The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008

ARE WE ALL WATCHING THE COMPASSION FORUM?

In other words, the hell with the voice of the people get Hillary the nomination.

I guess the American version of "Sieg Heil" would "Sieg Hillary". If the Democrats no stop this stupidity they will give the election to McCain. Maybe they have already.

Robert

I have also tried to send a message to Nancy Pelosi, but all E-mails have been returned. Only those from individuals in her district are accepted. Why not let us ordinary people know how to reach her. The outrage about her efforts to control the superdelegates goes much deeper than the big money supporters.

I have also tried to send a message to Nancy Pelosi, but all E-mails have been returned. Only those from individuals in her district are accepted. Why not let us ordinary people know how to reach her. The outrage about her efforts to control the superdelegates goes much deeper than the big money supporters.

I'm sitting here at my desk with Pelosi's photo that I received for my support to the Democratic victory in 2006. It was taken when she was sworn in as Speaker of the House and I've been proud to display it.

No longer. I'm afraid it must now be relegated to a drawer because she is not the person I thought she was. Her thinly veiled support of Barack Obama is so unprofessional it's disturbing to say the least. She and the DCCC have lost my support. I will support individual members of Congress who share my political views from now on.

As a life long California resident, and a resident of San Francisco for the last 8 years, I've been an avid supporter of Pelosi - until now.

I wrote her office and will continue to write and call, and I encourage others from her district to do the same.

My message to her is:

1) Maintain neutrality about the Superdelegates in accordance with the principals guiding their establishment.

2) Become a more vocal proponent of having
Florida and Michigan's voices heard and counted in order to protect our most fundamental and cherished democratic right: the right to vote.

Or lose my financial support, lose my vote, and count on me to campaing vigorously against you in future elections.

Funny that Pelosi feels no compunction to support the candidate that carried her state but feels that others should abide by the interpretation which will allow them to support her candidate. Of course, she's in "good" company with Ted Kennedy also not really caring much about what the people of his state think.
Hey, if the Obama superdelegates can thumb their noses at the results from their states, so can the Clinton superdelegates (and delegates) who have watched this contest develop.
That is how Clinton will win and you can't fault those that go with Clinton while ignoring the ones that have ignored their states by supporting Obama.
And you can't ignore the Republicans who have voted for Obama to get Clinton out of the race who WILL return to McCain in November. Look at Texas where they are already identifying just those issues from Obama caucus results.
On a final note, at least Clinton has a history of supporting everybody in this country and not just the white people here or in other predominantly white countries. Every bit of history on Obama points to his pride in his black heritage and Africa as well as his support of the black causes and efforts here and in Africa. I applaud him for those efforts but require a much wider history for the person who will ultimately represent all races and ethnic peoples of this country.
Had Clinton or McCain devoted all of their free time and efforts to helping poor white people get ahead and out of the slums of Chicago or New York or the backhills of this country and pushed for the advancement and education of white people here and abroad in their fight of AIDS and HIV, they wouldn't even be in this contest. Why is Obama?
For the record: My family is white, black, hispanic, and American Indian and it includes gays as well as straights. I prefer someone we can ALL have faith in.

I think Pelosi needs to get off the stick and realize she is in line to be the first woman president if she would just do her job and impeach the lying sacks we have for a p and vp she needs to focus on what the voters put her in this job in 2006 so that hillary and obama can have the fantastic backdrop of impeachment proceeding on TV at convention and election time. hillary and obama do not need pelosi delegate meddling. follow rules.

People, we should for the sake of this issue at least all unite and express our disbelief at what is in principle being suggested.

This is not the Socialist United States of America.

That the "central Committe" could overturn the will of the people, and all men in the eys of the Democartic party are therefore not "created equal" is tantamount to the hijacking of the very Democratic principles upon which the nation was founded.

I would suggest thet anyone who ina nay way sees this as acceptabl;e is actually a closet communist or very close to being one..

Perhaps they would like to live in Zimbabwe or Pakistan where if the 'candidate' is unhappy with the will of the people then they take extra steps to ensure they win.

It doesnt matter if it is Mickey Mouse running against the Rod Runner. WHo is running is not significant here, the issue is simply the proposition itself.

I challenge anyone here to explain how this acceptable? I am of course now expecting a litany of Obama fans and Hillary fans to put respective spin on it as it pertyains to their candidate.

make no mistake, anyone who sees this as accpetable whether it be proposed by either side..... doesnt grasp democracy. fullstop.

The Democtartic party have ctreated a disaster with the Superdelegate concept it seems and their "power of veto" should be stripped immediately as a matter of process and to ensure transparency..

At the next debate both candidates should be asked directly whether they support the prionciple behind such a course of action...

Do we want a Premier or a Preident.

I am not a law enforcement official, but I know a blackmail letter when I see one. These are the people that will follow Hillary to the White House if she wins. They will be appointed to various posts in her administration where they can continue to line their pockets at the expense of the voting pubic. In other words, politics as usual!
Obama's campaign meshes quite seamlessly with the plan originated by Dean and attacked by Clinton & the DLC. Dean changed the course of the Democratic party by establishing a 50 state strategy. The Clintons wanted to stay with a 'Blue State' strategy financed primarily by these same big fund raisers. The strategy was further enhanced by Obama's fund raising strategy of millions of small donors in 50+ states. That is what this fight is about and hence this blackmail letter to Pelosi. Maybe the case can be submitted to "Law And Order" for review. I'm looking forward to that episode.

It's getting really crazy with this Dem primary. Bottom line, Obama is NOT the right candidate. I hope people wisen up and pray for enlightenment. The "vision" he has about the IRAQ war is shared by millions of people. Why on earth does Obama think that's a good campaigning line? After that, what has he accomplished? ..... The silence is deafening...

GO HILLARY!

These Clinton donors are not only wealthy, but a majority of them also have a significant relationship with the American-style Imperialism Political Action Committee.

One can't help wonder if they simply favor Hillary in general or if they particularly support her aggressive foreign policy in the Middle East where "nothing is off the table".

If the motivations and influence of this group's lobbying become too aggressive or too visible, it may represent a 'bridge too far' and result in some unintended 'blowback'.

The whole point of living in a democracy is to enable the people to choose. If we want party officials of any party to "annoint" a leader, we no longer have a democracy but an oligarchy, where the few choose for the many. Quite frankly, I am totally turned off by the suggestion that anyone should drop out of the presidential race before all of the people have a chance to vote. If some people are to be denied the opportunity to express their choice because of the concerns of party officials, then the primary process is nothing more than an illusion and democracy doesn't exist.

Lovely, so the big money wants to ignore voters? Wow, after Florida in 2000, one would think that the Democratic Party would have a little more sense, and one would hope that Clinton's own campaign would realize how badly this will play out in the media. "Clinton's big money supporters seek to reject the popular vote" is not exactly the message that a campaign ought to send under any circumstances. Between the Bosnia fibs and this, Clinton needs to take a refresher course in how to run a smart campaign.

The real laugh in this, of course, would be if Clinton were to slip ahead in the popular vote after the next several states finish voting. It's unlikely, but were it to happen, we can be assured that Clinton's supporters and her campaign will make one of the biggest 180-degree turns in history to suddenly start trumpeting the popular vote as the essence of democracy and the only standard by which to choose the nominee.

A campaign run like this one on sheer opportunism really makes me question whether the candidate has the qualities to make a decent president, let alone a good one.

Didn't Obama release his tax returns on the internet for anyone to see, including Hillary's dirt squad who are paid to dig dirt on Obama? Yes, they apparently have nothing much to hide. ON THE OTHER HAND, the Clintons MUST have a lot to hide because they have been really dragging their feet at this, haven't they? Had this been them releasing and the Obamas's withholding, can you imagine the amount of noise the Clintons and their supporters will make out of that ? No, we can't because it will be just simply too much!

Sorry, davidmwe.

Counting Florida and Michigan might be democratic, but it's not Democratic.

--A frustrated Michigan resident

when is the media going to pressure her on the release of the clintons taxes from 2000 thru 2006.it's apparent there is something to hide or there are going to be explanations needed.let's see who in the middle east that BILLY BOB have been doing business with.

As a Florida voter, I, for one, would much rather be disenfranchised because of the failure of Democratic national and state party organizations to communicate than be put through the hoops of a $10 million redo election funded by party fat cats.

Curious that Balz didn't mention Robert L. Johnson's Obama bashing back in January, just before the South Carolina primary, that was so egregious that Johnson issued an apology. "I'm writing to apologize to you and your family personally for the uncalled-for comments I made at a recent Clinton event. In my zeal to support Senator Clinton, I made some very inappropriate remarks for which I am truly sorry. I hope that you will accept this apology. Good luck on the campaign trail."

Suspicious, I went looking for it and found it...
"MoveOn is also using the funds to help Democrats, including House minority leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington state."

