By MichaelJames

May 4, 2008 2:28pm

Bill Clinton Asks N.C. Churchgoers to Pray for Hillary

ABC News’ Sarah Amos reports: Former President Bill Clinton spent time in two western North Carolina churches this morning, speaking more from his heart than any sort of political handbook.

"I didn’t come here to ask you to vote for my wife," said Clinton, addressing the congregation at Church of the Pentacostal in Asheville, N.C. "I came here to ask you to pray for her. And to vote. Do whatever you want. Show up. Our country is in dire distress.

"I just want you to pray for her and to make your voices heard," he added. "Do whatever you think is right. But don’t sit this out, because we are being called upon to return to our true purpose."

Clinton spoke of his long relationship with the Pentacostal church, thanking them for all the support they have given him over the years.

The small but enthusiastic congregation, whose church is nestled between the mountains of Asheville, listened attentively as Clinton told stories of his relationship with the church over the years. Clinton even spoke about how Barbara Streisand was inspired to record her first spirtual album after listening to a Pentacostal singer who performed at Clinton’s mother’s funeral.

As Clinton wrapped up his remarks, he came back to Tuesday’s election and the emotions that come with it.

"You know, we get close to these elections, the tensions are up, the temperature is up," he said. "We’re all liable to say something we shouldn’t say. We’re all feeling things we shouldn’t feel. So it is a very good thing for be here."

Clinton also visted Biltmore Baptist Church in Arden, N.C., but did not address the congregation. 

While Clinton’s morning was leisurely, the rest of his time in North Carolina will be anything but. The former president has 15 campaign events planned for the next two days, crossing the state in the process. By Tuesday, Clinton will have held over 50 events in the state — many of them on the front porches, train stations and baseball diamonds that pepper the small towns of North Carolina.   

User Comments

harlan – let’s hope what most Americans care about is putting an end to the Reverend Wright-style divisiveness you both decry and espouse

Posted by: rst | May 4, 2008, 2:49 pm 2:49 pm

Bill Clinton is down in rural North Carolina talking to white, rural workers subtly and descreetly playing the southern, Bubba race card. They are running a most condescending campaign. The sad part is, it could very well work for them. But this race has really been all about them anyway.

Posted by: Dee | May 4, 2008, 2:50 pm 2:50 pm

Bill asking people to pray for Hillary is good, but we all should pray for all the ones that need real help, homeless, poor, and kids that need to learn, we need to help the ones that need it, praying to be president is not at the top of my list. besides praying, donate time and money to the needy ones.

Posted by: Jim | May 4, 2008, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm

Go Bill, you are a great man and were a great president. I say a prayer every day that Obama doesn’t make it to to white house. Hillary/McCain

Posted by: kittyCat | May 4, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm

Billy better pray for himself .He is the one who needed the lords help.What a slimmy way to put this to the people They will do anything and this proves it.

Posted by: older person | May 4, 2008, 3:37 pm 3:37 pm

Lets us pray for the troops overseas that she sent in the first place to hell with her election.What a crappy thing to ask Bill.You had your chance to get Ben Larden but you blew it so you are as much to blame as your freaken wife. God Bless our troops no matter where they are keeping us free to do this blog.

Posted by: a NH native | May 4, 2008, 4:21 pm 4:21 pm

Dee
you dont know what you are talking about what do you know about rural NC Obama is going down tuesday I know you are worried!

Posted by: staniam | May 4, 2008, 4:23 pm 4:23 pm

NH
we all know it was Bushes fault that he didnt get Bin Laden dont even go there

Posted by: staniam | May 4, 2008, 4:24 pm 4:24 pm

Older person
it is not slimy and it will work… Obama is wrong for america the Wright thing is highly offensive and will lose the election for him period!

Posted by: staniam | May 4, 2008, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm

Hillary doesn’t have a prayer of winning the nomination, so I guess asking for prayers is all he has left!!!
Obama 2008 — Yes, WE CAN!!!

Posted by: Jackt51 -- Vietnam Vet and Proud Liberal | May 4, 2008, 4:25 pm 4:25 pm

Jackt51
you are wrong there she is coming back and will beat him and she will take the nomination from him and you will leave our democratic party it is not your party!!!!!

Posted by: staniam | May 4, 2008, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm

I have been praying for our country and praying that Obama will not win. Our country is in dire distress and I worry that if Obama is elected we are all going to be sorry. Please vote for Hillary.

Posted by: virginia | May 4, 2008, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm

Virginia
Good for you…the DNC allowed him to go on with his campaign because it brought new voters in and brought in money at the peril of the country this canot be allowed

Posted by: staniam | May 4, 2008, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm

NH
thats old news you are just worried that Obama cant hack it and he cant he will not win

Posted by: staniam | May 4, 2008, 4:42 pm 4:42 pm

Yeah we need to pray for her. Everybody needs to pray for that lying, deceiving, pandering, power hungry, and “I’m entitled” person.
I’m not sure whose listening….LOL

Posted by: Bob | May 4, 2008, 4:51 pm 4:51 pm

Obama is the only one who seems to think hes entitled hes not even workign that hard

Posted by: staniam | May 4, 2008, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm

David
we do not wnat Obamas change he will not win

Posted by: staniam | May 4, 2008, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm

If Hillary loses even though this congregation prayed for her victory, does this mean that this particular church is a false one? Or that there is no god?

Posted by: Cloudyone1 | May 4, 2008, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm

Actually, the Clinton’s will have held 71 events in NC by Tuesday to Obama’s 12.

Posted by: s.b. | May 4, 2008, 5:01 pm 5:01 pm

NC voters are responding to to more visits by the Clintons Obama doesnt care hes tired he thought the nomination would be handed to him weeks ago I predict he will lose and resign the senate because he didnt get what he wanted

Posted by: staniam | May 4, 2008, 5:07 pm 5:07 pm

I’ll take the Clintons anyday over all the others. The Clinton years were prosperous and they left us a huge surplus. Obama couldnt ever come close to doing and caring for America like the Clintons did, he can only talk. God help us if he is elected and his true intentions come out.

Posted by: jimbo | May 4, 2008, 5:09 pm 5:09 pm

Yes, we will president clinton.

Posted by: blue Irish | May 4, 2008, 5:14 pm 5:14 pm

@Jimbo,
Well said. I agree with you.
Even now, Mr Clinton are still working on Humanitarian works for Katrina victims and African children.

Posted by: blue Irish | May 4, 2008, 5:17 pm 5:17 pm

So sad….I feel Americans will burn down Americans before a more than qualified person (Senator Obama) be elected president…so so so sad.

Posted by: Della | May 4, 2008, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm

Virginia,
I do the same.

Posted by: blue Irish | May 4, 2008, 5:22 pm 5:22 pm

Harlan,
Your comments says more about you then they do about Barack. My hope is that you get some help before that venom that is circulating in you moves from politics and starts effecting other areas of your life. You clearly are a very angry, hateful, misguided person.
I think we all should probably say a prayer for you and hope we don’t read about you or see you on the news for commiting some type of mass crime against humanity.

Posted by: Rick | May 4, 2008, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm

All the Hillary’s supporters that have spoken so far are illiterates and they need prayers cos they are dieing in poverty while the Clintons are making $105M USD.

Posted by: Cole | May 4, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm

Rick, I guess the truth about Obama is very distressing to hear. Hear no evil, Speak no evil, see no evil. The new motto of the Obama supporters.

Posted by: Sally | May 4, 2008, 5:29 pm 5:29 pm

I am sure Rev. Jeremiah Wright is praying for her.

Posted by: henry | May 4, 2008, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm

Della, what in Obama’s resume makes him qualified to be President? Obama has a very scant background as a junior senator and has not reached across the aisle to work with any GOP Senator on any major legislation. So his mantra of “hope” and “change” are just a bunch of empty words. If Obama was anyone else, his long time and deep associations with the corrupt Tony Rezko, the racist Jeremiah Wright, the terrorist group Hamas, or the unrepentant bomber, William Ayers, would have meant the end of his run for President by now. So again, what makes you think Obama has any qualifications to be President? Please name just one that has any substance.

Posted by: emery | May 4, 2008, 5:40 pm 5:40 pm

You are really a blue Irish! how many times have you confronted your pastor? thats if you even go to church, why are you using peter to pay paul?
This comment was made by Rev. Wright and not Obama, mind you there are more than 5,000 people in that church, perhaps you people should go and accuse them too.
Well i can see you people are bound to fail, you guys are in love with failure, keep supporting Hillary, just watch she’ll bow out on tuesday.

Posted by: Cole | May 4, 2008, 5:40 pm 5:40 pm

I want to pray for Obama too…so should I pray to Allah?…somebody help me out here….

Posted by: Henry | May 4, 2008, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm

Cole,
I have read all you’ve written on this blog, you are the only one with correct senses here, perhaps if you check those supporting Hillary here, they fall into the category of people the media describes as less educated people that votes for Hillary.
Just leave them illiterates are difficult to convince, they’ll cry later.

Posted by: Bill | May 4, 2008, 5:45 pm 5:45 pm

Tom,
Its ignorant rantings like yours that has kept America stuck on stupid. Its this type of mental reasoning that helped created the Electorial college vote and made it seem like a good idea, because they didn’t really trust Americans (or Americans like you) to have enough sense to make a choice by popular vote. When people read your childish display of imuturity and your gross lack of understanding about the issues along with rantings that only make YOU look like a fool, they wonder if the creators of the electorial college just might have been on to something. But you know what I find sad? You are probably one of the people whom Baracks vision, strategic plan for America would help the most…but you are too filled with un reasonable fear to catch the moment (reminds me of the many people during MLK’s life and Nelson Medella’s life that missed the work of God because they were too busy with their own agenda.) What a shame, America could have used your energy to bring about real change….not just another campaign season full of promises upon promises, only to be forgotten about once they have used you for your vote.

Posted by: Rick | May 4, 2008, 5:50 pm 5:50 pm

GAWANIA,
wow, I sense some hostility in the tone of your pro-Obama post….am I right?

Posted by: Henry | May 4, 2008, 5:52 pm 5:52 pm

This North Carolina-Indiana duel looks like it will end in a draw, with no movement in the delegate count.
If so, what happens next? Where will the superdelegates go?

Posted by: FilmMD | May 4, 2008, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm

Let me ask a question of the Hillary hating people here…Do you hate Hillary for her political platform and policies or do you hate her because she is competition to Obama and poses a serious threat to his nomination?…or maybe for some other reason?….let me know…thanks.

Posted by: Henry | May 4, 2008, 5:57 pm 5:57 pm

Bill and Hillary are a disgusting 2 people. They will stoop to just about anything. pray for Hillary is a joke. If the people of north carolina are so gullible and stupid to vote for that liar then I don’t know what this country is coming to. That goes for Penn and Ohio. If Obama doesn’t win N.C. then I will say there was voter fraud. Harold Ickes will not stop at anything either. Dirty politics

Posted by: Diane | May 4, 2008, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm

What a wonderful gift it would be if somehow Hillary pulled out NC. We can pray, and thank god the Nomination process wasn’t halted like the obama supporters wanted. 20 point lead outspending Hillary 3 to 4 times to 1 in NC. If she pulls this out she is the comeback kid. It might also say Americans don’t like candidates of little substance who attempt to buy nominations. uh uh uh uh uh get out there and sell hope and change obamaites, the day of reckoning is approaching. Hillary Clinton ’08

Posted by: Beau | May 4, 2008, 6:06 pm 6:06 pm

Goerge was one of the moderators of the ABC “debate” shambles. Now Hilary goes on his show and talks about how she spoke with him about NAFTA. Is it me or does anyone else see that the so called debate was nothing but a hatchet job.
Amazing how some think being the wife of a president is a job. How does that make you experienced. That means Shaq’s wife should be able to dunk a basketball. Such inane idiocy is why some people can not see behind the veil of the Clinton hatchet machine.
Since when did one become their pastor. That argument is tantamount to saying that if you are caucasian and your father used the “N” word twenty years ago, then you must be a racist.
Wake up people, there is more at stake.

Posted by: AF | May 4, 2008, 6:12 pm 6:12 pm

His database says more than that — it says that he is prepared to sell all the information he’s collected about his supporters and their position on the issues to the highest bidder. He plans on profiting both monetarily and politically from this race for years to come. It wouldn’t be so bad if he provided a candid disclosure of the purpose of the website to visitors or allowed his contributors to opt out of having their data disclosed but he doesn’t.

Posted by: jlynne | May 4, 2008, 6:18 pm 6:18 pm

Sally,
No Sally, we hear evil, we hear the pundits speak evil and when we look at the state of our beloved country and the lies being perpetrated, the deaths of our troops, the sacking of our sacking of our economy, the divisive lanquage by Wright, the untruths by a candidate as blatant as Bosnia, the rhetoric of telling a nation you are going to obliterate them (wonder how third graders slept hearing the most powerful nation on earth say that)the lost jobs…we see evil. The problem is not our inability to hear,see,speak, the problem is getting white, black, red, yellow, republican and democrate to work together to make changes that are at least twenty years overdue. Sally, The problem is getting people to lay down unfounded fears developed by political tacticians who otherwise would be in another line of work, the problem is as Bill Clinton once said,”depends on the definition of is” Hillary thinks the problem is that she is behind, I have outlined above the things Obama thinks the problem is. So the question becomes that of your heart, what does your heart tell you the problem is? Do you really believe Obama is some type of Muslim out to distroy America? Are you afraid a black man will get into office and see retrobution for slavery? Do you think he some type of undercover criminal that the FBI can’t uncover (after all he still has his law license…how did Bill lose his)? or have the pundits don one heck of a job implanting fear, backed by oil companies who’s big profit day’s are numbered? What about the lobbyist who careers have been born looking out not for you and me, but for people that paid them huge dollars to get their interest across? Sally, this is a time to open your eyes and think…not a time to be weak or lazy about the issues and go with what appears to be safe. Remember, we walk by faith not by sight. We put faith in the Clintons once and it was a fiasco that embarrased this country all across the world. Hillary has given us the same kind of politics such as with Colombia, saying she is against free trade while her husband and campaign strategist is over cutting a back room deal. If Obama had been caight doing that, he’d be out of this election so fast it would make his head swim.

