Byrd Joins the Flock

this will be remembered as the year in which our our election was bought by the highest bidder.

BO would not be in this without the proportional delegates and T-Ball "everyone gets a trophy" stupid democratic system. Trouble is, that's now how the general election works. It's winner take all in the states. The primaries should mirror the general, otherwise you end up with nominees that cannot win in the general election. That's what is going to happen this time. BO will lose a bunch of big populous states that we need to win, and it will be lights out. How sad.

I wonder if his constituents in WV are going to like that. His state voted for Hillary by 41 points. If I were a senator or a congressman, I would vote based on how my constituents did. After all, they are supposed to be representing the VOTERs.

john, i agree with you,

to me when you listen to these pundits,
and dem.people. it seems they have a secret that they are not sharing with the american people
they must realize now they went about this primary season all wrong-if they had been fair maybe they would not be in this position.
all of them are saying the dem. party will come together,
I don't see how they can be seeing that
happen.
i have been a democrat all of my life,
and so has my family. i will not support barack obama if he is the dem party nominee.
1st-i do not think he is the better candidate-sen. clinton is
2nd-i know what the issues are-and sen. clinton i believe will be the better to bring about the real change we need.
3rd-i do not like the unfairness of how the dem bigwigs and the media being so biased toward sen. clinton. telling her to get out.
4th-and i just see the superdelegates stealing this election for obama.
i thought the superdelegates are to follow their conscience-but then donna b. and people like her started saying the superdelegates should vote with their state-so which is it?-because kennedy,kerry,richardson,and byrd have not voted with their state.

I considered myself a memeber of the dem. party-the bigwigs in the dem. party have shown me i do not belong with them.
i will not vote for obama.
and as far as the michelle obama being off limits-it was michelle who said she could just scratch bill clintons eyes out.
and it is obama himself who has tried to say the years of bill clinton in the white house-were not good years for the economy. I am middle class and I KNOW the clinton years in the white house were good for my household.
if obama does not see the clinton economy years as good for the country.
what kind of economy is he talking about bringing? with obama and the people behind him-i guess we should have more welfare rolls and people on foodstamps.
i was a lifelong democrat-if obama gets the nomination-
i will not be a democrat anymore.
(already reading and researching what black republicans see in that party)

Not in the history of election that you may find candidates like Clintons working so hard. It is impossible without a sense of mission to turn the country around. They did it before. They can do it again.

The party pundits has been coming out saying and acting against the wills of the voter. It is obviously that the party is against the people. The hope is that the Clintons are still fighting hard for us.

Such tenacity is touching. BO just slacks , ducks, and floats on the effort of the party.

We need to do somethng about this disgusting party wnd right their wrongs.

Not only did Byrd save HRC much grief by endorsing Obama, he robbed the media and Obama supporters of many days of pontification and feigned outrage.

They would have been all over Byrd and HRC as to racist elements of such an endorsement.

The first response from all would have been: Well what did you expect?

Thanks Sen. Byrd, you shut them all up before they could even get out the first
race laden quips.

Haim Saban, the billionaire entertainment magnate and longtime Clinton supporter, denied the allegation. But four independent sources said that just before the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, Saban called YDA President David Hardt and offered what was perceived as a lucrative proposal: $1 million would be made available for the group if Hardt and the organization's other uncommitted superdelegate backed Clinton.

I think Howard Dean has damaged our party in ways we will feel for years. The party elite continue to endorse like the brothers and sisters in Michigan do not exist. I will certainly be registering independent. When our party elite gave up on the common man they lost my support.

ouchy,
no, because, with sen.clinton i am voting my interest. if you are middle class and a working person, and the only reason you didn't vote for her is because of her vote for the war and the bush,clinton thing-then you are not voting your interest either.
she is the better of the three candidates for this country, and that is just a fact.
sen. clinton is the fighter the middle class of america needs right now.

it is sen. clintons plans that will put this country back ont he right track

I'm curious, don't any Clinton supporters worry about the dynastic element of her candidacy? The fact that Bush/Clinton/Bush/Clinton is maybe a little nepotistic? I'm really just wondering, because, besides her vote for the war, this is the main reason I oppose her candidacy.

