New Pro-Clinton 527 to Ding Obama in Ohio

Stop this non sense Hillary backers, she did not have the popular vote unless you subtract huge swaths of caucus voters and say that he did not receive any votes in MI. Do any of you really believe this?

As for experience Mr. Obama has MORE legislative experience than Hillary, yes that is a fact. I am sorry but first lady has and still is not a legislative position.

Lastly saying he has accomplished nothing is again wrong and uneducated. Mr Obama single handedly push through ethics reform, transparency in government spending and veterans benefits, but those aren't important pieces of legislation? And they aren't at the heart of what is wrong with our government?

Educate yourselves he is a brilliant man with a solid record, yes he is young, but since when is that the only reason to not trust someone. In fact some of this worlds greatest discoveries have been made by the youngest of all.

Lastly to those who claim he said he would not run for the Presidency, please take a look what has happened to our great country since he said that, the time is now. I respect his sense of urgency.

Thanks for listening.

Don't you media people ever get tired of shoving your candidate, Barak Obama, down the throats of Americans? From the beginning, we have had to endure your constant media bias and the lop sided promotion of YOUR candidate. You are supposed report the news fairly, with an even hand, providing equal coverage and exposure for both candidates. You may be able to influence the news, but you're loosing your credibility in the process.

In a democracy, why should Senator Clinton's loyalties to the democratic party transcend her loyalties to the 18 million Americans who voted for her? In a democracy, why should the self interest of a few hundred party delegates transcend 18 million popular votes? Although Senator Clinton is being made out to be the spoiler, I see the DNC as the spoiler of democracy ... that's why I'm a democrat of 40 years, who will be voting for McCain in November.

Like many Clinton supporters, I don't like Obama ... I can not longer recognize, nor do I like the Democratic party anymore ... therefore, I wish Hillary would run as an Independent. It's worked for other candidates ... like Joe Leiberman. At least as an independent democracy would prevail if Hillary won the popular vote ... again.

I'm sick of all these people who are calling for Clinton to drop out. They are probably quitters in their own lives, or they'd admire Hillary's tenacity, and know that is one of the most important qualities of a leader. In addition, the foundation of a democratic society is to count ALL the votes, and not to prematurely pull the rug, just to serve the needs of a particular political party. I've also noticed that most of the anti-Hillary postings do not attack her on substantive issues, but instead merely consist of nasty insults. This says more about Senator Clinton's detractors than about Mrs. Clinton. Also, the lock-step nature of the anti-Hillary blogs appear to be a coordinated and organized effort by the Obama campaign.

what about larry sinclair it must be reported even if he is a black man its called being in the down low

Regarding Barack Obama and my reasons for not liking him and not voting for him.

Many of them are logical and I cannot debate his supporters who come back with illogical responses based on personal jabs and loss for words thus things like "You're a waste of time."

I also have gut feelings about him that aren't quantifiable but they are logical.

Since we don't know a lot about him, since he doesn't have as much of a history as Hillary Clinto for us to say, "OK, he is a pretty responsible person, he doesn't have a chip on his shoulder about being an "African" American (he really isn't but I suppose that's neither here nor there in most instances), he is definitely completely PRO USA and has no ties or allegiances to Farrakhan, etc.

I am still perplexed about his membership in a church (Christian?), that aligns itself with Farrakhan, a Muslim (another reason for my gut feeling).

He goes back on his promises, votes present in IL senate to preseve HIS political standing rather than trying to go on record as opposing a bill in it's final form or better yet, CHANGE IT! WORK TO CHANGE IT! THIS CANDIDATE OF CHANGE DOESN'T SEEM TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS IN IL VERY EFFECTIVELY!

He said he would not run for president in 2008. Then he said it was due to wanting more experience, etc. OK, so according to some of his supporters here, he was told what a wonderful candidate he would be.

This just proves that what he says today in his campaining can DEFINITELY be manipulated and changed by OTHERS. He can be made to change HIS mind and go against his own promises and visions.

So that among many other things makes me wonder what changes we can believe in today which he will go back on tomorrow.

He is too raw, new, inexperienced and flaky to have my vote.

Mrs. Clinton receives MONEY from SPECIAL INTERESTS and the wealthy!
This sounds like her husbands former NAFTA policy and the Swift Boat camp!
However, I feel sorry for all these wealthy lobbyists and Washington insiders because they are just going to lose their money when Barack wins Ohio and Texas by a landslide! Why not give all of that money to CHARITY???

A Hillary PAC running positive ads now is like Hillary finding her voice in New Hampsire - fatally late and amazingly clueless that it is. Besides, how's that supposed to play with her scalding (and came off as scolding) actions over his mailers? Schizophrenic. Disorganized. Desperate. Done.

