Slow and steady wins the race...hang in there Hillary, remember, half of the Democratic Party is pulling for you!

Sent by ard | 6:21 PM ET | 04-28-2008

I personally agree with the news analysts who say that unless Hillary pulls a BIG upset... she can not win the delegate count. Besides superdelegates SHOULD listen to their constituents and thus let the voters decide. Enough is enough already.
signed: The Other Half:).

Sent by Rob Martin | 6:50 PM ET | 04-28-2008

No one in their right mind wants clinton as their president.

Sent by Jody Sol | 6:56 PM ET | 04-28-2008

Well said Jody Sol.

Sent by sem | 7:03 PM ET | 04-28-2008

Hillary's strength comes from the fact that she is married to a former president who was able to gain loyalty through favors and intimidation. She has shown examples of being delusional and a compulsive liar. The ability of America to make lasting change for the better would be greatly hindered by such a person in the White House. Barack Obama has shown the ability to make correct values based decisions during difficult times (Iraq) and has shown a strong desire to keep the campaign focused on what each has to offer. He has shown he can effectively manage a campaign. He is the best candidate.

Sent by Joe | 7:13 PM ET | 04-28-2008

I believe McCain will win. Not because he is the best candidate, but because the other players are not running aginst him.

Sent by Shively | 7:22 PM ET | 04-28-2008

Let's not be too hypocritical...I believe there was a study conducted that determined that everyone lies...even small children and virtually everyday...it's a tragic human condition...anybody out there the exception to this study?

Sent by ard | 7:25 PM ET | 04-28-2008

I am a lifelong Democrat. BUT...leave it to us Democrats to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. All we had to do is nominate someone who was not offensive to most Americans and coast to a White House victory in November. Alas...we have two candidates remaining...both of whom seem to offend significant portions of the general electorate. McBush should be an easy candidate to beat. He is too old and is on the wrong side of virtually every important issue...not to mention his flip-flops make Kerry look principled. However, we are going to continue to squabble amongst ourselves and kiss this election good-bye. Then, we will have four...if not eight...more years of the same policies and incompetence that have put the United States in such a dire position. I am for Obama...but at this point, I will take any Democrat. PICK SOMEONE...LET'S GET BEHIND HIM/HER...and KICK REPUBLICAN BUTT. This election is not about Obama or Clinton...it is about us...the American people. Let's not forget that. I don't know about any of you...but I cannot live with another term of Republican rule.

Sent by Eric Baldwin | 7:28 PM ET | 04-28-2008

Well said Joe. I hope there are no more distractions in the campaign and the candidates can get back to talking to the people. Obama's message of "hope" and "change" truly appeal to America right now. Not the bickering and outside influences...

Sent by Camille | 7:51 PM ET | 04-28-2008

Why is no one asking the serious question? Was the superdelegate wearing a flag pin? What about the reporter? Was McCain wearing a flag pin when he heard this news? What about the Nevada GOP? Were they wearing flag pins?

America demands answers. These are tough but fair questions.

Sent by JT | 8:45 PM ET | 04-28-2008

It's sad that people still think there are significant distances between republicans and democrats.

Sent by Jody Sol | 8:48 PM ET | 04-28-2008

"ard" forgot to mention that not only are forty-something percent of the Democrats supporting Sen. Clinton, but most of the Republicans are pushing for her also, because they think McCain can beat her in November. There has been a sizable crossover vote of Republicans actually voting for Clinton in Democratic primaries.

Sent by Gary | 9:13 PM ET | 04-28-2008

I have heard it said that few people pay attention to the election until after Labor Day or maybe the World Series, I can't remember. If so, maybe all the silly little "gates" of the democratic primaries will be old and tired news. The issues of the economy and the war are unlikely to recede by then.

Sent by Mike Fleissner | 9:41 PM ET | 04-28-2008

To Ard:Let's not be too Hypocritical...

Well sir in as much as I understand that everyone has told a lie at some point it is also true that people have different reasons for telling those lies. and it is even more true that it is important how those same people react when those lies are exposed. This was a lie that was not told to protect nor defend nor was it even an excusable lie like undue stress orsome other quasi legitimate reason that people have to lie. this was a lie that was told simply to decieve and to try and convince the american people that her experience that she has based her whole campaign on was more than what the truth of it was. Further more for her to tell that lie on three separate occasions with so many witness to the contrary in cluding pictures clearly showing something directly contradictory to what she was saying assumed the stupidity and incompetence of not just the american media but the American people but because she had to have been banking on the fact that no one would question her statements. And toi top it all off when she is caught with her hand in the proverbial cookie jar instead of immediately showing remorse or coming out with a heartfelt apology she said and I know the quote is fairly close"big deal, so I misspoke. i'm made a mistake everybody makes mistakes sometimes." after that how can she call anybody elitest. she told a bold faced lie not once not twice but three separate times for sure that she is recorded saying this particular lie. and all she had to say for herself was big deal. If we don't start to expect more from our ELECTED officials then we will continue to be on the wrong side of real progress. hold them accountable make them stop telling lies you are there boss. if they keep taking advantage of us it';s because we let them.

