I'm glad to see them go into the dustbin of history. I just wish that a third party would stand a chance in this country. We need something/someone better than what the Blue's or Red's are offering in order to save our country.

Teresa

Don't look now but the Supreme court is waiting in the wings to break the dems deadlock come the convention. Think they won't, HAH! Case in point Florida 2000. It's all theater to keep us occupied while they steal our country out from under us.

This is why the clints are hanging on like grim death. By hook or crooks (T.S.C) they are counting on calling in all the chits and favors and will go to great lengths as they have been proven to do to gain the power they deem a birth rite.

They are beyond racism and quickly approaching the genocide of our liberties which is hillies and billies bent.

There's some raw popcorn for all us dumb whiteys to chew on.

The fact that politicians need to appeal to the ignorant populace demonstrates the fundamental flaw of Democracy: everybody gets a vote, even those who are incompetent.

Churchill was probably correct, that every other form of government is worse, so we're left with trying to fix the form of government we have.

The only path, then, is the eradication of the ignorant and incompetent. That's why education is the silver bullet.

Ah, but it's fine for Obama to talk about bitter white people who cling to guns and religion.
What pious hypocrites Obama's supporters are.
And comparing Hillary to Jim Crow era? That's a new low, even for you Doug.
Yeah you can copy and paste the press that's been in the tank for Obama with their utter, feigned disbelief.
Folks, its Hillary or McCain, because Obama can't win.
You can rail for all the reasons you like, but it's just the facts my friend.
PS, this racial rubbish is getting really, really old.

Hillary Clinton is the new Harold Stassen. She'll be back.

So in other words if you are stupid and uneducated you will vote for Hillary Clinton. That makes lots of sense. Why not, just look what 3 terms of Bush has delivered up to America. Just look at 2 terms of Clinton has brought us.

Republicans should be scared to death that Hillary Clinton would ever become the next unitary one-world President. Who would Hillary Clinton declare to be the new terrorists? Gun Owners? Religious Folk? Republicans?

Wake up America! Hillary doesn’t give a damn about the Constitution!

Wake up America! Hillary doesn’t give a damn about the Constitution
Would you like to back up that statement with something resembling facts, or was that just a rhetorical rant?

Spot-on commentary Doug Thompson concerning Hillary or both the Clintons for that matter. They are political shapeshifters that really aren't beholding to any party other than the Cecil Rhodes inspired NWO Party with it's US based, facilitating variant known as the "republicrats", now simply an AmeriKan version of the defunct Soviet "politburo"...!

White's, blacks, Asians, even Martians if that would be possible are fair game to these two pol scamsters both on the make and the take since their entrance into criminally slanted, Arky politics in the 80's.

"Among whites without college degrees, Clinton outdid Obama by 64 percent to 35 percent in Indiana, and 71 percent to 26 percent in North Carolina. The New York senator and her surrogates have trumpeted that advantage, hoping to persuade the so-called superdelegates likely to decide the race will that she would be the stronger Democratic candidate in the general election."...extract from Yahoo News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/primary_analysis

The people in Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania are tragic souls indeed regardless of their educational background or mental acumen because little do they realize that their collective infatuation with "Shillary" is the reason they are suffering massive unemployment throughout the "rustbelt" with many if not most small cities and towns virtually crumbling in decay. It doesn't matter if they are making steel or are IT engineers, the Clintons are selling them out for just a few bucks, euros, rupees or yuan more...!

These will probably be the same lower and no doubt many upper class white racists that will bolt and run to vote for John McPain; ie., Mr. 100 years in Iraq who hasn't had a creative thought in his lifetime except for "what's in it for me" ...!

People truly end up getting the government they deserve and even worse in some cases to paraphrase Jefferson.

Carl Nemo **==

Sherry,
please furnish a cite for the assertion that Obama's comment was about bitter "white" people. I don't recall that adjective being part of the conversation!

Doug,
Righ on, dude!

That last stats I saw was that 25% of Americans hold 4 year degrees.
BTW, calling non supporters of Obama stupid, uneducated, and bitter, doesn't help the cause. Even republicans aren't that stupid.
That is why they keep winning and dems keep losing.
It's like watching a train wreck.

It's no secret that the GOP has made hay out of getting people to vote against their own interests by using wedge issues.

The Clinton's wedge issue is race, and they are campaigning on it just like GOPERS. Karl Rove would be proud.

-Wexler

33rd st, these are the comments posted by Time Magazine on the comments O used at a San Fran fundraiser
No, he didn't specifically say WHITE people, but you get the drift. Here it is, just in case you have been living under a rock.
"OBAMA:
You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

He didn't specifically mention white people.

True.

However, Clinton did. And she says that they won't vote for him because he's black. Quite a bit different than suggesting that the decay of American towns and economy makes people bitter.

Saying that "poor dumb whites vote for me" is arrogant, racist, and incorrect.

-Wexler

Do you think in Obama's comments he thinks poor black people cling to guns and religion?
The double standard here is astonishing
The polls all along have suggested educated people are for Obama, while those earning under 50K are for Hillary.
Translation: Only stupid people vote for Hill. The smart ones vote for the political novice with no real record because, well, he speaks so well and he is inspiring........
And is wife, for the first time in her sorry life is finally proud of America.

Oh yeah. Makes me wanna vote for em. Not

"Translation: Only stupid people vote for Hill".

Speak for yourself.

Oh, and if you can be proud of America for what this nation has done in the last 8 years, that would explain it.

-Wexler

wifey is considerably older than 8 years, so that does not explain it. It does however offer some insight into the utter hypocrisy of Obama supporters

No, it explains YOU.

