I hold my head down low. The Clintons legacy has just went down in smoke. For all the race baiting this campaign has had, it was the Clintons that initiated it. What a way to go out.

On thing all this has taught me; all the money in the world can't buy class, respect, or character. SAD

Like most things concerning the electorate, she has it wrong, again. Senator Clinton should stop trying to put those negative thoughts in peoples minds!!! Give the American electorate some credit for fairness and intelligence!! Senator Obama, mistakes and all, is winning the primaries because he is appealing to the voters on the issues. He isn't fear-mongering, which seems to be becoming, a habit with Senator Clinton!! I sure hope not, it will not serve her well in the future!!
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I USED TO have such high regard for the Clintons. I defended them vigorously in their darkest hours to friends, family and co-workers. When this race started I was leaning towards supporting her, but as I got to know Barack Obama his genuiness, grace and intelligence so impressed me that I decided I would cast my vote for him. At the time, I would have happily supported Clinton if she were the nominee.

Over the last two months I have become increasingly disappointed in Hillary. Today's comments broke the proverbial camel's back. When I read them, I was in suspended disbelief. She is too intelligent to pretend that these remarks are not racially divisive. Even if one were to buy the argument that they are not divisive, then they are most certainly offensive.

And don't tell me she was just citing a poll. Given her position and her mission, this was race baiting at its worst. It was insulting to me and I suspect insulting to every "working, hardworking" African American, Latino, non-white voter in this country.

Whatever respect I had left for her is now gone and irretrievable.

I see a pattern here - DIVISION. Remember this is the UNITED States of America and not pidgeonhole States of America. Shame on Hillary!

The racism that permeates the Democrat party has been fully revealed in this primary election. And the different interpretations are hilarious. 98 percent of blacks support Obama and that's just great. 60 percent of white Democrats support Clinton and that is racism. Pardon me while I choke on the hypocrisy of the media and the Democrats.

Oh My God Hillary. This is the last straw! How low are you prepared to go? Your words are outrageous and so very Clintonian - I have just changed my mind about giving you my support. If I could I would cast two ballots for Obama since he does not divide America.

I just don't understand her position. She is basically saying that there is no way that barack Obama can win over any lower income, non-college educated white people. Once she again is making assumptions and building a case, imagined or not, for the Republicans.
Is it blatant race baiting, by saying Obama can't get whites? It certainly appears so. Is she really attempting a nuclear option? If she can't win, she'll make it no Democrat will? If she thinks that she can convince the SD's to pick her becuase Obama can't win, she is hoping hte black vote will come out for her. In some of these swing states there is a good chance that there might be enough passive protest in not voting to actually lose.

She is starting to look more like the mad scientist whose great scheme is to destroy the world in order to rebuild it.

Clinton the candidate for white voters? This white American begs to differ with her. I understand Obama managed to win quite a few votes from melanin deficient people like me in Iowa, Vermont, Illinois, Wisconsin, Maine, and Minnesota. He will also win Oregon.

Clinton is assuming that these white Democratic voters who chose her in the primary will not vote for Obama in November instead of McBush. Maybe some won't but I can't think of any reason the majority wouldn't when Clinton concedes and throws her support behind Obama.

I see a pattern here - DIVISION. Remember this is the UNITED States of America and not Pidgeonhole States of America. Shame on you Hillary Clinton!

As a middle-aged white woman who grew up in a suburb of Chicago, I have to say it's time Senator Clinton bowed out gracefully and started working to elect Senator Obama.

bush is squandering tax payers dollars and bankrupting the nation and digging us deeper into debt by refusing to exit an international war that he started that can't be won.

clinton is squandering the dollars of her supporters, bankrupting her campaign and digging herself deeper into debt by refusing to exit a civil war that she started that she can not win....

O.M.G! how can anyone support this?!?!

This WHITE voter from Vermont (one of the whitest states in the union, if not THE whitest; yet the first abolishonist state!) is proud of Obama and is voting for him in November. He is the new guard, the new way. She is the old guard, tired and divisive and selfish. She is not about or for this country, she is about and for herself. She is so far from presidential it would be hilarious if it were not such a SHAME!

