After watching the last Iowa debate, I was impressed by the rapport between the Democrats.

Senator Barack Obama would make a good vice president to Senator Hillary Clinton.

The sooner the Republicans are kicked out of the White House, the better and safer we would be.

God bless America!

Senator Obama will make a great president in '09. Hillary can stay in the senate.

Senator Clinton in the debate showed her cool,stable ease with all affairs domestic and foreign.She is so prepared and intelligent,she posses the stability and Grace that our country has been so lacking on the WORLD stage especially the last 7 years.
The reality of how Change can and will occur is masterful.

Obama looked like a school boy practicing what he would do when he grew up.How anyone can accept this naive,Idealism,he lacks the concept of what the Presidency is all about.

Please wake up and see the tremendous need to have a STRONG,Dynamic Leader at this crucial time in our history.
Don't let the nit pickin on the Internet allow the Republicans to win this one. Get involved in Senator Clinton's campaign.This is for America.

Ms. Clinton is too divisive. Obama/Edwards or Edwards/Obama in 2008

OBAMA 2008!

America doesn't have to accept fear, negativity, and incompetence anymore!

Barack Obama is the best leader the US has right now. I would follow him, and I believe him. That makes him a good leader. I would not say the same about Hillary. Vote for her if you like someone who is politically calculating.

Barack is the most eloquent American political voice in the past 40 years. We need to elect him now, at this crucial time in the world's history.

obama's a great orator - he speaks with clarity and sincerity. however, his platform is made up of ideals that are somewhat naive. i'm happy to vote for him in '12 if hillary doesn't win, but he's barely three years into his FIRST senate term, so that brings us to the question: who's the one with too much ambition?

There's a shrillness, anger and desperation to Mrs. Clinton that is becoming increasingly unappealing.

I want someone who inspires me. That person is Barack Obama.

Barack Obama will offer the kind of inspiration and pride that Americans haven't felt since Reagan. I would be proud to vote for him and send the republican party a message: We aren't interested in your religion or your fear or your hate. America is better than that and everyone except the republican candidates knows it.

Obama is probably the best candidate that has come since JFK. One has to be blind not to see that. He is the only one of the candidates that is capable of inspiring our nation to unite and do great things. This is a man who calls us to a higher purpose. He is a reminder notice to why America is such a great nation. In this time in our history, where we have strayed the most from our path, our nation has called for a leader and he has stepped up to the plate, it up to us to do our part.

Patriot

Ah silly, silly Obambi,
Well it turns out Hill is up 9 points in NH today. I guess he called victory too soon. I must say though, I am amazed at the Oprah backlash.

Hillary's not looking good with her ham-handed attempts at swiftboating. Did anybody ask Bill or Al Gore if they dealt drugs. It's an ugly inference and I'm sick of her whining about the politics of personal destruction and character assassination and then turning around and doing the same.

Anyone who thinks Hillary can win the general election is in denial. Her negatives start at about 50%, before the "republican attack machine" that she announces is coming for her has even started pumping that number up with negative ads, direct mail and all the rest. Obama beats all of the other candidates head to head among likely voters of all or no party. A vote for Hillary is a vote for more republican madness and WWIII.

Alison,
I am afraid that your comments demonstrate the low educational level of the average Republican voter. Perhaps if you could spell and had a basic knowledge of the English language you might become a democrat!
Fortunately Senator Obama, despite his admitted drug use as a young man, has still got full possession of his mental facilities unlike our current president who is a poster child for the damage that drugs and alcohol can do to a persons brain.

Now Hillary is running on Change? We need REAL change for our Country. Not the same politics as usual.

Obama has got my vote. I would not vote for Hillary if she got the Dem nomination, with too many feeling that way, she will not win the nomination.

Obama '08 !!

How is it that a Democrat is allowed smear another Democrat if he/she uses the magic words - "the Republicans will say?"
Have enough integity to take credit for your own dirty politics!