Sent by J.A.WILSON | 10:03 PM ET | 04-28-2008

Unfortunately I don't vote for racists, or those who silently condone and endorse them.

McCain may not be, but his party sure the heck is, and thus, the GOP by it's current formation can NOT earn my vote.

That said, Hillary Clinton has a LONG list of supporters who race bait or worse. Her campaign and her wink-and-nod strategy are more than enough to lose my vote as well.

There are other reasons why I hope she will not win, not the least her discrediting of anyone who won't vote for her (I'm an Obama state delegate here in Nevada and thus feel the loathing from her folks). Either be for the party or get either out of said party or at least the race to be candidate.

Sent by John, from Las Vegas, NV | 11:13 PM ET | 04-28-2008

Sen. Clinton is the only Dem who can win in November. Unfortunately BO's campaign of getting Democrats to speak disparagingly of former President Clinton (the most successful Democratic President since FDR) and Sen. Clinton has only served to divide the Democratic Party in half. Yep, the person who was supposed to unify us has divided the Party and with his "typical white people are bigots clinging to their guns and bibles because they are bitter about losing their jobs" has further alienated independents and centrists. He doesn't have a chance in November because most Hillary Democrats have been so abused by him and his supporters they'll never vote for him. He'd probably lose every state but IL.

Sen. Clinton can win -- she's proved it time and again. Even with all the media bias, including NPR's, and money spent to knock her out in OH, TX and PA -- she's won and won big.

If you really care about getting out of Iraq, you'll vote Hillary. All you BO supporters who have argued that Hillary is too polarizing -- well the GOP is focused exclusively on Obama's toxicity.

Sent by Ann | 3:18 AM ET | 04-29-2008

Hillary Clinton is a pathological liar, a severe narcissistic personality disorder and a divisive, arrogant and elitist phony. Her election would lead to more polarization, partisan squabbling, triangulation and gridlock, the last things our country needs right now.

Sent by AlexLawyer | 4:48 AM ET | 04-29-2008

please no more of Hillary and Bill
to tell the truth I've had my fill
they've used up most of their goodwill
this time round he's just a shill
their show is broke it's bad vaudeville
four more years it makes me ill
we need a Lincoln or a Churchill

Sent by ken stuart | 5:03 AM ET | 04-29-2008

"Unfortunately BO's campaign of getting Democrats to speak disparagingly of former President Clinton (the most successful Democratic President since FDR)" Are you kidding me? The same Bill Clinton who spent 8 years pissing all over the presidency, only to return and say "Oops! Missed a spot." as Lewis Black famously quipped? The guy who didn't take responsibility for anything and lied under oath to get it done? He got nothing meaningful done in 8 years on the post, we remember him as a "great leader" only because the guy who came after him managed to screw up far worse.

McCain is going after Obama because he is the front runner and the RNC is afraid of his ability to lead. You have seemed to base your opinions on sound bites and non-issues (misquoting them in the process). This race is about context and the serious issues that face the country. Supporters of Hillary and McCain want to make this a morass of questioning patriotism and race because neither of them have anything to show for the past 16 years of Clinton and Bush - yet slam the new Senator for his lack of "experience", citing his enthusiasm and energy as something to be mocked and laughable. Hillary made an unprofessional and disparaging statement a while back, mocking Obama for his uplifting words. She was right on, except that a miracle is exactly what we would need for anything to change in Washington if McCain or Clinton are elected again.

She cannot win the popular vote or the delegate count without taking 80% of the votes in the remaining states. She is trying to cut under the DNC by getting Florida and Michigan seated despite their skirting around the rules (sounds like something she would support) because she cannot win any other way. She is putting out false statements saying that she leads in categories she does not and is indignant when questioned about it (or simply ignores the question). This is the person you want for a President...someone who exemplifies some of the the worst of the Bush administration's policies?

