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).

You said it well, Virginia Voter. The two of them think, walk, and talk like pure-bred Socialists, and that in fact is what they are.

I think their followers are just happy not to have to do any thinking on their own of the consequences of their choices. I dislike being insulting, but Osama's and Clinton's fans are just drugging themselves.

There is no queen to give things to people, the president has a quite limited role in directly solving problems, and people are responsible for themselves.

Also, the government does not create jobs, people. What exactly is wrong with your brains, anyway, that you cannot grasp this?

After my post yesterday:" Hillary Clinton, Welcome to Texas -The Lone Star State- where Ann Richards' spirit lives on." I knew Hillary Clinton would mention a Texas leader like Ann Richards she always admires. Many of us remember Ann Richard speech during the 1988 Democratic Convention: "Poor George, he can't help it, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth."

Ole Girl Hill is hearing voices all right! But, they are not saying keep going!

It's time for her to pass the torch onto Obama. The Clintons have enough scandal to last a lifetime....their scandal is enough to embarass this nation for a lifetime. The Repulicans can look in Obama's background all that they want...there is nothing to find. He wroteverything that there would be to find in his book, The Audacity to Hope. If Hillary wants to keep bringing up Rezco, let her. We can talk about Monica, Jennifer, whitewater, McDougall...and the list goes on.

Okay, I have to ask what really is meant by the comment that Hillary has taken the GOP's best shots and is still standing?

Do the people repeating this really think its possible to knock someone over with insults?

Clinton was a partisan warrior, battling against what she called the VRWC. She now is running for a nomination among those who were on her side of those spats. So the fact that she's a serious candidate for the nomination isn't proof of defeating the Republicans - its just proof that she's among friends.

The difference is that she seems to running to return to her partisan warrior role. Some like that approach. Others say they want to get past all that.

What's Eleanor Roosevelt saying these days?

Go Hillary! I support you all the way - we are behind you.

Well, the voice from the Beyond that Clinton says she's hearing must not belong to Molly Ivins, another dearly departed strong, progressive Texas woman. In early 2006, Ivins penned these thoughts about why she would not support Hillary Clinton's bid for the Presidency:

hearing those voices of dead people again.

just what we need for president.

hillary is delusional.

Obama loves to tout his "superior" judgment.

Let's see, he'd meet with world leaders with no preconditions.

He'd invade Pakistan, a soverign nation with REAL WMDs, nuclear weapons, if he had intelligence on his desk that told him the location of Bin Laden... risking the collapse of the military regime that keeps those nuclear weapons safe.

He keeps touting his judgment, but without three or five advisors in his ear telling him what to say, his first instinct is often very, very wrong.

He may not want to be bogged down in the minutiae of foreign policy, but I'd rather have a policy geek like Hillary than a naive optimist like Barack.

It must have been great fun to sit around ABC thinking of the most insulting, belittling, stupid, and inaccurate heading that you could give to this story.

I read a great column in which the author summarized Hillary's campaign as "Vote for Hillary, think of all she's been through." Not quite compelling enough for my vote.

But as Martin Dillon said, Hillary has the bad luck of running when a rare guy like Obama has stepped into the fray. Any other year, against guys like John Kerry and Dean the Scream, she would have won hands down. But she has shown her true colors with Obama, and they aren't pretty. I liked her before the campaign, but now would never vote for her for any office. The Clintons are sleazy and will do anything to win.

Hilary, you go get em girl! Ann Richards would be putting on her leathers and revving up her Harley to expose that sham Obama. He's as sleazy as they come: it just that the media are so wide-eyed about him they haven't exposed him yet. But the Republicans will just you wait and see. Obama is the biggest Scam being carried out on gullible American people at the moment.

