If I were Obama, I would be very scared now...an endorsement from John Kerry is a death sentence.  This is one endorsement Hillary is thankful she did not get.  

Operative charged with fraud linked to Obama

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=5896976&ch=4226716&src=news

This type of lunacy is why this country is in a mess.  The same people that get us into trouble all stay together. America will get what it deserves, more of the same old crap.  Only John Edwards can right the ship. The media and the establishment know this and have tried to eliminate Edwards. Wake up voters.

Edwards 08!

IT REALLY DOESNT MATTER    AMERICA WILL NEVER ELECT A DEM         WHY
THEY HATE THE SOLDIERS, AND PRAY TO LOSE THE WAR AND THEIR DEATS AT THEIR FUNERALS   THATS TREASON

THEY TRADE FOODSTAMPS AND WELFARE FOR ILLEGAL  VOTES  WHY PROTESTING VOTER CARD

THEIR CHILDREN FORM GANGS THAT MURDER AND ROB AND INFEST WITH DRUGS

THEY MAKE BILL CLINTON THEIR ROCKSTAR, WHICH PROVES THEY HAVE NO MORALS

THE WHITE TRASHY DEM WOMEN MAKE ADULT PARTY STORES WEALTHY BUYING BLACK TOYS

IT REALLY DOESNT MATTER    AMERICA WILL NEVER ELECT A DEM         WHY
THEY HATE THE SOLDIERS, AND PRAY TO LOSE THE WAR AND THEIR DEATHS AT THEIR FUNERALS   THATS TREASON

THEY TRADE FOODSTAMPS AND WELFARE FOR ILLEGAL  VOTES  WHY PROTESTING VOTER CARD

THEIR CHILDREN FORM GANGS THAT MURDER AND ROB AND INFEST WITH DRUGS

THEY MAKE BILL CLINTON THEIR ROCKSTAR, WHICH PROVES THEY HAVE NO MORALS

THE WHITE TRASHY DEM WOMEN MAKE ADULT PARTY STORES WEALTHY BUYING BLACK TOYS

Obama seems to be getting a wave of endorsements following the loss. I expected this to happen for Clinton. I guess all this means is that he's not going to go quietly in this fight. Nevada and SC should be very very interesting. Even if the SC polls show Obama up by 15% by the end, I'm not going to believe them until I actually see the results.

I would like to hear the candidates all talk about how they will work with Congress in implementing their plans...looks like Obama may have one up on everyone else here with a 'next best thing to Nancy' friend in the bunch...

What will he do to call the republicans to action, to cross the 'ties that bind'? Do you think that endorsement by such a far left thinking crowd hurts his efforts with the independant/undecided more moderate thinking crowd?

Huge, News!!! You can bet some in the establishment wing of the party will follow this endorsement.More Super Delegates coming our way, Barack supporter's.

One thing i would like to say to all Barack supporter's is this.I personally feel race was'nt a factor in New Hampshire, it was more of a Sympathy vote for the MSM pummeling Hillary in a way they don't male candidates.Race baiting or whatever you wanna call it, get's us nowhere.Stay Positive & we'll WIN this Democratic nomaination & the PRESIDENCY.

Barack Obama for President!!!!!!!!!

This should be good news for Senator Obama, right? I am wondering has Senator Kennedy endorsed anyone yet?

Wow, John Kerry is endorsing Obama? Well now THATS kind of like the kiss of death considering what people think of Kerry now- a nice man, but an ineffectual loser.

Courage, Courage, Courage.
We Need Real Change.
Bush-Clinton, Bush-Clinton, Bush Clinton is no Change.
Thank You Senator Kerry for standing up for what is right.
Fired Up & Ready To GO.
Go OBAMA.

Yes, we need the establishment to get behind Obama.

This is good.  Kerry still has a lot of supporters.

Now...just need Gore to endorse Obama.  That would be the biggest endorsement EVER!

This is not good news for The Hill[ary]! She's starting now to lose the super delegates to Obama.

Makes the endorsements look even better for the endorser -- if they had done it after a win, it would have been easy. This means there is a bit more conviction behind them.

