Has the General Election Begun?

It’s over. Obama will be the next President.

What choice does Obama have other than to respond to McCain’s nasty and highly personal attacks? Should he just ignore them and pretend there is still a contest with Hillary out of politeness?

NO………….It is over for BO.
He is not electable, he has lost the GE for the DEM’S. It is their own fault.
It is not nice to dis the voters!

I know it’s old and tired, but I will vote for experience over non-experience. I will vote for HIllary. If she not there in November, I won;t be either.

i cannot get an obama supporter to give me some idea or what they think the obama people are thinking,
obama supporters,
Why do you think obama and his campaign advisors keept saying
sen. clinton said she would campaign her heart out for obama.
why do the obama people want sen. clinton to campaign for him?
obama and his people keep saying it.

It’s true that all the talking heads in the MSM have declared it over, and if it isn’t it damn well should be. The fact is, it ain’t over til it’s over. There are more voters waiting for their turn at the booth, and in the meantime, no one has the magic number of all-important delegates yet. Obama is doing what politicians do….he’s spinning, talking, dancing…trying to say something relevant each time he opens his mouth. I am neutral with him, no love or dislike from me. I am unmoved by him….talking suit like the others.

dkny,
i am not looking forward to, and will not watch a mccain/obama debate.
can you imagine-obama huh,huh,humin and hawin, and stumbling over him self.
and mccain blinking and turning like a little robot. and we will learn nothing, except-”I cannot believe these one of these two guys will be the next president. and we will learn NOTHING from them.
they will be the most boring thing on tv to watch.
obama supporters give whatever excuse you want to give-the reason obama did not want to debate sen. clinton again is because he knows, she KNOWS the issues and how to solve them. and he only copies her. (remember, if she wants me to say denounce, i will denounce”)(remember, it is just like sen.clinton said)
obama and his camp seem to believe obama would be better with debating mccain. but you see, there is something to be said about mccain being around longer and having done this longer than obama has. i think mccain will fool obama and his camp. and after the first one, they may not be so eager to have more debates with mccain.

Yes.

Dear Get Real,
Hillary lost. She did not have a campaign strategy for the post February 5th states. It doesn’t matter what the polls say about her electibility, because she will not be running.
It’s like asking how would Chelsea Clinton would do against John McCain in West Virginia . . . it doesn’t really matter – just something to fill the time until someone else mispeaks.

Nobody’s Fool….
Really? You have to ask that? Have some more koolaid and take a nap.
HE LIED AGAIN!!! Where is the truth?

Clinton lost the nomination a long time ago and if the roles were reversed, Clinton would be campaigning for the GE too. I’m a life long Democrat and voted for Bill twice, but this election season showed what lying, manipulative, morally devoid the Clintons are. I used to defend them at every turn from right wing hacks, but now I’m starting to think there was a lot of truth in what they were saying. They truly make me sick.

BO has no class. This nominee is very controversed and he is already claiming himself nominee. Clinton had the complete lead in April 1992 but waited for the process to be completed and was nominated then in June 1992.
Doesn’t this say something about his character, his classless strategy : push it to discourage the voters of the remained primaries so they think the nomination is sealed ? He is a calculator . But that’s fine if you are a politician, but then he should’nt advertise himself as a fresh clean candidate new in the world of politics, a model for inspiration. Which of course he is not.

Never Obama said,
I will also crawl over broken glass to vote for McCain.
I surely hope Hillary does not end up on a ticket with Obama. I’m a Hillary supporter, but I cannot vote for Obama for any reason.
Evelyn Pringle and Professor Steve Diamond are working overtime to help get the message out there of the corruption that Obama is involved in and would bring to the White House. Obama’s corrupt cronies from Chicago and elsewhere would make Bush look good.
Here’s a tip for you, instead of bleeding from glass cuts, why not go to Iraq? You’ll end up there anyway when McCain starts drafting troops for Iraq.

Nobody’s Fool,
The date worked better for his story whe it was the wrong date. Calculating to say the least.