Good day.

Poor Sherry:

She is that bitter white person who cling to guns and religion.

Let's all pray for Sherry. She has DEEP SEEDED ISSUES about RACE that she need assistance in finding ways to come to terms with reality!

Obama for President '08

"Folks, its Hillary or McCain, because Obama can't win."

Another example of wishful thinking from a Clinton cultist.

Sherry is upset because Hillary ran on the BUBBA plan and they let her down...So Sad!!!

WWWexler, you are correct! No one could have explained it any better.

Let us all keep Sherry in our thoughts.

As a former Hillary Clinton supporter, I guess I’ll weigh in here. I actually had great respect for her. She is intelligent, articulate, engaging, personable, and resilient. All of those things are commendable and make for a good candidate. I thought that those who claimed that she was just in it for herself were wrong and that she was committed to what is best for this country. Now, I am not quite so sure of this.

From the start, I also liked Barack Obama. He is intelligent, articulate, cool and collected, has good judgment, and most important of all – he is thoughtful about what he says.

The media hype over the Rev Wright, Ayers, and the “bitter” comments are being made primarily because there needs to be controversy in order for anything to show well on tv and because those who hype them are slaves to corporate interests. Talking heads need controversy so that people will keep watching and talking about them (Limbaugh, Matthews, Hannity, O’Reilly, et. al. – because for them, it really is about them, not what is best for this country).

Obama is correct in his assessments regarding bitterness. Many people have reason to feel betrayed. And, when people know that they have reason to feel betrayed, they do get bitter, and they do tend to cling to the familiar and secure. As they struggle, the reason for their job loss is no longer that the company chose to outsource, but that someone else took their job away from them. They allow themselves to be hoodwinked by corporate mouthpieces (Limbaugh, O’Reilly, et.al.) and no longer vote their own interests. Monied interests have used these tactics to pit working people against each other for well over one hundred years. Divert people with false issues like gay marriage, tell them that immigrants are taking their jobs and you don't have to be afraid that they will come after you. You sit back and watch the mayhem, but that lolly keeps rolling in.

I came to the conclusion that Hillary Clinton was only interested in her personal destiny, not that of the nation, when she started campaigning for John McCain - "I have experience, John McCain has experience....". Her disreputable and characterless response to a question regarding Obama and whether or not he was a Muslim was another key for me that she was not the woman of character that I wanted to believe she was. I lost even more respect for her after her remarks about obliterating Iran.

This does not mean I would not vote for her if she were the party candidate, I would since she would be a much better president than McCain – but with great disappointment that she was the one. Of the three candidates up for offer, the only one who is worthy of note is Obama. He has not pandered to the religious right, nor has he abandoned his message of economic and social justice. He has done a good job of organizing his campaign and fundraising. He has said that he would reinstate habeas corpus, close Guantanamo, and stop spying on Americans. It is my hope that he will go even further in repudiating the Bush regime and all its policies. He is thoughtful where foreign policy is concerned and that is precisely what we need - a president who will think. Furthermore, he has been conciliatory and respectful of both Clinton and McCain without abandoning his own message.

Those who claim to be Democrats and can find something to support in John McCain’s message are kidding themselves that they were democrats to start with. If you support continuation of tax policies favoring the wealthy; corruption where government contracts are concerned; war profiteering; abandonment of women’s rights, human rights and civil liberties; decay of our national infrastructure; destruction of the separation between church and state; refusal to support the needs of veterans; an overreaching executive; supreme court justices that are aligned with business interests and right wing ideologues; then vote for Mr. McCain, but don’t call yourself a democrat. If personal pique because your candidate lost, allows you to do this, you weren’t much of a democrat to start with.

Of Hillary Clinton, nobody can say she's not a great actress. She's the best I've seen since Katharine Hepburn left us. Hillary can play to any audience and tell them just what they want. Hillary can memorize any script and play the heck out of it. She's very, very good.

And she's the best in the world at keeping her name in the forefront of the news. Even Britney Spears isn't that good.

Thing is, Hillary's not what this country needs. She tried her health plan and it was a big flop. She's hoping nobody remembers that.

Aside from Obama's unarguable rock star appeal, he seems to be a decent man who tells the truth, whether it's what the audience wants to hear or not. That takes guts. He also writes his own speeches (mostly) which is extremely unusual these days.

I don't know what the opposite of "pander" is, but whatever the word is, it's what Obama does.

I am surprised that Doug didn't bring up Sen. Clinton's "big house" comments from a while back. Even then we knew that she really wanted to be sipping mint juleps on the Big House's porch.

Hey : I too am a bitter whitey, but holding on to my right to protect myself and keep a little faith expresses individuality, not racism or ignorance.

Pigeon holing people in different areas of our land is crass and smacks of prejudice and elitism.This crap floods out of Washington and is magnified by the cancerous media who knowingly seek to divide America rather than unite.

I've said before that we need the Senator from N.Y. to focus on her job, but as she has proven, her oath of office is secondary to her commitment to turn one against the other as she seeks to lead this great nation.

Hilly : if you are paying attention let it be known that from here you have become a pariah and have turned your followers into rovian hyperboloid's.

Shame appears to be something utterly foreign to you, and while you to try to weave your chameleon spell you and your elected fellows have let smirky boy run this country into the black hole of fascism.

Are you proud to have carried once reasonable people into the bowels of your present divisiveness?

All three of these candidates SUCK, how we got here convinces me even more to distrust my neighbor and watch my back evermore.

There is your version of mission accomplished hilly, sleep well.