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.

Montana and South Dakota vote that day, too.

Maybe YOU didn't vote, but 1.7 million Floridians did vote in the Democratic primary.

Yes, 1.7 million Floridians had the good sense to tell the party poohbahs to stuff it and voted in the Democratic primary.

And, I know what it's like to be marginalized by the party poohbahs -- I live in Washington State where the party decided to ignore our DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY, too. I voted anyway. And I caucused, too.

Obama's insipid ads did run in Florida, as you'll recall.

His campaign says, disingenuously, that the media buy was national so they couldn't exclude Florida (when it was against the agreement to not advertise or campaign) in the ad package. BS.

I guess Maddie missed the Obama ads in Florida.

What do you take Floridians for, idiots?

How insulting to the Sunshine State to suggest they didn't know the Dem candidates.

I didn't watch Obama's oratory...but I did read the transcript. For the most part, all I can say is, nice words, but no cigar. So, I guess it must have been the delivery that made the speech.

I don't see how he squared the circle on what played out last week on TV screens -- a deep chasm between "black liberation theology" and the mainstream understanding of Christianity. Obama claims to be a unifying figure, but now it appears he is living proof of a deep clash. (Too bad the friggin' politicians wear their religion on their sleeves.)

We Americans say we dislike double standards -- but, a white radio jockey makes a "racist" remark about a women's basketball team and is dragged 'round the coliseum to the delighted howls of the self-righteous. However, a man of the cloth uses his pulpit authority to damn the nation and curse white people and is praised as a "biblical scholar" by a candidate for the presidency. (Full disclosure, I didn't like Imus's remarks, but they pale in comparison to Wright's rhetoric.)

Obama was forced into delivering this speech by his own doing. Obama first claimed he was unaware of Wright's most inflammatory rhetoric because he "didn't hear such incendiary language personally." Yet, the record tells us that David Axelrod told Obama, well over a year ago, that he'd probably have to distance himself from Wright because of his pastor's past "sermons." Obama also made excuses for Wright's rants, until his spiritual mentor's words became a political liability. So, that alone makes Obama an obvious liar and typical politician, IMO. Very obvious.

If you buy that Obama's speech transcends the negative, restrictive aspects of this problem, I've got some Bear Stearns stock to sell you.

They're only about Obama's qualifications.

...better known as inflated rhetoric and platitudes.

Maureen has shown she can take care of herself -- her words are mightier than the sword -- but, I take offense to your comment to her to bug out of our election.

Our elections, and their outcome, effect peoples all aroun d the globe. Unfortunately.

The unsung heroes' list should include the unnamed photographers and sound technicians who risk their lives assisting the on-air correspondents. Many of them have been killed or critically injured while bravely assisting reporters -- their support is crucial to getting the story. We wouldn't "see" the story without their brave work.

They are as committed to getting the job done as the correspondents are, but they do it silently and professionally behind the scenes.

Questions about Mr. Obama’s “blackness,” though, quickly threatened to obscure the reasons he believed himself most qualified to become the country’s next president. A Rolling Stone article linked him to the militant preaching of his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. The story quoted the minister as saying in a sermon, “Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run.”

Mr. Axelrod said he and Mr. Obama decided to take Mr. Wright off the program for the campaign announcement in February 2007, concluding that the attention would drag the pastor into a negative spotlight and might distract from efforts to portray the senator as a candidate capable of unifying the country.

The day after the rally, which was on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Illinois, Mr. Obama was sharply criticized by African-American academics, media celebrities and policy experts at a conference in Hampton, Va. Among the most often cited was Cornel West, the renowned Princeton scholar. He and others argued that Mr. Obama should speak forcefully about the legacy of racism in the nation and not cast the problems that disproportionately affect blacks as social ills shared by many Americans.

Obama pulled this same stunt in the past.

You'd think he would change.

Quote in the NYT, GWB sez: "in fact, there is a outcome that will merit the sacrifice that civilian and military alike have made..."

I couldn't resist. I love it when reporters and editors quote him verbatim.

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If Obama is such a strong candidate, why hasn't he closed the deal?

If he's the nominee and he loses in November, it's his doing, not Hillary's.

Blaming the Clintons is so yesterday! Gawd, even the Busheviks gave up that meme after the Shrub's first disastrous term.