agree, though, that Obama is showing a judgement problem on this one.

West Coast Messenger…thank you for saying so well what I was having trouble with…:-) It is the judgment issue that I have the problem with.

la in indiana, you say obama has already been “vetted” on the wright thing, and refer to 30 second sound bites. i realize from your posts that you will continue your beliefs despite all evidence to the contrary. however, others do not choose willful blindness. obama’s own words prove his lies. read his books, where he quotes and references wright’s hate speech at length (of course, he writes about it positively and doesn’t call it hate speech, but the words are there, including references to some of the things you say were just 30 second sound bites). then he lies about not knowing, when even his own words prove he knew. then he admits knowing in his coverup speech, then he goes back later to saying he didn’t know. and on and on. it’d be funny if it weren’t so pathetic.

THIS WILL BE GOOD FOR BOTH OBAMA AND CLINTON.LET AMERICAN DECIDE WHO BEST SUITS FOR THE JOB. LET HER RUN AS LONG AS SHE WANTS. BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY OBAMA WILL BE THE NOMINEE. MAY GOD BLESS AMERICA.

so saddened…I just listened to one sermon today. The one where he talks about the US bombing Nagasaki, Hiroshima and not batting an eye….
yeah, that one….if you can google it, find it and listen, its only a couple of minutes more. The before AND after the ‘chickens come home to roost’ comment….
Of course the news wouldn’t tell you he was quoting someone else. Admiral Peck I believe his name is. But you would only know that if you listen to more than the soundbite. He was stating what someone else said lololol on Fox News. Now theres a surprise!

Dean said the other day that he expects the Michigan and Florida delegates will be seated at the convention. Why not seat them now?

Ken – Clinton said at the last debate that it was the wrong vote. Please go listen to her response. She admitted it. Good luck for your son. I heard Obama today say that he is figuring it may take 18-24 months to get some of the troops out of Iraq. I think that is a different stance from what he said previously.

Ken: We are Proud of your son in Baghdad….
On another note Hillary admitted in the TX debate that she would want to take the Iraq war vote back if that was one thing she could take back…Ken….the vote was to allow Weapons inspectors to get into Iraq and authorize military force “if” Bush decided it was needed…..Bush misused the authorization…

Iwas reading comments here.
it is amazing, how many Clinton’s supporters have just chicken brains.
They ignore reality, facts, events, etc.
Just ” Go Hillary”. Where to go with her?
To the past?????
poor, fooled people.

It is about racism because the media is not reporting the facts. They took snippets to try and destroy a man. America tries to outweigh 30 years with 30 seconds. You have nothing on Obama so you attack those around him. And had the snippets been accurate thats one thing but they don’t show the full speech which showson one part he was only quoting what a white Ambassador said it. The part about chickens coming home to roost was spoken by a white man an their was no uproar but when Rev Wright quoted it its like the end of the world. This is so crazy that the church the clintons attended the 8 years they were in the whitehouse is defending the Reverend and denouncing those who attack him.

Hillary= New Huckabee!!
Admit defeat and Go away!! Hillary!!
Do not try to steal election Hillary!
150+ delegate defeat, 700k votes behind, in next 10 contests you can win almost 70% vote margin in your Dream only!!
OBAMA08!! YES WE CAN!!

WestCoastMessenger the media wrongly portrayed what was said but lets say Rev Wright did say it just like that. What was false about it. Did America not bomb any of the places he said. Did America not infect blacks with syphillis during the Tuskegee Experiment which was passed on to their wives and unborns so why is it hard to believe America would do the same with aids. Bill Clinton even apologized to the 8 survivors for what America did. And you act like people woke up one day and said they feel like flying a plane in a building. Don’t you think America did something that would make them go to that extreme.

Let the votes count!
I have plenty of sense and thats why I know not to support a Liar named Hillary. I wonder what soldiers she will insult next by saying they didn’t have the area secure and she got shot at.

RC,
You make my point, exactly. We need a leader who will demonstrate seasoned judgement to deal with the issues that are important to this country, in a Democratic manner. I have not seen such judgement forthcoming in Obama: Rezko, Wright, the disenfranchisement of Florida and Michigan. Perhaps you can point to his legislative record for evidence. What, no?
To me, the latter case shows his greatest weakness in judgement, willing to allow the disenfranchisement of Florida and Michigan. You just don’t win like that on the backs of working class Democrats, no way, no how.

