It's clear why the Hillary camp says that Obama is unelectable - because that's the only way for the superdelegates to justify ignoring the popular vote. The Clintons are just showing their elitist colors - trust them, they know that McCain is right for America. Because there's no way in hell that Hillary will win.

Hillary is full of bologna and I hope Obama goes after her during the debate on Wednesday night, and show how she is exploiting this miss wording to something much much bigger then what it is.

I think far too much is being made of his comments. Hillary is just upping her negativity ratings again. Keep it up, Hillary, we don't want you for president.

Obama '08

Maritza,
The people that are saying that are called Obama supporters.
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Lawrence,
The people that are saying that Hillary still has a shot at becoming the nominee are called ignorant.

Come on. Are you serious? This is the best Hillary can do to undermine Obama's campaign? Guess what, American's ARE bitter - they are bitter about the economic mess, the war in Iraq, the lack of meaningful opportunities, the housing crisis, the inability of the government to resolve the Katrina disaster, the climate. You name it, we're bitter about it. Does that makes us unAmerican? Does it mean we are sitting in some corner sulking and acting like petulent children? Of course not. It means we're trying our level best to help ourselves since the past eight years of so called leadership has shown that it is inadequate and unconcerned about helping anyone but themselves. And it means we'll be voting for Obama who frankly should not be apologizing to anyone for his remarks because his remarks are correct. We're being force fed the impression that he's somehow committed some huge error of judgement. He didn't. He spoke the truth.

Being from a small town in Illinois, I certainly don't appreciate the picture he painted of me clinging to a gun and only going to church because I am frustrated. He's the one frustrated and bitter, because this nomination isn't the cake walk he thought it would be. His true self is just starting to peek through, and he is having trouble keeping it submerged lately. The only thing I am bitter about is having voted for him for Senator 2 years ago. The only response his supporters have is the usual "He's just speaking the truth." Well, if he thinks people from rural America only go to church because they are bitter and frustrated, I don't think he even knows the truth.

Her staying in will cost the General Election.

Hillary has lost all morals, and is out of contact with the frustration of the people, yes we are bitter, and sick of her desperate divisive tactics, it is sickening, like Bush, She doesn't care who gets hurt, as a democrat I am appalled, Gas Prices, energy cost,She is a millionaire we are suffering and bitter....

Realtiy now strikes the political pundits. Contrast the politico article on the reaction of seasoned operatives to Obama's remarks with comments of the chattering class--seasoned operatives understand Obama likely loses any general election whereas Hillary likely wins. Even now, the pundits try to vidnciate previous judments favoring Obama by suggesting its still his to lose. Bill was right. This is a fairy tale, and voters are about to announce the news that Santa Claus does not exist. Obama is doomed.

A fascinating analysis from Senator Clinton, but at what point exactly did Hillary start caring about the fate of the Democratic Party in November?

Senator Clinton sure hasn't ran her campaign like she cares about the party's chances for victory in 2008. Why start now?

Does this woman have no conscience? As an elder female and feminist I am so sorry that this is what we are getting for a first-woman-candidate for president. Is this what it takes for a woman to hold so much power? Is this a commentary on woman in patriarchy, using the competitive dominating qualtiies of patriarchy to gain position? Yee goddess, it's dismaying.

Tonya Harding redux.

"You know" (to use Hillary Clinton's favorite arrogant phrase), when I worked for 15 years as a hotel housekeeper at a Marriott in Buffalo, New York, I heard constantly from the management how upbeat we were, and how focused on getting on with our lives. Clinton said something similar in a speech she made while she was on the Board of Directors of Walmart. Walmart employees also hear this constantly. This is Corporate America's mind program for the working class.

Nothing could more specifically reflect the elite point of view. Not that I'm not upbeat, nor that I'm bitter all of the time, nor most people I know, but we're often very concerned, worried, and at times angry. With his background working in Chicago's ghettos, Barack Obama certainly is far more in touch with how working class people feel than is Hillary Clinton, who spent her pre-political life as a successful corporate attorney, a Walmart Board member, and a successful politician's wife. I'm completely fed up it with her extremely arrogant, girl scout leader style of talking to people.

I think that it was a mistake to make the country aware that the people of rural Pennsylvania are backward, and he threw in his own bias against guns. His list of ways people with serious economic problems they can't fix cope was not a list of ignorant ways to act; it included religion. Barack Obama is himself intensely religious. He did think, probably not entirely mistakenly, that he was describing people who care about their lives.

On the other hand, while Senator Obama's customary forethought is well recognized, Clinton rarely thinks before she speaks, and gets into trouble constantly, never by trying to do good. To quote her double on last night's Saturday Night Live, "Is sniper fire sometimes very quiet, so that people have trouble hearing it?" I think the superdelegates will take that into account.

Neither is this what the "firestorm" is about. This is just what occurred to Hillary Clinton to bounce at us today in the hope of convincing someone to vote for her. I'm sure she hopes that people in Pennsylvania are ignorant enough to see the matter as she wants them to. As for Senator McCain, when I grew up, how upbeat people are was the favorite topic of rural political speeches, and the man smells a bloodfest. I remind the media that this is real life and not a reality show.

McCain-Clinton vs. Obama-Richardson! I can see it now.

I had read about what he said, but I just actually HEARD him saying it. "Dem rednecks down there, dey's only gonna vote on dems guns and gay marriages and stuff dat's close to home fo' dems" Excellent candor and so eloquently put. Good way to ostracize 40% - 50% of all Americans. I'm from a very up-scale small town--one that is pre-dominantly pro-Obama--but even I and many of my friends took offense. He lost some votes with that comment...

This seals the deal for me. I will never vote for Obama. Ever. His wife hates America, he looks down on working-class white people, inlcuding his own grandmother, and his pastor hates Jews. Where on earth did the Democratic leadership get the idea this guy was mainstream and electable? His cult of personality is out of control.

This article is an example of what lengths both Obama and Hillary will go to to get elected. On one hand you have a man who often shows his lack of experience though smooth he may be; on the other hand you have a woman who will excuse herself from lying and claim it to be a mistake. How could anyone in their right mind vote for either of these characters?

Remember, if you are voting for anyone this election, the United States will get exactly what it has ask for! If you want change don't depend on the three that are running right now!

This is a sign of how desperate Clinton has become. But it is also the reason saying "I feel your pain" is more effective campaigning than attempting to describe it. There is an undeniable truth in what Obama said, at to any objective observer. But in the hands of Clinton it has somehow become a faux pas. The fact that we are even talking about it, rather than how to restore the faith in the political process and American government for the working class is indicative of the low state to which the campaign process has declined in this country. We should all be ashamed.

When you see your enemies eating each other, don't speak and pass the salt.

The desperate nature of her relentless attack only reveals her recognition that she is finished as a canididate. In her heart she knows what Obama said is truth personified. Pathetic Hillary displays in the endgame her most salient fearure - shear hypocrisy.

What did Hillary lie about today? About her middle class $100 million dollar background?? About being pinned down by sniper fire in PA? I heard Bill Clinton corrected her and said it was in Indiana. Sheesh... How can anyone fall for the Hillary snake oil salesman. She will say and do anything to get elected. She is a bigger liar and worse than even Bush. She is part of the Washington elite the status quo. She is a lying hypocritical opportunist. Shame on you Hillary.