Another "present" moment from Obama.

Perhaps Obama and Leahy can star in a remake of "Chico and trhe man" -it's not my job!

Obama, the man that you can always count on to say something empty, but ever so slightly BITTER!
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Obama BITTERGATE '08, saying and doing anything he can to lose an election!
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gee, Tiffany, did you see the SUSA polls today? Looks like poor lil Barack is down 14 points in Penn despite his gazillion dollars worth of adds and the faked scene of a Vet giving him a flag pin, that apparently now he has decided to wear.
He is going to LOSE. He has no experience and hired that evil Axelrove to run his campaign. He hired about a dozen exlobbyists too, guess he wanted to keep their paychecks comin in!

Ha, Ha, Ha..this Clinton suporter will never vote for Obama because of the stuck up snobs that back him. Good-luck when allot of us "Clinton" democrats vote for McCain!

Obama was the only one to respond yet he was the one getting flamed. You can tell his bias is showing.

3 more Super Delegates for Obama today. Let's see. If she wins by 15 points in Penn she gets 9 more delegates...subtract 3 from that equation = 6. When is she gonna get the message she can't win this thing?

Kate...Right on....Just another ploy to trapped people....Politics at is best..

"Amazon woman?!"

HAHAHAHA...you know, back in high school, my friends and I would refer to good-looking guys as "fine amazons" if they were tall, dark, and handsome. I'm guessing it's a compliment. Michelle is pretty.

PaseodelMar-
So, out of all the polls that show Clinton losing the DNC bid by 8-13% to Obama, showing her losing nationally to McCain while Obama is ahead of McCain, and all the polls showing Pennsylvania to be between 3 and 6% separation you choose to quote one outlying poll. Interesting choice, but not unexpected. Tell your candidate to pay her bills (and try not lying for a day or two) then come back and maybe there can be a constructive conversation.

The super delegates are going to decide who will be the Democratic presidential nominee.

After Hillary wins Pennsylvania and Indiana, it will be much clearer than most small town Democratic voters have rejected Obama's view of small-town Americans of being bitter and clinging to God and guns.

A voice of reason: The only way the democrats will capture the white house is together. I will not vote for Barack because of his thin resume, but if he added eight years as vice president, no one could claim that he was inexperienced and I think this would all but assure the democrats of 16 years in the white house. This is sound reasoning and Barack could end this all now and fill in the gaps and probably make a wonderful president. If democrats came together and made this the sound that both candidates could hear, maybe we could get this done.

Just remember for all of you that are throwing the temper tantrum of threatening to vote for McCain. Another 100 years of Iraqi war, no legitimate plan for economic recovery, renewing the tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%, invasion of Iran, Roe v. Wade, the GI bill, and the potential of 3 supreme court justices being nominated should be first and foremost in this election. If any democrat would entrust these issues or any of the many other upcoming issues to McCain instead of either Obama or Clinton I have serious doubts about levels of sanity. Get over yourselves and think about the future of the country.

Susan...now that will resolve everything. Having the republicans running the country for 4-8 more years? You think it is bad now...wait and see...I am a Rep and I ma voting Dem this year because we cannot afford another Rep, especially McCain. Let's be realistic...Yeezz

If you read the article closely, you'll see that Senator Obama is not only respectful of the Senate judicial committee's role (headed by Leahy) AND considerate and professional to respond.

Hmm, let's see professionalism and considerate of due process... sounds like Obama's doing the right thing! Don't be fooled by Senator Specter's baseless rants. He's playing politics.

In case you Hilary supporters haven't figured it out yet, the evil empire known as the "Republican Party" does not scare Obama supporters. Bring them on! Cheerio!

Okay, for the slow people: Clinton LOST Texas and likely would BARELY have won Ohio, except for the cross-over vote.

WHO GETS REBUKED?

THE ONE RESPONDING..not the ones IGNORING.

DISEASE OF HYPOCRISY IS MORE OVERPOWERING THAN CANCER ON A true politician.

