Then why according to all the recent polls is Clinton winning the general election by signifigant margins. If she wins, the Democrats win and we all win. And Dean just said that the candidate will be picked based on electability, so she will most likely get the nomination, and Obama will most likely concede to the vice presidency, and the Democrats will win the elections, so don’t worry, be happy! We will have a Democrat in the whitehouse. And btw all the negatives about Obama were brought up by voters and media, not by the Clinton campaign, check out her site, there is nothing negative, and look at her ads and you will see they are only about her strengths and policy differences. Here are a few articles showing how Dems will win the Whitehouse: http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Clinton /Maps/Apr29.html AP Top News at 7:54 p.m. EDT April 29 11 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton now leads John McCain by 9 points in a head-to-head presidential matchup. Obama and Republican McCain are running about even.

She has said much that is negative about obama, newspapers are the avenue we learn about the negative she says, vut they are not the source. And obviously she would not personally endorse a written form of insult on her website…

The media plays the feelings of the easily swayed public. Dont let those numbers fool you, Obama has what it takes to be president above either candidate.

Maybe if Obama was less like Steve Urkel and more like Bill Cosby I could respect him. Obama is all “Did I do that?” when questions come up about his past, and even his present.

anonymous @ 6:39am whined: “Then why according to all the recent polls is Clinton winning the general election by signifigant margins.”

Because you can’t beat Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos”!

Mwahahahahahahaha!

All your superdelegates our ours!

I”m a liberal and a democrat (shocker). Nothing has been more disheartening than watching the destruction of our party first at the hands of Hillary Clinton and now at the hands of both candidates. John McCain becomes more electable by the day. Howard Dean is right to demand some end to this fiasco soon. His job is to protect the party. The problem is, I’d rather see the country protected from another eight years of pro-war, anti-universal healthcare, morally questionable president’s like John McCain. Unfortunately, the way the two party system is functioning today, candidates run to get elected, not to fulfill promises. Period. On the spectrum of political representation, Obama, Clinton, and McCain are about a centimeter apart. You can disagree based on positions and promises, but this campaign demonstrates exactly how sad it all is.

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=aa0cd21b-0ff2-4329-88a1-69c6c268b304&k=5083

You want real news, then read the article above(link).

Hillary is not some evil person as you try to paint her and it’s quite sad you are so uninformed. HRC didn’t promote Rev.Wright or even Ayers. I suppose her dishing it out at a debate where the crap was asked, means she’s apart of a “conspiracy”…Yeah dude, get a life and stop accusing Hillary of being some negative force when in actuality she is the only positive thing left int his race.

Obama is a frikken fraud.

Great peice Gerald. Well thought and well said.

Wow, 12:44, you were going good there. You are spot on that Hilary is not this evil woman hell bent on ruining everything. But why say that Obama is a “frikken fraud?” What does that even mean? This is exactly the problem the Democrats are facing; as the primary goes on and on, supporters from either side are blindly and without reason assuming the other is this terrible person. Obamaniacs are saying Clinton is this cold-hearted evil woman who will bring her ruthlessness to the White House and Clintonites are saying that Obama is a naive, America-hating elitist. This is what they say when people mention that the Democratic primary is hurting the party. We are blindly bashing the other candidate. Cant we realize that Obama and Hilary are very VERY similar when it comes to policy, both are GOOD people who LOVE America and BOTH would make great Presidents. Lets stop hating on eachother and start hating the war-mongering, tax evading, stumbling Bushite idiot who knows as much about the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite as he does about economic policy.

All Obama supporters and all CLinton supporters unite to not allow John “Im a friggin idiot, my friend” McCain within a stone’s throw of the White House!

It’s no secret.

While Obama may not identify as a Muslim, that’s not how the Arab and Muslim Streets see it. In Arab culture and under Islamic law, if your father is a Muslim, so are you. And once a Muslim, always a Muslim. You cannot go back. In Islamic eyes, Obama is certainly a Muslim. He may think he’s a Christian, but they do not.

