Clinton Says Obama’s ‘Bitter’ Remark Could Cost Party General Election

Obama’s apologies only make matters worse.
It’s like his “typical white grandmother comment”. Remember how he compared his “white grandmother” to “Jeremiah Wright”, so he didn’t have to apologize for Wright’s radical remarks in a church of God?
Now he is comparing “BITTER” Pennsylvanians to his home state of IL. He is calling his home state of IL (and several others) “god fearing, gun, toting, racists” like he did with his “typical white grandmother”. Maybe he feels the people will forgive him if he throws his home state under the bus.
That big bang you just heard is the OBAMA BUSMOBILE crashing into the wall of “truth and honesty”.
HILLARY / EDWARDS 2008!

After seeing Hillary on FOX news today at the news conference, I really think that Hillary is OVERPLAYING her hand.
She needs to back off a little bit. She is starting to look phony with her bragging about guns and taking shots of whiskey and condescending herself.
Hillary is at risk of turning off city voters if she keeps this up.
There is definitely a risk of OVERREACHING here.

Bottom line: Obama is not
qualified to be a Senator.

Maritza,
I guess you’d like Hillary to be demure, and soft, and all namby-pamby, like a subservient woman that knows her place.
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Obama, he’s a man’s man, because he knows how to cut down small town people!
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WestCoastMessenger,
I don’t think that Hillary needs to be demure, etc. I think Hillary struck the right tone yesterday in her remarks but today she kept going on and on. It was starting to turn me off.
The problem that Hillary has is that she tends OVERPLAY her hand in things which gets her into trouble.
Many people are starting to say that Hillary may be taking this a bit too far and she is starting to look phony.

if dem’s don’t win in november it will be because of the clinton’s–if she can’t win then the dem’s won’t win–i would never vote for clinton never never

Maritza,
The people that are saying that are called Obama supporters.

Hillary can’t win with Obama supporters no matter what she says or does.
However, Obama continues to show himself as a very questionable character who is not fit for any public office. He definitely is not fit for the presidency.
I cannot believe the democratic party did not do their research on this guy – or the question is – did they and they agree with him on small town America, Rev. Wright’s view of the government, Rezko, money being funneled into Illinois from Iraq, typical white people, etc. Who and what is backing this guy – don’t tell me a grassroots effort raised the kind of money this guy has in campaign fund. FRIGHTENING!!!
I believe Barack Obama is one of the worse candidates I have ever seen in any election. He has divided this country. The truth behind Barack Obama can not be ignored!!!!! This is very serious business.
Wake up America – this is not about you being right or wrong about him – THIS IS OUR FUTURE!!!!!!
Hillary 08

well i guess we rather have a liar in office. than someone that didn’t choose the right words obama mad. at least he maned up to his mistake

Hilliary hasn’t picked up a gun in a long time. Can you blame her? The last time she went hunting with her grandfather, she came under sniper fire.

Hillary is full of bologna and I hope Obama goes after her during the debate on Wednesday night, and show how she is exploiting this miss wording to something much much bigger then what it is.

Maritza,
The people that are saying that are called Obama supporters.
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Lawrence,
The people that are saying that Hillary still has a shot at becoming the nominee are called ignorant.

Being from a small town in Illinois, I certainly don’t appreciate the picture he painted of me clinging to a gun and only going to church because I am frustrated. He’s the one frustrated and bitter, because this nomination isn’t the cake walk he thought it would be. His true self is just starting to peek through, and he is having trouble keeping it submerged lately. The only thing I am bitter about is having voted for him for Senator 2 years ago. The only response his supporters have is the usual “He’s just speaking the truth.” Well, if he thinks people from rural America only go to church because they are bitter and frustrated, I don’t think he even knows the truth.

Hillary has lost all morals, and is out of contact with the frustration of the people, yes we are bitter, and sick of her desperate divisive tactics, it is sickening, like Bush, She doesn’t care who gets hurt, as a democrat I am appalled, Gas Prices, energy cost,She is a millionaire we are suffering and bitter….

A fascinating analysis from Senator Clinton, but at what point exactly did Hillary start caring about the fate of the Democratic Party in November?
Senator Clinton sure hasn’t ran her campaign like she cares about the party’s chances for victory in 2008. Why start now?

“You know” (to use Hillary Clinton’s favorite arrogant phrase), when I worked for 15 years as a hotel housekeeper at a Marriott in Buffalo, New York, I heard constantly from the management how upbeat we were, and how focused on getting on with our lives. Clinton said something similar in a speech she made while she was on the Board of Directors of Walmart. Walmart employees also hear this constantly. This is Corporate America’s mind program for the working class.
Nothing could more specifically reflect the elite point of view. Not that I’m not upbeat, nor that I’m bitter all of the time, nor most people I know, but we’re often very concerned, worried, and at times angry. With his background working in Chicago’s ghettos, Barack Obama certainly is far more in touch with how working class people feel than is Hillary Clinton, who spent her pre-political life as a successful corporate attorney, a Walmart Board member, and a successful politician’s wife. I’m completely fed up it with her extremely arrogant, girl scout leader style of talking to people.
I think that it was a mistake to make the country aware that the people of rural Pennsylvania are backward, and he threw in his own bias against guns. His list of ways people with serious economic problems they can’t fix cope was not a list of ignorant ways to act; it included religion. Barack Obama is himself intensely religious. He did think, probably not entirely mistakenly, that he was describing people who care about their lives.
On the other hand, while Senator Obama’s customary forethought is well recognized, Clinton rarely thinks before she speaks, and gets into trouble constantly, never by trying to do good. To quote her double on last night’s Saturday Night Live, “Is sniper fire sometimes very quiet, so that people have trouble hearing it?” I think the superdelegates will take that into account.
Neither is this what the “firestorm” is about. This is just what occurred to Hillary Clinton to bounce at us today in the hope of convincing someone to vote for her. I’m sure she hopes that people in Pennsylvania are ignorant enough to see the matter as she wants them to. As for Senator McCain, when I grew up, how upbeat people are was the favorite topic of rural political speeches, and the man smells a bloodfest. I remind the media that this is real life and not a reality show.

I had read about what he said, but I just actually HEARD him saying it. “Dem rednecks down there, dey’s only gonna vote on dems guns and gay marriages and stuff dat’s close to home fo’ dems” Excellent candor and so eloquently put. Good way to ostracize 40% – 50% of all Americans. I’m from a very up-scale small town–one that is pre-dominantly pro-Obama–but even I and many of my friends took offense. He lost some votes with that comment…

This article is an example of what lengths both Obama and Hillary will go to to get elected. On one hand you have a man who often shows his lack of experience though smooth he may be; on the other hand you have a woman who will excuse herself from lying and claim it to be a mistake. How could anyone in their right mind vote for either of these characters?
Remember, if you are voting for anyone this election, the United States will get exactly what it has ask for! If you want change don’t depend on the three that are running right now!

When you see your enemies eating each other, don’t speak and pass the salt.

