Oh yeah, and YES, HE WON TEXAS!

Up next? Wyoming and Mi-ss-i-ss-i-pp-i

(Ya’ll know ya’ll say it like that to spell it right…)

which he can definitely win.

Then, on April 22, the Keystone state of Pennsylvania.

Now, why in the world the MSM is calling PA the new Iowa, I will NEVER know…

I don’t know about the rest of PA, but politics in Philadelphia is a rough and tumble business.

And black folks, white folks, all kinds of folks are ready to roll for Obama!

Yes, there will be trickery, starting with Ms. Ann’s Phila campaign HQ in the same bldg as voter registration.

Last month, Gov. “Fast Eddie” Rendell extended the deadline for Clinton’s delegate slate to be filed, citing emergency weather conditions. It was raining.

Changed the school district calendar for no school on April 22. Professional development day (on a Tuesday, yeah right…)

Come on over to PA. Call, Donate, or otherwise cheerlead.

let’s wait for a higher percentage, let’s wait for the final count.

and if obama has won texas, he’s won texas. let this not be ignored, let that woman not draw everybody into her parallel universe.

let’s defend reality, at least.

clintonova: rhode island and ohio.

obama: vermont and texas.

that woman is OUT.

go, obama.

Where the fuck is the DNC’s backbone? I am so pissed off at the Democratic party, but I will never fall in allegiance with the racist good old boy Repugs.

BTW, Obama will never be a veep for the Clintons. Whatever respect I had for The Clinton is dead and buried. I’ve been so disappointed with the Clinton Rovian closeted Republican tactics and for the DNC not ot call them on it, well, I am so done. No disgusted. I pray that all blacks become Third party and Independents because the DNC has not done it’s job.

Obama was the best chance in 8 years we had to regaining our integrity and character and the DNC is dicking around with being “neutral”. The Clintons have crossed the line this time and I am fucking done!

Amen. Like The Bag said yesterday, I will not co-sign on her b.s., either. I will not tell her that her b.s. is kosher, that it’s acceptable, by voting for her. No. Fking. Way.

A vote for Hillary is not a vote for the platforms of the democratic party. It’s a vote for Mudslinging, Racebaiting, Genderbaiting, Ends Justify the Means, Scorched Earth politics. Holding one’s nose does not ignore the fact that you still have funk on you — other people will smell it, even if you choose to ignore that you willingly chose to roll in stink. You will not be clean, you will just be in denial.

And the date for Rezko was decided way in advance of his campaign. Remember Hillary was suppose to clinch this thing on super Tuesday

Call me a cynic but you forget this is a primary! You are betting on both these candidates going nuclear…it’s not going to happen.

First, neither Obama or Clinton will go into the convention with enough pledged delegates (forget supers). The supers hold the key. It is now out of the electorates hands.

I am not young and idealistic. I am a life-long Chicagoan and I know how a party machine works. It is no coincidence that Obama is the Senator from Illinois who cut his teeth in the backyard of Jesse Jackson, Harold Washington and the Daley’s. It is no coicidence that Obama’s path to a political career was paved by cut-throat party maneuvering. It is no coincidence that he was elevated to the national stage at the convention and introduced as a ‘rising star.’ It is no coincidence that he was virtually unopposed in his Senate run after a Republican Party scandal. There are no coincidences in Machine politics. They let him have a taste of “Turkish Delight” and now he’s hooked.

Now, who does Obama owe (and someone ALWAYS owes someone in Machine politics) for his fast track political career? He OWES the Democrat Party. And now, unless he wants to be destroyed by the people he owes (Does the name REZKO ring a bell?). It is no coincidence that Rezko was brought to trial just as the primaries were heating up. Now, behind closed doors, he will be told to get in line and wait his turn. He will now EARN his seat at the table, take the VP slot and unite the Democrat Party or they will destroy him just as quickly as they made him.

Its the Chicago Way, the Democrat Machine Way.

