Suggestion to Jeralyn, you can stop worrying about her dropping out if WaPo Article - Clinton Vows to Stay in Race Until Convention

Just sayin'

Did he ever hear of Iran Contra?

<em>It is a touching story -- but the key details are either untrue or grossly oversimplified.</em>per Michael Dobbs.

I predict that by the end of the primary season in June, that the superdelegates will look at who has the most pledged delegates and/or popular vote and swing their votes towards that person so that that person reaches that magic number of 2054.

It will NEVER go to the Dem convention.  Superdelegates know that will be SUICIDE.  Reid and Dean will make sure of that.

A Dem nominee will be determined in June.

ugh.  I need to move to NY where my girl won her state AND it is reliably Dem.

The last great Democrat I voted for here in Texas was MY governor, Ms. Ann Richards.

Maybe they're right. I can quit. [Audience: Nooooo!] I'll be okay. But how does the middle class quit? How are you folks supposed to quit? How do you quit when you're sick and you don't have health insurance? How do you quit when you're doing everything you can but you can't save your house? How do you quit when you can't afford to send your kids to college?

Truests of the Democratic party, yes Hillary Clinton should be the nominee of the Democratic Pary.  She is the answer we have been looking for since before 2004(which we all would have wish she would have ran instead of Kerry) of the political denial to follow the will of the people for the last eight years of the administration.  She is tied to the greatest President in recollection, she is the hero the pride of our part with her unbending determination to fight for the people.  She had me and I suspect many of you salavating at her potential to overcome the Republican domination of our Congress, Senate and Executive branches.  She was the visual for lack of better words that the USA was finally at a point where they could overcome the racist, sexist exlucivity of the greatest position in America.  And we where ready we knew for years now that she would be the great hope.

Now Obama steps in out of no where, a speach in 2004 put him on the map.  And while I agree that he is the future of the Democratic party I also agree that he is way to ambitious.  This is not his time, place or position.  Not for any other reason but we had a winning strategy and now his trajectory towards the position has now almost nullified our prospects of winning it.  The problem being a pop culture where the winner of American Idol and MTVs best dance crew have more Americans engaged then our political system.  While scary it does explain why a younger, good looking and well spoken leader appeals so many people who otherwise would rather be reserved and either vote on party lines on election day or just not vote at all.  He is less experienced but a thousand times more marketable.  You could go so far as this is reverse GOP with Bush who won the marketing campaign and clearly not the issue campaign in 2004.  

Now we find ouselves in this conundrum a place where truists fight for the the campaign of destiny and newer engaged voters fight for their campaigns of destiny.  Either way let it play out, let Clinton stay in the race until the last delegate accounted for in the convention and the FL and MI are alloted in some way.  But don't throw this away over differences.  We have two solid candidates either of who will reflect our will our principles and that will not continue to infringe on our consitutional rights, support a war based on faulty intellegence, support an economy highlight by record salaries for CEO and taxbreaks for those CEOs, Healthcare policies that support prescription corporations more interested in prolonging life then curing diseases, supreme court nominees who could change fundamental rights on abortion and civil liberties.  I could go on but I think you get my drift.

i have never in my life witnessed such a blatantly anti-democratic and unfair campaign as this clamor for hillary to drop out.

anyway, please check out the electoral maps for obama/mccain and clinton/mccain, updated daily with the results of all the head to head matchup polls for each state, at

http://www.electoral-vote.com/

you will find the links right under the main map on the front page, and you can look back into the past since the links to these pages is changed everyday with the date clearly encoded into the URL.

THE REAL POINT IS THAT HILLARY HAS BEEN CONSISTANTLY MUCH STRONGER IN THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE AGAINST MCCAIN

It was Obama's idea that what Clinton went through in the 90s makes her unelectable now.

So it will equally legitimate that what Obama is going through right now will make him equally unelectable.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/3/30/6486/77851

David Brooks made the following comment...

The reason she has to pull out is that she will win PA and a lot of the remaining states and would go to the convention 'strong'

No, what he said was: "'My attitude is Senator Clinton can run as long as she wants,' Obama said."

What he actually said is a masterpiece of sneering condescension -- oh, great, she has his PERMISSION! -- and what this headline cheerfully does is help him look much better, like a good sport, if you will.

Throw it on the pile with "You're likeable enough, Hillary."

BO is already getting tired, he needed a vacation and is now actually complaining on the trail that this race has gone on too long.  Yesterday he had one event, HRC had four--and it looks like she is just getting started. [And let's not forget Bill who often does more events in one day than BO and HRC combined].

Anyway, this thing will go to June and HRC still has the fight in her, BO does not.  Then there's the 'drip drip' effect that will further put BO on the defensive.  Not to mention that one typically makes mistakes when tired.

Hillary Clinton Deluged With Calls For Her Withdrawal

If TeamObama are such fans of unity, let them press for him to withdraw prematurely -- or gracefully, as it were -- rather than sidle up to ultra-conservative parties that intend to suppress and oppress women away from our full franchise.

I'm bordering on trollishness on this point, but Obama's new BFFs include leaders who advocate the incarceration of women who choose to exercise their right to seek information and services involving contraception and abortion.

