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Clinton wins Rhode Island

Posted: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:22 PM by Domenico Montanaro

NBC News declares Hillary Clinton as the projected winner in Rhode Island

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Please stay in the race Hillary, we need to make sure you thoroughly destroy the Democratic party. Nothing will make the GOP happier than Hurricane Hillary tearing through the party state-by-state all the way into Colorado. Then, in one final hoorah, seal the tomb on the Democrats by finding a way to convince the super delegates to coronate your well 'earned' victory. I'm sure all of the bodies you leave in your wake will not keep you up at night - so you'll be well rested for that 3 am phone call.
THANK GOD!
GO GO GO ON TO DENVER, HILLARY!!
NEVER GIVE UP, DON'T
EVER GIVE UP!  
At the end of the day, Hillary will win RI and OH, and Obama will win TX and VT.

Do the math. Obama is going to widen his lead because he will take home more delegates in TX and she will take more in OH. As the lead widens for Obama, what is the point of Hillary hanging on to the shoe string?
Proof positive. When Hillary fights. America wins.
Go Hillary - it's just the beginning!
A projected winner with only 8% of the vote in?

Jumping the gun a little arnt we?
Yeah 1/13 you go girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Net delegates Hillary will win in RD = 2

Net delegates Obama will win in VT = 10

Do the math Obama + 8

Sorry Billary!!

dang..the way it was going it looked like it was obamas..i leave for 5 mins and it switches around...
I was born in 1990 and my entire life, a Clinton or Bush has been in office.  That is 18 YEARS...We need a change!
Surprising to see Hilary is winning even after playing negative politics.
ONE DOWN, TWO MORE TO GO FOR TODAY. HILLARY CLINTON THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. COME SEE WHY... hillaryclinton.com
Ohio next. Obama's bid may have hit the long-discussed bump in the road
Hillary barely won Rhode Island. I hope the news media does not spin this win. Mathematically she cannot win, pass that on......

Obama "08"
Yes ! Yes ! Yes ! the momentum has changed today !
MSNBC has problems.  I am tired of the media controlling who gets elected and who does not.  Misinformation and biased opinion.  When we do not get the information we need to get informed decisions we are no longer a free people.
you love me, you really love me -- Sally Fields
Another dishonest president named Clinton ... time to move to Canada or Australia.
Not surprised she won at least one state....but Ohio is VERY suspicious...again.  Can they ever get it right? Though I'm a devout Obama supporter, EVERYONE'S vote must be counted!  Running out of ballots, then a "printing glitch"?  We don't need another 2000!  Plus, it looks like the Republicans are regrouping again. Enough of the negative campaigning, especially the Hillary camp.  I hate it when she pulls the ol' Cheney trick:  Fear trumps Hope!  Is this a great country or what?!
you think???....and wins Ohio by 20% - the American public is beginning to see the true colors of obama and the trendiness is fading.

substance is beginning to matter

The tide is turning - stay in and fight Hillary - it is too close to conceded. We need you and want you to continue onward on pace. Yo are a fighter and will fight for us - we always know where you stand and WE CAN TRUST YOU.

Clinton '08
that is great that Hillary beat Obama in Rode Island and i hope she wins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so glad that Mrs. Clinton has stopped the Obama winning streak.  He was starting to look like Joltin' Joe with that consecutive state run...and look where Joe is now!  (LOL)   Uh, oh -- maybe I should have used an Alex Rodriguez metaphor for the younger crowd!
 Go Hillary! I think it is  about time that a woman of her experience and fortitude has a chance to run this country.  Around the world, women have been  leaders  for centuries. It is about time that we, as a nation, let a woman have that chance. Hillary is just the woman for the job. She's smart, she's strong and she cares.  She has my vote! You go Girl!!!
Am I the only one that can see the value of Hillarys experience having shared a life with Bill.  Do any us not believe they shared with each other their most personal thoughts, ideas, advice, etc.? Arent we all the same in this sharing of our most intimate thoughts every day with our significant other?  Her having shared living quarters and day to day life with one of the most popular leaders ever in this Country should matter!  Yes, he made some bad decisions (only human), but overall he was a great man and president  even proving this true more so now that he is out of office.  Who during those eight years would know more about his actual decisions and why they were made, along with the day to day job responsibilities of President than his best friend  his wife?  This personal first-hand experience is possibly worth more than her time as a Senator in what we all know is a broken system   No doubt Obama is a great guy for consideration, but do we really want to count on someone starting a new job at this point where he may spend most of his first term learning how to do what needs to be done?  Is the idea of a woman president so unappealing that we would consider such a less experienced individual to be leader of the free world in these times?  Do we have this time too waste?  In my mind this personal life experience puts her way ahead for the common sense vote.  Isnt it time for a female to be the leader of the free world?  Havent men proven their inability with always more wars than peace?  Is it not true that women would be more likely to use discussion and diplomacy to resolve world problems and not be so quick to use violence?  A real change only exists in picking a woman for president, not another man.  It doesnt matter how good he looks and sounds.
Yeah Hillary!
Clinton is better fit to be the commander in chief.  I question Mr. Obama's character in two different issues.  He is too presumptious.  Things are made too easy for me.  I have a serious concern about Mr. Obama being in the white house.  if he ever be in the white house the american people will regret that a lot.  Take my words for it.  Please be careful who we put in the white house.  We need someone with character and moral and values.  Someone who respect our flag and our country.  Someone who appreciates those who went to war to defend our soil.
What the people want is a fair and free election. Yet voters in Florida and Michigan (two of the largest states in the Union) have been disenfranchised.

