Clinton Reminds Reporters of Popular Vote, Says There is No Doubt This is Obama’s Convention

Boycott celebrities who endorse Obama!

Sorry Hillary, we love you, and you can vote as you please. I own my vote, and will not be bamdoozled to vote for BHO, the worst candidate in Presidential history. We appreciate all that you have done here, but your work is done. It’s McCain all the way.

Hillary, you lost!
Get over it and move on.
It’s not about you!

Vanessa dear, BO should have been up by DOUBLE DIGITS NOW. After Hillary dropped out we heard he’d get the bump, after the World tour, he’d get the bump….honey the only bump he’s had is with Michelle’s fist. He wouldn’t need to get a 16 bump now if he had kept up since Hillary left the race.
Kerry was 16 POINTS AHEAD BEFORE THE CONVENTION.
Not even Oprah can help him now.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN!

I’m a democrat for McCain…….
Never Obama….the worst candidate in
history………

I don’t get all you “HILLARY SUPPORTERs FOR McCAIN”….You act like children…McCAIN IS A REPUBLICAN! HE WILL GOVERN LIKE A REPUBLICAN! If you are okay with that then you never were a Democrat to begin with. You were simply a member of the Clinton party and not a very smart one either since your leaders (Bill and Hill) will do what they have to to get Obama elected. Grow up! It is because of people like you in the Democratic party that I will remain an Independent…

Fact is Obama is up in the polls. Up in the electoral votes. And after the debates his leads will increase.
Posted by: Vanessa | Aug 25, 2008 3:39:07 PM
Vanessa…you are lying and you know it! Obama has fallen in the polls and continue to fall. He will not get the 10 to 15% bounce because he lies and Biden is the worst he could have chosen. Hillary, yes, she was the stronger candidate and would have gotten the bounce.
It’s over for Obama and you know it. Hillary supporters are die hard and will NEVER vote for Backtrack Obama! I love the fact that there are protests and I can’t wait to see Obama and his ugly wife’s face when he has to concede to President John McCain!
Hillary 08!

Apparently those who plan to vote McCain because Hillary is not the Democratic candidate really do not care who will be nominated to the Supreme Court of the US should McCain win the election. This is cutting off your nose to spite your face. I can understand loyalty to a candidate, but what about loyalty to the party? If Obama looses this election Hillary supporters will be the blame and you will find it will be hard for Hillary to ever win back the Obama voters should she run in 2012. I just think everyone needs to stop and think about what issues are important to you – and then vote McCain if he represents your values; vote Obama if he represents what is important to you.

Haters & liars

You people who say you support Hillary and will vote for McCain are insane. How are you supporting Hillary if you are voting for someone who believe the exact opposite of what her and Bill have fought for in both their careers? How can you vote for someone that has 7 houses, but doesn’t know that, and thinks anyone making under 5 million dollars a year is middle class? This is why this country is losing all credibility and any type of honor in the world. Because we keep voting people into office that have no clue and only hope to gain from our suffering.

Tim,
Calling people racist will not make them change their minds about Obama. Some people may have white guilt and so they think voting for Obama will help but in reality if Obama was elected and he screwed up the country due to his lack of experience and judgment, it would make black people worse off. Not to mention that all he does is talk down to black people.

Debra | Aug 25, 2008 3:43:01 PM
First Debra, your post above is offensive and disgusting. Second, Barack Obama is as much white as he is black. You need to do some serious soul searching as to why you beleive only 100% white Americans should serve as president. You being a 100% white person, are an embarassement – and what most would call racist. You tend to forget that black Americans pulled together to vote in Bill Clinton twice as president and Hillary twice as Senator. I would say that black Americans have done as much for the Clintons as the Clintons have done for them and they are pretty even.

To all of you former Hillary Supporters who are for McCain. Do Whatever You Like…But do not complain if McCain isn’t all what he claims to BE. I’m a Republican who’s voting Obama/Biden ’08 because my brother is fighting in Afganistan on his 3rd tour and I feel betryaed by the Bush Administration

I feel sorry for you Obama supporters who call the Democrats who are voting for McCain, faux democrats or say that we were never real democrats. You clearly cannot think for your self.
I have voted for Democrats my entire life. Does that make me a democrat, I guess not. I am educated and an independent thinker. I will not vote for a Democrat just because they are a democrat. I vote on experience and judgment and Obama has neither. I don’t even know where he stands on the issues because in the short time he has been in the senate, he has constantly changed his positions to further his political career.
I am an independent thinker who has voted for Democrats until this year. This year I will vote for McCain.

