Bill Richardson: Time soon to call Democratic race

Bill Richardson is right.

And I might add would make a fine choice for Veep.

Bill Richardson is right.

And I might add would make a fine choice for Veep.

Richardson is wrong. He did not endorse Sen. Clinton to bring an end to the nomination campaign - instead he's been sitting on the sidelines. He should continue to site on the sidelines and keep his mouth shut.

Vibrant democracy calls for the Democratic nomination process to continue to the Democratic Convention in Denver, Colorado.

For the sake of America, rational Democrats must stand up to black racism, the radical left-wing cultists, and the pro-Obama biased media. To keep the fight alive and powerful, rational Democrats must support Hillary Clinton with regular contributions to match the cult money machine.

Go Hillary!!

cease the censorship. this is a country of free speech.

Sounds a lot like Dodd's endorsement--Obama is going to be the candidate, and this desperation to overset him by any means is bad for the party. They're right, by the way, as Doug HZ says.

And I also concur on the veep--a governor, especially one with Richardson's breadth of experience, brings more executive talent to the ticket, and could be entrusted with some reform projects (e.g. making gov more transparent while Obama focuses on health care, focusing on rebuilding ties abroad while Obama focuses on Iraq). A strong military background doesn't gain anything that isn't gained by having such people elsewhere on the staff and making it clear they'll be listened to--cede McCain the military experience and fight him on an achievable vision of America's role in the world, and better judgment in using that military.

ATTENTION: REZKO TRIAL STARTS MONDAY!

EACH WEEK WE HEAR ANOTHER CORRUPT BACKER WITH HUSSEN OBAMA!!! OBAMA IS CONSTANLY SURROUNDED BY CORRUPTION, ESPECIALLY WHERE CAMPAGINE FUNDS ARE CONCERNED WHERES CNN? MSNBC? FOX/ ROLAND MARTIN? IDIOT TUCKER CARLSON? BILL KRISTOL? TIM RUSSETT? AND ANYOTHER SO-CALLED TABLOID ENQUIRER TYPE ANTI FEMALE JOURALIST

Obama and his team have ducked "legitimate questions" about Rezko, who faces federal corruption charges most centrally involved with Gov. Blagojevich's administration. "Now the trial is beginning, it will be more difficult for him to avoid these various serious questions. I can guarantee you that. Obama's Relationship with Rezko Goes Back 17 Years. Obama Kept Contributions from Accused Fixer's (REZKO) Wife and Others ABCNews.com Analysis Shows. Obama opportuned Rezko to obtain jobs in the Blagojevich administration for Obama allies. For the third time in more than a year, Obama's presidential campaign announced it SO-CALLED shedding more donations

WHERES THE MEDIA??? We are sick of the media pushing obama down our throats! Another indictment former Dallas Mayor Hill, Obama camp financial contributor and supporter charged with federal bribery, extortion and conspiracy. Again has their hand full with other publically indicted bankrollers like Rezko.

NEXT! British-Iraqi billionaire lent millions of dollars to Barack Obama's fund just weeks before an imprudent land deal investigation. Money transfer from Nadhmi Auchi, one of Britain's wealthiest men, helped Mr Obama buy his mock Georgian mansion in Chicago. A company related to Mr Auchi, who has a conviction for corruption in France, registered the loan to Mr Obama's bagman Rezko. Mr. Auchi says the loan, through the Panamanian company Fintrade Services SA, was for $3.5 million.

Another Obama “financial friend” Rep. Rick Renzi indicted Friday on multiple federal charges, law enforcement sources tell CNN. In a 35-count indictment handed up by a grand jury in Arizona, Renzi is charged with conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering extortion and insurance fraud. The indictment stem from Renzi's efforts to use his position in Congress to promote “land deals” Again more corrupt camp donations for Obama!

Richard made the case that no matter who wins what on tuesday, the person with the lead in pledged delegates should be the nominee. He knew what he was saying.

Obama has not event scheduled for later this afternoon and tonight. What's up with that?

The real Hillary Clinton stood up at the Democratic presidential debate this week: angry, sarcastic, stubborn, secretive, arrogant, mired in the past, victim of the media, and still firmly convinced that she is uniquely entitled to the Democratic Party nomination and the presidency.
That Hillary hasn’t really been on display much since the debacle of her disastrous health care plan and the end of Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial, when she haughtily flaunted her combative personality.
But make no mistake about it — that’s the Hillary Clinton that we’ll see if she somehow manages to steal the Democratic nomination.

