The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008

GO HILLARY!!!!! If she does not get the nomination I encourage everyone to vote for Mcain.

All us independants unite!!

Its almost officially Obama vs McCain, and I must say I'm concerned. All the generic Democratic vs Republican candidate polling has the Dem winning in a landslide. But McCain is running very close to either Dem, and he polls very well in swing states also. I can only hope this is a mirage - that when the Dems are united behind Obama and the public realizes that McCain is not the "maverick" many think he is, that Obama will open up a large polling lead and win in November. But, Obama's big losses to Hillary amongst whites is cause for concern. This sorry situation may mean McCain could win because of racism alone.
The overriding question of this election is whether voters want to continue with the path Bush has laid out for America. If yes, vote for McCain. If not, vote Obama. It really is that simple. Most else just comes down to race or a popularity contest - and people who think like that should stay home on election day.

Hi all

Goodbye all

Hi all

Goodbye all

Hi all

Goodbye all

Dan Balz, you are pathetic - What a stupid analysis. I can't wait to see Obama lose 40 states in November. Where is fair journalism?

Dan, you are one of those biased journalists contributing to the problems of this great country.

Bye bye to Washington Post. I will tell all my friends to boycott WashingtonPost.

I may be just a young girl in college, but even I can see through Obama's empty rhetoric of lofty "hope" and undefined "change." It amazes me that so many others have been suckered in by this sleazy used car salesman!

Obama made change the core of his message, and it looks like that's all it takes to impress the writers on here. Where's the depth?

I guess when you've had 8 years of what many historians are considering the worst president in history, then a guy who comes down from the clouds and speaks eloquently is enough to make people go ga-ga.

Dan Balz says that his advisers would point to his various speeches on health care, tax cuts, and ending the Iraq war to prove that he has a defined plan if he takes the White House. The universal health care plan: it gets carried out every election like a show-dog and then gets put to sleep like Old Yeller once the campaign is over.

Troop withdrawals in Iraq: We're going to be stuck there alot longer than the candidates are making it think (not including McCain in that of course).

I'm still having a hard time figuring out what Obama is going to do. Maybe if we weren't all wrapped up in the Jeremiah Wright nonsense, bowling scores, and WWE appearances, then we'd get somewhere, but I guess not.

Like the first poster, I'm pragmatic, and want the candidate with experience. When finally revealed, Hillary's itinerary showed she had far less experience than she let on. A First Lady does not Presidential experience make. Taken together, Obama's *direct* work in politics- for which he was earning a paycheck- exceeds Hillary's. He also has another very valuable type of experience- that of living overseas and in Hawaii, learning how the rest of the world thinks.

Of course, all together, Hillary has more political experience than Obama, simply because she's 14 years older. But then, you have to include her experiene at all levels of politics- like when she was campaigning for Nixon as a teenager.

If Hillary goes down, as she is likely to do, it will signal a huge mistake for the Democratic party. And, like most infatuations, the party will be embarrassed by its once swooning support of the man who inspires but falls well short when delivering detailed plans rather than platitudes. If elected president, one poor performing term at the hands of the inexperienced Obama could cause grave damage to the Democratic party with a citizenry hungry for quick problem-solving and change. A pragmatist like me prefers less cheerleading ("Yes We Can") and much more deliberative strategy. I don't think that is where Obama's strengths are. Unfortunately, if Obama is the Democratic nominee, I am seriously weighing whether a sacrifice of four more years to the Republicans would do less harm than four years of in ill-equipped Obama. My conclusion so far is that it would.

John McCain is NO moderate...He votes in 95% agreement with President Bush...McCain also favors FAR right Supreme Court justices (Scalia, Thomas, etc.)....The media keeps letting the phony McCain get away with it...His free ride will end soon, & voters will see in countless ads just how far right & SIMILAR to Bush McCain is....

McCain is an angry old pug, who neither has the intelligence, character, nor temperment to be POTUS....He is an absolute disgrace, & we haven't even mentioned his support for the $400 million day disaster in Iraq....

Either Democrat gets my vote in November, though I'm for Obama & have donated $300 thus far to his campaign...

Obama
my Captain
bring change and bring excellence back

proseandcon- Bloviator;

HITLER OVER-RAN EUROPE, because "People" LIKE YOU, thought THEY WERE SO SMART!!!! YOU AWARE OF THAT?!!!!

Studies proved most of you AREN'T! If YOU ever want ME, to support YOUR Candidate-YOU BETTER GET SMARTER! ;~)

"Clinton won more than two-thirds of the white voters without college degrees in the last three primaries... When those Clinton supporters were asked who they would vote for in an Obama-McCain matchup, fewer than half said they would support Obama.

This is due in large part to the "Ward Churchill Syndrome." Most college educated people for the past 30 years have been victims of post-Vietnam blame America first professors."

Well, that's certainly the zebra possibility. But might it be plausible that the reason that college-educated voters are supporting Obama is because, I don't know, they know more about the world? They know that the gas holiday is BS, they know the difference between Iran and Iraq, etc? Just a thought.

If you really want people to respect your position be certain to:

ARGUE in CAPS as often as POSSIBLE.
With lots of exclamation marks! For effect!!! Honestly!!!!!
Innovate new "uses" for "quotation" marks.
Call those you disapprove of names, especially those very clever ones.
Ask at least one challenging question with more than a hint of anger -- bet you didn't know that did you?
Support your premise with 312 statistics 67% of the time as it will impress your audience.
Threaten to vote/not vote for a candidate because we deeply care and the fate of the nation hinges on it.
And of course, a solid Nazi reference is always the clincher.

To not follow these rules would certainly diminish the impact of your valuable opinion. Please keep up the good work.

And just WHAT do I think of the DIMocrat contenders?

You, Iron my Shirt!

And You!,

Shine my Shoes! ;~)

Now, "Old Man",-I like My Steak Medium Well! ;~)

"More than any other candidate who competed for either party's nominations, Obama has made change the core of his campaign message."

Correction: you mean Ron Paul. Obama is second best when it comes to change.

The WaPo staff continues to demonstrate it is intoxicated on Obama's snake oil.

Always praise for Saint Obama. Everything about him and his campaign is wonderful!

And of course, the WaPo has started to attack McCain. Doing Obama's dirty work just as you did in attacking Hillary.

May I suggest that all of you review Journalism 101.

I know she's conservative, but Peggy Noonan's really got Hillary's number.

See: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121027865275678423.html?mod=todays_columnists

For everyone who thinks that Hilary is the best person for the nomination and the country, here is a story in the Wall Street Journal you should read. Click on the link.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121028913821779151.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks

Progressive White:
I am sorry you can not bear the truth. We will see in november. Despite your innuendo, I am going to support whoever the democratic nominee is. But people like you create the divisions in this country. I happen to be a colored man. You appear to be capable of being a KKK from your attitudes and words. God help Obama with your kind of supporters.

Clinton won more than two-thirds of the white voters without college degrees in the last three primaries... When those Clinton supporters were asked who they would vote for in an Obama-McCain matchup, fewer than half said they would support Obama.

This is due in large part to the "Ward Churchill Syndrome." Most college educated people for the past 30 years have been victims of post-Vietnam blame America first professors.

Voters without college degrees are free of this academic poisoning and are much more likely to vote for McCain.

For all of you grouches, you'll next get a chance to make your stand next November. In the meanwhile, Hillary will find a classy way to concede and then support Obama. Go ahead, vote for McCain, it's probably the only opportunity you will have in your life to turn down a charismatic African American for petty reasons.

Hillary and Bill will after Obama Pays their $20 million dollar debt!!!!

OMG!! I'm reading these comments and it's panicking me. Do you all realize--all of you--Obama supporters and Clinton supporters that you are losing your minds!!!

This is all way scarier than the very least harm Obama could do.He is very likely to do a great deal of good. Stop panicking. There is sooooo much fear on here!! Most of it is based in the demons you are all conjuring up in your own minds--!!!

