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Hillary the decider?

Posted: Sunday, March 02, 2008 12:56 PM by Mark Murray

From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones
WESTERVILLE, OH -- Clinton, who is stumping across Ohio two days before a must-win primary here, continued to drive home her argument that she is better prepared than her rival to deal with crises as president.

"When the cameras are gone and the lights are out, the president of the United States, as I know very well, is in that White House," she today told a group of supporters gathered in a high school gym here. "And, yes, there are advisers. There's all kinds of people who are saying do this and do that. But the president has to decide."

She continued, "When those calls come at 3:00 am, it might be a national security crisis. You know, it could be an economic crisis. You know, the economy's facing some really troubled waters. Think about what could happen if there were unrest in Nigeria, a terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, oil would shoot to $150 a barrel."

Clinton needs to win in Ohio to stay in the race, according to many political observers, and she spoke today about the importance of the state, a place where the economy is tops on voters' minds.

"Ohio is once again the center of attention for a reason, because Ohio, as Ted Strickland says everywhere I travel with him, truly does represent America -- the kind of hopes and aspirations, the kind of challenges and opportunities, they're all right here in Ohio," she said. "I can go from one end of this state to another, and I can see the growth and the new jobs in a place like Columbus and then I can see the shuttered steel mills in Youngstown. I can be visiting with laid off workers in Toledo, who are just so worried about what's going to happen next and then I can be down in Cincinnati with financial services and others who are doing the jobs that they hope to attract and keep. It is a picture of America."

The event launched what the campaign is calling a "Solutions for America" caravan of canvassers who aim to knock on hundreds of thousands of doors. It kicked off what it's calling an 88 counties in 88 hours tour on Friday in Ohio to reach out to voters and supporters in every county.

State Director Robby Mook called this a "hotly contested race" and said he wasn't paying much attention to polls, focusing instead on getting out the vote. Mook said absentee and early voting rates had been high, but expressed some concern that bad weather could disproportionately affect the southeastern part of the state, where Clinton has a lot of support.

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After seeing the Iranian president calling Iraq, brotherly,  It causes me to be all the more suportive of Sen.  Clinton.
Only she has the knowledge and experience to deal with what may be coming.  It's a dangerous world and there are too many things happening to take a chance on Obama
When was the last time Hillary Clinton was faced with a National Security Crisis, or a National Economic Crisis???

The answer: Iraq. She voted for an INSANE war that's not only making us less safe, but our economy is suffering for it.

After seeing the Iranian president calling Iraq, brotherly,  It causes me to be all the more suportive of Sen.  Clinton.
Only she has the knowledge and experience to deal with what may be coming.  It's a dangerous world and there are too many things happening to take a chance on Obama
question:

how are "likely" voters determined?  no one can seem to answer this question for me?  what is the gender/ethnic/race make up of these voters.  just curious.  seems as if senator clinton has been ahead in all of the polls where senator obama has won, but she's lost those primaries?  what gives.  i REALLY, REALLY hope you can answer this for me.
“… Think about what could happen if there were unrest in Nigeria, a terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, oil would shoot to $150 a barrel."

Good questions Hillary. What would you do about those things?  Go ahead. You said you were ready. We in Ohio are waiting to hear the answers.

Fear, Fear, Fear & More Fear! Real Democrats Don't play on Fear's to get votes. Every Daum 1 of you, that call yourselves Democrat's were Screaming to High Heaven's, every time the GOP pulled this Crap in the last 3 election cycles. Now because Hillary can't connect with the Democratic Base, it's somehow Now, alright to Play the Fear Card. Spin it anyway you Hillary supporter's want, you know 2-4-6 year's ago, You were Outrageously Mad about this type of campaigning, & if you say you were'nt, Then You're Lying to Yourselves.

Get Real is Right!

This morning, Evan Byah (Hillary surragate) was Playing the same Fear Card on Face the nation.It makes me wanna Puke to see Democrat's try & pull the S--T on another Democrat.
    General Hugh Shelton former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has endorsed Hillary, along with former NATO Supreme Commander General Wesley Clark.
It is amazing to my why the Clinton campaign chose this as its closing argument.
If Mark Penn was doing his job he would know that a sizable number of Hillary's white, working class support base is predicated upon Bill Clinton being there at 3 AM to help her out.
As unfair as this view is, it is equaled by the view  held my many in the same part of the Ohio electorate that refuses to believe that a black man can govern at any level as was pointed out by Governor Ed Rendell.
No wonder the Clinton campaign keeps talking about judgment as a proxy for race.
The John Doe basis for supporting Hillary Clinton.

