The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008

I have never seen a mover dividing, self centered candidate then Hillary... feeding the racism and polarizing feelings currently going on; this woman could not care less about destroying everything her party stands for just to get things ger way.
If she is too much in debt to step out right now... well earning over 100 million las year I think qualifies that as a "Not High Priority" item on the agenda... as a lower middle class citizen I have other things to worry about than a millioner having a bill to pay.

Clinton's offer might better be captured with the movie title:

"Driving Miss Daisy"

She really is trying hard to attract Archie Bunker.

BTW,
All of you nuts who blog (for either candidate) by writing War & Peace on here should know...nobody reads blogs that long.

Get to the point:

HRC get out of the race now!

Obama/Biden 2008!

Fortunately Obama thinks he is above this job, so we won't have to worry about it. He thinks he is better than LBJ now. Icarus, look to your melting wings.

Forget Obama, his ego won't allow him to share the spotlight with anybody. I think HRC should approach Emanuel Cleaver, Harold Ford, Jr., or Michael Nutter about being VP.

HRC expirience to be the nation's commander base on destoy Yougoslavia and bomb Serbia (1992-2000. It is illusion that exist TV war with "clean hands". That video play war and fairy tale of horrible Sadam's weapons push USA into Irak's hell. Today murdered 5 USA soldiers. Now, Obama they ask how solve war which they made. HRC "believes Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is not ready to be the nation's commander in chief." Is it hipocrisy?

Dear America,

As a U.K. citizen looking in on this election campaign from the outside I must applaude Senator Obama as both a human being and a man of his word.

Senator Obama has clearly demonstrated an incredible level of restraint, despite the lowest form of political mud-slinging and provocation resorted to by the Clinton campaign.

A level of restraint that would be required daily, by the next President of the United States, the leader of the free world.

I would suggest to the broader American public, and particularily to those States still to vote for their preferred Democratic nominee (Pennsylvania and Mississippi included), that such restraint should never, EVER, be seen as a sign of weakness. This IS strength.

This is a MAN of strength. Senator Barack Obama is a MAN of strength. Senator Barack Obama is a Christian MAN of strength. Senator Barack Obama is an AMERICAN CHRISTIAN MAN of Strength.

I WOULD TRUST SENATOR BARACK OBAMA WITH THE CARE OF MY CHILDREN.

I WOULDN'T TRUST MRS HILLARY CLINTON WITH THE T.V. REMOTE CONTROL, NEVER MIND ANSWERING THE PRESIDENTIAL TELEPHONE AT 3 AM.

The restraint shown by Senator Obama recently, in the face of outright lies and misleading remarks, is indeed the sign of an intelligent, considerate leader, concerned with making the RIGHT decision, and not simply just 'a' decision.

Poor decision making at Presidential level by George W Bush (gun holder) and Mrs Hillary Clinton (supplier of bullets for that gun in 2002) has led to the catastrophe for Americans' that is Iraq.

1. Thousands of brave American lives lost. For what?

2. America,'the home of the brave', relentlessly bombing some of the poorest children in the world from the safety of 50,000 feet. For what?

3. Tens of Billions of American Dollars spent funding No's 1 and 2. Dollars that could have been spent on such lofty ideals as free Health Care for every single American and investment in American communities to create jobs for American citizens. For what?

George W Bush has presided over the horror show that is Iraq.

MRS HILLARY CLINTON FULLY SANCTIONED THIS HORROR SHOW WITH HER INABILITY TO MAKE THE CORRECT DECISION ON IRAQ IN 2002.

Mrs Hillary Clinton's actions FAILED AMERICA and FAILED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, on an unimaginable scale and at a time when it mattered the most. With the blood of those brave soldiers and those children on her hands, can she be trusted? Can she?

I THINK NOT!

The United States' ability to restore itself to former glories must surely rest on the broad, restrained, articulate, considerate, common sense shoulders of Senator Barack Obama.

Mrs Hillary Clinton displayed so much personal weakness and failure on matters of integrity during the Texas and Ohio campaigns that she must surely never be trusted.

Why did she allow her campaign to trot out 'that picture' of Mr Obama?