Please --everybody take a very deep breath reach to whatever faith you have and let go of trying to control the proceedings and the future. Its going to happen regardless. The more you resist, push, threaten and rage the worse it will be for all of us and we may, if we don't all come together lose sight of the very thing we want the most--to get rid of the REAL demon, and that is the freak currently occupying the Whitehouse. If we don't all pull together behind Obama ( who is going to be the nominee) then we will all contribute to bringing down the democratic party.

Please, please let go. These comments remind me of the movie 'Day of the Locusts' when they all became a frenzied mob and everything and everyone went up in flames until there was nothing but burnt ground. Think about it!!@

Please for Gods sake--everybody take

The Huffington Post
Posted April 29, 2008
Sean Wilentz

James Clyburn Happy to Play His Familiar Part Once More

Once again -- and for the last time -- the Democratic primary campaign has moved into a southern state, North Carolina, with a large African American population as well as a considerable university and college town liberal vote. Once again, the Barack Obama campaign and its supporters, fresh from a stinging defeat, are trying to stir up false accusations that Hillary Clinton and her campaign have cynically injected racial animosities into the campaign.

The latest round of charges about the Clintons have come from a familiar source, Representative James Clyburn of South Carolina, the highest-ranking black leader in Congress. In January, after the Obama campaign suffered stunning defeats in New Hampshire and Nevada, Rep. Clyburn, although nominally uncommitted, joined a chorus of concerted complaint about Hillary Clinton's supposed denigration of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his contributions to the 1964 Civil Rights Act because of her observation that President Lyndon Johnson had played a crucial part in guiding its passage. (Clinton's actual remarks, rarely reported, praised King enormously and were historically accurate.)

Clyburn then jumped on flimsy accusations that former President Bill Clinton had supposedly made subtle racial remarks by calling Obama's claim to unwavering opposition to administration policy in Iraq a "fairy tale," and by likening Obama's eventual victory in South Carolina to those of Jesse Jackson in 1984 and 1988. (The first had nothing whatsoever to do with race: Obama had said in 2004, 2005 and 2006 that he didn't know how he would have voted on Authorization for the Use of Military Force in Iraq because as a state senator he had no access to the intelligence, and Obama voted consistently for war funding as a U.S. senator. On the second matter -- again, rarely reported in full -- Bill Clinton's remark was delivered as part of his praise of Obama's campaign in every state, and Jackson himself publicly deemed it inoffensive.) Clinton had apparently done his wife's campaign a lot of good with his work in New Hampshire and Nevada; but the targeted attack on him had the double effect of marginalizing him while advancing the race-baiter charges.

The Obama campaign had already begun injecting race into the campaign, notably on the morning after the New Hampshire primary, when its national co-chair, Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. of Illinois, went on national television to accuse Senator Clinton of false emotion and racial intent in her tearful description of her commitment to public service. "Those tears also have to be analyzed," said Obama's co-chair. "They have to be looked at very, very carefully in light of Katrina, in light of other things that Mrs. Clinton did not cry for." And then Jackson added, disclosing his underlying political agenda: "Particularly as we head to South Carolina where 45% of African-Americans who participate in the Democratic contest." Clyburn immediately followed up, upping the ante by ripping into Bill Clinton and telling him to "chill." At the same time, an official Obama South Carolina campaign memo surfaced, which specified innocuous statements by Clinton supporters that could be twisted into race-baiting remarks -- including the wild claim, built from distorted quotations that Bill Clinton had said his wife was "stronger" than Nelson Mandela.

The charges leveled at the Clintons by Clyburn and others in South Carolina began what has become a completely predictable pattern among Obama, his campaign, and their supporters. First, Obama loses primary campaigns in key states which he had either expected to win (as in New Hampshire and then Nevada) or had worked desperately hard to win (as in Pennsylvania, where he outspent Hillary Clinton by as much as three-to-one). Then, as the campaign moved southward -- to Louisiana and then the "Potomac" primaries following Super Tuesday, to Mississippi following the March 4 Ohio and Texas primaries, and now to North Carolina -- come the furious but false charges, reported in the press as undeniable truths, that the Clinton campaign has indulged in mean-spirited race baiting, as a prelude to upcoming contests in southern states.

Some of these claims have turned out to be hoaxes, such as the release by the campaign, in the aftermath of Super Tuesday, of a supposedly scurrilous photograph of Obama in native African garb. Posted on the Drudge Report and lifted, as it turned out, from another right-wing website, Free Republic, where it initially surfaced, the appearance of the photograph was nevertheless blamed on the Clinton campaign by Obama's campaign manager David Plouffe who called it "the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we've seen from either party in this election." (Obama himself, after dismissing the incident in a public debate with Hillary Clinton, returned to the accusation while on the stump with black voters in Mississippi.)

On other occasions, Obama suggested to mostly black audiences, in coded racial terms, that the Clintons were attempting to confuse them with their criticisms of him. Before the South Carolina, "Potomac" and Mississippi primaries, Obama cheerfully lifted the "hoodwinked, bamboozled" rant from the Spike Lee film Malcolm X, in order to convey to black voters that, whatever he might say about a "post-racial" campaign, racial solidarity against white traducers was crucial to his effort. Denzel Washington, playing Malcolm X, says: "I'm gonna tell you like it really is. Every election year these politicians are sent up here to pacify us! They're sent here and set up here by the white man! I say and I say it again, you've been had. You've been took. You've been HOODWINKED, BAMBOOZLED, led astray, run amok." Barack Obama repeatedly echoed: "Don't be hoodwinked! Don't be bamboozled!"

Other claims have either been either outright fabrications or hysterical distortions: false charges leveled by one popular pro-Obama website, Daily Kos, that the Clinton campaign "blackened" their candidate to make his look menacing by purposely darkening a another photograph of him; and the strained Geraldine Ferraro fracas, in which an awkward remark buried in the Torrance, California Daily Breeze was trumpeted nationally by prominent Obama supporters such as Keith Olbermann of MSNBC's Countdown into accusations said that the Clinton campaign had descended into the politics of a former Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, David Duke. Then there was the false claim by one of Obama's best known supporters in academia, Orlando Patterson of Harvard, published on the op-ed page of the New York Times, that there was no black child in Clinton's "3 a.m." television ad on national security, a supposedly racist move worthy of D. W. Griffith and Birth of a Nation -- when, in fact, there was a black child in that commercial.

Which brings us back to Representative Clyburn, on the eve of North Carolina, which some have called Obama's firewall state -- a state he must win convincingly in order to head off his latest slide in the primary race. Last week, Bill Clinton belatedly observed that the Obama campaign "played the race card on me" in South Carolina, and cited a conversation he had had with Jesse Jackson to prove his point. Clyburn jumped back in, getting the attention of The New York Times by charging that "black people are incensed" at Clinton and claiming that it is "an almost 'unanimous' view among African-Americans that Mr. and Mrs. Clinton are "committed to doing everything they possibly can to damage Obama to a point that he could never win." Clyburn may well be correct about perceptions of the Clintons among some black voters; but he simply hides how Obama, his campaign, and their supporters have willfully created that impression.

Remarkably, reports about the Clintons' alleged race-baiting have been reproduced so often and so uncritically in the press that they have attained the status of incontrovertible truth. Evidence and arguments to the contrary can expect either to be ignored (with their arguments dismissed, as Ryan Lizza recently and sarcastically did in The New Yorker, as "mysterious"). Or they can expect to be greeted by ad hominem attacks which do not engage the evidence, and which can even stray (as I have learned directly) into attacks on the author as a racist -- the sort who, back in 1860, sneered at Abraham Lincoln as a "Black Republican." There is no honest dialogue on this issue: only constant reiteration by Obama's supporters of the undeniable truth of the charges against the Clintons, and the personal disparaging of any who dare call the charges into question.

Yet, there are, to be sure, some stray signs that the press may be catching on to what is going on here. After Rep. Clyburn's latest tirade, Maureen Dowd of The New York Times -- who has until now been consistently anti-Clinton and pro-Obama -- raised an eyebrow in her column about Clyburn's endorsement of what Dowd called the "Tonya Harding conspiracy theory," that the Clintons and their supporters were out to destroy Obama by the foulest of means. And playing the race-baiter card runs the enormous risk of deepening the racial divide that will make it more difficult for Obama to appeal to white voters, as it has in the past.