Some of the highlights of the Clinton's foreign policy and its achievements.
1. American service members naked dead bodies being dragged through the streets of Mogadishu after team Clinton denied them the equipment & support they needed to accomplish their mission.
Soon after the remaining forces were withdrawn in what has become known as our first lost battle in the war against al-Qaeda and Islamic extremism.
2. Rwanda is anything but genocide.
What may be the supreme example of the worthlessness of human life when forced to compete in the semantic driven world of team Clinton.
3. We respect international law.
That is except when we bomb the embassy of a nation with the veto power at the United Nations Security Council.
4. That long term deployments of American armed forces to places like Haiti are in our strategic national interests.
5. Spending time before Monica on the Israeli Palestinian peace process was a waste of time.
6. Reducing the military by 40% and calling it a peace dividend was in the strategic national interests of America.
7. Changing the role of the Guard & Reserve from a strategic reserve to an operational reserve because it is more cost effective.
The results of # 6 & 7 are out there or the entire world to see.
8. That the best way to fight Islamic Extremism was to ignore it.
Hence the reason two of our embassies were bombed in Africa post Somalia and Islamic extremism was able to rage unchecked throughout the 1990's. A few cruise missiles excepted.
9. The unabashed belief that failure to support "W"'s war in Iraq would leave you open to charges that you were soft on national security and nobody is gonna call Hillary soft on anything.
Hence the reason so many in America lay the deaths and maiming of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's right at the Clinton's feet.
If they has courage and conviction of belief they would have stood on principal and damn the torpedoes.
Unfortunately for America's service members and their loved ones the Clinton's could not be bothered with trivialities like reading the intelligence reports or taking a principled stand that would stand up to the test of time.
This is the Clinton's foreign policy in a nut shell.
It does not stand up to the test of time.
John Doe, aka HP in Boston,
Enough with the fear card.  Bush and Cheney played it so much the past 8 years that we're all tired of it.  Unfortunately for Senator Clinton, they've already triggered the "boy who cried wolf" phenomenon.  

More importantly, Senator Clinton got the Iraq vote wrong the first time and she got the Iran vote wrong the first time.  We don't need to go for "third time is a charm."
If Obama is CIC, and the phone rings at 3am, we know exactly what he would do. Surrender.
I wish somebody would ask Obama to explain why he has been a member of a all black racist church for 20 years...who supports and praises farrakhan, who is the leader of nation of islam, who hates white people and jewish people.

Why he was and is still friends with William Ayers, who bombed the pentegon and many other places in the US.  

DO some research people, OBama is not going to tell you and the media is sure as hell not mentioning it other than FOx news.   THis is Unreal.
John Doe,
Iraq and Iran ahve Shiite majorities, so the president's visit to Iraq has nothing to do with Hillary's "knowledge and experience". In fact, I read somewhere the Iranian government is trying to befriend itself to Iraq and establish formal ties in the hope of having Iranian influence in Iraq in the face of Sunni Arab countries, as the U.S. tries to weaken Iran's influence in the Middle East by strengthening Arab nations.
We have already seen Iran meddling with Iraq's affairs.
When the lights were off and the cameras were gone, she ran what was supposed to be the "inevitable" campaign into the ground.  

The candidate with 100% of the advantages and a lock on the Democratic establishment support until the past 4 weeks (when people stopped being afraid of Clinton recriminations) has lost 11 contests in a row and has spent her campaign into debt due to extraordinarily wasteful spending on among other things, Mark Penn, the Senator's Chief Strategist who also happens to be a major lobbyist for the Exelon Corporation (yes, the same one he keeps trying to tar and feather Barack for).
Now you see the the photo in Iraq and how it looks. Do you still think having these type of photos with an American President should be spread across the world?
Neither has answered the 3 am call. Who would protect you more. Who are all the Generals endorsing?
Come on Texas...The world is watching you. Get the vote out for Hillary.
I read all the news. Same old Politics with Obama. New York Times.  Hello.....
Farrakhan, Sharpton, Wright.
Transparancy? Closed door secreat meetings in Canada.
The two individuals with the most "traditional experience" in the Senate on Foreign Affairs and National Security, both of whom have known Senator Clinton for most of her "35 years of experience," both endorsed Senator Obama this week.