She’s found her voice. The one that so alienated everyone she came into contact with over her health care plan that her own party destroyed it. The one that publicly and loudly defended Bill and arranged for attacks on Monica Lewinsky when she knew the complete and sordid truth.

She’s always had a chip on her shoulder and a strange paranoia, but it’s definitely gotten worse. Now it’s not just the vast right wing conspiracy that is out to get her. Now it’s the mainstream media. How are they doing that? By asking her the first questions at the debates!

Hillary’s snide comment about whether Barack needed a pillow to be made more comfortable was downright embarrassing. The anticipated applause line on her script never happened. The audience was silent. The press was amazed. And Barack seemed genuinely startled by her nuttiness — he looked over at her as if he was viewing a dotty old aunt at a family dinner, the one that everyone politely humors.
Her lifelong pattern of secrecy was once again evident. While publicly promoting transparency in government, she steadfastly refuses to release her personal income tax returns. That’s a clear tip-off that there’s something to hide. Recall that the Clintons selectively released tax returns in Arkansas, but refused to go back to 1980, when Hillary had her windfall in cattle futures.
During the debate, Hillary suggested that she’d release the returns “soon,” but her staff quickly backtracked. She implied that she’s been too busy to deal with releasing the returns. Does she really think anyone believes that it will take more than simply making a copy of the return? She’s stalling and there’s a reason for that.
Most likely, the return will show how much Bill has been making from his partnership with the Sheik of Dubai and his other business ventures. Should the spouse of a presidential candidate be in business with a foreign leader who needs favors from the U.S. government? Definitely not. That’s why we’ll never see those returns.
And then there are the Clinton Library records that document her schedule as first lady. She doesn’t want them released either because they will definitively show that she was never the co-president. The Library has been stalling on the release of those documents for years. During the debate, she said that she wanted them released as quickly as possible and seemed to blame the Bush administration for the delay. But today, the White House indicated that she had made no requests for any expedited release.
The old Hillary, the real Hillary, is back.
And there’s apparently been no one to stop her from acting on her own worse instincts.
Underneath the veneer of the practiced smile and the strategically used giggle, there is a rage that is always close to the surface. It was on display in the debate.
Hillary Clinton is furious that America has not agreed to her coronation. She doesn’t understand why voters are rejecting her and embracing Barack Obama. She just doesn’t get it.
Never one to engage in self reflection, she can’t blame herself or even her incompetent strategists and advisers. They’re too close to her. She can’t accept the sorry fact that her campaign has been a disaster because it was based on the past and not the future, because it was premised on her phony experience and maintaining the status quo, and because her negative outlook is completely out of step with the mood of America. And finally, because in the positive message of Barack Obama, Americans see a stark contrast with her doom and gloom view of the world.
So, she’ll blame the media. It’s their fault.
And she’ll keep screaming about what a fighter she is.
More like a bully.

Dick Morris, a Fox News Analyst and author of several books, is a former advisor to Senator Trent Lott (R-Miss) and President Bill Clinton.

I too, worry about the tone being set.
It seems like Clinton is intent on giving the republicans their script against Obama in November. If Hillary cared about the Dem party at all, she'd drop out instead of trying to tear apart the party.

By the way, Doug Hussein Zook, i saw someone on the washington post sign off using Hussein as their middle name, too. I think it's a great idea. The more familiar people become with foreign sounding names, the less power they have to scare (easily frightened) people.

:)

from,
Julie Hussein Nelson

Governor Richardson, I hope you are our next vice president.

Obama-Richardson. What a great opportunity for America to move forward as a Nation and as once again a true Global Leader.
God help our country if the She-Weasel steals the nomination! It is time for the Clinton's to slink back to their respective NY caves.
Our Ohio Republican family is voting fo Obama on Tuesday.

Gov. Richardson should do the right thing and endorse Sen Clinton NOW. She is a proven success, won New Mexico and needs his support now to level the playing field against a candidate with a mammoth financial advantage. Fair is fair. We need a new direction that only an experience woman like Clinton offers currently.

