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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx</link><description>From NBC/NJ's Aswini AnburajanINDIANAPOLIS -- Obama made his top three picks for the Kentucky Derby this morning, choosing Colonel John -- the horse he joked about on Letterman last night -- to come in first.&amp;nbsp;"We are working tirelessly to get the</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.0 (Build: 60608.1)</generator><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#975385</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 22:20:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:975385</guid><dc:creator>jeesh</dc:creator><description>This is a stupid article.</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#975431</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 22:35:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:975431</guid><dc:creator>Tawana               Tennessee</dc:creator><description>Obama, I bet on you! &amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#975446</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 22:42:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:975446</guid><dc:creator>Sheri, AZ</dc:creator><description>I'll place all my money on Obama!</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#975530</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 23:23:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:975530</guid><dc:creator>nuanced</dc:creator><description>I will bet on the bay.</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#975552</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 23:28:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:975552</guid><dc:creator>Delroes in Tennessee</dc:creator><description>Come on Eight Belles--I am pulling for you. &amp;nbsp;</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#975565</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 23:35:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:975565</guid><dc:creator>JW, Michigan</dc:creator><description>I am so sick of the media glorifying Billary - she was behind 110 delegates before ohio and Texas and every media outlet thinks she has momentum and now she is behind 130 plus. How can she have momentum where Obama's lead keeps widening when the end of the game is nearer? Come on! Give me a BREAK and tell irt like it is with the clinton fraud machine</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#975566</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 23:35:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:975566</guid><dc:creator>Cherie KC MO</dc:creator><description>Well you have to play the game and my bet is on Obama!!!!!!! Go home to pasture Hillary as you are out of touch!&lt;br&gt;Obama 08</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#975602</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 23:53:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:975602</guid><dc:creator>Karl K, Whitewater, WI</dc:creator><description>Huh? &amp;nbsp;They were asked to pick horses? Who thinks up this stuff?</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#975665</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 00:12:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:975665</guid><dc:creator>Betting is for Elitists.</dc:creator><description>The Derby is a Horse Race...more barn animals for Obama to run against...&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#975674</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 00:17:33 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:975674</guid><dc:creator>Linda, Allen, TX</dc:creator><description>Aswini Anburajan&lt;br&gt; - for those of us who don't follow horse-racing, it would have been nice if your article had included the date, place and time of the race. &amp;nbsp;Whatever happened to the basics of good journalism: &amp;quot;who, what, why, how, when and where&amp;quot;?</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#975739</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 00:41:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:975739</guid><dc:creator>Deborah   Greenlawn, NY</dc:creator><description>&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;Can I remind everyone once more, that even though I am female and would love a filly to win-the Derby ONLY-that in 133 Runs for the Roses, only THREE FILLIES HAVE WON? The last in 1988. &amp;nbsp;Once more,&lt;br&gt; &amp;nbsp;great financial information from Sen. CLINTON.&lt;br&gt;Right up there with gas tax-NOT EVER going to be paid by the oil companies-and great management of campaign finances.</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#975761</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 00:56:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:975761</guid><dc:creator>Please bring Hillary a win!! Both states</dc:creator><description>Obama is such a kid.me too me too.ho take a nap.If he wasnt so dangerous hed be a bore.Now I hear so many believe Wright. this is such a disastor.Obama has dived the party and country and now I hear the churches and blacks are devided.All for the ego of one man whose only attribute is his color. God Bless this Country.</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#975768</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 00:59:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:975768</guid><dc:creator>Chris, Placitas, NM</dc:creator><description>Obama, your going to win...........</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#975824</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 01:29:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:975824</guid><dc:creator>karen shaub Oswego, Illinois</dc:creator><description>Oh God. Those were my picks. Now I have to switch off.</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#975929</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 02:24:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:975929</guid><dc:creator>LB, VA</dc:creator><description>Ha ha, I was hoping Obama would vote for Big Brown once Hill-O went for the &amp;quot;philly&amp;quot; (yes I know that's not the correct spelling!) I thought it would be funny for him to play his &amp;quot;race&amp;quot; card finally since she played her &amp;quot;gender&amp;quot; card so ridiculously!!</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#975980</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 03:00:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:975980</guid><dc:creator>Angela Bacsik, Gainesville, FL</dc:creator><description>The metaphors are all wrong. &amp;nbsp;Big Brown for first, Pyro second and Colonel John third. &amp;nbsp;Obama, Clinton, McCain--in that order. &amp;nbsp;The hard-working brown man of the people from humble stock, the expected front runner who hasn't managed to hold first place, and the war hero named &amp;quot;John.