Hillary insults the intelligence of the American people. We have had enough of both her and Bill. Somebody should remind the American people of all the things the Clintons did while Bubba was in office. The only people they serve are themselves!
Hillary, give it up!

I would humbly advice the Clintons to bring this race to a graceful end. By provocatively re-entering the race issue, the Clinton's seem to aim at eliciting a negative emotional response rather an intelligent insight. Mrs Clinton's etical backbone seems to be crumbling under her hunger for power.

This is exactly why she's being pressured to concede. This does NOTHING but damage the Country, the party, & Barack Obama. When the media repeats her race baiting claims they perpetuate it. It's time to quit all the crap or get out NOW!!!
This Country has no more tolerance for fear driven dividing tactics. They stink.

Appalling. But given the tone of the campaign HRC has run, not unexpected. Many have speculated she is trying to undermine Obama's chances of winning the general election. I think Obama can still prevail. The real casualty will be her own reputation.
PS: I'm white, middle aged, and unemployed

When Bill Clinton took 85% of the black vote nobody said it was because he was black.

This is sad, I hate to see Hillary go out like this but then again she brought it all on herself.

This white female will vote for McCain rather than that snake oil slick talking Obama.

Count their votes!!!

It is a fact he needs the majority of white votes to win the entire country. It is also a fact that Obama won the wide majority of black votes in N. Carolina. Is that being racist or is it a fact. Can we only say that Obama won the black vote but we can't say Hillary won the white vote? Why is it only racist when we say she won the white vote?

It's just common sense. If Obama wants to show how much of a great uniter he is, he should start, if he gets the nomination, by uniting his ticket. If you manage a win with an Obama-Clinton ticket and really give the v.p something to do (hint: health care), then, on just health care alone, the term would have a genuine legacy.

I live in Florida. Based on numerous conversations with friends and colleagues as this race has unfolded, I can count at least 10 persons who voted for Clinton in our primary, but have been so turned off by her stooping to whatever means necessary in her attempts to stay in this race, that they have turned into Obama supporters. If our primary were held again, I think the numbers would surprise Mrs. Clinton and bruise her ego. Sad to say the Clinton's have tarnished their legacy through this process.

But what if she's right?

this is the politics of desperation,accept that you have beaten and surport the winner,she is then giving rev wrights comments validity

It is truly unfortunate that the Democratic presidential campaign is being turned into an issue of race. This is not entirely the fault of the Clintons, however. As a 'typical white person" (to use Barack Obama's words) who has voted Democratic all his life, I have resented efforts by liberal pundits to force people like me to vote for Senator Obama to prove that we are NOT racist. I would be happy to vote for Colin Powell. I will not vote for Senator Obama because I fear the beliefs and associates he would bring to the presidency.

I am truly disappointed in Hillary, She has lost all my respect to her both as a leader and as a lady. She wants to win at any price, that is the defining charactor of a true monster. I will NEVER vote for her. I am actually a Republican but will vote for Obama. Hang in there! Hard working Americans are supporting you!

What utter ignorance. Her supposition is that Obama could not appeal to and the white electorate would not vote for Obama, only her. What other inference could you draw from that?

She is using PRIMARY voting trends to draw a conclusion that is completely racist.

Let me straight up some facts to Clinton.

Democrats NEVER won rural White Americans' vote. Every election, they always find an excuse to vote Republican. Demorats DON'T them to win. But democrats do need blacks, young people and educated white people like myself to win. In other words, Obama will be just fine but Clinton may not win since she can't the democratic base. She is naive to think all those who voted for Clinton in the democratic primary will vote for Clinton again in general election over McCain. Remember she wins where Republican does the best, not where democratic does the best.

I am a white male in West Virginia. I want to take this time to officially say that I think Hillary Clinton is a disgusting pig of a person. She will probably win in WV, but only by tricking voters that this multi-millionaire sponsored by special interests is actually there to represent them. It's sad when working class voters think the special interest/lobbyist candidate is going to look out for them.

