The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008

To "ladies join the party please"
You understand losing is hard? Well your understanding is about to increase in leaps and bounds as I and millions of others will vote for McCain first. Obama and company spent the entire campaign belittling our candidate and those who support her and now you actually have the nerve to call for "Unity"? Wow, seems someone just figured out that you need our support to win. Well I've got news for you for you dear; Snide remarks and insults do not constitute "unifying" behavior. Betraying her loyalty of 30 years in a blatant attempt to force her out is not unifying and telling us to "stop crying", "get over it" and back your candidate is likewise not unifying. Last but not least, telling us all the things Hillary may be able to do after the campaign is not unifying, of course Hillary will go on and do many great things. She is an extraordinary woman and for you to remind us of this is patronizing.
Unfortunately it now appear that the better candidate will lose, so I have a bit of advice of my own. All campaign long I've heard Obama tell us how he will heal the nation and Unify us .. so prove it. He can start with the party, if he at least offers the VP position to Hillary I and I dare say most if not all of us will sing his praises and vote Democrat. If not, then I will take my chances on McCain. So there you have it, no bickering, no crying, just a simple warning against the continued lack of respect you have shown for more than half the party. You want unity, put your money where your mouth is .. the ball's in your court Sen. Obama, lets see what kind of man you are.

I understand losing is hard but as you can see democrats and democratic ladies .....mother teresa is out of the running......so would you please stop whining and support the potential nominee....Hillary is getting over it......we need to win come november......if Obama loses Hillary loses ......even if she is not vice president ...there will be numerous positions that she will be able to have attaining alot of power like Leader or Speaker of the house.....many cabinet postions will open up for all our democrats but we have to win......all this bickering and crying.....Obama supporters are mean......well let me tell you competition is mean.....but the in house competition is over now we are going to a different neighborhood to compete........lets go and win Dems or dont cry when Mc Cain doesn't change like he is saying he will do.......Lastly....it takes more than a president to get done what America needs done...so we all need to tighten or belts and get to work for the U.S........and if Mc Cain still makes you comfortable then enlist one of your children to fight in the Armed services for him and bush and Cheaney

See how unifying Obama is everyone? HAHA, what a joke! He voted "present" consistantly on important choice issues because he was too scared to take a stand -while Hillary has worked 35+ years for reproductive freedom for every woman in this country, how in the world could they have endorsed Obama? A man who says women shoudl consult w/their ministers before making the personal decison to end a pregnancy? Give it up people, this is a joke and you're lying if you don't admit that. Of course woman are outraged today. It's a sad day for women in America.
Maybe Obama called Nancy "sweetie" and she was just so beside herself she had to endorse him?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4STLISLdxi4

Awe, JakeD -- I was so eagerly awaiting your response. I so wanted to see the kind of mental gymnastics you'd have to do to work that one out. Bummer.

JakeD,

It was just disclosed that Cindy McCain has just divested herself of $2 million in mutual funds that were invested in Sudan, the very same government that supports the genocide in Darfur. Please clarify how that fits into your pro-life stance. How is McCain a better (i.e. more moral) candidate when his partner invests in a government that supports the killing, maiming and rapping of women and children? I'm very much confused by this apparent contradiction. Thanks.

You can criticize this move but Hillary stood by and was as happy as a pig in s**t when Right to Life spent $1.3 million dollars in Indiana attacking Obama during the primary but never said a word about being against Clinton, even though they share the same pro=choice position. I say Obama has the scars to prove he earned this endorsement by the lashing he took while Clinton stood idly by, cackling.

It is time for all Democrats to get together now and work toward a Democratic victory. Hillary can either jump on the bandwagon or risk being labeled as a Harold Stassen. somebody that can not see their own irrelevance developing.

Once the California Supreme Court rules gay marriage LEGAL....

Posted by: JakeD | May 14, 2008 7:20 PM
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Again, only fear comes from the Republican extremists.

Anonymous at 7:27 PM:

Hillary is just as "immoral" (if not more so, since she stopped NATIONWIDE abortion bans) than Obama on abortion -- killing LIVE-BORN children is infanticide, as you rightly noted -- no longer abortion. So, I'm with you all the way up until YOUR ENDORSEMENT of Hillary Clinton! I don't quite understand that position. Wouldn't you rather vote for McCain? Please clarify ...