Get Real said,
Nobody’s Fool,
I think drinking too much of the Kool Aid has made you “Somebody’s Fool”.
I guess you’re talking from experience.

Will Hillary Clinton show as much class as Paul Tsongas?
While Bill Clinton did not effectively clinch the nomination until the June 2 primaries in 1992, he had held a commanding lead over his Democratic challenger Jerry Brown since his March 17 wins in Illinois and Michigan.
Clinton’s closest rival, Paul Tsongas, left the race two days after Clinton’s Midwest victories. Brown stayed in despite trailing Clinton by more than 800 delegates.
Shortly after, Democratic leaders had all but declared Bill Clinton their contender for the fall election. Clinton was so far ahead, that Paul Tully, the Democratic Party political director at the time, told The Associated Press in a March 19, 1992 article: “The fat lady is doing a sound check.”
Clinton was just 86 delegates short of the majority coming into the six-state primary finale in June that included California. He surpassed that amount to wrap up a nominating process that started with the Iowa caucus on Feb. 10.

It is a real luxury we all have to be “perpetually offended” by the slightest mistakes from the comfort of our homes and offices, casually deciding whether our fellow Americans live or die based on the most meanigless criteria available.
While the kool-aid jokes are funny, it is sadly true that many are deluding themselves by consuming the divisive nectar of misniformation and distraction.
It is sad to witness the the large number of Americans who feel that they are well within their rights to decide the Leader of the Free World based on what someone on TV said, what an anonymous blogger wrote on, or how the candidate looks.
The choice is yours to make, but such an awesome responsibility should not be taken so lightly.

snarkie pony
so if obama loses it is SEN.CLINTON’ fault?
obama and obama supporters have it all sewn up.
obama will lose in nov. as he should have lost in feb. after people got to know him. if we had known now what we know about obama now, he would be out of the race. what we know about obama only brings up more questions about him and show us just how little we know about him.
obama is good for show, he will be a good prop president, because his handlers will be the real power.
just as they are now.
sen.clinton is not trying to tear the dnc apart, i think she is trying to help it. because right thinking people know how the far left of the dem. party have tried to hijack it with the help of the msm. history will record it was right to let the democratic process play out all the way to the end. it will read better, than what the dnc wants to have happen.
it the media and dnc had their way.
people in the future reading about this, will see how democracy was derailed. not a good legacy.
should let the process play all the way out, and they unbiased biased superdel.
should let the process play all the way out too.

Beth:
Her husband which is her ticket to her senate seat and this race was elected with less experience. The experience he had was from the State of Arkansas where he learned to enact policies that turned our nation into a group of retail store clerks and chicken processors.

juli,
try to batten down the hatch,
obama only promises food stamps and welfare lines to help the poor.
no self empowerment.
and to the marine
yes the programs you are talking about is similar to what happened in the late sixties and early seventies,
and all they provided was more blight
and finally catching the managers of the programs caught with their hands in the cookie jar.
obama deal only helps his well connected people.
juli,
try to find out about your states write in laws, explore all other avenues before committing to obama and his plan.
unless you live in the urban area of you town, if you are working middle class you will still suffer under obama.
the dnc for the sake of their main base the working middle class and the poor should have backed sen. clinton, the moderate dem. and not gone with the far left guy obama.

Mr. Coffee,
You are wrong about Bill Clinton. He was the longest serving sitting governor in the country at the time of his election. Get your facts straight.

Hillary for write-in candidate. Forget voting for McCain, write in Hillary Clinton.

yes never obama,
the wiping off of the shoulder thing i did not understand until i was watching it replay on tv and one of my teenage children was sitting there and said
OH SNAP! that is jayee-meaning that he got that from a rapper!
and i asked what does that mean-
well the brushing off the shoulder means
you don’t mean that much to me-you are just dirt on my shoulder.
how classless is that?
and why is a presidential candidate doing such? so for me he was pandering to the bases part of the black community.
I say our first black president should be someone who was “mainland grown”
and had the black experience that others his age had.
obama will be a mess as president.

