The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008

It's Hillary all the way !

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What has Obama really accomplished during his political career? His supporters think he's going to bring real change, but there's nothing in his background that backs that up. Bush was for change and look what that got us. He was considered to be a truthful person. We know now that wasn't true. Perception and reality are two different things. You need to look into Obama's past to see if he's going to do what he says he's going to do. Giving a great speech doesn't qualify him to be President.

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I am not an African American. I am a senior citizen feminist and I am not supporting Obama because of his race or gender but because he will change our country for the better and toward our better angels. The Clintons have been running an appalling negative campaign of personal destruction. Hillary has won Pennsylvania, where she had double digit leads a month ago, but she cannot win the nomination without even more sleazy scumbag divide and rule politics of lies and corruption. A lifelong Democrat, I will abandon the party if it allows the Clinton machine to steal the nomination, as will millions of younger (below 45 years) for voters. Enough! Hillary, have you no shame?

HEY PA....

YOU WERE A BIG LET DOWN!!!!!

How could you let yourselfs be denied the privilege for a golden opportunity....a black man who believes in America......even though.

You should realize that this is a moment of change....progressive and unified America.

You should know better!

FWIW, am a democrat who switched to the republican party to vote for Ron Paul, a leader who is certain to cut down on the huge government created by the past few American presidents.

Why can't Hillary "close the deal" when she came into this race as the "Inevitable" candidate with the benefit of all her entrenched Party connections, tons of cash and massive name recognition because of her husband?

It's because Obama is the better candidate who has run a vastly superior campaign. The truth hurts.

Annette what a great observation.
He can't close the deal-he's the one dividing the democrats. I am tired of the media shoving himn down my throat-i just want to gag. he whines-he can't answer a question without stuttering or going off into some lala land way out there when he does try to answer a question. I'm scared for our future. because if he wins the nomination he will not win in the general. And the only people to blame are the radical democrats.

Annette, there is no way that Clinton wins the nomination. It is impossible. And sorry but the "wired, information highway" voters that you so casually dismiss happen to be the future of this country. You want to slam the progressive, educated activist base of the Party? Why, because they have recognized that Clinton's hawkish centrism is no longer desirable?

Beyond that, I see absolutely no evidence that Senator Obama wants to lose ANY poor white voter to the GOP. If poor white voters go and vote against their economic interest (McCain) it is only because they have swallowed the race-bait that Hannity and Fox have been pushing with Rev. Wright's comments (taken out of context for maximum shock value, of course). This is a guy who volunteered for the Marines when Bush & Cheney were finding ways to avoid military service. He has earned his right to free speech and to question his patriotism is revolting. And frankly, if you are going to apply "guilt by association" tactics to everyone equally, you better ask why Rev. Wright was invited to the Clinton White House and why Hillary's shill Ed Rendell gave a speech praising Louis Farahkahn. We can play these stupid games all day if you want to.

I find it very hard to believe that anyone who calls themselves a Democrat would vote for a Republican after 8 years of abysmal leadership from Bush and his enablers in the party. The man is at the highest disapproval rating of any President in the history of polling! Once this primary season is over, the Democratic Party is going to come together to defeat McCain. If Clinton supporters are still so "bitter", all they need to remember is that the Supreme Court is hanging in the balance. Unless you want another Alito or Thomas you better get with the program and vote Obama.

It's about time to talk about the real problem, which is embodied by Rendell's apparently correct observation two months ago, i.e., outside Philly and some neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, PA voters are not willing to support a black man. Those bitter, clinging people are not going to vote for someone who doesn't look, talk or worship like they do. The liberal elite and their partners in crime, the MSM, need to go back to BHO's race speech and start talking about what we need to do as a society to begin implementing not just a post-partisan government, but also a post-racial society.

A 29 year old, single white female from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

HILLARY HAS MY VOTE AT THE POLLS!! HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008!!

please, Obama whined the minute that big media began to get over their "love affair" with him... he didn't like the questions asked (Obama) as opposed to (getting the very first question every time so that Obama can parrot back something similar that Clinton just said)she had a right to complain about that, anyone who's ever been in a debate knows the pitfalls of getting the first question, time for your opponent to formulate one himself. He has no plans and I think you'd all be very lucky to even name one and with such ambiguous and vague talk/answers...NO...I don't think I'd want him answering the phone at 3:00pm..much less 3:00am...lest he's awake enough to whine about the "problem" he's encountering on the phone. NEGATIVE ADS??!!??? PLEASE, YOU GUYS IN "BIG MEDIA" NEED TO GET OFF OF OBAMA'S MICRO-GENITALIA LONG ENOUGH TO STOP TRYING TO RAM THIS GUY DOWN OUR THROATS! SHE'S NEVER PROPOSED ANYTHING EVEN REMOTELY NEGATIVE "ABOUT HIM"!!! EVEN THOUGH YOU ALL TRY TO PUT THE SPIN ON LIKE SHE DID...HAS SHE ACCUSED HIM OF TAKING BRIBES? OR HAVING SOME CHILDREN OUT OF WEDLOCK? OR AN AFFAIR? NOOOO! BESIDES, JUST BECAUSE YOUR BOY GOT BEAT BY A WOMAN, THAN IT MUST BE BECAUSE SHE FOUGHT, "DIRTY"! BESIDES, I think it's some valid points that she's proposed in all of her ads, Bin Laden, nuclear war, an economic depression, they're all possibilites he might encounter as president, the bottom line is this...WE ALL KNOW NOW THAT SHE'S TOUGH AS HELL, BUT WHEN THE GOING GOT TOUGH, OBAMA JUST...GOT GOING! By the way, does anyone else out there know of any real, actual plans that Obama even has for our country? Is there anyone out there who can actually tell me even one? It sure sounds like I might have touched a nerve with "Obamaqueins" out there...HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT!