This should be good news for Senator Obama, right? I am wondering has Senator Kennedy endorsed anyone yet?

Dot, Illinois

_________


Senator Kennedy always endorses Jack Daniels.

Kennedy won't endorse Barack, I'd be surprised if he endorses anyone.  Gore is the wildcard.
John Kerry's endorsement is great.  From what I hear, it'll include his fund raising network which is substantial.  He'll also be important for winning in New England.  I also got to wonder if Kerry is seeing similarities between the way Hillary's running her campaign and how Bush ran his.  She had an ad out called "the Stakes", which is the same name of bush's 2004 ad with the wolves.  She's deceptively called Obama a flip flopper on Iraq.  She warned that we face a real possibility of a terrorist attack next year, and Obama may not be ready to deal with that........

This should be good news for Senator Obama, right? I am wondering has Senator Kennedy endorsed anyone yet?

Dot, Illinois (Sent Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:06 AM)

It is really good news. He is a big name Senator who won the nomination 4 years ago. It will likely convince some establishment types that Obama is for real. It's also likely good news on the superdelegate front.

I'm not as excited about Ted Kennedy.

Though it won't have much impact on Obama's poll numbers, this endorsement drives home the point that most elected Democrats do not believe that Hillary can draw in the moderates and independents needed to win in November. Kerry should know this.

It's getting bad when a Northeast liberal turns on another Northeast liberal. Kerry better keep his dog in the house the next few nights. Wouldn't want anything to happen to it.

PAYBACK!!

Kerry's endorsement of Obama could very well spell doom. Edwards' and his camp are very resentful of Kerry, and Edwards and Obama are in support of each other "Alliance of passion" or whatever. Edwards people couldn't possibly flock to a person who's being endorsed by flip flop wearing swift boat victimized John Kerry. Or... even as a Clintonista, I can admit this could be troublesome.

Then again, there are still Gore and Kennedy up for endorsements. One thing about the Kennedy nod - it carries substantial weight with no baggage.

Kerry could very well be insubstantial if not a net negative. Democrats don't like Dean or Kerry at all for absolutlely blowing that election cycle.

I do not care who endorses Obama at this stage.  The Clinton Machine I told my mother, last night, a Hillary Supporter here in FL is going to be impossible to beat from here on....they will not make the same mistake twice; a line from the movie; "The Hunt For Red October"  I love Obama, but we live in a country dominated by news cycles, and that is why, even though I am in his camp, I am so afraid of the big bad wolf out there who will never vote for him because he is "FRESH and EXCITING".

George Miller is a great Congressman
The Bay Area is blessed wtih a number of them

I think Barbara Lee has already endorsed Obama
Pete Stark ?

Couple these endorsements with the Culinary Workers and SEIU in Nevada !!

Not bad

jaz,il,c:'...Operative charged with fraud linked to Obama....'

Actually, Norman Hsu is linked to Hillary
I think he's just been sentenced
Did she give back ALL the money ?

i like what both canidates are saying but we had the clintons already both of them for eigth years its time we elect a president thats about the future experience means nothing look at the way the country is now with experience give a rookie the ball and lets see what can happen  barrack is the man tiger woods to the white house the time is now

Great news, he will get more fired up!!!!!!

i have heard two different storys about the exit polls in nh . one siad that the exit polls came out with obama up by as much as 5 to 8 points . I have read this on several links . If this is not true can someone send me to a link that shows that not to be so. not to harp on the results just want to know .

No new endorsements for Hillary? QUICK!! Someone better grab some Kleenex --she's gonna erupt!!

if this country really wants to change washington politics,it had better go for a new comer like Obama.. Mrs. Clinton has all kinds of people her and her husband owe favors to and this will be a case of the same old way of doing things if she is elected. This is also true with some of the other canadates. What we need is a new idea not experious if we expect to change and listen to the people of this nation. Also remember that the new president will hopefully surround himself with good people to help him not all the yes men like Mr. Bush has

kerry indorsed oboma because he feels the clintons did not help him as much as they could have when he ran for president in '04.  the clinton's motive, (which was the popular theory back then) was that hillary wanted him to lose--so that would open the door for her to win in '08.