FACT: The Democratic Party rules do not use the term "superdelegate". The formal designation (in Rule 9.A) is "unpledged party leader and elected official delegates". In addition to these unpledged "PLEO" delegates, the state parties choose other unpledged delegates (Rule 9.B) and pledged PLEO delegates (Rule 9.C). This article discusses only the unpledged PLEO delegates. [wikipedia]

These PLEO delegates should vote their conscience, on behalf of the Democratic Party.

MY TAKE: The problem as it exists is that these primary elections have allowed Independent and Republican voters to skew our Democratic Party's selection process. No "undeclared' and No "undecided" and No "Independent" delegates are allowed at the Democratic National Convention. So why are they allowed to participate in our Democratic Primary? Let them become Democrats and then they can have a say in this Primary.

These PLEO delegates should vote their conscience, on behalf of the Democratic Party. The thinking was that these are the "Democrats Among Democrats." Those individuals that we, as Democrats, have already established as our leadership. They should possess the ability to discern what is truthful come to more balanced informed opinions and would be more likely to vote for the TRUE DEMOCRAT, rather than just hype, hyperbole, and hucksters.
I guess the race is back on
well since it was posted about 20 min ago that obama won i think i will just wait for the final count to come in
Small victory, but a victory none-the-less.  I'll take it!

Go Hillary!
Why do Billary supporters have so many grammatical mistakes?  I think it just shadows their thought process.  Maybe that's why, no matter how much we simplify our message, they just don't get the reasons the Bush/Clintons are bad for this country.  It almost seems that it's more important to get a woman elected than it is "that woman."  Our forefathers died to stay away from just this kind of long-standing government.  Please, just read-up on why the settlers came her, and why we revolted in the first place.  I read these comments everyday, and I feel that the blindless narcissistic voting for Bush has rolled over to Hillary, though the morality of the voters I'm sure is much better.  C'mon, six years on the Wal-Mart board?  She really loves the middle-class, huh?  LOL
YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAA...Go Hilliary.
Clinton '08.
Why isn't MSNBC posting the Vermont projection?  It's posting the projection For RI.
Finally people are beginning to see a leak in the "Obama Walk On Water" Tour.  I respect Barack but he's not ready at this point to take the helm.  I don't like his wife who is somewhat of an egotist.    
Way to go Hillary supporters!  Good work!
Hillary, keep on keeping on., do you remember what Obama said, it sounded like a contradiction, when he said that if he got in there he would sent the troops back to Iraq. In the first place the majority of the American people wanted the troops out of there, but everytime, congress approved a withdraw, it was vetoed.  Then Obama said that he was against the Iraq war, but if he was against it he wouldn"t consider sending the troops over there, dud.  What gets me is the people don't realize what he said, contradictory.
Congraduations Hillary, your supporters battled for you and won!  Many thanks to Rhode Island!
Hillary is a Republican in disguise, she practically endorsed John McCain by stating that her and Mr. McCain are experienced and Obama is not. Hillary is a traitor to her party and she is putting the Democrats in danger of losing by mudslinging (claiming Obama is a muslim to an ever-growing xenophobic society) and scare tactics (3:00 A.M.). Does fear really conquer hope Mrs. Clinton? I think you need to put down the neo-cons playbook "fear-mongering for dummies"
Let's stop talking about delegates because after tonight neither candidate is going to get the nomination on pledged delegate numbers.  Any analyst or armchair quarterback that tells you otherwise is well...an idiot.

Meanwhile Obama is facing the tidal wave of press scrutiny that he should have been getting all along.  I suspect we'll find that the Rezco picture will come into focus; that Obama bought Rezco's strip of land to launder Rezco's money and liquidate assests in Rezco's wife's name, while he hides assets from his creditors.

We already know Obama lied about the Canada meeting.  He misrepresented his sources of campaign financing.  He flip flopped on his public financing pledge...do I need to go on?

So tell me how you want Hillary's tax returns.  No one cares because it's not important.  She's not obligated to release them, but said she would if she got the nomination.  

By the time we get to Pennsylvania I think America will know who is image and who is the real deal.

I know you Obamamites want to kill democracy and have Hillary out, and Michigan and Florida silenced.  Y'all sure you aren't Republicans?

I can't wait until May when I get my chance to vote for Hillary Clinton.




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