Hillary's gonna fight to the end, kicking and screaming.
Well, not totally to the convention. But Bill is right, they need to resolve this soon. I'm guessing Mississippi in May or Penn in April. But it could go as far as Puerto Rico in late June. But at that point, Dean and Gore and Richardson would sit both of the candidates down and cut a deal. For instance, if Obama has the delegate lead still, the DNC "elders" would give him the nomination and give Hillary the Senate Majority Leader position. Or if Hillary has the lead, they would give Obama the VP position. Something like that.

Sounds like a call for Hillary to withdraw to me. There will be more to follow.

It is getting ugly. The one advantage is that we can see that, given Hillary's Rovian tactics, that Obama will be able to defend himself with the Republican's. We haven't seen that with Hillary because Obama hasn't been willing to go into the Clinton's past, even when there is interesting news about Bill's foundation and his influence.

Julie Hussein Nelson,

I got my "Hussein" inspiration from bill "hussein" r. on our beloved Swamp.

Absolutely!

Let's throw it right back at them and make the right-wing knuckledraggers look as pathetic as they sound.

!GOBAMA!

Senator Hillary Clinton is wiser than Senator Barack Obama, while Senator Barack Obama is smarter than Senator Hillary Clinton.

No true Christian will vote for Barack Hussein Obama after reading his latest letter to the LGBT Community to beg for the Gay Vote.

No true Christian will oppose the DOMA and Barack Hussein Obama is against DOMA.

He is ready to say anything or do anything to win the nomination.

All those voting for Barack Hussein Obama are the enemies the best things in the United States of America.

God bless U.S.A.

I just lost a little respect for Richardson. He has an opinion one month and then changes it with the polls the next. God, these politicians are all alike.

"No true Christian will vote for Barack Hussein Obama after reading his latest letter to the LGBT Community to beg for the Gay Vote..."

"...He is ready to say anything or do anything to win the nomination."

Then don't you think he WOULDN'T have written the letter?

"All those voting for Barack Hussein Obama are the enemies the best things in the United States of America."

Like homophobia, religous intolerance, cultural intolerance...

What a great idea: What if people all over the U.S. began signing as Hussein?" Like the followers of Sparticus who stood up and said "I am Sparticus" when the Romans sought to crucify him. Out of love for our leader let us adopt his first name. Confound the racists and the fear-mongers.

Obama/Richardson? Yep, sound good to me!

I don't understand these calls for Richardson to endorse Clinton. Richardson is a very close friend of the Clintons. Bill Clinton sat next to Richardson on a couch for the entire Super Bowl. If Bill couldn't close the deal on an endorsement, it must mean Richardson has some SERIOUS misgivings about Hillary that we don't know about.

Hillary is behind and losing this race (although I wouldn't call her the underdog any more than the Patriots were the underdogs for about 90 seconds at the end of the 4th quarter against the Giants). Therefore, I fail to understand why people say Richardson should end it by endorsing Clinton. What would that do, except prolonge things?
The other day I heard someone from the Clinton campaign now say that Obama has to win Ohio and Texas BOTH to become the nominee because anything short of a complete landslide for Obama would show the public that he is cannot close the deal and deliver the victory.

WHAT??? What ever happened to "Clinton needs to win every state by 68% to catch up in pledged delegates?"

This sort of doublespeak and hyperspin is the thing we read about in Orwell, but I never thought it would become so strong in our daily lives. Clinton supporters, PLEASE recognize the degree to which this sort of game has sunk. It is about 2 days away from becoming the worst nightmare possible for the Democratic party.

This confirms my belief that Richardson will endorse Obama, maybe today or tommorrow. The end is near for HRC.

The campaigns are not being overly negative. In fact, Hillary and Obama are playing political patty-cake with nary a blow struck. I would like to see the Demo battle continue until one side is convincingly a victor (which would have already happened if the powers had chosen a winner-take-all format per state).

Gov. Richardson should do the right thing and endorse Sen Clinton NOW. She is a proven success, won New Mexico and needs his support now to level the playing field against a candidate with a mammoth financial advantage. Fair is fair. We need a new direction that only an experience woman like Clinton offers currently.

Posted by: Pat | March 2, 2008 12:06 PM

Pat I hate to break it to you, but I watched Mr Richardson this morning in that interveiw and though he owes allot to the Clintons he sure was complimentary of Barack. He also made a point of saying that he thought the party needed to unite which I took to mean if Hillary doesn't win (and win big) both Texas and Ohio that she should withdraw for the good of the party. I think after she loses Texas if not perhaps Ohio as well she will fall in line and pull the party together behind Senator Obama. I think he will carry at least Texas and that would be enough to make him the presumptive nominee.