MattOhio,
The guy “Common Sense” is a shape shifter, kind of like on Star Trek. He doesn’t address our inquiries in kind, he just moves on to a different twist of the same old tired claims, attempting to perpetrate a giant fraud on America.

GB,
We need more of your kind here to help root out some of the whackos. Mostly they are from the right, but I’m beginning to wonder about some of the Obama supporters going over the edge.

carla sue: awesome!!!keep drillin them!!!!

Obama actually has no say in the matter. And, it is highly presumptive for him or anyone else to think otherwise.
Words in this case, “do not matter”. HRC supporters do!
The best thing the DNC, Obama supporters, and the Obama media could do for HRC and us, her supporters, would be to “force her out of the race”.
That way we would get a new, possibly effective DNC, a chastised media, and a stronger than ever HRC simply waiting for 4 yrs to run against a sitting President McCain.
I desperately want the DNC to be completely torn apart from the top down. It has brought us nothing but defeat. The whole lot are worthless. The ones calling for HRC to quit are mostly the same ones who presided over the last 2 debacles. Dean, Brazile, Shrum, etc.
Therefore if it takes Obama being the nominee, then being defeated by McCain, with the help of HRC supporters staying home, to bring down the DNC, I am all for it.
HRC can run in 2012 as “the we told you so” candidate.

MC,
I concur with you. The DNC has been taken over by the Kos/MoveOn mafia acting collusively, pulling Dean’s and Pelosi’s strings to ensure that working class Democrats have less access to participation in the nominating process than at anytime in all of Democratic voting history.

by the way, when you hear the national anthem or pledge of allegiance, do you place your hand over your heart?
Posted by: carla sue
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You can put your hand over your heart million times..But don’t think I will support someone so corrupt..who
Takes Most Money from the Washington..lobbyist..Because..you are selling Country and people’s interest to your Greed!! SAME OLD POLITICS WILL NOT WORK THIS YEAR!!
It is time for a Great Leader..America is ready for Change ..America is ready for Obama!!
OBAMA08!! YES WE CAN!!

WestCoastMessenger,
Thought you have general knowledge to know..Rezco’s 250k donation..did not lead him to Jail..this is pathetic..when you are supporting the biggest Washington lobbiests candidate..do you know..what thos lobbiests..doing to American middle class..think!!
MattOhio,
American and proud to support a true American OBAMA..you got my point?
OBAMA08!! YES WE CAN!!

RC,
Still perpetrating that fraud about the lobbyists? So your contention is that Senator Obama is some type of arch Angel, devoid of and clean from federal lobbyists money, and somehow Hillary Clinton is the lesser species, having accepted such.
1. Senator Obama accepts money from the wives of federal lobbyists.
2. Senator Obama accepts free labor paid for by federal lobbyists.
3. Senator Obama accepts monies paid by state lobbyists, even if the source of such money was originally from a federal lobbyist to the state lobbyists.
Obama’s hands are looking about as clean as Reverend Wright’s mouth.
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Obama got $250,000 Rezko got jail!
Obama not lifting a finger for Fl/Mi
Hillary stands up for all voters
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just don’t think it is obama’s time and i would not ever object to an african american prez. it is just not obama……..Posted by: carla sue
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Keep Dreaming Carla..” THEY SAID THIS DAY WILL NEVER COME..THEY SAID..THIS COUNTRY IS TOO DIVIDED..” What was started in Iowa..it is getting Bigger..Can you Hear US?..we are Coming..Change is coming to America..Race and Religion cannot decide our President anymore..We will elect the most qualified President this year!! Our time has come!! You are ready or Not!!
OBAMA 08!! YES WE CAN!! SEE YOU IN D.C. JAN 09!!

MattOhio I understand the Imus situation and I see your point. I’m not saying it’s right If Obama did witness it but I don’t know he did. I have a nephew that use to mock what the pastor would say in church when he was a toddler and the congregation would laugh and talk about it later and still be laughing. I was a member and often went but not once did I ever witness my nephew do that but I heard about it all the time. Also I have friends that I have known all my life that smoke weed that I have never seen smoke weed. I heard them talk about it but never once light up in front of me and once I joined the military they never mentioned it again but I know they do it. And thats why when you take a pastor giving 3 sermons a week over 30 years I can believe Obama didn’t witness it and if he had I’m sure someone would have found him in the audience on film by now. Also wcm no I haven’t seen the sexual one but you can send me the link. But those I did see I know were taken out of context. My point in all this again is I don’t condone the statements from Imus or wright. ALl I am geeting at is why the outrage over a statement now but not when Ambassador Peck said it on fox news.

