Hillaryfan, thank you for your thoughtful reply. I DO feel stongly in my gut, heart and mind that Obama is the leader we need, at this time especially. I think the core of this belief comes from the idea in your response that talks about Hillary being the strong, tough and decisive one. I disagree with you on all the above and refer you to "Cat Scratch" response above. But that is not why I feel he is the leader we need. The reason I think Obama is the choice for our country is all the above, but more importantly because he is wise and thoughtful. He doesn't want to just play politics to get elected, I truly believe he wants to change the World that is in dire need of changing, and has the skills to do it. Again, this is not a knock against Hillary, she just has a different mindset. Rather than fighting the "tough" situations you refer to, he will bring people together and make those situations less abrasive and therefore have a better chance of getting those thing accomplished. HOPE Rules!!!

I'm glad she's rooting for the NY Giants...because instead of going to Disneyland...the NY GIANTS ARE ENDORSING OBAMA!!! The NY GIANTS ARE HEADING TO AN OBAMA RALLY IN MONDAY!!

yeah right, she loves football. she is a big old square phony.
and who was it who said she doesn't have the elite on her side?? i guess martha stewart is just a poor nobody then? that is just uninformed...blinded by wanting so badly to be on the hillary train that you can't see reality.

Barack Obama, "It's important not just to be ready on day one, it's important to be right".

Obama picked the Patriots to win. Hillary picked the Giants. So by his own resume AND his own words, he isn't ready AND he isn't right! :)

Go Hillary!

During this campaign Senator Obama has referred to his work on a nuclear energy bill as one of his major accomplishments while in the US Senate. A recent New York Times article looked at his work on this bill and found that one of his biggest contributors the Exelon Company, a nuclear energy company, and the GOP had a lot of influence in the changes to this bill, that anti-nuclear energy groups in Illinois were very unhappy with these changes, and that Obama’s campaign manager worked for Exelon. While Obama and his campaign have tried to explain this away what he can not seem to explain is why he calls this one of his biggest accomplishments when it did not even pass the US Senate.

This is not the only time Obama has stretched the truth in this race as he has also claimed that he does not take lobbying money when he has taken federal lobbying money in his past races and takes state lobbying money now, has claimed to hate outside independent groups but is not trying to prevent them from helping him, and has claimed to have run a positive campaign when he also is using Republican like tactics to attack Hillary on her universal health care plan while Obama claims to have an universal health care plan but his plan will not cover between 10 and 20 million people.

And Obama says that Hillary will say anything to get elected? When will the people and the press start to look at Obama’s statements?

Oh yes HILLARY has the right message. WE DON'T NEED HOPE WE NEED HER! Can't wait to see her tonight. GO HILLARY! We are behind you all the way. God help us if she doesn't win. She is the only one that can get us out of this mess we are in now. Sorry but Obama just doesn't have a CLUE!

All of this hope reminds me of Jesse Jackson... Keep hope alive WHERE is the HELP? Hillary told ABC News that the GIANTS were going to WIN and she got just what she said and on Super Tuesday she will get another WIN...

O-bama is on the campaign trail don't know where he is addressing the crowd in Idaho and said Iowa opps my bad...his wife could not pronounce Nevada correctly....but he is uniter,

In his speech in Idaho he said I support you and you can keep your guns and back home he support a bill to banned guns... did you hear the one about referred to his work on a nuclear energy bill as one of his major accomplishments while in the US Senate. A recent New York Times article looked at his work on this bill and found that one of his biggest contributors the Exelon Company, a nuclear energy...this dude is saying anything and thinking that people is not going to check his records...oh please

I want some more credit then work for it like everyone else...Ask Hillary how to do this. She been around long enough maybe you can lean something from here...

Imagine this: I came out of the police academy a year ago pass all my test even got some accommodations saying my work is really good... next year I wanted to be chief of police and they all said you don't have enough experience to do that job...work your way up and give yourself enough time then you will be an excellent chief of police...Now that is just a police officer raking what do you think about being President of the USA how much experience do you need?

And you voted against the war O-bama why did you influence enough people to help you to fight against the war...now let me remind the people he is a great uniter what happen back then...

YOU SEE HILLARY BEEN THROUGH THE MUD, DIRT AND THE BACKBITTING....SHE KNOWS WHAT IT WILL TAKE....O-BAMA IN THE NEXT 4 YEAR YOU WILL BE A WONDERFUL PRESIDENT BUT FOR KNOW...SIT BACK AND GET SOME EXPERIENCE...NEXT 4 YEARS IT IS ALL YOURS...I WILL VOTE FOR HILLARY AND I HOPE YOU WILL TOO!!!!!

I'm afraid, VERY afraid, because if there are folks out there who think Billary (no, it's NOT just Hillary) is going to cross political lines and unite this country obviously wasn't paying attention the last time they were in office. But then again, sometimes you want something so bad that you end up with selective memory loss.

One of their most notable achievements while they were running things was their unique ability to DIVIDE this country politically and demographically. If Billary's elected, this country will be more divided than it's been since the 1860's. They did it once and they'll do it again because they have no conscience or ethics - the proof being the "I'll say or do whatever it takes to win" attitude they've operated with since they started running for office in Arkansas. Not even the Billaryites can argue against that statement.