Remember Sally Fields in Legally Blonde 2?
http://newsbusters.org/node/5372

jpreno

The idiot's idiot. Is there any moderator breathing out there?

Stupid beyond belief.

I thought Obama's supporters were political activists, ivy-league educated class, if not high-income whites, but why do they talk trash? Gutter-language types. Is Obama like you, guys and gals? How then could you be agents for change, truth and honesty and unite people? You seem to belong to the low I.Q. group, even if Obama is a Harvard-graduate. Not that I descriminate against low IQ's, but can't you make your comments with reasonable intelligence out of respect for your candidate? Or else, why attack Hillary Clinton for the same sins of omission or comission that Obama is also guilty of?

I thought Obama's supporters were political activists, ivy-league educated class, if not high-income whites, but why do they talk trash? Gutter-language types. Is Obama like you, guys and gals? How then could you be agents for change, truth and honesty and unite people? You seem to belong to the low I.Q. group, even if Obama is a Harvard-graduate. Not that I descriminate against low IQ's, but can't you make your comments with reasonable intelligence out of respect for your candidate? Or else, why attack Hillary Clinton for the same sins of omission or comission that Obama is also guilty of?

I thought Obama's supporters were political activists, ivy-league educated class, if not high-income whites, but why do they talk trash? Gutter-language types. Is Obama like you, guys and gals? How then could you be agents for change, truth and honesty and unite people? You seem to belong to the low I.Q. group, even if Obama is a Harvard-graduate. Not that I descriminate against low IQ's, but can't you make your comments with reasonable intelligence out of respect for your candidate? Or else, why attack Hillary Clinton for the same sins of omission or comission that Obama is also guilty of?

I've had enough. I will not stand for McCain winning by default.

DRAFT GORE AT THE CONVENTION

Hillary has proven she is an obsessed, divisive, flawed liar, not to mention it is PROVEN IMPOSSIBLE for her to accumulate enough votes / delegates.
The party will NEVER sit still for or support "superdelegates" picking her when she has no majority of votes or delegates.

If the kids can't learn to play nice like adults (and you KNOW they won't before Pennsylvania / NC) and stop throwing mudpies,

and if Obama can't pull away and unite the party,

we DRAFT GORE at the convention and give either Obama or Richardon the VP spot.

Are you LISTENING, Hillary and Obama?
(especially Hillary)

Pelosi is a total joke.How is her house's performance rating lately?She should keep travelling to countries like Syria to show how efficient she is!!!

Pelosi is a total joke.How is her house's performance rating lately?She should keep travelling to countries like Syria to show how efficient she is!!!

Obama's efforts to connect to the Republican Party, specifically Bush, and Dick Chaney, of the Halliburton Company, dates back to the Presidents Grandfather, Prescott Bush, and indeed Chaney was once an executive officer of Halliburton.

The American military pounds Iraq with Artillary, bombs, and the like, destroying large sections of cities, and infra-structures, then Halliburton comes in to rebuild. Halliburton and Halliburton associated companies have raked in ten's of billions.

Obama is just like the BIG HALIBURTAN. Haliburton has contracted to build detention centers in the U.S. similiar to the one in Quantanammo Bay, Cuba. Halliburton does nothing to earn the Two Dollars for each meal an American Serviceman in Iraq eats.

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/

Halliburton was scheduled to take control of the Dubai Ports in The United Arab Emiirate. The deal was canceled when Bush was unable to affect the transfer of the American Ports.

Now we see what some might suspect as similiar financial escapading from the Democrats.

Two years ago, Iraq's Ministry of Electricity gave a $50 million contract to a start-up security company - Companion- owned by now-indicted businessman (TONY REZKO) Tony Rezko and a onetime Chicago cop, Daniel T. Frawley, to train Iraqi power-plant guards in the United States. An Iraqi leadership change left the deal in limbo. Now the company, Companion Security, is working to revive its contract.
Involved along with Antoin "Tony" Rezco, long time friend and neighbor of Democratic Presidential hopeful Barack Obama, and former cop Daniel T. Frawley, is Aiham Alsammarae. Alsammarae was accused of financial corruption by Iraqi authorities and jailed in Iraq last year before escaping and returning here.

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON --
Recently, Obama's campaign staff have been vetted by the IRS to disclose his connection to the criminal money generating underworld. Besides, his connections to the REZCO MAFIA types, his up-coming tax fraud charges -- Obama needs to disclose why he is a MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" and disclose Obama's MUSLIM Farrakhan mob connection to Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama's spiritual adviser, is the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine; Wright's daughters serve as publisher and executive editor. Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories. Last year, it gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said "truly epitomized greatness." That man is Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church are trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. Obama should stop suppoting our intervention in IRAQ. It's time to introduce this false, fake Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke "GLORK" Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek. He is MAD!!! --

OBAM YOU'RE NO JFK --

"GLORK" Obama looks like Alfred E. Newman: "Tales Calculated To Drive You." He is a MUSLIM "Glork" He's MAD!!! Alfred E. Neuman is the fictional mascot of Mad. The face had drifted through American pictography for decades before being claimed by Mad editor Harvey Kurtzman after he spotted it on the bulletin board in the office of Ballantine Books editor Bernard Shir-Cliff, later a contributor to various magazines created by Kurtzman.
Obama needs to disclose why he is a MUSLIM "PATWANG-FWEEE" and stop suppoting our intervention in IRAQ. It's time to introduce this false, fake "GLORK" Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek.

Michelle Obama should be ashamed.

"GLORK" Michelle Obama should be ashamed of her separatist-racist connection to Farrakhan and Chicago's Trinity United Church trumpeting Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama as the second coming of the messiah. If Michelle Obama new what her husband -- the Hope-A-Dope, Fonster Monster -- Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama did in Harlem, she would wash her wide-open, Hus-suey loving MUSILM mouth out, with twenty-four (24) mule-team double-cross X-boX-BorraX. He is a MUSLIM "Glork" It's time to introduce this false, fake "GLORK" Xerox - X box Obama and invite the self-indicting thief plagiarizing pipsqueke Xerox - X box to meet the Buffalo "GAZOWNT-GAZIKKA" Police Department Buffalo Creek. He's MAD!!!

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/

THE SPEECH --

The Apologia has arrived and once again the self-indicting, separatist-racist Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama, promises to heal the wounds of the world. The speech is the rude awakening of mass messianism of his campaign. Apologetically, Obama the MUSLIM double-cross X-boX-BorraX has an astonishingly empty two-prawn echelon explanation of his misjudgment.
In the first prawn: with regard to his connection to separatist-racist Rev. Wright; Obama summons voodoo and juju to express slavery as beginning and ending with the Rev. Wright.
In the second prawn: Obama's speech takes credit for Ashley's dream. A dream of unity Martin Luther King, Jr. borrowed from Ashley for his historic "I Have A Dream" speech. In Obama's speech, the connective bond Ashley, the elderly black man and Obama's grandmother share; represents Obama's self-indicting rise to the Harvard Yard. For Obama, the grand flag of language is the semi-fore of words, bestowed upon our nation by the messiah-alumni from Harvard. Obama's Swoon-Song Apologia to the nation represents a failed hymn -- a hymn that fails to heal the nation, repair the world, or make this time different than all the rest. Obama's speech is a brilliant failure.

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/

MUSLIM LIES --

The ILLIGITIAMTE MUSLIM MESSIA has blundered yet again!!! The self-indicting, separatist-racist Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama, lied about the politics of his campaign. The danger involved with this self-aggrandizing, cock-a-hoop, Hope-A-Dope, Fonster Monster -- Barack Obama AKA Barack Hussein Obama is that -- "Like Father Like Son" Obama is constantly wanting to impress America with "...his incapacity for sound judgment." On top of the horrible crime Obama committed in Harlem, the fact is, we have to hear it from Karl Rove about Obama's latest campaign crisis: "GLORK" Top Ten Obama Lies:

1. Obam said his parents met at the Selma march -- Reality: He was born 4 years before that.

2. Obam said he was a constitutional law professor -- Reality: . . . Obama Made This False Claim In His 2004 Senate Race. "Several direct-mail pieces issued for Obama's primary [Senate] campaign said he was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He is not. He is a senior lecturer (now on leave) at the school..

3. Obam said he spoke fluent Indonesian as a child -- Reality: . . . Obama has claimed on numerous occasions to have become fluent in Indonesian in six months. Yet those who knew him disputed that during recent interviews. Israella Pareira Darmawan, Obama's 1st-grade teacher, said she attempted to help him learn the Indonesian language by going over pronunciation and vowel sounds. Truth-be-told: Obama's Indonesian teachers say NO WAY

4. Obam said he was involved in community asbestos and housing project for the poor -- Reality: Didn't happen. This was the basis for Barrack and Misshell's claim, that he was a community activist on the South and East Side of Chicago. A+ lie both he and his twenty-four (24) mule-team, Hus-suey loving wife Misshell Obama, have been claiming in the campaign -- Reality: The Chicago Newspapers say NO WAY

5. Obam said in his book that he received his racial awakening at age nine reading a Life/Ebony Magazine story about a black man who was scarred trying to dye his skin white -- Reality: Didn't happen. Both Magazines (Life and Ebony), and the Rev. Wright and Farrakhan MUSLIM Trumpet Newsmagazine say, just didn't happen.