She is weak, and rested her political fortune and reputation, with that of white supremacists pandering to the lowest common denominator.

SHAME ON MRS HILLARY CLINTON! SHE SHAMED HERSELF, AMERICA, AND HUMANITY BY STOOPING TO THAT INCREDIBLE LOW.

You can only blame so much on a shambolic campaign strategy team.

Mrs Hillary Clinton must accept personal responsibility for the worst example of fear mongering and subliminal racism I have seen in my entire adult life. It was disgusting.

This fear mongering and subliminal racism was designed, constructed and deployed via the media by Mrs Hillary Clinton's campaign to manipulate the free thinking minds of the American public. I know it, YOU know it, and they including Mrs Hillary Clinton KNEW it!

(Even I can see that from here in Scotland, thousands of miles away)

Have the Mrs Hillary Clinton campaign team really resorted to such lows as doubting Senator Obama's devotion to the Christian Church, in order to 'win' some votes?

YES THEY HAVE. SHAME ON THEM , AND HER.

Mrs Hillary Clintons failure to confirm this unequivocal fact is abhorent at best.

Have they assessed (wrongly I hope), that the majority of Americans believe the Fox 'News' channel is fact?

IT WOULD APPEAR SO.

If this is how Mrs Hillary Clinton reacts, responds and decides at a time when her own political future is at stake, what DISASTROUS decisions will she make and sanction if she ever becomes occupier of The Whitehouse?

AMERICA!

I love your country.

I have visited it many times.

I love your people.

I love, appreciate and understand the constitution on which your fantastic country is based.

I embrace it in my own life and not just as some romantic notion.

I believe in freedom, real freedom.

Your country is being scared to death by sections of your media.

MRS HILLARY CLINTON IS TRYING TO SCARE YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN.

Don't succumb to that fear.

You are braver than that.

YOUR COUNTRY DESERVES MORE.

YOUR COUNTRY DESERVES THE OUSTANDING NOMINEE THAT IS SENATOR BARACK OBAMA.

YOU'RE LUCKY TO HAVE HIM.

EMBRACE HIM AS A NATION, SIT BACK AND WATCH YOUR COUNTRY FLY.

your truly

j.dreczkowski@hotmail.co.uk

Passion HRC to rule is horrible. Bravo Obama for your answer.

I think Bill and Hillary .... Inhaled!

What the heck is the ""Commander-in-Chief Test""??? Oh, I know, sleeping with the President (when he isn't playing with cigars).......at least to Hillary!!!

Obama should, at least, point out her sad lack of judgement considering how for weeks she's been saying he ain't ready or hasn't passed the (here it comes...) ""COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF TEST"". JEEEEZ! Judging on how badly she's run her campaign, to the point of bankruptcy and where everyone in the campaign hates each others guts, she certainly has proved she isn't fit to run the corner drug store, let alone this country!!

The Clintons are using weapons of mass distractions in order to not face the music; the release of their records (tax returns, White House records, list of big donors for their foundation, etc.). The release of these documents will highlight new scandals and make Hillary Clinton radio-active as candidate. The Clintons should be pressured to release these records as soon as possible since this is in the interest of most democrats, independents and moderate republicans; if Hillary is the nominee and these scandals pop up after the nomination, then McCain will be the next president.

Why on earth would Obama agree to run as Vice President after the filthy campaign the Clintons have run?

In fact, if he accepted the Vice Presidential nomination, the Clintons would turn around and say, "See, we always said he was a wimp". The Clintons are bullies, plain and simple. They have to be beaten this time, or next time. Obama should not, and will not, become an enabler.

LOL! The Clinton's are from Arkansas! They know how things are supposed to be(According to Arkansas proprieties)!

They occupy the Big House, and the "Servants" get the little House out back! ;~)

Just wouldn't be proper havin it tuhned arouhnd, an all!

Whaht would tha Neighbahs say?! :-(

How ridiculous is this. Hillary is full of it. Totally.

Chris Dodd, second ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has vastly more experience than Clinton. He knows both candidates and endorsed Obama.

Jay Rockefeller, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has vastly more experience than Clinton. He knows both candidates and endorsed Obama.