In 2006 obama voted against a Senate resolution calling for the withdrawal of troops and has also voted to continue funding the war

Kerry is just angry because Hillary didn't campaign hard enough for him.  Pure spite and sour grapes. Again Clinton supporters please email me at deblasiogwae@hotmail.com to agree to vote Repub in the fall if the unqualified Obama is the nominee.  Cancel your subscription to the NY Times too!!

Citizen J

I'm curious.  Does Senator Kennedy's endorsement carry any (excuse the term) weight or has he lost the political clout his family once had?  Is he capable of turning our large blocs of voters for the candidate he choose to endorse?

i have heard two different storys about the exit polls in nh . one siad that the exit polls came out with obama up by as much as 5 to 8 points . I have read this on several links . If this is not true can someone send me to a link that shows that not to be so. not to harp on the results just want to know .

ki houston (Sent Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:24 AM)

I don't know about that, but I did my own calculation that I haven't seen anywhere yet. MSNBC has a list of the results from each city/county/village (or however they divided it). Here are the results:

Obama wins 54% of them (or 128)
Clinton wins 45% (or 106)
Edwards wins 0.4% (or 1)
Richardson wins 0.4% (or 1)


I appears that Obama won in MORE places, but Clinton won in the RIGHT places.

jerry/tx, do you have a sense of where the independents are leaning on Feb. 5th. Could they knock Hillary Clinton out in your neck of the woods or are they leaning towards McCain?

obama,  i hope kerry looks after obama real good he will not win with kerry

This is a slap in the face of the status-quo!

People who take courage in endorsing Obama really ought to be seen as people who have seen the light!

Thank you, Senator Kerry.

I'm curious.  Does Senator Kennedy's endorsement carry any (excuse the term) weight or has he lost the political clout his family once had?  Is he capable of turning our large blocs of voters for the candidate he choose to endorse?

Dot, Illinois (Sent Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:29 AM)

Dot,

It really is hard to say. He definitely carries weight (hehe). I think he is one of the types where you either like him or you don't. He might pull some more liberal voters, but he also might push away some independents - which Obama already has and needs. At the end of the day, I think all the Democratic candidates would be better off if he didn't endorse. The political climate this year just isn't the best for a guy like him to endorse.

How does Obama square this with the new politics of hope?  I thought Kerry was precisely what he was running against--entrenched failures.  This is a net positive for Clinton.  Obama is giving up his only trump card--new and fresh.  Obviouisly, that's a total fraud.

Obama fans, I have put this question out for three days and  I have yet to get an answer.  Why did Obama vote "Present" on every bill that came up in the the Ill. Senate having to do with a woman's right to choose?  I know one thing, Hillary would never vote "Present" on any woman's right to choose bill.  Why would any Democrat vote for a person who doesn't have the conviction to vote for a bill concering a woman's right to choose?  And the media wants to talk about Hillary Trianglelating?

Also, why would any Democrat vote for Cheney's energy bill, that was written by Enron, like Obama did? You know the bill that gave billions of tax breaks to the oil companies. Hillary did not vote for it, for that reason.  I have still yet to hear an explanation for that vote and why hasn't the media talked about that either?  

You Obama fans can bring up her Iraq vote, we all know about that and I don't agree with that either.  But Obama fans, please give me an explanation.

Is it that you can't justify his actions and choose not to answer this question, or is it that you had know idea because the media never told you anything about his record?  I will keep posting this question until someone who supports Obama can explain his voting record on these issues.  

Posted this yesterday, but no posts seemed to go up yesterday, so I'm re-posting today.  

--- Did Chris Matthews actually say this morning on Morning Joe that the only reason Hillary Clinton is a front runner in the Democratic primary is because her husband messed around on her?????

That's it people.  I've been posting here for months, through all the ups and downs and I think I just hit the end of my dignity tolerance.  I'm gone.