Do the right thing Wed Hillary. Be the great states person I know you to be and step aside. Then I won't have to listen to people rip the democratic party apart by insulting one of their own. Barack Obama will be the nominee. After Tuesday you Clinton folks had better get used to the idea. Hillary has a bright futre ahead of her in the Senate.

Gov Richardson can see the writing on the wall.

Obama 2008.

He's right, and compare Bill Richardson's far superior resume (governor, diplomate, cabinet officer) against Obama's or Hillary's, and you realize the voter prejudice against overweight, non-exciting candidates without smooth appeal or a name. Even here in Mexico, hardly any know that Richardson is a (California-born) Mexican American who grew up in Mexico City.

Shame on Governor Richardson for playing coy! Clearly, Senator Obama will not engage in back room deals while Governor Richardson is only interested in whose coattails are the longest.

That media coverage is too negative is Hillary's, Bill’s and their inept campaign advisers’ due. They’ve used every manipulative, negative tactic and message that they can muster to smear and discredit Senator Obama and his "delusional" supporters. Hillary, if you run a negative campaign, you get negative coverage.

The media is biased toward HRC? Seriously! She’s been the lead story in mainstream media. Senator Obama has won the last 11 consecutive primaries/caucuses (25 of 36 states). He is leading in pledged delegates and has gained 30+ superdelegates to Hillary's loss of 6 in the past week. If she were any other candidate, she’d get little coverage.

Quit whining, and quit the race Hillary before you destroy our party and your political future.

Shame on Governor Richardson for playing coy! Clearly, Senator Obama will not engage in back room deals while Governor Richardson is only interested in whose coattails are the longest.

That media coverage is too negative is Hillary's, Bill’s and their inept campaign advisers’ due. They’ve used every manipulative, negative tactic and message that they can muster to smear and discredit Senator Obama and his "delusional" supporters. Hillary, if you run a negative campaign, you get negative coverage.

The media is biased toward HRC? Seriously! She’s been the lead story in mainstream media. Senator Obama has won the last 11 consecutive primaries/caucuses (25 of 36 states). He is leading in pledged delegates and has gained 30+ superdelegates to Hillary's loss of 6 in the past week. If she were any other candidate, she’d get little coverage.

Quit whining, and quit the race Hillary before you destroy our party and your political future.

Time to UNITE.
This is OUR year and we can take back the White House if we unite solidly behind our candidate. We have two EXCELLENT choices in Obama and Clinton. We have a party of great people and great candidates. More enegized, more young people, more women, more blacks, more latino than any other.

Character Counts.

"In 1982, when Richardson ran for Congress for the second time -- he lost two years before -- Kennedy flew to Santa Fe and campaigned for him. "That might have been the reason I was elected," Richardson said. And he said he likes Obama, telling a story about how Obama saved him during one of last year's Democratic debates:

"I had just been asked a question -- I don't remember which one -- and Obama was sitting right next to me. Then the moderator went across the room, I think to Chris Dodd, so I thought I was home free for a while. I wasn't going to listen to the next question. I was about to say something to Obama when the moderator turned to me and said, 'So, Gov. Richardson, what do you think of that?' But I wasn't paying any attention! I was about to say, 'Could you repeat the question? I wasn't listening.' But I wasn't about to say I wasn't listening. I looked at Obama. I was just horrified. And Obama whispered, 'Katrina. Katrina.' The question was on Katrina! So I said, 'On Katrina, my policy . . .' Obama could have just thrown me under the bus. So I said, 'Obama, that was good of you to do that.'"

blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/01/29/richardsons_choice.html -

We need more politicians like Bill Richardson who would be willing to put aside "personal loyalty" to do the RIGHT thing for the Democratic Party and the country. He would be an amazing VP choice -- more experienced than any candidate on EITHER side.

I've noticed that Obama supporters tend towards hysteria. They like to yell and scream and talk over anyone else with a different opinion. I don't call that new politics. Just reminds me of the Bush thugs. I too am sad that Richardson is playing "cute." Either he has a real opinion or he doesn't. What's the point of soaking up camera time on the issue of endorsement and still not endorsing? Now he's just a superdelegate vote, and little else.

Richardson is half-wit.

He's half-right in suggesting that the tone needs to change.