While the negativity and malice comments like these foster is massive, it has been answered and responded to with intelligence and clarity, which is heartening. What I would like to draw attention to here as well though, is the con game she is playing with comments like these: Even if she won the so called "white" vote (by the way in which category does Obama fall or the millions like him?, does having one parent with skin color seven degrees darker than the other automatically qualify you for the black group?), how does it follow that Barak will not be able to win over those same Democratic voters when he is up against McCain? This logic is sadly reminiscent of the create-a-truth statements W used to throw out as fast in his insipid campaign. Whatever Obama is able or unable to accomplish, if he gets elected it will certainly say a lot about the intelligence and integrity of Americans in general.

White, middle-aged and 100% Obama-mama, I have gone from feeling neutral about Sen. Clinton to actively disliking her both for her racially-divisive campaign tactics and her undiplomatic "tough guy" foreign policy comments which will only serve to keep us longer at war with the rest of the world. And that she would want to blow through the $$ she had to loan to her campaign to see what kind of showing she can get in WV and KY when she doesn't have a prayer of winning the nomination is stunningly selfish.

People are still getting the facts twisted:

The reason why Obama gets 90-95% of the Black vote is because it is felt -- right or wrong -- that a Black candidate will most likely understand the problems within the Black community (i.e.: crime, education, jobs, etc.), and know best how to deal with those issues.
[As an aside: this is why Democratic candidates of any race are most likely to get the Black vote, as they show -- at least in word; if not always in deed -- to be more sympathetic than Republicans to the cause of helping out the Black communities.]

As popular as the Clintons were in the '90s, they still didn't fully deal with many issues that were important in the Black community.

Trust me on this: If John McCain were a Black Republican, he would NOT get much of the Black vote, because it is felt that Republicans (in general) are not sympathetic to issues that Blacks feel are important.

It is really very funny to read the foolish comments of Obama supporters most of whom are voting for the first time in their lives. The reality is that if we as Americans want to elect a democrat then Obama should drop out as there is no way Obama will beat McCain......I reallly enjoy the comments by Obama supporters that pretend to be Clinton supporters. Ha Ha

Why is it okay for Obama to carry the black vote and wrong for Hillary to carry the multi cultural and white vote? Wake up people she's not made a racial divide, the divide exists.
Democrats disunited themselves and the realness of that is evident in the way people respond to Hillary's identifying her voter base.
In all of this I wonder if anyone is wondering how happy the far right and republican faction may be, just observing such lunacy. The Clintons are and have always been the voice of the people, black, white, yellow, purple, rainbow whatever...Denise from Philly

When (for all you die-hards.. IF) Hillary finally drops out, I hope beyond hope that she endorses Barrack's candidacy and then Shuts Up.

The last thing Barrack will need in the general is Hillary stumping for him. Unless of course her intent is truly to destroy his chances.

Hillary's remarks are blatantly exacerbating racial divisions, and if she persists will only further weaken the Dems and the Obama candidacy. She is equating white Americans with hard-working Americans: this is a horrible and disgraceful remark, but it does show her thinking. What about the other Americans, are they not hard-working? And this type of thinking is what the Obama candidacy is trying to heal. As a white American, I am deeply offended, and her kitchen sink strategy has hit the ultimate low.

I am white - I am from NC and I am going to vote for Obama?
go figure? Hillary lost me at the insult of a gas tax holiday - we need real solutions - not gimicks.

If the American public was allowed to vote on the Medical program painstakingly prepared in 1993 by Hilary Clinton there would be no division of races or political parties today.....Both political parties and all races would have been allowed an equal vote to benefit the children and elderly of all Americans..
Our children are our future....

Excuse me, but graniteman did you actually say you, "fear the beliefs and associates he would bring to the Presidency?" Would you prefer a candidate who associates with oil company executives, rubs shoulders with arms manufacturers and whom appoints his associate foxes to watch the environmental henhouse?