But there may not be time for the Obama campaign to worry about that, given the Pennsylvania results, given the possible outcomes in Indiana, West Virginia, and Kentucky, and given the growing perception (deepened by the continuing outbursts by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright) that Obama may not be electable in November. Incensing black voters in North Carolina -- as well as college and university liberals in the Chapel Hill-Durham area -- would be one way to gain the large majority that Obama needs to regain his footing. And so, yet again, the by now routine charges against the Clintons as race-baiters reappear -- with Representative Clyburn of neighboring South Carolina happy to play his by now familiar part once more.

Mr Dan Balls:

Don't forget my shoes need to be shined, the trash taken out, and oh yes my shirt had a bit too much starch on the collar.
See if you can do a little better.

Barak

I trust John McCain to answer that 3 AM phone call more than Obama. Old people are always up at 3AM and if the phone is close enough to him and has a loud ringer, my guess is he'll answer it.

Posted by: jason | May 9, 2008 9:17 PM
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Doubtful if he'll be able to understand who's on the other end, though, unless the phone also does semaphore. Being in the Navy there's a good chance he'll remember it.

Jackie wrote: Obama dumped Rev. Wright after a 20 friendship and Obama will do the same to black folk if he wins.

If you don't like Obama, that is your choice but please don't twist the facts. Obama did not dump his pastor until the good rev. Wright threw him under the bus and damn near derailed his campaign. Obama despite the fire he took for doing so, initially refused to denounce him while distancing himself from Wright's rhetoric. Those are the facts.

>>Analysis: 'Hillary Democrats' could be up for grabs

That is just proof that the Clinton's care more about themselves than the issues. They trying to make the case that Hillary's as a person is more important that the issues.

What are they saying about the demographic (which ever one they choose to spin today) that are saying will leave the democratic party if Hillary is not on the ticket?

Talk about being ego-maniacs... It's unbelievable that they would even postulate that Hillary is bigger than the vast divide in issues between the Republican party and Democratic party.

Unbelievable... unbelievable... unbelievable... that's what I said just about every week of the prior Clinton's last term. Thank goodness that circus won't be coming around again!

I trust John McCain to answer that 3 AM phone call more than Obama. Old people are always up at 3AM and if the phone is close enough to him and has a loud ringer, my guess is he'll answer it.

>>Hillary has Bill to turn to for tutoring and advice.

Huh? Are Bill and Hillary speaking openly and honestly to each other these days?

Regardless, Bill buried his head in the sand over growing foreign affairs issues. And, he road the technology bubble all the way to the point that when it popped it left alot of people in the lurch. I'm not sure we need another "party" like that one... the hang over was pretty severe.

Analysis: 'Hillary Democrats' could be up for grabs

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_el_pr/hillary_democrats

Hillary clinton will not now or ever understand that most of America is sick and tired of the Clintons. There very name says SCANDLE so she has to get over it. Now she is trying to hurt him so he will loose. How selfish is she? It's time for the clintons to go away, they have never done anything for us, it has always be about them.....

Obama supporters don't understand that complex jobs require specialized training and years of experience.

Hillary has Bill to turn to for tutoring and advice.

Obama doesn't know the questions, let alone the answers.

All he has is his egomania, his arrogance, and his narcissism.

This is like the "cultural revolution" in China.

Its nuts.

Obama is the only candidate who appears to follow his conscience, as best possible while still striving to be elected. The Clinton's have demonstrated time and time again that there is little they would not do, or line they would not cross, in order to get what they want.

Essentially, it comes down to trust.

I trust Obama.

As for Obama versus McCain. It really will be decided on the issues. Hillary can keep her circus running for as long as she likes by trying to make a case that she has a better chance of beating McCain. But when it comes right down to it the stance on issues between the parties is so significant that they are what will decide the race.

In some presidential elections the race is determined by the personalities and persona's of the individuals running. This time around the issues are too significant and the stances so different that there is no doubt in my mind that candidates stances on them will determine the outcome.

Crazy idea we might actually elect a president whose intellect people around the world will actually respect (you know I'm talking about Obama without having to spell it out). So what if Hamas has something positive to say about him? They compared him to JFK who, by the way, knew how to play hardball with his enemies.
Obama hates white people? Please! He's half-white and his mother's from Kansas. Get a grip. A message to all you ignorant people out there - nobody really likes you. Not McCain and not Clinton. We don't want a great country run by a narrow-minded base.

Please don't pull out the God card in the name of politics. It's taking the Lord's name in vain.

Obama and his camp have been experts in using the race card against the Clinton's . They have been very effective in making any type of criticism of him or his lack of experience off limits or you'll be identified as racist. They have been excellent at blowing out of proportion any small comments made that criticise him. His fans and bloggers have picked up on this and have become just as mean, nasty and vile. They all have shown such little respect towards Senator Clinton, President Clinton, Chelsea and their supporters. The names the Clinton's and their supporters are called are disgraceful and it continues. Obama thinks he can heal and bring everyone together, don't bet on it. You all have been doing the very thing you whine about. Because of the treatment Senator Clinton has received and the way her supporters have been treated, I for one will be changing my voters registration from Democrat to Independent. I know it won't make much of a difference but it is about the principle and double standard that have been accepted and condoned by the Democrats, the media and Obama.

I know, Bill. I was quoting (and making fun of) Dr. Chuck ; )

check out gig

http://globalinternetgovernment.com

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God vs. Rabid Hillary Supporters

Scene:
GOD standing at the Pearly Gates waiting for Hillary supporters who voted against Barack Obama:

GOD: Before you can pass, tell me why you didn't stop the Iraq War simply by voting for Barack Obama? Don't you remember the Fifth Commandment - THOU SHALL NOT KILL.

Hillary Supporter: Barack Obama? Goodness me, he's an elitist, a Muslim and doesn't like white people; and get this God - he won't wear a flag pin!

GOD: Did he support this war - this bloody abomination against mankind? Is this why you didn't trust him?

Hillary Supporter: Well no. Actually he was against the war from the beginning. But he can't be trusted - he is unknown and inexperienced.

GOD: He is not an elder?

Hillary Supporter: Oh Lord no! Only 12 years in elected public office.

GOD: This is not good enough to lead your people?

Hillary Supporter: Well, maybe his people but not mine.

GOD: What people does thy speakith?

Hillary Supporter: Well you know, middle class/blue collar white people.

GOD: BLASPHEMY! All are equal in the eyes of the LORD!

Hillary Supporter: Wait, hear me out God. We had a great leader, Hillary Clinton...

GOD: Oh her

...she could have been the greatest president ever! She had way more experience: she's been a US Senator for 7 years, supported NAFTA, brought peace to Ireland and even risked her life under sniper fire. And her dear loving devoted husband, Bill Clinton, was the President of the United States for two terms. She should have won the election. Not this Barack HUSSEIN Obama!

GOD: And Senator Clinton voted against the Iraq War?

Hillary Supporter: Ah no. Ah....she kind of voted for it.

GOD: Kind of?

Hillary Supporter: OK, she voted for the war. But she was tricked because she didn't read the Security Briefing.

GOD: I see. And so you voted for this McCain to continue this evil war, this pestilence against my children to express your disappointment that Hillary lost.

Hillary Supporter: Sure did Lord. Why do you ask?

GOD: PRIDE IS A CARDINAL SIN! REPENT!

Hillary Supporter: Repent? For supporting Hillary Clinton? Never!

GOD: SO BE IT! I cast you down to burn in the pits of Hell for all eternity! Your pride has cost the blood of men, women and children and you will dwell with Lucifer and suffer his will forevermore. BEGONE SINNER!

The clouds part and Hillary Supporter starts to plummet towards the earth with eyes looking pleadingly through the hole in the clouds: WAIT - WAIT! IT WASN'T MY FAULT THEY DIDN'T COUNT FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN!

Woody

Bluegrass Obama>>>>>>>>>>>>

He's the man,
He'll fix our country I know he can,
Don't listen to the Clintons,
they aint so bright,
You can vote for Obama
even if you're whiiite....