It seems people have forgotten this is politics. Those PRESENT votes were a political move agreed upon by parties in the women choice movement with OBAMA.

It gave home a middle road political stance and he did not contribute to any votes that hurt their cause.

Go back to the start of the race and DO THE RESEARCH.

I swear, people have short memories or simply like to cry without using all of the facts at hand.

Unreal..

FYI.. You better go a look at HRC's PRESENT votes... you will be surprised.

I bet most of you don't know how to look up senate votes..

DO YOU?

Hmmmmmmmm?

It was brave of NARAL to take the stand they did and I applaud their attempt to bring this primary campaign to a close. For Hillary Clinton supporters to accuse NARAL of traitorous behavior shows a lack of self-knowledge.

For two months Senator Clinton's only hope of getting the nomination is to so damage Senator Obama that he cannot win in the fall and she has tried her hardest to do that but she has failed. If we want a pro-choice President in the fall that person will be Barack Obama and we had better get started now working for him because McCain with his zero percent choice rating is going to be tough to beat.

If McCain is elected, we can expect more Scalias and Alitos and a final overturn of Roe v. Wade and other liberties we support. Please think before you condemn NARAL for their brave move to get us on the path to victory - and away from self-defeating infighting. It is time to take back the White House!

National Abortion Rights Action League's Endorsement of OBAMA

Well, it becomes real clear that NARAL's endorsement is a hope that Obama will appoint to the Supreme Court to remove the recent Supreme Court's decision to disallow "Late Term Abortions"......what many of us in health care call INFANTICIDE!

Here is Obama's action in Illinois:

What Barack Obama don't want his followers to know about his dirty little secret while in the IL Senate;

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?AR TICLE_ID=51121

"I know his reasoning, because I was there"

As a nurse at an Illinois hospital in 1999, I discovered babies were being aborted alive and shelved to die in soiled utility rooms. I discovered infanticide.

Legislation was presented on the federal level and in various states called the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. It stated all live-born babies were guaranteed the same constitutional right to equal protection, whether or not they were wanted.

BAIPA sailed through the U.S. Senate by unanimous vote. Even Sens. Clinton, Kennedy and Kerry agreed a mother's right to "choose" stopped at her baby's delivery.

The bill also passed overwhelmingly in the House. NARAL went neutral on it. Abortion enthusiasts publicly agreed that fighting BAIPA would appear extreme. President Bush signed BAIPA into law in 2002.

But in Illinois, the state version of BAIPA repeatedly failed, thanks in large part to then-state Sen. Barack Obama. It only passed in 2005, after Obama left.

I testified in 2001 and 2002 before a committee of which Obama was a member.

Obama articulately worried that legislation protecting live aborted babies might infringe on women's rights or abortionists' rights. Obama's clinical discourse, his lack of mercy, shocked me. I was naive back then. Obama voted against the measure, twice. It ultimately failed.

In 2003, as chairman of the next Senate committee to which BAIPA was sent, Obama stopped it from even getting a hearing, shelving it to die much like babies were still being shelved to die in Illinois hospitals and abortion clinics.

(As chair of that same committee, Obama once abruptly ended a hearing early, right before Scott and Janet Willis, the parents of six children killed as a result of Illinois' drivers licenses for bribes scandal, were to testify in favor of Choose Life license plate legislation. I was there for that one, too. The Willises had traveled three hours. Reporters filled the room. Obama stalled. He later killed the bill when no one was around.)

So, the reason Keyes said Jesus Christ wouldn't vote for Barack Obama was because of Obama's fanatical support of abortion to the point of condoning infanticide.

I have framed on my wall a Chicago Sun-Times cartoon published during the campaign. Obama is holding a sign with "LIVE BIRTH ABORTION" on it. God is reaching down from heaven to a baby in front of Obama, and the baby is reaching up to God. Obama is yelling at God, "You keep out of this!"

In his USA Today opinion piece, Obama admitted being "nagged" by the Jesus-wouldn't-vote-for-him statement, but only because he wished he'd given a different comeback.

OBAMA is AMORAL, NARAL is AMORAL!

Vote Clinton!!!

