In Canada, Clinton Co-Chair/Fundraiser Downplays Candidate's NAFTA Rhetoric

we have so much oil in this country that the Americans need. Most of it we haven't even touched yet. To me, I don't really care who got in touch with the Canadian Government first, but this I do know. I would rather our Government deal with Obama than Clinton, so I hope he wins. He's the only thing you have that we don't, so if you don't want him send him to the Great White North.

Joe Scanlon, very interesting! So you find it irresponsible that someone chooses to live on $204,000, even though he grossed $405,000?

I think that is humorous! Because should Sen. Obama or Sen. Clinton become president, one can expect that everyone making $400,000 may HAVE to live on far less than $200,000 since they will both try to raise the federal tax rates for anyone making over $100,000 to at least 50%. So when you include state income taxes, that will be quite a bite into their income.

Finally! A smart discussion. Thanks everyone.

john mccain is a woman hater. i hope hillay wins too but i'd be crazy to vote for mccain. service to his country and all that aside the man has problems.

Misty I remember McCain saying that. They are already bringing it up in the MSM. It was so insulting. I remember thinking to myself "Who is this creep." He insulted Chelsea, who as an 18 year old must have been totally humiliated. McCain insulted Bill Clinton with the suggestion that the indiscretions of his past resulted in that. He insulted Hillary who had suffered enough abuse from that kind of talk. And he insulted the gay and lesbian community because of the insinuation that Janet Reno is a lesbian. I'm not a lesbian, but I can rightfully imagine that outrage. I'm all for Hillary, but Obama has my vote if the party nominates him. I'll never vote for McCain. At least Sen. Obama has never made those kinds of nasty personal attacks on Hillary. And that says a lot about a man. We'll show McCain.

Excellent points, Joe. I'd just like to add two things:

1. The 29 percent of Clinton "holdouts" you mentioned clearly represent her most ardent supporters. As ardent support goes, even President Bush, after 7 years of failure on domestic, economic and foreign policy, enjoys a near 30 percent approval rating. This is, that ardent support, who view him as a man who can do no wrong -- no matter the extent of his ineptitude. For the General Election against McCain, the psychology of these ardent Clinton supporters will come into play when she inevitably endorses Sen. Obama for the presidency. Does anyone actually think Sen. Clinton is going to ask her supporters to vote for McCain?
She's going to try and rally behind the Democratic candidate as she indicated in the PA debate and that means that her staunchest supporters will do the same -- after all, if they place their faith in her judgment as their candidate of choice, they will follow suit in her recommendation as to who is best suited to run the country. In the end, the incredible similarities between her platform and Sen. Obama's -- apart from simple party loyalty -- means Clinton's supporters will vote for Obama in the fall.

2. To follow up on your "Girl Power" comment. Right now Clinton supporters are focused, understandably, on Obama. In the General Election they will be focused on McCain. None of the women who supposedly are going to defect to McCain are going to forgive him for his phenomenally insensitive remarks at the GOP convention when he made his infamous joke about Chelsea being ugly because Janet Reno is her mother. All these things will be resurrected, and the Clinton Women, who, like myself, feel protective of Chelsea will make McCain pay the price for those remarks.

All you Obama supporters are out of your minds if you think that Hillary's supporters will vote for him.

Most of us WILL vote for McCain. And there is no amount of time that will heal the wounds Obama's supporters have inflicted.

Obama will probably win the Democratic nomination but he will NOT win the General Election.

You all think that because we are registered Democrates we will vote for ANYONE on the Democratic ticket. WRONG. Most of us think for ourselves and will vote for the candidate we think is best.

If not Hillary than McCain!

Tim: I'll explain why Obama will win the general election:

1. Although the Democratic Party is partially divided now, after the PA primary superdelegates will begin a tidal wave of support for Obama. At least 20 supers will declare on Wednesday or Thursday. The reason: the DNC knows it needs time for the wounds of Hillary's supporters to heal.