Don't you get it??? The reason we now have Bush is BECAUSE of the Clintons!

I agree with Sandy. The Obama supporters who keep holding up his "integrity" need to fact check. An individual with integrity does not sell out his constituency when offered money and support for his campaign from large energy utilities. This is exactly what Obama did when he took money from Exelon to gut legislation aimed at protecting people in Illinois from nuclear power plant leaks. His original intentions were good, but he could not resist the lure of money to support a premature run for President. I do not find inspiration in a man who will not make sure every citizen of the U.S. will have adequate health care. His plan is lacking and he is attacking Clinton's plan with tactics similar to those advanced by the Rovian republicans when they torpedoed universal healthcare in the early 90s. I do not deny that soaring rhetoric speaks for many Americans. The problem is that I prefer the truth behind the curtain, and that truth doesn't accurately reflect the Obama shown to us by most media outlets. He is, at heart, a politician, and willing to use many unsavory tactics to reach his goals. I can live with the tactics, after all, it is politics in America. What I can't live with are proposed policies that are only partial solutions and no backbone to stand up to the very special interests you claim to deny. I've had too much rhetoric in my lifetime of voting. I want hard work and results and that means I will vote for Hillary Clinton this time around.

Hillary is going to be a great president!!
Its great to see people supporting her.
Questioning a candidates record and plans is fair game people. Its not throwing mud. Besides let the woman cheer for whoever she wants. The people of NY elected her to be their senator. I think its admirable that she supports their team. Quit looking for any excuse to attack her.

I have been on the fence for weeks. After reading the immature, childish, and frankly uneducated rantings by HillaryFan and other Hillary supporters, I have decided on choosing Barack Obama.

If those are the people supporting Hillary, I want no part of it.

Posted by: 2009 Where Are You?,
""Incidentally -

GARNISH WAGES OF THOSE RICH ENOUGH TO BUY THE INSURANCE BUT WON'T

you awake now, line-item reader?

Got the cash but refuse to buy insurance, so when you get syphilis or your brat gets rabbis you let us all pay for your emergency bills.

That is the dumbed down version of what Clinton is proposing. If you got the money and want the tax payers to cough up your health bill - you gonna get them wages docked :)

So she doesn't mean any of us. Because if any of us had two nickles to rub together, we wouldn't be on an internet blog babbling about each of our distorted candidates; we'd be on a yacht eating bon bons off of some 18 year old's tanned backside
LOL.""

Actually, sir or ma'am, what she is proposing is a MANDATE. If a person is to poor to pay for it, oh well. She will penalize or fine them, regardless of their wage. That is Hillary's idea of Universal Health care. Did you not catch her on tv yesterday or do you just agree with disadvantaging the poor even more? Either way, her plan isn't all that great.

Obama is not a bad guy, but he is way too wet behind the ears. Nothing against him, he has a good heart, but he does not have adequate experience to be President of the United States. The guy is only 40 and he already has 3 autobiographies.. can I say narcissism? Hillary has a track record of fighting for human rights. She not only has a great heart, but she has the experience to back it up and proof that she can MAKE CHANGE occur, not just make promises. Is it practical to spend milions of dollars on super bowl ads when you're advocating to end poverty in America? I'm not surprised Obama shelled out the cash. Hillary has way more sense that that. America needs a President who is ready to fight for her people and who actually has the professional capacity to do so!!! Go Hillary!!

I just read someone's comment about backing Obama because of "uneducated" comments coming from Hillary supporter's blogs. If you are making a decision on who to back up as President based on what other people say, THE UNEDUCATED ONE IS YOU. How about you vote for someone whose policies you agree on and who you think is adequately equipped to govern this nation? Make an informed decision by researching the candidates policies, not by what comes out of pre-pubescent mouths. I watched the MTV Presidential Closing Arguments, and frankly I am quite disappointed with the youth of this nation. I hope they go out and vote for someone because they BELIEVE in their policies and their capacity to govern, not because they are black or female, or because it might be "cool" to vote for the candidate that sounds like a ranting lunatic.

Yes Shane! I agree with you 100% It is disturbing to say the least.

I think Barack Obama is inspiring, a good speaker, should be an inspirational speaker or a minister. He says, "we can chang the country", "we can do what we want to do to change", "we can make changes". Has he stated how yet? He is like a coach before a big play...only he forgot what the big play is..."ok guys, we can get out there and win...I just don't know how". Hillary Clinton has plans. We know what they are. Obama is distorting everything she says. They had it on MSNBC last night. The press picked Obama after Iowa. Hillary made them eat their words. I believe she will make them eat them again. People say they want Barack Obama, but I think at the end of the day, Hillary will win out. There was a woman on last night that was a Hillary supporter, then she went with Obama, but she said in the end, she feels Hillary has a better platform and actually sounds like she knows how to fix our problems. Obama is a cheerleader, Hillary is the coach that has a plan!!!!!!!!!!!! GO HILLARY...

I live in New York and Im a democrat who voted for Lazio when Hilary was first running for senator. That is because I knew Hilary was a phony who just had a lot of politcal ties and wouldnt help us at all. I even agree with many of her views but she really hasn't done anything for new york. im from chappaqua, and I can tell you first hand that she will not do anything to help our country.