Posted by: Rick | May 4, 2008, 6:21 pm 6:21 pm

Rick, you have seen the light!

Posted by: AF | May 4, 2008, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm

Rainer,
Do you know who contributed lots of money to Obama campaign? Those big oil co?
You google yourself.

Posted by: blue Irish | May 4, 2008, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm

Henry , I hate her as a person she is a liar,who says anything to get people to vote for her.She care less for the poor and middle clas.Gas she has not bought a drop for 24+ years like she knows what it is to go hungry or to be cold. She is the same ole washington all over Bill asks to pray for her Pray for the troops she put in harms way to hell with her let her fend for herself and see how she like it.

Posted by: honest | May 4, 2008, 6:26 pm 6:26 pm

I do have one question. How can Obama heal the wounds caused by racism. When he could not heal the racism with in his own church.

Posted by: NCBorn | May 4, 2008, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm

A fact on Obama’s life: After graduated from Columbia Univ., Obama took a job in IL at $12000/year plus $1000 for a car in the poorest, dirtiest neighborhood as a community organizer. All his family and friends thought he was crazy. How many of us can do that??? If this is not patriotism, what it is?

Posted by: leighg1 | May 4, 2008, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm

You think he gets to keep the money raised in a campaign????You think he got money from big oil???? You don’t know much do you>>>>>>Ask the Clintons to make their 07 tax returns avaliable….The blind trust of 41 mil is from all the things she said she is against.Like hey she is.

Posted by: older person | May 4, 2008, 6:29 pm 6:29 pm

He should be asking people to pray for our country and for that matter the whole world. We are in a crisis. Now is not the time to be praying for one individual.

Posted by: worldsam | May 4, 2008, 6:33 pm 6:33 pm

I am a black man and voting for the winner Hillary!
Who cares if Obama wins the nomination and looses to John McCain!
It is obvious that OH, FL and PA will not vote for Obama than he can not win the Whote House!
I hope all blacks will do the samew in NC,
If you vote for Obama your vote basicly is for John McCain!

Posted by: orlando, NC | May 4, 2008, 6:37 pm 6:37 pm

I am for Hillary too!
Some blacks are for Hillary in NC!
I am one of them!
Women should go for Hillary!

Posted by: Ilene NC | May 4, 2008, 6:39 pm 6:39 pm

All economists agree that there is ZERO saving to consumers!!! The suspension would only hike oil company profits! Besides, the suspension would cost 7000 construction jobs in NC because of the lost $9 billion highway fund!
The trouble is not she got the problem wrong, but she got it wrong purposely to fool the voters.
150 Economists, including 3 Nobel Prize Winners, issued an open letter May 2 opposing suspension of gas tax for the summer and called it a bad public policy. The letter says “Signers of this letter are Democrats, Republicans and Independents.”
Link for the open letter here:
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM43_080502_list_gastax.html

Posted by: leighg1 | May 4, 2008, 6:40 pm 6:40 pm

Those economist that are driving around in their Porsches and represent big oil, leigh? You support them cause your in their Tax Bracket? You might want to vote Republican, if you like them and trust them so much. They sure have done a great job with the United States haven’t they? Four dollar a gallon fuel, 10 dollar a pound steak, 2 bucks a loaf of bread. Keep believing in that ole hope and change and do nothing leaders. By the way what kind of car are you driving?

Posted by: Beau | May 4, 2008, 6:52 pm 6:52 pm

The Clintons are so corrupt and slimey, I’m surprised they can enter a church without melting.

Posted by: New Yorker for Obama | May 4, 2008, 6:52 pm 6:52 pm

Why does the gas tax holiday have to make economic sense? Consumer confidence is down. People are worried about the future. They lack confidence in the government–both the President and Congress. They are desperate for relief.
The gas tax holiday signals an undersetanding that there is a problem and lets people know that the government is working to address it. Its meant to provide a psychological boost to individuals — its meant to offer them, for lack of a better word, hope that things will get better.
It makes as much economic sense as taking a bubble bath in the middle of a drought in water-starved Atlanta … but it provides a much needed emotional break from the fear of constantly rising gas prices. Most of the time you take the three minute shower because its the responsible thing to do but sometimes — just sometimes — you have to indulge yourself a little just to feel human.
If it helps people feel better about themselves and their government, why not do it? So long as we make up the costs somewhere else what does it hurt?

Posted by: jlynne | May 4, 2008, 6:58 pm 6:58 pm

If Hillary does not make it I am forst time voting for John McCain!
There is a limit out there to swallow!
Obama has too many flees!!!
Yikes!!!

Posted by: Zenn | May 4, 2008, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm

I am a black man and pissed off by Obama’s comments about rev. Wright!
Betrayed pastor will not help him!
I am voting for Hillary and I hope he can’t win in NC!

Posted by: Albert, NC | May 4, 2008, 7:02 pm 7:02 pm

Point is Obama and Clinton believes government is the answer to all the Nation’s problems and demonize private industry as they want all the power. The truth is the price of gas is all about supply and demand. China and the rest of the world are competing with the USA for oil and OPEC is controlling the supply so prices go up. If Obama and Clinton were for the USA drilling for oil in Alaska, building new refineries and nuclear power plants, I might think they were really interested in lowering the price of gas and food for blue collar workers and the middle class. Fact is Obama and Clinton are in the tank with the green loons who will do anything to stop the USA from getting more energy for the people at cheaper prices. Instead both Obama and Clinton lie to the people about the so called pipe dreams of alternative energy like bio fuels that are causing food prices to go sky high and food riots in third world Nations. Obama and Clinton are false prophets who hold out empty promises of a Utopian world run and ruled by them. Problem is their vision of a Utopian world will put us all into the poor house while the State worker, politicians and Rezko types are laughing all the way to the bank with the people’s money lining their pockets.

Posted by: dean | May 4, 2008, 7:06 pm 7:06 pm

Hey Obama would sell his wife!
I would not mind to buy it once, if she becomes for sale?
Didn;t she make bad remarks against America anyways?
She may really become available?
I can not belive those black people out there still hoping from this dishonest man!
He just betrayed his pastor!!!

Posted by: Adam, MI | May 4, 2008, 7:07 pm 7:07 pm

Obama did not win anything! He stole the election by eliminating FL and MI!I I would be careless if somebody would shoot him!

Posted by: Peter, IN | May 4, 2008, 7:09 pm 7:09 pm

Just a Voter
Sorry, do not agree with you. Both Clinton and Obama want all the power so they can decide how the peoples money is spent and how we all live. So their character and judgment is what counts when it comes to deciding if they deserve to be given all this power. In my view, Obama is a very bad judge of character and Clinton will do anything to be President. Thus, I do not trust giving either of them any power over the lives of the American people. The truth government has a very bad track record when it comes to solving problems. All government does is line the pockets of government workers, politicians and Rezko types and what little of the peoples money is left over may than, if we are lucky, go back to the people.

Posted by: Angel | May 4, 2008, 7:21 pm 7:21 pm

Rick, you just lost all street cred with your last post. Anyone that thinks Bill or Hillary Clinton haven’t stood up for people of any color under the rainbow knows nothing about them.

Posted by: Beau | May 4, 2008, 7:25 pm 7:25 pm

Ask the people in New Orleans, Minneapolis, and Boston what they think of the Highway Fund — and toss in the Corp of Engineers while you’re at it.
We should be doing more to fix our levees, bridges, tunnels and highways than putting a few cents tax on gasoline and telling a government agency to spend it however they want to.
Our infastructure is in horrible shape–despite the gas tax. We need to find a way to fix it and we need to fully fund those projects. The gas tax isn’t the only money that government has — heck, why not throw some of the money from capital gains taxes or income taxes towards those projects.

Posted by: jlynne | May 4, 2008, 7:26 pm 7:26 pm

Oops, capital gains taxes are income taxes. Maybe I should have said end the Bush tax cuts and use the restored estate tax to replace the funds lost from the gas tax holiday. Or at least use those funds to pay for repairs to the infastructure.

Posted by: jlynne | May 4, 2008, 7:30 pm 7:30 pm

Rick,
I know what you say but Obama can not win a GE and we are backing Clinton in NC!
Not that Obama is a bad man, but it is just simple, he can ‘t win the crutial states!
Belive me, I analized about it!
I am voting for Hillary in NC,
She is better than to walk McCain to tyhe White House in November!Don’t you agree?
Thanks anyway,

Posted by: orlando, NC | May 4, 2008, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm

Government does not solve problems in most cases they cause problems. Just look at the attempt to solving global warming via bio fuels. The outcome, food prices are going sky high and there are food riots in third world Nations. Just name one major government program that works well and does not have a lot of top heavy overhead where most of the money goes. I bet you can’t. More inefficient, top heavy and do as I tell you or else government programs is what you will get if you vote for Obama or Clinton. The free market and creativity of the American people is what makes this country work, solves problems and produces all the products and services the people really want and need. Not government.

Posted by: Cole | May 4, 2008, 7:34 pm 7:34 pm

Every four years this country is in dire straights and in need of change. Every four years.

Posted by: LongT | May 4, 2008, 7:35 pm 7:35 pm

When I read some of the comments on here, I wonder about the kind of nation I will leave my grandchildren. My aunt lived to be 113 years old and I remember her saying when she was 106 yoa that the difference then versus now was that “people didn’t love each other like they use to do”. I found that a strange saying from a woman that lived through Jim Crow and who’s father the Paddy Rollers ran off his land and killed (for those that don’t know the paddy rollers were a group that predated the Klan). However, when I look at the infighting among democrate
and the bitterness and division of this country…I think she got it right. However, we have a chance to end the divisiveness, heal our nation and thus our land, but we can’t do it with more slick politics and lies.

Posted by: Rick | May 4, 2008, 7:36 pm 7:36 pm

Rick!
I am from NY Harlem, and a black woman!
Mrs Clinton had visited Harlem severakl times and improved the area!
Bill Clinton choose his office in the heart of Harlem too!
You’re an idiot!
what did Obama do?
NOTHING!

Posted by: Shenna, NY | May 4, 2008, 7:38 pm 7:38 pm

Obama is the clear choice, there is no contest when it comes to honesty, integrity, and class!

Posted by: staniam | May 4, 2008, 7:50 pm 7:50 pm

What if McCain names Condi Rice as VP and Obama is not on the Democratic ticket? Will she carry the black vote for McCain? What if Carly Fiorina is his VP? Will she carry the female vote for McCain if Hillary is not on the ticket? That’s the risk we run when we play identity politics.

Posted by: jlynne | May 4, 2008, 7:54 pm 7:54 pm

Stainan, I agree the Obama’s have no class. Michelle Obama was downright rude at the picnic in Noblesville, IN yesterday.

Posted by: lisa | May 4, 2008, 7:59 pm 7:59 pm

The black population might skew the results of the primary elections, but they aren’t a large enough number to make a dent in the general election.
They’ll get their wish that Obama is our nominee, and we all won’t get our wish of a Democratic victory.

Posted by: Joel | May 4, 2008, 8:01 pm 8:01 pm

earl, first time i saw obama on oprah, i turned to my brother and said someday this man should be president. great speaker, charisma,smooth, whats not to like? well i can answer that. His platform is lacking, he’s full of vauge and empty promises, he kisses up to the old guard way too much. Why do you think people like ted, and john, and bill richardson balked at supporting Clinton? Its simple. They cannot control her. obama needs to learn that independence. in spite of his huge popularity he comes accross as mousy and unsure of himself and fails to follow thru on the promises he made; that made him a different candidate. Change and hope are just buzz words. In spite of that, i would love to see a Clinton/Obama Presidential ticket.

Posted by: Beau | May 4, 2008, 8:08 pm 8:08 pm

The black vote can have a tremendous impact on Congressional races and should not be ignored. They have less impact on the presidential race because of demographic patterns but it doesn’t mean their voices are not important. Obama was right in his Phladelphia speech–we need to find a way for the races to work together for the common good. Unfortunately, we can’t seem to agree on what the common good is or how to get there.

Posted by: jlynne | May 4, 2008, 8:10 pm 8:10 pm

Well, it’s funny. It might be Bill that needs the prayer. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not religious and appreciate his philandering. But then I wouldn’t solicit meaningless prayers for anyone. It might appear to be hypocritical.

Posted by: DennisNC | May 4, 2008, 8:11 pm 8:11 pm

Hillary has experience, voting unequivocally for the invasion of Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of deaths later, who knows how many maimings and a ruin of a nation of 25 million, her supporters ignore that. They have no more morals or ethics than the most extreme Bush supporter.

Posted by: DennisNC | May 4, 2008, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm

Beau: Well said Beau! Well said.

Posted by: Earl | May 4, 2008, 8:21 pm 8:21 pm

Whether Obama becomes POTUS or not, I am not sure I would want him to have the support of Hillary’s supporters. Their unabashed support of a warmonger, who supported the worst action by the US since the Vietnam War, is disgusting. Like those Democrats who failed us in that insanity, you too are spineless.

Posted by: DennisNC | May 4, 2008, 8:25 pm 8:25 pm

I hope those who has been praying,has seen the vision that the candidate that is good for us now is obama,we should all pray for him for strength,more wisdom,knowledge and understand.

Posted by: frank | May 4, 2008, 8:29 pm 8:29 pm

Clinton voted for the Iraq war. A war for oil. Even poor McCain said it a few days ago. How could her conscience be clear knowing that the war killed 4000 of our best men and women not to mention hundreds and thousands of Iraqi civilians?