Think of the stones it would take from a super to ignore the guy who wins the delegates, pop vote and the most states.

90% of these supers are elected officials and when faced with a chance to make a safe choice (obama) or the controversial one (Clinton), I don’t think they will stick their necks out like that.

“Deal or no deal?”

No deal. Oh, and here’s another cup of cyanide-laced Koolaid for you, little kid. Just drink like the massa tells you to.

You’re an idiot, for the reasons outlined above.

Obama would never take the running-mate slot– it would be bad not only for his movement, and not only bad for the state of American politics (rewarding race-baiting, vote suppression and scaremongering), but it would be awful for Obama’s political career.

He is smart enough to refuse such an offer. He wouldn’t take any flak from the party elite– they can see what’s going on and they know how damaging Hillary has been to the Party and the country. They also know, considering the Clintons’ history and the Clintons’ current damaging campaign, how they utterly destroy prospects for other Democrats. They know how humiliating it would be to take second fiddle in the wake of running such a brilliant campaign and inspiring such a powerful movement, since as VP he’d be powerless– it would be the Clintons with all their worst instincts and politics running the show, which the voters would not accept.

The Party elites, IOW, know that the best thing for the party long-term is to cultivate a young, impressive talent like Obama, and get rid of the narcissistic Clintons for good. If it takes a moderate Republican like McCain to take them out for good, so be it.

Besides, Dude– with Obama winning a clear majority of the pledged delegates, the popular vote and the states, do you think he’d be enough of a lame, feeble, idiotic pushover to just stand aside complacently and docilely and take a second-fiddle spot to Hillary, in the wake of what clearly be reprehensible backroom dealing and a denial of the popular will in the primaries?

Again– especially with Bill Clinton constantly lingering in the background– Obama would fatally damage his own political career by taking a #2 spot following primaries in which he’d clearly prevailed. He would permanently be labeled a chump, and basically be politically ruined.

Again, best thing for Obama under such corrupt circumstances would be to politely but firmly decline the offer, giving a clever left-handed compliment like “Hillary is a strong enough candidate on her own and should be entitled to choose from, and then gain strength in the Senate, or win the Illinois governorship, with a view toward winning the Presidency in 2012.

I don’t think this would be an issue. If Obama wins the pledged delegates– not to mention the popular vote and the states– the superdelegates would be committing political suicide by going against the will of the voters. Remember, most of them are elected officials, and they’d be relegated to a deep circle of Hell for corruptly going against the voters’ wishes.

Also, especially with the Clintons’ prior race-baiting, the appearance of this– of power-endowed, corrupt white politicians conspiring in a smoky back room to deny the nomination to an African-American candidate who had won the popular mandate– would be utter poison for the Democrats, and permanently destroy the Democratic coalition.

It would even inspire massive rage and urban riots on a scale that we haven’t seen for almost 4 decades.

In short, the superdelegates are going to follow the lead of the pledged delegates. It’s a very simple matter. The superdelegates are there, above all, to support a candidate early on and to try to bring a race to a close. But if the race continues, and a candidate clearly has more votes and delegates than the other– an insurmountable advantage that Obama now has– then the superdelegates are going to back Obama. They’re not dumb people.

Especially if this were to occur in the wake of Hillary’s disgusting, disenfranchising, race-baiting campaign, and even more so with Obama winning the delegates, the popular vote and the states– well, let’s just say we would lose all respect for Obama.

He would show himself to be just another House Negro, one who pretends to stand up for himself but, even when attacked and smeared in the most racist way, and even if locked out from the nomination by a backroom-dealing maneuver– he would just become the docile Negro again, licking the boots of the white massas. Then, Obama would be sending the worst message to minorities in this country (not to mention whites with a sense of justice)– that it would be just fine to perpetrate the most reprehensible kind of racist campaign against minority candidates, even overturn the popular vote, since it would be forgiven.