What did Hillary lie about today? About her middle class $100 million dollar background?? About being pinned down by sniper fire in PA? I heard Bill Clinton corrected her and said it was in Indiana. Sheesh… How can anyone fall for the Hillary snake oil salesman. She will say and do anything to get elected. She is a bigger liar and worse than even Bush. She is part of the Washington elite the status quo. She is a lying hypocritical opportunist. Shame on you Hillary.

I find it pretty amusing that somebody who is asking the Obama supporters to do a training session on grammar, can’t even spell the word correctly. Perhaps roneida should consult the nearest dictionary before making any further remarks.

Apologies to roneida, it was directed at “Mr Bigger”

Amen, Mr Bigger! The Obama camp probably raised the Obama-bloggers rate per post to combat their arrogant leaders most recent condescending and specious remarks about small-town-rural voters.
Hillary ’08

Senator Clinton is a Steel Magnolia.
I’m not surprised she does well in Iron Beer country. I live in the country and love it. It’s not that we didn’t understand what Senator Obama said, we
disagree. And, if he’ll take a ride, and step out of the SUV A/C he’ll find we smile alot, and I for one was glad I had experience with God and guns when I got to The Central Highlands of Vietnam.

Well, she’s right.. it could cost us the election, but unfortunately, the media will somehow make Obama’s gaffes, Hillary’s fault.

I am a citizen in michigan, and I voted for hillary. obama’s and edward’s name was not on the ballot. Since the super tuesday, I felt that hillary had lost and should had graciously got out of the race. If obama does not win the primary, I will stay home, because now I am tired of this long drag out fight, that is tearing the democratic party apart.
michigander

Nominating Hillary Clinton will cost the Dems the GE, not a true statement Obama made.Putting crooks like Hill and Bill back in the white house to continue their deceit and corruption would be a big mistake for America. We made two mistakes 8 years ago by electing Bush,please America no more Clintons or republicans.
Obama 08!
Yes We Can!

Well I guess Sen.Clinton has no bitterness because they both earned $109. How can she be bitter? I am an averaged citizen with having lost a job. If I am not bitter, I had to earn over hundreds like her. What Sen. Obama had said was very true due to her former President Clinton who orchestrated a free trade benefited the capitalist class. She looks so phony that she has tried to capitalize word by word and dramatize it in the way looks so rediculous. Well guess she is a lawyer with words.

Emily, Obama does not have 109 million including 800 000 from president Urube of Colombia to be arrogant. He has not a name Clinton to believe that he is entitled to the presdiency, so he cannot be arrogant. He has not a wife former president to help him to visit Bosnia under snipers’ fire, he cannot be arrogant. Overblowing words cannot make it, twisting Obama’s words will not make Hill electable since she is unelectable and that is known to the DNC and superdelegates. God bless America and God bless Obama.

I wish the elections were today so we could get this whole circus over with !!
Independent Voter for Obama

Everybody stop arguing. Obama is an anti-American “Manchurian Candidate,” Hillary has an Alzheimer’s memory, and McCain is an old war-monger.
So whoever wins—we all lose.

She “misspoke”. Again. She is a pathological lier. She went from a hunter to fired it once!
I am an independent, but man, she has no shame. I’m baffled why would anyone support her, regardless of who the other side is.

I read what he said. I understood it. I agree with it. The clintons jumped on the remarks, I think they distorted them, and made them appear to be something they were not. I’m just a retired white guy. I worked most of my life doing a job that is now being done in Mexico, by poorly paid people who get very few benefits and do not have many safety standards in place. Their employers (who used to be my employers) do not have to conform to clean air or clean water standards. But their employers surely have made money from clinton’s NAFTA. Money they use for “speaking fees” to thank politicians for taking care of them. My job is gone, the clintons are raking in millions from the people who took my job, And I’m smart enough to make the connection.

Obama comment – Why is it I have only heard once the Obama refusal to salute the American Flag – and reject the National Anthum ???
Bill, is there a good reson for this or is it just polotics as usual?

Talk about bitterness! How irresponsible is it for Shrillary Clinton to suggest Barack’s comments could cost Dems the general election? Totally. She’s unlikely to win, but is indicating she’d rather poison the situation for her opponent if he becomes the candidate rather than support him which is the honorable thing to do. This is a woman who’s been caught lying so many times in this campaign without apologizing, she ought not dwell on Obama’s misstep after he publicly apologized to those he may have offended. How dare she!

When I left for college I remember my grandfather telling me “son whatever you do don’t get above your rasin’”. For those of you who are not fluent in rural culture, what he was saying was don’t get a big head and forget where you came from! Well it looks like Mr. Obama has gotten above his rasin’!!

I don’t see how anyone could vote for Clinton or Obama. Hillary and Bill lie so much they actually believe what they are saying and then Hillary says that Barack can’t own up? She went on late night and laughed about the sniper fire comment. Why should we trust her about anything she has to say?
What scares me is that Obama has all these followers and he has no track record of leadership whatsoever. All he has is a gift for speeches. NONE of that tells us how he will accomplish anything he is promising. Raising taxes exorbitantly will pay for almost anything. And of course, the good old reverand will be at the White House counseling him…..need I say more?
Those of you who think medical care in foreign countries is free, think again. In Canada and Denmark 50-70% of income goes to the gov’t to pay for all those freebies. So while your kids get “free” education through college and medical is “free”, they sit in very small homes/apts because that’s all they can afford. As my Grandpa used to say, “ain’t nothin’ free”

If we believe this disposable Clinton election manipulation, then Obama’s comment could cost ‘US’ the election.

Now Sam, there’s NO proof YET that Obama is a “pansy”.
Rove has NO intention of putting that all out over the mainstream media until September, AFTER they succeed at winning Obama the nomination.
But have NO fear; the DNC has known about their plan now for MONTHS.

Hillary flat out lied about things, ie: Bosnia, uninsured mother. Obama at least tried to put what he perceives to be truth into words. He’s right. The middle class is clinging to religion and guns because not only are they bitter, they’re afraid. There’s no need for this and we should rise above it but how? Confront our perception of where we are going wrong and talk about it without the “bitterness.”

All educated, working class people are elite, aren’t they? Only the people who really belong in gated communities have the right to live there, isn’t that right? It’s not just oil you’re addicted to Mr. & Mrs. America; there’s a whole series of lies you are telling yourselves that have led to a lost war, a failing economy and a citizenship not qualified to pick the next American Idol let alone American president. There’s only one thing to do: let’s put the loser of Viet Nam and the loser of Iraq on a ticket together and vote for them! John and Condi: it’s hard to argue with failure.

Obama took a $600,000 favor from Rezko because Obama is ethics-impaired. People choose their church because it reflects their core beliefs. Obama choose to attend a racist, anti-American church for 20 years–that tells what kind of man he really is. Now he insults small-town Americans. When are people going to wise up to this guy?

The only thing that might cost the Democrats the election are INCREDIBLY STUPID remarks like that from Clinton. How desperate and ignorant can she be? She should be John McCain’s running mate, the way she acts.