Posted by: worldsam | May 4, 2008, 8:29 pm 8:29 pm

well Rick again, quit talking about suspected, we think, might have, or my first cousin whose second cousins frist wife told me. Here’s a fact.
Ted Kennedy left Mary Jo to drown at Chippaquidick. John Kerry is only surpassed by that idiot that runs the DNC in getting his butt kicked politically.Bill Richardson swore to the Clintons he was on their side, and admitted he got stoned with obama and forgot who he was supposed to back for the nomination. These are obamas supporters. My Great Aunts Brothers 3rd cousin told me that story one night over hot chocolate and BLT’s. (I admit they don’t have a lot of smarts he’s a truck driver and thinks Gas is too high, so there is a chance this story is not true. crazy huh?)But, go ahead and keep listening to hanratty. You could have just said you were a Republican and be done with it. You know Clinton kicks maclame in the GE. Thats why you want obama. No wonder you know nothing about the Clintons.

Posted by: Beau | May 4, 2008, 8:30 pm 8:30 pm

The black vote can have a tremendous impact on Congressional races and should not be ignored. They have less impact on the presidential race because of demographic patterns but it doesn’t mean their voices are not important. Obama was right in his Phladelphia speech–we need to find a way for the races to work together for the common good. Unfortunately, we can’t seem to agree on what the common good is or how to get there.
Posted by: jlynne | May 4, 2008 8:10:05 PM
Post a commen
Jlynne,
In order to seek the common good for all people, it starts with having the capacity to tell the truth. While Obama, may not be a perfect person, he has that one indispensable character trait and that is the ability to be honest and tell the truth. To bridge a divide, you must tell the truth and admit there is a divide, to bring people together, you can’t tell them a gas tax holiday is good only for them to find out later that you knew darn good and well it was a bad idea and you were just pandering for votes. You can’t promise the hispanics you are going to favor them and support free trade and for more us businesses to build more plants in Mexico while telling the blue collar workers in Pa, NC, Ind you are going to help keep jobs in the US. You can’t have your husband and your strategist out cutting back door deals with the columbians to ship more jobs overseas and fattening the pockets of your strategist, who happens to be the CEO of the consulting firm the columbian use to try and get the free trade agreement, then she lies and says she has always been against the free trade agreement. How can you have common good Jlynne, when the candidate is acting like a common hood? How can we band together when her moral character is soooo wanting. Do you want someone with a nepolian complexs running around threatening to obliterate other countries, while refusing to have face to face talks with them. I think Hillary would be a national nighmare as President. I think its time for a woman President, just not this one.

Posted by: Rick | May 4, 2008, 8:30 pm 8:30 pm

Obama; by the true facts, in which one of you writers already listed over 70 reasons NOT to vote for Obama. I also feel the horrifics of putting Obama (a possible cell) in the White House is like putting the Trojan “gift” horse in a very powerful position to do alot of American damage. It scares the @#@# out of me that so many Americans are buying into Obama’s hollow words! God help the futures of our own children or grandchildren is all I can say!

Posted by: James | May 4, 2008, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm

The more I see of Hillary, the more I like her. And I am a die-hard Republican but am very wary of McCain. I’m glad President Clinton was dignified in the churches. It makes for a good day.

Posted by: Bill | May 4, 2008, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm

No…Bottom Line is this.
It really looks like Obama has this thing won, by any plausible measure.
But if lightening were to strike, and Hillary gets the nomination (and Presidency) we will have a LIAR for President, with another (annoying) LIAR always around as well (BillyBoy).
When Obama is President, we will have a Truthful President.
THAT is the bottom line.

Posted by: YardoKnowsBest | May 4, 2008, 8:37 pm 8:37 pm

Pray for Hillary? Now I know that Bill is losing his mind. He wasn’t asking people to pray for Hillary when he cheated on her time and time again with a fat ignorant intern. He had to promise Hillary the presidency so she wouldn’t leave his sorry butt. Bill Clinton is right up uh….down there with Bush and his cronies. Sorry Bill, your girl is finished. No matter what happens in Indiana and North Carolina, she is damaged goods. Yup…I will pray for her to get the hell out of Dodge. And take Bubba Bill with you.

Posted by: Sharie | May 4, 2008, 8:38 pm 8:38 pm

Posted by: jlynne | May 4, 2008 6:58:52 PM
The gas tax three months suspension makes no sense for the following reasons:
1) The oil companies will simply hike the price of gas and when the three months is up, do you think they will reduce the whole thirty cents…I think not!
2) This was tried in Illinois and the results were awful, which is why Obama does not want to make the same mistake twice…talk about being ready on day one Hillary
3)Gimmicks only get us in deeper…We need truth telling from our leaders and Hillary simply lacks this capability. She has other good qualities, but telling the truth is not one of them.

Posted by: Rick | May 4, 2008, 8:38 pm 8:38 pm

I agree. Let us pray to God that the people of NC and IN be enlightened with their choice of their leader. ++++ For your information all politician are liars. The only diffrence is those who claim that they transcend politics and race are hypocrites.++++++++++++

Posted by: politicsIsdirty | May 4, 2008, 8:45 pm 8:45 pm

It’s funny how every black person I saw on news this weekend wants to move on past Wright, yet reporters keep going there….as do most Americans. Obama will not shake it with Republicans, to be sure. Watching Hillary live in Indianapolis right now and ever Heraldo says she is amazing. How can anyone think she is not qualified, energized with ideas and not just “hope” and and “change”. I heard Obama on Russert address the Rev and I heard a couple of other his speeches on cable and I never hear any of his IDEAS or PLANS! The reverend problem will not go away…he will rear his ugly head again between now and November. All I can say is I usually vote Rep., will vote Dem if Hillary is nom. Most Republicans are for Hillary too (after McCain). THE SCARIEST THING TO CONTEMPLATE IS OBAMA GETTING NEAR THE WH…NOT EVEN VP. HE IS A RADICAL MAGNET AND WOULD BE HORRIBLE FOR THIS COUNTRY. Our enemies would be dancing in the streets tho.

Posted by: Debra, Los Angeles | May 4, 2008, 8:52 pm 8:52 pm

Bill Clinton was kindly asking for a prayer for Hillary at the voting booths, he didn’t say to vote for her, but say a little prayer is all. Geeish, Hillary and Bill have sat in the private homes of the poor, diabled, talked to homeless, wounded G.I.’s, unemployed, black or white or any other race. The Clinton’s sincerely want to help and can only do so if Hillary is elected. I don’t see the problem that Bill asked everyone to say a little prayer for Hillary and wishing her good luck on Tuesday (primary election day). Some people make MOUNTAINS out of mole hills! Good grief, get a life. Here’s my part; “Dear Lord, today I say a little prayer for Hillary and wish her good luck on Tuesday, in high hopes she wins and in return I truely believe she will help the under dogs of our great nation and get us all back on track, in the name of the father and holy spirit, AMEN! Wow, was that so hard to do in a small favor to Bill and Hillary Clinton???? Where is Forrest Gump or Gomer Pyle when you need them???
God gave us logic, a way to reason, a mind, methods to help one another and all the gifts and talents that come by birth, he does his glory through others. Unfortuately, many inventions that were invented to help humans, were turned against other human beings (germ warfare, chemical warfare, explosives, guns). Sighs, because it only takes one bad apple to ruin it for everyone.

Posted by: Butch | May 4, 2008, 8:55 pm 8:55 pm

So much for the separation of church and state. So much too for the separation of superstition and a grip on reality. How much does even the most pious of us believe God has a piece in this primary election cycle in but one of the many countries on the planet? And whatever God Bill believes in, might he not think for a minute that his/her interests might be tied up today with the war and suffering in several other countries or the pain the survivors of the Myanmar cyclone, the S. Korean tidal wave or the Midwestern US cyclones??? What are we to buy into this sort of drivel? Why do we even consider, considering this sort of nonsense and calling it news?

Posted by: foxisms | May 4, 2008, 8:57 pm 8:57 pm

Henry, I hate HRC for many reasons but here is one. My brother works for himself, he can’t afford health care insurance. His work is very hard. Many times I now he is sick or in pain, but he refuses to see a doctor, or go to the hospital. I watched HRC state how she is determined to give everyone health care. Then I watched her try to destroy Obama, making sure if she dosen’t get the nomination McCain will win. She dosen’t give a damn about anyone or anything but herself.

Posted by: anniecla | May 4, 2008, 8:58 pm 8:58 pm

Henry, I hate HRC for many reasons but here is one. My brother works for himself, he can’t afford health care insurance. His work is very hard. Many times I now he is sick or in pain, but he refuses to see a doctor, or go to the hospital. I watched HRC state how she is determined to give everyone health care. Then I watched her try to destroy Obama, making sure if she dosen’t get the nomination McCain will win. She dosen’t give a damn about anyone or anything but herself.

Posted by: anniecla | May 4, 2008, 8:58 pm 8:58 pm

Did anyone figure out how Obama raised all his campaign money with students and African Americans? How do the liberal billionaires “bundle” their money into his campaign? Well he can outspend Hillary 4 to 1 in every state. Can’t buy the Presidency, as much as the major liberals would love that. Good old middle America will always determine that outcome…the very people Obama slammed. Though 92% of blacks vote for him….they are but 13% of the American population. College kids…I don’t know about. Gamblers are probably in Obama’s camp too…but however you slice it middle America wants Hillary or McCain and these are the only two candidates who should be debating each other in October. Riots or not, count FL, re-do MI…she’s ahead. BO’s meteoric rise came when no one knew enough about him and many were so desperate for something different. I’m just not that desperate.

Posted by: Emma | May 4, 2008, 9:08 pm 9:08 pm

I don’t need to convince anyone!
I am backing Hillary so do a lot of blacks in NC!
Because he can’t win against John McCain in November!
would have voted for him if he would have won either OH or PA!

Posted by: Orlando, NC | May 4, 2008, 9:25 pm 9:25 pm

I dislike Hillary because she lies and cannot be trusted. Both Clintons lie and will say anything to get elected. Bill Clinton was not the role model I wanted for my sons and Hillary is not the role model I want for my granddaughter.
I pray that Hillary learns that being a Christian means a person lives their life according to Jesus’ teaching. A Christian does not lie about sniper fire in Bosnia or try to fool people about a gas tax holiday that she knows Congress will never pass because it is a terrible idea.
The lies came out of Hillary’s mouth, the words did not come out of her pastor’s mouth.
I pray for a President that will have the leadership skills to get people to work together for the good of the less fortunate. Not a President that will smear people and do anything to get elected.

Posted by: Julie | May 4, 2008, 9:31 pm 9:31 pm

Bill and Hillary have gotten a raw deal in this election. They have both given many years of their lives to helping the less powerful, less fortunate, etc. I have tremendous respect for how Hillary has once again been vilified in this campaign and has kept on fighting. Even those who don’t like her should respect her. And I like her! I agree with Chelsea, I think she will make a great president.

Posted by: Laura Schneider, Theodore, AL | May 4, 2008, 9:32 pm 9:32 pm

Hillary or McCain will be fine with me!
As long as it is not Obama this country will survive!
Neither racist Obama who is surrunded by terrorist friends nor his Anti-American wife Michelle do not deserve the oval house!

Posted by: Bob | May 4, 2008, 9:35 pm 9:35 pm

Obama will win easily against the age-afflicted McCain.

Posted by: YardoKnowsBest | May 4, 2008, 9:36 pm 9:36 pm

Yea, don’t put too much stock in Ohio since they voted against their own best interest in voting for Bush. There goes the undereducated and uninformed voters trying to give us a president that will destroy this country even further. When will they ever pull their heads out of the sand. You guys are a hopeless bunch aren’t you?

Posted by: mandm | May 4, 2008, 9:38 pm 9:38 pm

I applaud Bill’s message at that church. The most educated, the richest, the most powerful people need prayer as much as, or probably more than, the blue-collar workers. Bill’s sentiment, pray for us, lets people know where he and Hillary draw their power. They don’t need to cling to bitterness because they have a powerful God…

Posted by: april | May 4, 2008, 9:39 pm 9:39 pm

If Obama gets the nomination sure Hillary will endorse him but I bet with all of you , half of Hillary supporters will not come for Barrack Obama as long as the DNC keeps FL out and does not doover MI!
A vote for Obama would be sending John McCain with a first class ticket to the White House!

Posted by: Jill | May 4, 2008, 9:39 pm 9:39 pm

And mandm,
You ‘re so educated hah?
Is that why you are out of your stupid mind that you can not realized John Kerry lost the GE in 2004 by loosing OHAs long as you highly educetd Obama supportes miscalculate, John McCain will definitely win!
Get it through your head!
Obama can not win the GE!!!
The states he won, McCain is 10 points ahead!!!
Obama lost, OH, PA, MI and FL
That is all matters at this moment!

Posted by: Jill | May 4, 2008, 9:43 pm 9:43 pm

Laughs; damn, give me a minute, it’s hard to type while laughing too hard at some of you. Pathetic, in a weird sense of humor. To YARDknowsbest: We already elected a financial loser George W. Bush who went belly up in how many oil deals, now has us all in a mess, Neal Bush was tied in with McCain and the “Keating 5″ scandal (costing tax payers millions). Seriously, why beat up people who went from zero (0) to millions, like others did with Ross Perot? To me it shows the Clintons know how to make money and want to clue us in on we can get our comfortable lives back! It would be pretty pathetic if they went bankrupt after leaving the White House. My view is, Hillary wants to stop the sucking sounds from the common folks bank accounts and get back to the real legend of Robin Hood (take from the rich to give to the poor) NOT (the rich who keep taking from the poor to get richer).

Posted by: mixednutsngroupdiscussion | May 4, 2008, 9:45 pm 9:45 pm

Mixed…Come on….You don’t really believe that trickle down stuff, do you????
I view Obama as closer to me financially than Clintons…
Funny part is…Hillary would like me to think she is more of Robin Hood than Obama can be!!!???
How can that be, when she and Billy Boy have 110 Million???? I don’t recall Robin being that rich. LOL

Posted by: YardoKnowsBest | May 4, 2008, 9:52 pm 9:52 pm

@ Rick 7:20:31
Clintons have been there for any color people.
I have many AA friends also agree with that.
Beside,Obama and his wife only donate their money to AA community and black church.