That's right,

You can vote for Obama
even if you're whiiite...

Old Bill signed NAFTA and he signed GATT,
Hell, he aint no Democrat,
Hillary voted for the war,
that's right,
You can vote for Obama
even if you're whiiite....

You can vote for Obama.........
Even if you're whiiite!

That's right.

http://jamestshirley.blogspot.com/

I'm an African American and I studied both Hillary and Obama without dealing with race just on their records. Hillary is far better then 2 1/2 year Senator Obama. I don't vote for Rock Star and American Idol status for a President it's qualifications. Obama has used both white and blacks as a card. He uses Dr. King for Blacks and his Mother for Whites. Now he would even use his Father if he ran for President of Kenya. Senator Obama was raised without any knowledge of being black. He was taught by his wife Mother and Grandparents not one African American until Rev. Wright. Obama dumped Rev. Wright after a 20 friendship and Obama will do the same to black folk if he wins. Hillary has worked and acted on helping Blacks and all Americans with proof to back it up, yet Obama says Bill/Hillary have done nothing for all Americans. Mrs. Obama pretty much called blacks stupid because they didn't vote for her husband. I have lived to see Black Leaders who used blacks and stabbed them in the back once they got what they wanted and Obama will do the same thing. He's being used by John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Leahy and Pelosi for their on agenda's. Obama will be another George W. Bush as a puppet President as others do the job. If only Obama had read what Dr. King had said and it the titles of his speeches. Crooks and Corrupt Officials come in all colors and Obama has just proved it. Now the Media and reporters are sucking up in hopes of becoming insiders as the drop Bush. Obama saw no problem with the Media calling Hillary the B word now lets see what he has to say when they call his wife the B word. Obama is showing his real self when he said he could get Hillary's voters. I say as a long time Democratic vote when hell freezes over and he will never get my vote as President because he isn't qualified and I wont be used by even a so called Black man.

Mr. HiloBob wrote:

"Although I'm an ardent Obama supporter I think if the Dems have done too much damage to themselves because Hillary pushes it past June, drafting Al Gore would be the way to go.

He's proven his vote getting ability by beating George the Lesser in 2000 and has nothing more controversial than the Nobel Peace Prize to his credit."

Yes!!! there is a sane person here!!
Both Obama and Clinton are now to damaged to beat McBush in November.
Gore would be able to unite the party and restore sanity to our politics and environment.

Gore '08!

JakeD:

The coalition u mention is an Obama fiction. Take a closer look at the exit polls and the votes by precinct in states that held elections. Don't slice it too fine and see how the big voting blocks went. Forget caucus states. In Texas for example, Clinton won the popular vote by nearly 100,000 (because of her big percentage of Hispanic votes) but Obama still came out of the caucuses with the most delegates (because party rules favored Obama). In November, all the states hold elections. There won't be any caucus states.

Great....I read in depth about Obama's "moves" yesterday....

just give the guy enough rope......

I am hearing some BREAKING NEWS that Hillary has now officialy decare herself Obama,s Veep, but also threatened to remain a spoiler if the Obama Camp rejects the Marriage . Just Turn on to CNN and get more !

Hopefully I'll see your studdly tight body again tonight!
I'm horny!

That maybe the type of mating ritual you engage in the Hollers up there. But I am most assuredly not interested in a club footed, 3 tooth, 5 eyed cretin. LOL!!!!!

Posted by: str8talk | May 9, 2008 7:45 PM

You know you loved it...so do I! Let's hook up again!

John Maroney, those posts weren't by me. A differnce of opinion led one, Adarius La Chaquita to impersonate me using my screen name with his or her garbage.

Posted by: str8talk | May 9, 2008 7:52 PM

ok...now i know...that guy is freakin crazy!

I hate people like that.

Let's roll! I will work to elect Obama-Webb!

Sorry, that should read:

a > b and b > c, therefore c > a.

???????????????

treetopflyer:

Obama has not "beat" Clinton (yet).

John Maroney, those posts weren't by me. A differnce of opinion led one, Adarius La Chaquita to impersonate me using my screen name with his or her garbage.

What a well-written piece of political journalism. I would have only added something about the "well-honed Republican attack machine and its ability to manufacture weaknesses in Democrats," but other than that, I'd say you earned your paycheck today.

Is anyone picking up a logical disconnect here in the "Barack is too inexperienced to beat McCain" argument? Let me walk you through it:

We're all familiar from school with the formula:

a > b and b > c, therefore a > c.

Right?

Now, let's say a = Obama, b = Clinton and c = McCain, and the > sign = "Can beat". By the Clintonista's logic, we're left with this formula:

a > b and b > c, therefore b > a.

???????????????

The candidate who beat the candidate who can beat McCain cannot beat McCain.

Is anybody buying this load of crap??

Adarius La Chaquita wrote: me so horny! where are you? I love you! Please meet me at the SWAP MEAT tonight! yeah , it was my mouth I want you thang was in!
Yummy....remeber i drank it all!
Hopefully I'll see your studdly tight body again tonight!
I'm horny!

That maybe the type of mating ritual you engage in the Hollers up there. But I am most assuredly not interested in a club footed, 3 tooth, 5 eyed cretin. LOL!!!!!

That str8ght talk guy needs to get out of here. He is totally out of control.

Not like there is anything wrong with what he does in his private time... but sheeeesh..he has some issues. Must be a Catholic priest or something,

It's fun to read these kool-aid drinking Osama supporters explaining why their man is the best qualified, when he has no qualifications at all. And let's be honest libs, if he looked fat and bald he wouldn't stand a chance, would he. So yes, once again, the left decides on a candidate based on looks and not integrity, which Osama has none (i.e. hugging a terrorist). Good luck in 2012 libs, try...try again!

Posted by: Toxic Avenger | May 9, 2008 7:36 PM

**************************
Have you heard, there is a cure for pimples...even those on your butt..

To be fair, Toxic Avenger, Abe Lincoln didn't look so good and had LESS experience than Obama has ; )

It's fun to read these kool-aid drinking Osama supporters explaining why their man is the best qualified, when he has no qualifications at all. And let's be honest libs, if he looked fat and bald he wouldn't stand a chance, would he. So yes, once again, the left decides on a candidate based on looks and not integrity, which Osama has none (i.e. hugging a terrorist). Good luck in 2012 libs, try...try again!

me so horny!

Adarius where are you? I love you! Please meet me at the SWAP MEAT tonight!

I'm horny!

Adarius La Chaquita, from your rants I get the idea that the truth must really hurt. I am willing to debate issues but I will not get into the gutter with you. Go find your candidate and enjoy. What is it with you Clinton/McCain types anyway? When you have nothing constructive to add to the dialogue you fall back to race, innuendo and an assortment of hubris. Later dude!

Nathan wrote........

If you think that the democratic primaries can be extrapolated to the november elections, you may be in for a rude shock. The sound bites of Rev. Wright are just a warm-up for the more sinister attacks yet to come. Just as the media brain-washed the democratic voters about Obama the messiah, the Republicans will brain wash the electorate about what an African American President will mean to the white folks. If he can win despite such venom and racial attacks, more power to him. But I don't see it happening. We will get a reality check in november. I truly hope, I prove wrong and wish Obama well. If Obama is elected come november, America can truly feel proud as a color-blind nation. "

.......
Well Nathan,You are nothing but the biggest Hipocrite coming right from the leadership of KKK , This country is on its verge of losing its status in the world , Economically , Politically , Scientifically , and sooner or later Militarilly Unless these kinds of mindset of yours is changed . Ironically , It was such ego that led the Nazi,s reign and downfall . The world has passed the stage are still living in .

yeah Adarius, it was mouth you thang was in!

Yummy....remeber i drank it all!

Hopefully I'll see your studdly tight body again tonight!

To be fair, Annette, Trent Lott praised more than just his career -- I understand your point though -- Lott claimed (correctly BTW) that we wouldn't have had "all these problems" if the racist had been elected President ; )

Wish Hillary a Happy Mother's Day

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/mothersday/?sc=1846&utm_source=1846&utm_medium=e

Obama is not ready for the Repuglican attack machine. Besides, have you noticed he looks like J Fred Muggs? HRC will be ready to hit the ground running on Day One. You Go Girl.