Sent by James Cutler | 8:08 AM ET | 04-29-2008

The Easley endorsement shouldn't mean much; he's been in a lot of hot water lately. Let's be honest here, and I made this declaration before Iowa, McCain will be the next president. Sadly, most Americans can't live with a woman or biracial man as POTUS.

Sent by Margaret | 8:53 AM ET | 04-29-2008

Ann-

"Typical white people are bigots.."

Where did you get THAT from? I'm white and I've never felt that way from Obama's comments... are you feeling guilty about something?

Sent by Angela Vetri | 9:04 AM ET | 04-29-2008

AlexLawyer--

I think you meant to sign your name AlexM.D. because apparently you are a medical doctor capable of diagnosing psychiatric conditions. I'll look forward to reading your article in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Sent by Karen in Texas | 11:14 AM ET | 04-29-2008

AlexLawyer--

I think you meant to sign your name AlexM.D. because apparently you are a medical doctor capable of diagnosing psychiatric conditions. I'll look forward to reading your article in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Sent by Karen in Texas | 11:15 AM ET | 04-29-2008

"Typical white people are bigots..;"sadly, most Americans can't live with a woman or biracial man as POTUS." Keep thinking that way and you'll end up with (McBush) four more years of pain.

Sent by Roger | 11:55 AM ET | 04-29-2008

I think Obama should do the noble thing and drop out now.

Sent by deek | 12:33 PM ET | 04-29-2008

Karen:
And: That will be the last issue of New England Journal of Medicine. remember this journal is peer reviewed!!!

Sent by anser azim | 2:15 PM ET | 04-29-2008

"Typical white people are bigots clinging to their guns and bibles because they are bitter about losing their jobs."

That's kinda funny, and for two very good reasons.

One, it's not what Mr. Obama said, or meant.

Two, it's ironic just how true it is, especially if by "typical" white people, you mean many working class people in the Midwest.

Any of you people ever been to Middle America? You ever worked in a factory? Ever talked to people that work in them? Ever heard what kinds of conversations take place in the lunch room, the assembly line, out by the loading docks?

Have you ever visited people in one of the multitudes of poor trailer parks filled with working class white people in the Midwest? Better yet, ever lived in one?

Ever been to V.F.W halls in Michigan, Indiana, or Ohio? How about Elks and Moose and Eagle Lodges?

Ever been to an N.R.A meeting? A Gun and Knife convention? How about one of the literally tens of thousands of small congregation Baptist churches dotting the Midwest?

Ever been to a flea market where you could buy assault rifles at one table, Ted Nugent records at another, and King James Bibles at a third?

I have. I grew up in the some of the poorest parts of the Midwest, in all three of those states. And I sincerely doubt that any of you have been to places like those, or met and spoken to the people there. If you had, you would realize just how correct that assessment is.

Just because the truth is hard to accept, and sometimes comes across in words that shock us at first, doesn't mean we should turn our eyes from it, or attack the person who had the courage the point it out, and who, in doing so, obviously wants to make the situation better.

Sent by angsty | 2:15 PM ET | 04-29-2008

angsty, you make a grave mistake if you think "bittergate" is about calling people bitter.

Sent by deek | 3:20 PM ET | 04-29-2008

deek - Then what, pray tell is 'bittergate' all about? As if that insipid term has any real meaning to anyone not part of the mindless herd that throws it around.

Is is about reverse racism? Is it about a presidential candidate calling a spade a spade when no one else has the balls to do it?

Or is it about closet bigots like yourself who are at least smart enough to realize that the overt racism of the good 'ol days is no longer acceptable, but harboring a deep-seated fear and mistrust based on race, and cloaking it in purportedly valid criticisms is?

I've seen and read enough of your posts over the last few weeks to understand your position all too well. Your viciously enthusiastic attacks on Mr. Obama's credibility betray what you really think. Oh, you can deny it up and down, and you will, you most certainly will. People like you are good at deflecting, and not taking responsibility for your actions.

It's entirely possible that you don't even realize that you're a bigot. Growing up where I did, I've seen it plenty of times before, and believe me, nothing you've posted in this blog gives any indication that you're somehow so special and insightful that that couldn't be possible.

I'd also like to point out, as well, that I am not even voting for Obama or Clinton. I'm not even a Democrat. Chances are, in fact, I'm considerable more 'conservative' than you. But I AM interested in seeing how much latent racism, again not the overt kind, and sexism will emerge in this election.

And deek, pretty much all your posts indicate to me that it's quite alive and well.

Keep dreaming.

Sent by angsty | 5:50 PM ET | 04-29-2008

angsty: amen

Sent by Angela Vetri | 8:53 AM ET | 05-01-2008