How about all the demands Obama makes in this campaign — he’s so arrogant. Calling people racist, demanding who should be files, and now giving Hillary “permission” to continue. For such a brilliant speeker he really comes off as someone way too arrogant and without grace. This will backfire.
I’m a college graduate, and so are mots of the Hillary supporters I know. Poeple who are not college graduates are also sharp. people are on to his games, and not liking the arrogance, and assumptions will alll to dumb to figure out he’s playing US all.

please look at the facts. as i said in an earlier post…’obama is the one to watch’…….however, after seeing and hearing who his mentors and supporters are, it makes me afraid. i don’t care what color he is either. that is not what this is about. but i fear that he will take ride and use it for his own agenda. i fear for his children who he has subjected to a preacher of hate and vile. i am not saying hillary or anyone else here is perfect. i am saying hillary is the better choice to lead our country.

The way Obama looks “clean” is he plays the classic game of good cop bad cop with David Axelrod, his ruthless strategist and press agent.
That way he’ll get people such as here, to say he never says bad things about Hillary and she is negative. Yeah, right!
Is Resko and Right Hillary’s fault too?

Hillary is negative. Her only chance is to destroy Obama yet her camp denies everything negative that comes up. If that is her only chance isn’t it reasonable to think her camp is the one trying to destroy Obama. She is making it to where once she lose Obama will lose and we will be stuck with McCain. I’ve been to Iraq and I know what it is like to fight for people that don’t want you there so others can get rich. I’ve lost friends there, one friend lost his arm, and I’ve had two friends overdose on medication after returning home not to mention my brother is a reservist and his unit is prepping for Iraq now. And with McCain as President the war will go on and their friends will get rich and my friends will continue to die. I just feel like the on going battle is helping McCain and with no chance of winning it should be about getting a Dem in the whitehouse. If roles were reversed I think Obama would have put his support behind her. I actully think he would have did it had he lost 12 in a row. So my opinion is that Hillary currently is not benefiting the party.

It is becomming quite clear that Obama is more than likely the candidate to go up against McCain. If he does, there are quite a few issues that will haunt Obama and his message will never get out because he will be put on the defense immediately…hence the Swift Boating will come into play. Once this occurs, there will be nothing left for Obama, just the same as it was for Kerry, another liar. Actually, Hillary would be the toughest choice to go up against McCain because her little lies have all aleady been aired. She has nothing new to jump out at the pubic. John McCain and Hillary Clinton are friends, he will not talk about the WH days of Bill clinton.

Also, those of you who want to vote for McCain because you are not getting the Democratic candidate you want is just silly. You rather there be more US casualties in IRAQ because you are not getting your way. Both of the Democratic candidates said they want us out of IRAQ. It is imperative that a Democrat wins the house and that there is Democrat majority(60) in both houses so things can get done. Change is needed in Washington.

OB is a super used car salesman who talks from both sides of his head. Such a man with high integrity!

Clinton & Obama are two peas in a pod. They try to appease the public with outlandish promises and gifts, flip flop from one day to the next, speak to the heart string of Americq, know very little about cause and effect, and lie to your face.Haven’t you all had enough?!

Why the same people who voted two time for W. Bush in this forum prefer Hilary than Obama? Maybe they prefer McCain after all.

People should tune into George Stephanopolis’ interview Sunday with Sen. Joe Lieberman who basically says that the Democratic Party has been hijacked by the far-left. He has decided to endorse McCain because the Democratic Party is no longer the party of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. I think many of us are listening and agreeing with him. That’s why if it takes a floor fight to reveal where the party now wishes to go, so be it!
p.s., Although Kerry gave a spirited defense of Obama, I just can’t get past the fact that Kerry lost an election that could/should have been won. What is it about these middle aged men who can’t close the deal themselves that they’re so anxious to jump on the bandwagon of the “next new thing”. Guys just go buy a cadillac instead!

Earlier in the week he called the race a “good movie you expected to end 30 minutes ago”. Now he’s saying she should fight on? LOL

Just shows you what a different kind of politician he is. What would have happened it the tables were turned?