I think there are a lot of naysayers as to Sen Obama’s Chances in Nov, I say the Republicans are in for a rude awakening come Nov. Obama will win the American people over by his stance on the isssues such as healtcare,Iraq, Abortion,Economics, etc. When I think of the McCain response to the Mortgage crisis, I thought he was not supporting the average home owner, but was more for the lending institutions. My suspicions were validated by the revelations that former Sen Gramm who supported deregulation in the banking arena and is also blamed for the mortgage crisis and the revelation that he was a lobbyist for the UBS bank at the same time helping McCain in the forming of McCain economic/mortgage plan. How hypocritical can Mccain be?
Obama 08

Nobody’s fool, Obama certainly did tell a “story” about his white relative, who supposedly help liberate the Auschwitz concentration camps.
Why was it a story? Because it was Soviet troops that liberated Auschwitz.
Even Obama’s corrected version is another “story” that he is trying to fool the American public with.
Why? Because Obama now claims that he meant Buchenwald, which was liberated by its inmates, before U.S. troops arrived there.
Obama told the stories in a political attempt to get Jewish votes.
I have no problem with Obama wanting us to pay attention to his relatives.
Obama has already mentioned his grandmother and a great-uncle, and he wrote a book called, “Dreams of My Father”.
To better understand Obama’s socialist agenda, American voters should research why Obama’s Marxist mother and father embraced socialism.

This is the United States of America, a Republic. Not a socialist state.
I have sworn to defend the US Constitution from enemies of both foreign and domestic. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say we are a socialist country. Anyone that is going to ‘change’ us to such will be declared an enemy.
I have done my part as ‘We the People’ and served to protect the things this country stands for the way it was founded. I am not alone in my thinking and feelings on this. Most of us with a MOS that women can’t hold feel this same way.
Those of you that want a socialist state, move to another country which flies the red, white and blue in their flag. This one is set in stone and there will be no ‘change’.

What I cannot understand is how can the SD or the DNC nominate a candidate that has the least possibility of beating McCain.
That baffles me, I thought the DNC wanted to win. All the signs are there for a Obama loss, the polls, disgruntled votes, the FL/MI mess, the race issue, the bitter and guns issue, the working class issue, the Obama gaffes and his checked, questionable friends and past.
Yes it seems the media and some have given Obama the nod to face McCain, as the daily cries increase of persons changing their party, voting indy, or McCain, all I keep hearing is that these people will come around for the GE and vote party first no matter who is chosen.
Wishful thinking I say on someone’s part the odds of Obama beating McCain are growing daily, so I have resigned myself to waiting for President McCain because I really don’t see a different result if Obama is given the chance and all indications are that he will be the nominee but that is as far as it will go.

This just in, a judge has agreed with past rulings that the DNC has the right to decide how Florida delagates are seated.
The DNC Rules are written so that any state breaking the rules can not receive more than 50% of their delegates.
Also, check out Real Clear Politics average of poll numbers. Obama and Hillary win most of the same swing states (including Pennsylvania and Ohio).
The only swing state Hillary wins that Obama does not is Florida.
Obama wins Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Oregon, but Hillary loses them.
That’s 47 electoral votes that Obama wins, compared to 27 electoral votes for Hillary.
There goes the electoral votes argument for Hillary.
Oops, the Clinton campaign was wrong when it said all polls.

Debbie
Why do you assume the general election and the primaries are the same thing?

Obama’s legacy: “Present”.

This race is not over. The manipulation of the media with pundits saying this again and again creates the impression that if Hillary were to win the nomination that it would be “stealing” the election. This is not the case. All along, we have known that neither candidate can win the nomination without the superdelegates. Neither one has done this. And if the superdelegates see the writing on the wall that Hillary Clinton has the best chance of winning in November they will rightly vote for her. Since the groundswell of blind “support” for Sen Obama on super Tuesday, she has tronced him and is leading in popular votes as well as most of the polls regarding the GE. This is not a popularity contest, this is serious and warrants thoughtfulness about your choice, not just following along because a candidate makes you feel good! I am in Montana and will vote for Hillary on June 3 because she is the best Dem candidate we have had in many years, for her qualifications and the solutions she has for the issues that face all of us.