I will not participate in this mysogynistic tabloid shredding of MY government.  This is not American Idol, Matthews is not Simon Cowell and this has ceased to be even remotely funny.  This man needs serious help and I am washing my hands of this entire network.  I will no longer post here, I will no longer watch Morning Joe, and I will really miss Mika, until this network at least trys to regain some dignity and Chris Matthews publicly apologises to not only Hillary, but every American man and woman for treating our election system like an episode of 'Real World.'

I'm realllly going to miss Olberman too, this just really sucks.  ---

So this is actually my last post on any MSNBC blog.
Just can't take the hate anymore from a supposedly 'unbiased' media, the man is pig and makes me embarrassed to be the same gender as him.

obama real story
http://www.newstatesman.com/200801100000

We at the New Statesman must take some of the blame, I suppose. Barack Obama had been a senator for just ten months in 2005 when we devoted a cover to his face, anointing him as one of ten people likely to have an impact on the world. It was only during 2007, however, that the American media fell head-over-heels in love with Obama; when he trounced Hillary Clinton in the Democratic party caucuses in Iowa on 3 January, it seemed that the electorate was swooning in a headlong rush to the altar with Obama, too. By the end of the first week of the '08 presidential election year, the media had all but handed over the keys to the White House to him.

So it all came as a shock to the pundits and pollsters on the night of 8 January when, despite predictions of an overwhelming Obama triumph, it became clear that the voters of New Hampshire had given Hillary Clinton the victory over Obama she badly needed. The reason for the media's distortions, I believe, is that Obama's relationship with the press and the electorate is still at the stage of starry-eyed infatuation. Yes, he is a mesmerising political orator who offers a magic elixir that somehow contains both stimulants and sedatives: that we need not worry about the present or future, because we can look forward to a new dawn of hope and reassurance in the safe hands of President Obama. Exactly how and why this would happen is not clear, but it is heady and exciting stuff.

I suspect that the longer the relationship continues, however, the more Obama's many faults and shortcomings as a presidential candidate will emerge. In his speech admitting defeat in New Hampshire on Tuesday, for example, a hint of his bad-tempered haughtiness emerged. He is not the fresh-faced young idealist the media like to portray, but a hard-headed 46-year-old lawyer whose monumental drive and political calculations make the Clintons seem like a pair of amateurs. The media and electorate may have fallen in love with him spontaneously, but Obama has been carefully plotting his strategy to seduce them for decades.



A little "blow"

Even dedicated political operators such as the Clintons, for example, did not publish self-promoting memoirs at the age of 33 - but that is exactly what Obama did, revealing his use of cocaine ("a little blow") before anybody else could beat him to it, for example. In those memoirs, Dreams from My Father, he burnished a personal and political résumé that, in places, seemed almost unbelievable - so I was not surprised to read in his introduction to the reissued edition of "selective lapses of memory" and "the temptation to colour events in ways favourable to the writer".

I'll provide two brief examples of how Obama did just that. He wrote movingly of a turning point in his life when, as a nine-year-old, he read in Life magazine of a "black man who had tried to peel off his skin". But the Chicago Tribune - it and the Chicago Sun-Times being honourable exceptions to the media quiescence I have described - reported that "no such Life issue exists", and an exhaustive search of similar magazines failed to find any article remotely similar to the one Obama had described. The Obama media machine, too, obligingly enabled television crews this month to interview Obama's very elderly Kenyan "grandmother"; the only problem was that the woman in rural Kenya was not Obama's grandmother, but the alleged foster mother of Obama's father. "Give me a break . . . this whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen," huffed Bill Clinton, visiting Dartmouth College on the eve of the New Hampshire vote, telling his audience the US media are not being tough enough on Obama.

Politically, there is remarkably little difference between the three leading Democrats - Obama, Hillary Clinton and John Edwards. Obama was not in the Senate in 2002 and did not therefore vote for the resolution that authorised the invasion of Iraq. But he has not been the sainted man of peace his supporters portray, either. In his three years in the Senate he has kept his head safely below the parapet, leaving two congressional colleagues - Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Representative John Murtha of Pennsylvania - to spearhead opposition to the war on Capitol Hill. In 2006 he voted against a Senate resolution calling for the withdrawal of troops and has also voted to continue funding the war.