But imagine this.

Imagine Hillary wins TX and OH and she and her surrogates go "positive," talking about HER plans for the country instead of criticizing Obama for being everything from the second coming of Jesse Jackson to Martin Luther King, Jr. without the power of Lyndon Johnson.

Bottom line: a POSITIVE campaign is a good thing.

Rick Renzi is not tied to Barak Obama; he is or was John McCain's Arizona campaign chair.

The corporate media is not protecting Barack Obama, it has been trying to cripple both Obama and Clinton before the campaign against McCain.

There is no there, there between Reko and Obama or the corporate media would have been all over it by now.

John McCain's experience in Vietnam was a losing experience. He spent five years as a P.O.W. P.O.W.s are supposed to escape or die trying, instead he signed a statement that he bombed civilian targets.

John McCain is no maverick;, he will function as the perfect tool for the corporate media. That is the only criteria the special interests have in McCain.

The non-stop manipulations of the corporate media and its pundit lackies continue unabated by reason and facts.

For Richardson to endorse anyone this morning wouldn't make sense--it's too late to be more than a teeny boost, damning with faint praise. If he was going to endorse one, it would have been last week, followed by strong campaigning in West Texas through the weekend.

Richardson hasn't been playing coy. His withdrawl included gracious praise for every other candidate, and he's been committed to neutrality since. I hope he's speaking for the party elders as a group: We gave the Clintons 3 weeks to fulfill their promise of blowout wins in Ohio and Texas that would turn this race around. If Wednesday morning instead shows they lost ground from where they were 3 weeks ago, it is time to pack it in, stop threatening to sue the state parties, stop complaining that voters don't count, stop trying to tear down everything around them on the way to a nomination. Pissing off the voters of 45 states (or whatever we're up to by then) is not the way to win at all levels in November.

The Clinton campaign has been on borrowed time every since they admitted they didn't expect to catch up in pledged delegates with the most rosy scenario. They've been allowed to try and enact that rosiest scenario; if they fail on Tuesday and are still in Wednesday (Wyoming doesn't count! Mississippi doesn't count!), I expect a Richardson endorsement by Wed night, hopefully flanked by Biden, Pelosi, Gore, et al.

Hellary will just throw all her support into her beer buddy's campaign:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1673998/posts

On a congressional trip to Estonia, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton astonished her traveling companions by suggesting the group do what one does in the Baltics: hold a vodka-drinking contest!

Delighted, the leader of the overseas delegation, Sen. John McCain, quickly agreed, the NEW YORK TIMES is planning to report on Saturday.

The after-dinner game went so well -- memories are a bit hazy on who drank how much -- that McCain later told people how unexpectedly fun he found Clinton to be.

TIMES reporter Anne Kornblut has filed a story on the curious relationship between Hillary and John McCain.

"One of the guys," is the way McCain describes her.

Clinton and McCain have developed an amiable relationship. They worked together, both on the Senate Armed Services Committee and on the issue of global warming. But as the 2008 presidential campaign begins to take shape, with McCain and Clinton at the top of the polls for their parties' nominations, they are increasingly doing things that underscore their differences.

"But the interplay between the two senators -- both celebrities, both self-styled centrists, both with compelling personal narratives and a knack for infuriating their own parties' bases -- remains intriguing as they navigate the early phase of a presidential race with an eye toward conceivably running against one another."

Hellary will just throw all her support into her beer buddy's campaign:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1673998/posts

On a congressional trip to Estonia, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton astonished her traveling companions by suggesting the group do what one does in the Baltics: hold a vodka-drinking contest!

Delighted, the leader of the overseas delegation, Sen. John McCain, quickly agreed, the NEW YORK TIMES is planning to report on Saturday.

The after-dinner game went so well -- memories are a bit hazy on who drank how much -- that McCain later told people how unexpectedly fun he found Clinton to be.

TIMES reporter Anne Kornblut has filed a story on the curious relationship between Hillary and John McCain.

"One of the guys," is the way McCain describes her.

Clinton and McCain have developed an amiable relationship. They worked together, both on the Senate Armed Services Committee and on the issue of global warming. But as the 2008 presidential campaign begins to take shape, with McCain and Clinton at the top of the polls for their parties' nominations, they are increasingly doing things that underscore their differences.