I guess these “Hillary Supporters for McCain” actually think they matter right now. Just like the Clinton’s, these supporter’s obviously have ego’s that blind them from reality. Even with all the energy they are spending on anti-Obama ways, he still has the edge in the polls. WITHOUT YOU!!!This process moves on with or w/out you, time doesnt stop because you are withholding your support. Oh yea, by the way, if Barack loses and the Clinton’s are blamed…Out of the 98 percent African American’s that favor Barack, and the new voters that are brought in that favor him; how much of that support do you think will go to Clinton? It is just going to be the same situation with his supporters as it is with hers, only times 10. Which would lead to a Republican President for the next 12 or so years. If you arent going to vote for Obama, okay, just shut the heck up; nobody cares, he’ll win anyway…Open your mouth when McCain takes a lead in any poll…
-Obama08-16…Kaine16-

Seems to me this is the result of the cult of white guilt that has been force feed upon the last 40 years of school children. If everything that is wrong with the world is because of white people then the logical outcome of such thinking is to put a minority in power. Whites think that by putting Obama in power it will finally “prove” white people are not racists anymore and all our race problems will be solved. They’re in for a real shock when negros still act like negros.
Posted by: sunny | Aug 25, 2008 4:08:52 PM
There must be a second sunny posting here – sounds more like “debra”. I am not a racist but I do believe she is. I will now post sunny in tulsa.

Debra#1, you will totally abandon what Hillary fought for if you vote for McCain! Why oh why would you do that? Do you really want another Bush term? Do you want troops in Iraq for 100 years? Do you want the draft reistated?Do you want big oil determining our nation’s future?

hillary

That’s right Hillary… keep reminding everybody about all the votes you got. Right now Obama is not getting about 22% of Clinton voters. If he picked her, he would be losing 50% of his supporters, so he is doing ok. What I think is really pathetic is that John McCain needs Hillary supporters to win the election.
HEYYYYYYYYYYY get your own votes.

The latest poll is out… Conservatives are brain dead.

PUMAS could saddle Hillary with disrupting the Democratic party, which would effective end her career. If the Clinton’s are blamed for a fractured party, it is political suicide for Hillary. Personally I want to see her in a position of prominence down the road. How about Sec. of State or Atty. Genl.?

I could not stand 4 to 8 years of Obama’s “Ahs” “Uhms” and “Long pausing Ands” in his answers to questions. He would surely flunk speech 101. I don’t understand why everyone thinks he is a great speaker. Sure if there is a canned speech in front of him. But ask him when babies first have rights and he will say that is above his paygrade.What a joke.

you people are ignorant. just vote and be done with it. who cares what you think. remember, there is no comment box in the voting booth. ha!

This just reminds me of the total disbelief I had when Democrats passed up one of the most qualified candidates they have ever had, Hillary Clinton, for an unproven man with no record, shady associations, and, quite frankly, delusional rhetoric (tides stopping to rise, earth healing, and all that mumbo jumbo).
If this were Clinton vs McCain, you Dems do realize Republicans wouldn’t have stood a chance. It would have been a landslide.

Hey Nicolas, you have it wrong… the worst candidate in history was George Bush

SamVA said, Boycott celebrities who endorse Obama. Sam, I’ve been doing exactly that. No more Oprah, not that I ever watched that fat cow in the first place. But if I did watch her, I’d quit.

Tom said, Hillary, it’s not about you! Tom’s right. It’s not about Hillary. It’s about her supporters. They hold the key to this election. Without them, Obama cannot win this election. So why did he pick Biden? Simple. Arrogance trumped common sense.

Debra people call you a racist because that’s exactly what you are. You can pretend all you want, maybe even deny it, but that won’t change what is so obvious.

Wow all I hear and see is a bunch of angry white people bashing the Democratic Nominee who was appointed in the same Democratic fashion that Hillary used to run. Now your bitter? Now you want to support McCain? Is it because he is WHITE?
With all this chaos, and the Clintons no longer in power, all the white folks are mad. Obama has a closer grass root to the American Middle and lower class than any Clinton every did or ever will.
There is no experience to being President when you are the first lady, so I say to you WHAT EXPERIANCE DOES SHE HAVE? NONE
And for the last post, how can whites find a country when its inhabitants were Native American. Last I looked; my forefathers and ancestors built this country. Last I looked Many blacks invented, founded, and pioneered many great things in this Nation as well.
If you didn’t like or don’t like the area or surroundings, I suggest you go back to England or Britain. O wait, they seem to Love Barack Obama as well.