Have you people forgotten who is currently at the helm?

Reading these incredibly rude, personal and nasty comments by Hillary supporters gives one a good understanding of who exactly is attracted to her candidacy. As far Obama becoming her VP, I sincerely hope would not do that if she becomes the nominated candidate. Anyone who accepts that role is asking to be tainted by whatever scandals emerge while she is in office, whether by her or by her husband. Al Gore, who is as pure as they come, couldn't even shake off that. The thought of having to read about another one of Bill Clinton's affairs is already giving me a headache. Does anyone really believe Bill can go 8 years without being caught?

Are some Democrats so accustomed to being lied to, manipulated, fooled and otherwise bamboozled by Republicans that they will believe Hillary Clinton? Amazing.

Ethel Kennedy - widow of Senator Bobby Kennedy, on Obama:
"I think he feels it. He feels it just like Bobby did," Ethel Kennedy said, comparing her late husband's quest for social justice to Obama's. "He has the passion in his heart. He's not selling you. It's just him." Ethel Kennedy invited Obama to deliver the keynote address at a ceremony commemorating the 80th birthday of Robert F. Kennedy. She said she had carefully followed the career of the Illinois senator, whom she referred to as "our next president." Obama 08!

when voting for a dem, just get use to bending over and grabbing your ankles.

Hillary has lost any chance of my vote for ever...I will stay home before I vote for her....she has shown she has nothing to offer this country...that she is out only for the power and control.....her campaign has been shameful......good riddance...we do not need you Hillary....we do not want your type of politics....

Bush was an ex Junkie and stupid as well. It didnt stop him getting elected.

The real question to me is whether a country that proclaims as its foundation democracy, equality of the sexes and races, wide ethnic diversity, and is 50% women will somehow manage to elect its 44th middle aged white guy as president. I hope not.

"One of my 6th grade students said, "not all drugs are bad for you, Obama does cocaine and he's running for President! and Oprah loved him"

That was the cue to say: No, Obama does NOT do cocaine. He only tried it when he was young, and decided to go a different way. He is highly educated now and graduated from Harvard Law School, went into public office to help others because he made the right decision. Oprah recognizes that he is a role model for troubled youth.

I think Hillary is who this nation really needs. She has experience as First Lady, and in the Senate. Obama isn't a bad man either but I feel that we need the best and Obama is mediocre at best. He is a fine senator but he really isn't what this nation needs. He is a great speaker and has good ideas for the nation--not all of them being feasible. That should make him Secretary of State not President in my opinion. Hillary Clinton is the best this nation has running right now. She has ideas that will work.

Obama is using press from Oprah to try to push himself ahead aswell as using the infamous GOP tactic of attempting to push religon into the race. This smacks of desperation more than Hillary's Co Chairperson of mentioning his past with drugs.

I don't except you all to agree with me but thats how I feel.

I suspect Bob Mills is a badly disguised Republican. He can't even spell "people" correctly!
So Hillary's husband didn't inhale and the current White House invader is a "reformed" alcoholic, what's happened to the old-fashioned, dedicated visionaries? Where's Al Gore?

Be an American for Bush Save who you were Born to Be, for me; Barack Obama!

Hillary has converted to what is called a "suicide campaign" no different than the suicide missions carried out in Iraq against our soldiers. She is asking her people to now commit political suicide. How this works is people in her campaign would put out dirt on another candidate such as Obama and then step down or resign so that she will seem disconnected from it. She is trying to put herself in a better light while at the same time shining a dimmer light on the front runner which is Barack Obama.

NO more Clinton dynasty and corrupted Health Industry

If Clinton wins the Democratic nomination, I will vote Republican!

I WILL NOT VOTE FOR HILLARY CLINTON.

I'm an US-Afro male, born in 1962. No cultural conservative here, but Clinton is the worst Democratic candidate since Dukkakis!

