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Harry Reid, D-Nev., pooh-poohed talk of deep divisions being created by the protracted Democratic presidential contest."The negative toll on Obama and Clinton will end five minutes after the nominee is chosen.
If Obama is chosen 29% of Hillary's supporters will jump ship. IF Hillary is chosen 16% of the Obama's voters will jump ship.
Not the Canadates but the DNC better get their act together. This is not a slam dunk shoo in for dems. Alot of Pugs are switching parties to throw their numbers off.

Im a Florida voter and unless my vote is counted and the florida delegates are seated then and only then will this voter decide to vote at all. Im not alone and there is over 1.7 million voters who have been disenfrancised.

HoosierSue:
Have your children look for
Larry Sinclair's
relationship with
Senator Obama!

Jgaw, the part of 1990s which were horrible include Scandals related to the Clintons, House and Senat taken over by republicans, presidency taken over by the republicans, bombardements of Bosnia, etc. The only one candidate who has a plan to stop the war in Irak, make college affordable, address the economic recession, unite America and get it back to lead the world,is Obama. God bless America and God bless Obama. OBAMA087.

no, we want the person who has a plan to
end the war
bring universal healthcare for all
make college affordable for all young people who want it
get this economy back on track

which part of the 1990's didn't you like?

"The Peace or the Prosperity"-Hillary Clinton

Hillary will get the job done.

Someone stated here that our kids can be trusted to choose our next leader (Obama) because they're wise since they can google anything. Apparently they aren't googling or they would not be falling for Obama's "Yes we can!" hook, line, and sinker. Hitler targeted youth. Think about it.

Why sure, why not? Then oyu can pretend that diversity is a bad thing.

Actually, the idea of an Independant party is an oxy-moron, and offensive to me.

That would just make Independant thinking more of an abstract, and all independant thought would be attached to other members of that party, rather than being seen as an individuals ideas of their own.

Being an independant means independant. Sure a democt or a republican can get my vote, but I owe allegiance to neither of them.

pp: it's called "Take It Back"? And it's by Carville and Begala? I'll check it out. I LOVE James Carville---he's so funny, smart, and respectful----all in ONE. And-----his wife is a Republican. What a couple----I'll bet they have no problem with conversation!

Well, goodnight all....it's getting late for me.....see you again on the blogs!

hillary is the one--this may well open up a can of worms, but is not the intent. carville and begala wrote a tremendous book for the democrats called "take it back". among many of their ideas/suggestions was a way to finance the elections. really some pretty cool ideas about most issues facing all of us.. if you are really interested in solutions,ideas, and how to shape their presentation in a way that really explains where we as democrats are(were) coming from, it may be interesting for you to read.
hope we both can find our new "home".

....and I KNOW....all of you "Independent Party" people out there will scream, "THERE IS A 3RD PARTY---the INDEPENDENTS !!!!".

I am talking about a 2nd, similiar Party for Democratic candidates, as the ONE Democratic Party is getting too diverse.

pp: I have to agree with you, actually.....after this election I hope that there is a 3rd Party, also----people need more than 2 choices. It's to their advantage.

I almost wish we could follow other countries' leads and cut our Nomination selection elections and Presidential Elections down to just 6 months and limit the amount spent to a certain reasonable amount, that is THE SAME FOR ALL CANDIDATES---"hey, candidate----that $ amount is ALL YOU GET, and you ALSO have only 6 MONTHS to campaign, too" !!

No, I see CLEARLY what you were saying and I reposted it. What I was asking was... why? Why did you say it in the first place when CLEARLY it has nothing to do with the issue? And why are you avoiding owning up to it now that it is in plain sight?

Give it UP, James in Idaho.......you clearly do not understand what I was saying, and NOTHING I say is gonna get you to see what I was saying......

As well, you avoided answering the quesiton...

"I don't have a problem with black people. I would vote for a black candidate for President----a man OR woman, but not this obama candidate, who is "mixed" and not a good leader-----THAT is why I won't vote for him. He isn't a good "leader"."