I am a life long republican mom of 3, who has looked at the candidates available and has chosen to vote for Barack. We need his intelligence, willingness to seek diplomatic solutions rather bluster, his ability to stay calm under pressure and the great ideas his has put forward on the economy , education and energy in particular.
Re: Clinton, to those who say he did not vet her, pls note that Barack sat down and talked with HRC at length about the VP.
HRC and her camp did not want to provide info to be vetted unless she was guaranteed the VP Slot. With Bill’s List of Donors, and other dirt and information that the Republicans have on The Clintons, they would have had to provide info. Look at what just happened with Edwards. As a republican, we have waited and loved nothing but to run against this Clintons, do not mind the fake crocodile tears. If McCain and the Repubs are so upset about HRC not being Obama’s pick, they may want to ask her. They dare not because she will tell them where to go.
As a republican, I am willing to consider a democrat this time, I simply cannot continue for four more years of this. My house has lost value; my once profitable business is struggling as costs are increasing. McCain is simply out of touch on the economy and foreign policy. Being a POW does not confer that you. I am also so ashamed of the negative tact of his campaign, since he hired the Rove people, the same people who did the same to him.
I ashamed that I was a republican for so long, after this I will switch to independent.
All Ex HRC Supporters, from this Repub do not vote for McCain, he has no respect for women his personal life and comments have shown that. The Repubs are just trying to divide the democrats. Trust me if Barack loses because of this no-sense HRC will never, ever win the Presidency and the Democratic Party will become a relic because they will not get the white house in years to come.
America, put aside your hidden prejudices, this is really what it is about and let us turn the page this time.
I seriously urge you to vote for Barack, we cannot continue down this road.

As a Hillary supporter, I will be voting for Obama, I am being selfish here, however, I have had two sons in the war and another not in the military. My family has done its part. Also I need my daughter to have health care since her husband decided he didn’t want a one-woman marraige. She works and works hard, therefore she does not qualify for welfare, all my kids work. She cannot get independent health care (she is a realtor) because she has had cancer twice in her 30 years. What am I suppose to do, sell everything I have to pay for one MRI, Pet Scan, Treatment and Hospitalization. McCain is for the Draft, his Health care only gives tax credits – He calls the Draft “Mandatory Service” on his web site. I would have loved to see the first woman president, I can’t afford to be prejudice or bitter right now. I have to look ahead as to my daughters rights to health care, as well as my youngest son to be here to help raise his two children. This may and probably seem stupid to alot of the other Hil supportors, or even the many republicans – but it doesn’t to me.

If the roles were reversed, they would not make Obama concede everything. They really need to give her some breathing room and quit acting like this election wasn’t close. Don’t they realize that half of her supporters are democrats? She’s ready to move ahead. Why hasn’t Obama been able to bring her supporters forward? Perhaps he deserves some responsibility. Maybe the media could take a look at that?

Some whites think we OWE hillary clinton something. no, not at all.
we do not OWE anyone anything.

BLACK WOMAN HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR MCCAIN.

Not to mention, the disenfranchisement of voters both in MI and FL but now want them and are lowering yourselves to finally allow all those voters you didn’t want to vote before?

Hillary and the MAINSCREAM media are conveniently avoiding a very big FACT…that in every state where it was allowed, republicans marched to the polls at the behest of HUSH BIMBO’s Operation Chaos and voted for Hillary. It would be very easy stats to offer up estimates of how many of these 18 million Hillary voters were Operation Chaos clowns. The fact that polls say only 47% of Clinton supporters will definitely vote for Obama would be your first clue to make an educated guess…but in the vast wasteland of AMERICA under the bushbaby cheeny packer regime…educated guesses don’t hold much muster…Film at Eleven folks!!!!

One other point….did ANYONE thing of taking Obama into a room and talking some sense into him. If he would really rather LOSE his way than accept the “baggage” a Clinton Vice Presidency would allegedly bring (I don’t necessarily agree with that), then perhaps he is too narcissistic for me to vote for him. To me, his failure to recognize 18 million voters belies his claims that he can compromise. Too much ego, not enough pathos.

wow, where did ABC news find such a large number of Republican trolls to fill the comments on this post? what planet are you people living on?

if you don’t think racism is still a problem in this country…just read a few of these posts. On another topic, you diehard Clinton fans are just bitter and angry. Don’t forget there was a primary and Clinton lost a close one to Obama. Obama was just better organized and won many more states. It was NOT the DNC that gave the nomination to Obama…he had an insurrmountable lead in delegates…or have you just conveniently forgotten that fact? And for you who want to vote for McBush…it just shows your intelligence and bitterness voting for somebody who is against everything that Hilary Clinton and the Democratic party believes in…frankly you make me sick!

Debra,
You are clearly a racist Republican masquerading as a Democrat so why don’t you go put your KKK robe back on and stop pretending you know anything about Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. You are a dyed in the wool racist.

Great to see these Hillary supporters for McCain. We’ll know exactly who to blame when our nation faces four more years just as bad as the last 8. Come on people – if you seriously believed in Democratic ideals, you’d have the sense to realize that Barack’s policy is almost exactly in line with Hillary’s. How can you seriously consider voting for McSame?! SHAME ON YOU – don’t ever call yourself democrats.