I guess their both cultist. By the time, Hillary gets done insulting and mocking 75% of the Democratic Party, there will not be much left. Perhaps hHer elderly female sycophants and the least educated part of the party. You do have to be a dope to buy into her crap.

Never has a Presidential candidate run such a divisive, desperate and destructive campaign. One thing is certain: she is NOT qualified to be leader of the Democratic Party.

No one can understand Clinton offering the VP spot to Obama while she is losing and while she is claiming he is not fit to be president. This does not show the clear thinking we need in a commander in chief. If she is this confused about such a simple matter, how will she answer that call at 3 am, when her 60 year old mind wakes up in the middle of the night. What kind of confused logic will she use to make an important decision then?

As for the 3am call, why, the man of the house would surely answer, 'Bill speaking.'
And if Obama were fool enough to accept the VP inducement, he'd find himself 4th in line to any meaningful role.

ELLIOT SPITZER -- Isn't he an HRC super?

Politics as usual!!!!!

Obama/Biden 08!

"ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, ME! It's all about ME."

-- Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2008

For all you teary eyed soccer moms who believe your lying lesbian friend is going to become the first women president...
What are you all NUTS?????

Think about this: it would make sense as a way to peel off Obama supporters who like him but who have lingering disquiet about his ability to serve as CIC. Problem is, there appear to be almost no Obama supporters who feel that way. In fact, the BHO movement is remarkable for the seriousness of its people, that they really believe he should be president.

HRC a decent candidate. But such a clueless, pathetic campaign!

LMFAO! :-o

I really would have expected MORE from Billary! Maybe she does know it, but does not want to Confuse her Base! :-/

The 51st Senator, IS the one who stays close to the Cabinet, and in the House! The President, when it comes down to it, is "In Charge" INO!

It was for this exact reason, I wanted McCain as the VP! The President gets caught in a children's School, reading "My pet Goat" Light-years away from the Decision making process! Yeah, the President gets the Final choice to do what others are telling Him(Her) to do, but just that!

Both Junior Senators, are UNQUALIFIED! :-(

McRomney! :-)

Live it, LEARN It, LOVE IT! ;~)

TAH1 wait a minute, are you talking general elections here? We're in the primaries still. The last Ohio wins in primaries have been uncontested, no comparison possible.

If Obama is supposed to be this great uniter, why is it that his supporters and campaign are so against the idea of a joint ticket? Every time it is brought up in the news, Clinton at least says she will consider it but the Obamites (and Obama himself to a certain degree) act as if it is swallowing poison or is some kind of ploy to dupe people in to voting for her now. I think it is hypocritical for supporters of a candidate who professes unity and change to be so divisive and hateful themselves. Don't be so proud and arrogant Obamites and practice what your candidate is preaching, which is to come together and make the changes necessary for this country, regardless of who the nominee is. I am a Clinton supporter but I will vote for Barack if he wins the nomination because I am a Democrat and nothing else. How many of you Obama supporters can say that you will vote for Hillary if she is the nominee?

GAME OVER.

Hillary Clinton has proven she can win big in the big states that are the must wins for the Dems in November.

Obama has proven himself unelectable. Obams is unqualified to be President. I don't think he's qualified for VP either. AS a of matter of fact, I don't even think Obama is qualified to be a U.S. SEnator. Illinois needs to rethink this. After the Rezko trial is over I think Obama won't be re-elected in Illinois.

If you can't win in states like Ohio, you can't win the Presidency. In Ohio, Obama outspent Hillary 3 to 1 yet won ONLY 5 out of 88 counties in Ohio. FIVE! No amount of money is going to elect Obama. It's OVER.

GO HILLARY!

What, what, what, WHAT? Obama is not ready to be commander in chief, but he may be ready in August just before (!) the nomination convention, so he can be VP to Hillary Clinton.

Huh? I guess if he is ready at the beginning of August, he'll be even readier by November, so he should be the nominee after all. Am I right?

Do you want to know how this Democratic Party looks to Europeans right now?

http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/good-morning-from-europe-has-the-democratic-party-lost-its-mind/

Oh! so the second place Clinton will offer the first place Obama a place as Vice-President. Only in Senator Clinton's fantasy world can this happen. Senator Obama has more delegates and more popular votes. He will be the Democrat Party nominee for President. He will decide who his vice-president will be--- NOT Senator Clinton.