Oh, I see, so you don't have a problem with black people... just mixed people?

Again, why is it an issue?

hillaryis the one,
the solution is probably going to be a viable third party.
i am a die hard democrat, but after this nomination process, i may leave the party. i have just become to bitter and angry with so many of the party...peons like me, as well as, the big mucky-mucks, ie., superdelegates.

What is ironic about the Democrat Party is that it is hailed as the "Party of Diversity"----but as the years go on, this hailed description is becoming a divisive tool among "factions" and "special interests" in the Democratic Party-----we are almost TOO diverse to choose ONE SUITABLE CANDIDATE, because we all disagree-----and one person cannot be all things to all people. SOMEBODY that wants to be represented by a particular Candidate Nominee is gonna feel that THAT CANDIDATE does NOT SPEAK FOR ME.

I predict that this will get worse in election years to come for the Democratic Party.....and I SURE don't know what the solution is !!

I'm not being funny I am being observant, and as far as the rest of your post here... that's good for you... that's YOUR opinon. Do what you want, but in doing so don't just up and decide that anyone running against your candidate is Eeeeeeviiiiil. Which is certainly what is going on on many websites.

See?

James In Idaho: you are too funny !

I am voting for the BEST QUALIFIED PERSON and CANDIDATE.....that's Hillary Clinton, and I would vote for her if she were white, black, 1/2/ black and 1/2 white, or if she was green, or purple, or had tattoos all over her or if she wore pants suits all the time.....

I VOTE FOR HILLARY because she is the only one who will get our country back on the right track ASAP.

.. wasn't President Harding a tad Black?

If so, than b o couldn't even BE our first Black president ever?

Thus, everything is kosher, and you can ALL vote for the most qualified candidate and make her the First Woman President of these United States!

Give 'em hell, Hillary ;-)

Again... WHAT is your POINT? WHY bring it up at all if it is not an issue for YOU?

You don't see any others of us brigning that up because it's not an issue to us... we or more acurately ME... are just responding to what YOU have said, and VICKIE has said... see?!

"I don't have a problem with black people. I would vote for a black candidate for President----a man OR woman, but not this obama candidate, who is "mixed" and not a good leader-----THAT is why I won't vote for him. He isn't a good "leader"."

Oh, I see, so oyu don't have aproblem with black people... just mixed people?

Again, why is it an issue?

james in idaho, Conspiracy Theorist
here.
I replied to your note to me on the john legend post.

James in Idaho: I do not see black or mixed as a "problem"----you seem to, however----you called obama a "black man" in your earlier post, and I was pointing out to you that Barack obama is, in fact, FOR A FACT, NOT "BLACK, but 1/2 black and 1/2 white. His RACE is NOT solely "black".

....that's 9:37:22 PM Post, sorry !

Why is MIXED even an issue?

No, "James In Idaho"----go back and look at YOUR post tonight of 9:27:32 PM
and see where you say, ..."a woman, a black man, or a war hero".

I don't have a problem with black people. I would vote for a black candidate for President----a man OR woman, but not this obama candidate, who is "mixed" and not a good leader-----THAT is why I won't vote for him. He isn't a good "leader".

They devalue her campaign by bringing gender into it at all.

I wouldn't care if she was a hermaphrodite. Get it?! Her gender ISN'T an issue. YOU and people like oyu are PROMOTING it as an issue.

@Hillaryistheone

This was written earlier by mpwdc...

"I agree 100% with Vickie. Don't discount the millions of us out here. No way we will vote for Obama. He is bad news for the country.All these people swooning at his feet and don't even know what he's about.jgaw has it right too. Obama is taking advantage of the Black support for his own gains. I hope the Democratic Party bosses will come to their collective senses or we will have John McCain in The White House next January. Obama is a master at HOODWINKING and "OBAMBOOzaling".

I was responding. YOU on the other hand... use terms like Mulatto, and bring in the fraction of his genes as if that bares any relevance... which it does NOT. Get it?!