To an earlier post, there is no one that could win over the Clintons since the Clintons chart their own course and are not subject to anyone. The only way you can deal with the Clintons is to win. And that is what Obama is doing.

Bye now... I have to go out with my bff's and get drunk and have some guy think I will do him for more drinks...which I will, btw...

The racist double standards in the Democratic Primary are all on the Obama side, not the Clinton side.
Posted by: Annette

I stand corrected Annette, it is not an eye exam you need. It's a cornea transplant on both eyes.

Mandy, do you have web cam?

Posted by: I Love You, Mandy. | May 9, 2008 7:08 PM

I am already sinning w/ another infidel...

Nathan:

Which candidate will you be voting for in November?

You are bonafide, a bonafide trailer park, inbred.

Posted by: str8talk | May 9, 2008 7:15 PM

didn't i meet you at that fella bar last night in DuPont when you were takin it from me from behind in the bathrom stall?

>>Victoria said: "If Obama had made up that Bosnia story, he would have been laughed out of the race so fast. The media has given her a pass."

Firstly, the media DID NOT give Clinton a pass. It focused on her Bosnia story in a furious attempt to distract from and drown out the first Rev. Wright flap. (They would have succeeded if Rev. Wright didn't emerge again in April).

Secondly, if Clinton spent 20 years in a church with a viral, rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth white racist full of insane conspiracy theories, who sold videos of his racist rants on the Internet and posted manifestos of genocidal terrorists on his website, like Rev. Wright, she would never have been allowed to explain that it was all a surprise to her, that this wasn't the man she knew for 20 years.

Trent Lott lost his senate majority position just for praising Strom Thurmond's careet at the old racist's 90th birthday party.

The racist double standards in the Democratic Primary are all on the Obama side, not the Clinton side.

OK, Folks, I'm signing out.

Time to go wax my golf clubs and organize my pastel Izod vest collection.

See you peons later ; )

Biatch, I am a bonafide black man! Bend over boy!
Posted by: Adarius La Chaquita

You are bonafide, a bonafide trailer park, inbred.

Why is the KKK members getting too nervous here , You have have to know that the world has greatly changed since 1939 and your mentor the NAZI .The wisdom and intelligence of other races Asians , Africans , Latinos etc has been multiplied and it is a world reality in which you have no option but learn to live with .

>> I said: "Obama has failed in his biggest leadership challenge -- the one that can win or lose his White House bid in the Fall. Obama has failed to get Hillary Clinton on his side."

>> str8talk said: "Failed? What the hell are you talking about? Hilary is on no one's side but her own."

str8talk, we're hearing so much about how Clinton is doing this and that, and holding the Primary process hostage and running the tone of the race, etc.

People seem to forget that Obama has been called the "leader" in this race since early February. Does anyone know what "leader" implies? It implies that Obama is or should be in control or be able to shape or drive events.

If Obama can't win the loyalty of the Clintons, he's failed in his more important leadership challenge of this Primary season. If Obama is being held hostage by Clinton's "tone" or her criticism of the demographics of his lopsided and narrow voter base, he's not in control, is he?

What is Obama going to accomplish in sitting down and talking with Hamas, Iran and other virulent America haters who are on, literally, what they think is a mission from God to hurt the Great Satan as much as possible, if he can't dominate and win over one little old lady?

The rhetoric of the Obama camp about the horrors of Hillary Clinton is so overblown and hyperbolic it's absurd and funny. Obama's horrible bogeyman is a tiny little Clinton woman.

What kind of leader is Obama if he can't win over Hillary Clinton? Maybe he thinks he can charm the Iranians and the Islamist Jihad world into "toning down the negativity" and stop being so bitter.

And the SUPREME Court?

He doesn't say that HE can solve America's problems.

He says that the American People can. Why believe it? Because it's been done before.

No President can do anything without the people, as represented by Congress. At least, that's how it was drawn up in the Constitution, if it still exists.

To me, the romantic notion that America is color blind and will elect an African American as president this year is no more than a utopian dream. I hope I am dead wrong, but I can feel the confidence John McCain is showing as an indication that the democrats may make the mistake of the centuary if they assume that Obama victory is a shoe-in. If you think that the democratic primaries can be extrapolated to the november elections, you may be in for a rude shock. The sound bites of Rev. Wright are just a warm-up for the more sinister attacks yet to come. Just as the media brain-washed the democratic voters about Obama the messiah, the Republicans will brain wash the electorate about what an African American President will mean to the white folks. If he can win despite such venom and racial attacks, more power to him. But I don't see it happening. We will get a reality check in november. I truly hope, I prove wrong and wish Obama well. If Obama is elected come november, America can truly feel proud as a color-blind nation.

VICTORIA AT 5:52 below.

Great post.

Right on. I must've written it. Though it

should be added that Clinton can not possibly be the vp, she is the perfect opposite of what obama won for, being
honest and decent, and something new.

Hillary is tainted old goods. Make that really dirty old bads...

Brad K:

As Al Gore found out, the hard way, LA Times polls don't win elections -- the electoral-vote.com polling (State by State) is the only way to gauge these contests -- you have heard of this thing called the "Electoral College" right?

There's one simple question that Obama can be asked at any time that will end everything.

Its so simple nobody thought of asking it until too late.

Obama and his supporters claim that he can solve all of America's problems, and that he and only he can do it.

There's one simple question nobody bothered to ask --

"Mr Obama, why should we believe you?"

I know one thing so far for now: its over for Clintons. Obama is ready for GOP and he will -for sure- prevail....Yes!! New America for all Americans and for the rest of the world.

Mandy, do you have web cam?

The article couldn't get more pro-Obama if it tried. I'm suprised Mr. Balz didn't ask Obama to marry him and rear his children.

I don't see Hillary going much longer, to be honest. Not that I'm against it.

I just think the sentiment is too strong that she's past tense. It may even show up in the upcoming votes in WV, etc.

I think she's already got her Exit in mind, just waiting for the right time. She / her campaign really underestimated Obama. I did, too.

Never thought he'd have a chance in our supposedly racist society, but I guess we're not as racist as we claim to be.

I liked Edwards, though, but Obama seems to be just fine.

OOOOH, you're a bad little infidel, aren't you?

Posted by: Stop it Mandy, I feel weird | May 9, 2008 7:02 PM

Don't ever call me an infidel you infidel!!

Hassan, whom my parents MADE me marry, will be pissed if he catches me on his computer!
Is there any way he can find out? I am so scared in my itchy, itchy burqa....and it's so hot I have to take it off and run off to the closest happy hour to satisfy my urge for a...............

Although I'm an ardent Obama supporter I think if the Dems have done too much damage to themselves because Hillary pushes it past June, drafting Al Gore would be the way to go.

He's proven his vote getting ability by beating George the Lesser in 2000 and has nothing more controversial than the Nobel Peace Prize to his credit.

Adarius, you are either an idiot or a republican, not much difference between the two. Vote Obama and get yourself straight.

Posted by: str8talk | May 9, 2008 6:57 PM

Biatch, I am a bonafide black man! Bend over boy!

OOOOH, you're a bad little infidel, aren't you?

Are the Hillary sock puppets still whining about media coverage...after Rev. Wright's 30-second sound byte was played 24/7 for the past six weeks? Obama gets killed by someone else's words but Hillary's lie about Bosnia got one-tenth the media play. And you still claim the media is pro-Obama? Unbelieveable! Wake up to reality!

Nice try, FAKE Bill. ; )

That dress was purple.

Tell me more about your narrow waist, Mandy. Maybe we can go get a coffee or something.

Posted by: Mandy Not Sounding So Bad Afterall | May 9, 2008 6:56 PM

Well i would love to, except Hassan, my husband wouldn't be too happy. He and his friends hang out at the mosque all day "talking about Allah" or something like that, not pipe bombs and such.

But i love sneaking out because my burqa gets so tight and itchy, i just dream of taking it all off!