But maybe they’ll cut Obama a break, and not apply their usual penalty for apostates. Anybody know if there are any fatwas on this yet?

Excellent article, well written. It astonishes me that people are so willingly blind to Hillary’s blatant negative attacks on Obama.

…Wright’s speech on black-right brainers, white-left brainers — replete with bogus stereotypes and crude voice imitations — was about as racist as they come and at one time antithetical to what the NAACP was once all about. Again, the Obama campaign and its appendages have set back racial relations a generation. Just ten years ago, any candidate, black or white, would have rejected Wright making a speech about genetic differences in respective black and white brains. Now it’s given to civil rights organizations by the possible next President’s pastor and spiritual advisor — and done to wild applause for an organization founded on the idea that we are innately the same, while being gushed over by ignorant “commentators.”

As I said before, between Wright’s racism and hatred, and Obama’s contextualization of what he has said, we have so lowered the bar that the next racist (and he won’t necessarily be black) who evokes hatred of other races and then offers a mish-mash pop theory of genetic differences will have plenty of “context” to ward off public fury.

Howard Dean to protect the party…. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

“While Obama may not identify as a Muslim, that’s not how the Arab and Muslim Streets see it.”

You Hillaryites are still perpetuating scare-tactics, eh? If the “race” bit doesn’t work, you fling out every possible alternative/imaginary kind of “otherness.” (And, PS, I’m white.)

Fankly, I’m far more distressed by the fact that Hillary — an alleged mainstream Methodist — is a longtime member of a D.C. prayer group headed by Christian-Right extremist Doug Coe. That’s a real, live, and very scary issue.

“all the recent polls”?

Really? There was ONE POLL that showed her winning. The other one’s either have Obama winning or are tied.

Democrats are imploding because they have become mean, petty and self-serving egomaniacs.

Will Obama be able to just buy the nomination?

We have had four one-on-one debates so far - and each has been revealing. A debate without a moderator, as Clinton has suggested, could be particularly interesting. But debates would give Clinton equal time in the spotlight, and would make Obama’s advantage in paid media in Indiana and North Carolina far less significant.

On Friday in Indiana, Obama talked tough in response to a question: “I get pretty fed up with people questioning my patriotism.” And, he continued, “I am happy to have that debate with them any place, anytime.” He’s happy to have fantasy debates with unnamed people who are allegedly challenging his patriotism. But he’s not willing to have a real debate with the real person he’s competing against for the nomination.

Will Obama pay no price for ducking? Should paid advertisements determine the Democratic victor, not the performance of the two candidates debating at length in an unscripted setting?

Over to you, anguished liberals.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/opinion/28kristol.html

In the aftermath of Obama’s church debacle, many pundits have commented on how Barry Soetoro (aka, B. Hussein Obama) treated his grandmother— the white one who raised him after his black father abandoned her daughter and their young son; and who was repaid by getting called out as a racist before a national TV audience; and again in an interview on Philly sports radio station 610 WIP (“[s]he is a typical white person … there’s a reaction that’s been bred into our experiences that don’t go away and that sometimes come out in the wrong way”).

But as shabbily as Obama treated his 85-year old maternal grandmother (ailing and alone in Honolulu), his callousness toward his paternal step-grandmother (the Obama family tree is rather convoluted) is even more grotesque. The Harvard Law grad (married to another Harvard Law grad) who is pulling down a Senator’s salary with a Senator’s bennies is apparently able to sleep well at night knowing that he has an elderly relative in Kogelo, Kenya who continues to live in abject poverty in a shack with no running water or electricity – and without even a single pair of shoes to wear. http://www.bloggernews.net/114792

Maybe the Obama cultists can chip in some coin and ship poor grannie Obama a pair of shoes?

In Islam, religion passes from the father to the child. Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was a Muslim who named his boy Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. Only Muslim children are named “Hussein.”

