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The GOP wants obama to be the dem nomination - so no matter who wins the presidency Mccain or Obama - either way there is a republican in the white house. Both want the war to continue..don't believe it? Read the facts about obama that the mainstream media doesn't tell you about.

If Hillary Clinton wins by either using stealing delegates, including Michigan and Florida tallies as is (without re-votes), or using superdelegates, I can almost guarantee riots.

And I can guarantee that the vast majority of black people will never vote for her. Al Sharpton is planning on bringing a law suit if they try anything that disenfranchises voters (such as the many people who even NPR has reported did not vote because they knew the rules) in Florida.

Keep the hope people. We will not let the Hillary Clinton campaign get away with this kind of hypocrisy and theft of democracy.

I think the way of selecting a candidate by caucus should be banned in all of the states, including Iowa. Caucuses only give the people who have time to participate a role in selecting the candidate. They are only for a few hours and if you’re a little late to bad, you’re out. Here in Washington State the parties decided to have caucuses this year, I had to work during the caucus and was unable to attend. I feel cheated out of my vote and hope someone files a lawsuit to stop this practice of selecting a candidate by caucuses. I think it leaves out a large number of voters who would like to participate.

geevill, Greg Craig has worked on national security/foreign affairs - under Bill Clinton's adminsitration. according to the Washington Post (11/19/98), "Craig was the State Department's director of policy planning,... He also served as the U.S. special coordinator on Tibet, managing a critical piece of the Sino-American relationship."

He has also had some interesting clients. As an attorney, he defended William Jefferson Clinton - during his impeachment trial - for lying to the American people.

How common it is of ABC to cover up and lie for Democrats. Governor of new York and you cannot even say that he was a democrat. If that would have been a republican, it would have been your lead story and republican would have been mentioned in every sentence.
If I were standing in front of you I would spit right in your bias face.

Caucuses allow for paid political activist to participate as well as individuals from other parties to influence the vote. You figure out who has spent the most money.

Well said and AMEN SadStateOfAffairs

Oh Come ON!! Barack doesn't need to sift for delegates when he can get them the old fashion (chicago/Capone)way. Just continue threatening them into submission. Sheeesh......don't make it so complicated.

Note to antoineb: Senator Clinton did not campaign in FL and MI. On the other hand, Obama had major advertising in FL prior to the FL primary.

It is the one inviolable rule of party politics; don't promote the other party's candidate at the expense of your own.
In the past couple of weeks, Senator Hillary Clinton has violated that cardinal rule again and again.
She violated one other by campaigning in FL and MI
CLINTON-BUSH DINASTY (Following chelsea-jeb in 2012?)

why does ABC News include the Michigan and Florida popular vote and delgates in their count pushed on their Politics home page?

No other major media outlet is doing this

It is misleading and confusing and should reflect the actual state of the race and through today Florida and Michigan are not seated

Look at this Obama policy adviser Greg Craig. You want this guy working on National Security?

Mr. Craig has had many controversial and high profile clients during his career. In one of his first high-profile cases,
Mr. Craig represented John Hinckley, Jr., the would-be assassin of President Ronald Reagan in 1981-1982. Craig was the architect of Hinkley's successful insanity defense.[8]

He represented his former boss, Senator Edward Kennedy, during the 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith.[9]

Let us look at the current situation from the different perspective and assume the hypothetical situation that Clinton was out in super Tuesday. The media would have lost lots of advertising revenue because the viewership would have lost to some junk serial or Reality show as there is less to discuss about Obama's past and nothing to discuss about McCain. I saw two reference to McCain in the abcnews Political Headlines. (Both the headlines were for VP.) Now, assume that both select woman VP(Condi Rice for McCain and also assume that Obama would have selected woman other than Hillary). So, there would be very few spark between democrats and republicans. The election coverage would gain momentum in last couple of months and the voters would have been scratching their head and saying that both guys have woman VP and one of the guy says he opposed the war and the other guys says he supported war and will stay in Iraq for sometime. Does any one of them is really useful? Hopefully not. Economy has further tanked. Should I flip my coin and vote or should I buy some beer instead of wasting $4/gallon on gas?

You are not a hard-working democrat if you will help put a Republican in the White House over anyone who believes in core Democratic values. Hard-working, maybe, but not a democrat.

The democratic process is sooooo ridiculous. If McCain is elected president it has nothing to do with Hillary or Obama but everything to do with people just preferring things to be SIMPLE. My goodness, there is a caucus, a primary, wait the caucus isn't official, and then in Texas a caucus and a primary. All these processes and no one is still at the goal of 2024 or is 2025. Somehow i feel like that number changed before my very eyes and I am left wondering how did that change to a 4. The democratic party needs to review their nominating process for the next 4 years. MAKE IT SIMPLE!!!

I will vote for McCain if Hillary is nominated. Her throw the kitchen, racially cloaked politics doesn't deserve my vote. The media knows it, as we all do. She's determined to destroy a good person. He may not be perfect, but I see and hear in him the good he trying to do for the country.

Remember: United we stand, divided we fall.

As an honest, hard working democrat, I will vote republican before I stand for a woman who is obviously trying to deceitfully steal the election from Senator Obama.

so for all her bluster about the will of the people, it still boils down to backdoor powerbroking. You can't win the vote, then work the politics. If Obama was so overtly trying to overturn these processes, you would be callign foul!

What Rhetoric!

Did Hillary fight through to get where she is now by herself or is it because her husband's presidency that gave her easy ride? What Experience is she mentioning or claiming to have, that would make her commander in chief?? Has she ever been on a decision making position at all that has affected AMERICANS?? Is she surrounded by super delegates because of her husband or herself? Who is running the presidency, Bill or Hillary? Is Bill Clinton fighting for His third term in the white house?

Hillary and her husband Bill Clinton are big players, I don’t think they are after the success of the Democratic Party rather they are feeding their own egos. Her selfish speech explains that she is endorsing Senator McCain as a fellow contestant and putting Senator Obama down as an opponent republican. I don’t think she has any stand at all to run the presidency against Senator McCain, because she has already endorsed him to be the best president who brings a life time experience. Who do you think is going to win the battle over a life time experience? Of course it is Senator John McCain who has 50+ years experience who is now 71 years old. That is why I am saying she is running a campaign against Senator Obama, the DEMOCRATIC PARTY and herself. And watch! Senator McCain will use this against her or Obama and the Democratic Party on the general election. I have a message for Senator Clinton that Senator Obama is not your opponent rather he is your party met or contestant.

Both the Clinton’s are looking for to have a great time in the white house, spending their late life in comfort. That is why they are fighting hard. She is not tested in her life time to take up 3 am phone call or to be a president. All what she claims to have doesn’t put her right above Senator Obama. As far as the truth goes this is the biggest failure of the Democratic Party failing to intervene in this circumstance and take a stand to stop the Senator’s nasty rhetoric. If they are not doing anything about it and if the so called super delegates shift towards Clinton ignoring the voice of the delegates and independent and democratic voters…. Then my vote goes to Senator John McCain at the general election.

Smarts helps win an election, and smarts helps run a country.

Hillary has solutions for the tough issues we face!

God bless Hillary and the USA.

I think that MI and FL should be seated at 50/50 and the superdelegates can cast their vote as they choose. I don't see anything else as being viewed as fair by either camp.

Go Hillary!