Obama is currently fighting a war on two fronts.

The GOP is taking the opportunity to slam him while he and the rest of the Democrats are distracted and divided. I've said it before and I"ll say it again, the longer this primary process drags on, the easier it is going to be for the Republicans to pile on to Obama. Obama, meanwhile, is left with two major disadvantages. First, he's got to focus on Clinton, securing the nomination is a priority before fighting the general. But second, we do not have a unified Democratic front to defend our candidate. Obama delivered yesterday one of the best speeches about racial turmoil in America from any politician. Where are the Democrats lining up behind our leader and defending him against the character smears by the Republicans?

Obama has won the nomination, Clinton cannot catch him in delegates. Let's end this and start focusing on the real fight.

Buried in that story is the more important point, he's back baby! He's regaining most of his previous losses in the polls. It just shows again how thirsty the American people are for a president who is honest and talks to them like their are adults who are part of a process. It must kill, just kill the likes of Hannity and Rove that there is little they can do to keep his message of honesty and unity from capturing the imagination and the support of this country!

This is it! I was willing to hold my nose and vote for Clinton if she won the nomination. At worse, I was prepared to stay home or vote for some kooky third party.

How dare she reopen that wound! This country is at WAR! This country is in RECESSION. This country has lost its way under the guidance of an incompetent and corrupt government! Are we really going to waste another week or two talking about the man's pastor as the Iraq death toll begins its slow climb to 5000 and the economy continues to buckle under the weight of extreme mismanagement!

She has lost my support for good! I will give money to McCain and I will vote for that senile old bastard if Clinton is the Democratic nominee.

If she wins the nomination, we are going to be left with a choice between a Republican who is pro-choice and a Republican who is pro-life if this woman gets the democratic nomination.

Call me overly pragmatic, I'd rather suffer through four more years of Republican rule on the hope that we could nominate a REAL Democrat in 2012 rather than suffer through 8 years of Republican politics and policies under the guise of Democratic party principles.

Katharine writes: "And yet ... is this scenario any more preposterous than the one that gave John McCain the Republican nomination?"

Yes Katharine, that is much more presposterous.

Sounds to me like Obama wouldn't kiss Edward's ass or offer a him juicy plum to get his endorsement. Good!

Obama needs to keep Pennsylvania close, win North Carolina and win Oregon. Indiana would be a nice bonus. After that, it's a done deal. If he manages that, he'll essentially need 150 more Supers behind him to cinch it. I doubt it will be a problem for him to get those numbers.

Clinton is again Dean's proposal because she knwos the only way she can win is to create a major mess of the convention and hope she comes out on top. But it's not gonna happen. As long as Obama meets these expectations, the supers will soon make their voices heard and the race will be effectively terminated.

InfoUSA.

After years and years of Bush's policy of spying on anyone anytime, I can't see many Democrats being very comfortable with the Clinton's cozy relationship with a company that mines personal data and was caught once selling such data to fraudulent telemarketers!!!

I mean come ON salon. What the hell is this piece of crap? It's full of hypotheticals of other hypothetical situations.

More to the point, the author argues that Obama is taking steps to disenfranchise Michigan and Florida. I'd just like to point out that Hillary Clinton AGREED to this disenfranchisement back in 2007 when it looked like the entire voting process was merely a formality to her coronation.

This is possibly the most Clinton-biased piece I have read in Salon yet. I'm all for pieces that both praise and criticize both candidates. But this was nothing more than a laughable attempt to spin Clinton's failures and massive delegate deficit into some sort of positivie message.

"Lori Moschella-Keller, a nurse's assistant, is a registered Democrat who plans to vote for Clinton. Part of the reason: "I have a real problem with Obama saying on the news that his country is so important to him, but he can't put his hand on his heart for the Pledge of Allegiance."

Seriously, what hope does our democracy ever have if people can

a) believe such baloney

b) make it their primary rationale when deciding who to vote for.

Oh well. I still have hope. And I'm still voting for Obama.