Is this small town midwesterner bitter that over 4000 good Americans have been killed and trillions of tax dollars wasted on a purposeless war while Bin Laden roams free? YES I AM.
Can we do anything about it in this election? YES WE CAN!

Not bitter about not having health care, or seeing jobs shift overseas, or having your home foreclosed on?
Sounds to me the only folks who wouldn’t be bitter about these issues would have to be elitist themselves.
Just for comparison:
John McCain: Net worth $44 million, owns 8 houses
Hillary and Bill: $109 million since 2000
Barack Obama: Best year $1.6 million in 2005, doesn’t even make the list of 50 richest in Congress, graduated from Harvard Law and took a job organizing unemployed steel workers for about $8,000/yr.
So who exactly is the bigger “elitist”?

This is silly…Obama could have said this better and said so.
It’s not like he claimed to dodge sniper fire or sang a refrain of Bomb-bomb-Iran…

She will say or do anything to get any sort of advantage. The clinton’s are LIAR’s.

Hillary is repulsively desperate and will do ANYTHING or say ANYTHING to get what she wants. Are we not tired of the lies, deceit, and cookie-cutter politics of the Clintons? Why would we want them in the White House again? Whether Obama should have said what he did or not, that is a disputable question; but I do believe that we are bitter about the conditions in the county. I am. Gas prices spiraling out of control, increased prices in food, the housing market….why would we not be bitter? Some people may seek solace in their religion, and that is great; but to speak the truth as Obama did (whether we like him or not)should not be condemned. Some are afraid of the truth… Hillary is. Being from Arkansas, I can tell you that the Clintons have a shady reputation in this state….

Go Hillary Go!!
Mr. Obama, drop out. It is time. He is going to cost the Democratic Party the opportunity to win the White House. What is his credential to run as the President of the United States??

I live in a small town. We’ve got folks bitter about a lot of current issues. I think Clinton is trying a bit too hard to sidestep the point that this is not only true, but common. Why?

Clinton is a communist plain and simple. If you support her then move to one of the communist countries that we already have in this world I’m sure you’ll like it there. Why sit and argue about what Obama said it really doesn’t even matter. To me it is communist vs. non-communist, an easy decision.

How about at least a partial proofreading of an article before posting it on the the site? Sheesh!

How hypocritical can McCain/Clinton be? First they say that “words” don’t matter. Then, when Obama muffs a few words while making a sociologically astute observation, suddenly it is all about the “words.”
Clinton knows she cannot win this year, and is so desperate that her best bet is to become McCain’s running mate. After all, they have both proven to be pro-NAFTA, and both basically supported the Iraq war.

The definition of elite is being a member of the elite….snobbery. That is an opinion. Some people may appear to be snobbish, but they really aren’t. Takes an elite person to know what one is….Hillary.

The only way Obama’s remark will “cost the party the election” will be if Sen. Clinton keeps bringing it up! If she’s that concerned about it, she should let it die and discuss things that really matter, like torture memos and spying on Americans by military satellite. C’mon people, let’s get real!

Clinging I must disagree with you. Many people turn to religion during difficult times. That’s a known fact.

I’m a 61-year-old white woman, very liberal, and I’ve always had mixed feelings about Hillary Clinton. She tends to make me feel like I’m eleven years old, she’s the school principal, and I’m in trouble. Until last night. After watching a video of her attacking Obama I truly hated the woman. If she’s nominated I’ll vote for McCain.

I forgot to add…I’ll also vote for McCain if Hill, Bill and Chelsea start making plans to move back into the Whitehouse.

When Clinton is asked about her comments that Obama’s “words” will cost the Democrats the election, she’ll say that she “misspoke.”
Again.

I don’t know about you but I think Hillary has already overplayed this whole thing.
Even her indignation seems fake. It sounds more like a cold and calculate politician trying to be opportunistic.
She must really think that people are dumb, and will buy into this stupid argument that Barack is elitist.

I just don’t get how Obama’s comments are “elitist.” They are honest comments that we may not want to acknowledge (like his race speech). People (myself included) are angry, frustrated, bitter (the GOP has ruined this country)–look at the synonyms for angry and you find bitter. Barack told a reality: a loss of jobs can decimate a small town, and if people aren’t angry, bitter, etc., then I’m missing something. It is not elitist to understand what’s underneath the skin of those who are suffering. Hillary has jumped on this with both feet because it is a last ditch effort to derail Obama. Hillary is like Anna Nicole Smith–making a big hoopla to draw attention to herself. Even a couple of newscasters have asked if this is really this bad or if it’s being blown out of proportion to influence PA voters. Let’s move on from this non-event–and find a way to dissipate the anger & bitterness with solutions when Obama takes office.

It saddens me to see Hillary so desperate to win the nomination that she sells her integrity. She would do better to stand above it all, make a pointed comment like she did the first day and then leave it. She is hurting herself. Many of us in Texas would like to have seen her win, but at this point I’d just like to see her lose with dignity. Talking about superdelegates over this– sheesh. It was a poor choice of words, but it’s not what she’s trying to make it sound like.

All of you Obama Mama people are crazy. What does it take to convince you this man is a racist??? Now we are all gun toting, flag loving, typical whites.

If Hillary identifies with rural people so much, why didn’t she go back to Arkansas to run for the Senate instead of New York?

So far on the trail, Hillary has chewed gum with truckers, had a beer with bar patrons, knocked back a stiff whiskey with voters, and adopted a fake southern accent on numerous occasions when it suited her to win over gullible voters. What’s next, smoking a cigarette or two? How about belching in public? She is capable of anything and everything to get elected, even if it is unpresidential. Surely the good people of Pennsylvania can see through this carpetbagger. She makes promises during primaries she does not intend to keep- like promises of new jobs in NY and NJ. She won’t even thank her supporters- if somehow she manages to lose Pennsylvania- just not her style. You’re nothing to her if you don’t help her get the one job she would kill for. Wake up. Obama is far from perfect, but he is not a fake. He’s smart, a little arrogant, and could use some more experience, but the one thing he is not- is fake.

WoW. What desperation has set in with the Clinton campaign… taking one sentence out of a campaign paragraph and saying it will cost them the whole general election! So now she’s an absolute fear monger! Besides, brushing away questions about her ‘hunting’ as ‘irrelevant’, she tries to puff up a minor verbal grace mistake into a world ending hate crime.
This is pathetic! This is ‘leadership’??
She’s done.

Without making an argument either way as to whether or not the words Obama chose were too harsh, it is important to point out that what Obama explained is historically accurate.
If the government is failing your community economically and there has been little change between a number of presidencies, then it makes sense that people begin to focus on other matters, and history tells us that this is true. The point is not that religious and gun-control debates are irrelevant or somehow only exist because of bitterness and resentment, but rather that people turn to them even more so when they cannot turn to their government for help or hope economically.

I think this game of each candidate trying not to say something stupid or tripping up somehow, and thereby creating an opening for the other candidates to jump all over them, is absurd and childish.
Meanwhile, the media and the rest of us, sit around and watch like it’s sports, armchair quarterbacking for not months but years.