Posted by: blue Irish | May 4, 2008, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm

I see that even though this is an article about prayer, the obama supporters can’t help but still spew hate. I do, however, want to offer my prayers for Hillary’s victory is not just IN and NC, but for the nomination! I support you Hillary, now more than ever! GOD Bless!
Clinton 08 (or McCain)!

Posted by: Eric | May 4, 2008, 9:56 pm 9:56 pm

Cut off Yilda cut off!
Me too,. me too!
I am an independant and I am voting for Hillary in NC too!

Posted by: Harry, NC | May 4, 2008, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm

I heard Obama’s latest policy stance but don’t know what it means. Does anyone know what um, ah, um, oh, ummm, ahhh, um, dah means?

Posted by: Chris | May 4, 2008, 10:07 pm 10:07 pm

There is criticism that Bill Clinton is not spending time right now with African Americans…why should he? After all the Clintons have done all their lives for the African American community and now they turn their back on them and call them racist’s. The 85% of the African Americans who are voting for Obama are either “red coats” or they are ignorant and have no idea what the Clinton’s have done on their behalf to improve the quality of their lives. They should be ashamed!

Posted by: vicki | May 4, 2008, 10:07 pm 10:07 pm

I pray for Hillary to beat Obama in IN and NC!
God will give Obama a lesson!

Posted by: Misha | May 4, 2008, 10:08 pm 10:08 pm

Vicki,
You’re wrong!
Bill Clinton and Hillary still are very close to the black community in NY.
That is why Obama could not win more than onehundredantwelve votes in Harlem!!!
We all went for Hillary!
I hope NC will see what we are seeing and support Mrs Clinton!

Posted by: Sheila, NY | May 4, 2008, 10:10 pm 10:10 pm

Hey Debra,
Hillary did one of her strongest nights!
By the way I am with you 100% about Powell or Rice but I can not find one thing about Barrack Obama to attract me to go ahead and vote for him!

Posted by: Tom | May 4, 2008, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm

Actually, he yells like Wright. I think he was attracted to the Rev because of his oratory, as he said in his book. When he yells I can’t hear him. He needs to tone it down, for us white folks.

Posted by: Debra, Los Angeles | May 4, 2008, 10:16 pm 10:16 pm

With over 400 million worldwide, it might be good to learn how to spell the word, “Pentecostal,” along with Boodhist, Hindoo, Muzlam, and Jooish.
Also, are you sure it wasn’t the Asheville “Church of Pentecost?”

Posted by: paul | May 4, 2008, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm

Why is Obama shouting his whole speach at the Jefferson Jackson dinner? Even when he is not saying anything important he shouts it. Plain weird!

Posted by: Bob | May 4, 2008, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm

MobMentality – yes, we can understand the Blacks who go for Obama 90% strong …
And you are right … it is the Whites who are following that mob that is beyond understanding .

Posted by: Unbelievable | May 4, 2008, 10:19 pm 10:19 pm

Obama is talking about how important it is to educate the children but yet he forced his own children to attend that hate filled church. I don’t want him influencing MY children.

Posted by: Carol | May 4, 2008, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm

Americans are freaking stupid … that is why Obama is even considered a viable candidate ..
No other country in the world would even entertain the thought …

Posted by: StupidAmericans | May 4, 2008, 10:21 pm 10:21 pm

God doesn’t play politics, and he sure wouldn’t bless a liar if he did. There is plenty for the Clintons to pray about, but unless they stop lying it will all be in vain.

Posted by: Big Brown | May 4, 2008, 10:22 pm 10:22 pm

I will be voting for Hillary Rodham Clinton in NC!
Obama can not win a general election!
Face it with IMPOSSIBLE, instead of calling yes we can!

Posted by: Mathew, NC | May 4, 2008, 10:22 pm 10:22 pm

Ya…that’s right…
You don’t want Obama influencing your children….Just keep on letting them see the news from the late 90′s about Uncle Bill and Monica. Your alright with that kind of influence????

Posted by: YardoKnowsBest | May 4, 2008, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm

Sue….LOL

Posted by: YardoKnowsBest | May 4, 2008, 10:32 pm 10:32 pm

I “thought I heard somebody pray…”. In the words of an old gospel spiritual song, we could all use somebody’s prayer. Bill understands that, and I am certain that he heard those words from his mother and grandparents and all the good people of Arkansas. This country is going to need a lot of prayer for ourselves and people all over the world. God bless our leaders and give them courage and tenacity. God bless Hillary, God bless Bill. God bless us everyone.

Posted by: georgia | May 4, 2008, 10:37 pm 10:37 pm

Sheila NY, I believe from what you said that you took my comment in the wrong way…very well could have been miscommunication on my part also…which ever I am sorry. I understand what you are saying and I agree with you totally. Let me clarify…it is my belief there are many African Americans who do not know how the Clintons have stood up for the rights of all people and that stands noticeably in my mind for African Americans…especially when it was not fashionable and I wish they would either remember who has always been there for them and show their acknowledgement by supporting and voting for Hillary. Lets say things were reversed and Obama had spent a life-time championing my cause and he was running for President I would support and vote for him regardless of a candidate who was of my same culture, age, sex or color. If someone fights for me I will remember it and give them my support when they ask for it.
Sheila, again I am sorry for the confusion…I think we are both on the “same page” though. Vicki

Posted by: vicki | May 4, 2008, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm

I am really furious that there can still be people accsuing Bill playing the race card.
The fact is that OBAMA and company who have been doing that and the media condone that.
Pray that Hillary will knock out this wimp who ducks debates when people begins to see more of him. Is he real? Definitely he has something to hide. His judgment is only used to fire White folks but not the Black pastor.
The election is disgustingly racist which started by the OBAMA Campaign and the blackmails from some black congressmen.

Posted by: John_Lai | May 4, 2008, 10:49 pm 10:49 pm

Your the dreamer Yardoknowsbest; What? Do you expect Obama to do drive by shootings at our Congress and the Senate to have more power over any other president who gets Veto’d? Obama isn’t even African-American, HIS wife is. Obama talks the talk but doesn’t walk the walk! The Republicans know he’s more beatable than Hillary and they want McCain in there (most of this is just smoke and mirrors). Nobody is even attacking McCain who is out their shaking hands and talking to voters. I’m sure McCain will slip in there while everyone was beating up Hillary and Obama. Sort of like the tortoise who got side swiped by a few snails, when asked who did it; the tortoise replied, I really don’t know, it happed too fast. McCain will be everyone’s next president, so enjoy the story’s in Iraq, Iran and Afganistan and North Korea for the next 4 years. Enjoy, the inflation, because McCain knows how to stick it to the tax payers (search the “Keating 5″), the guys a crook like the rest of them. McCain should of got out of one prison camp and into another one after the Keating 5 ordeal. $$$$$$$$

Posted by: Rita | May 4, 2008, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm

I hope the magnitute of the damage the Hillary hurracane will be significant to upset Obama in NC next Tuesday!

Posted by: Storm, NC | May 4, 2008, 10:57 pm 10:57 pm

Simmer down Rita.
Obama has the nomination already.
And…He can and WILL beat McCain.
Everything will turn out alright.
After all, Rita….I didn’t get my name by accident.

Posted by: YardoKnowsBest | May 4, 2008, 10:59 pm 10:59 pm

Obama may win the nomination because the DNC is afraid of blacks!
But I quarantee you that he will loose His butt to John McCain in November!
at least a 7 points loss may be even double digits!!!

Posted by: SWEAT DREAMZZZ | May 4, 2008, 11:02 pm 11:02 pm

I think gender is playing more of a role than race in this presidential race. Think about it. Let’s start focusing on gender here and put race on the back burner for now. Hillary would make a great president and she’s female. Barack Obama and John McCain are male. Does that make them better candidates? I don’t think so. How do all of you feel about the gender factor.

Posted by: Sue | May 4, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

It’s not so much Rev Wright you’ll have to worry about if Oblama gets the nomination. What about Al Sharpton, the Jesse Jacksons, Doug Wilder etc. What exactly did Obama promise them. – especially Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. You know these two are very vocal and will no go quietly in the night. Think about it – it’s a very, very, scary thought. They’ll exact some type of payback from Obama for their support. If you think Bush has messed up this country the past 7 years and couldn’t get worse – think again. Remember Sharpton and Jesse Jackson running loose??

Posted by: Bev | May 4, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

It’s not so much Rev Wright you’ll have to worry about if Oblama gets the nomination. What about Al Sharpton, the Jesse Jacksons, Doug Wilder etc. What exactly did Obama promise them. – especially Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. You know these two are very vocal and will no go quietly in the night. Think about it – it’s a very, very, scary thought. They’ll exact some type of payback from Obama for their support. If you think Bush has messed up this country the past 7 years and couldn’t get worse – think again. Remember Sharpton and Jesse Jackson running loose??

Posted by: Bev | May 4, 2008, 11:08 pm 11:08 pm

The Clintons, Bushes, and McCains have been fine upstanding churchgoers for many years, and they have had pastors who for all appearances are kind, upstanding, patriotic, and not angry. So how come Hillary Clinton is a pathological liar, Bill Clinton is a serial adulterer, George W. Bush is a war criminal and casual torturer and McCain is a divorcee? Just how much influence do you think the pastors of these people really have on their lives?

Posted by: John | May 4, 2008, 11:09 pm 11:09 pm

How can we be sure Obama did not make a deal with the Republicans to divide the democratic party?
he knows already he can not win, why than he is still in this race?

Posted by: George | May 4, 2008, 11:09 pm 11:09 pm

Seriously now. You Clinton supporters have really been had.
Half of you still believe that Hillary can get the nomination. I’m telling you it really IS over. Just go to Cnn.com and play the what-if number scenario. Hillary getting the nomination—-believe me, it can’t happen!! Obama’s already got it.
The other half of you Clinton supporters have bought into Hillary and Bill’s contention that if Obama were to get nomination, he couldn’t win against McCaine.
Not only was it sinister of the Clintons to put that forth….it was wrong. Obama can win and he WILL do so.
So….cheer up, Clinton suppo0rters…there really is life after the Clintons.

Posted by: YardoKnowsBest | May 4, 2008, 11:10 pm 11:10 pm

Obama reminds me ice coffee!
Tasteless and cold! Ou of touch!

Posted by: Faith, MA | May 4, 2008, 11:11 pm 11:11 pm

I just want to see Hillary take North Carolina. That would make it all worthwhile. And of course Indiana. The fact is Obama is on the nose, still vague, no specific policies of his own but quick to criticise anyone else with an actual proposal, and his contrived delegate ‘lead’ just masks the fact that he has not won a single large state. In their mindless support for a black candidate with only platitudes on offer, Democrats don’t seem to care that they will lose in a landslide come November. Blind leftist liberal factionalism is driving the party to impose Obama on America. Dumb. Very dumb. Hillary is the one who can win this, and the leftie liberals insist we vote for a deaf member of Rev Wright’s congregation.

Posted by: Doug | May 4, 2008, 11:12 pm 11:12 pm

I saw Obama bringing his two kids to his campaign in IN!
he is using his kids at that age to attract voters!
It really turned me off!
He first betrayed his pastor, than this,
He acts just like another politician!
I am leaning towards Hillary now!

Posted by: Kathy, IN | May 4, 2008, 11:13 pm 11:13 pm

Old timer politics maybe gender issues is a factor. But, realistically, most MEN are momma boys. I have 2 sons who always run to me on any problem or matter before they do their father. I had 3 brothers who did the same! Even harden criminals would cut you up if you said anything about their momma. Now the boys can run to Hillary (too funny eh?). I crack myself up at times hee hee!

Posted by: Ron | May 4, 2008, 11:16 pm 11:16 pm

And of course delegates are free to vote however they want. And if Hillary has the clear momentum, has won the Democrat heartland, has won the white and hispanic votes by a country mile, has won the popular vote, has won Florida and Michigan despite all the hoo hah about pretending it never happened, and closes out the campaign winning primary after primary -as she is and as she will – just how suicidal do you imagine the DNC will be? Because in that scenario to NOT endorse
her as Dem nominee will be most certainly electoral suicide.

Posted by: Doug | May 4, 2008, 11:17 pm 11:17 pm

I think this website provides the best information about electibility. They take all polls for the states and chart them on the electoral map.
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
Its worth taking a look at.

Posted by: jlynne | May 4, 2008, 11:18 pm 11:18 pm

Eighty percent of the bloggers here are right on. Obama will lose to McCain for sure. Fox news has a poll with Hillary beating McCain and Obama trails by 10 points. Personally, I believe that BO is the easy challenge for McCain but Reps. would rather McCain go up against Hillary, just in case. Wasn’t Obama supposed to win Guam by more than 7 voters? Like 5-10%? Guess news travels. I heard the speeches at Jefferson Jackson dinner tonight and Hillary delivered, as usual. I think BO is getting weary…this process is taking alot out of him. Don’t think he could hold up through the general.

Posted by: Debra, Los Angeles | May 4, 2008, 11:19 pm 11:19 pm

Hillary would have won the nomination by super Tuesday! That is exactly an Obama supporter Dik Morris said!
He added that Obama is very fortunate that his pastor problem broke out after he won all the delegates!
After I saw him at Fox at hannity and Holmes, I have changed my mind!
Even the party insiders know that Obama can not win but they can not hand over the nomination to Hillary either!
because he has more delegates!
They need a berak out!
Come on people of IN and NC, stop voting for the hopeless hoe and change!
Vote for Hillary in NC!!!