Senator Clinton, Senator Dodd and Senator Rockefeller have both spoken.  You no longer have the corner on being the best candidate for National Security and Foreign Relations.
She sees herself as a 'Decider' in the way George Bush does ... anybody can make a decision - to make the RIGHT decision, that is the issue.

She is a person of weak character, dishonest and corrupted by the urge to accumulate power. We have seen sooo many faces of 'Hillary' over the past three weeks.

I want a president like Obama, who has ONE face, who is honest and showed critical judgement!

Just look at Hillary's judgement of how she runs her campaign! She absolutely miscalculated ! She was not prepared after Super Tuesday - Obama worked against all the odds, nobody gave him a chance against the all-mighty Clinton machine - she thought we owe her the presidency. BAD JUDGEMENT, HILLARY!

In your ad, Hillary, maybe you should have picked up the phone instead of letting it ring through the entire ad (while you are sitting at the desk at 3 am). In Obama's response the phone rang three times ... get that ?

OBAMA'08
The entire world predicted the outsome of invading Iraq - it would be difficult to keep the peace and we had no plan for what would happen after Sadam's regime fell.  As a result, the middle East is completely destabilized and Al Quaida is growing.  The entire world was correct.  Hillary voted for the war, based on poor intelligence and failure to carefully read and judge intelligence reports.  Barack spoke out against the war from day one.  Who has the critical thinking skills to lead us into this new world?  Who has the multicultural background and foreign life experiences to lead our country in this global world?  Barack Obama does.  As our parents are digging in their heels and holding on to post WWII nationalistic tendencies, our kids are online with peers from all over the world.  They're competing in a global economy.  The old ways don't work anymore, because, as Thomas Friedman of the NY Times said, "The world is flat."  Obama has the knowledge and background necessary for America to survive in this new, connected world.
Hillary is going to protect us from things that go bump in the night?  Really it seems that her campaign is trying to convince us that there's a monster under the bed.
Amid the noise that is a presidential primary, there are moments of clarity, of both fact and conscience.  Much of what we have seen and heard can be explained, but not justified, by raw personal ambition.

The Clinton campaign may well be remembered as historic, but not for the reason she thinks.It is historic as the most negative and disingenuous campaign of any Democratic candidate. It is historic for its repeated departure from truth. It is historic for playing one group of Americans against another, by race, gender, religion and national origin, when we thought we had left that cynical practice in the past, or at least delegated it to Republicans. Hillary's approach to the nomination is reminiscent of blackmail. Unless the voters reverse their preference of another candidate, she proposes to crash the Democratic Party and hand the presidency to McCain.

Is this the kind of leadership we want from our next president? Or would we rather have a president who brings people together? Would we rather have a president who can unite people across party lines to implement solutions to problems and brings healing to wounds inflicted by too many years of the politics of the past? We have the opportunity to choose such a president.

May God help us to always choose the high road when making choices of such magnitude.
Hillary Clinton is who I would trust with our countries security.  So do those who are in the know about such matters. Just look at her endorsement list!   You would have to check your brain at the door to vote for Obama based on his record.  One cheep seats "words" and that is all he can talk about because that is all he has!
REAL MEN VOTE HILLARY!
WOW! Each one is so convinced and presents"facts" to bolster his/her preference. Without a decisive primary vote, this bodes to be a humdinger of a convention in August.  Someone will have lots of word to eat  I do hope the convention can be civil and gracious. My hope is in the Big O.
John Doe, those comments are flat out lies and I am aghast that FirstRead permitted them to be published.

The Jewish Anti-Defamation League has stated that they find no evidence of Obama being an anti-semite (I myself am Jewish and come to the same conclusion).

His church is not "all-black." They have white members.

William Ayers is a well-known and accredited University Professor in Northern Illinois who has never been charged with a crime and has not been affiliated with the Weathermen for 40 years, since Barack Obama was 8 years old! It's not clear that the two actually know each other beyond standing in the same room at a community organizing meeting many years ago. Of over 1 million donors to Barack Obama's campaign, Ayers contributed as well. All of $200.