Hillary...and Edwards for that matter... voted for the war. She sacrificed the lives of over 3000 US soldiers, maimed tens of thousands, and killed and maimed many, many more civilians for the sake of her career. Experience??? Only if it brings wisdom. That is out the door for Hillary if it gets in the way of her career.

Spin it however you want, but her vote and the consequences of that vote is reality. She isn't qualified to run for PTA let alone President.

It's what you do, not what you say...

Cepsenior, you don't know half of what you are talking about. Comparing ANY United States government member of being like a suicide bomber in Iraq is just disgusting and a gross insult and makes me lose some respect for Obama supporters.

That said, jkojs, Hillary Clinton fought for health care during her time as First Lady and even after it failed she continued to fight for it as a Senator to get it done. In my opinion it is not Hillary's fault that health care is bad but I believe it is Bush's fault who's prime idea was a "stock exchange" Social Security. Clintons have always cleaned up after the Bush's which in my opinion is the dynasty we need to stay away from.

First off, that story about some student saying "drugs aren't all bad cuz Obama took them and Oprah loves him" is bull. You made it up, or read it on an e-mail and tried to act like it happened to you.

I'm sure you believe all those e-mails you get about Obama's secret Al-Queda plan to take over the U.S. or some democrat candidate is planning to outlaw the bible etc...

There is a very good reason why Hilary is called "Bush Lite". Her health reform package, for instance, is almost identical to the one pushed through in Massachusetts by its governor...who is now a Republican candidate for President.

The damage that the current administration has done to this country is so severe that we will likely never recover from it. No longer will we be leaders of the free world. Our currency is in the toilet, our technology is mediocre and our education system is dismal. Never have we been so vulnerable than now that we have alienated the entire world, even our allies.

We need drastic changes being spearheaded from the White House just to retain any kind of respect/authority and Hilary is gun shy from battling the Republicans when Bill was in office. Now, you can hardly tell the difference between her platforms and those of the Republican party. And, unfortunately, most of the Senate is much the same.

They haven't gotten the message yet that the American public wants drastic change as soon as possible. Even though the Democrats have won the majority, they are still afraid to rock the boat. Otherwise, they would have impeached those two evil idiots in charge right now. And that is why the approval rating for the new Democratic Congress isn't much higher than for our leader, who everyone has lost all respect for.

We need someone who has the courage of his convictions, and whose convictions are for the best interests of the people. It's been way, way too long since we've had that. And out of everyone running for President right now, Obama is our best hope for a better future.

If we want the White House back Clinton/ Biden or Clinton / Edwards It's about experience, toughness, and the ability to win. It's not about whom makes you feel warm on cuddly. It's about who can win! Voting for Obama may make you feel good, but he will not win a general election. Obama has the least experience of any Democratic / Republican Candidates.

Clintons have a way of continuing Bush policies (militarization, brutal sanctions regimes that starve entire populations [Iraq], wars over lies [the Balkans], national police state tactics, "welfare reform", corporate monopolization of the media and everything else, increasing the gap between rich and poor, ramming through "Free Trade" agreements that destroy wages and ship jobs overseas, etc, etc, etc...), Any dynasty is a dynasty we should stay away from.

On Obama's drug use:

I realize that we want our Presidents to be role models with a blemish-free past, but to me it is more important for them to be honest in the present!

Maybe I value honesty more than the average person, but I don't think it is ever OK to lie. (*cough* *cough* Bill Clinton and George Bush *cough*)

I am not yet ready to fully endorse Obama, but I can respect a man that tells the full and inconvenient truth.

The president of US had an affair with an intern and you think that is a good example for a 6th grader and not forgeting that same president admits of experimenting with drugs and (did not inhale). As a married woman I expected more from you.