Clinton's Obama strategy:

Having meticulously planned their coveted return to the White House for several years now, the Clintons will certainly not exit the scene with grace or dignity. This is the political duo that honed "The Politics Of Personal Destruction" into an artform; and, most certainly will not tolerate, who is in their mind, the "upstart Obama" to derail Hillary's pre-choreographed coronation.
With regards Slick's comments on Obama's Iraq record; and, the draft dodger's false accusation of flip flopping on the Iraq issue against Obama: It was actually Hillary who was the serial flip-flopper on this issue. Obama to his credit, as a matter of conscience, refused to deny American troops the funding for the bullets and equipment that they required to survive in ongoing combat. Hillary, on the other hand, with no such compelling principles, was one of only two U.S. Senators who voted to deny funding for essential equipments for our troops who they had "previously" voted to commit to lethal combat. A despicable breach of trust with the young men and women laying their lives on the line in defense of our Nation. Obama made the classical rookie error of not responding to Slick's false accusation, which he could have easily turned to Hillary's well deserved detriment
Barrack and his supporters best be prepared for the "Political Lynching" that will rival anything previously witnessed in Presidential politics. Further, the Clinton's methodical playing of the "Race Card" will promote a permanent schism between the Black and Hispanic communities. Despicable, and destructive to any semblence of National cohesion painfully achieved.
Slick and Hilla-the-Hun, the Perpetual Victim, have repeatedly demonstrated a vicious mud-slinger demeanor that is unprecedented whenever their political dynasty has been threatened in the past. Just ask anyone of their innumerable victims.

Greg

Not only are the voices of Ann Richardson and Barbara Jordan beckoning her to continue but millions of women’s voices from around this country are joining the chorus, screaming for her to continue against the forces of biased sexist media and misogynist statements, that are unbelievable to those of us who thought we had previously been called all the hateful names available. Our voices are joined by the millions of women who fought similar battles with similar odds and similar lack of support and yet moved women, yes even those opposing these movements, ahead. For the young women who fall in line with Obama and think that Hillary is “old news” and the “status quo”, be reminded that she was his source as Hillary campaigned for Obama, raised money for Obama, advised him when he came into the senate, and was friends with his family. More likely than not, you will get the same treatment from the Obama camp if he wins the nomination. BTW the new polls show Hillary substantially ahead in Ohio and PA.

301,139,947 - current population of U.S. – we can identify two that were less than perfect, Ann Richards and Hillary Clinton. Ann Richards when she was alive was a former alcoholic (which she admitted), Hillary Clinton was cheated on by her husband but even worse still she forgave him - the audacity that she could hope they could work through that and make it. of course both of these women had and have hope, strength and courage. Michelle Obama has stated they wouldn't attempt this run for presidency again if Barack is not successful this time. they don't think it would be good for him to associate with those jaded folks in Washington it seems. (then too that's a long time to simply vote present.) Obama likes to highlight McCain’s age (half century of service), well McCain might have been earlier to run for President had he not first served his country and spent 5 years as a POW.

Now Hillary is talking to dead people. Soon she will be crying again to win our votes. Why would we want to put the corrupt Clintons back in office? This country needs real change and Obama can do it. Let's Vote for Obama and close down the corrupt house of Clinton once and for all.

We always knew she was deranged now as he campaign is tanking she is starting to crack up in public.

“You give the people a real choice about the future!" I can hear their voices (both?) saying. I can hear their voices saying: you're going to lose ... you're going to lose. Make no mistake about it, Hillary Clinton is running the primary race for two – two for Texas, you might say. Ann Richards wouldn't touch that with a 10 ft. pole. My contention is that people, who don't know Hillary, might vote for her. However, anyone who does know Hillary would never vote for her.

Knowing what I do about Texas & Ohio, I also can't imagine that either the lone star state, or the buckeye state will fall prey to Hillary Clinton. I'm no political oracle, but common sense says the punishment Hillary is taking at the polls, has to do with deep-seated distain on the part of the voter. Bill & Hillary Clinton’s character issues?

The only delusional people here are the ones who took the very common figure of speech Clinton used and tried to twist it into something negative -- starting with the reporters/editors who posted this in the first place.

People, if you can't grasp that she did not say she literally heard "voices from beyond," you need some remedial education.

Hillary is done! If Ann Richards were to say anything to her it would be "Get me another bottle of single malt scotch if you're coming over honey. We can drink it together here in my bathtub."

I guess the lady that they found on
Mars is her campaign manager.

Hillary will drop out.

Barack Obama will win.

It will be John McCain versus Barack Obama.

John McCain will win.

Maybe Obama is being "set up" to take the nomination away from Hillary. Then, after the convention, the media will focus on Obama's "inexperience" (especially in foreign affairs). . . so that McCain can win the White House and carry on George W. Bush's Iraq War policy. The New World Order in action!!!