Not only would we lose all respect for Obama– we would utterly hate him, and actively work to bring down the ticket and make him suffer for it. It would, in short, utterly destroy his political career.

Besides, Obama would have nothing to gain by taking on the complacent, obedient House Negro role in such a fashion.

Hillary would lose to McCain anyway in 2008, and lose badly. And Obama would not gain any “goodwill” among the Democratic elders by taking a second fiddle spot under such circumstances– he’d simply be considered a chump with no self-respect who wouldn’t stand up for himself, who’d stand by and docilely capitulate in the wake of attempts to deny him leadership of the ticket in the wake of clear victories and accomplishments.

And thus, he wouldn’t be taken seriously by the Democratic establishment, let alone the voters.

The Democratic elders– the Kennedys among them– are aware of and utterly appalled by the mudslinging campaign that Clinton has run. They know that the future is with Obama, not with the Clintons, and they would be perfectly happy to let McCain take out Clinton in the wake of this, to pave the way for Obama.

Better for Obama, under such circumstances, to gain respectful positions in the Senate, and/or to, for example, win the governorship of Illinois, for example.

Oh, there is going to be a fight, but it is going to be backstage . . . a place where Team Obama can break out the Iron Fist without drawing much backlash.

I think Obama needs to do NOTHING for the next 24 hours or so. Let the emotional high for the Clinton camp and the low for the Obama camp settle a bit.

Then he can come out Thursday and remind everyone that the pledged delegate contest is over.

He should and I think he will run up the score in places like WY AND MISSI but the real politics is going to be about locking down the superdelegates before PENN and I think he has a good chance of doing that.

As for going negative, I just don’t think he should for two reasons:

1. He ain’t real good at it.
2. Hil is real good at it.

Why play that game? Yes you could argue it worked in OH and TX, but hell Obama was behind 20 pts in those states weeks ago, to be some close at the end is a huge victory for the Obama campaign.

Last point. Yes, Hil wants to fight on to the convention. The question is does she have the money and manpower for the fight? I’m not sure she does.

Then a clip of an Obama interview comes on where he’s talking about her citing her experience. He just doesn’t look comfortable or confident in confronting her. He really needs to fight…not dirty, just fight!

Forget it. That’s the attitude of absolutely everyone in my household, my friends and my block. We would sit out the election, vote for the Greens or Cynthia McKinney or write in a name– or, in fact, many of us would vote for John McCain.

With all due respect, I consider your pleadings on the basis of Supreme Court justices to be rather naive.

Whatever crumbs and morsels we’d get with a couple Supreme Court justices, Hillary would do far, far more damage– lasting damage– to minorities and African-Americans in particular.

The reason: The message would be that a white candidate like Hillary could run despicable, hateful, racist political campaigns against even an accomplished minority candidate such as Obama, sound the doggy-whistle and whip up the worst prejudices among Whites and Latinos against Blacks– and yet, if we were to still vote for her, we’d be sending the message that this would be OK, that they could commit such disgusting racism against us and not suffer a price at the ballot box.

I’m sorry, but that’s not naive. There must be a price for such behavior, a terrible, horrific price for white candidates who engage in such tactics, and the only way to ensure that this message is sent and repeated, loud and clear, would be for Hillary to lose in 2008. And to lose very big, and very ugly, to John McCain.

I’m not worried about McCain with regard to Supreme Court appointments. For one thing, we’ll have a heavily Democratic Senate, and they’ll reject any conservative justices and demand a compromise on a moderate. McCain himself has stated that Alito is too conservative, and he’s been inclined toward moderates such as David Souter. In fact, McCain’s judicial adviser has been Warren Rudman, who was responsible for suggesting Souter to Bush.

McCain at least has had enough courage to stand up to the right wing, and he would appoint moderate justices to the court.

That’s the one silver lining here in McCain’s nomination– he’s hardly preferable, but in comparison, he’s acceptable. He took on his own conservative wing on things like McCain-Feingold, he’s teamed up with liberal Democrats in the Senate on many issues, not just Feingold but even Ted Kennedy.