I am black disable vet from Mississippi and a suporter of Hillary. No matter how hard I try I can not find a good enough reason to volt for Mr. Obama.
Sure, I would love to see a black man for president in my life time but my love for this country is stronger than volting on a person because of the color of their skin. I have fought for and got hurt for this country. I do not think that Mr. Obama is ready yet to be president. I think he will be one day but not now. Although I have always voted for a Democrate all my life, I will vote for Mr. Mccain because I think he has the experience and dedication to be president…
Just a old solders’thoughts

I for the life of me can not understand this cult or movement for “so called change.” All of these sheep-like Whites are falling in love with this guy based on what? The guy has said and done absolutely nothing at all. Listen to his speeches, everything he says is obviously rehearsed and he always speaks in generalities. Name one specific policy this c**n has laid out? No one can.
McCain/08

I’m so glad that there are so many PUMA’s here! I’m so pissed off that Hillary lost that I’m going to vote for McCain so that all women can be forced to use back alley abortions. That is the perfectly reasonable thing to do.

What will you so called, “PUMA=Faux Democrat/Undercover Republicans” say after McCain gets a Bush III term.
Oh, I’m sorry, I thought I was voting for Hillary!!!!

Oh geesh, these PODs are saying hurtful things. Wahhh! We were never dems! We don’t care about the supreme court! Oh woe is me!
The DNC under Howard Dean and Donna The Brazilian is no longer the democratic party, it’s the Obama Party. We were never part of that. That is the one that brings the race card up each and everytime. That is the inexperienced and unvetted one. I switched to the Independent Party right after Clinton suspended her campaign. You want to be fair then have an honest open roll call…not one where Clinton delegates are being replaced with Obama delegates. The supreme court? Doesn’t the Senate have to approve of the nominee. We got Alito and Roberts BECAUSE the dems agreed to them, not because of which party was in power in the executive branch.
McCain in ’08! He’ll have to work with the dem senate and dem congress. There’s your bipartisanship!

Who knew that so many Clinton supporters are bigoted against black men or were so stupid.

Just out of curiosity, can one Clinton supporter who is supporting McCain please tell me what policy decision they are basing their vote on? The candidates were 98% similar and both are huge improvements (in my opinion) over McCain. If you are a Republican, all I can say is that I disagree with you. If you were a Clinton voter who is now voting for McCain, I’m just perplexed and taken aback. Clinton and Obama held all of the same views. It isn’t the politicans who are ruining this country, its stupid voters who vote based upon whether they ‘like’ someone rather than the issues.

Democrats for McCain . . .
Oh, that’s brilliant.
How about Democrats for Republicans, or
Pro-Choice for Pro-Life, or
Peace Lovers for War

I actually really feel bad for Hillary. After such a great campaign, where she managed to redefine her negative national image, she doesn’t deserve these types of “supporters”. These PUMAs are now deemed to represent their former candidate when they, in fact, do not share most of her priorities (based on the fact that she supports Obama and the basic Dem party platform, and they support pro-war, anti-choice, pro-trickle down McCain).

I’m a Democrat shaking the DNC dust off my feet as I gladly leave the Democratic Party.

President Obama — the pions are running scared. Don’t worry you have your own 18 million plus voters. There is nothing Satan (HRC), Repigs, or anyone else can do to stop you. NOTHING!!!!!
OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA!!!! YEAH BABY. WE WILL FINALLY HAVE A PRESIDENT WITH AN IQ HIGHER THAN 2!!!!!!!!!!!
OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA

Yeah, Yeah
So Senator Obama doesn’t have the resume you think he should have. He has been in the US senate only during Bush Jr second term and well there have not been many major accomplishments from any Senator. It is not about the past with him it is about the future. There is something to be said about leadership qualities. Have you read any of Senator Obamas books? If so then you should know how he thinks about things if not then you should read his writings and educate yourself about the next President of the US.

Jan — we don’t want you or NEED you.
OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA
YES WE CAN, YES WE CAN, AND YES WE WILL!!!!!!!!

DiannaD — to be honest I was never a Hillary supporter. Frankly she detests me, however, if she would have won the nomination, as a REAL Dem, there is no doubt I would hold my nose and vote for her. No doubt whatsoever. Afterall, as a Dem Hillary would stand for what I believe in.
To call yourself a Dem and vote for McStupid is a vote against Obama based on what? I’m sure I know what the “what” is — as Pat Buchanan says “he’s not one of us”. Call it for what is really is.
OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA
YES WE CAN, YES WE CAN, AND YES WE WILL!!!!!!!!