You have to like her positive, hopeful attitude

Obama did not word the truth as eloquently as usual. Oops. That Clinton is pursuing this is a major faux pas that shows where she really stands … quicksand.

Obama has NOT won the election and he has NOT gotten the required number of delegates. He is only ahead because of his activist tactics at caucus in small Republican states. Hillary is ahead in super delegates and Hillary will be ahead in the popular vote by the convention. Then Obama will keep blocking the voters in Michigan and Florida and trying to buy super delegates with his millions. Thank you, George Soros!

“The Democratic party has been unfortunately viewed by many people over the last decades as being elitist and out of touch we have waged elections over that you don’t have to think too far to remember that good men running for president were viewed as being elitist and out of touch with the values and the lives of millions of Americans
only because bill and you selling out and making millions to do it ..
I know you think the world revolves around you and bill but it doesnt there are plenty of good dem’s that might have been elected id it wasnt for the
trade deals
Elitist calling another Elite.

Let’s not forget that Obama’s comments were about those that do not vote for him in small towns. I thought that putting down those that do not vote for you only happens in third-world countries. I guess part of Obama’s change will be to turn America into that. Does he understand at all American values?

Obama is starting to sound like his
minister, who preached to him all
those years.If anyone thinks our country
is divided now, I’m afraid to think what
might happen if he gets the nominee.
I will never consider Michele Obama,
my first lady!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think that both party sides are so far from whats really going on. Everyone is so pissed at each other because they think that their party is the next icon. “LETS GET HONEST PEOPLE THE DAYS OF OUR FOUR FATHERS ARE GONE!” The next president is always a little more corrupt as we venture past the bend of no return… so buckle up and get ready for the ride. We have nobody to blame but ourselves! The nobodies in this country outnumber the sombodies that tell everyone what to do. I say we go down like our four fathers and show the hand full of sombodies what we did to the British for their taxes.

Folks,
I think it’s time for all Clinton supporters to move to another blog. The personal, vile smears are indicative of the Obama supporters increasing desperation and frustration.
If we don’t respond, they’ll eventually get tired of talking to themselves. And, in a few hours, their passes from the psych units will expire and they’ll have to return to the hospitals for their meds.
So long.
Go Hillary 2008

The truth can hurt.
And it takes a real leader to speak that truth-especially when his own election is at stake.
Much of America is bitter. Not just in small towns in PA and the Midwest, but all across this nation, where sensible, thinking people who pay attention, and are informed, realize why folks like them across this globe are fed up with a corrupt American Republican Elite who have squandered this nation’s standing in the world (moral and economic) to benefit an elite few.
Obama is not the elitist. Those who seek to twist the meaning of his words are the elitists, who will stop at nothing when they are threatened by truth. Shame on Hilary Clinton for joining this dangerous and cynical crowd of power-mongers.
The Republican party elites, first and foremost understand EXACTLY what Obama is saying. In fact they have been using the very issues Obama mentioned–and more for many years to distract the American public from the really important issues that will determine our standard of living, well-being, security and standing in the world. And they have been very successful in duping too many Americans (who are working too hard just to survive to take the time to stay informed) that they (the republicans) will protect “family values”, gun rights, etc. all while undermining the greater American Family with irresponsible economic, social, industrial, ecological and foreign affairs policy.
I cannot speak for Obama, but I suspect the heartfelt comments he made may have expressed his own frustration that the Republican party has been so successful in shifting the focus to these less important issues so they could get elected and support their own interests. But Obama speaks for me and my own bitterness and many like me across this country.
If he made a mistake, it was not to mention that it is Republican operatives using classic marketing tactics to distract Americans by literally marketing the topics he mentioned in order to distract us and take the focus off their damaging policies. I am a Marketing Executive, so for me, it’s been very obvious since the Reagan years what the Republicans have been up to.
Thank you, Obama for bringing this to the attention of the general public, even at the risk of damaging your own electablility. You are a real leader.

Obama supporters are showing their true colors, just as their candidate did. Calling Hillary vile names, really ugly and disrespectful, just proves how destructive the whole contingent is to the democratic process. She is a former First Lady and a U.S. Senator. Show some respect. You don’t see Clinton supporters calling Obama all the names he deserves to be called do you? Grow up.

It is time to demo the dem party. It is time for a 3rd party. A party in the middle between the Republicans and the Democrats. Not too far left and not too far right. At this point Barack or Hilliary…it’s the lesser of two evils and neither is going to win the general because 20+ percent will vote Republican if their candidate doesn’t win. Who is bitter now? I am not interested in electing a president who views a person afraid of black people on the street as a typical white person. I am not interested in electing a president that says he is a uniter and then takes racism back 20 years. He gives an amazing speech, I will give him that but when he speaks without a pre-written plan, his views are evident. He and his wife and his church do not respect anyone who does not agree with them. It is 2008, I thought we were beyond this! When it comes to answering real questions about real issues, he sticks his foot in his mouth and I would not want this guy to be Commander in Chief. Not everyone in the UN and US Government is going to worship his every word like his supporters. The truth is the Dems are going to lose and it is not because of Hilliary. She is not that powerful and anyone who blames her is just not willing to admit that their candidate has faults.

It’s time to chuck the Deocratic party and start a third, unbiased party.
I don’t like ANY of the choices this year! And the Dems are the WORST by far!

Some Time The Truth Hurts…….Sometimes Its Just Twisted
I find it ironical that Pennsylvanians in small towns can accept that Hillary Clinton “Misspoke” when she said she had to run from sniper fire, particularly in a place where people with a tradition of guns can’t possibly believe that you can mispeak about whether or not you had to run from any kind of gun fire; and yet they can’t accept that Barack Obama “misspoke” in his statements. Barack Obama didn’t call a Press conference and call Hillary Clinton a serial liar. But Hillary Clinton didn’t hesitate to twist his words for her own political gains. HRC has lived in Government housing protected by the Secret service for most of her adult life. Her wealth has been accumulated, at least in part from the benefits of Nafta that she claims to have opposed, despite passages in her own book to the contrary. It is Barack Obama who gave up the opportunity for enormous wealth right out of law school to work as a community organizer to make things better for the common folk. Hillary Clinton may have visited her “Summer Cottage” in Scranton, but I doubt she spent much time on the ground, organizing against the jobs that were leaving the area. Now that she wants to be President, she feels their pain. Politics as usual. I believe this politics as usual will leadt to the same results. Barack Obama is a movement to change the way things get done in Washington, and to fight on behalf of all Americans. I believe he is best for this country and Pennsylvania, where my Mother and many other relatives still reside.
The writer of this article doesn’t have a good command of language. When she says, “She made the argument that Sen. Barack Obama’s comments could cost the party the election and that the party has been seen as out of touch by male candidates in the past.” Is this a veiled attempt at saying only a female candidate could possibly be in touch with the common folk? As a 60yr feminist, I am applaed at her attempts to make any complaints about her just a result of misogyny. She will never be elceted the first Female President. She is not worthy of the honor.
I am furthur appalled that the DNC is willing to let this continue. It is clear HRC knows she can’t win, and she doesn’t want Obama to have a shot at winning either. So much for Party unity and Patriotism.