6. Obam's Campaign Didn't Have The "Technical Capacity" To Produce The "1984" Ad:

Obama: "But it's not something that we had anything to do with or were aware of and that frankly, given what it looks like, we don't have the technical capacity to create something like that." (CNN's "Larry King Live," 3/24/07) -- Reality:...The Creator Admitted All It Took Was A "Sunday Afternoon" On His Mac. Phillip de Vellis: "I made the ad on a Sunday afternoon in my apartment using my personal equipment (a Mac and some software), uploaded it to YouTube, and sent links around to blogs."

7. Obam's Campaign Claimed His High School Friend Tried To Extort Money From Them:

"According To The Obama Campaign, [Obama's Punahou Classmate Keith] Kakugawa Explicitly Raised The Possibility That He Could Make Up False Stories About Obama, Implying He Would Do So If The Campaign Did Not Give Him Money." (Maurice Possley, Kirsten Scharnberg and Ray Gibson, -- Reality: "...An Old Friend's Troublesome Return," Chicago Tribune, 3/25/07).

8. Obam voted to bring low-cost foreign labor into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina -- Reality:...This was a slap in the face against the African-Americans who were displaced in that city. Obama also voted to place Michael Chertoff, the man responsible for the Katrina catastrophe, in charge of Homeland Security. Obama voted for the bills that gave Blackwater the funding they needed to shoot the people of New Orleans who were only trying to save their own lives. He voted to allow Michael Chertoff to waive all laws, including murder, torture and kidnaping.

9. Obam voted more than five times for USA-PATRIOT's renewal -- Reality:...This is a bill that is patently offensive to most Americans. City after city has passed resolutions condemning USA-PATRIOT. Obama chose to side with tyranny over freedom and Bush over the people on this issue. The Real ID Act, which would allow Michael Chertoff to declare martial law and imprison all Americans, was supported by Obama, as noted above.

10. Obam is not a MAD MAN. His campaign is Not America's Poison -- Reality:...He's Radio-Active.

Why is the Press and media NOT publicizing this information????

Please read below:
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Nuclear Leaks and Response Tested Obama in Senate

By MIKE McINTIRE
Published: February 3, 2008 Read complete story at NY Times
Article also at HuffingtonPost web site.

When residents in Illinois voiced outrage two years ago upon learning that the Exelon Corporation had not disclosed radioactive leaks at one of its nuclear plants, the state's freshman senator, Barack Obama, took up their cause.

Mr. Obama scolded Exelon and federal regulators for inaction and introduced a bill to require all plant owners to notify state and local authorities immediately of even small leaks. He has boasted of it on the campaign trail, telling a crowd in Iowa in December that it was "the only nuclear legislation that I've passed."
"I just did that last year," he said, to murmurs of approval.

A close look at the path his legislation took tells a very different story.

While he initially fought to advance his bill, even holding up a presidential nomination to try to force a hearing on it, Mr. Obama eventually rewrote it to reflect changes sought by Senate Republicans, Exelon and nuclear regulators. The new bill removed language mandating prompt reporting and simply offered guidance to regulators, whom it charged with addressing the issue of unreported leaks.

Those revisions propelled the bill through a crucial committee. But, contrary to Mr. Obama's comments in Iowa, it ultimately died amid parliamentary wrangling in the full Senate.

The history of the bill shows Mr. Obama navigating a home-state controversy that pitted two important constituencies against each other and tested his skills as a legislative infighter. On one side were neighbors of several nuclear plants upset that low-level radioactive leaks had gone unreported for years; on the other was Exelon, the country's largest nuclear plant operator and one of Mr. Obama's largest sources of campaign money.

Since 2003, executives and employees of Exelon, which is based in Illinois, have contributed at least $227,000 to Mr. Obama's campaigns for the United States Senate and for president. Two top Exelon officials, Frank M. Clark, executive vice president, and John W. Rogers Jr., a director, are among his largest fund-raisers.

Another Obama donor, John W. Rowe, chairman of Exelon, is also chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nuclear power industry's lobbying group, based in Washington. Exelon's support for Mr. Obama far exceeds its support for any other presidential candidate.

In addition, Mr. Obama's chief political strategist, David Axelrod, has worked as a consultant to Exelon. A spokeswoman for Exelon said Mr. Axelrod's company had helped an Exelon subsidiary, Commonwealth Edison, with communications strategy periodically since 2002, but had no involvement in the leak controversy or other nuclear issues.
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He brags, of couse, that he accepts no $$$ from Lobbyists. As this shows, he doesn't....what he does is take the lobbyists on as Fund Raisers, they in turn hit on their employees to donate to his campaign. This truly is "gutter politics"...

1) The idea that a fight into the Democratic Convention would be bad for Democrats is perposterious. . . . It would be the most watched program in the history of Conventions, maybe even, the history of TV. The candidates would know how to play to the viewers and present a civil face.

2) Obama won state that will never vote Democratic in the general election: . . ie, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, S. Carolina, etc. Based on a prejudgist black vote (90%), who would not give a white man or woman a second look with Obama's second-rate Health Care Plan. . . . . . In other words, if the super-delegates don't show some common sense, we will be stuck with a second-rate Health Care Plan because Obama's black! . . . of all things.

People what you have to realize these big donors are used to having their way, they are backing Hillary so of course they don't want the pledged delegates to count. They want Hillary to win at all cost and will destroy the Democratic party to do it. They sent pelosi an ultimatum that they control the democratic party which just proves that people with money run this country not you and me.

Sounds like croc teared financial contributors trying to protect their "investment"?

Let the wealthy Dems backing Clinton throw good money after bad...it's not uncommon to react that way when you see your precious stock sinking?

Now we know at least where Hillary's millions come from. Of course these fat cats don't like to see their investment in Hillary go down the drain. They got the Clintons in their pocket. Nancy Pelosi is a brave woman to stand up to them. Americans would vote for her, but never for old Hillary.

This is insanity! How do you threaten the Speaker of the House for reminding everyone that the one with the most pledged delegates, the most in the popular vote, and the most states won will be confirmed the nominee by the superdelegates?

Would Hillary rather lose among pledge delegates, lose in the popular vote,and lose most states won and then be crowned the nominee in Denver?

Hillary's only hope is to try to destroy hope.

This stuff continues there will be no democratic in the democratic party. Just the Party of the Back room, big money interests.

Mr. Obama started fresh & with high m oral platform but now he is with controversies like wife's statement of being proud of the country for the first time, Rezko, Pastor outrageous sermon that he & his family was accepting so far publicly w/o any murmuring etc. Just because he is from minority community first time & black candidate the party does not need to give him the nomination. Moreover there looks to be color racism in the block vote of the entire afro american community & not on merit.Lady clinton is the representative of half of the society/ qualified & competitive. At last an woman who should have been president long ago is here how can a member of party high command an woman Nancy Peloski take side early rather shd wait till last moment to find acceptable solution to all.Superdelegates have their own responsibility & not act like ceremonial. I want party to win in Nov.Give this chance to the first lady candidate & let the young Mr. Obama be VP. He has age & will get more chances. Engineer Ram Bahadur K.C. Email : kcengg2hotmail.com posted on 27 March, 2008.

yeah, let's nominate a racist! Barry,GDA,Obama!

Let's forget the delegate math and popular vote. Here is the truth about November which noone even looks at. Obama has won the most states but according to the Electoral College which really determines who wins the election Obama will get 202 EC votes to Hillary's 219 EC votes. If we take MI and FL out of the equation which disenfranchising them does, the Democrats lose in November. The numbers are out there if you but they say with Obama as nominee states that are usually strongly Democrat become leaning Democrat. See the following: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/election_2008_electoral_college_update
New polling data released on Wednesday shows John McCain opening a lead over both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in Missouri. As a result, Missouri has shifted from Toss-Up status to Leans Republican in the Rasmussen Reports Balance of Power Calculator. Democrats are now leading in states with 200 Electoral College Votes. Republicans are favored in states with 189 Votes. All you Obama people look because these figures include your candidate too.

Just for your information Obam has been more negative than Hillary beginning with him calling her Senator Hillary Clinton (D-Punjab). That really looks like scholl yard bully tactics.

