We can vote for Hillary. It's called writing in a name. Every ballot has to have a way to do that. We can vote for Hillary by writing in her name and many of us will.

Given his ties to big corporations like Exelon, oil company executives, and Goldman-Sachs, maybe he isn't moving to the center but returning to it after a brief, dishonest move to the left of center. Read the November 2006 Harpers article called:

Barack Obama, Inc.: The Birth of a Washington machine

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/11/0081275

Obama is not moving to the center. He has never been a progressive: soliciting money from oil and energy company executives and then rewriting legislation to make Exelon happy and voting for Cheney's energy bill; soliciting money from financial interests like Goldman-Sachs and voting AGAINST legislation that would cap interest rates at 30 fraking percent and claiming that Social Security was in big trouble (Goldman-Sachs wants to privitize it); touring with a homophobic preacher and calling for an expansion of Bush's faith-based initiative. The lie was his effort to appear liberal instead of a tool of corporate interests. After all, the first thing he did when he got to Washington was line up corporate money. See Harper's November 2006 article called

Barack Obama Inc.:

The birth of a Washington machine

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/11/0081275

He played the Democratic party, progressives, and the left for suckers, and once he got rid of the competition (his tactic in his first election in Chicago)he reverted to type, to the man who said in Nevada that the Republicans were the party of ideas. For his ideas/tactics he turned to David Axelrod, his campaign manager and a former "lobbyist" for Exelon, a greedy, sneaky energy company. Now we have two Republicans running for office. Unfortunately, he is not even a centrist. He is a corporate clone, a Bush in sheep's clothing, a compassionate conservative whose compassion will disappear in January. Those who swore by him will never admit they got taken because, like Bush, they find admitting error is way too painful, and, of course, they think it's too late to do anything about it.

1. Obama gave one speech, from a very anti-war district, against the war and went to Washington and voted with the Dems, including Hillary on the war every time.

2. Both Clinton's spoke in interviews around half a dozen times saying they were against invading Iraq and Bush should not invade

1 speech vs. 5 or 6 interviews speaking against the war

3. Obama voted FOR the flag burning bill, as did Clinton, and both voted for it to cover their asses for voting against (both of them) a constitutional amendment banning flag burning.

4. Obama voted against legistration that would have capped interest rates at 30. Hillary voted to cap the interest rates. Obama gets lots of money from Goldman-Sachs.

5.Obama voted for Cheney's energy bill, Hillary agbainst it. Obama got lots of money from Exelon, an energy company, and oil company executives.

6. Hillary's health care plan, backed by Elizabeth Edwards, covers everyon. Obama's does not.

So, who's the progressive?

Check a good encyclopedia and you'll find that Nietzsche is considered a precursor to the existentialists, 20th century philosophers; and David Hume, who lived in the 1700's, is considered a naturalist and maybe an empiricist, not an existentialist.

Hillary voted to support Dodd and Feingold's filibuster against FISA while Obama voted to end it. Then Hillary voted against the FISA bill while Obama voted for it.

She voted against Cheney's energy bill while Obama voted for it. She voted to capp interest rates at 30% while Obama vote to let them rise to the sky.

She proposed universal health care, twice, while Obama left out 15-25 million Americans.

Who is the true progressive, the person who better works for the poor and middle class, and who is the person who will say and do anything (however stupid and immoral)?

Despite being maligned as a racist and subjected to gross sexist and misogynistic attacks, she stood up and did the right thing most of the time, especially when it really counted--supporting the Constitution, health care for all, a clean environment, and against efforts to fleece the poor.

Obama didn't.

I wonder if his fund raising is okay because Hillary's bundlers are now bundling cash for him--that was the deal. She would have her fund raisers give and get money for him and he would have his help her retire her debt. There is a limit to what individuals can give, so each needed the other's money men. It would be interesting to see where the money is now coming from. Maybe her sources are providing enough money to hide the fact that the refusal of some on the left to give has had an impact. He is after all just another politician, and his claim to the contrary was his biggest lie of all and robs any November victory of a chance at real change. Hillary at least had been vetted a power-mad special prosecutor who desperately wanted to get the Clinton's on some charge, any charge, and in the end it was only consensual sex. So the Clinton's are the cleanest politicians in our life time. We should have gone with her.