Obama is so unelectable for this and several other reasons.
His spiritual mentor of 20 years called Thomas Jefferson a pedophile today.
His church hates America. You can’t be president if your church of 20 years hates America and white people.
The Republicans will eat him for breakfast.

Do you know what makes me angry? That the McCain and Clinton camps feel it necessary to jump all over Obama for his poor choice of words. McCain’s time would be better spent learning about the difference between the various sects in Iraq and coming up with ways to solve the economic crisis in this country. The Clinton campaign does not like when their comments are taken out of context and therefore should not take every opportunity to do the same to their opponents. But that being said, what really makes me angry is us. Why is it that politicians feel they can “bait and switch” us at every opportunity. Obama said this, Clinton did that and the news media is on it like flies on ****. The answer is elementary – sleeze sells and we’re the ones who buy it. STOP IT. It’s time we take back our country and press the politicians for answers to important questions – how can we exit Iraq without making that region more vulnerable – how can we stablize our economy – how can we deal with health care so that all American’s have access to basic care, is there a humane way to deal with immigration. It’s time to stand up and say enough is enough. We can’t afford to be one issue voters anymore – just look where that got us over the last 8 years. It’s time that we hold not only our politicians but our media accountable. The mainline media has let us down. Their reporting is biased and shallow. They aim low and we have allowed them to do so.
As a citizen of a small rural town (400), I understand that what Obama was trying to say. Did he say it the best way he could – no – but so what.

from Myrna Melgar who was actually at the Obama Fundraiser:
As someone who was at that now famous fundraiser where Barack spoke about the bitterness folks in rural America feel, I have grown increasingly bewildered at the Clinton campaign’s distortion of his words. The paragraph that has so spun out of control in the mainstream media was not a part of the speech itself, but rather a response to a question from someone in the audience (one of us!) who was planning on traveling to PA as a volunteer and was asking about what to expect. I listened to Barack’s response and was stuck by his emotional intelligence, deep empathy and understanding of our fellow Americans. It was in no way condescending or demeaning. So that you don’t think I am one of these so called elitist San Francisco rich who are out of touch with everyone else outside our bubble: I am a Latina, single mom, who immigrated to the Mission during the civil war in El Salvador. America has given me great opportunity, but I know struggle and discrimination. I have spent most of my career as a community and union organizer engaged in conflict with the “haves” and building leadership in poor communities of all colors to speak truth to power. Barack’s message of hope and inclusion of us all speaks to me and mine: White, black, immigrant, Latino, Asian, male, female, gay, straight. Of course people are bitter and angry! One of the foundational principles of community organizing in America has been to tap into the discontent of people who are oppressed and turn it towards positive change, so that the emotinal energy that fuels the anger will instead be used to motivate people to action for positive progress and change. It is a radically different message that the Obama philosophy espouses: we can change the world ourselves – we need to work hard and turn our bitterness and anger towards the actual work of holding government accountable. It applies to poorpeople in rural appalachia as much as it applies to poor people in the inner city public housing projects in Chicago. I am writing to remind us to stay on message and stay focused. For the past four days, the media has been going nuts over that comment, including folks in the Democratic party who should know better but whose self interests is perhaps to protect the paradigm of division that has kept them at the top of the fragile balance between Republicans and centrist Democrats over the past 20 years. This moment in American history is about WE the people, and millions of us have elected Barack to speak for us now, because he speaks the truth. Enough is enough. Let’s stay on message, and I have no doubt we’re going to win this one. Here is an excellent piece by someone who lives in Western Pennsylvannia about this brouhaha: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/12/184747/973/89/485030 Peace to all.

I believe, Presidents candidate should spend more time talking about what they will do for the country than keep trying to put someone else down. Hillary keeps talking about Obama since Hampshire Primary, trying to put her democrat countpart down. I live in UK. Hillary is not good enough. Anyone rather than her. someone who lies (Bosnia) in order to get vote. She is worse.

Really..Hillarysucks you don’t see Obama supporters called her some names??
Where have you been all this time?

Dede,
Every candidate attacks each other. It’s part of the campaign.
How do you know about the other candidates?

Holy Cow is right- This column does look as if 7th graders are trying to communicate.
Some people want to stop the voting right this minute. To heck with other future voters who might differ with them.
Some want to pretend “Rev. Wright’s racism ammounts to a “HILLABEANS.}
WRONG!
Maybe Obama is skating now becaause the Republicans want to run against someone like Obama.
The media will change their tune in a heartbeat, once Obama falls head first into the actual race for White House.
All of you can laugh off Rev. Wright, shady financial dealings, and what ever else you wish.
But you can trust CNN to run the first clips of Mrs. Obama’s “Mad Black Woman rants” of a few months ago.
They will re-visit Rev. Wright, this time the full text.
The people Obama threw under trucks will re- emerge.
Get ready for another sorry Republican reign and a never ending money drain into Iraq while American suffer here.

Holy Cow is right- This column does look as if 7th graders are trying to communicate.
Some people want to stop the voting right this minute. To heck with other future voters who might differ with them.
Some want to pretend “Rev. Wright’s racism ammounts to a “HILLABEANS.}
WRONG!
Maybe Obama is skating now becaause the Republicans want to run against someone like Obama.
The media will change their tune in a heartbeat, once Obama falls head first into the actual race for White House.
All of you can laugh off Rev. Wright, shady financial dealings, and what ever else you wish.
But you can trust CNN to run the first clips of Mrs. Obama’s “Mad Black Woman rants” of a few months ago.
They will re-visit Rev. Wright, this time the full text.
The people Obama threw under trucks will re- emerge.
Get ready for another sorry Republican reign and a never ending money drain into Iraq while American suffer here.

Sen. Obama seems to suffer from feelings of grandiosity. He also condescends. He said, “Hillary, you can stay in the race…” Sen. Hillary Clinton didn’t need his permission to stay in the race. When he said that─ there were more than ten states that had not held their primaries─ including Florida and Michigan. He was far from locking up the nomination. He’s a great name-dropper and he tends to patronize. He looks down on people who are different. I have never sensed more hubris from a candidate as much as from Sen. Barack Obama. I hope he understands the fact that he comes across as an elitist to many voters. First of all, everything and anything he does, he claims it to be historical. When Sen. Obama declared his candidacy he was imitating what President Lincoln had done. Then, he claimed he was MLK and even JFK, But he did not even show up at MLK’s 40th death anniversary in Memphis; he turned his back─ while Sen. Clinton and McCain attended, but the media including MSNBC tried hard to splice him into the commemorative activities telecast; thus giving the false impression that he was present in Memphis, although he did not bother. He probably thinks anyone who doesn’t vote for him has something wrong with them. He comes across as someone who is well liked by the elite and comfortable with the blackberry crowd. He seemed to distrust average working person. The press and the media keep propping Sen. Obama up and amplify is accomplishments while slighting and ridiculing Sen. Clinton’s achievements. Sen. Obama has a modest record as a politician. There is almost nothing he’s done that stands out and would qualify him for the Democratic Party’s nomination. There are some politicians who are only good at running campaigns; and that’s all they are skilled at, once they are elected they sort of lose interest. In office they languish, have no focus or vision, skill or competency and even interest to accomplish what they were elected for. I have an intuitive feeling that Sen. Obama is like that. Like a guy running after a girl, after the chase they lose interest, or they don’t know what to do with themselves! He probably thinks anyone who doesn’t vote for him has something wrong with them. By not having confidence or trust in common man, working people and not being able to accept an average American who he or she is, Sen. Barack Obama has made a grave mistake that clearly jeopardize his candidacy! He has no real feel for “we the people!” That’s what makes him an elitist, disqualifies from being a good candidate.