De,

The reason why Obama is starting to get ahead of Hillary is because not only does he embrace change, idealism and hope, OBAMA HAS MORE EXPERIENCE THAN HILLARY!!! Plus, OBAMA GOT IT RIGHT ON IRAQ, and HILLARY FAILED. Plus, LOOK at the general election polls! Hillary does worse than any other democrat against the republicans!!!

Obama has held elected office for 11 years-4 more than Hillary. Obama sponsored over 820 bills while serving in the Illinois senate (from 1996-2004). He authored the most sweeping ethics reform bill passed into law in over 20 years. He sponsored a law enhancing tax credits for low-income workers, negotiated welfare reform and increased subsidies for child care. Obama also led the passage of legislation mandating videotaping of homicide interrogations, and a law to monitor racial profiling by requiring police to record the race of drivers they stopped.

RLT, if you don't remember, we thought it was about "experience" and "toughness" in 2004. That's why dems like you dumped Dean and voted for the "tough" and experienced Vietnam Vet who you were soooo convinced was a shoo in. And what happened then??? Have you learned NOTHING??? Whatever you and I may want, the fact is it DOES come down to who makes you feel warm and fuzzy (aka "character"), especially the further right you go in the spectrum.

j501, would you approve if Oprah had endorsed Hillary or who ever your are supporting?

Ask Hillary to give us a clipping of her hair, and it can be drug tested

Sorry RLT, got your post mixed up with Tony's :^/

Ack! I mean Tony's mixed up with... never mind, you get it.

Senator Hillary Clinton would make a good vice president to Senator Barack Obama.

Hillary Clinton has done nothing for the Democratic process this campaign but make me want to curl up in a ball and die. No wonder people are apathetic about politics. I hope any Democrat wins the nomination but her

I will enthusiastically support Obama or Edwards if they win the nomination but I want to send the best horse we have to the race. Too many people are making the same mistake with Clinton as they made with Al Gore in 2000:
believing that they are Republican-lite and not worthy of support. There was a world of difference between Gore and Bush as Americans and the rest of the world found out.

Hillary better take off the kid-gloves and hit Obama and Edwards with the simple truth:

Obama outed himself as a cocaine user referring to it as “blow” in his biography. What do you think the kind-hearted Rep’s will do with that info? He supports (as do I) drivers licenses for Illegal aliens. They will likely DESTROY the young first term senator on those two things alone.

Edwards has financially tied his own hands by accepting public financing. If he wins the nomination he will have little to no chance of winning a general election. He didn’t win his home state in the general election of 2004, he will probably lose the primary this time and has virtually no chance of winning his home state in the general.

Keep something else in mind when you look at the head-to-head numbers for the primary and the general election: Hillary has already been hit hard with attacks by her Dem and Rep opponents and she is still standing. Neither Obama nor Edwards have had to absorb those kinds of sustained blows. Edwards has not recovered from the one attack on his haircut. Rudy, on the other side, has had a few bad weeks and his shot at the big prize is effectively over (someone should tell him).

It would have been better for Hillary in January 2009 if she didn’t have to go after her Dem opponents and ruffle their feathers; she would get more bills passed. But given the situation, she better start bloodying some noses or the country will be led by a president from a party that should have had to dissolve itself based on their unprecedented incompetence and corruption.

Barack Obama represents a golden chance for the United States - he is intelligent, eloquent, and charismatic. I am astonished that Clinton has a comparable following - she certainly has the brains, but she is also the least charismatic of almost all the candidates in both parties. And personally i think she is a dreadful speaker - her voice is wooden and forgettable; she is the opposite of her husband. Best of luck to Obama - the best candidate I have seen since Mr. Clinton.

To YellowDogBlue:

"but I want to send the best horse we have to the race. Too many people are making the same mistake with Clinton as they made with Al Gore in 2000:"

As someone had alluded to earlier, what about the mistake that Democrats made in 2004 in thinking John Kerry was the best horse?

You had to spend several hundreds words to try to convince someone else (maybe yourself too?) to vote for Clinton. I really only need to offer you or anyone three words to make a case for Obama: trust, inspiration, and believe.

