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Genna it is irrelevant what you are talking about. There is absolutely, positively nothing Obama has done to prove himself worthy. Nothing ! Oh Other than talk, talk, talk, talk, talk and more talking, and he can do that quite well. If that's all you need for him to prove himself worthy than I guess his is the man for the job. If you go onto the Congressional pages and see his voting record since he's been in the Senate that's even a joke. It isn't anymore spectacular than the other candidates...in fact compared to some it is quite poor. When ask why he later retracted some of the votes he had previously cast. This dim wit says quote "I didn't understand what that meant". What!!! What!!! So, when you're in the White House you are going to say duh I didn't understand what that meant.... yeah right get a life! He hasn't done anything! Poof* came out from nowhere,some folk have gone as far as to call him the second coming of Christ....that is deep. Too deep for me. I'm not that shallow, nor am I a follower, or a conformist. He's just another candidate that happen to have a darker hue than most, running in a political race, with the gift for gab. To tell the truth he's a joke.... Yeah I said it! I'm a black woman, I say that with conviction and could care less what people think about it black or white... I will say it again "HE IS A JOKE". How unfortunate he had to be the one to represent the Black Community.

If she declared the forces aligned against her the vast right conspiracy one year to suit the trials and tribulations, then she walks away from that concern when it is politically expedient now. My question becomes: who is Hillary really?

She and Bill asked us to fight these people during his presidency. Now that she is making nice with them and their tactics, have they had the kinds of change of heart that forces one to forgive and to forget? What evidence do they have especially when they want her to go negative on Obama?

I don't know what they, Scaife and the Clintons, have in mind but I don't think it will be good for progressive. She accused Obama of loving Reagan, but she cuddles up to the people who wasted our taxpayer dollars on investigating the US President for 8 years.

I don't look favorably on the investigations or her choice to associate with the agents of intolerance.

Food for thought: It does seem as if something is going on. We went through an office of 100 racially mixed employees today, came out with a strong Hillary support. Polls say Obama is LEADING Hillary almost in double digits. I don't think so! I think the Republicans are looking for an easy win...Knowing that Obama (REGARDLESS OF DELEGATES)is not going win. COMMON SENSE tells us that if it were easier for McCain to beat Hillary (since her ratings are so poor)wouldn't that make better sense to place her in the lead more so than Obama. Because the polls are media based information. Personally I'm not buying all this OBAMA love. Too many contradictions coming out of his OWN mouth. No one in their right mind would vote for ANYONE that was associated to someone that they found later to be a bigot. It seems as if they are trying SO HARD to trash Hillary. No she shouldn't concede, she's right. I wouldn't either.

You guys just don't get it. Hillary is getting in bed big time with the ultra right-wing republicans; that's the whole point of this article that you seem to be missing. It's not a good thing that she was endorsed by this ultra-conservative rag.

Think! Her supporter praised FOX today; she has praised McCain repeatedly, and is working cooperatively on many fronts with the right-wing media to take Obama down. If she can't win, she is taking the Democratic party down with her.

Wake up Democrats; you are falling right into the trap of Clinton/Republicans, and this country will pay for it dearly.

I read it somewhere that Obama is inclined to favor Reagan and Bush Sr. economic policy, supply-side economy. Is this the kind of liberal thoughts that people who call themselves liberals want. I thought such policy has resulted our current woes. Can good reporters report this!

when Obama overstated, the written article classified it as myth and "not true" when Clinton overstated it becomes a lie. When will this end, glossing over Obama imperfections and big bold highlight over Clinton imperfections. Both are imperfect. I think Obama's true nature is telling when he equates his grandmother with the bigot Wright. I think his mother is crying now to see what Obama has become, belittling blood relatives and praising social relatives. Wow!

A positive story about Hillary Clinton? Well keep going, please! Why doesn't the U.S. media report on Obama's campaign owing $625,000 in unpaid bills? I have to read foreign newspapers to get ANY information about Barack.

I know one thing Obama has been too quiet, and polite for the last couple days. Telling the press "Clinton should keep on running". WATCH!!! All of sudden something is going to come up AGAIN about Hillary. He's extremely slithery just like a snake. Have to give it to her the woman is resilient. She's more woman, than he is a man.

Forgive my naiviete', but maybe she was taking a high road with a former "enemy". I don't think it was Faustian for her to respond to an interview request with his Pittsburgh paper.

