I adored Ann Richards. She was a great lady and a great governor. If she were alive today, she'd be supporting Hillary, I'm pretty sure.

I like the excerpts of the new stump speech. I hope it gets more coverage in the national media....if they can take their lovesick eyes off Obama for one minute.

Hmmmm... I hear the voice too - except it is saying, "Hillary, drop out!"

I loved Hillary's speach. She is clearly the more "elaborate" candidate. However,the reason she is losing is not for lack of details in her plans for the nation but rather as a result of mistrust. Even though she is a woman, she is still perceived as part of the "good old boys/girls" network.

She hears dead people.

Kucinich saw UFOs.
Look where he is in the Presidential race now.

I'll admit I liked Kucinich a lot, but Hillary? She's going negative like everyone has expected and it just smells like desperation.

According to calculations, after Obama's string of wins, she's going to need to win over 56 percent of all votes from here on, in order to even have a shot at the nomination. It's not going happen. Obama's going to take Hawaii and Wisconsin by a landslide, along with numerous other states where Clinton has no shot in. She may find Ohio and Texas favorable, but even then, Obama's not likely to lose by a huge enough margin for Hil to gain the numbers she needs, even if he does not win those two states.

I guess it's goodbye for Hillary Romney-Giuliani. O-mentum is taking over from here on.

Instead of offering real information or contrasting her policy positions against Obama's, she tries to induce "common knowledge" that Obama is all talk! SHE is all talk, she's been echoing the exact same ideas that Obama has been saying for years, she dodges on the issues. Obama's judgment abilities are clear; he's a uniter, she's a divider.

All the stuff she's talked about doing, she could have been taking those initiatives in the Senate, but it just wasn't happening.

The first female president should be the first great candidate who happens to be female; none of this "my turn" stuff. Do people honestly believe that Barack Obama, coming out of nowhere with next to zero money, built this coalition of support and small donations based on media lovesickness for Obama?

I am so proud of the America that Obama represents; one of intelligence, deep ideas, concern for inclusion and understanding and fairness, and a commitment to the American dream. I'm sick and tired of 60's and 80's mentality echoing in our two parties...

Oh sheesh. Voices from beyond the grave, advising Clinton to keep going, huh.

Well, last night George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Sam Houston told me they were leaning toward Obama. Houston added he thought the Tarheels might fade down the stretch, and was backing Big 12 teams. Okay, have to allow the guy a little regional preference, right?

The Voice is from her heart and from most of Americans. We want real change which only she can achieve through all her devotion for the People's issues. we don't want mistakes and risk. Go Hillary! Go Hillary!!!, win Texas! Win Ohio!! Win Wis!!! and win all the way!! Bring back the Whitehouse for American People!!!

If Hillary really wants our vote and trust she can start by showing her tax records, which she refuses to do until she is the nominee. Why until the nomination? Obama has made his public as it should be. Do we really want the Clintons back? I honestly would rather trust someone that seems honest and sincere then the liars, dishonest and moral lacking Clintons.

When is obama going to come squeaky clean about Rezco? About his own corporate backing from the Nuclear power industry? About his wife doubling her salary and jumping to vice prez just after he was elected? Mrs. Obama said on TV that she would have to think about it before she would support the democratic party for presidency if Hillary won. Clinton has been vetted and has both feet on the ground. I couldn't care any less if a candidate's rhetoric soars to preacher proportions. How strange to support a candidate that reads from a teleprompter as he did even after winning the Iowa Caucus, for pete's sake.

So Hillary says she about "solutions" and Senator Obama is about "promises" well.....she better explain why she thought going to war with Iraq was a solvent "solution"??? Yes, I think Senator Obama "promised" us all that this war would be a horrific mistake and would take our eyes off Afghanistan. Barack Obama's wisdom is amazing!

Hillary, it's the voices of the living Americans you should be listening for and when I voted for you a second term as my Senator in NY State I thought you heard my voice for wanting change and getting out of Iraq. Hillary, you are the old guard and it's time for you to go.

We have known Hillary for at least 16 years and watched the republicans and media go after her. She is still standing which is proof that she can weather any storm. Go ahead, take a small phrase out of something she said and twist it around, that just makes you look stupid. I watch with amazement how every Obama fan is running off the cliff like a bunch of Lemmings though we met him only months ago. No one has investigated him thoroughly, YET, but giving him a pass because he says he "will bring change"! Hope Barack realizes that Congress and the Senate will have some input, too. You can bet the republicans are busily turning over every rock to find out just what Barack stands for, his (and Michelle's) past, all of his dealings and connections, then they will trot all of it out in late-September and October, just before the election. I am a Democrat, but I see McCain winning due to blind inexperience. Hillary got my vote yesterday and I'd vote for her again in a heartbeat.

Barbara Jordan, Ann Richards and Hillary Clinton. Strong and dedicated women. All willing to take the risks of serving their country and face their critics. Ann would not be described as perfect, no more than Hillary is. But the ability to learn from mistakes, to carry own, all in the desire to serve your country, this is key to me. Hillary could easily have retired to a much easier lifestyle than this journey she has taken on. Yes - she is ready for day one and every day that follows. She leads in the debates, she leads in the experience and she has demonstrated throughout all her life she has the absolute strength necessary to be president of this great nation.