@pp

Apparently that IS the issue where HillaryistheOne is concerned.... otherwise, why keep bringing it up?

He also isn't just about pretty speeches, or at least he is to the same extent that Malcom X and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was, or Bobby Kennedy was. See what I mean?

The meat of his campaign is motivation. Bringing power back to the people where it belongs.
Does he have policies you and I disagree with? YES! That does not disqualify him as a viable candidate. Again, you seem to be more interested in delegitimizing his campaign efforts rather than putting forth viable reasons to elect either Hillary or McCain.

Spin is promoted over facts.
Obama votes present on a bill instead of yes or no that deals with Late term/partial birth Abortions... Spin; Obama promotes killing babies... fact; The bill was itself just a veiled attempt to turn doctors just doing their jobs into felons, and to criminalize all forms of abortion everywhere. It attempted to turn pregnancy into punishment.
Obama's pastor says controversial things about the government to the point of damnation and hellfire; spin... Obama is just another America hater posing as an American... Fact; What your pastor says has nothing to do with you. Seriously, that's like me maligning you because your neighbor was arrested last night for child molestation. Ya right, cause you knew about it and did nothing?

Seriously think about it before you jump off that cliff.

james...
it is not about "the black man" or the "woman". it is about electing into office the person with the best grasp of the issues, and a plan to address them. hillary has both. bho cannot talk extemporaniously on any of the issues, which speaks to his grasp of them. feel good speeches have no relative substance, yet are the meat of his campaign.

The part where that bares any relevance to the issue?

What part of irrelevant aren't you getting?

Sorry, but you're focusing in on nonsense issues. I wouldn't care if he was pink with purple and yellow polka dots.

Again, what's your point?

Oh, I know it's not a threat. I simply don't care.

If you wish to sabotage the democratic nomination then fine. I'm an independant. I vote for who I think will best lead this nation, not for the woman, the black, or the war hero.

You are so and so and I have heard you roar....

now what?

James in Idaho: what part "of obama is 1/2 black AND 1/2 white" don't you understand?

....and 5 minutes after the Democratic Nominee is chosen on July 1, if obama becomes the Nominee, we "other Democrats" who do not support obama will never give him our VALUABLE vote, and we will at that time know to:

a). Write Hillary Clinton's name in at
the General Election.

b). Choose NOT to vote at all.

c). Vote for McCain.

d). Vote for Nader.

It's not a threat, it's just "a matter of fact".....

By the way... will someone please tell Nader, McCain and Clinton there's a Corvair in the parking lot with their name on it.

As well, dear Vickie... go right ahead and write in her name. It will avail you not.

I find both humorous and disturbing this continuous notion of those who support Obama being classified as naive, and I find equally disturbing the increasing use of republican terms, and tactics, such as elitist, to classify hard working democrats.

More than that though, I see far more republicans looking in the mirror, and recognizing themselves discribed in unsavory terms, have taken those terms and leveled them at democrats.

Anything to pass the buck I guess.

Of course you agree with Vickie... You already did and there's no convincing you otherwise.

Look, just because a black man is elected and not a white man or a white woman, and just because it happens to be this particular black man, doesn't mean you all are gonna get left behind. Women's issues aren't going to be forgotten or ignored, even if you all are, white people's issues aren't going to get left behind or forgotten and the world ISN'T going to end.

Get it? jgaw is wrong too, and is most likely just an alter ego of a guy named homer, or pp, or maybe even you. That's what somepeople will do. Pretend that they are 50 diferent people in order to pretend that their ideas bare any relevance or credence.

"We do not give an idea credibility simply because this person or that person says it; for something to be credible, the idea itself must be WORTHY of credence."~ Toulmin

None of your suspicions, when compared against the facts, are worthy of credence. They do have credibility it appears, with those who already thought that way, however.

Barak Obama is not bamboozeling anyone nor hoodwinking anyone nor attempting to, nor has he any intent to, nor is he doing so inadvertantly, but I do see your need to promote such an idea, because otherwise... you may be overreacting.