the one and only person who would be responsible for the Dem not winning the house is Hillary
her divide and conquer , must win mentality , scorch and burn is exactly why???
She truly that the Election is hers.
She and bill Pumping up John was just another piece of evidence that sh will scorch and burn the Dem. Party.
She has even gone as far by saying the Delegates do not have to stay true tho their constituents. America has watched this Lady enough to know that it will be a monumental mistake.
Barack will work hard for the people of this country. And bring back Dignity to the Office Of the United States.

THIS JUST IN: Hillary supporters left bamboozled by her campaign of double standards. Her core base of fruit loops hang in there saying quote “The reason we can look past her Bosnia lies and free trade support is because we were lied to as children and we share that bond with Hillary. We’re victims just like Hillary.”

GO OBAMA—-OUR GREATEST HOPE—Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure; It is our Light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking So that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own Light shine, We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same As we are liberated from our fears, Our presence automatically liberates others. NELSON MANDELLA 1994/ Written by Marianne Williamson 1992

This angle is not working for Hillary. Gallup.com is showing Obama gaining from yesterday (4/12) and today (4/13).
This attempt to define Obama is too transparent, and it is probably going to do more harm than good to the Clinton campaign.
gallup.com

Some Time The Truth Hurts…….Sometimes Its Just Twisted
The writer of this article doesn’t have a good command of language. When she says, “She made the argument that Sen. Barack Obama’s comments could cost the party the election and that the party has been seen as out of touch by male candidates in the past.” Is this a veiled attempt at saying only a female candidate could possibly be in touch with the common folk? As a 60yr feminist, I am applaed at her attempts to make any complaints about her just a result of misogyny. She will never be elceted the first Female President. She is not worthy of the honor.
I am furthur appalled that the DNC is willing to let this continue. It is clear HRC knows she can’t win, and she doesn’t want Obama to have a shot at winning either. So much for Party unity and Patriotism.

Mrs. Potato Head is wearing another new disguise today? Hillary, the Potato attacker, is taking Obama down over elitism? Give us all a break.
The Clintons are the biggest elitists of them all. Hillary wears a Mrs. Potato Head Queen outfit when she isn’t in drag, trying to play the part of a hip super president.
Tomorrow she will be Mrs. potato Head woman of suffrage. She has a new outfit every day. If you look really close….you can see the holes in her head, for all the alternate ears and facial features.
A Potato Head for every occasion…..the Clinton’s. They have a potato head child too. Chelsea Potato Head. She stands up for her momma, and spuds for her during her election cycle. Okay…she stumps for her.

Obama’s backers on MSNBC kept saying that Obama grew up with single parent.
Yes, he did, but he did not come from poor family.
He went to private Catholic School in Indonesia which is pretty expensive.
His grandmother was the 2nd woman VP for Bank in Hawaii.
Not to mention his private college also.
How many people can afford all of this?

Now if I was Obama I would do a replay of the real Bosnia trip side by with Hillary’s claim of dodging sniper fire.
I would do it for the next few days, but won’t happen Obama is too nice.
Obama has the ring ,but the forces of evil are mighty strong.

My republican co-workers tell me they’ll have to leave the states if Hillary becomes president. That may not be 100% serious, but proves no one can energize and unify republicans like Clintons.
As many lies she says, heck, she’ll unify a large majority of the country against herself.
She is just not electable.

lol to hillary says Hillary Clinton “clearly knows nothing about politics”
Whatever you say Obama supporter who cleary knows nothing about love of GOD, love of America and real Americans. not to mention politics.

I’m getting tired of the Obama smackdown on people of faith, on Americans who respect the second amendment, and on the men and women serving in the armed forces.

HILLARY’S POOR JUDGMENT leaves AMERICANS FOOTING THE Bill
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THE WAR IN IRAQ IS HAVING SERIOUS NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON OUR ECONOMY and those who voted for the war (i.e. hillary) should be to blame, in part, for the state of the US economy.
Look how the WAR IN IRAQ is affecting the US economy…
$3,000,000,000… 3 Billion dollars PER WEEK!
That is the amount America is paying for the Iraq War PER WEEK, money that should have been used here, at home.
Add to this:
Interest. We are financing the war with borrowed money (e.g. treasuries) that carries interest; so in actuality, the war is costing the United States MORE THAN 3 billion dollars PER WEEK.
Higher oil and energy prices. Instability in Iraq is adding roughly 30 dollars per barrel as a premium.
High utility bills. High oil prices mean high utility bills. Higher oil prices shifts demand to other sources of energy – gas, coal, etc. – and greater demand will raise the equilibrium price of all sources of energy — Can you say high energy bills?
Higher oil prices (a raw material used in the production of many goods, fertilizers, gasoline, diesel, plastics, etc.) mean higher prices of goods and services — Can you say INFLATION?
Higher oil prices mean a higher trade deficit because most of our oil comes from foreign sources. A higher trade deficit means more money is leaving the country than is coming into the country — Can you say Goodbye to your hard-earned money!
Our dollar is weak and getting weaker. Since we have a trade deficit and is growing in large part to the rising cost of imported oil, the value of goods and services we import exceeds the value of goods we export. You know that foreign car you’re thinking of buying or the computer you’re using, or that trip abroad you’ve been thinking of taking….well, guess what? It is going to cost more, Ceteris Peribus, because the dollar is weak and getting weaker.
Lastly, how do you think the world views our country since the argument was made for war? The evidence was weak and circumstantial, yet we rushed into war with Iraq thanks to hillary’s authorization.
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Hillary VOTED FOR THE WAR

I CAN THINK OF 831,000 REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR HILLARY AND BILL.
OKAY MAKE IT 831,001
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS NOT A MONARCHY STATE
WE GAINED OUR INDEPENDENCE MANY YEARS AGO FROM MONARCHY
NO MORE ELITE CLINTONS

I JUST HEARD ON CNN SHE IS OPENING MORE OFFICES IN INDIANA , OREGON.
TO THE PEOPLE IN THOSE STATES WHO HILLARY WANTS TO RENT SPACE …BE SMART ASK FOR YOUR MONEY UP FRONT…THAT WAY YOU WILL NOT HAVE TO WAIT SIX MONTHS OR LONGER FOR YOUR MONEY!11
GET YOUR MONEY UPFRONT SO YOU DONT GET SCREWED LIKE OTHERS HAVE…

James
you must be one of the few who believe Ed is doing a good job???
Hillary voted for the war.
she has the blood of our young people all over her hands.
bad choice has caused many of Mom’s and dad’s crying themselves to sleep at night. The rest of the service personnel’s families are worried to death , when some one knocks their door ,
Bring home our Soldiers.

