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Jeannette

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Saturday, May 10, 2008 09:59 AM

What are the odds?

Ok, who wants to predict the day that Hillary starts saying that the Super Delegates should not count? When will she start discounting all those supers votes that she and Bill so openly courted?

Seriously, I believe she is in this now because she simply does not know HOW to quit. She really believed this was her job.

This must be like a death to her. For that, I do feel truly sorry for her. I has to be hard to be so close to a life time goal, to get so very close and then to have it go to someone else.

We have all been there in one form or another. I have empathy.

But I still support Obama.

Friday, May 9, 2008 08:41 PM

Be Nice

All of us Obama supporters should follow his lead: be gracious and kind to the Hillary supporters.

They are our sisters and brothers. We need them, just as they would need us if Hillary had won.

We are in this together. Our long term goals are the same. We want health care. We want fairness. We want equality.

We want our country run by sane people, not maniacs.

We still like you Joan, we really, really do.

Friday, May 9, 2008 01:43 PM

What will it take?

When Obama over takes Hillary in the super delegate count, I fully expect an announcement from her camp that: "Super delegates should not count. They subvert the will of the people."

Just like caucuses. Just like small states--except where she won. Just like every vote that wasn't for her.

According to her argument, not one person in Michigan would vote for Obama, I heard one of her surrogates last night say that he should get zero delegates from there, she should get all of them. The uncommitted should go to her, as, alas, no one else was entitled to them. And remember, she was the one who decided to flaunt the rules of the DNC, why should she be REWARDED when others --Obama, Edwards, et. al.--followed them?

Everybody wants Michigan and Florida to be represented in some way. But Hillary's way or the highway is no way to do it. Obama did not stop a revote. The people in Michigan and Florida did. And do not forget, Hillary vetoed a caucus, because she thought she would lose. She wanted the odds in her favor. If she had been winning caucuses, you better believe she would have been all over that.

She knew the rules when she started. Now she wants them her way, even if she broke them. Enough. Hillary: Stay in as long as you want, but quit insulting us and treating us like we are stupid.

Friday, May 9, 2008 11:53 AM

Joan, Joan, Joan

According to the posters, it looks like you are getting a thumpin.....

You do remind me of my Hillary supporting friends though. God bless them. They just won't give up. My heart goes out to them. I will remind you of what I reminded them. Hillary is not the only woman in America. Ten years ago we never heard of Barack Obama. Twenty years ago we never heard of Bill Clinton or Al Gore. Eight or twelve years from now there will be a female candidate whose name we do not know now.

Take heart. She is out there. We will know who she is. She will be President. That is, if the Republicans don't blow us to kingdom come first.

Friday, May 9, 2008 11:45 AM

Totally Bogus Site

Several friends of mine, and obviously several posters on this site, have tried posting on the "Can We Ask?" website. None of those questions have appeared.

They have been texted and videoed. Nada, Zip. Do-da.

Please. Salon.

EXPOSE THEM once again, for the lying liars the Republican Party is.

Thank you.

Friday, May 9, 2008 11:29 AM

Kennedy

Senator Kennedy knows he is too old. Senator McCain, are you listening?

Friday, May 9, 2008 10:55 AM

What Hillary said

Hillary probably does not have a racist bone in her body. However, she did point out that white, blue collar Americans are racists. And, rather than try to bring those Americans together, she just said "I am your candidate!"

THAT is what Hillary did wrong. Get it Joan? Hell-o?

Here is what Obama is saying that most of us find appealing: WE can work together, it is about US. Here is what Hillary is saying, that WE hear: It is about ME, it is MY turn to be President, I deserve it. I can get the black vote, and I will get the racist white folk vote because Americans are basically stupid. And I will bring down the party to get what is mine.

Joan, when you get that, maybe you will understand the mania for Obama that many of us older, white women --who really, really, really want a female President--have adopted.

Thursday, May 8, 2008 07:29 PM

Hillary isn't racist

Hillary is an opportunist. And she is using the kitchen sink strategy that her campaign talked about.

So, if it starts talking about the 'white vote' or 'black vote,' well, that is just part of the game. It is just politics to her.

Sick and dirty politics that shows the bottom of the barrel, last chance to win campaign theory, but no, she is not a racist.

But she would do anything to win. And I truly believe she does not yet realize what she is doing. This will bite her back one day. She is ruining her long term career.

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