It appears more likely to me that both conservatives and Clinton supporters are attempting to "wag the dog".

I agree 100% with Vickie. Don't discount the millions of us out here. No way we will vote for Obama. He is bad news for the country.All these people swooning at his feet and don't even know what he's about.jgaw has it right too. Obama is taking advantage of the Black support for his own gains. I hope the Democratic Party bosses will come to their collective senses or we will have John McCain in The White House next January. Obama is a master at HOODWINKING and "OBAMBOOzaling".

Gee, Vickie, thanks for that lovely, if hollow, diatribe.

Oh, brother! *rolls eyes*

I give Harry Reid as much Credibility as I do Farrakhan.

Dont' forget people... this is a man [reid] who interrupted Nancy Pelosi to wrap his smarmy hands around her shoulders as she was giving a speech to tell everybody how proud he was...

Shut up reid, and be a grown up and don't interrupt people when they're speaking... you'll get your turn.

Reid is being a FOOL if he and his DC elites think THIS typical white woman is going to kiss and make up with the Obamaroids and the Democratic Party in November. I'm either writing in Hillary's name or voting for Nader. I am finished with Harry Reid and his ilk. The DC elites don't pick the nominee...THE PEOPLE DO and if they think they can get away with this crap, they need to wake the heck up. They may get the black vote, but they are LOSING a LARGE % of the FEMALE vote...at least the "typical white" female vote which means the Democrats will lose in November. Idiots.

jgaw-WOW, you really blow my mind!!!i have read so many of your posts across the various topics on this site, and continue to be amazed at your insight. i do not think i have ever read anything on these sites that gives me the sense that the writer really is colorblind! i really am impressed, and moved, by your ability to do that. we could all learn from you. thanks so much, there is hope.

Obama is toast

Did anyone see Clinton on Cramer's Mad Money the other day? She was amazing and kept answering all of his rapid fire questions with clearly thought out solutions. If I EVER saw a session like that with Obama, I would have no problem supporting him in this primary election. She continually shows her command of the major issues and in this case, clear solutions for the ECONOMY.

MPWDC,

McCain might very well be my candidate. if I could get over hearing Reverend Wright's words ringing in my ears I like Obama also. I thought Obama could go a long way to end the race baiting but instead it just seems a whole lot worse now. That was very disappointing.

For certain...at this point my candidate is Anybody But Hillary!

ok, obama is on his network-cnn-telling people in north dakota what they should already know. I cannot believe how educated, intelligent people are so eager to have someone just bs to them. and they just lap it up. I have not listened to him today-I wonder if he has
used any of hillary' lines from yesterday?
If anyone would just listen to hillary and then listen to obama-their choice would be clear. Hillary-obama copies
her.

so many comments:
hillary does have plans in her platform that will help us all. to the person asking about taxes/health care in particular--hillary wants to recind the tax breaks for large corporations and the wealthiest of citizens. her health care plan also specifically says you can keep your own plan if you like it.
--what was bho going to do that is better?
i cannot believe anyone can make snide comments about people that had 10 mil in donations. besides tithing, i bet none of you have touched on that amount. (bho?) pretax, 10 mil is 10%, after taxes, which were 33 mil, the percentage was even more.(if not mistaken bho gave over 20 thousand to his "church" last year. Between he and his wife, that was not even the 10% tithe.)
reid and pelosi, first of all, for a life long democrat so excited we won the house and senate, they have been HUGE disappointments over a wide range, lterally all range, of issues. so for reid and pelosi, kerry, kennedy, richardson, dodd, et al, to support a smooth talker with no plan of his own, who lacks any substance but oratory, is if nothing else, for their own selfish gain. who do you think will be his advisors?
there is a HUGE divide in the party. i have never voted anything but a staright party ticket,going on 40 years, and i will not vote democrat this year if bho gets the nomination. there will forever be this chasm, there is no turning back, or way to make amends. the words have cut too deep for too long. the bho supporters have torn this party apart with their vile, hateful attacks on someone in their OWN PARTY. i hope they realise how badly they have hurt their candidate. I could never support bho after this process. if bho is the nominee i have no choice but to vote mccain.