Senator Clinton has to follow the rules and be a cordial democrat. All the lies and secrecy (witholding her tax information) makes her look more republican than democrat.

Its interesting that second place candidate is offering the 1st place candidate the number two position, especially since he is not (allegedly) ready to be in the No.1 position. Only the Clintons can come up with this twisted logic. But they did and are now pushing it forward as a message to others that it doesn't matter if Obama loses because he can still be on the ticket as a consolation price. The cojones on these folks...and they say it with a straight face.
The problem is that the only way Clinton can win is if she destroys the party in doing so. The math is irefutable. Now, Clinton can legitimately argue that the rules state that she can push on forward and push the super delegates to choose her despite the fact that she is behind pledged delegates. However, a person who cares more about the party winning than her own self interest should step aside and let winner of the popular vote win. She should not force the issue to the super delegates. I think that at the end, when it comes down to it, she will do just that, step aside graciously. I don't think that she will win at all costs.
The election has revealed something so perverse about the Democratic Party, however, that I will never think of them the same way anymore. The party has adopted some extremely undemocratic rules for choosing a candidate. The purpose is stop particular candidates from becoming the nominee if they would not be that strong in the fall even if they had won the popular vote. So the party that decried the 2000 election because the supreme court chose the winner, has adopted a process by which 600 party insiders will choose the nominee regardless of having won the popular vote.
How can a nominee who wins based on that system, particularly, a nominee that wins the nomination despite losing the pupular vote, simply because these 600 or so people chose them, how is that nominee, if elected president go to Iran and claim that their process is not demcratic because the council of clericks can overturn the result of an election????? In iran, the supreme council of clerics can prevent a candidate from running and can overturn the results of an election if they don't like the winner.
Will that nominee lose the moral ground.

The cynicism of Senator Clinton never ceases to amaze me.

First, she wages an all out battle to destroy the reputation of Obama and his movement in order to hold on to the possibility of the Presidency - even though the politics of the two candidates differ little. Now they are both sinking in the polls against McCain.

Then, she sets the party at war with itself in her effort to change the rules in the middle of the game and seat the Florida and Michigan delegates. Now the party risks losing support from the left, a new generation of voters, and Michigan and Florida voters, depending on the results of this fiasco. This crisis is only occurring because of her unwillingness to play by the rules she agreed to previously. It will effect Democratic candidates for years to come.

Now, she is using these astonishingly divisive tactics to her advantage in suggesting that perhaps Obama would make a good VP. As Obama's campaign suggested, this is rather ironic and perhaps historically unprecedented given she is trailing Obama in the primaries. It is made more ironic by the fact that Senator Clinton has such done a good job in harming his prospect in the general and any future elections election. If Obama doesn't return the suggestion he is harmed - and how could he given what a disastrously divisive and untrustworthy VP she would make. What astonishes me, and makes me very relectuant to support the party int he future, is that all of this seems acceptable to so many leaders in the party.

Based on delegates, polls and these Internet stats...

http://newsusa.myfeedportal.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=57

... it would look like it is Obama who should be naming names.

I find that only Clinton shills push this line.. My guess is that this reporter is a shill for the Hill.

We have a President who won't face reality. A President who thinks we're winning when all the evidence says we can't win. We don't need another one.

Let's see: I'm behind in delegates, behind in money, behind in number of states won, behind in momentum..I know I'll offer the winner the second place seat!! Come on Hilary, you can't win but you can wreck it for everyone else.

Stop the Drama, Vote Obama!!

Yet another trick in her do-anything-to-win campaign strategy, even if it means downright lieing to the American people. There is no way Clinton would make Obama her VP, and no way that Obama would take it if she offered (which she won't). This is simply a trick to get those who are soft Obama supporters and undecideds to think "oh its ok if I pass up voting Obama in the primary, he'll have his chance as VP".

Baloney. Don't fall for it undecides, vote Obama if that's what your heart and head tell you.