Do we want to go back to that time? Hillary is all about the past. Edward is about today but Obama is about the future.

Liz

Senator Clinton is done. If she can not
handle Obama, you think she can handle
Republican smear Machine. Talk is cheap,
she can say anything she wants but nobody is buying anything. She is not the one.I just went to see the Movie Enchanted, a beautiful Movie, but when I saw Queen Narissa sends the bubbling Nathanial to kill Gisslle with poisoned apple, it reminded me of Senator Clinton. Clinton will try to keep the throne(White house) No matter what the price. Even if she or her Machine has
to give poison to her Rivals whether it
is Obama or anyone else, it is a fair
game for them.

Throughout history, women have always had to clean up after careless, messy, men. It seems, that nothing has changed. I do believe, that we have more than enough mess, in the White House, created by the current "Resident". I think, it's about time, that Americans stop, look around, and size up the situation. When will the "Sleeping Giant", that is the American people, WAKE UP, and realize, that our White House, our Congress, and our Supreme Court, all need a good, old fashioned, scrubbing? It's time, for Americans to "Clean House", and, there's no better woman around, to clean up the MESS, that the men have made of things, than Hillary Clinton!!! VOTE for Clinton, in 2008!!!

It's not that a woman can't be elected chief executive, it's simply that Hillary Clinton won't be elected chief executive by the American voters if she wins the nomination of her party. Try as she might to soften her public persona, coif her hair in the latest fashion and look presidential, just beneath the surface anyone who's halfway paying attention can see she's still the same seething, vindictive person she's always been. Smart? No question. Qualified? Undeniably. Charismatic? Still needs work (more lessons from hubby Bill). Ultimately electable when she's the last man standing against the GOP contender (pick any)? Nope.

I remember Obama gave Bush cover on Iraq early in the campaign. he's as much a "politician" as the rest of them.
Since then I could never trust his judgement. Dodd and Clinton are the only candidates with a broad enough view and enough experiences to back it up. Obama need to grow up. Biden looked good 8 years ago. Kucinich has no chance. Edwards smiles too much. At least all these candidates are better than the Republican desperates.

osamma obama is not winning; the media lies just like the politicians that it pushes....

I don't like Obama and I like his message even less. It's easy to be lulled into a dreamy and delusional state when a message is exactly what you want to hear. In this case, that message is 'change'.

But listen to Obama's message closely. I mean really listen, and pay attention to what he says. If you're still scratching your head afterwards, then congratulations you've pegged the Obama campaign for what it really is: HOT AIR. What, exactly, are we going to change? Should we vote for a candidate merely because they can spout off at the mouth as to how we all need to change? Has Obama ever given any specific indication as to what we need to change? Does he have any insights, solutions, examples, or provides anything else to this effect? Nope, he just stands up there and squawks this mantra to American voters, the mantra that we all need to change.

Well I'm sure that's fine and dandy, but sorry I'm not voting for a candidate just because they want change, for its own sake. Any candidate can bring change. I want to know, clearly and spelled out, what exactly it is he believes needs changing. And no, not even an army of daytime talk show hosts can glamourize his message enough for me to vote for it: I'm too smart for that, and so are you. But heck, American voters were idiotic enough to elect Bush into office 7 years ago, so why not Obama?

My money's still on Hillary: A proven candidate with a clearly defined platform. She says what she means and means what she says, and doesn't try to insult my intelligence with doublespeak and riddles the way Obama does.

I will not jump Hillary's ship on a slip of the lip by a campaign worker. This is a time of need for serious change in our nation and the Democrat with the political intellect and skill for nomination and subsequent election is Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Democrats elected Bush TWO times. (there aren't enough Republicans to elect a President! Had to be Independants and Demoblicans)

You have to put someone out there who is not weird like Gore or Kerry. Biden- no one is listening or Edwards- he could have won if Kerry was his VP.