"But the interplay between the two senators -- both celebrities, both self-styled centrists, both with compelling personal narratives and a knack for infuriating their own parties' bases -- remains intriguing as they navigate the early phase of a presidential race with an eye toward conceivably running against one another."

Well, Richardson doesn't have much clout anymore. He had moments where he could have helped a candidate with an endorsement. Now he would just be making an empty endorsement. And I'm afraid now it's going to look like he'll just make an endorsement based on his own political self-interest and not on the basis of who the better nominee would be. He won't look as bad as Dodd, but Dodd almost always looks bad- as dem voters obviously noted- and punted him unceremoniously out of the race. It looks like Edwards is also just playing politics for his own betterment as well. I worry he's going to be dangling his pledged delegates like a carrot for the months to come. I find that a terribly unprincipled stance to take. I don't know why these people need to play these games. The only way to have any credibility is to make an endorsement when you have decided which candidate is the best for America. How can it possibly take this long for anyone to make up their mind who has seen both Clinton and Obama for quite a while now? I am sorry that our candidate might be chosen on the basis of weak people's political self interest and not on a considered, intelligent choice based on merit, experience, ability and leadership qualities.
My vote goes to Hillary Clinton. She hands down is the best candidate. She has experience, merit, ability and leadership. I keep thinking that after she has been in the White House for five or six years, and America has reached a real renaissance:
our schools actually have the money to have music and arts curriculum; America has standing in the international community that isn't based on our having the biggest arsenal; women have the same pay as men, minorities have the same opportunites as whites; I can't help but think we will all go "whew"- remember how close that primary was? Remember how we almost had Obama?
I applaud Americans who have taken the time to watch this primary unfurl, and who have chosen and stood by Hillary Clinton through all the ridiculous media storm. The media has made Obama what he is now- a shallow candidate. If the media had done it's job and examined him as a person and candidate instead of the stupid, irresponsible hype they have engaged in, he perhaps could have had the chance to become a seasoned
statesman. But this didn't happen. And we all know how the media likes to build someone up just to take them down the next year. They have made him
"new coke." We all remember that media blitz.
And it is important to remember that the same marketers who brought us new coke, bring us political campaigns. Don't forget that we all found out new coke was terrible and insisted on "the real thing." Well, I'm afraid it's time again to roll up our sleeves and choose the real thing. One obvious difference that the marketers don't seem to be able to grasp- it only cost us a buck to try new coke and send it back. You'll get Obama for four years before you can send him back.
Obama's only real argument on why he should be our nominee is that he will bring change. What change is that Senator? I've watched him co-opt Hillary's stances on a number of issues- of course the media hasn't noticed. That wouldn't be news. News is that Ben and Jerry have an ice cream truck in Vermont with Obama written on the side. News is that there's a drink called Obama is Kenya. Of course there's a hideous civil war going on in Kenya which isn't newsworthy. Certainly not as newsworthy as a hard alcohol beverage named after an American candidate. They seem to have missed the irony of how hard alcohol might be playing into the civil war in Kenya. Doctors Without Borders have noticed that
those Serbs just recently burning the American embassy in the former Yugoslavia were heavily inebriated. But that would take the political correspondents some effort... they might actually have to think.. and look there's a shiny penny in the corner... so forget about thought.
For those of you who support Obama because you have researched the matter, watched the debates, watched the floor show, and have made an intelligent decision... well, I can do nothing but respect you, although I disagree with you. For those of you who support Obama because he's the candidate who can whip a crowd into a frenzy.. well, I have to say remember the rallies at Nuremburg or Mussolini or that charming poet Serb who
caused untold horrors and death amongst their own fellow citizens. The gift of eloquence is a gift. It means nothing more than that. It does not mean you have a heart of gold.
Of course there are those with the gift of eloquence who also have the heart of gold. If Martin Luther King were still around by some miracle of time and circumstance, I would vote for him. He isn't. Hllary Clinton is the closest we come to him. She has the gift of speech and also the gift of good heart. Combine that with experience and strength and you have a phenomenal candidate for president.
A word on the superdelegates: they were designed to help the party select a nominee who would be best for America. They were to vote on the basis of their own conscience and to use intellect over emotion. If they were simply to concede their role over the voice of a mob they would be betraying their point in even existing. I have no respect for the superdelegates who switch from one candidate to another. To me, they are scum. They should not have endorsed a candidate to begin with if they did not make a reasoned decision. If they do switch they are just showing their own lack of personal integrity.
Also, if Obama is supposed to be a candidate of this great change- and he has no substantial experience for the job (which he clearly doesn't): if its his supposed wisdom against her experience: then let's look at his wisdom. Surely it must be apparent in the choices of who he has surrounded himself with. He himself has said that. So who's around him? Tom Daschle, the ex-senate majority leader, whose own constituents in North Dakota gave a flunking grade to and chose someone else over him. They dumped him, a senate majority leader! When have you ever heard of a senate majority leader not being sent back to Congress? He's now Obama's campaign co-chair. And who else do we have around Obama? We have Senator John Kerry, the doofus who couldn't even beat Bush. The man who speaks out that superdelegates should vote with the voters from their region, and yet despite all his efforts, Massachusettes voted for Clinton.- Guess you'll be changing your superdelegate vote then, eh Senator creepy? And then we have Ted Kennedy, also of Massachusettes. He of Chappaquidick fame- where he left that woman to drown and stumbled drunk to call his chronies to help him out of the mess. Jail time? Zero. And the same Kennedy of the Willie Smith rape trial where it was apparent to many observors that he used his influence to get a rapist off, scott free. And the fact that he just always looks, well..drunk. Bloated from the alcohol with those little red, angry eyes. Oh yeah, baby- these are great princled men. Great Washington outsiders. Great men of character. Pffft.
Well, enough said. Vote for Hillary.