Obama: “I really didn’t mean that”.

Obama: “I never heard Reverent Wright say those things.”

Nobody is stupid, Obama must lose this election.
McCain 2008! Clinton 2012!!!
VOTE McCain!!!

IF McCain was to really pick Hillary as his Vp what chance do you feel Obama would have?

Obama: ““He was never my spiritual mentor. He was my pastor.”

USMarine0331 and Guardian,
Please spare me the “I’m in the military so you can’t question me” routine. Being in the military does not by default make your judgement superior.
This election is about the future of our country – whether we negotiate or blindly race to war, whether we use the government as a tool to benefit its citizens or to do the bidding of the lobbyists who pay to protect their interests.
I am against ANYTHING that is used as a DISTRACTION from the real issues in this campaign – and that includes John McCain’s “I was in the military so I am always right on foreing affairs” poliicies.
I base my vote on things that are real, not mythical associations, innuendo, and socialist boogeymen that some claim are in the closet.

The Democrats spent years telling us that Bush was a illegitimate President because they did not count all the votes.
Now they are doing the same giving us Obama an illegitimate nominee for president.
Not counting all the votes of Fl/MI is that not the same thing that they are doing after protesting so much, this is the hypocrisy that will make many vote McCain.

IF McCain was to really pick Hillary as his Vp what chance do you feel Obama would have?
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That would Obama’s dream come true!
The majority of the Republicans HATE Hillary and Bill. They’d NEVER vote withher on the ticket. What a great idea! Someone should suggest it to McCain.
You must be an Obama fan.

Laura said,
If OB is a nominee, I vote for McCain.
Laura Ingraham, I know you’re republican. You would not have voted for a democrat anyway.

USMarine0331,
I refuse to get off into the weeds with you in a discussion about “wealth distribution” when we are paying BILLIONS of dollars to reach an as yet unidentified goal in Iraq. This is just the kind of “distraction” that I feel we do not have the luxury of obsessing about this election. Too much blood has been spilled for that.
There will always be debate about the best use of America’s limited resources, however, the fact that the American economy is suffering under the weight of the tremendous reallocation of resources to Iraq is undeniable.

USmarine0331 – Thank you for your service, you are a true American!!
You are correct on Socialism, but remember the ones arguing about it are taking there arguments from the Communist Manifesto, which is to deny and put down those who see through to the truth.
and then there are the others like some below that are brainwashed followers, that really do not know what it is, all they hear is Free this free that, not realizing that nothing is free, and the socialists cost will be higher then anything in capitalism. Their Liberty!!
Socialism has failed everywhere it is! Europe is pulling away, China is even trying to mix Communism with Capitalism but we got the Flat Earth people here that think their way can work.
But what has it gotten us, higher Fuel, higher food costs because of the false claims of man-made Global warming, this is also in the Communist Manifesto, to come up with a common focus. Take Venezuela for example the common purpose pushed there is being against us!!
Now to Barrack Hussein Obama – He has no clue, this is another lie, just like the one that his father came here under JFK’s open door with Africa, but then it turns out his father came 4 years earlier, and other stretches of the truth.
He is a liar,!!
The only choice we have for President is McCain!!

Do the party rules also state that Hillary should get every delegate in Michigan?