2. Even though 29% of Clinton supporters now say that they will either not vote for Obama in the General Election, or worse, vote for McCain, this is nothing more than a powerplay -- and an empty one at that. The truth is, the most likely scenario is that 1/3 of her die hard supporters may take this line, but your blue collar workers and the elderly and women, certainly will not. Can you really see women voting for McCain? A man who once famously called his own wife a Cu*&? Somehow I don't see "Girl Power" preserved in that appalling phrase.

3. Even if a full 29% of Clinton supporters do sit out/vote for McCain, Obama STILL wins. How? By the numbers. The Democratic primary has generated so many new voters that, on balance they have added millions of Democrats to the process.

4. The War in Iraq. Anyone who believes John McCain is right on Iraq has not seen a family member or close friend sent to fight a war we never should have been fighting. McCain's stance that he would be satisfied with a 100 year occupation, as we have done in Japan, fails to recognize that in the aftermath of WWII we had obtained an "unconditional surrender" from the Empire of Japan. Trouble is, we aren't fighting a country. We are fighting a terror organization, and though the battleground has been shaped as "Iraq" it is not the Iraqi's that will dictate whether or not peace will be had. This is why the argument for staying in Iraq is so specious. Consider this, for nearly 40 years Yasser Arafat was the voice of the PLO. However, for the last 15 years his "authority" was not absolute and any pledge of peace he made was subject to accepance by Hamas. This is why Arafat could not "promise" peace -- because he could not ensure that the growing Hamas membership would accept it. And, this is why Hamas has now segued from being just a terror organization, into being a terror organization with a political arm -- as witness by their success in Palestinian elections. Think Sein Fenn as the political arm of the IRA and you get the idea. Bottom line: 50 to 100 years in Iraq as McCain proposed, as an occupying force in a country without bloodshed is an impossibility because we will not be able to force a surrender of a terror group on a vast worldwide battleground while concentrating an effort in one country. It spells: DEBACLE. As we have seen.

5. The Economy. McCain himself has admitted several times that it is not his strongest suit. This should give anyone pause, including Republicans, who may not care about middle class Americans, but they certainly care about the bankruptcies of Bear Stearns and other institutional banks -- after all, that's where they get their profits from the massive Bush/McCain tax cuts for the rich.

If the admission itself isn't enough reason not to vote for McCain, yesterday he revealed his tax records that show he made about $405,000, paid about $84,000 in taxes and gave about $120,000 to charity. It is best to disclose here that McCain and his wealthy wife have an air-tight prenup that protects her formidable trove -- a reason why he does not disclose her tax records (although he should). The point here is, by McCain's earnings being McCain's own wealth, one must wonder how fiscally responsible it is for a man to donate more than 33 percent of his net income to charity. It may seem like a grand gesture os selflessness, but in these economic times, I don't think anyone really expects grand gestures of selflessness on this scale. I ask anyone who reads this: are YOU prepared to give 33 percent of your Net Income to charity? If not, do you think it's wholly irresponsible? And if so, do you think a man this irresponsible should be in charge of reining in a multi-trillion dollar deficit? If, of course, you take the position that he is giving so much to charity because he knows he has his wife's wealth and the money he makes is just pocket change in relation to her $100 million fortune, doesn't that make Sen. McCain a kept man? It does, and nobody wants to see a kept man as President of the United States -- nobody. It is also one of the reasons why Sen. Clinton has been this successful in her primary campaign -- because Americans no longer expect to see kept women. A man? Forget about it.

Borack Hussein Obama President? very sad for the USA - He'll never have my vote

Melanie....They offered to raise money, He does not want their money! Get your facts straight and stop twisting the truth like your candidate! People like myself donate money and we are more than happy to do so, that is why he has raised more money from his supporters than any candidate in history. Stop Lying!