Most recently, he said he would not hesitate to send US troops into Pakistan without Pakistan's permission to hunt down terrorists, and he insists that the US must not "cede our claim of leadership in world affairs". He wants the military to "stay on the offensive, from Djibouti to Kandahar" and to increase defence expenditure. Like most identikit US mainstream politicians, he talks of "rogue nations" and "hostile dictators", and says the US must maintain "a strong nuclear deterrent" and be ready to "seize" the "American moment". He appeared to support Israel's attack on Lebanon, but then said "nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people" - which, in turn, he denied saying.

In the meantime he let his mentor and fellow senator from Illinois, Dick Durbin, swing alone in the wind after Durbin - perhaps the most liberal Democrat in the Senate - compared US interrogation techniques of prisoners in Guantanamo with those of the Soviet Union, Nazis and Khmer Rouge. He voted to reauthorise the Bush administration's repressive Patriot Act, and says that as president he would not rule out a US first-strike nuclear attack on Iran.

His equivocations and contradictions thus proliferate. He promised solemnly on coast-to-coast live television on NBC in 2006 that he would complete his six-year Senate term and definitely not run for the presidency. He voted in favour of President Bush's nomination of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state. I am not the first to see Obama's self-portrayal as almost Christlike: a young black man is tormented by racism and gets into drugs, and only his own inner goodness rescues him from the ghettos to which he was surely consigned. Human foibles - that he smokes and likes playing poker, for example - are determinedly kept under wraps.



Dysfunctional

The sad point of all this is that the reality of his life is actually much more fascinating than the manufactured version. His background is strikingly dysfunctional but by no means economically underprivileged. His eccentric white American mother met his Kenyan father when both were students at the University of Hawaii, but like so many male politicians - Bill Clinton, for one - his father, an alcoholic who ended up fathering several families before being killed in a car accident in Kenya in 1982, was literally and figuratively absent from his life. He abandoned Obama and his mother to take up a scholarship at Harvard when the young Barack was a toddler. So much for his Kenyan "relatives".

His mother, who died in 1995, subsequently remarried an Indonesian student destined to become an oil company executive, and the newlyweds took the young Obama to live in Jakarta when he was six. He duly attended a local school that the Fox News channel gleefully but inaccurately labelled a madrasa. His middle name, like his father's, is Hussein - though Obama insists that his father was not, in fact, a Muslim but an atheist. The adult Obama now attends the evangelical Trinity United Church of Christ in Chi cago and says he is a devout Christian.

The young Obama acquired a half-sister when he lived in Jakarta (she is now a Buddhist), but his mother sent him to live permanently with his white grandparents in Honolulu when he was ten. He then began a new, elitist life that even he describes as "a childhood dream": surfing in Hawaii and attending the renowned private Punahou School, founded by Congregationalist missionaries in 1841 and known to local people as a school for the haole (whites). Its annual tuition today costs $15,725.

Far from being the brilliant student his image suggests, Obama was a consistently B-grade pupil. He went on to attend Occidental College, a perfectly respectable private liberal arts college in Los Angeles, but hardly an academic powerhouse; its present-day endowment is $377m. He transferred to Columbia University in New York and completed his degree there, and finally graduated with a degree from Harvard Law School at the age of 30. His upwardly mobile ascent had begun, and Obama joined the Chicago law firm of Miner, Barnhill & Galland. He began his professional political career when he stood successfully for the Illinois General Assembly (the state senate) in 1996.

Here we come to one of the major contradictions between Obama's image and reality. The media, both here and in Britain, assume that Obama has the black vote sewn up - a Daily Telegraph columnist, with stupendous racism, casually asserted on Monday that Hillary Clinton has lost an opportunity because American blacks now "have one of their own to support" - but Obama is regarded with suspicion by most African Americans. My postman, for example, screws up his face with disdain at the mere mention of Obama's name. He alienated much of the black political Establishment in 2000, when he ran unsuccessfully in the Democratic primaries against the incumbent congressman for an Illinois district, Representative Bobby Rush - a former Black Panther and current leading member of the Congressional Black Caucus. His congressional district has more black people than any other in the country, and Obama lost to Rush by 31 points.