Specter has no credibility--he should resign and make room for someone healthier, younger and with more integrity. Somehow memories fade (conveniently) during election cycles, but I have not forgotten how Specter sold his soul for the Chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee when the Republicans had the majority. Anyone remember the "loyalty" oath he was told to sign that essentially said he would rubber stamp the President's nominees or else he could kiss the chairmanship goodbye? I remember. I remember how he groveled for the position and signed this outrageous document.If he had any integrity at all, he would have told Orrin Hatch to take their loyalty oath and shove it. Specter talks a good game, but when it comes down to it, he's just another political hack and his voting record reflects this--cancer or no cancer, he's a disgrace.

A voice of reason: The only way the democrats will capture the white house is together. I will not vote for Barack because of his thin resume, but if he added eight years as vice president, no one could claim that he was inexperienced and I think this would all but assure the democrats of 16 years in the white house. This is sound reasoning and Barack could end this all now and fill in the gaps and probably make a wonderful president. If democrats came together and made this the sound that both candidates could hear, maybe we could get this done. They could capture the White House together. Let's revist this idea!

Hillary/Barack....Barack/?

Barack Obama would gain more voters by not having Clinton on the ticket than he would by considering her for VP. There's no logical reason for him to even consider her with so many strong candidates that haven't resorted to Rovean tactics to pursue the office. There's no reason for me to even consider her choosing him as VP since she can't win the Democratic nomination.

geevil and WestCoastMessanger at least Obama has responded and that is a real courtesy between senators. Where is the Hill the Bosnian General's reply and where is' McNasty's response, no where. Obama has told Spector where to go if he needs help and some acceleration in the nomination process. But Spector is wrong in his reply and as usual he is playing partisan politics. God bless America and God bless Obama. OBAMA08.

This question is for those of you on here saying Obama should be Vice-President before running for the Presidency:

How many vice-presidents have been ELECTED to be President of the United States after having served as vice-president?

Obama will be dreaming if he expects Hillary supporters will vote for him in he is the nominee.

McCain to be the next president. My gutt tells me he will pick Tom Ridge for the VP sport, ex PA governer.

McCain will cary OH, PA and FL easily.

Good Luck Obama suckers, just keep dreaming. We will never elect a marxist as our next president.

Voters are SICK of NON-ISSUES!

Have the Clintons learned NOTHING?

Susan, it is the only chance for either one of them to get a democratic white house. Divided they fail.

Does anyone else wonder why the "typical white women" in Obama's life - his Grandmother and Mother - are UN-typically silent and absent from the campaign?

Something doesn't smell right about that!

SM, Barack's mother died of cancer. His grandmother did make a short ad for him.

OK, neither candidate is perfect, but together they would be unbeatable.

No matter how much you keep pushing for Obama/Clinton it's not going to happen. He has much better options available to him for VP candidate.

WE the democrats will not have the white house, IF we cann't come together.

I agree - stop pushing the Obama-Clinton ticket. Clinton has much better options.

Hillary supporters can connect more with McCain than Obama, call them "the bitter people who cling to guns, religion, anti trade, anti immigration and antipathy to people who do not look like them"

I don't think Clinton (as much as I want it) will get the nomination and even if she does she could lose Obama supporters, same as Obama will lose Clinton supporters and FL and MI. It should be Clinton/Obama. That gives us 16 years.

Probably the same reason that people in most countries of the world are working towards and hoping that Obama is taking the oath in January. It's time for the view of the United States to change and McCain/Clinton are not in a position to implement the change. Treating the world like subordinates of the United States hasn't gone over well all these years, it's time for us to try being a member of the world community again rather than trying to dictate it. There's too much political baggage with Clinton and McCain is sworn to continue down the path of destruction that Bush has implemented.

Kevin, Obama cannot win the white house without Hillary. Hillary cannot win the white house without Obama. Obama needs to be vetted, and HE NEEDS MORE EXPERIENCE, his resume is just too thin. But, if he had eight years as vice president he would gain the experience to be president.