HILLARY IS JUST PREACHING TO HER OWN CHOIOR. The people who are rebuking Barack Obama for saying that Americans lean to religion and personal protection when times get hard are just looking for an excuse. These individuals were never going to vote for Obama anyway. That the man had to apologize was ridiculous and for Hillary and McCain to speak as though Americans are content is even more ridiculous. PEOPLE SAY THEY DO NOT WANT POLITICIANS TELLING THEM HOW THEY FEEL WELL THEY APPEAR TO LOVE HILLARY FOR IT. SHE ALMOST ALWAYS TWIST THE WAY AMERICANS FEELS TO MAKE IT A VOTE FOR HER. There was not anything to get insulted about and I see a lot of people do not even know what elitist means. If people knew what elitist meant they would know Barack Obama does not fit the bill but Hillary Clinton and John McCain do. ELITE – 1. Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more. “Colors quaint elect.” –Spenser.
2. (Theol.) Chosen as the object of mercy or divine favor; set apart to eternal life. “The elect angels.” –1 Tim. v. 21.
3. Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect.
OR MAYBE HE IS… WHATEVER HILLARY HAS ONCE AGAIN TAKEN THE SPOTLIGHT OFF HERSELF WHEN THE VIEW WAS CRITICAL

Obama nomintion will be a mistake, not only the Democratic Party, but also the nation will regret for ages to come.
Hillary or McCain ’08!!

Hillary should care less about what will happen to Obama in general election and worry about what will happen to her. I garanty that she will hate running against the GOP if she ever had to. Unlike Obama, against the GOP dirty lundry (including the blue dress) will be washed in public no fear of snipers.

Seeing most of the postings of the Obama supporters, you find an appallingly amount of venom, that you can find nowhere except cult churches where Rev Wright’s worked as pastors. They are from the same school. They claim it is time for judgement day and the black should stay on top with the world that owes them crawling for mercy. Americans owe it to them.
Swearing in church a mortal sin, Rev Wright have bought himself an express ticket to a ball of immortal fire. Repent please, Rev., you are the lost sheep. Ask for God’s mercy.
Don’t let the Obama campaign baffles you that bitterness is an issue. It isn’t. It is the statement that , people go to church and hangs on to guns because of economic tides that hurts. It is the second statement who is critically wrong. Thanks to over 20 years training in audacity of hope from the Rev. Wright’s church, Obama can talk down to working class with seemingly irrelevant presuppositions. He knows about working class just as much as he knows about bowling.
A ’37′ in ten frames. He really does it to himself. There is really no need to pretend. You just don’t have it, Obama. This Senior Lectureer really talks funny. His eloquence disappears without a script. Can you believe that he really understand you?

EXCUSE ME? So all of the lying she has done and the $800,000 she and Bill pocketed from the Colombians, and Bills saying she is old and forgetful, and her vote for the war, and oh so much more will not lose her the genral election. Not to mention the fact that she dissed African Americans ….http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/17/clinton.plantation/index.html

Remember Hill hath no fury like a whore scorned. Will someone please do us all a favor and politically flush that piece of work?

I just love how all these Hillary bloggers are out in full force pushing her points on all the blogs. The exact same people and even the exact same comments. Take it easy trolls, it’s not like your getting payed on time anyways. This is not getting the type of play Hill thinks it’s getting and I agree with a few who have mentioned that she is overplaying her hand. The pro-gun, whisky drinking Hillary is so fake it’s not even funny. Watch this all blow up in her face. Oh, I love how she threw Al Gore under the bus on CNN tonight. Pathetic.

In a Pennsylvania political ad, 3 year-old Hillary Rodham, arms extended, toddles toward the home-movie camera. Hillary’s present-day voice-over explains, the Rodham family cottage, down by the lake, lacked indoor plumbing. It was hardship borne from the start. Yet, more telling events seem to fall by the wayside. Take twenty-seven year old Hillary’s first real job. The upshot: Jerry Zeifman fired Hillary for unethical practices during the Watergate Investigation. Why was Hillary fired? “Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in a recent interview. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”
“I have gone hunting. I am not a hunter. But I have gone hunting,” says Hillary. Perhaps equally amusing, how a politician worth over $100 million-dollars, espouses small town family values. Not only does Mr. Zeifman’s account go to character, it goes to a lifelong pattern of lying and obfuscation. It took Zeifman twelve years to get his story aired. After Watergate, Zeifman could not recommend Hillary for any subsequent position of public or private trust, nor furnish her with a letter of recommendation. After that, Hillary Clinton’s employment record is one of strict nepotism, cronyism, and amnesia. Although few suspected the lengths to which Hillary would go, a leopard never changes her spots. Again, Hillary Clinton is a bold-faced liar, who will stop at nothing.
According to Mr. Zeifman, it’s not just Hillary’s dishonesty; that’s a fact not in dispute. More to the point is the overall time-span, in which she has behaved in a fraudulent manner. “The Clintons corrupted the soul of the Democratic Party.” -Henry Ruth, lead Watergate courtroom prosecutor. Should anyone doubt either Mr. Zeifman, or Mr. Ruth’s veracity regarding the Clintons: http://theseedsof9-11.com

Hillary loves guns and bible. Bill loves interns and cigars!!! These two millionairs are sympathizing for poor rural America…Give me a break!

I’d rather have 100 years of Bush than have Obama sit one day as President. Even if I get tortured or waterboarded to vote for him, I would never do it over my dead body. HELL NO!! Anyone but Obama, anyone……

So, Barak made a mistake. As Hillary would call it, he mis-spoke! Like she never made a mistake. Now we are condemning the man. If you listen or read the whole transcript of Barak’s speak about small PA towns being bitter, you understand what he is trying to say. Hillary is running with this and pushing this too much. Aren’t they supposed to be in the same party, on the same team! Way to go Hillary, give the Republicans some more ammunition! She should have said her piece and left it alone. Let the voters decide. Now all she is doing is making me sick of hearing her! The lady is rich and she is trying to cover up her Bosnia mishap and her husbands rantings! You mean to tell me she understand my plites and trials and tribulations! I am a PA resident and proud of it. But when jobs do not pay enough (if you can find a job at all), and childcare is too expensive; Than the governement says that you earn too much for assistance, you do get upset and frustrated! That is normal and part of human nature. Yes, so what if cling to God, that is what carries me and my family everyday and I am proud of it. Hillary can not understand my problems because she has never been there. She doesn’t worry that the electricity will be cut off, or what to feed her children. She hasn’t had to worry about going back to school while raising a family so that you can make a better life for your children. Hillary doesn’t understand our true struggles. She understands doing what ever it takes to get herself the job at the Oval Office and will do anything and stop at nothing to do that, including bringing the Democrating party down! That is the Hillary I know and the Hillary we see on TV everyday. That is the Hillary I don’t want to vote for. So do us favor Hillary, take your own advice and as you said to your husband, “knock it off”!!