Please, Annette, use your brain and think independently. This "failure to close the deal" garbage is what should be asked of Hillary Clinton - why, after 40+ primaries is the well-connected, big money financed, infamous wife of a former president unable to close the deal and shut out the freshman senator?? It speaks to her divisive personality and incompetence, and her dirty politics. It's blowing up in her face. She still has strong support among the establishment, but if less people felt like they owed the Clintons a favor, she would have been toast a long time ago.

Why can't Obama close the deal after all the money and press propaganda blasted at PA voters?

What all the press is ignoring is that, with the black vote so solidly along racial lines, Hillary Clinton is obviously taking a great deal of the rest of the Democratic electorate vote, in order to virtually split the electorate with Obama as she has.

Why can't he close the deal with Democratic voters with a solid black voting block, the media fan club, obscene and unprecedented amounts of money spent for him, and college kids and left-wing Party extremists all throwing their activism and weight behind him? Why doesn't the press realize that this means he has serious problems with all of the Democratic electorate except for ivory tower liberals and blacks?

Obama wants to unload poor whites onto Republicans and shift the Democratic electorate to the wired, information highway generation. The latter donate more money and they're more virulent, vocal and tribal supporters as well (read: bloggers and media shills). His campaign and strategy really appeals to elite liberals, but he can't win the general election just them and the black vote. If Obama loses the poor white vote in PA, it's only because of the anti-white racist hate speech of his Church and his own verbal gaffes where he's caught saying what he really thinks about such people.

The problem with Obama's campaign, and his narrow view of how to redraw the Democratic Party's electoral map, is that his person and his campaign is aimed at little other than blacks, elite left-wing whites and the wired generation. While he enchants the online chattering classes (e.g. bloggers and journalists) his narrow appeal means that even with the black Democrats lined up almost to a man behind him, he can't win enough votes of the other groups of Democrats to pull off a clean win in the Democratic Primary.

The fact that this race is still almost a dead heat is NOT Clinton's fault and it's time to stop beating her up over Obama's failure to win the nomination outright despite his black-voter, money and media advantages. Obama's failure to close the deal with voters with all the black vote with him, the media and blogosphere effectively acting as a free 527 group, and the money and political weight of the left-wing of the Democratic Party on his side, is a problem with the candidate, NOT his opponent.

Obama's failure to close the deal is his failure, and it would be great if the media shills who act like his campaign staff stopped blaming that failure on racist voters and Clinton. The only consistently racist (racially divided) voters in this Primary season are the black voters.

Obama has never won a really contested election against an opponent who didn't obligingly implode, get disqualified or who wasn't totally non-viable to begin with. By organizing and pushing the pretense of an ad-hoc superdelegate outster of Clinton in June, without counting MI & FL voters and delegates, he's manipulating the Democratic Party to execute an eliminate-the-opponent strategy for him, when he can't win the nomination outright.

I just heard Obama say, "I didn't think I could win the Industial States, that's why I campaigned more and spent more in the caucus states than I did in the Industrial states"...Personally I think that's a crock...I don't know why he's losing in the Industrial states, but it's certainly not because he hasn't spent time or money there..By the way, I'm Hillary supporter that will vote for Obama if he wins..

MY FELLOW "BITTER", STUPID, WORKING CLASS PEOPLE :-)

If you think like Barack Obama, that WORKING CLASS PEOPLE are just a bunch of "BITTER"!, STUPID, PEASANTS, Cash COWS!, and CANNON FODDER. :-(

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think Barack Obama with little or no experience would be better than Hillary Clinton with 35 years experience.

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that Obama with no experience can fix an economy on the verge of collapse better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) led the greatest economic expansion, and prosperity in American history.

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that Obama with no experience fighting for universal health care can get it for you better than Hillary Clinton. Who anticipated this current health care crisis back in 1993, and fought a pitched battle against overwhelming odds to get universal health care for all the American people.

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that Obama with no experience can manage, and get us out of two wars better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) went to war only when he was convinced that he absolutely had to. Then completed the mission in record time against a nuclear power. AND DID NOT LOSE THE LIFE OF A SINGLE AMERICAN SOLDIER. NOT ONE!