Deeply concerned,
George Bush has 7 years experience as President, but look what a mess he is leaving this country in. He is leaving two bloody, unwinnable wars and a failing economy. If that is what experience brings, I want an inexperienced president. I want Obama.
Obama08

Obama had NOTHING to do with Michigan and Florida. Hillary AGREED not to campaign in Michigan and Florida because the DNC, not the candidates, took away their votes for breaking the party rules and moving up their primaries. Hillary didn’t care before the election that millions of people would be disenfranchised. Not until she realized she could not win the nomination did she decide to change the rules. You don’t get to change the rules because you are losing. Florida and Michigan should be blaming their elected officials who voted to move the primary up knowing they would lose their delegates. Anyone with half a brain knew a year ago when all of this was going on that Howard Dean was making a huge mistake, if not in the primary, then for the November election. Yet, no one said anything until now all of a sudden when Hillary’s supporters want to whine about “disenfranchisement and democracy”. Where were you a year ago? Michigan and Florida should go to the polls and vote out of office every incumbent and the DNC should fire Howard Dean. No one can blame Obama for not wanting to change the rules in the middle of an election.

People are waking up to how Obama has mis-stated and exaggerated his accomplishments. Find the N.Y. Times article from 1990 or 1991 following his electon as editor of the Harvard Law Review. As a 28 year old man – certainly qualifies him as an adult – he lied about his father’s position. He told the interviewer that his dad had been the “Finance Minister of Kenya”. He wasn’t. He also claimed that his mother was an anthropologist. If she was, where’s her research? The point is: who was he trying to impress back then. Was he so uncomfortable in his own skin that he had to invent a background. It is troubling that the little we know about Obama’s family is what he wants us to know. – and that he lied about his background when it couldn’t possibly make any difference.

Keep Hillary in the race, Obama needs an opponent to fight as he travels around the country presenting his program, like he did on The View. By August, Hillary and her gang will still be going on and on and one about a 30 second sound clip from a sermon some pastor made. She is a harmless waste of space.
Texas is a good example of the effect of time on Hillary’s campaign. Texans don’t like liars, and as they get to know the candidates better there is a big shift to Obama.

A transparent attempt to seem magnanimous, in a situation in which he has no say anyway. What a con man.

If the Rev. Wright scandal had hit in January, Obama wouldn’t even be in the race right now.

huh? didn’t Obama say the race needed to be over a few weeks ago…implying HIllary should be out of the race? I swear, this guy has no mind of his own…he’s completely all about public opinion polls…..what ever the polls say, he’ll regurgitate the position the next day. Some leader! Even I can do that.

Obama is not the great person that brings people together is he not the person who has divided the country by dividing the race…when blacks overwhelmingly 90% vote for Obama is that not a racist move and dividing the country based on race…

To L Denby:
Thank you for the view from outside the bubble. And an intelligent one it is. Interesting, also, to see that the rest of the world views our media for the joke it is.

Obama said ” America doesn’t get Rev Wright”
AND YOU DO!?!?
AND YOU WANT TO LEAD AMERICA!?!?
NO-BAMA!!

This is McCain’s worst nightmare–an all out assault on him from two fronts. This isn’t a disadvantage to the Dems ’cause while all eyes are on them, they’re turning their rhetoric towards McCain, so that whoever emerges from the Dems will face a battered good ole boy who’s ideologies, bigotries and hypocrisies are now cast as yester-century’s faliures.

The Key word is ” CAN” Clinton can stay in the race as long as she wants.
Thanks Sir Hinus for that permission to continue as you wish.
He has a pattern of saying the exact opposite of his actions or of that of his campaign supporters.
He or his campaign people attack Clinton and then he goes on record in his next speech saying ” I am concerned about the tone of this campaign and of course reminding us ever so often that all he wants to do is pay fair and nice ,but his actions and that of his campaign are quite the opposite.
It makes me ill to see his clever witted speeches playing the nice and unifying boy but he acts against democracy and plays quite dirty campaign tactics .
Once more showing clearly that his words never seem to match his true actions.