Stop lying.
I really do think this is an important question.  Who is best equipped to answer the phone....

THE ONGOING argument that Mr. Obama was opposed to the Iraqi Freedom military action is tiresome and inaccurate.  

Mr. Obama was not visible on the national stage at the time of 9-11, and there is little he can do about this except invent a past....  Mr. Obama was not in the Senate and did not have the opportunity to vote "for", "present" OR "against" the war.  He was not elected into the Senate until 2004!  

A little history lesson on the Iraq War.  Please remember that Colin Powell in 2002, as Secretary of State under our current president, argued before our political leadership that the Sunni Muslim dictator Saddam Hussein and Sunni Muslim terrorist Osama bin Laden were in cahoots!  

He presented testimony before the United Nations Security Council that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of chemical weapons, biological weapons (i.e.: anthrax, etc.), and was working to create nuclear weapons in Iraq for the purpose of terrorism.  He drew the picture to ask our political leadership to consider a nuclear bomb being detonated on US soil.    General Colin Powell had a lot of credibility at the time as he had also held the appointment as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during Desert Storm.  He convinced our leaders that the best decision to insure our safety from terrorism, under these circumstances was to go directly onto Iraq with military action.  

Presented with this information, our political leaders who had chosen previously to allow the UN to decide overwhelmingly supported General Powell's recommendations.

Mr. Powell was the first black secretary of state.  He held substantial credibility at the time of this presentation.  Unfortunately, his credibility has been diminished as a result of his part in bringing our country to war.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powel l

I seriously doubt that Mr. Obama would have voted against the war under these circumstances.  He has even been quoted as being pretty wishy-washy on the topic.  "In a meeting with the Chicago Tribune reports at the Democratic National Convention, Obama said, "On Iraq, on paper, there's not as much difference, I think, between the Bush administration and a Kerry administration as there would have been a year ago.  There's not much of a difference between my position and George Bush's position at this stage." (Chicago Tribune, July 27, 2004.)  This was during the time he was running for his first (and only) Senate seat.

Mr. Obama is the worse kind of liar.  One who hides behind a fuzzy truth.  

It is a lie when he says, "I didn't vote for that War!"  He was not in office and was not offered the opportunity.    

He is a Johnny-come-lately, with a swagger big enough to fool many.  

It is almost unbelievable to those of us who do keep track of national and international news, that during this campaign he has been quoted as saying he would "bomb Pakistan" and most recently was apparently unaware that Al Qaeda is in Iraq.

The red phone ad is scary and we do need someone to answer it that is paying attention.  

Vote for Hillary.  She really is prepared and paying attention.
Rick the Nit from Ky: "Fear, Fear, Fear & More Fear! Real Democrats Don't play on Fear's to get votes."

Really? The Dims never used fear for all those gun laws they passed? Never used fear to say that "Little Johnnie" will go to jail unless we pay for more funding to the schools? Never used fear of grandma dying because she couldn't go to the doctor?

Real Democrats are all about using fear to get their way.
Hillary Clinton's point is well taken. However, while it may ground us in reality, it may also invoke fear in some. In 2004, President Clinton made a rousing speech to vote for thought and hope and NOT fear.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RGW38Zy4bJo
DEFENDING AMERICA what Hillary CLINTON she did in 2002 is ONE THING, and BE A COWARD, or create your mind that all AMERICANS ARE INMORTAL is another THING, so STOP THAT CRITICISM ABOUT tHE WAR, when you have chance, and be lucky other countries in time of war you would be speaking, but maybe she meant but with all the diplomacy.
Americans one thing is (protect and provide) FOR YOUUUU, and maybe was the vote of the SENATOR, and other thing is to MEANT THE MESS.  IF VENEZUELA ATTACK COLOMBIA, WHAT DID YOU THING THE COLOMBIA's they will do DEEEFEND THEMSELF, so is login AFTER 9/11 SHE FELT THE PAIN FOR THIS NATION, THE PRotection you was needed @ THE TIME OF WAR DECLARE, and the provision you have to HAVE THE FREEDOM TO WRITE of ALL Contents that by common sense is come for people the only see race and gender, as many white are racist, many black talk about that but they are the very racist in the way some of you talk.
I do not want someone who will make a split-second, unilateral decision at 3 in the morning.  I want someone who has the ability to bring the right people together in order to quickly find a solution to a crisis.