Posted by: Dan, NC | May 4, 2008, 11:19 pm 11:19 pm

The Obama bunker is transparently frightened and is trying to pressure superdelegates to commit for him AHEAD of remaining primaries. Now, why do you think they are doing that? Because they KNOW Hillary is going to win most if not all of them. On the one hand they try to use the primary schedule to deny Hillary two major victories in Florida and Michigan and then they try to ignore the schedule by using super delegates to deny remaining states their voice. It is obscene and undemocratic. Obama refuses to let FL and MI be seated. And he is trying to deny KY WV PR OR their voices as well. How disgusting.

Posted by: Doug | May 4, 2008, 11:23 pm 11:23 pm

Debra
yea BO didnt think he had to work that hard he has a lot of nerve thinking he can just be given the nomination

Posted by: staniam | May 4, 2008, 11:24 pm 11:24 pm

April,
we will.
Thanks

Posted by: blue Irish | May 4, 2008, 11:25 pm 11:25 pm

Yeah Bill, A great man in my book and Hillary is one of the greatest ladies ever. I think it is wonderful for him to ask for prayer for his wife. Prayer will get us through anything and it is great to know The Clintons know that. Sure Bill has done things he needs prayer for…haven’t we all? The Clintons are great!

Posted by: Susan | May 4, 2008, 11:26 pm 11:26 pm

Yeah Bill, A great man in my book and Hillary is one of the greatest ladies ever. I think it is wonderful for him to ask for prayer for his wife. Prayer will get us through anything and it is great to know The Clintons know that. Sure Bill has done things he needs prayer for…haven’t we all? The Clintons are great!

Posted by: Susan | May 4, 2008, 11:26 pm 11:26 pm

If Bill Clinton could run again for president, he would win a landslide. yes, we will pray for Hillary. She will make a wonderful president. I hope she wins and goes for 2 terms. We have to have a change, and I remember the good times the US had when Bill was in office.

Posted by: Anne | May 4, 2008, 11:27 pm 11:27 pm

Kathy
god for you for leaning towards CLinton Obama is a total oportunist and its painfully obvious!

Posted by: staniam | May 4, 2008, 11:27 pm 11:27 pm

Yilda,NC
Good for you.
Drive safely,,,God Bless you.

Posted by: blue Irish | May 4, 2008, 11:28 pm 11:28 pm

Do the super d’s fear that if they lose the college kids (?%) and black vote (13% of our country) that somehow that would make a huge dent in voting Dems come Nov? I know some Reps who will be supporting Hillary too.
Doug everything you say I compeltely agreee with.

Posted by: Debra, Los Angeles | May 4, 2008, 11:29 pm 11:29 pm

@ Jlnne,
You can take MA, NJ, PA out of obama and add to John McCain in November!
Also do not expect Obama to win in FL,OH and MI!
Obama only won in the RED states Mit Romney would have won at Republican side!
After Romney got out of the race at Feb 5th, his supporters had no reason to vote for Republican because they really did not care who their nomminee will be, Than they were directed by the right wing radio and their own party to go ahead and vote for Obama to divide the Democratic Party!!!!
Part of the Republican game!Sure Obama still believes they are Obamacans and guess what they are not comming back to vote for him in November!!!They will be voting for John Mccain!!!

Posted by: Shan, MA | May 4, 2008, 11:31 pm 11:31 pm

Could you post a link to the story about the Obama children? We haven’t heard much about them and it would be interesting to know more about them?

Posted by: jlynne | May 4, 2008, 11:38 pm 11:38 pm

hey Shan,
The best and most logical post here!
I agree, Obama won those RED states by he Republican trap because you’re so right , Obama started winning right after Mit Romney dropped out the race!
After Obama won enough states, it was tioem for the republicans to end this game and put Rev Wright on TV!!!

Posted by: Mary | May 4, 2008, 11:39 pm 11:39 pm

Obama supporters and the DNC should be thankful to Hillary for staying at this race and saving him being a target on TVwith his dirty laundry!
Republicans would have much more time to trash Obama if Hillary would have dropped out!
You people have no brain at all!

Posted by: Jared | May 4, 2008, 11:43 pm 11:43 pm

@Yardoknowsbest,
How could you say Clintons treat AA like sheep?
They have been working for AA.
Mr Clinton helps Katrina victims and African children.
Some of them are still loyal to them.
One of them is DR Maya Angelou.

Posted by: blue Irish | May 4, 2008, 11:43 pm 11:43 pm

Hey Yard! “It was in the news today” Plus, there is a big difference in Chelsea Clinton’s age of “26″ compared to Obama’s youngest who is only “6″ (Sasha). Where’s children and youth when you need them?

Posted by: Terry K. | May 4, 2008, 11:45 pm 11:45 pm

The Republicans are salivating at the thought of an Obama nomination. Take all of the emotion and hype out of this and ask the question. What is the one candidate you would avoid like the plague? A minority candidate [intrinsically vote limiting]with his/her core support in states that historically vote strongly at Presidential level for the other party [eg black voters will never swing the South away from rock solid Republican voting patterns] and for whom you pass over a moderate, majority [aka white] candidate who wins all the large primaries. That is a nightmare scenario that presages electoral slaughter. And Obama lemmings are falling for it hook line and sinker. They are insane. It is electoral madness to nominate Obama. If you do it, you guys have been sucker punched by the Republicans and you don’t deserve to call yourselves serious politicians.

Posted by: Doug | May 4, 2008, 11:47 pm 11:47 pm

Let me put it this way to you Blue Irish. Who did the hebrews trust to free them from the Egyptians and get them to the promised land???
An Egyptian who might have taken pity on them and given them favors and even told them he loved them….or….Moses….who was one of them???

Posted by: YardoKnowsBest | May 4, 2008, 11:49 pm 11:49 pm

I’ll be honest with you that way back when Hillary was first lady (in the very beginning) I didn’t care for her. I thought she was kind of cold and aloof. When Bill cheated on her… my opinion of her changed. I gained so much respect for her. She is a strong woman who handled an embarrassing and delicate situation with class and dignity. She has a wonderful sense of humor and is an incredibly intelligent woman. (plus a pretty impressive mother). I think she can handle the presidency as well if not better than the other two candidates and because of that she still has and will always have my vote (even if it comes down to writing it in).

Posted by: Sue | May 4, 2008, 11:51 pm 11:51 pm

I’m just regular blogger.
I don’t get paid. I’m Hillary supporter.
I volunteer myself because I know once she becomes the president of US everything will get better.

Posted by: blue Irish | May 4, 2008, 11:53 pm 11:53 pm

How can the Dems allow themselves to be held to ransom by a bunch spoilt, self important kids who think the education they got courtesy of mom and dad somehow makes them smarter than mom and dad – who vote overwhelmingly for Hillary – working with racially partisan black Democrats who don’t even pretend to discuss policy – just line up exclusively behind the candidate with the correct skin colour. Does anyone really think this is a path to the future? To post racial politics? This is the MOST racist campaign since George Wallace, only more destructive. Obama hasn’t got a clue – no policies, no understanding of how to deliver results in the real world, ZIP, BUT lots of debts to honor to guys like Wright and Rezko and the rest. If this lightweight, smooth talking know nothing gets up, you will never see another black candidate treated seriously. We could have had a real, proven leader – COLIN POWELL – but no, we got stuck with Dubya. But that is no excuse to choose the next, nakedly ambitious black candidate that emerges. And that’s what Obama is. And as the latino minority rapidly overtakes the black minority, there will be little reason for this ever to happen again. Obama is a vacuous screw up in waiting.

Posted by: Doug | May 4, 2008, 11:59 pm 11:59 pm

Yardoknowbest,
What are you talking about Moses etc?
Are you already dreaming now?
Especially when you said Obama already won.

Posted by: blue Irish | May 5, 2008, 12:00 am 12:00 am

I’m praying for Hillary…

Posted by: Sue | May 5, 2008, 12:03 am 12:03 am

It will be telling who got the higher ratings this morning. ABC and George, or NBC and Russert. My money is on Hillary’s town hall q and a, with an audience of undecideds and Oabma suporters. She certainly has brass ones. Over at NBC, BO had a private studio with Russert throwing softballs.
I will call both networks tomorrow to get the numbers. George was agressive with her and kept interrupting too. She can always take the heat…doesn’t run scared.

Posted by: Debra, Los Angeles | May 5, 2008, 12:05 am 12:05 am

Debra, I emailed Pelosi. Seriously, I blame her and Dean and the rest of the I hate and am Jealous of the Clintons club. You know these guys. They have a secret thumbs down handshake and wear mickey mouse hats that say ‘sore loser’ on one ear and ‘compulsive idiot’ on the other. Some of us think they are on the Republican payroll. The Clintons – gasp! – WIN! The people vote strongly for the Clintons. The Clintons do NOT take much notice of the looney left. That’s more than enough reasons for me to support Hillary. And, as anyone knows who watched her interview with Bill O’Reilly, she is a sharp, articulate operator with policies, personal understanding of issues and an ability to empathise with ordinary folks that that other guy from Chicago will never have.

Posted by: Doug | May 5, 2008, 12:08 am 12:08 am

Ricki, your admission gave me the courage to admit that I am a paid blogger working for Hillary. I already voted for her. Thanks so much for your vote. Go West Virginia!

Posted by: georgia | May 5, 2008, 12:09 am 12:09 am

Bill;
I am praying that you and your
lying wife never get within ten
feet of the White House again!
I’m praying that the Democrat voters
in Indiana and North Carolina end
this long national nightmare of a
campaign and send you both home!

Posted by: reaganfan | May 5, 2008, 12:11 am 12:11 am

And let’s take on Obama on his latest rant against Hillary. He is shafting her because, when asked what she would do if Iran nuked Israel, she said she would nuke Iran. No hesitation. Same basic policy as in place against the Soviet Union. And Obama doesn’t like it. So, what is his position? HE DOESN’T HAVE ONE! He’d sit back, say naughty ayatollahs and presumably want to talk to them. Meanwhile the entire Israeli population and the entire Palestinian population and a large slice of the Jordanian, Lebanese and Syrian population would lie vaporised, frying or enduring death agonies. The correct answer to that specific question was…I would nuke Iran. Anything less was an open inviation. What’s the alternative? A UN resolution? A food blockade? C’mon. Total destruction and the effective end of Shi’ite Islam is what Hillary promised and that will hopefully keep thoe idiots’ finger off the button. Obama as usual has no position. As with the gas tax holiday. Nothing to offer that’s better or comparable. A waste of space.

Posted by: Doug | May 5, 2008, 12:19 am 12:19 am

Nice to see so many Clinton supporters commenting. Here’s hoping this is a preview of the the voting in NC and Indiana. This outflow of support could turn it all around for Senator Clinton. She is such a dedicated, tough yet sensitive individual and so deserving of the Presidency through her hard work, unflagging energy, and love of the American People- I am astounded at her ability to think on her feet put foreward new ideas and propose solutions.When we talk about hope and change Senator Clinton is the personification of those concepts. She has my vote and support.Clinton’08

Posted by: Beau | May 5, 2008, 12:21 am 12:21 am

Just for the record…I am not a paid blogger. I am blogging for Hillary Clinton on my own free will and am hoping and praying that she will become our next president.
But I will add…
Hillary – if you have access to Elton John concert tickets I would be interested. I’ll blog for you anyhow but…Elton John sure is great.

Posted by: Sue | May 5, 2008, 12:24 am 12:24 am

I’m guessing there are a couple of books being written as we speak that will expose Obama and his campaign big time. Quite apart from what the Republican machine will do to him. This is quite simply the most stupid and arrogant choice of a major party candidate that I can recall. And no matter what the voters say, it is never enough for these folks. Either Hillary doesn’t win by enough or the delegate count is manipulated against the popular vote. Fact is, if Hillary gets within 5 points of Obama in North Carolina, his campaign is shot. His voter base would be shown to be very vulnerable whereas hers – similar to McCain’s – is only getting stronger. And fast! And if she wins North Carolina – and by implication Indiana as well – Howard Dean and friends should get Obama to withdraw because the primaries from here on in are only going Hillary’s way – bigtime.

Posted by: Doug | May 5, 2008, 12:27 am 12:27 am

I write to support Hillary all the time in different blogs. How do I get paid? I read that you guys get paid for writing for her. I would like to. I haven’t been paid a penny and don’t think it’s fair.

Posted by: Jason | May 5, 2008, 12:27 am 12:27 am

I agree how do you get paid for blogging for a candidate? I would be happy with free concert tickets.

Posted by: Sue | May 5, 2008, 12:32 am 12:32 am

I’m depriving myself of sleep by staying up this late blogging. Although, Hillary winning would be pay enough for me. Maybe after she wins she’ll throw in the concert tickets……

Posted by: Sue | May 5, 2008, 12:36 am 12:36 am

Okay, I’ve made a decision. We should all vote on how appropriate the candidates name sounds when President is placed in front of it.
President Clinton – sounds great
President McCain – sounds okay (kind of reminds me of french fries)
President Obama – too many syllables
The consensus is Clinton sounds the best so…that’s where our votes should go and I think it’s time for me to get to bed.

Posted by: Sue | May 5, 2008, 12:51 am 12:51 am

Brad, Sue doesn’t even understand your criticism (fair, nevertheless). So we know what kind of supporters Hillary’s got!

Posted by: Jen | May 5, 2008, 1:20 am 1:20 am

I hate CNN. Only watch FOX and ABC. They are really talking Obama up at winning NC (better be by 10 like Hill’s Penn win). She’s likely to get Indiana yet it’s his neighbor state and he outspent, as usual. What’s with Sue…someone get her some Elton John tickets.

Posted by: Emma | May 5, 2008, 1:21 am 1:21 am

Emma,
Hillary did not win 10 points or more. She was told that if she didn’t win 10 pints or more she should leave. She didn’t after she only won 9.6 points. But June is around the corner. Your candidate will have to go. Bye bye.

Posted by: Jen | May 5, 2008, 1:30 am 1:30 am

I love her scrapiness. She is almost better when up against the wall. This woman is fearless and has more than what it takes to take on McCain. I would be so happy with a Clinton – McCain race to the WH. Send BO back to the Senate…they need more “present” votes. Glad Bill is making the rounds today in NC. Hope Chelsea is out there working it for her mom too. I will be praying for all three of them tomorrow.