Writer's blog question: What do you think is going on here?

what I think is going on here as usual, is that a schoolyard type agitator is trying to "set up" those he does not like. Hoping "bullies" will do his job for him, while he sits back out of the fray.

Seems as if said writer/agitator simply is so blinded by his own inadequacies, that he must constantly rip and tear at a "very adequate female Presedential" candidate.

If HRC talks to the press, any and all press including conservative, she has somehow "wounded" the ego of those such as the writer.

What a disaster today's media has become. They carp and pule more than any candidate could begin to. However, in this case, and for this blog writer, anything re HRC seems personal!

Obama can play as a nice guy, for sure.
Pretending he is okay with Hillary stays longer on this race but push her from behind with using all the super delegates' hands.

Anyway, she is a tough, smart and she will survive.

DC Voter
But the Clinton campaign has yet to pay Forty Two for two other February events, and the employee said the campaign has stopped returning phone calls, e-mails and didn’t respond to a certified letter.

But ....but...Hillary already said she couldn't worry about every under capitalized business in the US. It's not Hillary's fault this vendor can't make an unplanned donation to her campaign. (heavy sarcasm)

Listening to all the cons (and too few pros) of the candidates I end up wondering which of these candidates will screw of my life the least.

My answer is McCain. I think he'll try to protect us while interfering in my life the least. Obama's agenda is a mystery and Hillary is a control freak with a plan she has devised for everything. ARRGH! I don't want Hillary running my life! All this government interference usually make matters worse - which must be why the federal government's main responsibility was SUPPOSED to be protecting us as a whole from foreign dangers. But the politicians love invading our lives and calling it "help" because they can raise taxes which increases the cash flow at their disposal. Anyone surprised that a good get rich quick scheme is getting elected to political office?

All this talk about how the government is going to get us jobs, etc is just hogwash to manipulate the masses. Most of us can do better left to our own devices if the politicians would get their mitts off our wallets.

Debra Starks has heard the calls for Hillary Rodham Clinton to quit the presidential race, and she's not happy about it.

The 53-year old Wal-Mart clerk, so bedecked with Clinton campaign buttons most days that friends call her "Button Lady," thinks sexism is playing a role in efforts to push the New York senator from the race. Starks wants Clinton to push back.

"The way I look at it, she's a strong woman and she needs to stay in there. She needs to fight," Starks said at a Clinton campaign rally. "If you want to be president, you have to fight for what you want. If she stays in there and does what she's supposed to do, I think she'll be on her way."

Amid mounting calls from top Democrats for Clinton to step aside and clear the path for rival Barack Obama, strategists are warning of damage to the party's chances in November if women - who make up the majority of Democratic voters nationwide, but especially the older, white working-class women who've long formed the former first lady's base - sense a mostly male party establishment is unfairly muscling Clinton out of the race.

"Women will indeed be upset if it appears people are trying to push Hillary Clinton out of the way," said Carol Fowler, the South Carolina Democratic Party chair who is backing Obama. "If you are going to ask her to withdraw, you'd better be making a strong case for it - both to the candidate and the public."

Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy last week became the first leading Democrat to openly call on Clinton to abandon her bid and back Obama, a sentiment shared by many activists worried that a drawn-out nominating contest only bolsters Republican nominee-in-waiting John McCain.

Other Obama supporters have echoed that view while stopping short of asking Clinton to withdraw.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Sunday called Obama's lead all but insurmountable, while Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry said the contest would be reaching "a point of judgment" very soon.

"I don't think it's up to our campaign or any individual to tell Hillary Clinton or their campaign when that is," Kerry, the 2004 Democratic nominee, said on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday. "But there will be, I think, a consensus about it, and I think it's going to occur over these next weeks."

To be sure, Clinton campaign officials concede her path to winning the nomination is not at all clear.

She almost certainly will end the primary season narrowly trailing Obama in the popular vote and among pledged delegates unless the nullified primaries in Florida and Michigan are counted - an unlikely scenario at best. But Obama is unlikely to end the race with the 2,024 pledged delegates needed to win outright either, meaning the nominee will be determined by roughly 800 "superdelegates" - elected officials and party insiders who can back whichever candidate they want.

Most observers believe the superdelegates are unlikely to risk an intraparty uproar - not to mention the ire of black voters thrilled to support a black candidate - by siding with Clinton if Obama maintains his lead among pledged delegates.

But Clinton advisers believe many superdelegates remain at least persuadable, due in no small part to the influence of women voters on the party and in the general election.