In a career that has seemed - until now, at least - to be unstoppable, he nonetheless went on to win the Democratic nomination to run for the US Senate in 2004. The seat was being vacated by a retiring Republican, Peter Fitzgerald, but Obama had a tremendous stroke of luck: the former wife of his strong Republican opponent, Jack Ryan, made sordid allegations about their sex life and Ryan was forced to drop out. He was replaced by Alan Keyes, a former black activist and diplomat who had morphed into a figure of the far right and become one of America's fully paid-up political lunatics. Obama, having won national attention for the first time by delivering the keynote address at John Kerry's Democratic coronation convention in Boston the previous July, won by a 70-27 per cent landslide.

Which brings us back to his entry to the Senate in 2005 and our cover of him less than ten months later. Part of Obama's contrived sainthood is an undertaking that he will not take funds from lobbyists or political action committees. But, like the Clintons and just about any other American politician, he has assiduously done just that. According to the Washington Post, Hillary Clinton has so far raised $78,615,215 and Obama $78,915,507; Obama's campaign has relied heavily on people such as Kenneth Griffin, a Chicago-based hedge-fund manager who reportedly earned $1.4bn last year.

The further away you get from Chicago, though, the more the saintly image takes hold. Publications like the New Yorker may coo for pages over "the conciliator", but the two Chicago newspapers are much more interested in Obama's close 17-year friendship with Antoin "Tony" Rezko, a long-time Obama donor and property developer awaiting trial on charges of attempted extortion, money laundering and fraud. A low-income housing project received more than $14m from taxpayers while Obama was a state senator, but he consistently denied that he had done any favours for Rezko.



The hope mantra

That was until the Chicago Sun-Times unearthed two letters Obama wrote to state officials in 1998 urging them to grant extra funds for Rezko's project. Democrats and Republicans alike in Chicago, too, are intrigued by the question of why Obama paid $1.65m for a mansion in the city's south side in 2005 - $300,000 less than the asking price - on the very same day Rezko's wife happened to buy the house next door for the asking price. In their tax return for the following year, Obama and his wife, Michelle, who is vice-president of a non-profit hospital organisation, reported taxable income of $983,826 for 2006, down from $1.6m the previous year.

"Hope" is the mantra word in Obama's magic elixir, but Bruce Reed - president of the Democratic Leadership Council - points out that tens of millions of Americans are supporting Obama not because of what he's done, but because of what they hope he might do. "We don't need leaders to tell us we can't do what we need to do," Obama said in a typical stump speech on 7 January. "We need them to say 'yes, we can', to say 'yes, we believe'."

Huge crowds roar their approval over lines like this, long on beautifully delivered rhetoric but short on facts and concrete undertakings. A casual observer might assume Obama is proposing a vastly more ambitious health-care plan than Clinton; in fact, the reverse is true.

Those who know Obama say privately that he has a healthy sense of entitlement that often manifests itself in an imperious, thin-skinned manner. We caught just a glimpse of this peevishness in his concession speech in New Hampshire, I thought - of a man somehow denied his rightful Schadenfreude over the second humiliating defeat of Clinton that he and the American punditocracy had confidently anticipated. Obama's latest book may be called The Audacity of Hope, but it really should be called The Audacity of Hype.

John Kerry is ridiculous. The ticket should have been reversed in 04 (Edwards/Kerry) or better yet; Kerry wouldn't have been on it at all. I did vote for Kerry but only becuase Edwards was his running mate and of course GWB was on the other side. Sorry Obama. You probably didn't want this endorsement.

Go John Edwards!!! You have my vote just like you did 4 years ago.