The real difference between Obama and Clinton, which is clouded by the buzz words experience and change, is the style of leadership they offer our country.

Do we want someone who is willing to make a unilateral decision quickly or do we want someone who will stop, think, ask and then decide.  I want someone who will consider what is happening and make an informed decision, not someone who believes that the sum total of their experiences gives them the right to make a fast, decisive decision without consulting anyone else.

The presidency is not about making decisions on your own, it is about being the face of this country to the world and gathering enough information to make an informed decision.
AMERICANS have everything by granted.  If you don't vote for HILLARY is not need to be a profet or to have cristal ball to see it, JuST I SAY "DON't PLay WITH YOUR LUCK"  American and the world will be in a big worst mess. AT LEAST right now, we have the chance to write those notes. thank you  
i wonder when hillary's remaining loyalists will finally realize her entire campaign is based on the assumption everyone is an idiot who cannot apply logical thinking to a most illogical campaign?
For those who think Hillary is the right choice on on Foreign Relations and building a strong article...you may want to read this article from the Wall Street Journal which shows a very distrubing release on 16 known NALN terrorists, an act that Hillary openly supported until public opinion went negative...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120277819085260827.html?mod=Letters
Obama is unknown, just a spoiled playboy and no one has the slightest idea about how he would react in a crisis.

We need Hillary in that chair.

Hillary 08!!!
Obama is unknown, just a spoiled playboy and no one has the slightest idea about how he would react in a crisis.

We need Hillary in that chair.

Hillary 08!!!
Hillary IS THE MONSTER UNDER THE BED.  If it is about fear I am going with McCain, not some first lady who has had some recent bi-polar issues!
HRC, is c crock of sheite, these scare tactics are coming from Billy boy. Washington self serving paper hanging S.O.B's have undermined this nation. Its time to send all of them packing!! They have screwed this nation long enough!!!! Point "" the nation is ready to shut down, Trucking industry is being raped and when they can't drive we don't exist!! Wake up America,, Washington is one big pure lie!!  You vote for Clinton ""you seal your own fate!!!!!
Sorry, Hillary.  You can't scare me into voting for you.  Shame on you for trying.
Is anybody else not completely ill over the use of dirty campaign tactics by HRC & her campaign?  She is, repeatedly, playing the negative card against us, her own party.  It's as though she is attacking every Democrat's intelligence when she attacks Obama...  & she expects us to just 'line up behind her & support her' if she gets the nomination?  Yeah, sure, line up like the proverbial sheep on their way to the slaughterhouse!  Well, I, for one, will NOT put up with this crap anymore. I officially declare today that if Hillary (or for that matter her pig-faced spouse, Bill) Clinton is the nominee of the Democratic party, that I will NOT ONLY not vote for her, but will actively campaign for one of her opponents...  Furthermore, I declare that I will NEVER again vote for anybody who endorses her (or continues to endorse her) from this day on.  Yes, Hillary, it is about more than just being power hungry.  It is about having respect for the highest office in the world, something Hillary Rodham Clinton obviously & absolutely does not.
Why doesn't anybody remember that when the iraq war vote hit the senate most of the American PEOPLE WERE FOR THE WAR, it was not until a poll in 2005!!! showed that a majority of Americans had too switched their support from for the war to against it. 3 YEARS later. And now those same people whining when elected officials (i.e. superdelegates) get to vote against their vote if they so decide are upset that the Senate did not do so then in 2002 when the legislation hit the Senate. What hypocrisy. Disgusting.
Call me a chauvinist if you want, but I DO NOT WANT AN OLD LADY (she's 60) IN CHARGE OF NATIONAL SECURITY.  

I say it this way because Clinton is running on gender, she is talking about staffing her cabinet based on gender, she is winning along gender lines, so this justifies me raising a gender question and a gender specific roll.  

You can say whatever you want about how women can do what men do, that's BS. Some things men do better and some things women do better, with that said women are not cut out to fight men, especially OLD WOMAN (Thatcher  was a phenomenon that Hillary is not.)    