Obama needs to be more gracious to Bill Clinton..they have treated him like crap.. He had a 62% favorable rating when he left office..until Obama gets anytwhere close to that…respect what is the best Democrat in history of our times
hillaryisourchoice.com

Vernon Patterson — could not have said it better myself.
What the “cult” does not understand is that their “idol” will be BLAMED if Barack loses. Fair or unfair, that is what is going to happen and her career will be over. She WILL NEVER win the Dem nomination let alone the general election. She will be looked upon as a traitor, poison.
She and her silly hubby are pissed that this junior Senator kicked their asses! He deserves the nomination and will win the general election. The American people will no longer sit idly by and watch Repigs or STUPID, SPITEFUL, so-called Dems, which I do not believe they are at all, take this election from this man.
OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA
YES WE CAN, YES WE CAN, AND YES WE WILL!!!!!!!!

Obama will bring hope and change… by losing to John McCain in the general election.
Sorry but I don’t buy the “soak the rich to help the poor” spiel from a guy who lets his own brother live on $1 a month in a 6*9 foot tin shack while he lounges in his two million dollar mansion with a $4.2 million dollar income.
Lets also mention that Obama donates 2% of his income to charity, 1/9th of the normal for his income level and nearly all of it to Trinity (God D**n America) Baptist Church. John McCain donates over 25% of his income to charity.
Actions > Words

NO to Obama!
I am a Hillary Clinton Democrat, voting Republican for the first time, and proud
to declare my support for Sen. McCain as the next President of the United States!

EVERYONE! There is NO SIGNIFICANT CONTINGENT of former HRC voters that will vote McCain! The two candidates are diametrically opposed on every issue. They are paid staffers, that are ignorant and sexist to boot!

I would never vote for NObama. Democrat for McCain.

Hillary’s delusion that she won the popular vote (she did only if one throws in Michigan, where Obama wasn’t on the ballot, and Florida, where he agreed not to campaign) has taken on an obsessive life of its own, in her own mind.
She may appeal for unity, but you can bet that in the bowels of her cold heart, she still believes she was robbed/

Lola, Dee-GA, and Jimmy — we don’t want your KIND, nor do we NEED you. Now go and change your soiled pampers!!!

if Rosie O’Donnell comes out for Obama during the convention, McCain goes up by 5 points

La I am a person of color so that’s not an issue for me. Hillary was treated poorly and cheated out of the nomination by the DNC, Dean, Polosi, Obama, Brazille, and all of you supporters of Obama did nothing but bash Hillary the whole time she was winning. They did everything they could to keep Florida and Michigan from counting so that the annointed one Obama could win. We Will be heard in November. We will vote for McCain. You people just thought we’d roll over and vote for a man we don’t trust, Mr. Obama after you got rid of Hillary? No way, not going to happen. In my opinion Obama is another Bush term and I will vote for the candidate that could do the job and that’s McCain since you all railroaded Hillary out.

Can any Clinton-turned-McCain supporter explain how McCain’s health care policy, economic policy or foreign policy in any way differs from Bush’s?

Clinton supporters are vowing to vote for someone who has promised to pack the Supreme Court with Scalia/Thomas justices, keep our troops in Iraq indefinitely, increase Bush’s tax cuts for the most wealthy .01% and expand off-shore drilling…all out of spite! No wonder we are the same country who voted for two terms of Bush.

Obama is the worst choice for President ever. He is inexperienced, arrogant, smug, and black.

It should be self-evident to any fair person that it is not Hillary’s responsibility to persuade her primary voters to support Obama. It is Obama who needs to attract these voters and convince them he deserves their vote. So far, he has been doing a lousy job in that regard.
We keep seeing a manifest display of the “blame-Hillary-syndrome” that the MSM and Obama supporters seem to suffer from. That’s evidently unfair to Hillary. Let’s be clear, if Obama loses in November it will be due to an exceedingly inept DNC promoting the weakest candidate in memory.

I WOULD NEVER VOTE FOR OBAMA! Never Voted Republican In All My MANY MANY Years Of Voting ! This Time I MUST!

I agree with “Alice”….this is no longer about Hillary….it is about not voting for an empty suit. Obama and his Rev. Wright, Terrorist friend Ayers, strange dealings with Larry Sinclair, Crooked Rezko, and a wife who made a personal attack on Hillary Clinton during the campaign for the nomination (I personally feel that Michelle Obama is the racist in this matter.) I thank God that HRC is NOT the choice for VP because it would break my heart to vote against her in the general election, but I would if Obama is on top of the ticket. God Bless America and God Bless McCain.

I voted for Clinton in the primary because I believe for the values she championed. Yes, I’d rather vote for Clinton than Obama, but I’m not going to risk a woman’s right to choose, America’s standing in the world and the economy just so I can I say “I told you so!” Cut off my nose to spite my face? What am I, a twelve years old?