There is news that Hillary Plans to invite Monica lewinsky in the White House and turn her into her lesbian partner , As a retaliation to what her husband did, This time she wont wear the blue dress though .

my god you people are naive.
next thing you know, he will raise his hand and part the waters and lead us to the promised land

grow up!!

Jimminy Christmas, JakeD,

You're Dangerous, aren't you?

That's what the D is for.

Posted by Adarius La Chaquita: I didn't say those words. Sounds like you have some 'fessn' up to do.

Adarius, you are either an idiot or a republican, not much difference between the two. Vote Obama and get yourself straight.

Adarius, why don't you take off your sheet so I can see you?

Posted by: | May 9, 2008 6:52 PM

Well, I would except Robert Byrd (D) WV has the lease on my sheet. He was the Grand Wizard of the KKK in West Virginia you know.

Can you call your democrat friend Robert Byrd and tell him I want a new one? Mine has gotten so dirty with all the rallies I've been to.

Tell me more about your narrow waist, Mandy. Maybe we can go get a coffee or something.

New LA Times/Bloomberg poll just out shows either Obama or Clinton beating McCain handily in the general election:

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-poll10-2008may10,0,6816866.story

No surprises here; Clinton does slightly better among older voters but that's balanced by a lot more enthusiasm for Obama among younger (18-44) voters and African Americans. In an Obama-McCain matchup, McCain gets 3% of the black vote. In a Clinton-McCain match-up, McCain gets 9% of the black vote, "roughly in line with the performance of past GOP presidential candidates."

This poll was taken May 1-8. My guess is we'll start to see Obama's poll numbers shoot up in both national and state-by-state match-ups now that he's the presumptive Democratic nominee, but those polls won't start landing until later into the weekend or early next week.

Here you go, NB:

The Dean 25 could decide Clinton's fate
By: Avi Zenilman
April 19, 2008 06:33 AM EST

If, as Hillary Rodham Clinton has suggested, her campaign takes the fight to seat the Florida and Michigan delegations all the way to the Democratic National Convention this summer, the fate of her challenge is all but certain to hinge on 25 individuals appointed to the Credentials Committee by party Chairman Howard Dean.

The Credentials Committee, which also includes 161 members selected from the states based on primary and caucus results, is the 186-member body that will help determine whether to seat the two rogue delegations.

Since it appears virtually impossible for Clinton to win enough of the 161 members to vote out a "majority report" supporting her position -- and it is unlikely that Barack Obama will win enough of them, either -- the Dean 25 are in a position to hold the balance of power on a procedural matter that could play a pivotal role in deciding the Democratic presidential nomination.

Though these 25 appointees are often assumed to be handpicked Dean loyalists who will take their cues from him on the issue of seating Florida and Michigan, a Politico analysis has found that is far from certain. Many of the 25 are already publicly supporting either Clinton or Obama -- and some are barely acquainted with Dean.

"It was important to Gov. Dean that the standing committees be diverse and be representative of the Democratic Party as a whole," said Democratic National Committee press secretary Stacie Paxton. "He personally asked each nominee if they were prepared to do what's in the best interest of the country and the Democratic Party before he made the appointment."

What follows is Politico's guide to the Dean 25, based on interviews with appointees and additional reporting.

Dean Aguillen
Background: Currently a lobbyist for Ogilvy Government Relations. Previously worked as an adviser to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and in the Clinton White House.
Dean Connection: Says he got a call from the DNC asking if he wanted to help out with the committee. He expects that Dean wants Democrats who are "loyal" and have "integrity."
Hint: Donated at least $2,000 to Clinton. Doesn't have a firm position on Michigan and Florida and says he'll consider all sides.

Don Beyer
Background: Former Virginia lieutenant governor and unsuccessful Democratic nominee for governor in 1997.
Dean Connection: Served as the Dean campaign's treasurer during the 2004 Democratic presidential primary.
Hint: Endorsed Obama.

Allyn Brooks-LaSure
Background: Director of media relations for the Save Darfur Coalition. Worked as a spokesman for Sen. Robert Menendez and Gov. Jon Corzine, both of New Jersey.
Dean Connection: Says he had "no previous relationship" with the DNC chairman when Leah Daughtry, a top Dean aide, called and asked if he was willing to serve on the committee.
Hint: Donated $500 to Barack Obama (under the name Michael Brooks-LaSure) but says he sees "a separation there between my role" as a member of the Credentials Committee and his support for Obama. The challenge for the DNC, he says, will be "reconciling the rules as well as the importance of Florida and Michigan."

Jose Ceballos
Background: Director of government affairs at the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. Served as deputy chief of staff to vice presidential nominee John Edwards in 2004 and previously worked for Commerce Secretary (and former DNC chairman) Ron Brown and Vice President Al Gore.
Dean Connection: Unclear. Did not respond to requests for comment.
Hint: None.

Ralph C. Dawson
Background: New York City labor lawyer. As a member of the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee, Dawson initiated the move in August to strip Florida of all its delegates.
Dean Connection: Dean's college roommate. Gave $2,000 to Dean in the first quarter of 2004 and served as an adviser to his 2004 campaign.
Hint: One of the three undecided superdelegates in New York, Dawson has given $1,250 to the Obama campaign and $450 to the Clinton campaign. Says he "believes very much in [Dean's] 50-state strategy."

Sheila Dixon
Background: Baltimore mayor.
Dean Connection: Unclear.
Hint: Endorsed Obama.

Christopher Edley Jr.
Background: Dean of University of California's Boalt Hall law school. Served as assistant director of the White House domestic policy staff under President Jimmy Carter and also worked at the Office of Management and Budget under President Bill Clinton before taking charge of the White House review of affirmative action.
Dean Connection: Donated $2,000 to Dean in early 2004.
Hint: Donated $4,600 to Obama.

Hartina Flournoy
Background: Assistant to the president of the American Federation of Teachers. Was finance director for the Gore for President campaign and deputy campaign manager for the Clinton-Gore reelection campaign. Also served on the Rules and Bylaws Committee.
Dean Connection: Befriended Dean during his presidential campaign. A major backer of his bid for the DNC chairmanship, she ran his transition team after he won.
Hint: A Clinton superdelegate who, according to ABC News, advised Clinton to push strategist Mark Penn out.

Maryscott "Scotty" Greenwood
Background: Managing director at McKenna Long & Aldridge's Washington office. Served as Georgia Democratic Party's executive director, worked on multiple presidential campaigns and was chief of staff of the Canadian Embassy under President Clinton.
Dean Connection: Gave $2,000 to Dean in 2003 and supported his race for DNC chairman. University of Vermont graduate.
Hint: Donated $2,300 to the Clinton campaign, "but I'm not declaring support for her over Obama in this credentials process." Says family members have given to Obama. Refers to herself as "a Howard Dean person."

Janice Griffin
Background: Served as co-chairwoman of the DNC's Women's Vote Center and as national chairwoman of the DNC's Women's Leadership Forum. Also served on the Rules and Bylaws Committee and voted to strip Florida and Michigan of their delegates. She is a superdelegate.
Dean Connection: Unclear.
Hint: Donated to both of Clinton's senatorial campaigns but told Politico in February she was supporting Obama.

Adelita Grijalva
Background: Program manager for the Pima County Teen Court in Arizona and daughter of Rep. Raul M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.). This will be her first convention, where she says she will be eight months pregnant.
Dean Connection: Got a call from the DNC and she said she'd be willing to help out. "I'm just lucky, I guess."
Hint: Says she supports Obama. Father is an Obama-supporting superdelegate.

Laura Harris
Background: Executive director of Americans for Indian Opportunity. Worked for New Mexico Sen. Jeff Bingaman and for the 2004 John F. Kerry general election campaign.
Dean Connection: Served as the Dean 2004 campaign's National Native American Policy and Outreach senior adviser.
Hint: Endorsed Obama. Former Bill Richardson supporter.

Kathy Hoyt
Background: Longtime Vermont political activist who served as chief of staff to former Vermont Govs. Dean and Madeleine Kunin.
Dean Connection: Also served as secretary of administration under Dean.
Hint: Helped launch Vermont Women for Obama in February.

