Poor Hal! It will be okay. Sit down, breathe deeply and you will return to normal after a good sleep.

You must stay with us and get us all through the next coming months where the GOP just might explode and we can finally see the inner demons that control their minds.

McCain has a lot of vindictiveness for the way he was treated in 2000 and in holding this back we may see a personality problem with his attacks on Obama. He is like a cat who after coming out of a terrible fight, will attack even his loving owner.

Hillary isn't worth losing your mind. We need it here.......

The three speeches was a perfect illustration of why Senator Obama will be our next POTUS!

Our country wants a change from vindictiveness and narcisism. The people want a leader who at least pretends its about the people and not themselves.

John McCain's speech was a great beginning as it clearly showed why this man should not be allowed to gain countrol of our country's govt under any circumstance.

Do you think he is trying to copy Dick's snear in an attempt to be more presidential? He's already done a good bubba imitation of GW in his ignorance of International matters. And he's suppose to be the best commander in chief? I don't think so. All we need is another megalomaniac like GW with access to nuclear weapons and a grudge against those in the middle East.

Hillary's speech showed why she lost. Although she attempted to cast the end as about the people, it was obviously all about her and not about other people.

The Main Stream Media cited Clinton Fatigue as a factor as if they didn't play a part in that. The MSM talking heads had proclaimed her Madame President long, long time ago.

Well, it shows why no one should ever proceeds based on assumptions and certianly someone who wants to be POTUS should know this.

Senator Obama's speech -- frankly I didn't see it. But I read the text and as usual it was eloquent and to the point. It reminds me of speeches of past presidents like John F Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt.

Whether Senator Obama can be the POTUS this country really needs is easily debated. However there are givens.....what this country DOES NOT need is another 4 more years of continuation of Bush/McCAin policies in the WH. It certainly couldn't hurt to have a REAL eloquent, intelligent leader for a change with a postive vision for the future. Let us focus on that for awhile.

Obama/Richardson '08

I didn't see or hear McCain's speech, but I heard both Clinton's and Obama's and his was by far the more gracious and generous of the two. She politely acknowledged Obama as her opponent and declared him a friend, but the focus of her speech was almost entirely on Hillary. Obama leveled such praise on Hillary that if that was all I'd heard, I might have thought SHE'D reached the goal, not him. Not one word of it sounded as though it were spoken through clenched teeth, not one ounce of insincerity did I detect. Yet, because she didn't once admit defeat, and because one of New Jersey's super delegates last night announced he will continue to support Hillary until SHE says it's over, I can't help but think she has tricks up her sleeve. The woman is an "all or nothing" kind of person. She is a sore loser, a poor sport, and not one to take losing gracefully. I fully believe the "ugly" is yet to come.

I keep imagining George W. and Hillary being separated at birth - they seem so much alike in personality. Neither takes no for an answer, both enjoy being the center of attention, both of them have a penchant for lying to benefit themselves, etc. We really don't need another four years of that.

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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." -Mark Twain

McCain in New Orleans -- <1000 attending
Clinton in New York -- <500 attending
Obama in St. Paul -- >19000 +/- attending

Kinda says it all.

Added after thinking more about the prospect of a McCain presidency:

Now Hillary has driven me mad.

But do you want what some readers will say is proof of real madness?

If polling shows that no other ticket besides Obama and Clinton, even
Obama and Richardson, would assure a Democratic victory, I think I would choke back the bile rising in my gut and support this decidedly odd couple.

I am being castigated for my support of Obama. I receive email after email telling me the Democrats are haters of America. I can only come back with the statements I have made since 1992 when the GOP began their push for the One World Order control of the friggin planet they lost me! When I read this platform I sobbed like a baby. How dare these horrible people change the whole pattern of individual values and use us to push into another world war?

I had to admit that the opposition in the GOP have a candidate and the rest of us do not. It is my greatest hope that we soon will but until we do, I will support a Democrat in November. I met with the LP yesterday and they have no winning platform and probably will not vote at all in November.

I feel that America needs to remove the horrors of this neo-republican corruption from our system even if we have to use a blood transfusion to rid us of this cancer.