Posted by: Emma | May 5, 2008, 1:39 am 1:39 am

Sue,
I’m with you.
I take my time to blog even I’m pretty busy everyday.
As you all know Hillary supporters are loyal and we don’t ask for paid .I don’t aware Hillary pay the bloggers.
I think Obama pay his bloggers not us.
After this election over I’ll be gone.

Posted by: blue Irish | May 5, 2008, 1:55 am 1:55 am

blue Irish, why not be gone NOW? Music to all of our ears.

Posted by: Jen | May 5, 2008, 2:01 am 2:01 am

Defeating Obama is important not only because he has no policies and has not been subject to a fraction of the personal scrutiny Hillary and McCain BUT because it would demonstrate YOU CANNOT BUY THE PRESIDENCY. He has already tried to buy Pennsylvania and been crushed at the polls. And who are these people who pretend to tell Hillary by what margin she must win or it doesn’t count? Well, by definition they are the losers. Can you imagine Roger Federer being told he would have to win Wimbledon 6-1 6-1 6-1 or IT WOULDN’T COUNT! Geez. You win, you win. Well the shoe is on the other foot now. Obama is doing a terrible job of defending a 20 something point lead in the North Carolina polls. Hillary has cut it to single digits and one poll has her in the lead. Maybe it is time for Obama to walk away. The people don’t want him.

Posted by: Doug | May 5, 2008, 2:36 am 2:36 am

Obama tying Clinton in Guam is a good sign. Now, had Rev. Wright not spoken, he would have outright won.
Rev. Wright has opened the eyes of some Americans … The Rev. need to resurface to peel open the eyes of those who still are blinded by Obamamania before it is too late.
Obama is dangerous for America … He is just an opportunist … and Americans are downright stupid to believe in any of his change rhetoric .. God Help America, alright.

Posted by: OpenYourEyes | May 5, 2008, 2:39 am 2:39 am

Obama did not tier Clinton. Obama should have been miles in front as this mini primary is just an extension of Hawaii. Obama was nearly cut down and had four people changed their minds he would have lost. Hillary is on the charge and she has Obama in big trouble.

Posted by: Doug | May 5, 2008, 2:48 am 2:48 am

Everyone needs to pray also for the Obama supporters who can’t see the truth about Obama. He is a disaster waiting to happen. Please North Carolina and Indiana send Obama packing!! We do not need an anti-American, arrogant, inexperienced racist in the White House!!

Posted by: dfinke | May 5, 2008, 2:48 am 2:48 am

IF Hillary wins INDIANA, NORTH CAROLINA, WEST VIRGINIA, KENTUCKY, PUERTO RICO and OREGON, the Obama argument about its delegate lead would be utterly unconvincing. The tide will have turned. And even if Obama manages to cling on in Oregon and North Carolina, Hillary is closing the gap all the time. Obama is toast.

Posted by: Doug | May 5, 2008, 2:52 am 2:52 am

Strange how America only manages to be ‘post-racial’ if it elects a minority candidate voted for almost exclusively by members of that minority and the looney left of the Dems. That sounds like a very clear racist campaign in my book. The black community has thrown out rational debate in these primaries in favor of blind support for a black candidate. This is very sad. I believe they will reap a bitter whirlwind as a consequence. Outside of a few urban areas, I don’t believe they will ever be taken seriously as a national political force again after this campaign. And the looney left will not be far behind. The Democratic Party and its traditional voter support base has been severely disrespected in these primaries.

Posted by: Doug | May 5, 2008, 2:59 am 2:59 am

It may very well be getting to the point that the people dont really want Obama anymore. Not after they started to learn about who he really is.
The democratic insiders like Pelosi, Kerry and Kennedy want him. This is what matters.
The smoke filled rooms.
Who would have ever thought that after all the smoke filled room complaining by the Obama supporters its going to be that very same thing that gets Obama the nomination.
For the first time in history folks , we are going to Nominate the person LESS LIKELY to win in November who LOST every major primary.
-lost every major primary?
- less electable in November?
Yep. You are our man !!!!

Posted by: tomdavie | May 5, 2008, 3:45 am 3:45 am

Lol!!!Common sense and logic goes a long ways Hillary supporters. It’s very widely known that Obama has been able to bring people of all races,age and gender into his campaign. You’ve been duped into thinking that Obama can’t bring in working-class folks or the elderly for that matter. Believe what you want since you only choose to listen to soundbites with a close-minded bias to begin with. Like I said, you people are hopeless.

Posted by: mandm | May 5, 2008, 8:53 am 8:53 am

I pray Hillary will stop lying to the misguided voters of NC and IN. Not one economist nor environmentalist supports her so called “gas tax holiday”. Furthermore, she would have to have the support of Congress and Pres. Bush to get it passed. That’s not going to happen! It’s a tall tale just like her Bosnia sniper fire story.

Posted by: OneAmerica | May 5, 2008, 9:15 am 9:15 am

The won’t have enough delegates to over throw him, Bubba should take his bulb nose home

Posted by: Tia | May 5, 2008, 9:17 am 9:17 am

What is wrong with you people? Stop the mudslinging and just vote for the candidate you choose. This is the Democratic primary and a viable race for the presidency. Stay above the fray and join together at the general election and vote for the Democratic nominee. It’s okay to favor one candidate over the other but don’t try to destroy one candidate at the other one’s expense because you are just giving the Republicans the upper hand.

Posted by: Margie | May 5, 2008, 9:19 am 9:19 am

these comments are truly disturbing. these are the types who make up your audience abc/clinton. aren’t you proud?

Posted by: b ryan | May 5, 2008, 9:24 am 9:24 am

This thing is pretty much over.
Maybe not in Indiana, maybe not in PA or Ohio, but nonetheless…Obama has it won.
The DNC decided that the winner would be he who has received the most delagates. Now, a lot of folks (especially Clinton supporters) are analyzing the results of every Primary according to who wins the majority. According to the DNC rules, that doesn’t really matter. I can understand why you think it should, BUT…again It doesn’t matter.
To all you Clinton Supporters who believe Clinton still can win, and those who don’t but can’t bring themselves to see reality….RELAX…we’ll get through this. Realize the majority can support someone who doesn’t happen to be YOUR candidate.
And please…PLEASE….don’t act like “Chicken Little” crying that “The sky is falling”….RELAX…Obama will take out McCain in the Fall. With you, or without you.

Posted by: YardoKnowsBest | May 5, 2008, 9:25 am 9:25 am

Bill how ’bout giving prayers to the people who really need it like fallen soldiers and their families, the Katrina victims and the people who are dealing with the cyclone in Myanmar? Now those are people who deserve prays, not a rich narcissist like Hillary.

Posted by: KQuark | May 5, 2008, 9:25 am 9:25 am

Sunday Hillary defended her “obliterate Iran” comment on ABC’s Sunday morning program “This Week”. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Obliterate Iran!! Talk about saber rattling…wow. Sounds like Hillary is pandering to the Israeli lobby for votes because the issue has no practical significance for US policy. Israel has enough nuclear weapons to “obliterate” Iran themselves if they so chose. We need need to pray that we have a president who talks about negotiating not one who thinks in terms of obliterating.
A presidential candidate who lightly commits to obliterating Iran – and, thus, all the children, parents, and grandparents in Iran — should NOT get our vote. Obama is the one who has the integrity, judgment and vision to run this country and to repair our world image.

Posted by: Kristin | May 5, 2008, 9:27 am 9:27 am

Some people, on here, of course are rude! I applaud Bill Clinton for asking people to pray…..the Democrats have virtually killed their hopes of regaining the White House in the fall….however, we do need to pray for America…..this world is changing quickly and we need God’s love to spread over us.

Posted by: david from texas | May 5, 2008, 9:31 am 9:31 am

Would somebody who thinks the clintons’ represent the working class…ask Bill how much he paid for that suit he’s wearing in the photo…I’d say $700-$1000 bucks.

Posted by: anghiari | May 5, 2008, 9:34 am 9:34 am

Someone asked why people here hate Hillary.
Because I was ALIVE during the Clinton administration. These people are corrupt. If I were to list on paper how many people close to them or in their administration have been convicted of crimes or, when they were going to testify, turned up to have committed “suicide”, I’d waste a whole ream of paper!
The people who are anti-Hillary KNOW what she is about. We lived through her. We watched as she systematically ripped apart the women who stepped forward against her husband, women who’d been taken advantage of – one even raped (oh, and by the way, she’s DEAD now) – and Hillary sliced them to ribbons and ruined theri lives.
And guess what? Turns out Bill was the one at fault the entire time. Did she apologize to those women? NO.
When Bill left, he gave pardons to all kinds of criminals and felons, and it was Hillary’s brothers who were getting paid to lobby for the release of these men! Why won’t you people wake up and do your research?
Even now she is in court to testify in something that is going to bring her DOWN, but guess what? The judge – a Clinton appointee – has scheduled her testimony AFTER the November election!
If you want to vote for Hillary blindly, without studying her background for yourself, then fine. Go right ahead. But don’t accuse us anti-Hillary people of not knowing what we’re talking about. Some of us were alive long enough to know what the Clintons are capable of, and just how little they actually care about people like me and you.
As Hillary likes to put it:
“Rich people, god bless us.”

Posted by: Misty S. | May 5, 2008, 9:35 am 9:35 am

we will pray Bill that she comes to her senses and GETS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Nando, Florida | May 5, 2008, 9:50 am 9:50 am

I pray that should she steal this election & then somehow overcome all odds & become our next president, that she will:
-not obliterate a nation of people.
-not lie in order to manipulate opinion
(duck! sniper fire!)
-not give the NRA carte blanche, so we can have more Columbines & Virginia Techs.
-not do favors for all of those special interests groups who donated more to her campaign than all other candidates combined.
There’s much more, but time is short…
I pray that Obama is not too good for our country. I pray he can make us proud again, and strong again, & allow us to believe the words that come from our president.

Posted by: Alise | May 5, 2008, 9:58 am 9:58 am

A gas tax holiday means a loss of jobs in the construction sector. IN and NC will loose more than 12 thousand jobs combined. So which is more important to you? putting thousands of people out of work just for a half gallon of gas in 3 month. Or create more jobs for the struggling economy espically building our roads and bridges.

Posted by: tad | May 5, 2008, 10:01 am 10:01 am

We hate Hillary because she’s a lying pandering neocon who really doesnt give a damn about you, no matter what she says. (Ask the people in NY state that she promised the moon to and did nothing for.)
She’s also playing to your latent racism. Shame on you.

Posted by: Gemma | May 5, 2008, 10:02 am 10:02 am

Pray for 100+million dollar Hillary? You think God is listening to that plea?
Sad state of affairs.

Posted by: DonaldD | May 5, 2008, 10:04 am 10:04 am

Thanks, Mercer Tate!!!!!!!!!!!! I just learned of the case last week and am AMAZED at how the media refuses to raise it. There is NO way her poll numbers would be improving if the public knew this info.
By the way, no one also discusses that Bill Clinton pardoned two former Weather Undergrounds members just before he left Office! They may want to steer away from Ayers because once again the Clintons appear as hypocrites!

Posted by: Henry | May 5, 2008, 10:08 am 10:08 am

I ama woman and I am disgusted by the Clinton campaign. She has lied about Bosnia, ( 4 times it was no mistake) cheated wiith the Michigan Florida primaries encouraged drinking and now gambling at the Derby. I am a Christian and I do not want Clinton…16 years of the Bushes already 8 years of the CLintons lies…it is time for someone new. Please. The Clintons do not care about us, the Democratic party…or Senator Obama. Wright is not running for president. Are all Cathlics that go to church pedifiles…I could not care less about Wright Hilary doe snot even go to church and her old minister said to lay off the Wright issue..

Posted by: ck | May 5, 2008, 10:09 am 10:09 am

Come on guys, Obama will be the nominee. Numbers doesn’t add up for her, unless the superdelegates overturn the will of the people. She will say/do anything to win the nomination.

Posted by: Zamoyoni | May 5, 2008, 10:17 am 10:17 am

Bill is such a manipulating SOB.I cannot believe the level that the Clintons sink to, in order to get what they want. He is WORSE than Rev Wright! Why? Because Bill C is using God to support his devious agenda. At least Wright was out in the open about his narcissism.

Posted by: catherine s | May 5, 2008, 10:17 am 10:17 am

my sister goes to that church. she prayed priately with bill. she left with a bad taste in her mouth. bill told her not to tell his wife. don

Posted by: don d | May 5, 2008, 10:20 am 10:20 am

May I pray for you, too, President Clinton?
May I think of you as the 2d biggest liar after your beloved?
May I say that Clinton ethics suck?
Either of you in the White House again makes me sick.
Hillary should withdraw. She needs some TLC from you, if you service women that age.
And may you both savor the flavor of defeat by taking a sip from the vessel of urogenital waste.

Posted by: sandra goode | May 5, 2008, 10:21 am 10:21 am

The people who wont vote for Obama WHEN he becomes the nominee are not Democrats. Thy probably all voted for GWB.
Which explains why they support HRC. She’s Bush-lite.
As a woman I am disgusted by the way she has managed her campaign.
Those of you who vote for HRC because you think she’s stronger against McCain in a General Election, think again. Hillary is a Republican. If she wins the Dem nomination, either way, a Republican wins in November.
Explain why she is INSISTING on supporting McCain’s gas tax holiday against ALL advice from economists. She hasnt been able to find one economist to support the gas tax.
Do you know that it will mean 7000 job losses in Indiana alone and 300 000 nationwide?
She’s a liar. She is playing to your weaknesses. She doesnt give a damn about you.
You might as well just register as a Republican because McCain never even PRETENDED to give a damn about you and neither did GWB.