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that Obama with no experience saving the environment is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) left office with the greatest amount of environmental cleanup, and protections in American history.

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that Obama with little or no education experience is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) made higher education affordable for every American. And created higher job demand and starting salary's than they had ever been before or since.

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that Obama with no experience will be better than Hillary Clinton who spent 8 years at the right hand of President Bill Clinton. Who is already on record as one of the greatest Presidents in American history.

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think that you can change the way Washington works with pretty speeches from Obama, rather than with the experience, and political expertise of two master politicians ON YOUR SIDE like Hillary and Bill Clinton..

You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you think all those Republicans voting for Obama in the Democratic primaries, and caucuses are doing so because they think he is a stronger Democratic candidate than Hillary Clinton. :-)

Best regards

jacksmith... Working Class :-)

p.s. You Might Be An Idiot! :-)

If you don't know that the huge amounts of money funding the Obama campaign to try and defeat Hillary Clinton is coming in from the insurance, and medical industry, that has been ripping you off, and killing you and your children. And denying you, and your loved ones the life saving medical care you needed. All just so they can make more huge immoral profits for them-selves off of your suffering...

You see, back in 1993 Hillary Clinton had the audacity, and nerve to try and get quality, affordable universal health care for everyone to prevent the suffering and needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of you each year. :-)

Approx. 100,000 of you die each year from medical accidents from a rush to profit by the insurance, and medical industry. Another 120,000 of you die each year from treatable illness that people in other developed countries don't die from. And I could go on, and on...

Operation Chaos proceeds as planned!

Pennsylvania Primary Prediction

Who do you predict will win the Pennsylvania Democratic Presidential Primary?

http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=2127

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By the way, is the Obama campaign watching out for the possible election rigging in PA ? This is a possibility with the governor there on Clinton side and all. Knowing the Clintons as we do, it won't suprise many millions of people if something fishy is going on in those election venues. Certainly Rendell doesn't help either. He comes across very fishy....

Check Campaign Diaries's full guidelines for tonight's elections here: http://www.campaigndiaries.com/2008/04/setting-tonights-guidelines-will.html

In this trenchware warfare, the slightest weakness in either candidate's core groups have cost the candidates greatly (Clinton in Wisconsin) but unusual displays of strengths have yielded great rewards (Clinton in NH and OH, Obama in SC). If Clinton blinks again, it could prove fatal to her campaign; but if she keeps her groups mobilized today it could be very damaging to the Obama campaign.

OMG - I just read that Obama spent $11.2 MILLION DOLLARS on advertising in PA. There is something really really wrong with that. Just turns one's stomach.

She's the most effective individual to deal with foreign affairs, which will be the most important issue of this race in the end. How can we fix our economy without better foreign relations? Clearly, we cannot. Globalization insists upon improved relations and returning the US to it's pre-Bush standing.

This will be the fourth attempt for Obama to knock Clinton out of the race. He's been incapable of doing so, which demonstrates his lack of feasibility as a candidate.

There are good reasons why the superdelegates should ignore the Obama Campaigns cries for all Superdelegates to swing for Obama and instead endorse Mrs Clinton. There's no question that superdelegates will consider electability as a factor in deciding whether to vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Clinton CAN beat McCain in November. Obama cannot if he is on the ticket as President. Him as VP is a different story: http://clintonista.wordpress.com/

In central PA, all the party switchers I knew (not a huge number, but still) were switching so they could vote Obama. Republicans have Hillary hate in their DNA.

Classic spin. If you were Rove/LimpPaw and were watching the disintegration of your coalition due to the colossal failure of the Bush Enterprise, you would have LimpPaw get in the radio and tell Republicans to switch parties and vote for Clinton. Then it looks like they're doing what you told them to do. Kind of like going outside in the early morning, commanding the sun to rise and then taking credit for it!

Republicans are fleeing a party that has been exposed for the scam. Republicans don't have a prayer in 2008.

I'm actually a republican who will be voting for Obama this Nov. Yes a republican voting for Obama. I'm just tired of the same. It wouldn't make much difference anyway, so why not new blood.

So much for the power of Limbaugh. He thinks he's so influential...

The GOP has got to be more than a little concerned about these sentiments from ex-Republicans. Bush has killed them among the moderates.

http://www.political-buzz.com/

Obama a republican - Love it!!

I'm sure there won't be as many switchovers trying to interfere because of the rules in PA. In Texas I knew plenty of Republicans who tried to rig it for Clinton.

A big unknown in this election IS the party switchers. C'mon Krissah!

LOL! Oh Bite your tongue!

A God-Fearing, True-Blue(Red?) America LOVING(Not D'ming), RepubliCAN,

would NEVER interfere in the Dimocrat Socialist Primaries! :-D

LMFAO-Especially when we can't decide who is going to be the easiest to beat! :-D

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