Out! Out! brief candle and remove McCain from our sight!

I forgot about this. My favorite part of Barack Obama's speech was that he dedicated his presumed nomination to his grandmother who was unable to attend, but still living in Hawaii.

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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." -Mark Twain

Jezgirl. As a grandmother I literally cried when he said those words. I have pride in my grandson but hope he makes it to San Francisco on a fund-raising bike ride.

We grandparents take what we can get!!!

I think Obama can win convincingly without those Hillary supporters who are now threatening to vote for McCain with a good VP choice like Richardson or some of the opthers who have been mentioned.

I don't think he needs Hillary to win.

I don't think he will succumb to extortion.

If Hillary doesn't endorse him within a day or two and enthusiastically campaign for him she will doom her future in the Democratic Party.

Unless she is clinically delusional she knows she attempting a politically suicidal bluff now if she tries to use extortion to get the VP slot.

If Clinton was a mensch she would suggest two or three VP choices and ask, not demand, that Obama consider them seriously.

If polling shows that no other ticket besides Obama and Clinton, even Obama and Richardson, would assure a Democratic victory, I would choke back the bile rising in my gut and support this decidely odd couple.

I previously thought that this is what I would do. I have since decided against this.

My reasons are that she is a liar. For instance, her claim to being under sniper fire when visiting Bosnia has NO credibility. First of all, one does not forget having been shot at - ask any Vietnam veteran. Second, the plane would not have landed with the First Lady aboard had there been any danger involved.

Additionally, Hillary did not think it was possible to leave Iraq before 2012. Presumably that would be just in time for her re-election campaign. This was, of course, before Obama said he would begin removing troops immediately and her position did not hold water with the voters.

This woman would do ANYTHING to ensure her election.

In case anyone thinks that I am anti-women, I would like to point out that I DID vote for a woman. It was for Jane Byrne when she ran for Mayor of Chicago. Once elected, she no longer had need of labor's support. Guess what? She was not re-elected. I will not make that mistake again, and that includes if Hillary is the VP choice.

Do Not do it! DO NOT CHOOSE HILLARY FOR VP RUNNING MATE!!!

Dear Obama; do what your gut tells you not what the polls are ragging on endlessly about.

Spew the fetid idea of a clinton VP now, and set these pundit asses straight.

We who are not quite sold on your candidacy have got to know now what is in your mind and are looking dead at you for action instead of rhetoric.

Got it?

Good.

I love being out here high up in Colorado and being able to read all the postings before I get around to making one. Clinton did talk only about herself and McCain looked like a deer in the headlights and Obama clearly won the contest. She may well have some Rovian tactics left but I don't think her 17 1/2 million will be able to help McCain enough. Forget about her!

Greg

I feel very sure that Obama is far too intelligent to even consider Clinton for VP. If it does happen then we'll all know the extent that this election is still being manipulated. Considering the assassinations of the past 40 years, I fear for Obama's safety and more so if Clinton becomes his running mate since we all know by now that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants...
On another note, I thought I heard somewhere here that Richardson was a member of the Carlyle Group or some such nasty organization, can anyone refresh my memory ?

McCain and Clinton both have bent and distorted the truth and outright lied during the course of the campaign.

They seem to get mildly criticized when they do this, in part because Obama won't stoop to their level.

I don't know of any lie or distortion coming from Obama and the only talking point of his I object to is the hundred year McCain quote. True, McCain said that, but I am am tired of it and I think there are more accurate ways to describe McCain's Iraq position.

Obama is blasted because of the bitter comment, Rev. Wright and Pastor Phlegler, an association with some 1970's radicals and a less than politically astute purchase of land to increase the size of his yard. But where has he distorted the truth or lied?

Letting Clinton into the Obama White House makes the old analogy about the fox and the henhouse seem quaint. I doubt that even the Secret Service could protect Obama from Satan herself if she resided in the office down the hall. Fortunately, November is a long way off in terms of Joe or Josephine American's political memory. Hillary will be forgotten, soon enough. Unless, of course, she chooses the the Jack Rubinstein or Sirhan Sirhan style of infamy, which I'm not ruling out......

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