Why are you people arguing with each other over who is going to win? In the Democratic National Committee there are no rules, that is why they invented Superdelegates. Look it up. Why would you start burning and fighting and tearing up your own community? These candidates do not give a crap about you or me. Power and Money is what they feed on. We working Americans will suffer,due to the mess we are in today for years to come. You don’t see anyone in government struggling to pay bills. WAKE UP PEOPLE, OUR DOLLAR IS DROPPED NEAR THE PESO,GAS IS 5 DOLLARS A GALLON,FOOD IS SKYROCKETED,SOCIAL SECURITY IS GOING BROKE,WALL STREET IS COLLAPSING,WE OWE TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS, THERE ARE NO JOBS, THE SOLDIERS OVER IN IRAQ ARE TIRED FROM BEING OVERUSED,THEREFORE, OUR MILITARY IS WEAK IN CASE OF ATTACK HERE IN AMERICA,OUR REBATE WAS BORROWED FROM CHINA, I’M NOT MAKING THIS UP, READ MORE OF THE PAPER THAN THE HEADLINES. I LOVE AMERICA AND I HATE IT HAS COME TO THIS.
Stop buying all this HYPE from the Cable news. MONEY IS WHAT RUNS ALL NATIONS AND WE WORKING PEOPLE ARE THE ONES TO SUFFER. Don’t burn and tear up your communities over this election crap. You might be like New Orleans and not get it back. Be nice to each other because we are in it together.

The magical bus is rolling through town. So far they had thrown granny, Rezko, Unrev Wright, and now Leahy under the bus for traction. I’m hoping Michelle O’bell Obama is next.

Surrendering? That is expected from Barack Obama. I bet another of his mafias will be discovered soon. Doesn’t he care about the humiliation to his surrogates and all that deceit. Does he ever care? After the false prophet of Wright, what will be coming? The nose will be longer than Pinnochio…

california, do you think his northeastern senators advised him to create some layed back humor implying that she should get out? His comment about the movie being thirty minutes too long really does convey his “cool” and laid back treatment of serious matters. I agree that he watches the polls to see if he is still looking “cool”. This time he is caught using the same method he used to distance himself from Rev. Wright hate speech, plaigiarism of others speeches, being caught on NAFTA double talk, and continually playing the race card. He is as bad as Romney, pretending he said or meant something else, or he didn’t know. His surrogates just stepped over the line. How many backtracks can we believe? Do you believe that Leahy did not call him before he called for Hillary to drop out of the campaign?

Hillary cant win, she may as well stay in this Gives Obama a chance to raise a trillion more dollars, if running her campaign is an insight to the way she would run the wight house we would all be in trouble, she’s 9 million in debt had to lend herself 5 million, she couldnt manage the 32 million she raised how is she h=going to manage a trillor dollar budget. no thanks Obama 08

Exactly, his people, his supporters have been calling for her to quit and rightly so, she should. She cant win. the superdelegates will not overturn the will of the people. Everyone is just waiting for the other shoe to fall from Obama. Guess what, it might not fall, and meanwhile, the drama continues and each candidate looks worse for the fall. You have not heard Obama say Hillary you need to quit. It’s just like that pastor stuff. Those were the pastor’s words, not his. With as many non thinking americans that exist, I’m surprised America is as great as she is. Too many of you depend on the media to make up your mind. Try to do some thinking on your own.

If democrats wish to pull defeat from the jaws of success, by not voting for Obama or Clinton because one or the other did not win the nomination, well they deserve what they get. Being pigheaded will not be Obama’s fault, Clinton’s fault or the party leaders fault. It will be our fault for giving the Republicans another four years of the George W. Bush failures and bankrupt ideas.

It amazes me how off topic these blogs get. I think for the most part, we’re just communicating into an empty cyberspace. Anyway, I’m glad Obama is saying Clinton can continue running. Though she doesn’t need his permission. Maybe it’s another attempt at gallantry, like in Austin at the end of the debate when he jumps up quickly and pulls her chair back with her in it.

I only have to say that if senator Obama was a roman Catholic he would be asked constantly about his loyalty to the Pope. The Media is trating Obama with very delicate gloves.Why? Asked him what changes is he boing to implemente. How can he say that after 20 years of going to this so called Christian Church he could not see the hate and the racist comments from his Pastor. This is something that is embeded into Rev Wright. He preaches hate and division. I am sitll waiting to hear a Priest attack any ethnic group an “damn” the Nations where you make you living and allow you to say those horrible things. Christ did not preach hate. Obama is just using his eloquence to atract voters. Charisma does not make someone a good President or ruler. Look at history. Castro, Chavez and why not Hitler.