By the way the Democratic Party needs the money of those large donors. See this story on the convention:http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-denverdems21mar21,1,6620644.story?track=rss
As the host city, Denver must raise $40.6 million by June 16 for the party's Aug. 25-28 convention. This week, the host committee missed its second fundraising deadline, and Mayor John W. Hickenlooper said he believed the drawn-out battle between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois had distracted potential donors.

It would behoove Nancy Pelosi, etal to pay heed to what these donors are saying. Many donors refuse to donate to the DNC not because of the drawn out primary but they are doing it to protest MI amd FL which are needed for the Democrats to get to the White House.

It in truth has little or nothing to with the Clintons. Get your facts right before you spew your hatred for the Clintons all over the place.

I am going to call you on NAFTA. Outsourcing of jobs started long before Bill Clinton and NAFTA. Do some research it isn't hard to find at all.
http://www.opednews.com/sherry1103_outsourcing2.htm
In fact, it began to surface in the late 70's championed by the very conservative Heritage Foundation. Under the auspices of President Ronald Reagan, free trade "throughout the hemisphere" was borne. But truth be known, the seeds were sown long before Ronald Reagan. Richard Milhous Nixon was the first President given authority in the 1974 Fast Track Bill. It was awarded every president thereafter through 1998. Fast Track gives the President sole authority over trade negotiations. Congress, after the fact, can accept or reject the negotiation, but it cannot amend it in any way whatsoever. In effect, Fast Track effectively removes Congress from the process of world trade negotiations.

Hillary did not support NAFTA though she was at some of the meetings onit. She was one of the dissenters. NAFTA has worked for some states and it has not helped in other states.

Those bungling bundling donors are probably particularly aware that the hundreds of millions of dollars given to the Clintons' campaign and charities are seed monies waiting to sprout when the Clintons capture the White House by any means necessary. The Clinton matriarch best stop trying to fool those poor folks who donate and vote for her. Their soon to be released income tax contains the jaw dropping hundreds of millions they have amassed; knowing that those blood sucking ducks who laid those golden eggs for them are clamoring to come knocking on the White House door to retrieve their newly hatched ducklings. The Obama campaign, The Democratic Party and Jane n' Joe citizens have yet to witness the mother load barrage of vicious and relentless battering from the Clinton campaign. King Bill is already signaling that niceties and formalities from all campaigns cease and fully desist, as if his wife campaign had so much to give. This was all supposed to be a slam dunk primary royal party before the full presidential coronation in January 2009. Oh! Senator Obama and Mr. Axelrod why are you guys so cruel and disloyal to the Royal House of the Clintons, how dare you seek to dash the hopes of so many of the wealthy and royal donors of King Bill and Queen Hillary. Now they are going after our House Speaker leader Nancy Pelosi.

Dear: Honorable Speaker of the House of Representative Ms. Nancy Pelosi,

Re:
Susie Tompkins Buell, Robert L. Johnson, Bernard Schwartz, Maureen White and Steven Rattner and the other Signers of that Undemocratic Blackmail Letter to the Honorable Speaker of the House of Representative Ms. Nancy Pelosi.

Since the Clinton camp most likely encouraged the above named blackmailers to send this highly disrespectful letter to our House Speaker Leader, I will be directing my ire on the Clintons who are gleefully and selfishly trying hard to hurt our party into defeat. Mike Huckabee without confrontationally attacking his opponent stayed in the Republican race to the end and graciously said adieu. In stark contrast with the groveling viciousness of the Clintons attack on Senator Obama. The Clintons tag team double and triple rabid mugging on Barack Obama has even boomerang into jacking up HRC's negatives in polls after polls. Even the American electorate is tiring of her sock it to Obama relentless assault. If she had not laid out the framework on how to go after Obama the McCain camp would hot have benefited on her behalf. She is as much vulnerable to the Republican hit job, only if she is permitted to pull a slick Hillary muck and tear us apart, like she is bent on doing right now. She must be stopped, please disregard those cheapo donors who could not bundle enough dollars for her to waste on her badly ran campaign. Obama's donor list will be a bonanza to the Democratic Party, and his almost 2 million donors will mostly evaporate if the Clintons are allowed to do their willy-nillys and take our party down with them. Those very crass and repressive, barking donors purposefully let loose on you should be made to publicly apologize to you, your honor.

Dear Senator Obama
Dear Bill and Hillary Clinton,
I am specifically sending the above letter to the Honorable Speaker of the House of Representative Ms. Nancy Pelosi,

The Democratic Party is now a very big tent that is open to all Americans regardless of religion; age; gender; race; ethnicity and sexual orientation. The Democratic Party is ready and willing to represent the whole population of this great country. Instead of focusing on the small differences that make us who we are naturally, we should find common ground on those issues threatening our very existence as one strong Democratic lead nation in order to defeat those issues detrimental to us all. The precious blood of our children, family members and cherished fellow citizens flows like water from a badly damaged dam, all over Iraq. Yes, we are all Americans: we bleed red, white and blue on the American common battlefield for freedom. Our hard earned tax dollars are enriching the very rich in the name of Iraq and expensive international corporate welfare, while our work force, infrastructure and schools horribly decay and diminish in value. All those troubling things were mostly supervised under the leadership of the Republican commander in chief residing in our nation's capital. Presently, certain power hungry, win at all cost and lose party unity elements within the Democratic presidential nominating process are threatening to do all they can to encourage the Republican party to retain the commander in chief position. We are on the verge of renewing our dedication to the true strength of our nation at home and abroad. Now those intensely self defeating persons who claim leadership roles in the Democratic party are on an all out offensive to tear the party into pieces to the benefit of the Republican Party. Please stop the overt racial, religious and gender innuendos. If this kind of bickering continues, ultimately, the end result will only allow an already weakened Republican party to win the presidency again. Sadly, our future will bring more wars, fear and a worsening of our economy.

We can win in unity or lose in disunity.

As we all know by now, Barack Obama has won way more states, more of the popular vote, more elected delegates, and more overall delegates.

THE ONLY AREA where Obama trails Clinton, is in the number of Superdelegates who have endorsed him.

BUT GUESS WHAT!! Here is a VERY INTERESTING FACT: Since Feb. 5th, 2008, Obama has won the endorsements of 62 Superdelegates. In this same time period, Clinton has won the endorsements of only 4 Superdelegates. OBAMA HAS BEEN STEADILY CLOSING THE GAP ON CLINTON'S SUPERDELEGATE LEAD.

And there is NO REASON to believe this trend will not continue.

So rich Clinton "donors" are now trying to dictate how the Democrats nominate their candidate for the presidency?? Come on folks, when will this end??

HILLARY, PLEASE GO AWAY AND LEAVE US ALONE!! Get a little class for once in your life, and go quietly in the night.

So rich Clinton "donors" are now trying to dictate how the Democrats nominate their candidate for the presidency?? Come on folks, when will this end??

HILLARY, PLEASE GO AWAY AND LEAVE US ALONE!! Get a little class for once in your life, and go quietly in the night.

Obama's upscale 'latte liberal' supporters have more money than Clinton's working and middle class base -- the very middle class voters Obama wants to disenfranchise. So spare us the 'regular people' bull.

Posted by: lamachina | March 27, 2008 01:22 AM

Blah blah blah "latte liberal" bs.
You repeat Clintonoid lies as usual.

I am a 52 year old white male from Wisconsin, formerly employed in the paper industry until downsized, with limited employment while back in school.

I voted for Barack Obama. In my district and my state, Obama gained the votes of a wide cross-section of people. Whites - we are the vast majority in Wisconsin - young voters, independents, minorities, and many republicans.

Yeah. Wisconsin. The Land of "latte liberals"

Spare me the bull, so-called lifelong Democrat.

"Superdelegates were meant to serve as tiebreakers."

No, superdelegates were created because the party doesn't trust its left wing base, and feared its base would nominate a militant left-wing candidate.

The Democratic Party is confused, pulled in too many directions, and bogged down in political correctness. Left wing anti-Clinton Democats should never control the Executive Branch.

As a lifelong Democrat, this Michigan-Florida-superdelegate fiasco by Nancy Pelosi, Donna Brazile and Howard Dean is making me understand why America has wisely passed on Democratic Presidents -- other than Bill Clinton -- for 40 years. I'd make an exception for Bush, of course.

Obama's upscale 'latte liberal' supporters have more money than Clinton's working and middle class base -- the very middle class voters Obama wants to disenfranchise. So spare us the 'regular people' bull.

Posted by: lamachina | March 27, 2008 01:22 AM

you are right on!

"Superdelegates were meant to serve as tiebreakers."

No, superdelegates were created because the party doesn't trust its left wing base, and feared its base would nominate a militant left-wing candidate.

The Democratic Party is confused, pulled in too many directions, and bogged down in political correctness. Left wing anti-Clinton Democats should never control the Executive Branch.