Spock said,
Now to Barrack Hussein Obama – He has no clue, this is another lie, just like the one that his father came here under JFK’s open door with Africa, but then it turns out his father came 4 years earlier, and other stretches of the truth.
He is a liar,!!
The only choice we have for President is McCain!!
I can see that you’re one of those uneducated people that support Hillary. I know you can’t read & write, who’s typing for you? Your cows

The Republicans are laughing their rears off at what they have masterminded. How do you people not see what they have done here? Christ Rush Limbaugh said it long and clear months ago. Sean Hannity has followed his lead. McCain now has a cake walk in the GE.

la la in indianaland,
thanks for the lesson in jive and hip hop, maybe you will be the sec of rap.
and before it is all over, we will have jayzee rewriting the national anthem,
and jive and slang will be required reading in schools.
i just take my chances with mccain

If Obama thinks Hillary tearing him up wait until McCain and the Republicans get their hands on him.

Nobody’s fool, you asked how I think we should handle Iraq.
However, I think the better question is how should America handle Iran, which is trying to become the dominant power in the Middle East by acquiring nuclear weapons.
I support America’s current efforts to stabilize Iraq’s current Pro-American government, which is working.
I also agree that America should keep supporting the United Nations attempts to keep Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
The greatest risk that all Americans face is the risk of nuclear annihilation.
Osama Bin Laden has already called for the use of weapons of mass destructions against America by Muslims.
America should do whatever it has to do to keep Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Jake,
Short of you possibly showing your right leanings, why would you “stir the pot” so to speak by asking:
“…does it bother you at all that Sen. Obama is campaigning as if the nomination — which he has not yet clinched — is his?”
No, Jake, what has bothered me most about this election process so far is the unmitigated gall Clinton has shown to get what she believes should have been hers. She has thrown decency to the wind. Instead of going to Florida last week to continue her stump speech of how she is better, she instead fans the flames of voter disenfranchisement by saying over and over again how Obama stymied the revote Florida wished for. She makes correlations to voter suppression in Zimbabwe to enforce her argument? As you would say Jake…Really? How in any way is that kind of talk good for the democratic party, even if she were somehow to get the nomination?
I do, however, appreciate her hitting Obama pretty hard in the primary, since some of her attacks will likely diffuse the republican attacks in the general. And it certainly toughened up Obama.

Someone has hijacked my screen-name.
It must be an Obama supporter.
I am going to leave with this comment.
I support America’s goal of guaranteeing its access to Middle Eastern oil.
Until technology develops a reasonable alternative source of energy, which will allow America to keep its high living standards, America should keep guaranteeing its access to Middle Eastern oil as one of its national security interest.
For those who disagree, good luck trying to find work on a bicycle and trying to stay warm by burning whatever you can find which will burn and by staying cool by replacing your air conditioner with a hand fan.

not as ingorant as obama on the issues that face this country.
but thanks to you obama supporter,
you are a scholar on jayzee and rap.

USMarine0331 said,
One last comment, I did not post at 12:14:17 p.m. or at 12:14:18.
As for how do we pay for Iraq, I think that Iraq should pay war reparations and for the cost of safeguarding it from Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
Iraq is a major producer of oil.
It can afford to do both.
You make comments & cannot stand the heat. Next thing is to blame someone else for your utterances. Typical of the person you support, I suppose.

Obama!
And, he certainly should be campaigning against McBush! John’s had enough of a vacaton!
And you clintonistas (probably republicans in disguise) who keep threatening to vote for McBush — you deserve him!!!
Obama 2008 — Yes, WE CAN!!!

DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS – TAKE NOTICE
———–ROE v. WADE———–
Two of the current justices of the United States Supreme Court will probably retire within the next four years. One is 75 and the other is 84. This will give the new president the ability to nominate two new justices. If McCain is elected you can be sure the new justices will be just like Roberts, Scalia and Thomas: willing to overturn ROE v. WADE. So think when you vote!!!

Posted by: USmarine0331 | May 28, 2008 11:34:25 PM
i agree…lets add my number one biggest reason( excluding the candidate himself)—–
MICHELLE OBAMA!!!

The Obama fanatics will beg for votes and forgiveness from MI and FL. He is not going to get it. He is going to loss by FL, MI, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio , Texas, Arkansas,
It is all the way downhill for him.