"But there is an ill-concealed impatience among party leaders about the protracted contest.

WTF? Didn't party leaders schedule these primaries across forever? Weren't MI and FL punished for trying to get their primaries in early? Instead of party leaders expressing impatience, how about party leaders get in line and start kicking each other in the ass. It can't be that complicated to schedule a timeline where every state votes within a time-frame closer to what happens in the general election. So the next time a party leader expresses impatience and there is no other party leader to kick in the ass, then I recommend he/she kicks themsleves in the ass.

Donna Darko: "And Obama's an egomaniac."

I, maybe like you, am wondering how many auto-biographies one person can write. He has already written two and his campaign runs like a third autobiography. I also wonder if he loses this nomination, his next autobiography will be titled, "You don't understand - It's all about Meeeeee!"

Love all the elitists simply in love with a regressive tax like gasoline tax. The poorer you are, the more a gasoline tax cut helps, the wealthier you are the less a gasoline tax cut helps - just the kind of thing elitests are oblivious to.

I have an idea, how about for those who say an 18 cents saving is inconsequential, voluntarily paying an extra 18 cents. Hell since you don't really care, pay a buck more. You can afford it, right?

Hope and change. Thats a laffer, hope for cheaper cappuchinos and more storage space on Facebook accounts while making sure there is no extra "change" for the poor.

Obama most likely will have little if any positives going into the convention, his negatives are expanding eponentially at this point and medocore showings if not outright failures in the remaining primaries in no way enforces the idea of Obama as a strong candidate.

But he does have this. Money.

Since he has so much due to clever exploitation of the Internet, he is and has been funneling more money and money promises to the super delegates than Clinton. This is all legal and really just politics as usual.

But so much for no more "old" politics. The bullshit pile just keeps getting bigger and bigger with Obama.

It's not even a question.

The Justice Department controls monitoring of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. And who does the Justice Department report to?

The biggest joke of the campaign season : Obama does not practice old style politics. Hysterical.

To go further, pandering like the Christian pandering earlier in the primaries is miniscule compared to the biggest pander of all, to all of his supporters : "I'll change how things are done in Washington."--Obama

Yes.

There was a time when music drove cultural change. Now it is just dumbass "Let me on the bandwagon too!" weak and superficial crap.

Politics is about being the one who gets to set the rules.

But take a look at this link and see who is the most deceptive about delegate numbers.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/2008/05/05/obama-minimizes-clinton-s-accomplishment.aspx

Oh great deceiver, we know thy name.

BTW, one way or another, and maybe to no ones advantage, MI and FL delegates will be represented at the Convention. So unless just for kicks Democrats enjoy alienating important and large voting blocs, Clintons numbers will likely be the delegate count used.

"...along with 93 percent of the black vote and a healthy 36 percent of the white vote."

Either Shapiro is trying to be a comediane or meant to say with a sickly 36% of the the white vote.

I guess the only question For Obama is why in the world did 7% of blacks not vote for him. Not to worry, I am sure Axelrod can solve that dilemma.

This just in from the ONion:

Clinton, who took 93% of the White vote and 94% of the female vote, dismiss race and gender as being a voting factor.

When it is said, "It is all over now", does anyone know what that means? Are we all supposed to have suspension of disbelief, and assume pundits (who are stupid and determinedly uninformed) or Obama supporters (who are grossly biased) have understood it?

Obama is ahead. Obama has not won. Beyond the hyperbole, posturing and empty rhetoric, the numbers remain.

Assuming about an even split in delegates over the remaining contests, in order to win Obama needs about 40% of the remaining super delegates to get to the magic 2,025 number.

And chew on these numbers, if the race was winner take all as the electoral college is and as another organization with some common sense runs their primaries, Clinton would be beating Obama by 1,917 delegates to 1,606.

If other Clinton supporters would be willing to be so reasonable there wouldn't be a problem. Thanks for keeping an open mind. -- walter_map

Thats what I like about politics. When someone agrees with your point of view or supports your candidate then you are a "reasonable" person, otherwise you are a stupid racist whore.

My recommendation for the Obama campaign is that before anyone concludes that their farts do not smell, they get an independent third party opinion.

You might want to note that Clinton is not asking for votes, but instead asking for a RE-VOTE.

See VOTES and RE-VOTE, two different words.

As Clintons letter states, "the Republicans won an election by successfully opposing a fair counting of votes in Florida." The dirty crooks, Obama would never support that.

Except he did, Obama is opposed to a RE-VOTE.

Why is Obama opposed to a RE-VOTE when he's got tons of money and ethically you would think the self-proclaimed "Second Coming" campaign would demand a RE-VOTE.

Oops. Sorry. Forgot. Obama is channeling Jesus thru Karl Rove.