IOW, if the Democratic nominee is Barack Obama, all of us in our neighborhood will campaign hard for him.

But if it’s Hillary, especially after this revolting, racist campaign, and especially with Obama winning the pledged delegates, the popular votes and the states, then we will never support her, and we will in fact work actively to ensure her defeat.

This is the only power we have to enforce ground rules in the electoral process. And we have to enforce them mercilessly.

This as the entire country continues to watch blacks demonstrate overt racism by voting an embarrassing 9 to 1 in favor of the black guy. This from the community that points the “racist” finger at every other ethnic group in the country 24/7/365. F’ing hypocrites.

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Would you characterize a 9 to 1 vote by African Americans in favour of a white candidate racist?

If you think this blog is lame then what is your purpose for being here?

I have given Obama the benefit of the doubt so far. But, I really believe he needs to be stronger on challenging her on the issues. If she says 35 years experience – it is not dirty politics to demand she show proof of that experience by releasing her records. If she accuses him with Rezko – it’s not dirty to demand she release her past tax returns. If she says ‘change’ – it’s not dirty to bring up her past scandals.

Why does he keep saying she has a “fine record”…why does he keep complimenting her? I know he doesn’t want to create the impression of the big black man beating up on the little white damsel, but he’s got to figure out a clever way of responding strongly.
He cannot continue to play the perpetual nice-guy…wryly chuckling good-naturedly when responding to her latest attack. He’s got to set his jaw, and look stern and speak sternly, and show that he will not be trifled with.

..and yeah, he did win Vermont AND Texas!!!

Go Obama!

This as the entire country continues to watch blacks demonstrate overt racism by voting an embarrassing 9 to 1 in favor of the black guy. This from the community that points the “racist” finger at every other ethnic group in the country 24/7/365. F’ing hypocrites.

Go read Sean Wilentz’s article
“How Barack Obama played the race card and blamed Hillary Clinton.”

Obama has benefited from his race at every step since the start of the campaign. A white person trying to run for president with the same position on issues and same experience (1/2 term as a senator) would have been laughed out of the country.

Klinton’s in no position to offer any deals.

Nice try.

Anyway, if Clinton steals the nomination, I think we’d be better served to vote for Barack Obama as a write-in come November rather than vote for McCain.

I agree with Jonathan’s take regarding Barack’s strategy going forward. The media and the rest of the white American Idol electorate wants to see this contest devolve into Jerry Springer-type entertainment. Doing so, (a) takes attention away from the issues on which Barack is superior; (b) it drags the contest down to the gutter where the Clintons are superior; and (c) if Barack were to go “street” on Clinton, it would provide plausible deniability for those who those who’ve suddenly had their “oh-shit-a-Black-guy’s-gonna-be-president” panic attack.

Barack has to stay the course in terms of class and statesman ship, but he does need to flood–really flood–the media with content. He needs to start reaching out to the Black and Brown network correspondents and start providing them with scoops, agendas, comments. What’s happened is that the MSM — and we know who that really is — have taken offense to Obama’s confidence and occasional dismissiveness, and had essentially cut him off for almost a week. The only real play that he got was the whole Canadian thing that ended up being a nothin-burger. But by filling the airwaves, they’ll have no plausible excuse that he’s got nothing to say. And if he’s reaching out to Black and Brown network correspondents, he’s got a better chance of getting his message out. And I don’t think that CNN, ABC or CBS wants to be accused of squelching their Black correspondents. Not at this time.

And finally, I think we gotta rely MUCH less on the delegate lead. If the Klintons can continue to play dirty and win dirty, then they’re going to insist that an argument can be made; that the delegates might say one thing, but the voters have said something else. And if they were to arrive at the convention on a winning streak, she’d have an argument.

I’d say, the focus needs to be back on dominance. Be more aggressive, but stay out of the mud.