Carol Juneau
Background: Montana state senator. Served in the state House for a decade and in various state party positions.
Dean Connection: Unclear.
Hint: Hosted a fundraiser for Clinton in Missoula. "She's been my choice since the beginning," Juneau told the Helena Independent Record last week. "She has a strong Native American platform."

Scott Maddox
Background: Former Florida Democratic Party chairman and Tallahassee mayor.
Dean Connection: "I helped get him elected" as DNC chairman, Maddox said.
Hint: None. Says his role on the Credentials Committee keeps him from making a decision.

Abdul Malik Mujahid
Background: The founder of Chicago-based Sound Vision Inc., an Islamic multimedia company. Has served on some Bosnia-related task forces and is the current chairperson of the Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chicago.
Dean Connection: Unclear. Did not respond to requests for comment.
Hint: None.

Maria Neira
Background: New York State United Teachers official and a vice president of the American Federation of Teachers. Served on former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's educational transition team.
Dean Connection: Works with Dean confidante Tina Flournoy. Gave $250 to Kerry in the first quarter of 2004.
Hint: She's a pledged delegate for Clinton from New York's 21st congressional district.

Kate O'Connor
Background: Served in Dean's gubernatorial administration, managed his campaigns for governor and worked on his presidential campaign.
Dean Connection: Longtime Dean aide.
Hint: None.

Leila Sahar
Background: A college senior at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. Spent recent summers interning in the DNC's Political Department and working as an assistant at the Voting Rights Institute.
Dean Connection: Served as DNC intern under Dean chairmanship.
Hint: None.

Marc Stanley
Background: Dallas trial lawyer and Democratic donor.
Dean Connection: Unclear. Gave $2,000 to both Edwards and Kerry in 2004.
Hint: Donated $4,400 to Obama in 2007.

Carol Pensky
Background: Founder of the DNC's Women's Leadership Forum. Served as a DNC treasurer in the late 1990s and as a finance chairwoman in 2000.
Dean Connection: Donated $1,850 to Dean in 2004, more than she gave to Kerry or Wesley Clark.
Hint: A pro-Clinton superdelegate, she has donated $4,600 to her campaign.

Bob Rogan
Background: Chief of staff for Vermont Rep. Peter Welch.
Dean Connection: Served as Gov. Dean's deputy chief of staff and as deputy campaign manager when Dean ran for president.
Hint: His boss is an Obama superdelegate, but Rogan is undecided.

Jane Stetson
Background: Served as finance chairwoman for Vermont Rep. Peter Welch's campaign. Donated $25,000 to the party in 2004.
Dean Connection: A Vermonter, she has been a major fundraiser for medical facilities in Dean's home state. In 2004, she gave $1,000 to his presidential campaign. Also gave $2,000 to Carol Moseley Braun's campaign.
Hint: Donated $2,300 to Obama.

Michael Steed
Background: Managing director at the Paladin Capital Group. Served as DNC executive director in the early 1980s. Donated $34,500 to the party in 2004.
Dean Connection: Unclear. Donated $2000 to the campaigns of Bob Graham and Dick Gephardt in 2004.
Hint: Donated $4,600 to Clinton.

Bill Straus
Background: Massachusetts state representative.
Dean Connection: Endorsed Dean in 2004, and donated $1,900 to his campaign. Dean's Democracy for America political action committee raised funds for Straus in June 2004.
Hint: Donated $1,375 to the Clinton campaign.

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aided and abetted by the media, he would be nowhere without their help

No I am not not a racist, but neither do I subscribe to passive resistance. When you call other people simians and monkeys and jigaboos, I will be all over your racist ass!
Posted by: str8talk | May 9, 2008 6:44 PM
I didn't say those words. Sounds like you have some 'fessn' up to do.
Go to the CHurch of Obama and take care of your racism problem.
Posted by: Adarius La Chaquita

Adarius, why don't you take off your sheet so I can see you?

By the way, why do you ladies all dress in pastel colors and put your hair up in that god awful way?

I think you look funny like that.

Posted by: Mandy is mad | May 9, 2008 6:43 PM

because our husbands know best. We have to do what Allah says. And my burqa is so tight around my narrow waist and large full breast.

Allah will take care of you infidel!

At this rate by tomorrow he will have been raised in a log cabin and used a candle to read.

Actually, I dug that list out from earlier this year, and it seems as if some of the Committee members HAVE endorsed Obama or Hillary: http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=60BC4CC7-3048-5C12-007C617E6C969A9E

aided and abetted by the media, he would be nowhere without their help

Dan,

We're losing all respect for you.

This was no David vs. Goliath story.

Obama had the entire mainstream media working for him.

Hillary was the better person, more qualified candidate, winner of all the debates, and would be an infinitely better president.

The behavior of the Washington Post has been disgraceful.

Katherine Graham would be ashamed of you.

You have nothing to be proud of here.

You should hang your head in shame.

The Democratic Party has to drive a wooden stake through the hearts of the 700 Club and reactionary neocon radio joker types who demonize them to the average stiff.

This can be done by carefully and convincingly showing white middle and working class Americans an alternative agenda and plan for the future, point by point, which contrasts itself to Republican failures and lies which have made their lives poorer and more desperate during the last eight years.

About time Bala, a picture of the winner

instead of your daily campaign ready picture of the lady looser.

Wearing yer flip-flops, as you give your phony advice, are you?

No I am not not a racist, but neither do I subscribe to passive resistance. When you call other people simians and monkeys and jigaboos, I will be all over your racist ass!

Posted by: str8talk | May 9, 2008 6:44 PM

I didn't say those words. Sounds like you have some 'fessn' up to do.

Go to the CHurch of Obama and take care of your racism problem.

"If growing up with food stamps when he was a child, a single white mother, and white grandparents in a small apartment is elitist? Then what is the definition of poor?"

He wasn't POOR. They were BROKE a good deal of the time, but not POOR.

It's a useful distinction to remember. "Poor" means you see no way out and/or are stuck in systemic oppression and/or have no knowledge of, or access to, resources that could push you over the hump. "Broke" is when you do not have enough money to pay your bills at the moment, but you have skills and/or prospects and/or the kind of values, hope, and vision that will allow you to make your own way in the foreseeable future.

Obama's mother was a graduate student whose husband had abandoned her. She was broke. She used food stamps to make ends meet till she got her degree and could get a good job.

Obama's grandparents were caring for their grandson to help their daughter while she finished school. They were broke. But they understood the importance of a good education, and they applied for scholarship money to send their grandson to an excellent private school.

Being broke is a struggle, make no mistake. But it's different from, and much better than, being poor.

Hillary Clinton was never either poor or broke, except maybe for a year or two as a law student living in a fairly crappy neighborhood in New Haven.

Posted by: str8talk | May 9, 2008 6:32 PM
You hate white people...admit it you racist.
Posted by: Michael Jordan | May 9, 2008 6:34 PM

No I am not not a racist, but neither do I subscribe to passive resistance. When you call other people simians and monkeys and jigaboos, I will be all over your racist ass!

The funny thing is that by doing this the Washington Post is shooting itself in the foot.

As long as the primaries are going on, they get lots of page views and sell lots of newspapers.

When the primary ends, their readership will go way down.

It's not Jihad. It's protecting your Freedom, so it's OK.

I do commend you for obeying your husband. He's probably got a bunch of other wives anyway, though.

By the way, why do you ladies all dress in pastel colors and put your hair up in that god awful way?

I think you look funny like that.

man, I hate white people like mandy and sh*t!

Who da f*ck she be tinkin she be and sh*t?

NB:

I certainly cannot post the entire Internets on a WaPo blog.

Brad K:

I heard it was a total of TEN Super Delegates for Obama today ...

JakeD,

that's not interesting. That's semantics. This "race" is as over as the Hunt for Bin Laden.

>>"Obama elitist. Didnt he grow up with a single mother and grand parents?"

There's a different between being an "elite" and an "elitist". Being an "elite" means that you're in the best league. Being "elitist" means that you're into acting like a sophisticate. It means that you're a snob and phony.