"Treating the world like subordinates of the United States hasn't gone over well all these years, it's time for us to try being a member of the world community again rather than trying to dictate it. There's too much political baggage with Clinton and McCain is sworn to continue down the path of destruction that Bush has implemented."

Keving: AMEN!

Kevin - Pray tell of this change? Please outline all the world changes under a Obama administration. Pull troops out of Iraq? When? Iran nukes? Israel? North Korea? China? India? NATO? NAFTA? World trade policy? Energy costs? I'll stop there and add more later.

justme

So you suggest that the more moderate Clinton supports give up their principle's to vote for someone who has a real vacuum in his legislative experience and whose paradigm is far far to the left? Better to vote for Nader.

That's funny, the polls are currently showing Obama beating McCain and that's with McCain having a free ride to this point. Those same polls are showing Clinton losing to McCain, but again with a free ride on the republican side. If Obama is beating McCain without even campaigning against him, I'm pretty confident that he stands a much better then average chance in November. After all, he took out the Clinton "machine" that was up by 40% in the polls and considered "inevitable" just about 7 months ago by introducing himself to the country.

Who wants a democratic white house?????

justme: I will go ahead and answer the question I posed earlier myself. FIVE vice-presidents have been ELECTED by the people to be POTUS. FIVE!! Obama's chances of becoming president after being vice-prez are slim to none. Clinton supporters know this well; it is why neither one of them wants the slot.

to justme - I stand corrected.

justme

Why would Clinton blemish her image by teaming with her enemy. Moderate democrats will run when they realize that their democratic choice is an arrogant windbag.

Susan - Shouldn't you stick with the primary first?

Dogsoldier: I don't mean to get ahead of myself but some on here were discussing a Clinton/Obama or Obama/Clinton ticket. That is all.

Kevin - Proper Obama supporter procedure. Check the web site. What's out there in the real world, Kevin? What are the pitfalls according to you? Who are the allies we can could on? And so on and so on. In your eyes Kevin. Not Obama. You?

After PA. it'll be time to finally move beyond this American Idol candidate and get back to the serious business of rebuilding this country after 8 years of Bush.

Go Hillary!

And, according to the LA Times, Obama is now wearing an American flag on his lapel. What a hypocrite! What a hypocrite!

Hillary Clinton will prevail in this primary. At best, middle-class America has developed some doubts about Obama, but he's still in a honeymoon with the press (my theory is so the press can continue to milk this election by making it one huge dogfight in November). The thing about Obama is he has consistently shown political immaturity through the campaign, and he will most assuredly goof it up. I doubt the American people will increase confidence with additional goof-ups, it can only go one direction for him.
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Obama and BITTERGATE, saying and doing whatever he can to make sure he does not win the election.

Democrats may not get the white house, because noone will do what America needs to do.

Susan - I understand. A VP for either Obama or Clinton is a very personal choice. None of us have any say and perhaps that is how it should be. I say always fight the battle in front of you with the winning of the war in mind and in its proper place.

Remember Hillary offered the VP to Barack and he turned it down. Who wants to best serve the USA?

Seems like the Clintonians have become super desperate. You can tell. They keep writing, asking and answering all at the same time, over and over again. I`m loving it. Great fun! Keep `em coming, I`m off duty now and have enough time to read your tears over Hillary.

I'd vote for McCain if he was 105 before I'd ever vote for a snobby, arrogant and immature Opra-bama.

Yes, I've been to Clinton's website and found quite a bit there that interested me. Many of their plans are very similar. What I didn't find in it is the level of ethics, trust, or openness that I see in Obama. Try posting a question on the Clinton blog not phrased as a blinded cheerleader. You'll never see it appear. Ask Clinton about NAFTA, CAFTA, Bosnia, etc and you'll get the same lies until video proof is offered, then the statements will be categorized as mis-speaks. States and delegates that are not in the Clinton camp are continuously called insignificant or small. I don't so much have a problem with the Clinton plans as I do with the Clintons, and this coming from someone that voted for him twice.

Kevin, what you have just said pretty much goes for both candidates, mis-speaks, baggage, the whole 9 yards. Issues they are pretty close on.

