Comments on: Obama Takes First Steps To Unify Dems

Washington Post: Campaign Seeks To Win Over Superdelegates As Clinton Gives No Hint She'll Surrender

[pepperwood2]

n Charleston, W.Va., yesterday, Clinton argued that the coalition of voters backing her would make her more viable than Obama against McCain. "The delegate math may get complicated, but the electoral math is easy: We need 270 electoral votes to win in November," she said at a rally.

Hillary where have we heard you imply this before? Was it in your remarks to Gov. Richardson, when he saw the light and decided to support Obama?

It went something like this. Obama cannot, will not & must not win the presidential election. Its all about me. A team player or leader you''re certainly not.

You must be suffering from shell shock on the day you single handily defeated the rebels that surrounded Sarajevo, Bosnia. Sooooo sad - dear.

[omaar-101]

Again, call me when Clinton EVENS or SURPASSES Obama..Please


Total Delegate Count

Democrats | 2,025 Needed to Clinch

OBAMA 1,861

CLINTON 1,690

EDWARDS 18

Republicans | 1,191 Needed to Clinch

MCCAIN 1,328

HUCKABEE 231

ROMNEY 149

CBS News estimates. Includes super delegates.

[omaar-101]

NPR''s Ron Elving: By now, no one needs more rehashing of the numbers, but heres the short version: Barack Obama has a virtual lock on the Delegates he needs to be the 2008 Democratic Nominee for president.

Obama needs only about a 3RD of the Delegates at stake in the remaining primaries and about the same share of the uncommitted superdelegates.

Barring another outbreak of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama should do substantially better than that in both categories.

Big A!! Note: So Game Over. Even the Seating of the Full Delegations from the Outlaw Primaries in Florida and Michigan is no longer a Real Threat to Obama''s Nomination.

[omaar-101]

Obama is going to agree on having both States Seated and Accounted for and this is what will Happen....


Hillary Clinton will have Sealed her Political Fate..


This will win Obama Favor in both those States & Clinton Followers....


1. Obama will be looked upon, as a man who said, to the Voters of Both States, Your Vote & Your Presence Count.

Note: The word (Leader) comes to mind.... ''The Uniter''


2. The Super Delegates representing Both states, will give him the Nod, because they know Hillary has been Unrelenting in her Negative campaign and he agreed to seat them and Account for their Votes.

3. Obama will reap the Benefits, by shutting up all the Clintonites, who have been lead to Believe, by Clinton, that Obama is Blocking the (2) States from Participating, in the Process.

4. Obama will then win in November, by doing this and All the Clinton people will Fairly and Justly Vote for him.

Result: Obama will become our Nations 1st Bi-Racial President

[liberty4you]

""She doesn''t believe it''s time," Feinstein said, adding that Clinton feels a bond with those who have supported her and does not want to let them down."

It is starting to look like Hillary wants to stay in the race... Good for her, she deserves to try to make her loans back through her donors contributions.

Anyone who donates to her campaign now is a complete idiot.

Support the millionaire Clintons and their "loans" to their own banks. They are their own banks...

Perhaps with the help of her supporters, they will repay their own pockets. What a concept. Please,

repay the Clinton machine so they won''t lose their Harlem $700,000 suite... What a shame if they did.

Americans who don''t pay up, are just anti-Hillary...

[enlightened-]

Omaar...you forgot to add that Obama ran commercials in Florida for at least one week prior to the primary...also breaking DNC rules. So, I would say the only option is to give Hillary her delegates won, and give Obama ZERO.

[davthewav1]

The American Heritage Dictionary defines:

Liberalism; 1. Having, expreesing, or following political veiws or policies that favor civil liberties, democratic reforms, and the use of governmental power to promote social progress.

Conservativism; 1. The disposition in politics to maintain the exsisting order and to resist or oppose change and new ideas.

How did liberal ever become a dirty word?

The last thing this country needs is more politicians who fear change in office.

Hillary or Obama are infinitely better choices than McCain.

Vote Democrat !

[omaar-101]

Call me, when Clinton EVENS Obamas NUMBERS Or SURPASSES Obamas NUMBERS...

Until that Mystical, Majical, Majestical Moment Happens...You Clintonites are Blowing Sand out of Your A!!''s !!


Total Delegate Count

Democrats | 2,025 Needed to Clinch

OBAMA (1,857)

CLINTON 1,690

EDWARDS 18

Republicans | 1,191 Needed to Clinch

MCCAIN 1,328

HUCKABEE 231
ROMNEY 149

CBS News estimates. Includes super delegates.

[omaar-101]

Of course, the Obama campaign has its fair share of objections. For starters, there''''s that pesky, old-fashioned, admittedly absurd notion known as "following the rules." The Democratic Party prohibits any state other than Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina from holding its primary before Feb. 5. So when Florida and Michigan threatened in late 2007 to pull the trigger on Jan. 15 and Jan. 29, respectively, the DNC gave them a choice: reschedule--or lose your delegates. They refused, hence their current no-delegate status.

According to critics, reinstating those delegates now would undermine the DNC''''s authority over the nominating process; who will stop Guam, they say, when it schedules its primary for Thanksgiving 2012?

The second reason: last winter, both Clinton and Obama Deferred to the DNC and agreed not to "Campaign Or Participate" in either election; Obama even Removed his Name from the Michigan slate.

Big A!! Note: So while Clinton "Beat" her rival 50-33 in (Florida) and trounced "Uncommitted" 55-40 in the (Great Lakes State),

One can''''t help but suspect that Not Campaigning and/or not Appearing on the Ballot somewhat affected Obama''''s showing--not to mention that turnout has a way of declining when voters are told that the election doesn''''t matter.

[omaar-101]

Big A!! Note: Clinton, Completely Opposed Recognizing (Michigan and Florida) until after the primaries--i.e., when she Realized she might need their Delegates to win the nomination.

"It''''s clear that this election they''''re having [in Michigan] is not going to count for Anything," she said during an interview with New Hampshire Public Radio in October 2007. She wasn''''t alone.


2 months earlier, Clinton adviser Harold Ickes actually voted to ''''Strip the Rogue States'''' of their Delegates as a member of the DNC''''s Rules and Bylaws committee--

"To prevent the gaming of the system," he said. Later than fall, Patti Solis Doyle, then Clinton''''s campaign manager, Pledged not to Compete in Either Contest--and was Unequivocal as well.


"We believe Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina play a unique and special role in the nominating process... and the ''DNC''s Rules and its Calendar'' provide the necessary structure to Respect and Honor that Role," she said.

"Thus, we will... adhere to the DNC-Approved Nominating Calendar."

And when (Michigan) pushed for an Early Vote in 2004, then-DNC chairman--and current Clinton aide--Terry McAuliffe put his foot down.

"If I allow you to do that, the whole system collapses," McAuliffe said (at least according to his memoir).

"The closest [Michigan''''s delegates will] get to Boston will be watching it on television. I will not let you Break this Entire Nominating Process for one state.

The rules are the rules."