No-one with the middle name Hussein will be an American president--call yourselves Hussein all you want. Not gonna happen. Add in his un-patriotic wife, his separatist church, his complete lack of any foreign policy KNOWLEDGE, not just experience, and America isn't gonna go for it. Keep drinking that kool-aid.

Obama is NOT a real candidate--sorry, it's a fairy tale created by republicans who crossed over in caucus states and voted him up. they have no intention of voting for him. obama needs to realize his vulnerabilities from the 100 million of poor folks' housing he let his buddy Rezko trashi in his own state district. He needs to bow out after losing Ohio and Texas on Tuesday--IF NOT BEFORE!
We need to WIN against McCain.

If experience, wisdom and judgment may be relied upon to judge a presidential candidate's abilities to solve problems, then let's look at the records of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

In the Illinois legislature, Barack Obama secured bipartisan support for health-care reform and passage of low-income tax credits and child care subsidies.

In 2002, Barack Obama cautioned that without clear rationale an invasion of Iraq would encourage the worst impluses of the Arab world and strengthen the recruitment arm of Al Qaeda.

In the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama promoted a restoration of balance between work and wealth, criticized special interests for distorting U.S. tax codes and fought in a bipartisan effort to establish independent oversight of Senate ethics.

When did Hillary Clinton demonstrate her economic wisdom and foresight while Alan Greenspan was warning of irrational exuberance as the subprime housing loans were created and pandered during her husband's administration and her husband supported China's entry into the World Trade Organization without any conditions such as protecting the environment or labor and property rights to levels that are comparable to western standards?

Today China is not only a leading contributor to environmental pollution and global warming (thank you very much Mr. Nobel Laureate, Al Gore), it's also pushing up oil and other commodity prices, taking our jobs and stealing our intellectual property.

When did Hillary Clinton deliver health-care reform? In Hillary Clinton's eight (8) years in the Senate, the Congressional Record (www.thomas.gov) shows she "sponsored" only two (2) pieces of legislation that were presented to the president for signature. The first piece of legislation (S. 1241) was to establish a historic site in New York state, the second (S. 3613) was to name a U.S. Postal Service building.

At 3:00 AM who is Hillary Clinton gonna call in a national crisis? GHOSTBUSTERS?

Without any attachment to a position and no leadership qualities or principles to guide her in a time of national crisis, Hillary Clinton like her husband, would need to first conduct a poll to determine what is in her political interest before committing to any national decision.

It's refreshingly nice to see the better angels of America's character prevailing as voters reject the racial, religious and ethnic slurs being spewed by the divisive Clinton, Limbaugh and Hannity supporters.

As a Republican-leaning independent, I will vote for Barack Obama if he is the Democratic nominee running against John McCain but I will not vote for Hillary Clinton.

Bill Richardson should have been the Democratic party's pick for president. He has more governing experience than Obama and Clinton combined.

Gov. Richardson is right, Billary needs to get out on Wednesday. Just go away.