Posted by: Gemma | May 5, 2008, 10:28 am 10:28 am

Oh, for god’s sake. What a smarmy political move. It’s far more insulting to ‘lunch-pail’ democrats for Bill to talk to them this way, making a caricature of the very people Hillary’s depending on to skate through in IN and NC. The media does it, too — calling them blue-collar, lunch-pail, working-class whites, poor and uneducated voters. Why aren’t they insulted? Why doesn’t anyone in Clinton’s ‘base’ realise that they’re being talked down to far worse than Obama ever could? Why does he have to pay for deigning to speak to voters as if they’re adults?
…Aren’t we adults?

Posted by: Heather | May 5, 2008, 10:43 am 10:43 am

I don’t personally know the Clintons so I cannot hate them but I hate what they do in order to win. the broken campaign promises are what bothers me the most and when MRS Clinton promised, my former hometown, Niagara Falls, NY jobs and didn’t deliver it was problematic to the area. Niagara falls which houses one of the world’s wonders is in danger of losing its status as a city and with that loss a reduction in federal grants. When confronted about this broken promise she defended herself with:’ I thought Al Gore would be president’ though no qualifier was made at the time. But why not a plan ‘B’ should Al Gore lose the election? this lack of planning is what has hurt her in the primary for when she didn’t lock up the nomination by Super Tuesday, she had no plan ‘B’ and faltered. So the candidate with more advantages than any in our history is now trailing a tyro. Her inability to take personal responsibility for the debacle her campaign became is evidenced by the change of staff and the blame game. she should have been paying attention and should she become president will she not monitor the cabinet? and billing herself as the solutions candidate; why did she not work her magic in western NY? Do we need to elect her president before she shares any of these problem solving techniques with us. She spent eight years in the senate (as long as a two term president) and accomplished little. just visit the state to see what poverty has wrought. Why would anyone believe she will do better as president especially with a hostile/divided congress?

Posted by: james d granata | May 5, 2008, 10:46 am 10:46 am

After hearing Obama’s church wanting God to d— America, it’s sooo wonderful to hear Bill asking us to pray for his wife. Hillary and Bill have a very deep relationship that is one we would all benefit and learn from. Hillary followed her conscience with Bill and I think he has supported her also. Good job, Bill.

Posted by: mary | May 5, 2008, 10:59 am 10:59 am

Those of you who refuse or are unable to believe or understand that America stands at a crossroads need to wake up. The Bush/Clinton/Bush/Clinton White House strategy isn’t going to cut it. We are tired of the old ways, the same grievances, the tired status quo. The way America’s image has taken a beating internationally because of the cowboy politics. Some of us need a breath of fresh air. I have decided not to support the Clinton campaign because the unscrupulousness with which they are pursuing this campaign is downright scary. There is much to read into those delegates, former Clinton supporters for decades, some who were their personal friends, but who have walked away. What do they know that you don’t? America needs to redefine its image in this 21st century, instead of being cast in the same old mold.

Posted by: kadene | May 5, 2008, 11:15 am 11:15 am

Staniam, you definitely sum up what type of voter supports Hillary Clinton. Good work! Seems the media is right about that one aspect.

Posted by: Larry | May 5, 2008, 11:17 am 11:17 am

The idea of politicians praying is phoney at best. How often do these characters go to church – how often do they perform the Beatitudes – how often do they help their fellow church members. Is either Clinton a church-goer? How regularly does Obamma got to Church. Did he really know his pastor before the election when he needed the endorsement of his church? And as for McShame, he will suck up to anyone who can bring him a vote – religious or not.
Has anyone noticed how politicans go to church only during campaigns, and discuss their religiosity only when asked in a campaign? Yes, I know. As a pastor for many years the only times I ever saw politicians was during their campaigns.

Posted by: Joe | May 5, 2008, 11:17 am 11:17 am

Read and think about this.
I think Hillary have set her self up for the trashiest campaign (versus McCain) in history if she would be the nominee. Obama’s campaign is not really going after her in a way they easily could do and the reps certainly will do (Super delegates understand this).
So if you think that Rev. Wright is trouble, think how it will be when we are about to revisit every little controversy involving the Bill Clinton years (here you can bank on guilt by association will be fully legitimate by the reps).
I think people have not yet an understanding of the magnitude of the fire storm that is about to hit us.

Posted by: Ted | May 5, 2008, 11:26 am 11:26 am

I agree with you, Steve. It’s disturbing how much hate some of these people have in their hearts – especially the Clinton supporters – who aren’t even bothered to profess that they are actually praying for Obama not to win the white house! Shame on Bill Clinton too for condescending and asking these small town folks to pray for his wife instead of urging them to pray for the troops overseas, for the people who are in need and suffering from our economic downfall.

Posted by: Jo | May 5, 2008, 11:42 am 11:42 am

Look people. This is an incredible historic moment within the democratic party. It is a battle between establishment and idealist. Hillary knows the tactics that she has to use to win–establishment tactics. And those tactics incorporate lying, fear mongering, race cards, you name it. Look at her campaign. She is running it like a neocon (look at her millions in tax returns to confirm that). Who wants a leader who boldly lies to the American people, has lost multiple campaign managers and political advisers, proposes republican actions such as war and big tax cuts? Hillary isn’t going to do anything new with the country. Personally, if people still see her as a great candidate, maybe things need to get worse here in America so show what a load of crap she is. Good luck with that kids.

Posted by: Seth | May 5, 2008, 11:48 am 11:48 am

“…we are being called upon to return to our true purpose”. Anyone else, besides me, concerned about this statement? Is the “we” and “true purpose” suppose to be understood that this is “their” (Bill and Hillary’s) calling? As I understand the need to “pray for those who rule over us”, I cannot, in good conscience, pray for anyone who is so distortedly out of God’s will, as these two appear to be. I seem to recall a husband and wife team that wanted the same kind of support, but who were met by a relatively unknown individual on Mt Carmel. For all of the praying done, on that day, the result was the destruction of all that they believe, and hoped, in. All that is left for these two is the cutting and bleeding of themselves. I cannot pray for the obvious conclusion.

Posted by: Marc | May 5, 2008, 11:52 am 11:52 am

“speaking more from his heart than any sort of political handbook”.
Well, you can fool some of the people all…

Posted by: John Talbutt | May 5, 2008, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm

“speaking more from his heart than any sort of political handbook”.
Well, you can fool some of the people all…

Posted by: John Talbutt | May 5, 2008, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm

John…I truly don’t believe Americans are racist, which explains Obama’s meteoric rise in Feb, when no one knew enough about him. Everyone was eager to give the guy a pass. I knew he was inexperienced and tainted with all the wrong associations and not AMERICAN enough for me. His skin could be purple. Truly it’s not just racism. I would vote for Powell or Condi, they have earned their credibility. But the POTUS needs to be put under a microscope and BO has flees. Let him go back to the Senate and finish out his first term….they need more “present” votes….fence sitter that he is.

Posted by: Emma | May 5, 2008, 12:18 pm 12:18 pm

Bill Clinton knows that in a few years, whether his wife is President or not, that we all will have long since forgotten what a stomach-churningly, mind-bogglingly, painfully-obviously distorter of truth, agent of division, and all round bag of shame and disgrace he is/has been, and he will STILL go down in history with his “legacy” in tact.
Remember, he was impeached, yet all around the MSM and blogoshphere we hear about how his campaigning for his wife will ruin his legacy? no. if an impeached president has an intact and golden legacy, no comment about Jesse Jackson or finger pointing or irate answer can impugn it.

Posted by: Aaron Heuer | May 5, 2008, 12:22 pm 12:22 pm

So do these churches know they could lose their tax exempt status if it is deemed they were trying to influence the congregation on how to vote? I wonder how much the Clintons “donated” to these churches? Just a question for all the Hillary supporters who say she is going to help out the middle to lower income people. Has her campaign payed all the small businesses that she owes money to?

Posted by: southerndem | May 5, 2008, 12:26 pm 12:26 pm

What a sleeze-bag. He makes Karl rove look like a Sunday-school teacher!

Posted by: A Fields | May 5, 2008, 12:38 pm 12:38 pm

“Clinton even spoke about how Barbara Streisand was inspired to record her first spirtual album after listening to a Pentacostal singer who performed at Clinton’s mother’s funeral.”
Barbara Freakin’ Streisand? You gotta be kidding me. Please everyone join me in prayer that the Clintons GO HOME! And home is not the White House!

Posted by: Rob | May 5, 2008, 12:44 pm 12:44 pm

Shundee
I agree with you. This woman is a loose cannon and will go to any length to steal the nomination. I also read this morning that she is trying to fool the African American community by coming out to defend and investigate the Sean Bell murder. I also read that Bill is stumping in small rural areas and telling Whites not to vote for the Black guy. They are desperate, hitting 71 venues. I pray to God she losees big time and will then disappear from the scene.

Posted by: Shundee | May 5, 2008, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm

Funny to read some of these comments, I guess some people don’t remember Bill Clinto had no experience except that of Governor of Arkansas, but he was given a chance. He ran on the rhetoric of Hope, he told people not to stop thinking about tomorrow. The American people gave him a chance. Funny now Obama shouldn’t be given a chance, is it because of the color of his skin. Nobody has anything too say about McCain and Hagee, and the Clintons had Dr Wright come over to counsel them when the Monica Lewinskey scandal broke. Funny the American people are generous only when it comes to certain people.

Posted by: Voice of reason | May 5, 2008, 12:48 pm 12:48 pm

I really admire Bill and Hillary. They are tenacious and hard working. Hillary works tiredless in this race and will work like this for American people as a president. To change, we need to work hard.
Obama has had a lot free rides. He does not work that hard and he does not deserve to be nominated. He’s not strong enough to confront repulicans.

Posted by: As | May 5, 2008, 12:52 pm 12:52 pm

At this point they need to pray. They are not going to get the intervention from the super delegates and their only remaining hope is an intervention from God. I did say a little prayer for HRC but it didn’t involve a victory for her.

Posted by: Jim B | May 5, 2008, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm

All Hillary has left is prayer. He so pathetic!!

Posted by: yoli | May 5, 2008, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm

Sen. Obama will make a great president. I am very proud of the way he has run his campaign. He’s intelligent, thoughtful and has the vision to lead our country through difficult times.

Posted by: Carol White | May 5, 2008, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm

Every day I pray that God will grant Hillary the serenity to accept the math she cannot change, the courage to change her negative tone, and the wisdom to get out and go back to New York for good.
Amen.

Posted by: Keith | May 5, 2008, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm

Obama is going to get the vote regardless… those who have already decided will not turn away. Now we know for sure that he is gaining Independents and Republicans and first time voters in larger numbers compared to HRC. Those who are undecided got to be really dumb, what’s taking them forever to decide? If they haven’t up until now then that doesn’t say much about them.
The Hill-Billy saga is crashing down and they see it – they are desperate and will stoop lower than they have already done.
During the Clinton reign so to speak, he didn’t do it alone, he had people behind him, advising him – where are those people today? Why did they desert him? Ask yourselves that question – one thing is certain a large percentage of those same folks are in the Obama camp. Go figure what that means.
OBAMA IS ALREADY ON HIS WAY AND WE RESPECT, LOVE AND APPRECIATE THE DECENT MAN AND INDIVIDUAL THAT HE IS.. HE WILL DO AMERICA PROUD.. WATCH AND WAIT AND SEE.

Posted by: Audrey | May 5, 2008, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm

How stupid and low of him to play the religion card to get votes!!!!
It’s laughable to put it mildly, and disturbing as hell… if she steals this nomination I ain’t voting for her, no sir!

Posted by: maria | May 5, 2008, 2:04 pm 2:04 pm

It is scary in this day and age that we are allowing yet another “dynasty” to rule the white house. Hill has double talked her way to the white house via her husbands dirty coat tail. It saddens me that she can get away with her “gas tax” ploy that won’t even give us a break (gas companies will have yet another reason to raise the price of gas)….the Clintons are good at the game, that’s why so many of you are fooled by lies. Our morals are out the window if we let this duo in again!

Posted by: tj.matthews | May 5, 2008, 2:06 pm 2:06 pm

What a crock.

Posted by: dano | May 5, 2008, 2:08 pm 2:08 pm

The US is going done a very dagerous road mixing religion and politics. Imagine political pundits now vetting pastors and the media assisting. Poliyicians are no better because unfortunately they pander for votes at any cost. I for one wish somebody would have the nerve to say my religious beliefs are between me and my christian god everyone else mind your own salvation.
The republican right wingers are taking the country towards extreme fundamentalism christianity similar to many muslim countries.

Posted by: mal | May 5, 2008, 2:27 pm 2:27 pm

what about an Obama/Edward on one side an a McCain/Clinton on the other side.

Posted by: goDem | May 5, 2008, 2:29 pm 2:29 pm

goDem:
McCain has too much class to run with
Hillary!

Posted by: reaganfan | May 5, 2008, 2:32 pm 2:32 pm

Yesterday Hilary stated on that show with George Stefanapoulous that she agreed to not participate in the Michigan & Florida primaries, she did not agree to not counting the results…
Wow , talk abut say what you mean and mean what you say, this is something the Clintons know nothing about…
“It depends on what the meaning of is is ” classic

Posted by: teddy | May 5, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm

At this point I don’t care who gets in the White House as long as it is not a Republican.
I am an African American and I support Barack Obama, but I am a die hard Democrat and will vote for which ever nominee is selected to run for President.
This is difficult for me because I remember owning a bumper sticker with Hillary and Tipper Gore as President and Vice President of the United State!!
When Sen. Obama announced his candidacy I was leary only because I didn’t know much about him. I had listened to his DNC speech and was inspired by him and hoped that he would one day seek higher political office. I thought he would make a great Vice President and could learn the game at the feet of the masters. If anyone knows the game, it is the Clintons.
I did as much research as I could by reading his books and checking his voting record in the Senate. With the exception of the war, he and Hillary seem devoted to the same things: Making America strong, safe and helping us to regain our much respected position in this world. I think Sen Obama can do that for us.
We are in more trouble that any of us can imagine so I want someone to fight for us. I want peace and I want us to stop fight amongst ourselves and ban together for the common cause listed above. This is making me sick!!!
Like most Americans who have not lived under a rock, I am afraid, not because of the scare tactics and rhetoric of politics, but because of 9/11 itself. I call it the “International Bitch Slap”. I will never forget that day and neither should any of you!!! Not one person killed or maimed that day was related to me but I cried like a baby not for myself, but for all of us.
So before we continue this fiasco, check our reflection in the mirror and imagine what we look like to the rest of the world.
Democrats unite!!! We need this one and America needs this one.