As a lifelong Democrat, this Michigan-Florida-superdelegate fiasco by Nancy Pelosi, Donna Brazile and Howard Dean is making me understand why America has wisely passed on Democratic Presidents -- other than Bill Clinton -- for 40 years. I'd make an exception for Bush, of course.

Obama's upscale 'latte liberal' supporters have more money than Clinton's working and middle class base -- the very middle class voters Obama wants to disenfranchise. So spare us the 'regular people' bull.

Yeah ok right. If you had a brain you would realize how ridiculously ignorant your comments are. But of course, you don't.

Another credit to the Clinton campaign.
Or the McInsane campaign more likely.

Posted by: meg54136 | March 27, 2008 01:14 AM

Your rabid hatefilled mind will never be able to realize .. but Obama is fnished. Mark my word .. there will be not Swearing in of Obama with his hand on the Quran on Jan 20.

So does Hillary Clinton. I would not put it past Obama to channel Arab money through his Farrakhan network

Posted by: dsclinton | March 27, 2008 01:08 AM

Yeah ok right. If you had a brain you would realize how ridiculously ignorant your comments are. But of course, you don't.

Another credit to the Clinton campaign.
Or the McInsane campaign more likely.

These Obama supporter are extremist with foriegn ties. I ask 100% of the clinton supporter not to vote for this unpatriotic Hussein Obama .. for that will be treason by most count.

Posted by: dsclinton | March 27, 2008 12:59 AM

Thanks for the cogent comments. You're obviously a republican troll, but nevertheless you win the idiot troll of the night. Congratulations!

Unless svreader shows up of course.

Obama has hundreds of thousands of small donors. Almost 2 million individual donors. Average contribution $109.

Try using your brain, despite your obvious difficulties in that area.

Posted by: meg54136 | March 27, 2008 01:00 AM

So does Hillary Clinton. I would not put it past Obama to channel Arab money through his Farrakhan network

Obama has hundreds of thousands of small donors. Almost 2 million individual donors. Average contribution $109.

Try using your brain, despite your obvious difficulties in that area.

Posted by: meg54136 | March 27, 2008 01:00 AM

So does Hillary Clinton. I would not put it past Obama to channel Arab money through his Farrakhan network

Obama people love their fat-cat Rezko donor but do not like the clinton donors

Posted by: dsclinton | March 27, 2008 12:48 AM

Obama has hundreds of thousands of small donors. Almost 2 million individual donors. Average contribution $109.

Try using your brain, despite your obvious difficulties in that area.

These Obama supporter are extremist with foriegn ties. I ask 100% of the clinton supporter not to vote for this unpatriotic Hussein Obama .. for that will be treason by most count.

The stupidity on this comment thread is beyond astounding.

Get it, now, Obamanoids?

Posted by: Kat10 | March 27, 2008 12:45 AM

Oh yeah we've got it Clintonoid.

You're losing, and you can't stand it. So lie, spin, change the rules, smear, fling your feces.

That's all you've got now. Thanks for dropping by trying to destroy the party.

Have a nice day.

Obama people love their fat-cat Rezko donor but do not like the clinton donors

BY THE WAY hUSSEIN OBAMA CANNOT WIN. DID ANYONE REALISE THAT

The stupidity on this comment thread is beyond astounding. The point wasn't that these people have a lot of money, it was that if ALL the voters aren't allowed to be heard and the Democratic process isn't allowed to come to an unforced conclusion, these donors will take their money elsewhere, e.g., outside DNC Land. Get it, now, Obamanoids?

They should have a new rule.... The last 10 states will not count in the democratic primary. Has anyone thought about this .. if they are going to stop the contest. why will any State vote after March. THe party will always stop the vote. Can you imagine any scenario where the last 10 Staes's vote will count in the Democratic Primary. Moronic Pelosi!!

I am a 52 year old white male from Wisconsin, formerly employed in the paper industry until downsized, with limited employment while back in school.

I voted for Barack Obama. In my district and my state, Obama gained the votes of a wide cross-section of people. Whites - we are the vast majority in Wisconsin - young voters, independents, minorities, and many republicans.

Obama has hundreds of thousands of small donors. Average contribution $109. Almost 2 million individual contributors. He has won the majority of states, delegates, and popular votes.

A few disgruntled millionaires may have a problem with this unrestrained popular "cultism".

It's lots of people recognizing a great opportunity and a way to make American politics responsive to the actual people in this country.

If Hillary's fat cat donors don't like that, tough. The rest of us 1-2-3-4 million $25 donors will make them irrelevant.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/opinion/25brooks.html?em&ex=1206676800&en=4d359d72887c4776&ei=5087%0A

The CLINTON CAMPAIGN IS DISGUSTING.

The notion that the vile B.S. being spewed during this campaign is HELPING the Democratic party is ludicrous and ANYONE who believes it is STUPID.

Can ANYONE explain to me how SPENDING TRUCKLOADS of money fighting each other IMPROVES our chances in November?? It's ludicrous!!

MONEY is IMPORTANT in politics and SPENDING it to fight the REPUBLICANS is what SMART Democrats do.

If the superdelegates DO NOT put an END to this, they will be held accountable for that decision during their own re-election.

This superdelegate gamot is getting too wicked. It's mostly about power play and positioning for gains afterwards. Not much about the constituents, not much about the democratic party causes.

I like this video satire is right on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc3-2Wol9MM

I can plainly see the woman is ducking sniper fire at the Pennsylvania airport with her bullet-proof SUV and her body guards.

The statement was made that Hillary will abandon the middle class as soon as she gets elected (and is finished with us). How can you abandon something you have never been with? It is sad to watch. Hillary is the driving force behind President McCain.

Read the centrist comment... it is very true. For many centrists, McCain is a lot more palatable than Obama. Obama won't just cut it. Now, Obama's character is even in question.

Hillary all the way to the WH!!!

It's really a shame that Hillary Clinton, who has a 5% chance of winning the Democratic nomination, is still trying to buy the election. Her rich, elite friends used an idol threat of withholding funds to buy Clinton an election she cannot win on her own, with her impressive resume of sniper dodging and Nafta fighting. What a disgrace. Does Bill Clinton care anything about his severely tarnished legacy? These people are truly ruthless and calculating, but mostly desperate!

To tjames91303... From what we are seeing (earmarks, NAFTA, Rezko, Rev Wright, ARROGANCE!!!!), Obama is worse than business as usual. Truth is, if Obama's character, judgment and integrity were not in question, it would have been a lot easier to swallow his very shallow experience. Of course, one cannot blame the blacks for voting for one of their own. I am pretty sure the black voted because of race, but it is cannot because of Obama's qualifications.

I find it thoroughly disgusting that a few wealthy Clinton donors would use the implied threat of undercutting the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to leverage the Speaker's position on Superdelegates. I say so even with my own ambivalence on the issue, because part of me wants those delegates to show their true public stripes. Should we let them be held accountable, particularly if the cloakroom smells foul because the high-priced tailors have woven the empress's new clothes? Rationally, the stakes for the country are too high to allow this. Yet the letter's authors have the ironic gall to say "We have been strong supporters of the DCCC. We therefore urge you to clarify your position on super-delegates and reflect in your comments a more OPEN VIEW (emphasis added)..." Yes, Speaker Pelosi, please take "a more open view" and encourage "independent actions" while we hold our financial gun to your head. They say, "None of us should make declarative statements that diminish the importance of [Democratic voters'] voices and their votes" at the same time they recommend that the Superdelegates go fast and loose with the results based on those self-same voters. And did they write their candidate, Sen. Clinton, with the identical criticism, as she trivialized the voters in state after state won by her opponent, as being too small, too demographically atypical (Shhh!!! too...black! They drive Japanese cars!), too unreachable in November, or too (undemocratic!?!) because they were caucus voters? They want her to be "responsive to some of your major enthusiastic supporters"??? I thought the Democrats were supposed to be looking out for us cattle back in steerage class. Meanwhile, Obama's donor counter nears two MILLION ($200 qualifies as "major"!). His massive ground operation took Clinton and the coasting Democratic establishment totally by surprise. "The overwhelming response...shown for our party's candidates and...a record turnout of voters" cited in the letter have been disproportionately traced to the enthusiasm generated by Obama's campaign. What chutzpah!!! Astoundingly, Clinton has with cold calculation made Obama into the enemy, and raised Republican hopes from the dead. Better these dedicated well-padded Democrats write Speaker Pelosi for help in shutting down their candidate's own vitriol and innuendo about Obama, which has far outpaced the negatives initiated from his campaign.

Pelosi's logic is flawed. Why give the superdelegates the votes if they cannot exercise their own judgment? If the superdelegates are to follow the "popular vote", should the superdelegates then just count the primaries, since caucuses are not exactly that "democratic"? The superdelegates are their for a reason, so let them do their work.