Come to your senses here. It is ridiculous to think that an old lady would be a better Commander-and-Chief, than McCain, because if she wins the nomination that's who she'll need to beat.  I did not know this nut was so hawkish, maybe that explains her support invading Irag and Iran.  

Think about it, what would even drive a woman to want to drop bombs on people, order invasions, rationalize who to kill, who to take over, who not to take over.  

Seriously.    
Go Hillary..... We're here to support your candidacy.. You are the best fit CIC of this country.
PEOPLE WAKE UP..... YOU ARE CHOOSING THE WRONG CANDIDATE. President should be well experience and
can handle the job even at 3 am just to answer the national security issue. WHAT CHANGE IS OBAMA TALKING ABOUT.....
"When the cameras are gone and the lights are out, the president of the United States, as I know very well, is in that White House"

Doing what?

"it might be a national security crisis. You know, it could be an economic crisis"

What about a family crisis?

Hillary, if you could'nt anticapate, defuse and rehabilate your own relationship, why would we rely on your insight now?

"Think about what could happen if there were unrest in Nigeria, a terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia"?  

You might just keep on dreaming, hoping it would all go away.....
Roger; how can you say why she got the endorsements for sure.  I get really tired of people says that if we vote for Obama we do not have a brain.  I could say the same for people who vote for Hillary.  I have read about both and because of a lot of things that have happened with Hillary, I can not vote for her ever, I have to trust the person that I vote for.  And I do not go in for smear remarks or untruths.
Hillary is pathetically desparate. She's trying to play the fear card now? Shame on you Hillary....Shame on you.
For that reason alone she will lose in Texas. She'll win very narrowly in Ohio because of the Jewish votes. She will be a sore loser. Just take her with her hatred and evil soul away from us voters. We need a clean America, enough with the stale air!
Trust Hillary Clinton?  Are you daft?  She and Bill have shown themselves to be anything but trustworthy.

What exactly has Hillary accomplished with her 1.5 Senate terms?   Obama is just into his first term has several piece of legislation with his name on them, including:

"Lugar-Obama Nuclear Nonproliferation Legislation Signed into Law January 11, 2007"

http://obama.senate.gov/press/070111-lugar-obama_non/

Or how about this:

"U.S. Senators Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) and Barack Obama (D-IL) today applauded the Office of Management and Budget for launching ahead of schedule the web site www.USAspending.gov that will feature the most comprehensive searchable database of federal spending ever made available to the American public. The site is the product of legislation, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (S. 2590), sponsored by Senators Coburn and Obama, that was signed into law last year."

http://obama.senate.gov/press/071213-coburn_and_obam/

Someone help me out here.  What legislation of note has Hillary Clinton sponsored and gotten into law in her three times longer time in the Senate than Obama?

What foreign policy or economic crisis has she faced and handled?



The problem with hill billy is - when you wake up at 3:00 AM, they will first take a poll to see which way the wind is blowing and then decide. Based on the decision process they followed, we might as well have a monkey.

The issue of leadership is not just judgement, but willing to take a stance and sticking through. Hillary has shown through the compaign her willingness to change the message and messenger based on what sticks. That is not presidential. I think she has tremendous capability to be a terrific sec. of state or one key member of the new government that will execute - but she clearly lacks the ability to look ahead
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I never could understand how people throughout time could fall for propaganda and be duped into following a questionable leader.  After watching how the media has influenced people's thinking and how a charismatic Pied Piper like speaker has gotten enormous numbers of people to follow him, I now understand how it happens.  I keep thinking back to WWII and the many people who followed other charismatic speakers and how the peoples' freedoms were gradually taken away.  And now it is happening here.  And many of the American people  don't have a clue that it is happening to them.  Those whom don't remember history are doomed to repeat it. We are in the most frightening presidential race of my lifetime.
Not unless she wins Ohiop and TEXAS..that is unless she is again going back on her word and putting her desires in front of what is best for the Democratic Party once again. Her husband has said it, she has said it and now it sounds like they are trying to iognore what even their close friends are telling them. Unless she wins both states by 65%, even if she won PA, there will not be enough delegates to win this thing even with the remaining super delegates. Bring FL & MI in and they have to hold new primaries as not way will the DNC let it stand since Obama is ahead in the National votes EVEN with the numbers from FL added in. MI can't count since Obama was not on the ballot. Facts they have to deal with or show the American public that they do not care what they think.


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