Posted by: Mad about you | May 5, 2008, 2:53 pm 2:53 pm

Women…let’s be honest. If we took a poll right now about 98% of you would say you rather have a man as your boss then a woman. Why is that? Can someone please answer that question? Think about it if you PERSONALLY have a problem with reporting to a woman at your daily job…why would you then want to vote for a woman as president simply because you are a woman? The logic makes no sense. You are not getting the upper hand by voting female vs. male. You are actually hurting yourselves and once again confirming that women are illogical creatures by basing your vote on an emotion and rather than using logic like a man. You are actually feeding into the very stereotypical ideology that Clinton supposedly is against – pathetic.

Posted by: Tyra | May 5, 2008, 3:26 pm 3:26 pm

The more the Clintons talk(?), the more I become afraid that I will ONLY vote Obama – or I don’t vote.
As a lifelong liberal and democrat (they are NOT the same), I have only voted a few times for the person I truley wanted, and yes Bill was one of them. No More. I am tired of voting for the 2nd best – for someone I did not want from the git-go, I will not do that this time. YES the stakes are high, higher than at any other time, that’s what troubles me, but I have to do this. I vote Obama or I do Not vote (for President).
I beleive Hillary and McCain are wrong and bad for this country. Hillary is why people say there is no difference between the parties. A month ago, I would have supported her, now I can not stand her. Thanks Hillary.

Posted by: BD Jensen | May 5, 2008, 3:32 pm 3:32 pm

Boy–Obama just can’t do right with some of you folks. First it was “he’s a closet Muslim!! He’s Osama Bin Laden’s secret love child.” And then it turns out that he’s a Christian who has been attending the same church for twenty years. But then–oh–his pastor has said some very controversial stuff! Twenty years of preaching, from a former Marine no less–gets boiled down into two or three ten-second sound-bites and now hey–Obama is responsible for everything his minister has ever said. And now Joe is sitting here wondering whether Obama really WENT to church enough or whether he was just pretending to go for his campaign’s sake! I mean…sheesh! Give the guy a freakin’ break. It amazes me how many people seem to be suckered by this ridiculous kind of pandering from Bill Clinton and the aw-shucks “those elitist economists just don’t get my gas tax plan” from Hillary–this from a woman who’s worth tens of millions of dollars, whose daughter Chelsea works for a hedge fund and makes $125K a year…but suddenly it’s Barack Obama and his ilk who are the “elitists?” Huh?? Ugh–the whole thing is disgusting.

Posted by: Sarah | May 5, 2008, 3:33 pm 3:33 pm

Bill and Hillary are great. Still, I oppose to leading campaigns in temples…

Posted by: malachi | May 5, 2008, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm

We are praying for you everyday, Hilliary. Don’t give up on us.

Posted by: gee | May 5, 2008, 4:19 pm 4:19 pm

Let’s keep talking about Rev. Wright. When this is all over the only people that will have jobs and a steady LARGE income will be the Clintons, the Obama’s and Rev. Wright. While US troops keep dying for nothing, health care becomes an even funnier joke and middle class parents have to compete with their kids for jobs at WAL-MART, we’ll all be saying “Wheeew, I’m sure glad we dodged that Barack Hussein, G–Damn America bullet”. And won’t it be proud day?

Posted by: T. Williams | May 5, 2008, 4:31 pm 4:31 pm

I would have loved to have a woman president, but not the woman running now. She embodies nothing that I desire in a president or woman.The pandering is beyond the pale. She can do nothing this summer to ease gas prices and to pretend that she can is an outright lie. She whines over dirty tactics but lives by an even dirtier sword.She speaks of elitism and then has to admit she has not paid for nor pumped gas in years. She was not honest about NAFTA, not honest about health carde She carries trememdous dirty baggage not yet rummaged through. She will once again have to expalin Web Hubbel. Her years as an attorney and her poor showings there will surface.I can just hear the republicans saying she voted on the war just like McCain. Clintons will get us more of what we have now.Drag out the old movie Primary Colors and take a walk down memory lane.

Posted by: soldiers mom | May 5, 2008, 4:31 pm 4:31 pm

I’m praying for her too.
I just don’t want her to be my president.

Posted by: TrueBlueMajority | May 5, 2008, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm

Obama has been endorsed today by 3 superdelegates in Chicago, IL, and 3 more in Maryland…tick tock, tick tock…

Posted by: Tyra | May 5, 2008, 4:34 pm 4:34 pm

NeedEducation:
Your message was fine until you suggest “when John McCain gets elected…”
Where did you get that idea?
Join McCain is not guaranteed to win in 2008…..

Posted by: Words of Wisdom | May 5, 2008, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm

As I stated before Obama is just another politican – he finally spoke against Wright not because of what he
said..after all he justified what Wright had said weeks before…the real difference is Wright call out Obama
stating Obama is a typical poltician who will sau anything to get elected. That in itself forced Obama to speak out
against Wright…Wright’s words did not change the same type of talk was mentioned previously…after all Obama said Wright was like a uncle he could not abandoned…weeks later Obama denounces Wright…Wright who knows Obama called him out for what he really is a typical Politician who will say ANYTHING to get elected …his followers refuse to see the truth…OBAMA is a politican filled with lies but the worst kind since people do not see the lies as with other politicans and do not see the real danger in that…

Posted by: sls | May 5, 2008, 4:50 pm 4:50 pm

Hillary and Bill do need many prayers because they are both very immoral persons. They are especially setting such a bad example for our children, teaching our young citizens that lying and deception are good winning strategies in America. Please vote for the honest person of good character in this race, Mr. Obama.

Posted by: jim | May 5, 2008, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm

Relax Obama supporters,
It’s fact, (see Gallup) that a majority of Clinton fans have a GED equivalent education which is why they base their decision making to what other people on TV tell them and not on their own reasoning. The uneducated will come out the loser, that’s why they are in the situation to begin with. The smartest will always govern the uneducated. Super D’s know who the next Democrat nominee is, because they got past the high school mentality that is apparent in the pro Clinton posts here. Obama has never spoken the words his pastor has used. Obama never voted for Iraq. Obama called the gas holiday for what it is. Obama is a Christian and has continued to speak of unity and support for all. There is only one candidate that has not been purchased by corporate America and they will do anything to keep him from you. It’s up to you to stop the corporate selling of our great country.
Please try to see the attacks against Obama for what they are and ask yourself what exactly the machine is trying to sell me. They don’t want an educated population because we see though their empty rhetoric. A trillion dollars will be spent in Iraq, but my state has cut the education budget while are national treasure is squandered. Don’t be affraid of the unknown. Terrorist will not be crawling in the streets of Your Town USA if we bring our troops home. Our country needs all of us to address the needs here at home not the interests of weapons contractors and oil companies.
Please take your country back from them.
I will pray for you.
Obama ‘08

Posted by: coolhand | May 5, 2008, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm

God bless Hillary. Give her the strength she needs for this troubled time. Grant her the steely knowledge of how to bridge all the racial, sexual, age differences that this primary election has aggravated. Give us all the grace to come together under Hillary’s leadership. Amen.

Posted by: Kathy | May 5, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm

For those who say Hillary is not the type of President you would elect..all the nominees are politicans filled with lies and half truths…men have run this country and others and I see the same thing ..war and corruption…woman have in general made a difference in the work place over the years,,forcing change that have benefitted everyone from family oriented policies to better perks for a person’s sanity…I see a strong person who shows determination, who is a fighter (doesn’t USA need a fighter), an intelligent leader, a person with experience (yes the task Hillary performed while in the White House does count as experience – her roles was not a typical first lady like Laura Bush’s) Why hate a person who is capable and intelligent – a doer not a follower..yes I think I would like that kind of leader…Obama is the type that can not do unless instructed and if you examine his background not only sits on the fence too much but was pushed by someone else – he had a king maker his doing was not his but others..so what if the Clinton are millionaries what ex- persident is not …

Posted by: sls | May 5, 2008, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm

Does anyone else see a problem with these words of Bill Clinton’s? : “Do whatever you think is right. But don’t sit this out, because we are being called upon to return to our true purpose.”
This sounds just like The Fellowship, the group Hillary Clinton belongs to…which believes that God intended for the ‘elite’ to rule the Nation. Isn’t Hillary, by nature of her association with this group, part of that ‘elite’? There is a book due out this month on this scary sect….

Posted by: NanD | May 5, 2008, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm

Come on now, the issue is real simple if Hillary gets into office, we will be putting up with billy boy for a third term. Do we really want that???

Posted by: waralan | May 5, 2008, 6:03 pm 6:03 pm

Go Hillary!!!
Question to those who still believe Obama’s message that he has worked all his life to bring people together — last time I checked, the UNITED States consisted of 50 states, not 48. But he does not seem eager to include the voters of Michigan and Florida, hmmm.

Posted by: Ashley | May 5, 2008, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm

I’ll pray for Senator Clinton: I pray that Senator Clinton and her husband and daughter simply GO AWAY. For good this time.

Posted by: Rob | May 5, 2008, 6:49 pm 6:49 pm

sen.Obama will Make a great President.He’s intelligent;very smart’handsome and he is right President for U.S.A I will Pray for you Obama 08

Posted by: mehari Ahferom | May 5, 2008, 9:49 pm 9:49 pm

It was Bill’s fault that George Bush made it to the White House in the first place. Please, leave the “desperate housewives” and “days of lives” on the tube, not the White House!
Hillary thought that only the states holding primaries up to Super Tuesday were the only ones that matter! Obama was prepared to campaign in all the allowed democratic party states.
If Hillary was not ready on day one of the primaries, how can she be ready for the general election, and day one of the Presidency?

Posted by: Money Jones | May 5, 2008, 9:57 pm 9:57 pm

I pray that Bill Clinton and his
Lying wife don’t get within ten
feet of the White House again!
Go Home!

Posted by: reaganfan | May 5, 2008, 11:53 pm 11:53 pm

What ever happened to “separation of
church and state”?
Does that only apply to Republicans?

Posted by: reaganfan | May 5, 2008, 11:54 pm 11:54 pm

I’m praying for you Ms Clinton.

Posted by: KURT | May 6, 2008, 8:14 am 8:14 am

It would seem every has lost his/her sense. A vote for Hillary would mean another vote to put billy boy clinton back into office. May God forbid.

Posted by: waralan | May 6, 2008, 1:59 pm 1:59 pm

As a current law student, please let me explain a common misunderstanding. Seperation of church & state is sadly misinterpreted. It means that the government will not dictate what religion the country will follow, as is done in other countries. Doing so would interfere with our constitutional rights. Other countries are dictated how and what they will believe and do. That’s one of the reasons why we seperated from England. It does not mean that religion & prayer must stay out of politics; henceforth, there is prayer before every senate and congressional house meeting, and about 95% of all our presidents and their families have attended weekly religious services throughout there terms in office.
Now, as a proud Pentecostal woman, let me say that NO prayer is more important than another prayer, and no prayer should be at the top of your list or at the bottom. To say that the people should pray more for the homeless and more for our soilders, and to say don’t waste your prayers on the upcoming candidates – is an oxymoron movement. The ONLY wasted prayer, is the prayer that you never spoke. Don’t undermind what God can and will do when asked sincerly from your heart.
To pray for a better nation, and a better run country, you better bet we need to pray for the candidates in the upcoming election first! We better pray the Lord Almighty places the right people in positions under the President that steps into office, because they will be the ones to influence the Presidents decisions. So YES! Pray for all 3 candidates. Pray that they feel God, and that they will allow God to guide them.
I still don’t know who i’m voting for. But know that i’m praying about the election, and that i do plan to vote.
Please know that this is not a common place for me to be posting. This was sent to me in an email. The vultures can pick it apart and snarl at it, it wont hurt me, because i won’t be checking back to see. But, for the others, i hope that you pause for just a moment and say Lord help this country and keep Your hand in the election.

Posted by: MT in Florida | May 8, 2008, 8:20 am 8:20 am

Amen MT! Well said my educated sister!EVERYONE including the unimformed here need our prayers! Just a side note for the record—- to whoever referred to Aheville, NC as “rural” —–geography lesson —–not so! Asheville ia very progressive, cultural, urban city that just happens to be in the south. The majority of transplanted residents there are former south Floridians!

Posted by: Apostolic Mom | May 8, 2008, 9:09 am 9:09 am

Do we really want another 4 years of Billy Bob? I hope not.
While McCain is somewhat of a crorny to Bush, at least he is not married to him.

Posted by: waralan | May 8, 2008, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm

Mr. Clinton asked us to pray for his wife which is good. I have a feeling that Hillary is ill and she is going to continue the grueling campaign set ahead for her regardless of her health.
Most of you seem to forget that Bill Clinton ballanced our countries budget and things were going well. He made some huge mistakes when it came to his personal life but so did Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. There are skelltons in most of their closets.
When Bush came in all hell broke loose. He should have been impeached and the Senate and Congress sat around and did nothing to stop Bush from helping out with the New World Order. Whether we like it or not, the borders won’t be closed because Bush made sure of that.
Obama worries me. He has no experience in politics plus he says a lot about
NOTHING.

Posted by: Carol | May 12, 2008, 5:23 pm 5:23 pm

Really no matter if someone doesn’t understand then its up to other users that they will help, so here it happens.

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