The Democratic Party should review the way its nomination process. It is unfortunate that MI and FL are not counted, and for obvious reason, Obama doesn't want them to count. Of course, he doesn't care that the Dems might not carry MI and FL as long as he becomes the nominee, and the funny part is that, Obama's campaign has the audacity to say that the Clintons would do anything to win the nomination. It seems to me that if Obama is somehow true to what he projects himself to be (somebody would not try to win the election at all cost), then he should just agree to let the MI and FL votes stand. But then again, we already have seen his flawed character.

Many argued for Obama because he is a "uniter". Apparently, that's just all talk. 51% of Clinton supporters are voting McCain if Obama is the nominee. (BTW, I am part of that 51%! The country is a bigger cause than the party.) It is also true that except the blacks, Clinton has won the asians, hispanics and whites.

Here's the deal...Nancy Pelosi thinks she's all that...she should have kept her big mouth shut on the subject no matter how she felt. She wanted to show her importance over the Clintons, so she yaks on ABC.
Nancy herself now is finding out...if you flip the Clintons off with one finger...be prepared, they'll flip you back with two.

The Audacity of Bullies!!
Bill and Hillary Clinton have the audacity to WARN Nancy Pelosi???? How far does their sense of entitlement go? There is no limit.
The last vestiges of any good will I have EVER felt for the Clintons is gone for good.
Enough! Get out of the race Hillary before you add your poisonous presence to that of George's Bush's and put the final nail in the coffin of our struggling nation...

If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em.

I think it is a pretty fair bet that Nancy Pelosi will not tell them to shove their money. We know she is worthless, we know she will give in to anything that the Bush administration wants. We know she thinks it is more important to cast a vote to condemn Move-on for an ad, versus taking care of the urgent needs this country faces.
Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, Harry Reid are the problems with the party.

The Clinton power machine rolls on, wether it splits the party is of no concern.

If Hillary manages to steal the election- the Clinton's are arrogant enough to think that they can fight their way to winning. Unlikely!

If Hill loses the nomination, she is doing everything in her power to see Obama lose in Nov.- and she will begin her 2012 campaign on Nov. 5, with the unbearable whine of "I told you he wasn't electable. The Clinton's have tasted power and they want it again above anything, including their party. This is not tough fighting, it is an unbridled lust for power that is despicable.

The Clinton power machine rolls on, wether it splits the party is of no concern.

If Hillary manages to steal the election- the Clinton's are arrogant enough to think that they can fight their way to winning. Unlikely!

If Hill loses the nomination, she is doing everything in her power to see Obama lose in Nov.- and she will begin her 2012 campaign on Nov. 5, with the unbearable whine of "I told you he wasn't electable. The Clinton's have tasted power and they want it again above anything, including their party. This is not tough fighting, it is an unbridled lust for power that is despicable.

JakeD: "How about if he's given the VP spot?"

Hard to speculate, since I can't see it happening.

Normally, of course, a Clinton/Obama ticket would be unbeatable. However, since the only likely way Hillary could get the top spot at this point is by using the superdelegates to overturn the popular will, she'd be seen as illegitimate by many. Not to mention that Obama would essentially be a figurehead, with Bill serving as the unoffical VP. I really don't know how it would affect black turnout, which is the core of any Dem victory coalition.

Again, I can't see such a combo emerging from Denver; 50-50 if it did happen. Sorry to be so equivocal, but it's my honest answer.

If Billary and the Monster buy this election I will be one of the millions of Democrats that will vote McCain the new President. She is a Liar and thats worse than what a pastor says, of which he has no control. He is no longer the pastor, argument over!

If Democrates had winner take all delegates-Clinton would already be toast. What a way to run a primary election-- probably same way they would run the country--not God bless America but God HELP America--Please..

If Democrates had winner take all delegates-Clinton would already be toast. What a way to run a primary election-- probably same way they would run the country--not God bless America but God HELP America--Please..

What arrogance on their part. I guess these Clinton supporters,like her,could really care less about the Democratic Party, than about their overinflated egos.

What more proof do we Democrats need that Hillary Clinton is part of the business as usual pay to play politics that we're all so sick of. Obama 08!

What more proof do we Democrats need that Hillary Clinton is part of the business as usual pay to play politics that we're all so sick of. Obama 08!

whatmeregister:

How about if he's given the VP spot?

The GOP is entrenched in our government, with their big business as usual, tax relief for the rich, destroy the middle class, and don't forget by the rich, for the rich, in favor of the rich. Well, we are in a stand-off. We have a 71-yr old loose cannon pitted against old-school lobby money or the people's choice. I think I'll choose the people's choice this time around, so my grandchildren can have a chance oh, to be president someday. Remember when being president was actually something ordinary people could wish for and maybe attain? I want that dream to once again become a reality. I want Nancy Pelosi to stand her ground and make sure the will of the people guides the Super Delegates - Hillary go back to the senate and pass another mundane bill - maybe a stamp named after Kenneth Starr.

When your fundamental democratic right is stripped from you because of conflict with calender dates you have to wonder how much power should the DNC have and how to we erraticate that power. Every vote should be held in the highest esteem and counted. We just lost 4000 persons in Iraq is support of that fundamental belief.

ephemerella: "That, my friends, is why you don't bully, abuse and harass the party centrists. Fanatical party extremists who trash the centrists risk moving them toward the other party, whereas disappointing the party fanatical extremists just moves them out of the election."

I'm a "typical white person" white 47-year-old male party centrist, not some wet-behind-the-ears college freshman, and I'm plenty pissed off by the nonstop sleaziness of the Hillary campaign and the trash they've hurled at both Sen. Obama and his supporters. I've been a loyal and active Democrat since 1978. Don't think for a moment that because Hillary has the support of the machine that she's somehow representative of the center of my party. She represents the entrenched and largely corrupt pols of her generation and their attendant special interest groups, period. That's precisely why she needs to go.

"The Dems have zero chance of winning with any meaningful margin of Clinton's centrist supporters upset at Obama's campaign or the Democratic Party's treatment of her.... On the other hand, there is a reasonable shot at a win if Obama's left-wing and black supporters sit out the general election!"

You play well with theoretical equations, but you're living in a dream world if you think Hillary can "steal" the convention via using superdelegates to override the choice of the pledged delegates in Denver. If that were to occur, a huge majority of blacks would rightly see it as illegitimate and would refuse to support Clinton in November.

Go back and check your history. The Democratic presidential nominee hasn't carried a majority of the white vote since... what, 1976? Hillary, with her huge negatives, won't do it this fall either. Our occasional presidential victories have come as a result of consistently huge black turnout for our candidate. If you think the Dems can win an election where the convention has in essence told African Americans that they might as well stay home because we don't need their candidate or their votes, then you might as well just declare McCain the winner tonight, because that's how November will turn out.

I swear, sometimes I envy the Republicans. At least they don't seem to get ulcers over the incessant illogic of their own members. They just put aside their differences and focus on beating the tar out of us.

aristotle1980 - I totally agree. I know Hill was told not to run in 04 and told to wait. I also know she and the DNC had no idea the people would rise up and put a stop to old-school politics. I'm sorry she has had what she considers her "right" to the presidency taken away, but the reality is that the presidency is a privilege and to get there it is by the will of the people, not the will of insiders. Nancy Pelosi knows it and we do too. Corruption behind the scenes is one thing, but to bring it out in the open and try to sell it to the American people is repugnant and goes against everything this country is suppose to stand for...

jcdw, I guess from your comment you believe the Cornyn measure to condemn the infamous MoveOn.org "Petraeus/Betray us" ad was a necessrary and valuable use of time?

Donna - I beg you - do your homework and look into the Clinton past. Grand Jury testimony - Travelgate - Clinton Library donations - Senate record - income over the last 8 years - PLEASE DONNA READ THE RECORD - Hillary Clinton is NOT what our country needs - the GOP will win if she gets the nomination. Let's dissect your reasoning here - leadership, she walks in Bill's shadow...tenacity, she cannot win unless she steals the nomination...intelligence, power by whatever means necessary...problem-solving ability, lie and then call that lie a misstatement then spin, spin, spin against your opponent to deflect the lie...solutions, get her lobby money backers to threaten the speaker of the house...No Donna, Hillary Clinton is the worst person to lead our country. SHE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOU, ME, THIS COUNTRY, HER PARTY only about winning and now that she is not winning, she'll destroy you, me, this country, and her party...Sorry, but I want a better future for my grandchildren...