Well I was laughing at the prospect. What will be Bill's role, seriously. He was president for 8 years. He's not the type to just sit around once back in the white house. He needs some sort of position. I'm just wondering what that will be.

I am sure we can keep Bill busy one way or another, he should not be a concern.

Moe,
I think Hillary said she would put him in some type of Ambassadorship type role.

J: I'm laughing at the ignorance associated with the "Erkel" comments; I hope you know this.

Remember 9/11 , and they showed the Muslim Extremist and their families dancing in the streets

As the election unfolds, with Obama gaining ahead, I see the Extremists getting their party gears out again.

alot of the $$$ donors to Obama has been international.... and I doubt they were from Japan.... (even though they have a town named the same as him)

I know you are all tired of hearing from me, but let's try a novel approach; let's try to think of solutions rather than attacks. Let's be bigger than the candidates. I am for Hillary but have come to the conclusion that neither candidate can win in the general election with half the democratic population against them. What is the democratic solution?

Hey, I can find nationally known polls to support my candidate also. Here's a few for you:

North Carolina
LA Times/Bloomberg 4/14 Obama +13%
PPP 4/13 Obama +20%

Indiana
LA Time/Bloomberg 4/14 Obama +5%

Oregon
Survey USA 4/6 Obama +10%

Pennsylvania
PPP 4/15 Obama +3%
LA Times/Bloomberg 4/14 Clinton +5%

See how much fun polls can be. The other states should be ramping up for their polling pretty soon, and I bet each side will be able to find a poll that tends towards their candidate.

Kevin - Polls and me don't agree. May as well guess as far as I'm concerned. Votes are the only answer.

I do whole-heartedly agree with you there, that's why I posted the response. It was only to show how inaccurate and foolish polls are. It all depends on how the questions are asked, who they're asked to, and where they're geographically located. Each poll can target their audience to get the response that is desired/expected.

How many republicans here?

Another egotistical (elitist) moment for Obama. He thinks he is already PRESIDENT!

Obama has consistently said that he will/would support whatever decision the DNC and states came up with as long as it was fair. The states could not organize re-votes and the proposal failed there, Obama did not block the state proposals, the states themselves did when they could not organize legal methods to hold a re-vote. And, before you add the comment, the original votes were flawed and incomplete so they should not stand under any circumstance. Even Clinton believed and signed off on not having the two states count, until she got desperate from losing and began grasping at straws.

Oblama stopped the revote in FL and MI

Are you saying Matthews is a creep because he supports Obama. If so I find that a strange thing to say

Using our common sense, it is so very obvious that the most virulent anti-Obama posers are not pro-Clinton at all. They are GOPhers who are working hard to make sure that the Democratic Party does not elect the next president. Unfortunately for them, and despite the inherent racism (and misogyny) in the U.S. of A., no person in their right mind would vote for a GOPher as the next president. We, The People, elected Democrats in 2000 and in 2004. Fine, the GOPhers stole those elections (not opinion, proven fact; see Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.). Now, though, we are necessarily put into the mode of "anyone but a Republican" for the next president. Everyone in the world can see the horrors and failures of the GOPher plans for the U.S. and for the world. History proves that when the tide turns against you like it has now against all GOPhers, you don't stand a chance. The elections will be a sweep, nationwide, top to bottom, for the Democratic Party. Don't listen to those people pretending to be Clinton supporters gone berserk. They are not Democrats, they are GOPhers. I can't wait for the elections. I look forward to noon, January 20, 2009, when a Democrat, either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, is sworn into office and the repairs and restoration can begin. Right now our nation is like Iraq, the "lights are not on" because that's the way this criminal government has made it and wants it.

Yeah Dan that's one moderate Republican that is biased against Obama...but I thought Obama was going to count on the Republicans to vote for him in Nov...

Because he's not getting half of the Democrats!