American2 @ 1:16

"Yes - she is ready for day one and every day that follows. She leads in the debates, she leads in the experience and she has demonstrated throughout all her life she has the....blah, blah, blah..."

Well maybe she does. But, hey, so did Mitt!

But the problem is that both of these peas in a pod are phony. Period.

And it shows. Buh Bye Willard "Mitt" Romney. You didn't have to go away mad. But you did have to go away.

Soon to say Buh Bye to Hills....

It is still a man's world. Most men will support men, no matter whether they are red or yellow black or white. That was just proven in this last sweep for Obama.. Obama obviously does not have a clue that it takes more than a dream to make changes. I too have a dream to win the Lottery, but it ain't realistic. It takes one that has been there and done that has the wisdom and a better knowledge of facing crisis. That is why, if Obama gets the nomination over Hillary, I will cast my vote to McCain(if he is the Republican nominee)who is one that has at least been there and done that. Even though I do not agree with some of his policies and am a registered Democrat,I would still fill more comfortable with his leadership than some dreamer...The people need to realize that this is not a poplarity contest.. Yes, as Obama preaches, people are tired of this and tired of that and he has declared that he will change all that, but has yet to say how he can and will change all that. It is obvious that those that have been there and done that have already been through the ups and downs of different encounters that did not work,therefore will not be backtracking over the same mistakes that will not better the country's situation. Reaching across to all Congressmen and Senators to support Obama's dreams that have never been tested for reality is a fairy tale. Our Country has serious problems and preaching dreams are just to far fetch to bank on in times when only wisdom and knowledge makes sense.. I ask you, would stock holders put a clerk, recently hired with a Fortune 500 Company to be the CEO??? Think about it.

Obama is clearly ready to be president. He has worked his way from nothing to Harvard grad, US Senate and a lead in delegates in the democratic primaries. He has shown an ability to united peoples from disparate groups. He has built a national grassroots organization that is astounding. He has drawn unprecedented numbers of new voters into the process. He has had the support of the the young, the most educated and the blacks from the beginning. Now he is drawing the majority of women, men, young and old, educated and uneducated, north and south, urban and surburban. He has accomplished all this against Hillary who has been building a political organization for over 20 years. Obama is the only candidate who truly offers change and the where with all to make it happen. Where he is now and what he has accomplished attests to his ability to accomplish what virtually everyone would have said was impossible only a few months ago. Obama offers a possibly for change most of us have only dreamed about. We have waited too long to waste thss opportunity. America deserves change. America deserves hope.

Hillary Clinton is a fine senator and would have made a pretty good president. It is her bad luck to be running in an era when we have a Barack Obama, who is clearly outside the norm we have come to expect from politicians. As far as the "new" Hillary, criticizing Obama for a lack of detail, or minor differences in his health plan - that is fair game in a campaign. What is not fair game are innuendo, personal attacks, racial slurs, on and on. Let's hope these don't surface again

Well said, Martin Dillon!

Kevin Michael, your message was inspirational, indeed.

I like the way you both expressed yourselves without making a villian out of Senator Hillary Clinton, it would do well for her to follow your example as she finds herself in a tighter and tighter race.

From Michelle Malkin:

As for describing Ann Richards as “larger than life,” sorry ABC but I was in Texas during part of her reign. She was a one-termer who only won in 1990 because her GOP rival Clayton Williams made a very awful joke in front of a group of reporters. And she still only won that election narrowly. She lost to George W. Bush in 1994, and Bush went on to become the first Texas governor to be re-elected to consecutive terms in eons. He went on from there to where he is now, after dispatching Richards to the political wasteland (for which all Republicans should be forever grateful to W). She was not larger than life. I met her once and on that day, at a family campaign event for then state Senator Ted Lyon in East Texas, Ann Richards was drunker than life. But larger than life, Ma Richards was not.

Fourteen years after her first healthcare plan was defeated by Senate Democrats, she has a second plan put together several months into her campaign. Did it really take all that time to create another plan?

What fix to the economy will she provide after NAFTA helped break it? A temporary tax rebate instead of a longterm improvement?

What has she done for her NY state constituents? Net job losses overall during her first term doesn't rate a mention?

Look, I'm not endorsing Obama, either, but for all her self-touted experience and capacity to fight, why has the less-experienced guy won 19 states to her 13? If she fights and wins office, what will Americans win specifically? I know what she fights AGAINST but I'm still mystified by what she fights FOR.

I presume she'll be better than Bush, but that's a very low bar to surpass. Will our wages go up? Gas prices down? When will the hundreds of billions spent on Iraq end to be used for things we need?

I liked Ann Richards a lot, but I knew what she got done. With Clinton, I remain perplexed and really don't know which candidate will deliver, nor what.

(Mere) words have the power to create new realities (see: Declaration of Independence). One thing I have to hand to Obama (and Howard Dean before him) is that, though their language, they communicated that we are ALL responsible for our democracy. And collectively, have the power to change it.

It's very simple, but what lost me with Mr. Edwards was actually his refrain "I will fight for you." And similarly, with Mrs. Clinton: “I have to be elected president to work to give you . . . " I'm tired of the psychological dependence encouraged by the current administration (and their would-be successors).