An "elite" is a person from a top law school, for example (Clinton went to Yale Law and Obama went to Harvard Law). An "elitist" is a phony and a snob, like someone who looks down on and talks down to other people.

That's why Obama has gotten tagged as "elitist". His comment that poor whites "cling" to guns and religion out of their ignorant frustration with the government was offensive and snobby, and it was obvious he ignorantly looked down on small town whites. (I think a better argument can be made that the people Obama hangs around with and people who cling to anti-white conspiracy theories and religion in their racial bitterness).

"elite" does not equal "elitist". Clinton is an "elite" because that has been her position in life for decades. Obama's phony snobbery makes him an "elitist", like most people who rise up in society from nothing and who try to fit in with elites and act better than them.

Maybe after Obama's been rich for a couple more years he will stop going around saying such ignorant and offensive superior comments, but he's irreparably damaged his standing with rural whites now.

Obama has "swift-boated" himself with his elitist comments about small town whites and his sloppy attempts to cover up his rabidly racist pastor's relationship with him.

Mumbles McCentury McCain has proven to be not too bright. He doesn't have the intelligence to be president. Embracing Bush's failed policies is not smart. If McCain had a brain, then he would have distance himself from the worst president in history. Bush is internationally the humiliation of America. McCain will need a dictionary to keep up with Harvard Scholar Barack Obama during the debates.

Harvard Scholar Barack Obama will easily demonstrate McCain's weaknesses. Obama will maintain polite dignity and still make McCain look like a Bush Part III dunce. McCain will ask Barack to not use big words and thoughtful analogies during the debates.

Harvard Scholard Barack Obama will bring dignity and morality to the White House, unity to the country, and respect once again to America as the greatest country in the world.

Then, what are you waiting for , Mandy?

Posted by: | May 9, 2008 6:37 PM

My husband said I can't leave my house without my burqa. Besides, isn't jihad for stupid people like you?

How did I get so sexy? VOTING FOR HOTTY WITH BIG BOOTY HILLARY. W00t W00t, she hot.

You mean like letting him "chill out" in Pakistan while we attack Iraq for no reason?

Give the credit to your Fuhrer.

So,once again all the WAPO Obama Nazis,all
the Michelle Obama Freaks.all the Obama
Youth,and Drunken Toxic Kool Aid Obamabots
are out in force,preaching their lies,and
hatred of Hillary Clinton and John McCain,
while praising and swearing an oath of full
loyalty to their Messiah and Der New Furhrer Barack Hussein Obama and following
his and Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean and
Harmless old Harry Reid Orders Faithfully!
Just say NO to racist Barack Hussein Obama
and his hateful racist angry pekinese wife
Michelle Obama and Dean and Pelosi and Reid
and help take back America! NOBAMA!

Here's where it gets interesting:

Of the 161 remaining members, chosen by the campaigns proportionally to primary and caucus results, the Michigan and Florida delegations get to sit on the Credentials Committee!! The only restriction I am aware of is that Michigan cannot vote on the Florida challenge and vice versa. Hillary will therefore get her proportionate share of the Florida delegation on the Committee and Obama will get none of the Michigan Committee members because he wasn't on the ballot.

As to the Dean appointments, below, there's no reason to suspect they will be Obama loyalists. Indeed the co-chairs all have Clinton connections. Bottom line, if more than 20% of the Committee vote in favor of Hillary, there will be a majority and minority report and the Convention must take that up as the first order of business by rule. The vote on that will be a proxy for the vote of the Convention on the candidates themselves.

Obama just did an interview with his uncle Osama Bin Laden thanking him for all the good he has done.

Then, what are you waiting for , Mandy?

On November 17 2007 , Columnist Robert Novak reported that the clinton camp has claimed to have a dirt or scandal against Barack Obama but they have decided not to use it against him , As Options rans out for her campaign , she later used it . Now we know the clinton camp was behind the release of the Rev.Jeremiah Wright sermon video clips .

I just saw El-Obama on Al-Jazeera saying he needs some volunteers to be suicide bombers in the USA to take care of "bitter white people."

Dont be bitter, USA.
We love a John McCain. He grow our Economy Long Time. Make China Richest Country. Obama NO GOOD, OK?

You have choice. You no like cheap plasitc goods no more? What wrong? John McCain make work good and Golden Wallet Time. Vote John McCain. Obama is Black.

John Chen
President and Founder
USA Jobs Overseas Foundation

Jake D, then next time, provide all the information, so that readers have all the information.

Correction, that's +9 superdelegates today for Obama. I got a little ahead of myself. Nonetheless, enough to put Obama slightly in the lead, even, or within just a couple superdelegates of Clinton, depending on whose count you use, and erasing Clinton's only remaining advantage in this campaign. And more than enough to underscore the point that superdelegates are NOT going to rush in at the last minute and hand the nomination to Clinton. They're not going to rescue the loser, they're going with the winner: Barack Obama.

U-N-I-T-Y '08

Posted by: str8talk | May 9, 2008 6:32 PM

You hate white people...admit it you racist.

obama is afrocentric which is the same as being a member of the kkk as far as I am concerned. I do not see obama passing comprehensive immigration reform and I see him raising our taxes and then giving the money away to africa. betcha the dems will increase their pay next year if they get a supermajority and betcha they will pass laws to control free speech for them to maintain power.

El-Hussein Islam Obama hates white people, especially working ones. He has plans to eliminate them in order to secure more power if elected President.

Regarding the arguments about white voters I believe a link to this article may convince some doubters: http://themoderatevoice.com/at-tmv/newsweek-blogitics/19460/gallup-obamas-white-voter-support-about-the-same-as-john-kerrys/

HiloBob wrote: The vast majority of true Americans detests ANY racial supremacy claims, especially those which call America---AmeriKKKa. Only imbecilic inbred mouth breathing skunk butt sniffing white lightning guzzling toothless trailer park dwelling double digit I.Q. Rush Limbaugh worshiping primordial slime sucking and oozing scab licking quasi-human mutations could say anything like that.

Well said!

Hillary will burn down the whole house to fry herself a couple of eggs. What a shame that she and Bill have ruined his legacy. She's the type that brings a gun to a knife fight. Time to go Hillary. It's over.

Obama is Racist and Inexperience. He have Rev. Wright Problem, Terrorist, too. He no good for USA. Vote McCain. Make more people Happy and Good Luck, Golden Shower.

John Chen
President and Founder
USA Jobs Overseas Foundation

Obama just announced he appoint a Hamas representative as liason for Middle Eastern Affairs as payback for their endorsement.

JakeD,

I don't suggest that people who don't vote for Obama are racists. I'm trying to figure out why Democrats would vote for a politician whose policy they disagree with instead of a slightly darker version of politician they DO agree with.

Doing this could make you any number of things; Hypocrite, Sore Loser, Bigot, Mentally Retarded, Bitter, Petty, etc...

See I was hoping someone would say something that made sense, as opposed to playing the Reverse Race Card. (If you've ever played UNO you know what I mean)

There is an old Native American anecdote that describes Hillary and her entire campaign for President. It also describes the essential nature of her supporters. It goes like this - A scorpion was wandering along the bank of the river, wondering how to get to the other side. Suddenly he saw a fox. He asked the fox to take him across the river.
The fox said, "No. If I do that, you'll sting me and I'll drown."
The scorpion assured him, "If I did that, we'd both drown."
The fox thought about it and finally agreed. So the scorpion climbed up on his back and the fox began to swim. But halfway across the river, the scorpion stung him.
As the poison filled his veins, the fox turned to the scorpion and said, "Why did you do that? Now you'll drown too."
"I couldn't help it," said the scorpion. "It's my nature."
Guess who the scorpion is?

The current members of the Credentials Committee:

Dean Aguillen
Don Beyer
Jose Ceballos
Ralph Dawson
Sheila Dixon
Christopher Edley, Jr.
Hartina Flournoy
Maryscott "Scotty" Greenwood
Janice Griffin
Laura Harris
Kathy Hoyt
Carol Juneau
Scott Maddox
Iman Malik Mujahid
Adelita Grijalva
Maria Neira
Kate O'Connor