Stomach in knots? Sounds VERY partisan to me...Hillary could still nab the nomination. Why should she quit?

Besides, what about Michigan and Florida (which Hillary won fair and square) scheduling their do-overs for possibly JUNE 3rd??

And what about:

May 3 Guam

May 6 North Carolina

May 13 West Virginia

May 20 Kentucky and Oregon

What are voters in those contests, chopped liver?

It ain't over, 'til it's over. Nobody is "entitled" to the nomination.

Dick Cheney's main reason for his Middle East trip is to mobilize support for attacking Iran. All the other stuff is just cover.

http://obama.senate.gov/news/050626-when_it_comes_to_race_obama_ma/

Obama acknowledges, with no small irony, that he benefits from his race.

If he were white, he once bluntly noted, he would simply be one of nine freshmen senators, almost certainly without a multimillion-dollar book deal and a shred of celebrity. Or would he have been elected at all?

hahaha

Based on previous observations, experience and reason, I made a "prediction" which is not the same as "knowing" the outcome.

I based my prediction on the tactics that will undoubtedly be used against him.

If those tactics aren't used, he might win.

Where's your hand in this?

Anyone who thinks s/he has the answer to the outcome of the general election is, to put it bluntly, playing with himself/herself.

Fewer than 30 million people have voted in the 2008 Democratic caucuses and primaries. In the 2004 general election 122+ million votes were cast.

Anyone who believes one can extrapolate voting blocs (except perhaps the almost monolithic black vote if Obama is the Dem candidate) from the primary results is on a fool's errand.

However, if Obama is the Dem candidate, I predict that he won't be elected, because the Rethuglican machine will use, to their advantage, a long list of "scary" things to frighten the masses into submission -- and it will be an easy task, given the available fodder. Not saying I agree with it, but's that's the reality.

Oh...McCain will stay above the fray? Sure. LOL. His "surrogates" sure won't.

How is it that Geraldine Ferraro's comments are more contemptible than Barack Obama's pastor's comments? Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, is an advisor to his campaign, just as Ferraro is said to be an advisor to Clinton.

I realize it's not apples to apples, but really....why hasn't Obama been challenged to ask his pastor of over 20 years to refrain from this kind of rhetoric:

An ABC News review of dozens of Rev. Wright's sermons, offered for sale by the church, found repeated denunciations of the U.S. based on what he described as his reading of the Gospels and the treatment of black Americans.

"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people," he said. "God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."

Because no matter what my accomplishments are, what kind of education I have or what kind of person I AM, the color of my skin informs what people immediately think of me--that I'm slow, can't think, that I somehow coasted to where I am because of handouts.

Gee, stop turning yourself into a doormat. Maybe people don't think you're slow, can't think, or coasted...maybe it's your imagination. Maybe you think people are thinking that, so that's your preconceived notion if you don't get the job.

Hey, TRenee, if you didn't think so negatively, you'd probably do swell in any job interview. Try it.