The Veep rarely every matters in a general election. What is more important is how the Democrats decide to deal with Florida. Florida is as likely to be as important this year as it was to our campaign in 2000. http://timelikethis.blogspot.com/
-Trevor Wynne
Washington, DC

Mr Weisman, it's OK to be a wiseass, just do it on your own time.

The penalties for these creatures committing crimes are not stiff enough. One of these Killers should have been in prison instead was out committing at least 5 robberies. We need to castrate all Rapists, Execute repeat offenders and Execute all Killers. The review process for the Death Penalty is too lengthy and lenient. Too many of these useless creatures are released back into society only to reoffend again and again. The other suspect looks like another gangster that has no place in a civilized society. Execute these useless creatures.

Hundreds mourn slain students, Two young women at University of North Carolina and Auburn mourned
The Associated Press
updated 6:49 p.m. PT, Sun., March. 9, 2008
ATHENS, Ga. - Heartbroken mourners searched soul and scripture Sunday to understand why someone would fatally shoot a popular University of North Carolina student body president and cut short a life with such promise.
For the hundreds gathered at Athens First United Methodist Church, Eve Carson should still be at school, studying political science and biology, teaching science to grade schoolers and planning her next trip abroad.

"We should not be here this afternoon," senior minister Bill Britt said, angry that the 22-year-old was not instead celebrating spring break or getting ready for the Atlantic Coast Conference basketball tournament.

"It is too soon to be remembering the life of Eve Marie Carson," he told the mourners who gathered here in her hometown or came down from the university in Chapel Hill, N.C. Many wore Carolina blue ribbons in her honor.

Carson called 'a gift to Chapel Hill'
During the nearly two-hour service, there were just as many references to her beauty, intelligence and leadership as to her kindness, dedication to service and concern for others.

"Eve Carson was truly a gift to Chapel Hill," UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor James Moeser said.

Carson was in a four-year leadership development program for undergraduates, taught science at Chapel Hill elementary schools and spent summers volunteering in such places as Ecuador, Egypt and Ghana.

Carson was found Wednesday morning lying on a street about a mile from campus. She had been shot several times, including once in the right temple. Police are searching for a man photographed using her ATM card. A photo expert told the Raleigh Chronicle on Sunday that he believes a second person can be seen in the surveillance photo distributed by police.

In Marietta, Ga., the hometown of slain Auburn University freshman Lauren Burk, a rabbi asked hundreds of people gathered at her funeral to turn their anger into something positive and let the justice system handle her killer.

Rabbi Steven Lebow said Sunday at Temple Kol Emeth that mourners should give blood or donate to charity in her memory.

"It would be easy to give way to our emotions this afternoon because there is a spectrum of feelings broiling and unsettling our souls," Lebow said. "The right thing isn't vengeance. The right thing is justice.

Burk, 18, was found shot on the side of an off-campus road Tuesday night and her car was found burning in a campus parking lot. Her car was found that night burning in a campus parking lot. A man has been charged in her death.

Lebow said the person who took her life committed two unpardonable sins -- murder and theft.

"He stole from Lauren's family the trust that all of us have that this is a good world, that Auburn is a safe town. He stole from all of us the sense of security that makes normalcy and life possible," Lebow said.

A white casket holding Burk's body was placed at the front of the sanctuary. Childhood and teenage pictures of Burk were displayed in the synagogue's lobby.

Suspect served in Iraq
The mother of Courtney Lockhart, the man accused of killing Burk, offered an apology to Burk's family in a television interview, saying her son was an Iraq war veteran who was changed after his service.

"First let me say I'm sorry to the Burk family for Courtney taking, taking their child. ... My heart goes out to her family," Catherine Williams said in the tearful interview with Columbus, Ga., television station WTVM.

But she also said her son did not confess anything to her.

Williams said her son, 23, hasn't been the same after serving 16 months in Iraq. She said her son had been living with her in Smiths Station, Ala., since returning from the war.

A Burk family spokeswoman said the Burk family likely did not see the Saturday evening interview.

"The family didn't watch any TV last night. I honestly don't know what their reaction is," Kathy Singleton said. "My heart breaks for anyone that's attached to the whole tragic situation."

URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23550281/