@jgaw - I think you are right. For whatever reason it was done, it was not for the purpose of this country. Goodnight...

A Proud, Black, Hillary Supporter
Rise, Hillary, Rise!'08

(It ain't over until the lady in the pantsuit says so!)

well said leelee07

i think the dem. party knows this,
but what else could we expect from that group of people.
nancy pelosi,with all of the hoopla with her winning her position, when i see her out i just think she is out for a photo op. no substance to her either.

i believe what they have done has been more for selfish reasons,
not as many would want us to believe about sen. clinton.
i do believe sen. clinton is working for every american. and that is why she is fighting so hard.
she knows if she does not win-the middle class will not have a chance.
goodnight

The DNC has overplayed their hand in the matter of Clinton vs. Obama.

This Democratic Party is like Humpty Dumpty. No one can put it back together again.

When I vote for Hillary, it will be as an Independent. If not Hillary, then McCain.

A Proud, Black, Hillary Supporter
Rise, Hillary, Rise!'08

(It ain't over until the lady in the pantsuit says so!)

the dem party as many of us have known it for most of our adult lives is over.

the bigwigs of the party, dean, pelosi,kerry,and co. read this one wrong.
and they have no one who will be able to unite this party.
time for a third party
the british have several parties we can also.
time for the moderate democratic party.

sen. clinton would have been the new fdr. and got this country back on the right track.
but now we will have president mccain

Larry Sinclair met Sen Byrd in a closed door meeting and the endorsement happened the next day.

Will the real hard working Americans stand up!

Obama '08!

(Just like Byrd, we'll accept the true Dems back to "our party" when they've accepted the principles of the party.)

How can the Democrats even be represented by "unprofessional candidate" least for a President?
Democrats really are out of touch by
suggesting that OBAMA represents the views of America. He doesn't represent the views of hard working americans by calling them clinging to gun when they are "bitter". Now OBAMA dare to demean the WOMEN of this great country starting with that lady reporter by calling her SWEETIE?!! How much AROGANT THIS MAN OBAMA (A DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE)
would be? What OBAMA did in a work place is called Sexual Harassment. IS OBAMA trying to change the meaning of Sexual Harassment according to his terms? WHAT A JERK AND ARROGANT MAN..
I hope he is not the nominee so I can still vote for the democrats. If he is the nominee then I will vote for MCCAIN.

you are correct len,
i am finished with the dem party.
i will vote in nov.
if sen. clinton' name is not on the ballot.
i will not vote for obama.

It gets better on CNN. John King admits and the Democratic insiders admit that Hillary is stronger in the electoral math. She will win. Obama? They aren't sure. He has to turn an eroding constituency around but the constituency he needs appears growing only angrier at the Democratic Party and Barack Obama.

Meanwhile the delegate count is slipping away from Clinton as if the Dems have signed a mutual electoral suicide pact.

And McCain? Enjoying it. As he should. "Imagine the excitement of leaving the convention and still not knowing who the nominee is?"

However this nomination fight goes, the Democratic Party needs to throw Pelosi and Dean to the wolves as soon as possible. The party may make claims to uniting but it isn't going to happen this time. Overmanaging and blind ambition have cost us the one election we could not lose.

obama is on tv right now, making himself look like a fool again,
he is blaming fox for his loss in kentucky.
i guess he is trying to explain to his sf backers the money people why he is not winning.

I agree with juan williams-people are seeing through obama.

obama thinking is-if you don't support him it is someone elses fault, and there must be something wrong with you.

obama is weak-
i will be watching fdr tonight
and sen. clinton would be a modern day fdr.

obama will not be POTUS
and thanks to the person who gave us
wilk corbett.
also talked with the cynthia r. group today.
obama will not be POTUS

and i am glad michelle obama does not want sen. clinton to campaign for obama.

I don't want sen. clinton to campaign for him either.