I hate to say it but tune in to FOX News if you want a c;earer picture of Clinton,Obama and McCain. Sure, it is a conservation viewpoint but at least the candidates resemble themselves and are not Glossed over in Gold as one candidate is when viewing MSNBC

SuziQ: MaCain is the man for you!!!

the reason why I say he has torn the party apart with the help of the media-back when people (especially people in the black community) were still saying we do not know obama-if the media people had done their jobs back then-we would have known what we know now about obama and wright and there are a lot of people black and white who would not have thrown their vote away-buying into the designer-media sell of obama.
what were they doing-instead of trying to find out all about the new guy? running over the old stuff about the clintons-(what a lazy way to earn so much money) don't get out there and do some real investigating-recycle the old stuff-because we all know we can pacify the voters with clinton dirt-real or unreal. and while we are over there salivating-gritting and grinding our teeth about hate those clintons-the dem elite, far left of the party-slide obama right on by us. and after we get satisfied chewing on the clintons-we will then turn around and come to our senses just in time for John Mcain to become president mccain. and more war-and more bad ecomony.

what I know for sure-Hillary is being hit on every side, for every no good reason in the world. I think what the media, and the dem party are doing to hillary will backfire on them-they are just helping people pay more attention to hillary-and the more people pay attention and listen to her-and listen to obama-they know she is smarter than he is. the people in Pa are not stupid-they know obama compared to hillary-hillary is the best deal-obama is all speech-go back and listen to what hillary said yesterday at the mason hall and wait to hear it from obama.
and I agree with the talking head on this-obama did not go to tavis smileys state of the black union and he did not go to memphis yesterday-because he does not want to appear to be too pro black
and the sad thing is my black brothers and sisters cannot see this-they continue to blindly go into that voting booth and vote for him-and he has not promised to help their unique situation-and I do know the black djay are pumping them up to think-get obama in there and he will do this and that for you. and it simply is not true. I read notes yesterday from a patti, jay, chicagomom, and another person that said obama has done very little in the district that he represents. Why are we not hearing more about that.
And as a black woman supporting hillary I am not ashamed to say it again
if hillary were a black woman/man candidate and going through what she is going through-foul would have been being yelled from the roof tops-
I do not understand why more moderate dems are not outraged and what is being done to hillary.
I still believe she will prevail-
right will always win out.
obama has not been vetted enough
his marxist mother-rev. wright
this man cannot unite the country
he and his handlers with the help of the media have torn the dem party apart.

Harry Reid and Barack Obama did a movie together. So I guess you could say it's pretty obvious who Reid is backing.

Throw the bums out......

jgaw,

"I want to know what Hillary is going to do for me when she becomes president."

That's the bottom line isn't it....what is she going to do for me.

What I don't want her to do for me is raise everyone's taxes and them give me your money. I don't want her messing with my health care and insurance. I don't want her taking money from me to pay for a house you bought that you couldn't afford. What I want our President to do for me is protect us from terrorists and any other enemies - which is what our constitution spells out as the duty of the federal government.

LOM

That is a standard ploy that they used over and over during their administration and it's now used by many politicians who hope to diminish the impact of news they want everyone to forget.

i bet if Clinton wasn't in danger of losing we wouldn't be seeing these now.

What's interesting is their gifts to charity were tax deductible gifts that for some reason remain, for the most part remain, in their foundation...it's not like there's a shortage of good causes around the world. Is this really a charity or just a PR move and a tax scam, money laundering maneuver?

Also, Bill espouses giving 5% - well 5% of my income is a whole lot more to me than 5% of his 100MM is to him. I will add hypocrite and stingy to my list of adjectives for the clintons.

You guys have been screaming for the Clinton's to release their tax returns and now that they have, the best you can come up with is that it is somewhat sneaky to release them on a Friday? Since when have you known the MSM to rest on the weekends? It's not like the Clinton's didn't know that they are going to be scrutinized.

