The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008

Clinton has raised over 5 million in less than 24 hours eclipsing Obama and more importantly Obama is refusing to have any further debates! What a coward! Hillary has already accepted five invites for debates while obama hides behind Oprah's skirt! America wants substance not a blowhard coward like Obama who is afraid to debate a woman who is clearly smarter and more experienced, hence more prepared to lead. Obama is a loser and a coward! No wonder Obama has so much Republican support! They love battling cowards!

Hillary Clinton: Gridlock from DAY ONE!

Obama - 838 delegates;
Edwards 26 delegates;

Al Gore would support Obama over Clinton (via Charlie Rose pundits)

Clinton - 834

If/when Obama secures the 26 delegates of Edwards, his delegate count goes up to 864 to her 834.

*** Dateline November 2008: Democrats Self Destruct, United Republicans Win Election

In a stunning upset, Senator John McCain just won the US presidential election after the unprecedented bad will that has been caused by the people running the Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton camps. Instead of a dream team, where a Cliton / Obama ticket would have certainly won the election . . . the moneys spent on destroying each other, and the moneys and bad blood spent on the pre-election primary fights have split the party.

Instead of waiting 8 years (as Vice President), and then being a shoe-in for President after that, Barack Obama showed his lack of judgment and ego, by strive to go for broke, and in the process . . . caused so much harm to Hillary and her campaign, that her ticket lost the general election to the McCain / Huckabee ticket.

Look, on the major foreign policy question of our time, the unassailable fact is that Senator Clinton voted to authorize the most immoral, ill-conceived and plain unjustified act of American military aggression in this country's history -- and that includes the Vietnam War. No matter how many contortions she asumes to justify that vote, she came down on the wrong side. Add to that her pandering nature and a documented inability to show political courage and independence -- witness her refusal to state whether she believed homosexuality was immoral and her "culture war" stances on video games and flag-burning, and you just have another establishment Washington insider. Not what the country needs at this time. Just because anyone would be better than puppet Bush doesn't mean we should just settle for another business-as-usual candidate.

Sen. Obama got it exactly right tonight.

Hillary Clinton has lately been loudly proclaiming her fealty to the Democratic Party's best traditions on human rights.

However, just two years ago, Hillary--the purported "expert" on international relations--said there should be "lawful authority" for torture in some cases.

(See, for example, www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0907/Hillary_and_torture_audio_version.html)

Her stand was opposite to that of every other major Democratic presidential candidate in 2007-2008, and the heat she took for it caused her to make one of her famous "flip flops."

So much for her being "ready to go on Day 1."

More like not ready for prime time ...