Clinton- is weird with the Bill Baggage and the bags under her eyes. She will not win!

Obama- just needs to be in charge of something. Is he good? Is he a leader? Who knows?

Anyone notice there are a lot weirdos this election?

I cant imagine Hilary is so scared that she has now flip flopped on message.

She is now running as a change agent. No more experience and strength as we have been hearing.

Why change your message? For convenience? Wow, even Hilary wants to be Obama!

Hillary's inevitability all vaporized right in front of our eyes. The HillBilly camp filled their top campaign management with sleezeballs who were good at digging dirt about opponents. They were all guaranteed some top white house jobs, if Hillary became queen. Now it is a matter of time, these fired sleezeballs are going to turn back at Hillary and talk about how cold it really was inside the HillBilly boot camp.

These are a couple of questions I have for Hillary.
1. Barbra Striesand endorsed Hillary. But we haven't seen Barbra on the campaign trail. Why?
2. Why bring her mom and daughter into the picture? Are there no other women willing to stand by Hillary's side? I have not seen a single woman (celebrity or otherwise) by her side on the stage so far, yet she is hoping to get women's votes.

I really don't understand the big whoop up over this. Shaheen didn't say "did Omama sell drugs?" he said, paraphrasing, "we've got to be worried because if Obama is the nominee the Republicans are going to falsely ask 'did Obama sell drugs?'"

Anyone with a brain should understand that that is going to happen and, though unfair, the question would be more saleable than the false statements about Kerry's war record that sunk his campaign.

Any Democrat concerned about electability should be thinking about this because it will happen and I don't see how it is unfair for Shaheen to have raised this obvious reality.

To Mary/Hillary had her mother on so people would ask why Obama didn't bring his mother out, kinda underhanded but so is Hillary. WAKE UP PEOPLE , NEITHER IS FIT TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT.

Bringing Obamas mother out would be some feat...It amazes me that Bob Robbins would not know that Obama's mother is dead. But then again that assumes that he actually cares about the truth.

i will always believe in Hillary Clinton, i feel like the Little O has still got time to spread his wings but now,he does not have the knowledge to lead this country out of the mess we are in, i was around when Bill Clinton was in office, and for the life of me i don"t understand why you all are so pent up on his failings , and blame it on her?he is still very much liked by the world even here in the United States,what goes on behind closed doors should Stay their, their has not been a president that has not had an affair with some one else while they were in the white house

Pearl Elliott, I made a walk thru of the White House in the fall of 1978. I tried to score, but was unable to, then again like you said, I wasn't president!

As my 14 year old said to me this week ...

"Mom, if we elect Obama, we are just electing another man for President. If we really want change, we should elect Hillary Clinton. Now that would be a change!"

My son doesn't watch news or read blogs from which to form a negative or positive opinion of either candidate.

He was expressing logic.

I'm ready for a logical change. There exists a plethora of research proving women are better negotiators then men.

This time in our country calls for a smart choice, not a "hopeful" one.

Hillary has my vote.

We heard all of this nastyness about Hillary when she ran for the senate. Only then it was coming from the right wing nut jobs. Not only did Hillary win her Senate seat, she also EARNED the respect of many of the very same detractors. She won them over by showing leadership, hard work and knowing how to negotiate to get results.

Of course, for those efforts, she is called a "republican."

I don't think "The Candidate" that America (or is that the media driven psychosis?) seems to be looking can possibly exist.

And given enough time, even Obama will dissapoint his most ardent of supporters. Because that, dear politheads, is the byproduct of good leadership. To be fair, one has to dissapoint someone. And in said fairness, it will not always be "you."

Lastly, if Mr. Obama needs Mr. Clinton's past advisors and deems Mrs. Clinton EXPERIENCED enough to seek her advice should he become president -- why would I not vote for Mrs. Clinton and cut out the middle man?

Logical!