I guess that little pompous routine of his they showed on CNN about Clinton being Annie Oakley was Presidential?

Hillary HAS said what she would do.
She has the ONLY plan that would provide real health insurance to Americans.
She would try to help the Americans who are losing their homes to foreclosure. You can say this is moral hazard (only rich guys should be bailed out), but in this case I think that qualifies as shoring up flagging trust – pretty soon at this rate people are going to be afraid to risk money.
And she has questioned some of the details of free trade dogma. I am hoping that means she would try to find ways around specific free trade problems, hopefully she would get the advice of Bill’s former Treasury secretary Rubin, which would be The Best Thing That Could Happen Here. Period.

Senator Obama claims he is a straight arrow, but I would say he has a poisoned point. He seldom tells the truth but will say anything to get elected. He is simply a politician who wants the power and will do or say anything to get the votes. All his policies are Senator Clinton’s first ideas. Even his mottos are stolen from other organizations. HE IS A FRUAD.

Hillary should have been promoting her centrist ideology a long time ago. I have been a life long democrat and I believe we lose elections because the liberal end of our party goes for candidates like Kerry, Obama, etc. These are great men. I like them both, but Obama is weak on foreign policy, weak on understanding middle America, and he has a tendency to weasel out of hard issues. Like last night. How can you be running for president and not have a view on when life begins. This is avoidance for political gain. You can’t make change if you avoid tough issues. Politico has a thoughtful article on this issue. Thanks Jake for giving both Hillary and Obama room to express themselves rather than the awful sound bites.

People in PA will shortly be able to vote based on either fear or hope.
Hillary would prefer them to vote out of fear – that McCain will prove to be a powerful foe, who can only be beaten by embracing Republican smear tactics and the ugly trench warfare that marked the last campaign. In fact, McCain is another Bob Dole – an old, dull candidate on the wrong side of every issue, from his support for the Iraq war to his admitted lack of knowledge about economics. America wants change, and all McCain promises is a continuation of the failed and hugely unpopular Bush agenda.
Obama would prefer people vote out of hope. Hope that the politics of the past will be defeated by a tidal wave of new, young voters, progressives, and disenchanted middle Americans. To that end – unlike Hillary and McCain – he hasn’t accepted PAC money and doesn’t have a campaign staff riddled with lobbyists, so he’ll be able to work in the best interests of average Americans instead of being in the palm of special interests.
Fear or hope, PA. It’s up to you!

Steven Wilson:
Mrs Potato Head is good but don’t you think that Pinnochio is a better
nickname for Hillary?
I’d like to know what the other posters
on this blog think:
Mrs Potato Head or Pinnochio,
please choose one!

Ofcourse people turn to their faith when times are bad, and people worry about their safety, and their right to protect themselves when unemployment rises around them. What’s wrong with discussing the polling results about people’s true concerns? The question is why are things so bad in parts of the greatest nation on earth? There is no good reason for things being bad right now in the USA. On top of that, Bush wants to build I-69 to ship the goods now made in Mexico straight through to Walmarts in Canada (without even stopping in the US). And Hillary pretends to support the 2nd Am to distract voters from her husband’s role in NAFTA? Obama is the only one to admit (even if reluctantly) that the 2nd Am is an “individual right” (what the NRA is arguing before the Supreme Court right now). The Clinton gun ban expired, but it is the Bush ban that is still in effect. I’m glad Obama speaks the truth, when the others speak out of both sides of their mouth!

Looks like Hussein’s black auxiliary is out in force today. Please have the group do a training session on grammer and spelling before posting anymore pithy comments about what a deep thinker Hussein would be as President.
Posted by: Mr Bigger | Apr 13, 2008 3:54:59 PM
I suggest, Mr Bigger, that you first look up ‘pithy’ in the dictionary, and then move on to the proper spelling of grammar!

Hillary is tracking 37% positive with voters and Bill says Obama is unelectable?
The guy inhaled. He is still inhaling.

Pennsylvania will be voting next week and it seems that voters really do realise that Hillary has the solutions, all Obama does is steal her words and try to claim them as her own…well Mr Rhetoric, it takes more than a silver tongue, it takes experience, which you do not have. Give in, you’ve mainly won traditionally red states, they wont vote for you in November and without them you have very little backing you up, please don’t continue to ruin it for the Democrats.
If you want McCain to become president, continue your support of Obama, even though he is finacially backed by Rezko and his crooked friends. If you really want 8 more years of Republicans, vote for Obama. But if you want a PRESIDENT who will be there for you, who, unlike Obama and McCain, has experience and solutions…EVERYONE, VOTE FOR HILLARY!!!

Hey, you guys,
Obama lies……but just until he’s “caught”…. and then he either acknowledges that he’s been “boneheaded” or goes into his four day explanation mode.
One time, he wrapped his lies within a magnificent speech written for him by a fantastic speechwriter….. with a couple of his thoughts added in.
Do you know how he won his elections for state senator and US senator from Illinois?
He found these barely legal ways to
“delete” “delete” his competition to make the playing field a down hill run for himself.
Have any of you every read “The Audacity of Hypocrisy, and “Obama’s Laundry List of Lies”?
Compared to those whoppers, Hillary’s are a pebble in the stratosphere.
Did you know that B O’s pastor was given a 6,000,000 dollar pension just for leaving B O’s church a tad early? Oh, and they built him a 1,600,000 house… pretty much the price of Obama’s. Honest; this part is T R U E!
So how much is YOUR pastor or going to be rewarded with when HE retires?
And won’t it be fun when the unique admixture of patriotic people he’ll bring to the table….. Farrakhan, Pastor wright, Auchi, RRverend Meeks, Rezko if he ever gets out of jail, and of course the delightful Michelle …stretch their arms across the seas and reach out to our enemies .
or maybe not…..
But I don’t trust him with my country. ?

Obama just told the truth and the media is slamming him for it. You say you don’t know much about Obama but with everything we know about Hillary you think she would be a better president? Hillary is a liar and a phoney and with the new poll that came out yesterday most people feel they can’t trust her. She flat out lied about her Bosnia trip where she said she was under sniper fire and she said she misspoke and her husband said she was just tired but she told the same lie 3 other times and her husband earned $800,00 giving speeches promoting a Columbian Free Trade deal that she says she is against but the cash went into their joint bank account so she profited from it and lets not forget WhiteWater.
The comment Obama made about his white grandmother being a “Typical White Person” I would like to know what was wrong with that statement? He was talking about his grandmother, his blood, his family. People seem to forget that Obama is half white and he was raised by his white mother an
white grandparents and to suggest that he is a racist is ridiculous, so I guess he is a racist against himself.
If a 100% white person had said that their grandmother was a “Typical White Person” no one would say a word.
Obama you keep doing what you’re doing and you will have this nomination and I can’t wait for the debates with John McCain.