Hillary not getting the nomination doesn’t suddenly boost Obama’s qualification to be president. Picking Biden as his veep is his admission that he lacks the experience to be president. The problem with the Obama-Biden ticket is that the wrong man is at the top of it.
I am one of those Democrats who will be voting for McCain no matter what any of the Dem leaders say. We voters are not sheep who can be told what to do.

I admire Sen Obama’s audacity and self promotion. I understand his unwillingness to commit himself to any specific plan or ideas other than the vast, emotional conept of *hope*and *change*. I have followed politics for over 65 years and I can’t remember any election on any level where anyone ever said they were opposed to hope or change.
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I think Joe Biden is a great runnning mate for a man who has no accomplishments in any position he ever held. Biden is a career Washington politician. He knows Washington and its players. His son is a lobbyist. He has been in the Senate since the ’70′s.
I don’t agree with John Mc Cain on much but I intend to vote for him. If Obama shows that he can be a capable Senator and actually do anything other than promote his career interests I may consider him in the future.(Right now I think he is a phony and insincere. For example, his short lived but much heralded public service stint is hardly heroic sacrifice. Only a fool with political aspirations works in a high paying law job. Everyone goes the public service route. That is the way to political office.
I am concerned that the media pays so little attention to what the Obama’s have actually done and the connections that have brought them to this point. And, I will never vote for him in this election because of Hillary Clinton. Obama was annointed by the male liberals in the Democrat Party in order to side rail Clinton.
And, what on earth did the Clinton’s do to Caroline and Ted Kennedy to cause her vicious support of Obama? Did they bill her for the recovery of her brother’s body from the ocean by taxpayer funded Naval vessels?

I think we should note that McCain has a staff of paid bloggers putting anti-Obama stuff on blogs all over the internet. If didn’t there would be few pro-McCain messages on these type boards.

Barack Obama will win without the help of Hillary’s supporters. It will be close but he will win. Clinton’s supporters were going to support McCain regardless of Hillary being chosen as VP. They cannot accept that when you compete two things could happen… you either win or loose, and she lost. Instead of complaining why don’t just give 1 dollar each to Hillary Clinton and that would pay off her debt ($18 million dollars/one per puma). Vote for McCain or whoever you want to vote for, and if you hate Obama so much just stop reading articles about him. SIMPLE !!!

All of these whiny women…no one supported Clinton as rabidly as women….it’s like their entitled!

Sammy,
You are dead wrong. Clinton never threatened that her supporters would not support Obama (as Obama did).
Had she won, she would have offerred the VP slot to Obama, or at the very least asked his oppinion of it.
Had she won she would never have started blaming Obama for her eventual loss as Obama’s supporters have been blaming Clinton since MARCH.
Had she won, whether for decency or triangulation, she would have pushed her backers to retire his debt.
Had she won she would have immediately reached out to his voters by publicly and repeatedly praising him and applauding those of us who voted for him.
Had she won, she would have incorporated as many leaders from his movement into her team to promote unity.
The Clintons are professional politicians. Through that they have learned much about how these things are done. Obama is just now learning them as he goes.
True, some people would still complain, in an election this close it is NATURAL that there are some hard feelings. That is why the WINNER is supposed to be gracious and accomodating to the LOSER – because they want their votes and need to unify the party.

avvston,
You are inflating Obama’s resume. I’ll pick just one example:
While it is true that Obama worked on the Immigration reform bill, (with John McCain, btw), once the bill met any kind of popular resistance, Obama pulled his support of the bill and backed away from it infuriating almost everyone who worked on the bill.
Some leadership.

La,
You are an ignorant and hateful person and the prototypical post of the sort of rubbish that has helped turn so many of us off about your candidate.
Whatever happened to “there is no Democratic America and there is no Repbulican America, there is only the United Stated of America?” Those words from your candidate meant something to me in 2004 when he said them. Too bad they didn’t really mean anything to you.
Obama is not only inexperienced but he has shown incredibly poor judgement again and again in this campaign. I cannot support him no matter how much I wish I was voting Democratic this time around.
His skin color is one of the few things that make me wish I could vote for him.