Hillary seems flustered and she just didnt expect to overtaken at this stage.. Everything she does seems just plain wrong.. She is so negative in her approach, And her speeches are so put on and appear desperate. Dynasty politics never work.. Cause, It will be nothing but a re-trial of a 'legacy' of failed domestic policies.. Yes, the Clintons maybe more experienced when it come foreign affairs.. But things should change at the national level.. And thats where the charisma of an Obama is needed. Fresh Ideas and a Positive approach.

Yes, Bill Clinton got elected for the same reason Barack Obama will be..

Sometimes, things are better left in the past. A Clinton is very much like the wonder years of a child.. Yes, We must'nt forget the lessons we learnt in our childhood, but at some point in time, We need to grow up. I ask all americans to accept a "change" that is inevitable. It should not have taken so long, but the time has come.

Don't let all the "ads,surrogates,mailers" make your decision about who you support. Listen to the candidates, compare their policies. How do they behave under pressure, how do they behave in success and in defeat? Who has taken the most and lowest shots at the other.
Do you want 4 more years of the Clinton-Bush "monarchy"? Is it time to bring new ideas and a new politics? It is the young voters who should care as they will be here to clean up the mess created by the current generation of long term politicians and politics as usual.
If nominations are won in the same old way using the same old politics - why would anyone think that they won't get the same old thing?
A novel concept is to let the voters speak and have the final vote as to the nominee.
Negative shots, negative ads and tearing the candidates down wll destroy the Democratic party and will give the White House to the Republicans.
Think about what you say, think about what you want, think about the conduct of the candidates, their surrogates and the 527's that back them.
Will you be a part of new politics and new ideas or will you fall for the old style of politics and more of the same?

OBAMA SUPPORTERS: Obama needs more hope.

According to the Chicago Tribune, Antoin "Tony" Rezko, one of Obama's main political contributors, was arrested Monday morning for concealing a $3.5 million payment the indicted slumlord received from a Beruit company tied to a certain Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi billionaire embroiled in a corruption scandal in France.
Antoin "Tony" Rezko was roused at daybreak Monday from his Wilmette mansion by federal agents and ordered jailed by a judge who was disturbed that the politically connected businessman concealed a $3.5 million payment from overseas. ...
Prosecutors alleged the $3.5 million wire transfer to Rezko came from Beirut through a company led by a controversial Iraqi-born billionaire who has controlled banks, casinos, telecommunications companies and pharmaceutical firms spanning the globe.
Nadhmi Auchi, who heads General Mediterranean Holding SA, or GMH, bought about 15 Wisconsin pizzerias from Rezko, court records show, and took a stake in Rezko's most ambitious real estate venture--his effort to develop a 62-acre site at Roosevelt Road and Clark Street.
Auchi participated in more than just Rezko's pizza and property ventures, however; he also contributed to Barack Obama's campaign by donating to a 2005 fundraiser through a company of which is wife is a Director. I quote the relevant paragraph from a London Times exclusive"
The Times has, however, discovered state documents in Illinois recording that the Panamanian company Fintrade Services SA lent money to Mr Obama's fundraiser in May 2005. Fintrade's directors include Ibtisam Auchi, the name of Mr Auchi's wife. Mr Auchi's spokesman declined to respond to a question about whether he was linked to this business.

The donation is significant, for some believe Barack Obama may be one of the unnamed "Illinois government officials" mentioned in the following ABC News report on the FBI affidavit filed in US Attorney Fitzgerald's case against Rezko before Obama's political godfather was arrested on Monday:
According to an FBI affidavit filed in the case, Rezko sought to get a visa for Auchi to visit the United States by contacting "certain Illinois government officials."

Rezko sought the visa on behalf of his friend in 2004, and Rezko helped Obama finance the real estate transaction involving his Kenwood mansion in 2005. We also learn today that Auchi's company has deleted information on two websites regarding Auchi's visit to Illinois in 2004 upon hearing that rumors of a meeting between Auchi and Obama are circulating in the US.

Why did Auchi donate to an Obama fundraiser in 2005? Did Obama meet Auchi during the spring of 2004? What was Obama's role in Rezko's request for a visa clearance for Auchi? And why did Rezko financially assist the Obama family less than one year later when they jointly purchased property in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago?

MyDD:Obama, Rezko, Auchi, 2005 Donations

I think if obama wins the nominee, it would be a cake walk for the republican machinery to work, it will be very difficult for him to survive the conservative 527 group attack, it would go some thing like "would you want america to be ruled by a Hussein ?" That is all it takes for the poll numbers to tumble.