Congressal lines within the City of Chicago are drawn along racial lines. Democrat delegates are determined by quotas which include race. Set-aside programs, college admissions, bussing school children, etc. all involve race. Why should the most powerful office in the world be different?

I don't think you can blame Hillary for pointing out the obvious. By being the 'party of everyone else who isn't a Republican', the Dems have tried to appeal to wide base with divergent needs and views. What's emerging is that with a CHOICE in candidates, that base is showing it is far from unified. We have been for years asked to pick from Democratic Rich White Guy A or Republican Rich White Guy B, and hope that the guy we pick, if we didn't fit the Rich White Guy demographic, at least paid some lip service to the demographic we belonged to. Now, we have candidates who actually do appeal to some, but not all, of these silos within the Democratic party...what did you think would happen? We are working through what's happened in corporations for years - the people who get promoted look an awful lot like those doing the promoting. Thus glass ceilings, the need for affirmative action, etc. Now we have a choice for Dem candidate, and discover those silos in the party don't have a whole lot in common. That's why the vote between Hillary and Obama is nearly even. The problem is with the wide divergence in demographics in the Democratic party, not with Hillary. Since neither candidate is Universally Appealing to all demographics, we have to pick the one who can win most.
That's her. She's not evil, but labelling her as such sure reveals a lot about each of our own internal demons.

It doesn't matter that Obama does poorly amongst white voters because Obama flacks Donna Brazile and David Axelrod have stated that they don't need the white middle class voters to win the general election.White voters, especially older white females have been told by the Obama-ites that they aren't even "real" Democrats.White middle class voters who voted for Senator Clinton because they felt that she would make the best candidate and the best President have been denigrated by the Obama-ites as "uneducated" "uninformed" and racist among other pejoritives.But since the Obama campaign has said that it doesn't need the middle class white voters to win against McCain then those voters, feeling unwelcome in the party that they have supported for years may well be voting for McCain ;and this country will have four more years of the same disasterous policies of the last seven years

...SHE REALLY THINKS WE'RE A BUNCH OF BIG DUMMIES!!!!....

If African Americans constitute about 15% of the US population, how can anyone make the claim that "whites" aren't supporting Obama? I know I am....time to call it quits Mrs. Clinton.

In regard to racism, Democrats are much worse than Republicans. The self-righteousness of Democrats is unjustified.

Garrison, I agree. There is not a dime's worth of difference in policy between Hillary & Obama, yet >90% of Blacks support Obama? No one in the media has the courage to touch this issue - is it OK for Blacks to vote for a candidate based on race? To consider race as a factor? If that is OK, is it also OK for Hispanics to do so? Whites? What is the difference? Either race is an innate characteristic irrelevant to qualifications for president, or it is not.

As usual AMAZING how the media jumps negatively on HRC for stating a fact. Yet Obama can say the same thing, only using the word white and no says one thing about RACE. It is getting blatenly obvious that the media has taken it in their hands to decide who will be President. Very unfair..Check the polls for today. HRC is still ahead...A vote for Obama is a vote for McCain...

Hey, " Terry ", she's not!!
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Sure let's get her out and hope she runs as independent. She is the only one I can think of that could win as an independent. The vote would split 3 ways and I think Hillary would win. GO HILLARY,

While it is true that there are many African-Americans supporting Barack simply because he is an African-American it is also true that there are a significant number of African-Americans who support him because we feel he is the best candidate for the job. I have yet to hear Barack or anyone associated with his campaign characterize his supporters in a manner that would divide us along racial, educational, or economic indicators. In fact, he, unlike Hillary, has always spoken directly to the diversity of his coalition and support. Time and time again Team Clinton has used racial codes and racist statements in an effort to garner support for her candidacy.

I once supported Hillary Clinton because I thought that she was the most qualified for the job. She lost my support when she and her team threw race into the equation. She, unfortunately, has show her true colors and they are certainly NOT the colors of the rainbow.

SjP
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If Hillary keeps this up she will be the spoiler for the Democratic party, not by winning but by losing it for all Democrats. It is probably the first election where an independant (Michael Bloomberg) could jump in and WIN.