Dear Clinton Dem,
We are finally getting to the end of this brutal primary season. So many of us have gone from being simply “Democrats” to being political activists. Average american voters all over the country have been working hard to make sure that our voices are heard by a party that has lost it’s way.
A new documentary about fraud has been created that is extremely important to the future of our party. We are calling on you to to distribute this video to everyone in your address book, to delegates, and to any members of the media you have access to.
It is time for reform. It is time for party members to take a hard look in the mirror and ask themselves what being a Democrat means to them.
WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED!
http://wewillnotbesilenced2008.com/video/index.htm
The Democratic party has a long history of selecting nominees that do not represent the majority of Americans in this country, despite having core principles that tend to benefit those very Americans. Once again, despite factors swinging to favor Democrats, our party seems destined to choose a losing candidate.
The fatally-flawed caucus system essentially throws the core value of “one person, one vote” under the bus, and it apparently has been manipulated to advantage Obama over Hillary Clinton.
Clinton Democrats have been sounding the alarm since Iowa about the manipulation of the process and where it would lead. The super delegate system was created in order to avert disaster in case the nominating system produced a candidate with no chance of winning. Of course, that system was created with the hope that integrity, principles and backbone would rule the day and delegates might vote their conscience. Fat chance.
We have not given up on Hillary’s chances at the convention for a meaningful roll call vote. However, if past actions are an indication of future outcomes, the die may already be cast.
We will not quit fighting. Whatever the outcome in Denver, we will carry on. Our transformation to activist is complete. There are huge challenges ahead and we, the (unpaid) lobbyists for the American people, have an important role in the future of this country.
We may not have the big hairy dollars of corporate America, but we still have our votes. Let’s spend them wisely. Stay involved and pledge to only support candidates that represent you…and pledge to toss out the legislators that do not.

‘Harris’ asked above how McCain was any different than Bush on three broad categories. Here’s my reply.
On Health Care:
Sen. McCain proposes a $5,000 tax credit to allow families to buy their own private health care plans and requiring that pre-existing conditions not disqualify people from getting them.
This would allow most of the 17 million people currently uninsured to get private health care. Bush has never even conceived of such a thing.
On the economy:
McCain is an actual fiscal conservative. Something Bush gave lip service to but never was.
Bush spends like a drunken sailor on shore leave, McCain has never in over two decades in the Senate asked for any earmarks for his state. McCain promises to veto any wasteful earmarks that come across his desk – Bush signed more into law than all of his predecesors combined.
McCain fought publicly against the Bush tax cuts which have helped bankrupt our country. Opponents will argue that he now is opposed to eliminating those tax cuts but as any economist will tell you – you never raise taxes durring an economic slowdown.
McCain fought against the 300 Billion dollar give-away for farm subsidies (in a year when farms are making record proffits, food costs are soaring around the world because of our subsidies for ethanal (which uses up food recourses that would otherwise feed the world’s hungry). Bush and Obama supported that wasteful spending.
McCain fought publicly and loudly against the Bush Cheney Energy bill. You know, the one that Obama loves to make fun of as having been written behind closed doors, the one that gave away BILLIONS in tax credits to the oil companies. McCain voted against that bill because he knew is was a corrupt give-away. Obama? Oh yeah, OBAMA VOTED FOR IT.
McCain is vastly supperior to Bush on the fiscal responsibility that is destroying our economy. Obama on the other hand has proposed an orgy of new spending that will only speed up our demise.
On Foreign Policy:
McCain, like Biden, voted to authorize the use of force in Iraq. This is true. Since then, however he has been right again and again when Bush has been wrong…
McCain criticized Bush early and loudy about the mistake of going into Iraq with too few troups, just as he fought Reagan about sending too few troups into Berlin in the early 80s. McCain citicized Bush about debathification and resolution of the army – the two central mistakes that caused all of our problems in Iraq.
McCain pushed Bush into finally adopting the Surge strategy which has snatched victory in Iraq out of the jaws of defeat. This is the single most important foreign policy decision since both men have been in the Senate and McCain was right while Obama was dead wrong. Thanks to McCain, we have a strategy for winning in Iraq and moving on to win in Afghanistan – the strategy Obama now advocates for Afghanistan.
On foreign policy, McCain knows the dangers of war – something that was lost on Bush – and he knows how to win them when we find ourselves in one. I love that Obama didn’t want us to go to war in Iraq, that’s great, but unfortunatley we now find ourselves in the middle of two critical wars and we need a President who knows how to win them, no matter how bad the decision was to get into one in the first place.
Shall I continue?
The complete and utter falacy that your messiah has sold to you is not true. Obama knows he can’t beat McCain so he is trying to run against Bush (who, btw is not running for President this year).

You said it, Debra!! I think you speak for many of us, and you do it well!
Love Hillary!!!

You never raise taxes during an economic down period? Wasn’t that the same argument disproved by Bill Clinton after he took office during the rescission of the early 90s? Moreover, putting a band-aid on a broken health care system (a $5,000 tax credit?!) is hardly a substitute for universal coverage. What about McCain’s appointees to Supreme Court? Can you spin some magic pixie dust on that too, or do you now believe that a woman’s right to choose should not be constitutionally protected?