Gee, give you an inch and you want a mile.

never tell you who im voting for

Democratic delegates, and I mean ALL delegates need to take a long hard look at the electoral college votes before deciding on the nominee.

Many of the super delegates are just rying to gain favour and funding for their own re-election, and dont care if he can win the white house, which he can't.

The delegates need to consider polls in swing states such as Ohio, Pennsylavania, Florida and Michigan right up to convention and decide if they want a Democratic President in the white house or not.

Or if they want to support supper delegates who are only interested in their own races and taking money from Obama.

Money won't win Obama the white house. he is unelectable in too many states.

Take it to the floor Hill!

Obama can't win. Take away Michigan and Florida, probably Ohio and Penn., then add Rev. Wright. He will ose the white house for Dems again.

Take it to the Floor.

Anybody But Obama....ABO....Anybody But Obama...If not Clinton then McCain.

These are the least of Hillary's problem

Her tax returns have been released...

I find it odd that she released them on a Friday afternoon

The media will discover Bill's business with Dubai

The Obama campiagn will now demand her earmarks and Clinton library funders

AND ABOVE ALL

Yesterday, her campaign strategist Mark Penn was discovered to be a LOBBYIST

Major news come Monday

For anyone who has not read "Giving" it's a fantastic read!

How much did the Clinton's give to the
G-D-America church?

How much did the Obama's give?

jackson,
what is your point?
It looks to me the the clintons have given a lot of money to charity. From what I heard last night-the talking heads and reporters spending this weekend pouring over their taxes probally think what saps they are for paying so much in taxes. my spouse and i try to give to charities every year
and after hearing what percentage of their income to charity-we fall quite a bit short. bill clinton has always talked about how the the bush adm. gave a tax break to the people in his tax bracket.and as far as people complaining about how much he gets for giving speeches-I think they are just envious of them. cspan is the last bit of what i call untainted media. and this am on open phones-they asked if the clinton taxes were relevant? most people did not think so. but what I want to know is did anyone go over obama and mcclains taxes? I don't know, and I do not care about their taxes-I want to know what Hillary is going to do for me when she becomes president.

Here's the bottom line of Clinton & charity -

Mr. Clinton last year earned $6.3 million from “Giving,” a book on philanthropy, and reported giving $1 million of that to charity. In the book, Mr. Clinton espouses his own formula for charitable donations, recommending that people give away 5 percent of their income to charitable causes. “If giving by the wealthiest Americans even approached these levels,” he wrote, “I’m convinced it would spark an enormous outpouring of contributions from Americans of more modest means.”

The pace of the Clintons’ own charitable giving, which peaked last year at $3 million, has not always kept up with their income, and by at least one measure, has sometimes fallen short of the spirit of the 5 percent goal, which is to get money into the hands of charities that do good works.

In 2002, for instance, they reported income totaling $9.5 million and $115,000 in gifts to charity. In other years, they have given much larger amounts to their family foundation, but it has yet to disburse all of the money.

The Clintons took a tax deduction in 2004 for $2.5 million in charitable gifts, $2 million of which went to their family foundation, which as a tax-exempt nonprofit is considered a charity under the tax code. That same year, the foundation gave away just $221,000 to charitable groups, according to its tax return.

Who cares what Harry Reid or that awful Nancy Pelosi says. Maybe Reid and Pelsoi should concerns themselves with the fact that the people of this nation gave them the authority to do many things in the last election. However, as history will record they did nothing.......but run their mouths.

she says she in to win ti
all the way to the convention..Smear Obama
The superdelegates have the power to reverse the will of the voters, but only if they can provide a powerful moral reason why it is necessary to do so. Like new and damaging information about the prospective nominee. Or evidence that the leading candidate can't win. The burden of proof is on the Clinton campaign.

the thing iu love about this statement is the word moral and clintons in the same line...thats a joke

There was a time when Democrats viewed their candidates as interchangeable in the President and Veep role, but due to recent events not anymore.