&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;Barack's a smart guy. &amp;nbsp;Maybe he wanted to refocus expectations ever so subtly. &amp;nbsp;He likes running as the underdog more than as the leader.</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#976089</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 03:42:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:976089</guid><dc:creator>Apples and fiction your congress at work!</dc:creator><description>They bet on horses and set on their fat a@@es and do nothing which would move American in a positive direction!! A Washington self serving paper, worthless and a proven burden upon progress and common sense. Its time we the people cleaned Washington of these self serving paper hangers,, not one has earned their pay,,&amp;quot;&amp;quot;like where could you get a job that pays $160000.00 for worthless conversation! Congress is a HOAX and we are the pundit!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So how do you like those apples???</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#976141</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 04:18:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:976141</guid><dc:creator>Jason, Sacramento, CA</dc:creator><description>Obama may have some good handicapping skills... lol&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't know about Pyro coming in 2nd though... if it's sloppy like the Oaks was today that may happen.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;He should check with www.WinningPonies.com</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#976235</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 05:31:54 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:976235</guid><dc:creator>Gerald Sobel</dc:creator><description>This is NOT a stupid article. It makes sense! Why not cover the candidates Derby picks, if the media will not cover important things like the Clinton/Bush-McCain enabling of critically important high tech company, to be sold and their manufacturing facilities to be shipped to Red China, of Magnaquench, an Illinois employer and maker of high efficiency electric motors, and the maker of magnets that go into smart bomb guidance systems. Way to go Billary...NOT!! Learn more about how these TRAITORS are destroying the security of our nation, google..Magnaquench..for more news and information!</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#976305</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 07:04:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:976305</guid><dc:creator>Kevin C., Princeton, NJ</dc:creator><description>When asked what horse he thinks will win, Sen. Obama weighs his options and chooses the horse he considers most likely to win.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When asked what horse she thinks will win, Sen. Clinton suggests you to risk money on Eight Belles because the horse is a filly.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Is there a metaphor to be made here?&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#976493</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 13:39:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:976493</guid><dc:creator>Jennifer Dodds</dc:creator><description>Go around the world and talk to people, all you hear is Obama presidency will revive and unite the world. People around the world are talking about developing Obama's kind of political movement in different countries around the globe. The world is admiring Obama's political strategies of uniting different parties under democracy and making America the strong leader in the world.&lt;br&gt;Jennifer, London-England. </description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#976553</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 14:31:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:976553</guid><dc:creator>brianne bronx ny</dc:creator><description>obama you should take that horse and put your pastor on&lt;br&gt;it and make a run for it.</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#976557</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 14:33:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:976557</guid><dc:creator>Joyce Spitler, Fort Wayne, IN</dc:creator><description>Bill does not know one end of a horse from another. &amp;nbsp;He likes head but he really is a horses behind (ass). &amp;nbsp;Enough already go back to New York.</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#976562</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 14:38:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:976562</guid><dc:creator>SGM     NW,AR.</dc:creator><description>OH, THANKS FOR GIVING CLINTON THE TINY LAST LINE.&lt;br&gt;I DON'T KNOW IF THE BELLES WILL WIN OR NOT, BUT HILLARY LOOKS LIKE A WINNER IN NOVEMBER TO ME.</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#976654</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 16:04:08 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:976654</guid><dc:creator>dhwesson, chattanooga, tennessee</dc:creator><description>I suggest that all Americans visit the website &amp;quot;hillaryproject.com&amp;quot; to see just who the country is casting its votes for/against. &amp;nbsp;This Clinton person, and indeed her family, are dispicable. &amp;nbsp;The so called &amp;quot;news media&amp;quot; really needs to get this story out and stop sitting on it. &amp;nbsp;I never did trust the Clinton's; when Bill was running for President, I told everyone I knew that I didn't trust the man; there was just something in his face and demeanor that jolted me. &amp;nbsp;I said the same thing of his wife. &amp;nbsp;Now the wife is running for President of this country. &amp;nbsp;She can't even control her campaign, her own home/family or her own mouth and greed and her notions that the Oval Office is hers by rights. &amp;nbsp;How can she possibly help to control this country? &amp;nbsp;REPORT ON PAUL VS. CLINTON!!! &amp;nbsp;Civil Case BC 304174 LA County, California, set for 13 May 2008 at 8:37 AM California time.&lt;br&gt;</description></item><item><title>Obama makes his Kentucky Derby picks</title><link>http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/02/975345.aspx#976772</link><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 17:14:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:976772</guid><dc:creator>Zahfwizii Washington Willowbrook, CA</dc:creator><description>Obama likes horse racing just like I do. He's somebody I could hang out with. I'm voting for him now! He rules!</description></item></channel></rss>