"My e-mail is bursting with women who are furious, and it's grown in the last week," said Ann Lewis, Clinton's director of women's outreach and a longtime Democratic activist.

"These women are the volunteer infrastructure of the Democratic Party who've been proud to support Democratic officials for what they believe and stand for," Lewis said. "They are very angry that people they've worked for so hard would be so dismissive of Hillary and, by extension, of them and what they value."

Indeed, the gender gap in most of the primaries thus far has been stark.

In California, Clinton bested Obama by a margin of 59 percent to 36 percent among women. She beat him by 54 percent to 45 percent among women in Ohio, an important general election battleground state.

Obama, in turn, has walloped Clinton among men in nearly every state. But he's prevailed among women in just a handful of places, including his home state of Illinois and states with large black populations.

For his part, the Illinois senator - whose seemingly disrespectful crack of "You're likable enough, Hillary" during a debate with Clinton may have cost him the New Hampshire primary - said Saturday he did not believe Clinton should end her campaign.

"My attitude is Senator Clinton can run as long as she wants," Obama said in Pennsylvania, which holds its primary April 22.

Nine more primaries follow, ending June 3.

Clinton insists she's in it to the end, saying a "spirited contest" is good for the party and ultimately will produce a stronger nominee.

"There are millions of reasons to continue this race: people in Pennsylvania, Indiana and North Carolina, and all of the contests yet to come," she told reporters Friday in Hammond, Ind. "This is a very close race and clearly I believe strongly that everyone should have their voices heard and their votes counted."

Campaigning across the state Saturday, Clinton was greeted by large, heavily female crowds that shouted "You go, sister!" and "We've got your back!" in support of her pioneering candidacy. Indiana votes May 6.

Marie Wilson, president of the White House Project that trains women to run for office, noted that women typically have rallied around Clinton when she's appeared most vulnerable - from the revelations of her husband's dalliance with White House intern Monica Lewinsky to January's New Hampshire primary after the bruising loss to Obama in Iowa.

"Women have always been asked to step aside if it was somehow for the greater good. In this case, Clinton, and a lot of her female supporters, clearly feel that she would make the better president and that it would not be for the greater good for her to step aside," Wilson said.

@Carpenter.nyc

"My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world.
I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it." -- Barack Obama
LOL right

Is Scaife getting back at his wife?

"The Clintons have been through it already, and come out stronger."

mmm... maybe Hillary didn't come out so strong after all, for is she is losing this race.

And if she losing this race because of Obama's toughness, one might conclude that he is a better and stronger fighter than both Clinton AND the GOP that has NOT been able to tear her down.

Thinking, Rush Limbaugh is not promoting Sen. Clinton over Sen. Obama because he wants her to get the nomination or is afraid of Sen. Obama. Rush just wants the fight to continue. That's why he calls his effort Operation Chaos.

Folks, the discussion of everyone having medical insurance is really a sham. In one of the debates where Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton detailed their health care plans, Sen. Clinton stated that under her plan those individuals who are currently pleased with their medical insurance can keep that plan..."FOR NOW!" The reason she is so vague about how she will force everyone to obtain medical insurance, is because she will eventually have every covered under Medicare or a similar bureaucracy. She intends to eliminate private medical insurance.

Now as for universal womb-to-tomb health care, be very careful what you ask for. Do your homework. Once the federal government takes over the health care system you will not be able to sue for malpractice should something go wrong. But even more importantly, under the guise of preventative health care the bureaucrats will tell us what we can or cannot eat and drink, and tell us what products we can or cannot purchase.

Don't just shrug this off! It is already happening! Not just in other countries with socialized health care, but right here at home. Some states are already considering forcing us to eliminate the traditional light bulbs and replace them with the compact fluorescent light bulbs. That might sound great until you realize just how much mercury is in these spiral light bulbs. Mercury is a potent neurotoxin, and it's especially dangerous for children and fetuses. One woman learned the hard way. When her daughter broke one of these light bulbs, her daughter became extremely ill. And it cost the woman $5,000 to have a company come in and decontaminate the room. Again, do your homework!

@ Cindy

Hillary won Florida fair and square.

Obama had ads on TV and his supporters had life size cut outs of him, so he wasn't this "unknown" candidate in that.

The real problem is Michigan.

"She's currently behind Obama by 700,000 votes"

Make that 814,000; check realclearpolitics for these numbers.