If Obama was born and raised a Muslim and is now hiding that fact, this points to a major deceit, a fundamental misrepresentation about himself that has profound implications about his character and his suitability as president.

This article is lame. First, Hillary Clinton did not start these controversies surrounding Obama. Second, how can you blame Hillary for bringing them to light? That’s absurd. She may have commented on them. So F’in what? Do you really believe if she stayed tight-lipped they would fade away magically, or that the Republicans wouldn’t have brought them up in the general election. If anything, he’s lucky they’re coming out now instead of later.

Blame Hillary for everything. That is the dumbest thing I have read in quite some time. Congrats, Gerald.

On the one hand, it’s perfectly decent for Obama to argue that only he has the virtue to bring change to Washington and that Clinton lacks the character and the commitment to do so. On the other hand, we are somehow hitting below the belt when we say that Clinton is the candidate best able to withstand the pressures of the presidency and do what’s right for the American people, while leaving the decisions about Obama’s preparedness to the voters.

Who made up those rules? And who would ever think they are fair?

this piece of rubbish is worse than what Wright is doing please DONT help !!

Electability

Wisconsin: Obama beats McCain, Clinton loses by kos Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 12:27:12 PM PDT

U of Wisconsin. 4/15-24. Likely votes. MoE 5.3% (No trend lines)

McCain (R) 43 Obama (D) 47

McCain (R) 47 Clinton (D) 41

That’s a 9-point advantage for Obama over Clinton in Wisconsin. Clinton consistently scores weak numbers in traditionally Blue states Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Hawaii, Connecticut, Washington and Oregon — all states that Obama wins comfortably. The original Wright controversy seems to have passed. Now we’ll see if Wright II: Electric Boogaloo, has a similar trend.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/29/151845/505/670/505814

4:28… I don’t think it is at all unfair that Hillary Clinton brings up “experience”. But I do think it is just as fair for Obama supporters to say that her experience that separates her from Obama (being the First Lady) is a lot of BS. She tries to claim she did a lot as First Lady. She claims she was on the forefront of universal health care, which she was, but the bill she created was just awful and universally panned by everyone but Clinton insiders, who exclusively created the bill without outside input. She claims she played a major role in the Ireland peace talks, and that has been refuted by people who actually played major roles in the Ireland peace talks. She claimed she flew into Bosnia under sniper fire, and we’ve all seen the video.

What many of us Obama supporters aren’t saying is that experience isn’t a legitimate factor. All we’re saying is that Hillary Clinton actually has no more meaningful experience than Obama. That’s what we’re trying to bring to light. Perhaps we just aren’t doing it well enough.

Hillary Clinton is a tired, teary-eyed toddler, banging her fists on ground shouting “I WAAANT TO BE PRESIDEENNNT!”

What a sad affair.

I heard she fancies McCain as her running mate to seal the electability deal.

Great column, Gerald.
Slick Clinton satire.

This is really getting tiresome. The establishment (both Democratic and Republican) are heaping it on Obama because deep down both sides see him as the ultimate threat. He attacks the status quo where “our” representatives are hijacked by monied lobbyists and the fight between the extremes of right and left is more important than doing something for us.

Our constitution has been hijacked by special interests and you can see the results every day. Energy and food costs rise, unemployment looks like it is lurching higher, a recession looms (if it isn’t here already) and jobs move overseas. The economy has only survived this far on the backs of consumers that have been encouraged to spend, spend, spend money they don’t have financed by remortgaging their homes. To blame them for the financial crisis is positively Orwellian. The Administration knew exactly what they were doing and hoped that the bubble wouldn’t burst while they were still in power.

After 7 miserable years and the complete mismanagement of the economy and two wars we need to see real change, not the same old, same old, with papering over the cracks (whatever to color of the paper) while things go on as normal.

Talk of being ready on day one, harping on about Pastor Wright and manufacturing phony issues while posturing on things like the economy, the war and the environment while ignoring the root causes are simply rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Women and children first - and pity the poor souls in steerage!

@ 3:50pm

That isn’t true.