I am about to fall over laughing at White supremacy in women’s frocks. I was a Black woman in the “Woman’s Movement” in the 1970s. For years during the “Civil Rights Movement” the theme was “minorities and women”, then after White women, some of whom were tired of suburban life; some of whom HAD to work because those White husbands’ salaries were not stretching far enough, decided to take to the workplace. Magically, the theme changed to “women and minorities” as they learned how to co-opt the hard won gains of the Civil Rights Era. Turns out, it was not the “Women’s Movement,” but rather the “privileged Women’s Movement,” as Black women were supposed to be kicked to the curb, while White women –and their husbands, sons, and fathers, were to enjoy the nation’s bounty. Then came the demographic shift with “people of color,’ becoming competitive and professional, as well as soon to be the aggregated majority in the good ‘ole USA. Hillary was more than a symbol for the Women’s Movement — Hillary was the woman’s version of the “Great White Hope.” Witness she and Bill running up to Appalachia, WV, eastern KY, Ohio, PA and “coding” –”hard working White people.” Hillary should be hurt and beside herself as the REAL covers come off her supporters. The “Hillraisers” would rather abandon her –their so-called ideal– by voting for McCain –another old White man –rather than stick to the Democratic party where at least Hillary has a stake and can work with Obama to bring about some of the things Hillary wanted to see in her OWN presidency. This whole “Hillary Supporters for McCain,” is just another name for sore-losing White supremacists, who are pissed because a ba-a-a-ad, Black couple have risen to the top of the American Dream and their rise portends as much of a loss for White folks of a certain persuasion as the loss of the Confederacy. In another time, Missy Ann on the plantation would be trying to get Michelle to clean the house, as opposed to seeing her invite the Ambassadors and world royalty TO the White House. Sorry, girls — take your sorry, racist booties on over to the “wrinkled, old white haired dude.” Me? This ‘sistah’s’ going shopping for the inaugural gown so I can boogie. Toodle-loo!

Hi from Asia. I don’t understand. What’s the big deal in recognizing roll call votes for Hillary at the DNC? I think she rightfully earned them. Why should she release her votes to Obama? That would be untruthful. Would the Democratic party want to gloss over the popular votes so that it would seem like a landslide victory for Obama? Obama has the numbers in delegate count anyway, and the nomination. So, what’s the fuss? I just can’t believe the disrespect and flak the Clintons are getting from some Obama supporters. Are these the kind of values that Obama supporters have, or of Democrats or, heaven forbid, of Americans? You wouldn’t see this among Asians. We may bicker and wrangle in our politics but we always respect our elders and those who came before us. We recognize and appreciate the fact that they helped build the way for us.

Deji wrote: “I cant believe some HRC supporters threatening to vote Replican cos their candidate didnt win..such sore losers, u should all hide your racist faces, this is 2008 not 1908!..SHAME ON U!!!”
MOCKERY & NAME-CALLING… trademarks of the OBAMA campaign? BEWARE. Anger and hate must not have a place in the DNC. At least most decent Democrats, Clinton supporters included, are straightforward and logical in their criticisms.

yeah. i find that disturbing too. no wonder some see it like a cult following. its because of over zealous supporters. and the obamas handling of criticisms isnt much help either. get some balls man and face your critics head on. image is nothing. courage is everything if you intend to change things.

I must be losing my mind! I am a 40 year Republican who is tired of the path we have been on for the past 8 years. I see John McCain as a continuation of the same plan with minor variations. So I started studying what was available on the Democratic ticket. What was obvious was “the first viable woman candidate” and “the first black candidate”. I am very interested in what a woman could bring to the presidency. I am equally excited by what a black man could bring to the office. I watched the primaries and thought I was watching a horror show as each democratic candidate trashed the other as if nothing important was up for grabs. When Obama won, I watched as Clinton wouldn’t concede. It was like watching a political stalker who just won’t go away. Now the convention is here and Clinton in interviews is still reminding people how many votes she got! Sure, a roll call is a historical part but the purpose or effect of this roll call is to underline the fact that one side has not joined the goal of the entire party. Regardless of who you favored, both candidates AGREE on most of the Democratic platform which is bigger than any individual candidate and certainly more important to all Democrats in the end. But wait!!! Now 3-4 out of every 10 Clinton supporters have switched to John McCain out of anger, protest, or whatever! How can the view of another 4-8 years of Republican platforms be better than a slightly amended Democratic platform??? I used to wonder as a practising Republican why the Democrats seemed to self-destruct around convention time and here it is yet again. It really is true that Democrats have a death wish and once again you will let down your PARTY because of your petty, selfish complaints. There goes the dreams of the platform and everyone’s efforts for decades. Now I am totally perplexed. Do I support a party that is leading us to early destruction or one that self-destructs every 4 years? Thanks for the options folks!

I have to laugh at the naive notion that a Hillary speech tonight will somehow cause me to move to Obama. While protocol dictates that Hillary makes the speech, no-one will dictate to me who I will vote for. Look, if Obama has the message to sell the American people, he will be elected. If he doesn’t, he won’t. I recommend Obama voters worry about their vote and I will worry about mine.