Obama supporters attacking Clinton supporters.

Clinton supporters attacking Obama supporters.

The obvious media bias.

The "who had a bigger gaffe" argument.

The "that adviser should be fired" argument.

The "race/gender/racism/sexism" argument.

The "experience" argument.

The "Florida and Michigan" argument.

We are going to be divided and John McCain will win.

@ TON

NYT= PRO-CLINTON/ANTI-OBAMA...

are you serious?

NYT is anti-clinton and pro-obama!

@Don,

I am not quite sure I agree with you that Daily Kos is a hate site. They have pro-clinton news on that site as well -

OK to the Obama/Iraq issue:
==================
Yeah... I asked foxnews.com where I read the story first to point me to the original resource of the Story, but they have not responded. I will try that with NYTIMES, but I doubt if they will respond either. I have read all of “Colin Kahl”( who is an assistant professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University and a Fellow at CNAS) policy papers posted on the website of “Center for new American Security” and can not find any reference to the details raised in either the foxnews article or the NYtimes article; although the articles available on the websites are policy briefs. Don, could you please point me in the direction of the original source of that article or are you just smearing Obama?

Furthermore, it's interesting to note that just Foxnews (a media house clearly against the Obama's candidacy and have been smearing Obama) and the NYTIMES, which has endorsed HRC is pushing this news. Then as a way to distract attention, HRC and her camp. quickly released her tax return to squash the Mark Penn Columbiagate lobbying story. This is not the kind of politics we can trust. We need our politicians to be trusted, and I am sorry HRC in my opinion is not one of those. Too bad and by the way I am an informed conservative republican.

I thought it was illegal for private citizens to negotiate with a foreign government on behalf of the US - not that anything illegal ever stopped the Clintons.

@ Ton

The Daily Kos is a hate site.

and why aren't they making a big deal about the obama/iraq scandal?

BIASED!!!!!!!

the negative toll will end five minutes after they pick the nominee? reid is having some sort of hallucination, someone help him.

If Obama is the nominee, and he loses....

we can thank the MEDIA!

It's all about the money...Obama has been the premiere fundraiser for the Democrats since 2004....He has contributed 3 times more from his PAC to superdelegates than Hillary.

These guys will go with Obama unless Hillary can win the popular vote. Why do you think Obama and his attorneys and his friends in the MI legislature stopped the revote....not about delegates....it would have given her a a couple of hundred thousand more than him in popular vote.....

If the actual vote from those 2 states was being counted she would be able to surpass Obama in popular vote in PA.

Obama's campaign has been very much "politics as usual" except for the fact that he has had 100% media backing. The media slant and support towards Obama from day one was always worth 20 points in the polls.

Well, he was FAR from my first choice....but I will go with McCain.

He refused to jump the line and get early release from POW camp that was offered to him because his father was an Admiral. There is a military code that says the first man in is the first man out and McCain chose not to violate this and consequently suffered more years of torture, as he knew he would. He has a sense of honor that most of us will never have to choose. I admire him for that. How different from Hillary lying and then joking about sniper fire and then Hillary shockingly joking last night on Leno about being in the Hanoi Hilton - the place where McCain and his fellow POWs were subjected to terrible torture that affects McCain to this day.

A person with incredible honor....I will go with him for that.

SuziQ,

Well, I don'tknow where you stand, but I can tell you, if you care to look at the issues , you will find, ltttle substance for your canidate......Chec

Sad,

Not sure I understand your question since you're surely not asking who the Senate majority leader is. I don't like the guy ....btw.

Maybe we can agree that there is a lousy crop of candidates this year. The decent ones were run off by the crazed power mongers and/or the ones who will willing to sell their souls. I'm disgusted with the whole thing and intend to vote for the one who will screw up things the least.

SuziQ,

We have had men as leaders for over 200 years. Why not try a girl for a "CHANGE". Huhhmmmm?

SuziQ.

Who is Harry Ried?