I can't imagine Hillary or Obama as president. I don't know which one is the lesser of the two evils. They both support abortion and infanticide. As far as Hillary is concerned, I have never once heard how she is going "to do" the things she says she's going to do. She never tells people how it's going to be done. Both she and Barack make me shiver.

The only thing I hate about politics is the negative between each of the candidates. My wish from them is to give out positive energy. Tell me what can be done and how this is going to happen. A lot of cleaning up after 8 years of upsets. Hillary we need a lady to clean up the White House of all its bad energy and put in all the positive back into it and keep
IN GOD WE TRUST
you have my Texas vote.

Barak is described as a rockstar, there are enough rockstars. What is needed is someone with know how to unravel & resolve the unbelieveable mess this crew of shameless,liars made of our country. Besides, Obama is related to both Bush & Cheney & most probably to the queen. Need more be said?

Too bad that HC isn't hearing, or OB for that matter, the voices of the millions of children sucked out of their mother's wombs with the full support of the party the belong to. Maybe they'd get a conscience instead of being slimy panderers.

I am disgusted to see how people talk about "how great it will be to be a woman on the White House". Does being a man or a woman matters anything? What matters is their history as a politician: what they support, what they believe and will do to the country. As for my support it will go to the one who respects life. This country is dirty with innocent blood of
unborn children. Infanticide and abortion are a great evil and supporting Hillary and Obama is to support the continuation of these great eevils. How come American people do not wwake up to that? How disensitized are Americans nowadays. They vote for Universal Healthcare. What is that? Look what has happened in Canada. People who can afford come to the U.S. or to Mexico for proper healthcare. They can't get that from what their governmant offers. They die waiting to be treated. Trusting the government to give the healthcare you need is a bad idea. Free healthcare is no healthcare at all. Democrats are selling themselves for this so-called universal healthcare and ignoring the genocide happening in this country. How did we get to this point? Is this a re-creation of the ancient Roman Empire where pleasure, abortion and genocide were as common as going to the dentist and having a dental cleaning?
Wake up and have a heart again
American. People who trust in God will trust in His providence. We don't need universal healthcare while genocide is happening down the street. We need people who respect each other and the most innocent. Our conscience need to be fundamented in moral values that will stand the time. The Roman Empire did not stand, they were terminated because of their lack of respect for human life. Their received their prize with their extinction.

If any Catholics of good standing (practicing Catholics) not the likes of Nancy Pelosi or the Kennedy's or Kerry's, please note this information.
You can not vote for Hillary or Obama because there are 5 Non-Negotiables that take precedence over any criteria for choosing a president. Abortion, Embryonic Stem Cell, Euthanasia, Human Cloning and Same Sex Marriage. Any candidate who stands for any of these is ruining our country and will bring it down from within. God will have the last word through storms, events, etc.
We need to stand for truth and rightenous in God and everything else will fall into place properly. We protect animals, environments but we do not respect human life. Think!!!

Magdlyn you have hit the nail on the head, I say the same. I'll add - We Americans have missed the boat, there is one candidate whom most everyone refused and/or failed to recognize who would be able to save our country. At this point I there is no point in mentioning his name, maybe you all can figure it out, its too late now.

I am not an American, but my mother was. Seeing the state of the country I contimplated applying for duo citisenship if that would make me legal to vote in the US. My vote would definately NOT be Clinton or Obama. My vote would be for the person who would stop the hollicost of the murdering of the millions of babies.Worry less about what these candidates can do for you for a change. America has bigger problems from the inside out. Sorry for the spelling. Other wise I hope I offended many....to the point of wakeing up.

Here's an excerpt from a Larry King show, with Hugh Downs filling in for Larry. He was visiting with our late and beloved Ann Richards:

DOWNS: Now, about Hillary Clinton -- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, this is very interesting; do you think she will run for the presidency at some point?

RICHARDS: I have no idea, I certainly think she can if she wants to. And I'm ready to suit up any time she wants to do it.

'nuff said. Ann would be right up there on the platform, side by side with Hillary.

If Obama wins the Dem nomination, I encourage all Clinton supporters to either vote 3rd party or abstain from voting in November. Do not accept this prematurely promoted and coddled so-called orator as your President.

I'm with you, Hillary. You are the best. No question.