I think this election is clear now itself who will be the president, there is too much hype and hoopla going in the media, I don't understand why CNN has to hype their polls towards one candidate they like.

The 527 have the power to tilt the election as they did for john kerry, hillary has a chance in fighting but still McCain will win.

Howard Deen where are you???

Will you let the Clintons get away with this under-the-table-sleeze? No wonder Bill was not at the debate, he is in a back room approving and directing all the ads for this 527 project of corruption.

I can't believe one of the guys on the list above is from the kerry/edwards 2004 campaign. Yuck!

Please, please great spirit do not tell me that Edwards is backing her. If he does, he will forever disappoint his former supporters and loose all political credibility.

The underhanded dealings going on for her kept her from totally wigging out tonight at the debate.

Being European, and kind of indifferent, I 'm right now even more appalled at the first couple of comments then at the actual article. I don't know when people are going to realize it but it's all the negativism that's just undermining all credibility and dignity. If this is how you treat your fellow patriots, using this kind of negative attacks against a pretty impressive phenomenon, you've got a lot to learn.... O8

To the poster below, you should also add L-I-A-R to the list to describe Obama.

Apparently, as a state senator, Barack Obama wrote letters to city and state officials supporting his political patron Tony Rezko’s successful bid to get more than $14 million from taxpayers to build apartments for senior citizens.

Interestingly, the deal included $855,000 in development fees for Rezko and his partner, Allison S. Davis, Obama’s former boss, according to records from the project, which was four blocks outside Obama’s state Senate district.

Obama’s letters, written nearly nine years ago, for the first time show the Democratic presidential hopeful did a political favor for Rezko — a longtime friend, campaign fund-raiser and client of the law firm where Obama worked — who was indicted last fall on federal charges that accuse him of demanding kickbacks from companies seeking state business under Gov. Blagojevich.

The letters appear to contradict a statement last December from Obama, who told the Chicago Tribune that, in all the years he’s known Rezko, “I’ve never done any favors for him.”

Can we all say hypocrite really loudly and slowly??

For more than five weeks during the brutal winter of 1997, tenants shivered without heat in a government-subsidized apartment building on Chicago’s South Side.

It was just four years after the landlords — Antoin “Tony” Rezko and his partner Daniel Mahru — had rehabbed the 31-unit building in Englewood with a loan from Chicago taxpayers.

Rezko and Mahru couldn’t find money to get the heat back on.

But their company, Rezmar Corp., did come up with $1,000 to give to the political campaign fund of Barack Obama, the newly elected state senator whose district included the unheated building.

Obama has been friends with Rezko for 17 years. Rezko has been a political patron to Obama and many others, helping to raise millions of dollars for them through his own contributions and by hosting fund-raisers in his home.

Obama, who has worked as a lawyer and a legislator to improve living conditions for the poor, took campaign donations from Rezko even as Rezko’s low-income housing empire was collapsing, leaving many African-American families in buildings riddled with problems — including squalid living conditions, vacant apartments, lack of heat, squatters and drug dealers.

I think the Republicans will eat Obama alive. All the more reason to jump on the McCain bandwagon now.

Unfortunately Obama has become enbroiled in various dealings with less than ethical characters. His campaign (for the Senate and now the democratic race) accepted money/cash from various coporations, and various figures. Obviously he has made so many promises to everyone he is stretching out his hand to, that I wonder if he'll be able to keep all his promises straight.

Regardless, another relationship which will cause him future problems include his relationship with William Ayers, a University of Illinois professor and former member of a left-wing terrorist group that planted bombs in U.S. federal buildings in the 1970s.

Ayers served with Obama on the board of the Woods Fund, an antipoverty group, from 1999 to 2002, and donated money to his 2001 Illinois state Senate campaign.

WILL THE CLINTON'S FRIENDS "BODYCOUNT" RISE BEFORE THIS ELECTION IS OVER, IN ORDER TO CONFIRM A WIN?

Do you know that Obama is being endorsed by the P.R. man for President Bush. I saw the article on MSN news. That's something to think about.

He QUIT McCain's campaign because he said that he respected Obama and could not stomach the kind of smear ads that would he would be forced to use to bring him down.

I don't see Obamamaniacs, I see Hillarymaniacs who support a war monger who doesn't see anything wrong with cluster bombing children and voted for the Kyl-Lieberman bill. The Hillary supporters ARE undeducated, old women. I am a woman, but I can certainly tell the difference between a candidate of quality (read about his agenda instead of parroting that he has no plan)and a selfish, unfulfilled, unproductive, war hawk candidate. The Hillarymaniacs can vote for McCain if they so choose. It would be like voting for Hillary.