Senator Obama's ad points out the major problem Senator Clinton's campaign has now - more and more people don't believe what she says. The Clintons have used so much spin that people are not sure what is fact and what is fiction.

If Senator Clinton has given the speech she just gave about differences between the two candidates two or three months ago, voters in past primaries might have given her more support.

Senator Obama needs to stay the course in order to counter the confusion the Clinton campaign is trying to create for voters in Wisconsin.

There's a lot of discussion about the debate and how badly Senator Barack Obama did in responding to questions about his "character" from the psuedo-journalist moderators. Most of the pundits don't understand that American voters are smarter than they think, and I think pundits have been too fond of their own thinking.

The shenanigans behind the scene concerning the debate (and it appears there's more coming) will put Mr. Obama's performance in context. Gotcha questions from the press no longer have much impact on voter decision-making (except for those who use it to bolster their ideological arguments).

Senator Hillary Clinton certainly did not do herself much good in her repeated unsuccessful "attacks" on her opponent and her sideways answer about the Bosnia lie.

Pennsylvania's vote next Tuesday will show the extent of voter fatique from the Clinton campaign's untrustworthy tactics.

This news should help Senator Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania vote. His campaign has attracted two heavy-weights in foreign affairs, intelligence, and military policy to his advisory team (and maybe his cabinet should he become president). This goes a way to answer long-standing charges by Senator Hillary Clinton and gang that Mr. Obama is not ready to be president.

-from a former Pittsburgher

Howard Dean's motive for pressuring super delegates to announce their preferences may have been more about directing their attention to doing what they could to end the nomination battle sooner rather than later.

Doesn't he have to maintain neutrality as chair? I have seen no evidence that Mr. Dean has acted to benefit or detract from one candidate or the other.

But this dilemma doesn't end with the primaries and the final count of super delegate endorsements. The troublesome problem of what to do with Florida and Michigan has still to be resolved.

Yes, it was the fault of the state parties that this impasse on how to seat their delegations at the Denver convention came about. Yet, the fact the two states will not or can not conduct revotes is more of a national party issue.

You cannot place the candidates in the position of financing their own political contests, nor can you force states to pay twice (even though they violated party rules in the first instance).

Aside from an even split of delegates between the two remaining candidates, the only fair solution would be for the DNC to pay for revotes in Florida and Michigan. This would require the legislatures of the two states to agree to conduct the balloting. And there's probably too little time left before June to do it.

If the primary voters and super delegates end the nomination battle with a clear winner, Mr. Dean will no doubt breathe a sign of relief!

Senator Barack Obama may have appeared somewhat presidential in his concession speech but his campaign in recent weeks has been remarkably unpresidential. From waffles and bowling balls to mangled remarks and debate flubs, this first-term member of the United States Senate does not appear to understand how to convince working class voters he is ready to be president.

When your opponent confesses to lying to the American people about being under sniper fire and then publicly boasts about being ready to obliterate Iran, a president would have won the Pennsylvania contest by 20 points and ended her personal quest for immortality.

Instead, as some of the commenters here have suggested, Mr. Obama now appears badly damaged by this low-road campaign strife.

Maybe uncommitted supredelegates should hold out their support and send this unending contest between two weary combatants to a brokered convention. If neither Senator Barack Obama or Senator Hillary Clinton can win in November against Senator John McCain, then perhaps the Democratic Party should nominate Senator Chris Dodd or Senator Joe Bidden to be its standardbearer.

Unless this country puts a Democrat in the White House next year, this nation will continue to slide down into an increasingly lawless chaos. Congress has shown it does not have the backbone to impeach George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for violating the constitution and federal and international laws.

We have a president who admits to ordering torture, executes parts of laws through signing statements when he deems them satisfactory to the benefit of his cronies, and who orders illegal spying on Americans and open-ended imprisonment of anyone he decides is an enemy. Former Attorney General John Ashcroft has begun milking the taxpayers through contracts with the Justice Department that has established itself as a court of law by levying fines instead of prosecuting corporations who have broken the law. We have the FBI Director who publicly admits to Congress he will not investigate and/or prosecute government officials who break the laws on torture. We now have employees of the federal government using their office credit cards for personal purchases. And we have blood-thirsty Blackwater in Iraq last fall on illegal and immoral killing sprees but blessed with a renewed government contract this spring.