Obama extends lead over Clinton — This is getting better and better. Clinton is going to have to cheat like crazy now to pull this off.
Barack Obama has gained more ground over his rival, Hillary Clinton, in the contest to win the Democratic nomination to run for US president.
Mr Obama, the senator for Illinois, has won the primary in Wisconsin, and is also projected to take victory in Hawaii – his 10th win in a row.
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Goodby Hillary. To know you was to love you.
Well, so long as you were not one of Bill’s girlfriends…
Thank Dog! The worst thing about Hillary is that she always looks like her shoes are too tight.
But I do like the cackle!
I’m not quite ready to count her out yet. Alot of big states are left with Big Old Guard Democratic structures that will favor Clinton (Ohio, PA, Texas). I wouldn’t be suprised to see her win all three of those states.
“Clinton is going to have to cheat like crazy now to pull this off.” – I read one report this morning about how the Clinton camp (mainly Bill), has been calling delegates constantly, trying to get them to support Hilary. And not just the “super delegates”, but even the regular folks whose votes are already pledged to Obama. I wonder if the Clintons will find some legal loophole to get delegates to switch sides. After all, this is the man who gave us “That depends on what your definition of ‘is’ is.”
I would not vote for any of the people running for either party. Same old BS with a new face.
#5 Lou –
By that logic why have a democracy at all? Why not leave the president in power until he/she dies or retires?
We don’t always get greatness in the presidential elections and we just have to vote for who we feel is the best.
It’s like the 2004 election. People only voted for Kerry because he wasn’t Bush. I don’t really think people thought he was a good candidate.
Obama so far has been an empty shirt–nothing but rhetoric. But I like his foreign experience, mixed race, and his first Iraq war. I think he may indeed be too liberal and too political to become a real agent of change==but compared to the Clintons, McCain, Bushieboy==he couldn’t be any worse and he might just be better.
Since Edwards isn’t running, he has my vote out of the three. I would make Huckleberry the Ambassador for the Caymen Islands given he has lots of contacts down there already.
Hillary is showing her true colors, caring much more about HER candidacy than the party and principles that she represents. Her constant attacks on Obama will greatly weaken the chances of either of them gaining the presidency come November.
As for Obama, he inspires the one thing that this country needs more than anything: “Hope for a Change”.
Truth be told, it is the most experienced leaders that have done the worst possible job in our government… Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gingrich, Frist. I’ll take a newcomer willing to listen to great advisers (from both sides of the aisle) over some entrenched lying party hack like McCain any day.
#6 – About time you get deported.
@9 “Her constant attacks on Obama will greatly weaken the chances of either of them gaining the presidency come November.”
How so? No one is interested in anything she has to say. The biggest joke is her talking about her “experience” and how she is in the “solutions business”. What solutions? What experience?
Obama’s biggest asset is that he isn’t in the horseshit industry like every other politician we’ve seen in the last 15-20 years.
Obama may not be making a lot of promises to people, but in the process he won’t be breaking promises and isn’t lying to people to get elected.
Hillary is making promises left and right, up and down … as if she is going to micromanage the economy and regulate every industry herself.
And what the hell does McCain stand for? He’s been in office for ages and other than McCain-Feingold and Iraq, I have no idea on his economic philosophies or ideas to help the working class.
Obama is easily the best choice for president this year.
Oops ^^ .. sorry for the all bold.
rats are leaving a sinking ship. piece of cheese anyone?
The Fall of the House of Usher/Clinton
Hey, it’s inevitable because Obama is the Second Coming.
“If you believe in hope and you hope that Barack Obama hopes for what you believe and believes in what you hope for, then vote for Obama, vote for change, change your vote for the future, and change the future to a future of belief in hope, and change and Obama.”
I’m kinda depressed, I wanted Hillay and Bill back in office. However, in Texas (where I’m at) she appears to be a tad better in polls so we’ll see.
The herd mentality appears to favor Obama since he appears as the new shiny object. I’m just not sure he has the experience to lead but he sure looks pretty.
Obama has more experience as an elected legislator than Hillary.
Frankly, what benefit does a politician having experience in Washington do for us?
#16 Couldn’t the same have been said about Lincoln when he was elected? He had held minor political offices, been a frontier lawyer, and not much else. His only major accomplishment was his revamping/creation of the republican party. Of course, then the GOP included abolition as one of its primary tenents. They were agents of change.
Now, I am not sure that the political philosophies of either party are healthy, with progressive social agenda on one side only and poor fiscal responsibility on both sides. A sad state of affairs, as noted by Greenspan has left us with a GOP that has “sold out their ideals for power, in the end left with neither.”
Let’s elect a proponent of change. I am a fan of Romney, due to personal experience with the man. With him out of the picture, Obama looks far mor attractive to me.