I'll add the increasing bitterness of the Clinton supporters as a reason not to drag the inevitable out through June.

The Clintons are heartless and relentless. The real truth to Hillary's vote for the war is not her lack of judgment but her judging that she needed to appear war-like in order to be taken seriously as a potential commander-in-chief. Should there be a 3 a.m. wake-up call, it would be a militiary problem created by a fear-mongering, war-mongering POTUS like Hillary would be. Can we depend on a President who uses tears and fears to win a negative campaign againts another Democratic candidate? Can we trust a leader who is willing to tear down a speaker for a younger generation fo citizens? Should the Clinton dynasty win as they well might, it would mean the end of the resurgent Democratic Party and the start to a third party of independents. The first woman president of the US, should Hillary win, would be MRS CLINTON, the wife of a publicly disgraced sex-addicted President, who stayed with him to achieve her lust for power.

The bias of the newsmedia says the Clinton supporters will support Obama and that is more of their pro-Obama pillows. Long ago I decided that if Hillary does not get the nomination I will vote for McCain, a moderate Republican. The good of the country is more important than the good of the party and if you want to straigthen out the democratic party then get rid of the caucus system.

I thought Gov. Richardson was pretty straight forward in what he said and that is if only one candidate has a plausible chance to win the nomination then there is no longer a need for the second candidate to continue to seek the nomination. She has not behaved so far as if her objective was to win at the expense of her standing with the party. So she will, I think, do the practical thing and stop her campaign after her loss in Texas.

The fact that Gov. Richardson and Donna Brazile made similar statements today says that some Democrats must be worried about Hillary falling in line. I hope that Hillary is in contact with reality or at least that Tuesday's results jar her into reality. We'll just have to wait and see.

"I've noticed that Obama supporters tend towards hysteria. They like to yell and scream and talk over anyone else with a different opinion. I don't call that new politics. Just reminds me of the Bush thugs. I too am sad that Richardson is playing "cute." Either he has a real opinion or he doesn't. What's the point of soaking up camera time on the issue of endorsement and still not endorsing? Now he's just a superdelegate vote, and little else."

Posted by: Sandy Miller | March 2, 2008 2:41 PM

Marge, Karen Jefferson and all the other pissed of Hillary supporters, please begin to adjust to the reallity that America has rejected not only Hillary as a candidate, but her style of campaigning. Your endless, vacuous, tirades have done nothing more than reinforce all the negatives that drive people away from the Clintons. I'll quote the lovable Sandy Miller "I've noticed that Obama supporters tend towards hysteria. They like to yell and scream and talk over anyone else with a different opinion. I don't call that new politics."

Now Sandy I hate to be the one to break the bad news to you but...that is the very definition of YOUR OWN COMMENT. Look I think Hillary is an awesome person. Misunderstoopd yes, but very nice one on one. I know, I've had the pleasure of talking to her on several occasions. I've felt all along that her campaign has been poorly managed. Time has just about run out. The shrill, anti-Obama attacks of the last couple of weeks both by the canidate and her surrogates (that would be you folks) have basically driven anyone who was on the fence over to Barack Obama. Ripping him apart is like flipping the bird to everyone who veiws him in a different light from yourselves. We see him as a VERY BRIGHT charismatic person with unmatched political skills. I think leadership begins with sound, fresh ideas. Hillary has not demonstrated that and has more or less told anyone who likes him that they're an idiot. Well call me names if you like but I find him to be as advertised. A man who can present a new way of tackling the very real challenges America faces.

With Mrs Clintons support I feel we have a very good chance of changing Washington and America's image worldwide. Please accept the fact that should your candidate lose we need to unite behind Barack Obama. Unless of course you want four more years of the same failed policies. In which case take your vemon over to the republicans where it will not only be understood, it will be appreciated. After all that's what the McCain campaign has to offer. More of the same.

Obama 2008

End this now, Hillary.

You have lost and the only thing you can do is damage your legacy and Barack's run for the presidency. I knew you didn't see it this way, but if you bow out gracefully you will be the unchallenged leader of Congressional Democrats for the next generation- not a bad gig in my humble opinion.

Can't believe thar Richardson can not endorse Hillary right now.
Are you afraid not to be
a vice president if you
don't endorse her now.
No lo puedo creer. Deberia ayudarla HOY LUNES y no hasta luego. I am very dissapointed about you.