Leading Repugs which whom Obama hopes to unite have been explicit about advocating incarceration for pro-abortion rights advocates and service providers.

Normally it's only the risk of disease, poverty, oppression and death the fanatics CHOOSE to dump on women.

2) Your campaign has attacked Hillary Clinton as a "serial exaggerator." How do you respond to your own exaggerations:

*You say in your stump speech you were "raised by a single mother" and that you "didn't have money" growing up. Yet, the time that your mother raised you alone, was only from the time you were two years old to the time you were four years old, when she married your stepfather. In addition, your step father was a wealthy oil executive and your grand parents, with whom you lived with from age 10 to 18, owned a furniture store and were upper middle class.

*After an interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer, they charactorized your time in Jakarta, Indonesia as you being a "nomad" and a "street urchin" on the "mean streets," while in fact you lived with your step father, who was a wealthy oil executive.

*You say that you suffered through much racial acrimony at the private prep school you attended in high school, yet your best friend at the time, categorically calls your account "bullsh#t."

3)Putting everything else aside about the, vacant lot Rezko purchased next to your home in Chicago, the fact remains that this yard next to your house has remained vacant since you bought the property in 2005. If this neighboring yard is and has not been for your benefit, why have you paid to have the yard mowed and landscaped? Has Rezko paid you back for these expenses?  

Dems don't want to commit suicide by having a fight on the convention floor.  

Of course it'd be similiar for Clinton with the exception of the drivers licenses for immigrants line item.

Maybe they'd insert a line about Clinton forcing Health Care onto everyone, even the people who don't want it.

What I find interesting is that they don't go after his inexperience here.  They go after the unification movement.

The Obama Tidal Wave

We are witnessing a political phenomenon with Barack Obama of rare magnitude. His speeches have inspired millions and yet most of his followers have no idea of what he stands for except platitudes of 'Change' or that he says he will be a 'Uniter'.

The power of speech from a charismatic person truly can be a powerful thing. Certainly Billy Graham had charisma and both his manner of speech and particularly the content changed millions. On the extreme other hand, the charisma of Adolph Hitler inspired millions and the results were catastrophic.
Barack Obama certainly is no Hitler or a Billy Graham, but for many Americans out there feeling just like a surfer who might be ecstatic and euphoric while riding a tidal wave, the real story is what happens when it hits shore.

Just Some of What Defines Barack Obama:

He voted against banning partial birth abortion

He voted no on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions.

Supports affirmative action in Colleges and Government.

In 2001 he questioned harsh penalties for drug dealing

Says he will deal with street level drug dealing as a minimum wage affair.

Admitted marijuana and cocaine use in high school and in college.

His religious convictions are very murky.

He is willing to meet with Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Kim Jung Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Has said that one of his first goals after being elected would be to have a conference with all Muslim nations.

Opposed the Patriot Act

First bill he signed that was passed was campaign finance reform.

Voted No on prohibiting law suits against gun manufacturers.

Supports universal health-care.

Voted yes on providing habeas corpus for Guantanamo detainees.

Supports granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

Supports extending welfare to illegal immigrants.

Voted NO to making English the official language of the USA.

Voted yes on comprehensive immigration reform.

Voted yes on allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security.

Wants to make the minimum wage a 'living wage'.

Voted with Democratic Party 96 percent of 251 votes.

Is a big believer in the separation of church and state.

Opposed to any efforts to Privatize Social Security and instead supports increasing the amount of tax paid.

He voted No on repealing the Alternative Minimum Tax.

He voted No on repealing the 'Death' Tax

He wants to raise the Capital Gains Tax.

Has repeatedly said the surge in Iraq has not succeeded.

He is ranked as the most liberal Senator in the Senate today and that takes some doing.

If your political choices are consistent with Barack Obama's and you think that his positions will bring America together or make it a better place, then you will probably enjoy the ride and not forward this Email.
If you are like most Americans that after examining what he stands for, are truly not in line with his record, it would be prudent to get off the wave or better yet, never get on, before it comes on shore and undermines the very foundations of this great Country.

We have limited time to save America or the Supreme Court as we know it. Inaction is action.

If you agree this is important, please pass it on. The mainstream media will not do it for you!?

http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/3/30/35921/2909

It's a fairly long diary with a lot of analysis and rebuttals to expected counterarguments against Nutter.

Please read and recommend if you like it. Thanks.

That is, have a revote and let the chips fall where they may.  Show courage.  Do the right thing.

Instead, he dragged his feet, and his friends in the legislatures helped him.

As badly directed politically as John McCain is, people admire him and vote for him because he does what is right, even against his party.

As badly directed politically as John McCain is, people admire him and vote for him because he does what is right, even against his party.

then you are in serious need of serious professional help. i'm not sure which profession exactly, but one of them.

sen. mccain does what he perceives to be right for sen. mccain. should it happen to correspond with the actual right thing, that's just icing on the cake. sen. mccain is a transparently rank opportunist, who doesn't let  little things like ethics or morals get in the way of personal and political expediency.

It should be of concern to the Party whether those Republicans -- resentful of being deprived of their chance to vote for Huckabee -- will vote for McCain in the general election.