Hillary Clinton is just another Bush in sheep’s clothing!
To stay in the race, Hillary needs 250 of the 400 delegates up for grabs on March 4th. That means she needs not just wins in OH and TX, but big wins.
Failing to reach 250 means the only way she can win is by counting the illegitimate races in FL and MI and/or by superdelegate fiat, either of which will be dispicable in the eyes of the common voter, and unacceptable to most democrats.
The majority of the superdelegates are uncommitted, waiting for the regular delegate outcomes before committing. This means the regular delegates are all that counts. First one to 1627 out of 3253 wins.
If Clinton pulls out the 250 and it remains close after March 4th, I am all in favor of new elections in Florida and Michigan to decide this once and for all.
#18 good point. I hope you are right.
I’m just delighted overall with selections despite my Clinton’s falling out of favor with the masses. I sure would have liked to see Bill back in office and perhaps as a lead foreign affairs advocate to repair the damage that the monkey has done.
Either way, even a McCain presidency is far better than anything the GOP party has produced. They clearly have a whopper of a lemon today running the country.
Longboxes, the loophole is already there; the delegates can vote however they like. The vote is just an advisory.
Obama creeps me out with that tele-evangelist speech style. I keep expecting him to start saying “Praise the Lord!!! Send me money!!!”
All he needs is a white tux.
@Dallas
If a Democrat is elected president next November there is nothing stopping them from making Bill an ambassador or better yet the leader of the U.S. United Nations delegation (since both he and the U.N. are in New York already).
Dallas, you must be a devout Democrat to like McCain. Hill and Obammo have been playing to the loons, McCain is a fairly sane Democrat. He darn sure is no Republican.
Bill Clinton ran the best government the US ever had. We all had jobs, we all made decent money, the oil companies weren’t riping us off. The people counted. Oh yea, he was almost as bad as Bush who only killed hundreds of thousands of people with his greed, Clinton did lie about his blowjob. Bad Clinton… Shame, he should have killed people and invaded other countries instead.
#6, you are right. This is the end of the US as we slide back into the garbage heap the other Kennedy brought upon us fifty years ago.
And you can lay the blame for this right at the feet of the talking heads on TV and radio who provided so much free advertising with the idea they could sell more soap to more eyeballs with an absurdity like this election will be. Sick bastards as are the people who allowed those talking heads to make their decisions for them.
Partly response to #11: Two critical advantages of McCain vs. Obama you asked about: McCain economical strategy – keep attracting business with low taxes and (finally) cut the Govt. spending (while Obama wants exactly opposite despite clear theoretical and practical evidence against it, particularly in the economy at the edge as it is now); McCain help for the working class: attract (via above mentioned low taxes) high tech to take root at the places such as Michigan where the old school jobs can’t compete with China&Co and where applied Obama’s route of higher taxes and meddling Govt. have proven itself a disaster in past years. And help those low-tech workers adapt to the new world and advance and prosper. Ie. send the cheap jobs overseas and let USA have the most productive and valuable ones.
But the crucial point that is better for the country as a whole in McCain vs. Obama case is the ability to work with the other side in the extremely polarized politics of today. Deadlock is what is damaging us right now. Obama may say that he will work with the other side but he never, ever did that and his stance is so far left (somewhere about the Chavez-Castro line) that the right will not work with him. Ending in the prolonged Govt. deadlock and nothing done. At the same time McCain has angered his own side because of his constant cooperation with the left and have shown every intention to continue doing so. Ending in things being done and done in a best – middle – way where the most American interests are.
But, watch the Queen of dirty politics work her magic. Not having her as an option would be a blessing, but we are not out of the woods yet.
#26–Phillep==you mean an 83 on the conservative scale isn’t good enough for you? He HAS TO BE a religious nut bag and corrupt or else he’s just a democrat? How does Hannity’s ass look close up?
#28–dusan==I really dislike everything you just posted, but you are probably correct. Kudos.
Maybe a quibble here–Hillary is the queen of dirty politics?? She is?? Why that would mean she actually has experience, or are you confusing her with hubby again? Being too faced and pandering does not make one a queen. Given she has been caught in every dirty trick she has pulled so far, doesn’t show a magisterial command of the levers of power to me? ((I know we have seem all the tricks or most of them, elsewise she would be ahead in delegates?))
#25 – That’s a good idea. Send Bill to the UN. The UN is a hilarious joke and complete lacking in credibility as it is. Good place for him.
Actually if you really want to know what’s going on with Obama it was predicted:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Carpathia
#27
Clinton actually lost control of Congress shortly after becoming Pres. After that he had policies forced on him by congress that led to a booming economy. Low taxes, reduced welfare spending, etc.