There is not as peck of evidence that Obama has ever transcended party differences in the U S senate Voting record analyzed by the National Journal show him to be the farthest left of any senator. Nor has he sponsored any significant bipartisan legislation -or any other significant legislation. His letter to Senator Specter is another example of his arrogance, assuming to delegate Leahy his constitutional responsibilities! This is who, some of you want for President, his election to the senate, by Illinois voters, is a sham, ploy to get to the White House.

Lauren, IF we can believe Sally Bedell Smith's account...

Hillary's was a human reaction reflecting frustration at people who hadn't voted as the Democrats had hoped. (As a Hillary supporter who will vote McCain over Obama, it wouldn't surprise or offend me to hear someone in the Dem party make the same remark regarding women deserters post November 4 as I will be directing those same sentiments toward the party.)

By contrast, Obama's comments were an elitist's view of small town Americans: they 'cling' to guns, religion, bigotry, anti-illegal-immigration, and question trade policy because they're 'bitter' rather than because they may have legitimate concerns on those issues. Obama equates these concerns with economic uncertainty which illustrates the fact that he doesn't "get it" when it comes to understanding the core values of many Americans.

The "as if debating" segment of your post is one person's interpretive view or spin of the discussion that supposedly took place. It does not mean that Bill and Hillary had indeed debated this topic for decades.

Once again Obama shows his ignorance. I remember him saying he had been unable to get a bill passed while in the Senate, but as president "I'll sign it into law." Huh? He does know it has to go back through Congress, doesn't he?

Obama is Not Ready for Primetime!

why is obama now wearing the flag pin ?
dnc must have scolded the boy; " if you want candy (votes), you must wear the pin". and the boy desperately needs candy, so he agrees!

Specter said, "Every member of this body has taken an oath to uphold the constitution."

And yet he says one thing publically and does the opposite repeatedly. Specter is personally responsible for the attacks on our Constitution in the last 7+ years. If he wasn't so sad a figure, I'd laugh.

To all of you who say you would vote for McCain if Obama wins, you have no brain. We have had 8 years of pure sellout of our Country by REPUBLICANS and you simpletons would vote for another.......you deserve what you will get, trouble is, you take the rest of the country down with you. We really do need a better education system. Kindergarden just isn't cutting it !!!!!

"Obama was the only one to respond yet he was the one getting flamed. You can tell his bias is showing."
Yes, he's getting flamed, because you should pay attention to what he said, not simply that he responded. He was going to pass consideration on to Leahy and others. This is why he got criticized. The supporters who such silly comments really undermine the value of his support base. If you are simply not going to think about what he's doing, then don't expect him to get credit for anything. He just passed the buck again!

LBJ campaigned to bring troops home, and on Peace, so what does ANY of the candidates platforms on the war have to do with such a thing.

It's a null thing, the issue on war, when many a politican has campaigned to end wars, not join wars (FDR), and so forth.

History folks... go back to history.

THAT'S WHY OBAMA CAN'T WIN THE GENERAL ELECTION IF HE IS THE NOMINEE. HE CAN'T WITHSTAND THE REPUBLICANS. IF HE CAN'T ANSWER HARD QUESTIONS ON A DEMOCRATIC DEBATE, DO YOU THINK HE CAN WITHSTAND A REPUBLICAN ATTACK? OBAMA WOULD LOOK LIKE A LITTLE BOY OR AT LEAST REPUBLICANS WILL MAKE HIM LOOK LIKE A LITTLE BOY. BOY, ANOTHER 4 YEARS OF BUSH ADMINISTRATION IF OBAMA IS THE NOMINEE.
OBAMA HAS NOTHING TO OFFER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OTHER THAN TRYING TO BE THE 1ST BLACK PRESIDENT. THIS COUNTRY CAN'T AFFORT TO EXPERIMENT ON PRESIDENCY SO WE NEED TO VOTE FOR A PRESIDENT WHO WILL NOT LOOK DOWN ON THE HARD WORKING AMERICAN. WHO IS NOT ASSOCIATED WITH EXTREMIST GROUPS OR RELIGION. WE NEED A PRESIDENT WHO IS PATRIOTIC. GOD SAVE AMERICA IF OBAMA IS THE NOMINEE.