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Republicans, in fresh control of both houses of Congress,
were fashioning such tort-reform legislation. President
Clinton, trying to position himself between the GOP and
liberal Democrats as he prepared for his 1996 reelection
campaign, alarmed the trial bar with talk of compromise...
"At the time, Clinton and Gore had committed themselves
to raising $3 million for an end-of-the-year burst of
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Houston for an intimate fund-raising dinner ... His guests
included attorneys who have made fortunes representing
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suggesting ter, the vice president was given memosfollow-up calls to some of the Texas lawyers
who attended the dinner.
"Among the names was Walter Umphrey of Beaumont,
who made his fortune suing asbestos manufacturers and
was the lead lawyer for the state of Texas in his suit against
the tobacco industry ... The memo suggested asking
Umphrey for $100,000 to help pay for the TV buys, noting
that 'Walter is closely following tort reform.'"
Two weeks later, party staffer Payne sent a similar
memo to DNC chairman Don Folwler. According to Time,
the memo contained a script for Fowler to use in his call
to Umphrey:
"Sorry you missed the Vice President: I know [you] will
give $100K when the President vetoes tort reform, but
we really need it now. Please send ASAP if possible."
Flowler's lawyer claims, "Don does not recall placing
the call to him, talking to him or seeing the call sheet."
Although Umphrey did not immediately contribute, Time
reported:
"He waited until the tort reform bill reached a crucial
moment--the day the legislation went to Clinton's desk.
His firm, Provost & Umphrey, contributed $7,500 on April
30, 1996. The President vetoed the legislation two days
later, May 2. On July 17, the firm gave another $30,000 to
the DNC, with $10,000 more coming in the fall."
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bill, which would have limited excessive monetary awards
in personal injury lawsuits, Umphrey and his "Tobacco
Five" cohorts collected $3.3 billion in legal fees in their
lawsuit against the tobacco industry.
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Gore episode, Umphrey has concentrated on channeling
more than $300,000 through various obscurely named
Texas PACs. Such efforts blur the true origin of the
money, making it easier for many candidates to accept
because it lacks the controversial "trial lawyer" taint.
Umphrey has given Democratic Party candidates and
party-affiliated PACs in Texas with $1,141,030. This total
does not reflect the hundreds of thousands of dollars he
contributed to national Democratic Party candidates and
party PACs.
Walter Umphrey Read and wonder what the Clintons are really all about

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Wow this just gets better and better. First, this election has brought out the real qualities of leaders like Hillary Clinton. Exaggeration, Over hyped claims, divisive politics, and more.
Ladies and Gentlemen, do you really think that trusting someone who shows the same characteristics as George Bush ought to be in the White House ever again?
Can you really say that Hillary Clinton is worth trusting with the most sensitive times in this world.
She lied about Nafta but that came out after Ohio. She has again managed to take the attention off this by speaking about Rev Wright. Amazing! One old man says something in a fit of anger and you hang onto that. But a saner person lies so many times and there is no response.
This is not the time to close your eyes and behave like a petulant child. Take a good look at the child next to you. Can you seriously vote for someone who lies all the time and tell your child with pride that you would side with a liar or would you rather stand with someone who says that he is an individual with his own views.
I am so fed up with Hillary Clinton, I am going to start a campaign where in I am going to ask people to start calling their 'Flip Flops' 'Hillarys'.
Back off now and you just might have a nation left where every person who was born equal and every person who will be born equal feels that and not something else. And, in this democracy nobody is entitled to the Presidency. Nobody. When that happens, you stop breathing free air.

Pennsylvania is "With the program" and watch them vote. Senator Clinton will win because of her leadership, tenacity, intelligence, problem-solving ability and solutions for ALL Americans, not just the "typical" white person as Obama says.

The wealthy power brokers (20 or 2000) or the 1 million Obama supporters. Barack has done an end run around the political establishment and they're in a state of panic.

What's so difficult to understand? The voters want to end politics as usual. They want to end the culture wars. They want to be involved in solving the Real Problems all Americans face, not the hyped crap fed to them by the corporate controlled media.

Give it up Hilary. Remember what you and your manager said about Mi and FL???

HRC said on 10/10/07 on New Hampshire Public Radio's show, "The Exchange:
NHPR: "So, if you value the DNC calendar, why not just pull out of Michigan? Why not just say, Hey Michigan, I''m off the ballot?"

"It''s clear, this election they''re having is not going to count for anything," Clinton said.

Top Clinton campaign advisor Harold ICKES:
As a DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee member, he voted last year to strip the two states of their delegates as punishment for moving their primaries up too early, "to prevent the gaming of the system."
Now he supports seating the delegates. "When I voted on the Rules and Bylaws Committee, I did that as a member of the Rules and Bylaws Committee, not as a member of the Hillary Clinton campaign."

Clinton campaign advisor Terry McCAULIFFE argues for seating the FL and MI delegates. But in 2004, as head of the DNC, when MI threatened to hold an early vote he said, "Move your primary too early, and Michigan will lose half its delegates to the 2004 Democratic convention. The closest they''ll get to Boston will be watching it on television," he vowed. "I will not let you break this entire nominating process for one state. The rules are the rules."

So, the rules are the rules. No to MI and FL.

You go Nancy - kick those money-men out of your view. Not this time folks - we are at a crossroads - big business backed politicians vs. the people's choice. I am for the people and now that we have some transparency (thanks Barack) and the internet to keep us informed about who is pulling whose chain - we can put a stop to this insanity. Come on Pennsylvania get with the program - SHE CANNOT WIN UNLESS SHE STEALS THE NOMINATION - the people have spoken...OBAMA 08.

Well, Pelosi did get it right, like or not, it is true: "it will be harmful to the party if superdelegates don't support the pledged delegate winner."

Amazingly, we now have one of the candidate's top donors THREATENING Pelosi: Endorse Hillary's view or we're pulling our money from the party.

Sounds very much like blackmail to me.

Shouldn't Hillary Clinton (or any candidate loyal to the party) continue to urge their supporters to assist Speaker Pelosi in her efforts to maintain and build a working majority in the House of Representatives, regardless of the outcome of the nomination?

We all know Obama has no problem repeating other people's words, but he has no solutions, i.e., #1. In all of the debates when asked any question of any substance his response was always and I quote "I agree with Hillary.."#2. His speeches apparently were mostly takes from other politicians, i.e. speech from Gov. Patrick Duval and others#3. All of the ideas (God forbid) he took for over 20 years from his mentor-Uncle-Pastor Wright. What we have yet to see are any specifics. It is becoming clearer and clearer that he has NONE!!!!!

Pathetic! They think they can threaten their way to getting Hillary nominated? What chutzpah!

Hubris, arrogance and stupidity organized by BET gangster peddling Bob Johnson trying to intimidate the Speaker of the House of Representatives (third in line for the Presidency) over the Clinton couple's campaign debacle. Nancy did not get off the bus yesterday and will systematically dismantle this tribe of money wielding hooligans in short order.

Wealthy donors or Oprah, sorry "Oprah, Inc." Democrats must choose.

tkarol3 - See, the same thing happened in NV - the OLD SCHOOL Billary people tried to "Fix" the caucuses - thus loosing delegate slips for the "other candidate" - the party knows who's trying to steal this nomination sweetie and it isn't Obama. I was part of the caucus audit here in NV and funny thing - all the Billary info was neat and tidy in every precinct file...go figure...but the info for the "other candidate" was missing or only partially there. You see, SHE was suppose to win Super Tuesday and none of us would have known about what went on "behind the scenes" - well, she DIDN'T WIN and now we have to have a convention redo - why? Because the MACHINE is using everything in it's dirty, filthy, lying, cheating scorched earth, mud-slinging, rich-backed arsenal to NOT bend to the will of the people. Old school, entrenched and obviously dishonest politicians want to keep the status quo. Go ahead and vote for her - hope she sics the IRS and the FBI on you like she did in Travelgate...

DON'T BE DUPED !!!

Large numbers of Republicans have been voting for Barack Obama in the DEMOCRATIC primaries, and caucuses. Because they feel he would be a weaker opponent against John McCain. And because they feel that a Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ticket would be unbeatable. And also because with a Clinton and Obama ticket you are almost 100% certain to get quality, affordable universal health care very soon.

But first, all of you have to make certain that Hillary Clinton takes the democratic nomination and then the Whitehouse. NOW! is the time. THIS! is the moment you have all been working, and waiting for. You can do this America. "Carpe diem" (harvest the day).

I think Hillary Clinton see's a beautiful world of plenty for all. She is a woman, and a mother. And it's time America. Do this for your-self, and your children's future. You will have to work together on this and be aggressive, relentless, and creative. Americans face an even worse catastrophe ahead than the one you are living through now.

You see, the medical and insurance industry mostly support the republicans with the money they ripped off from you. And they don't want you to have quality, affordable universal health care. They want to be able to continue to rip you off, and kill you and your children by continuing to deny you life saving medical care that you have already paid for. So they can continue to make more immoral profits for them-self.

Hillary Clinton has actually won by much larger margins than the vote totals showed. And lost by much smaller vote margins than the vote totals showed. Her delegate count is actually much higher than it shows. And higher than Obama's. She also leads in the electoral college vote that you must win to become President in the November national election. HILLARY CLINTON IS ALREADY THE TRUE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE!