To David Anders from Pharr, TN. It is obvious that you're an IDIOT. If you go to the military, which you probably won't like many of your Republican politicians, you will see that most of the soldiers on the ground are DEMOCRATS, hispanics, Blacks. For you to say that democrats want to lose the war and want soldiers to die tells me that you believe anything Karl Rove and the rest of the Rep. Liars will say. We can always help someone with getting a proper education, but it's difficult to help IDIOTS from backwards states...like you DAVID

Actually, Norman Hsu is linked to Hillary
I think he's just been sentenced
Did she give back ALL the money ?

I'm not sure did the rest of the Democratic candidates give theirs back?  The media never reports that Obama and Edwards also recieved donations from Hsu, which is why you never see them bring it up in a debate or on the stump.  

Obama fans need to do your homework and stop believing everything you read or the pundits on TV.  You would think NH would have taught you that.  

I'm still waiting for an answer on why Obama voted for Cheney's energy bill.  

I agree, I don't believe that race was a factor in NH (and I'm African American). I think a lot of the NH voters who were on the fence but were leaning toward Obama voted for Hillary out of sympathy. That kind of last minute turn around reeks of an emotional decision.  I don't believe for a second the tearing up was genuine, and I feel like she played the gender card.  It's not her first time doing it (remember the debate a couple of months ago in NV I believe, where Richardson jumped to her defense) and she later said that she was the only woman on the stage and was basically being attacked.  Then Bill Clinton comes out and apologizes for her not being young, tall, and male (an embarrassment). Women felt sorry for her. She BARELY won NH.  The sympathy vote pushed her over the top.    

Lynn from Piedmont, I actually could send you the link to no less than 4 longterm congressmen from large cities in (oh look at that!) Nevada of all places , an acting governor, a retired governor and his wife, and pretty much everyone who worked with Biden's campaign in Nevada and abroad.

Travis, Louisville, Ky.

---> One thing about the Kennedy nod - it carries substantial weight

He is getting a little heavy.

--> with no baggage.

Now there's a coincidence. That's the same thing Ted called Mary Jo.

Again Clinton supporters please email me at deblasiogwae@hotmail.com to agree to vote Repub in the fall if the unqualified Obama is the nominee.

Please Democrats, do not vote republican.  The Supreme court is at stake in this election.  It only takes one more judge on the court to swing it to overturning a woman's right to choose.  Not voting for Obama,Hillary, or Edwards and voting republican for the election or not voting at all because of spite is ridiculous.  You are acting like children.  We should support whoever the nominee is from the Democratic party!

Thanks John Kerry and George Miller (the latter being Nancy's buddy) for the powerful endorsements.  I think that the Democratic establishment recognizes that a Clinton candidacy will trigger a Bloomberg run for the presidency.  The Dems want to avoid that situation at all costs.  Bloomberg won't run if Obama is the nominee.

But, not only will a Clinton presidency dangerously risk our chance at regaining the presidency (by encouraging a three person race), it will lose the Congress for us (by rallying conservative voters against her).  Nancy et al. recognize this and know that HRC will be Congressional-race poison for the Democrats in 2008.  

It's time for all good men/women to come to the aid of their party.  We should all unite behind Obama and then it's on to Washington in November; a bloodless coup for a restoration of the Constitution.

BTW don't be surprised if both Kennedy and Gore along with Richardson, all endorse Obama over the next week.  If Edwards is smart he'll get on board soon as well; I think that the CW is that the longer that John stays in the race, the more he helps Hillary.  And afterall, who would make a better, tougher AG than John Edwards?  Honestly, he has the makings the toughest U.S. cop that the nation has ever seen (against corporate shenanigans) and I mean that as the sincerest of compliments.  
Obama '08

The true test for Obama will be the white folks in the South. If he can not win the South, the GOP will return to the White House (my worst nightmare). Unfortuately we still live in a nation were certain states continue to have problems with people of color serving in leadership positions (regardless of their qualifications). if you don't believe me, just ask Harold Ford of Tennessee. During his run for the Senate seat, the white folk just couldn't bare the tought and thus began the race attacks. It will be worst for Obama.

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