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Obama's historic run heads south Did his victory in Iowa and strong showing in New Hampshire really "put to rest the notion that a black candidate can't win in America"?
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  • Barak Obama says his supporters may not support Hillary if she wins the nomination

    Barak Obama says his supporters may not support Hillary if she wins the nomination

    He said this on television. He said that if he, Barak wins the nomination, Hillary's supporters will vote for him in the general elections. However, his supporters may not vote for Hillary, if she wins. I see two possibilities here for this paragon of unity and change:

    1. If Bark loses the primaries, he may run as an independent, thereby assuring Hillary and the Democratic party a definite defeat.

    2. Barak will not actively support Hillary in her bid for the presidency, although he is certain that Hillary's supporters will vote for him should he win the primaries.

    So much for the "uniter" and not the divider, the "healer" and not the one inflicting the wounds.

  • Its a great Country When we can welcome all people and all countries

    I see the president to become president of USA Takes alot of money

    Look at our past and our Founders of our country . This Is what makes our country so Great to welcome all views ,all people all countries ,all

    people . This is the Way I Had created FUTURE Like a country and the people and their ideas can bring Together all people all countries .

    FUTURE is a word that has a meaing To all no one should controll . This why Iv been fighting so meny Years Fraud,coverupsetups, And I Have

    carryed The Global FUTURE tourch On belhaf Of all people all countries who Dont have a FUTURE Voice . Its hard when your own lawyer of washington DC Sets you up and a FUTURE world by and for all people .

    And NY..Corp are stealing peoples Global FUTURE in a Fraud agreemnt with USPTO Of sept 2004 . Here I am 1 Person started a Pend Global

    FUTURE Country and the Global trademark applications Pned for the word FUTURE is the global pend infranstruture the usages and the bases is a person idea for FUTURE .all ive been is atacked for years setup, Media Covered up my reaching out for Years .Im not rich ,im not a star,

    Im poor an I have an ideas 12 Years of my life and my health To FUTURE only to see it stolen by my own lawyer ..who knows who else involved

    Billions are being stolen from the people ,even the FBI Didint want to help .Were are the people who help people put the people bfore the money and power . By Kent G Anderson founder president of www.futurevisionaries.com

  • Third possibility

    Chhabili, I'm sure you are being deliberately facetious, but of course there is a third possibility far more plausible than the ones you posit -- that Senator Obama would indeed support Senator Clinton's candidacy, but that many of the independent and even Republican voters who have supported him in the primaries would refuse to do so. That is what he was talking about, and I have little doubt that he's right.

  • if the election is close..

    and the repubs scrape in, everyone will say "gollleee, why didn't we go with the 'champion-of-the-people' white guy?"

    an edwards/obama ticket, or edwards/clinton, looks like a reasonable way to close off the faint hope the repubs might have. but hey, 8 years of dubya did no real harm, right? and better the grandees of the democrat party should indulge their egos at the expense of the nation, right?

    unless you think edwards is a substantially worse candidate, of course. and it is true, corporations are not rushing to support his candidacy, and the mejah clones ignore him. but we are talking about the democrat party, aren't we? maybe gore vidal was right:"... a right wing party, and a farther right wing party."

    still, putting aside concerns about national survival for the moment, doesn't the prospect of a woman or african american as democrat candidate warm your your little heart?

  • this must be said

    Any Obama supporter who is childish and puerile enough to throw a hissy fit and vote for a Republican or not at all instead of Clinton in a general election richly, richly deserves the next 100 years in Iraq and the next several trillion dollars in debt.

  • "...put to rest the notion that a black candidate can't win in America"?

    God. I hope so.

  • Rosenkavalier

    Many of the Obama supporters you speak about are the most likely to be serving in that war in Iraq--and no I don't believe they deserve all the blame for not supporting your Democratic candidate of choice.

    Obama has learned to speak to a new generation that doesn't have party ties or loyalties. If Obama can learn this skill, either the Democratic party needs to reward him for it by giving him the nomination, or it needs to insist that the winning candidate learn from his approach.

    If the Democratic party won't nominate a person who can reach the same number of voters that Obama can or more--then they (we) deserve to be out of power for a hundred years--at least.

    Don't you think?

  • I won't vote for HRC. Here is why.

    Any Obama supporter who is childish and puerile enough to throw a hissy fit and vote for a Republican or not at all instead of Clinton in a general election richly, richly deserves the next 100 years in Iraq and the next several trillion dollars in debt.

    I am a registered Democrat. I am an Obama supporter. I will not vote for Hillary in the general if she is not the candidate that I prefer.

    It's not a "hissy fit", I vote for my principals, and due to the way she has acted during this primary, with the lies and mudslinging and racebaiting, I do not believe that HRC has the moral authority to be president. Now, if I see the same kind of Rovian tactics from anyone, EVEN OBAMA, I would turn on them just as quickly.

    I would vote for McCain over her for sure. That hurts to say, but at this point, I would.

    Of course, I live in Utah, so it doesn't matter, but still, I am sure there are alot of people, NOT just Obama supporters that feel the same way.

    We have an opportunity to grow the Democratic party and the Progressive movement, but the HRC campaign would rather win at any cost rather than try to win cleanly without damaging the party.

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