As much as 30% of Obama's primary, and caucus votes are Republicans trying to choose the weakest democratic candidate for McCain to run against. These Republicans have been gaming the caucuses where it is easier to vote cheat. This is why Obama has not been able to win the BIG! states primaries. Even with Republican vote cheating help.

Hillary Clinton has been out manned, out gunned, and out spent 2 and 3 to 1. Yet Obama has only been able to manage a very tenuous, and questionable tie with Hillary Clinton.

If Obama is the democratic nominee for the national election in November he will be slaughtered. Because the Republican vote cheating help will suddenly evaporate. All of this vote fraud and republican manipulation has made Obama falsely look like a much stronger candidate than he really is. YOUNG PEOPLE. DON'T BE DUPED! Think about it. You have the most to lose.

The democratic party needs to fix this outrage. I suggest a Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ticket. Everyone needs to throw all your support to Hillary Clinton NOW! So you can end this outrage against YOU the voter, and against democracy.

I think Barack Obama has a once in a life time chance to make the ultimate historic gesture for unity, and change in America by accepting Hillary Clinton's offer as running mate. Such an act now would for ever seal Barack Obama's place at the top of the list of Americas all time great leaders, and unifiers for all of history.

The democratic party, and the super-delegates have a decision to make. Are the democrats, and the democratic party going to choose the DEMOCRATIC party nominee to fight for the American people. Or are the republicans going to choose the DEMOCRATIC party nominee through vote fraud, and gaming the DEMOCRATIC party primaries, and caucuses.

Fortunately the Clinton's have been able to hold on against this fraudulent outrage with those repeated dramatic comebacks of Hillary Clinton's. Only the Clinton's are that resourceful, and strong. Hillary Clinton is your NOMINEE. They are the best I have ever seen.

"This is not a game" (Hillary Clinton)

Sincerely

jacksmith...

I cannot tell you all how many Archie Bunker rust belts I've talked to over the last year who have NOT taken the time to look into the true history of Billary. PA it's your turn - wise up and do your homework. Undecided delegates DO THE RIGHT THING, for once in your lobby-money grabbing, Pork-allocating, greedy lives. THE PEOPLE DON'T WANT THAT WOMAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To all you Obama lovers heres a video proving Hillary being shot at by snipers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHVEDq6RVXc

It's obvious why these people wrote to Nancy Pelosi -- she won't listen to the ordinary citizens who have already tried to contact her, only those who might influence her position within the party. Hillary would be better off as an Independent at this point. I called the DNC today to tell them Obama's national campaign called me in Texas saying they were desperate for delegates at the convention this weekend, and even though I wasn't a delegate or alternate, since I had caucused could I come to the convention to support him. I explained that my precinct had plenty of Obama delegates and they said other precints did not and they would just "put me somewhere, so please show up."

They actually thought they were talking to my mother, because I AM a delegate and know the rules, while she isn't (but was willing to be one for Clinton). When I called the DNC, the woman I spoke to was very rude and said there was nothing they could do, just to call the campaign, and that the DNC didn't care what they did. I said I would call the media as well, then. She said fine. I called the Texas Democratic Party, and the person I spoke to there said absolutely what was Obama's campaign did was against the rules and his national campaign would know it (I didn't tell them which candidate it was, at first, until they wanted to know so they could contact them). They listened and said they would try to stop them from making these calls. It is obvious Obama is running dirty politics, and the DNC is doing nothing about it. I'm glad the local level is at least trying. I have no respect for the DNC now at all. Howard Dean should step down, as should Nancy Pelosi. Those big spenders should use their influence to get someone else who actually cares about equality into positions of power. That is why I am an Independent.

The Clinton mafia will do anything to curtail the democratic process in this election. Twelve wealthy people get to say what Nancy Pelosi should say or do? What about the millions of people who have already voted in the pimaries. How come these twelve bundlers get to decide the outcome of the election?

First of all these 12 lobbyists are probably expecting billions in kickbacks once Hillary takes office. That itself is one reason why Hillary should not get into the white house. Clinton's desperation is showing in many ways.

She is going after Obama's pastor issue even after the rest of the country have put it behind.

Hillary is emphasizing that the so called pledged delegates do not mean anything to her. She wants them to jump ship and cast their vote for her in Denver.

Now she is using her wealthy bundlers to threaten Nancy Pelosi.

What gives? Hillary would rather see McCain in the white house than another democrat.

Hillary is the Tanya Harding of politics and Bill Clinton is jeff Geluly.

How stupid was that move. Hillary donors are the true elitist. What do these people think their money buys power and influence. Oh yes were dealing with the Clintons. This is the kind of politics that has to stop!!!! If HRC manages to swindle the nomination from Obama I'm changing my party to Independent.
I wonder if those of us who have donated less than $200 to Obama campaign should sign a letter and send it to Nancy demanding that this type of politics not be tolerated. What do you guys think?

No more on Rezko because THERE AIN'T NOTHING TO REPORT - Chicago Tribune would have done so. And since we are going to look at the facts - Will Bill be on house arrest at the White House if he is convicted in the Peter Paul Election Fraud case??????? That trial begins in California this November - wonder if that's before or after you all elect his wife? And since she is a witness for the prosecution - does she get immunity as President or will the case get thrown out on a presidential technicality? And what about our fearless wanna be leader hanging out with a convicted felon like Peter Paul anyway? Why isn't the press pursuing that relationship?

Clinton should be pushed out of the Democrats; she has done more damage to the party in a few short months than any Republican could have done; her selfish wants come before all else...GET RID OF HER- SHE'S A LIABILITY AND WOULD BE ATTACKING ANY ONTHER NOMINEE IF THEY WERE BEATING HER...GET RID OF HER- SHE'S A MENACE.

Hillary and her wealthy cohorts are destroying the Democratic Party. What is the leadership waiting for? What are the super-delegates waiting for? Time to man-up and line up behind Obama!

Here is a couple of interesting articles:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3628100.ece

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004303769_clinpublicans25.html

Pelosi has shown good judgment and she needn't be concerned about the implied threat from this group of extortionists. We have already seen the power of the grassroots that has out raised their candidate. The attention of this grassroots will next go to Congress and the Senate.

Thank you for posting the letter...

Superlawyer Marc Aronchick is Hillary's finance co-chair;

Clarence Avant: During the 1990s, Avant played key roles in President Clinton's presidential campaigns and currently serves as Resident Jamaican Trade Counsel.

Sim Farar: in 1999 was named by then President Clinton as U. S. Representative to the Fifty-Fourth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Sim Farar of California, also served on the President's Advisory Committee on the Arts to the John F. Kennedy Center. And in February of 2007, this mega-fund raiser hosted a reception for Hillary Clinton.

Chris Korge: Coral Gables attorney and businessman, Chris Korge built a multimillion-dollar fortune as a lobbyist. He hosted a $4,600 per person reception for Hillary Clinton at his Lakeside mansion in March of 2007.

Marc Lasry is one of the pioneers of the distressed securities market,and is Founder and Managing Partner of Avenue Capital Group. Chelsea Clinton was hired as an analyst for Avenue Capital in 2006.
Lasry is a top Clinton backer who in 2007 through an affiliate of Avenue Capital, UWS Acquisitions, sought to evict 89 families from their dwellings. As market rate tenants, Avenue Capital had the legal right to ask the distraught families to leave within 30 days. A spokesperson for the article which appeaared in "City Hall" on May 15, 2007 said that: "Any legal notices that were sent to tenants were delivered in a time frame prescribed by law..."
Again nary an Obama supporter in this bunch.

Petelly - stopped smoking doobies right after the Dem convention in 1968...were you there? I was and if you think that convention was a disaster - remember Nixon won - then just wait till HILLYBILL steals this nomination - hope McCain chooses a great VP...it's gonna get ugly folks. Super Delegates take note - 1968 is not worth repeating - it's taken this long to come up with a candidate who is actually honest. Of course, there was Al, but FL made sure Bushy won that one - maybe that's what's wrong - America has no more short-term memory - so let's all gather round the campfire and sing a song of praise for liars, cheats and the American way...

Chicago1:

I hear that Cindy Sheehan is running against Pelosi ; )

Integrity and Obama - I think not. By the way, does anyone know what the latest is with his long-time compadre, Tony Rezko?

Is there no relief from the disaster that is Nancy Pelosi, crazed San Francisco flake? On the very day Obama became toast in the general election, she goes on TV to say this.

If the role of the superdelegates were to reflect the vote, Kennedy and Kerry would be for Clinton, the winner of their Massachusetts votes. (Two more flakes.)

If they have any role at all, it is to pick the candidate who can win a general election. That candidate is not the left liberal Obama.

People like these named are the reason we have held the White House only 12 of the last 40 years. L-O-S-E-R-S.