Ellen, you and Hillary's brand of gender politics failed and belong to the past. Get over it Ellen. You had more than your required 15 minutes of fame. Everyone else has moved on.

Originally I was concerned about how polarizing Hillary would be in a general election and what that would mean to an already divided country. I honestly didn't realize how that ability to polarize could take place within the party itself. I don't think this is an accident or some random occurrence. She is a carrier.

Hillary's Downfall!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Lstkiexhc

Franky:

Once the California Supreme Court rules gay marriage LEGAL here tomorrow -- and the Constitutional Amendment to ban gay marriages passes in November, handing the State with the most Electoral Votes to John SIDNEY McCain -- then talk to me about "backlash" ; )

baracki boy can get all the endorsements he can buy.

It won't matter a bit.

he's a racist fraud and he won;t get mine.

Posted by: dylan | May 14, 2008 6:56 PM

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yep, a lot of weeping from the Obama campaign on that loss...

you're too dumb to see what this poster sees easily

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newagent99 wrote:

ARTICLE: Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause at 5/14/2008

why the hell is this article still on the top of the page? It's an attempt to undercut the Clinton blow out of Obama, and it's an attempt to tie racism to West Virgina.

Why not run an article on Black welfare rates under an Obama win in N. Carolina...

at least that would be a true statement instead of this racist slur at West Virginans.

5/13/2008 8:53:07 PM

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"House Republicans struggled to regroup Wednesday in the aftermath of a devastating election loss in Mississippi, acknowledging that their party faced a significant challenge in November after the loss of three Republican seats in special elections this year."

The Republican Grand Failure is coming to an end! Thanks to Rush and his stooges for helping create a further backlash to get this done! Gotta love seeing these Republican Cowards running around like headless chickens!

The sad fact is, that Hillary would have a very hard time with mccain for one reason...Bill.He is her running mate no matter how you cut it, and the republicans will shred him to pieces.

He is a heavy load for hillary to carry.If he had any self control,we would not have had 8 years of bush! Thanks Bill!
She should have divorced him.

I like Hillary, but I will NEVER vote to allow W.J Clinton into the peoples house again.

wow, the bitterness from Clinton supporters is fierce! People, Clinton and Obama have identical platforms. Let's all finally get behind the one with real momentum.

More politicians and politico groups.. All the more resson to vote for Hillary. Just hope she will hold out to the convention. She must be the nominee. He certainly can't defeat the GOPers and Bush supporters. This is very, very skeery! We really need a cleansing and he certainly won't do it. And you know McCain will not! Please, please don't buy into these superdelegates support now. This can change at the convention. Just hold on Hill!

baracki boy can get all the endorsements he can buy.

It won't matter a bit.

he's a racist fraud and he won;t get mine.

Since the ELECTION MAP, the real one, not the one that Obama is selling or paying off Super delegates to buy into, CLEARLY shows that Obama LOSES, this is one of the STUPIDEST things this PROCHOICE organizations has done! If Obama is the nominee, WE LOSE! And the ENDORSERS of OBAMA LOSE in a BIG WAY! especially this organization. Down in texas, votes of cheers are ringing with this endorsement! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING? OBVIOUSLY, YOU WERE NOT!

These are the most laughable endorsements yet!

The NARAL Polical Action Committee mind you not naral.

Is someone holding a gun to the head of NARAL?

Next Laughable is John Edwards endorsement.

Does anyone know politics 101 or they on something?

Next they will have Obama mimicking the boston accent of JFK.

Or maybe Obama sailing off cape cod--that would be a nice touch.

How about Michelle in a pillbox hat?

Put us out of misery and get Obama and this cast of characters off the stage.

I could never vote for a pro-choice President.

For the past few years NARAL has been nothing more than a money generator for Nancy Keenan. Their endorsements, and lack of hard action for Choice, is pathetic.

(Anyone else note that NARAL endorsed Al Wynn over Donna Edwards?)

What makes me sad is that NARAL's fecklessness has been easy to see for years. And yet, it took them coming out for Obama to get all of these women riled up.

It is time for a new type of politics. We need the people taking charge of their own issues, and not depending on groups like NARAL to pretend to defend them.

Keep in mind that Obama isn't the answer. WE are the answer. Obama is just the vehicle to make it happen.

Obama in '08!