Obama is running commercials non stop here in NC claiming he never has and never will take a penny from Washington Lobbyists. On USA Todays website political page, there is a list of THIRTY EIGHT WAHINGTON LOBBYISTS, names by name. that have pledged to raise between fifty thousand and two hundred thousand dollars each for Obama. When I called their local office number and asked the chick answering the phones about it, she was speechless. Obama has done nothing buyt lie about every thing he is putting out to the public in this campaign. God help us if a bunch of idiots in this country elect him as President.

She's such a liar. What a disgrace to women in politics.

How could the press have been against Hillaryt since the beginning? SHe was the front runner up until Iowa.

What was proven was the voters don't like and/or trust her.

Once Obama gets the nod he will be the agent of change and will easily beat McCain the general election.

Voters care about their homes, jobs, healthcare, ending the war and having a future...they don't care about negative attacks or the politics of personal destruction.

And for Dem voters who would vote against Obama if he wins you clearly are missing the point. The election is about a battle of vision over ideologies not personalities.

Whoever the Dem nominee is,support them and change the executive branch of the government.

Hillary supporters:

If you are as sick as I am of the Obama supporters who post in here bull (3 peple with several sock puppets) then vote McCain if our lady doesn't get the nomination.

Hillary or McCain '08!!!

Why does Hillary Clinton hate America? All this lady does is lie to ordinary citizens, and then she and her husband go around playing the suggestive race card. I'm sorry that she is a closeted lesbian (yes, it is true and widely known in washington, just like everyone knew about Larry Craig and said nothing- not that there is anything wrong with that) and feels that she must be more manly than her husband in terms of toughness. I just can vote for someone who can't level with the world about her own sexuality.

MARK; how can you invoke AGE DISCRIMINATION on behalf of John Mccain when McCain himself didn't believe in CIVIL RIGHTS or when Dr. King's was fighting for CIVIL RIGHTS for ALL Americans of which he paid with his life? McCain even voted against Dr. King's Birthday. We will give him a dose of his own medicine by rightly using his own old AGE against him in a high level intellectual position in dealing and getting along with the rest of the World. Hoping by so doing this will help him understand how painful it is when someone uses just your sun burn or the color of your skin against you in anything human. To mccain and cindy, even their pet dog have more rights than Blacks and Native Americans. Except they aren't saying it.
VOTE THE MOST RESPECTED HUMAN BEING ON EARTH "OBAMA". VOTE 2008 For "OBAMA"

This country is not about a flag pin; it’s not about a flag; it is about a citizens right to burn that flag in protest. It is the right of a person to get up and put forth an opinion that you totally disagree with and would fight with all your breath against. That is what America is about, that is what we should celebrate. Our military fights for our Constitutional right to burn that flag if we wish. It’s called freedom of speech. The right to express ourselves any way we wish.

You people can blah, blah, blah all you want but in the end it really doesn't matter. You can talk about Rezko, lapel pins, NAFTA, or anything else you choose. but when all is said and done, there is on one important question: Does anyone have any jelly, because Hillary is toast.

Couldn't have put it better, McCain is elderly. He is a genuine American Hero running for President unfortunatnately for him, at the wrong time. Now if he were in place of Bush 8 years ago. Age Discrimination should be frowned upon, but as a change argument - I don't think it will.

I THINK IT IS HORRIBLE THAT COMEDIANS ARE MAKING JOKES ABOUT MCCAINS AGE. ISNT THERE SUCH A THING AS AGE DISCRIMINATION? IF WE STAND UP FOR AND DO AWAY WITH GENDER AND RACE DISCRIMINATION-WHAT ABOUT AGE DISCRIMINATION? IF COMEDIANS JOKE ABOUT MCCAINS AGE THEN RACE AND GENDER SHOULD BE FAIR GAME AS WELL!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM IN MY THIRTIES BUT I FEEL WE SHOULD SHOW MORE RESPECT FOR THE ELDERLY.