Dreams from my Father is a book of personal recollection and personal reflection. As such, it will always be written from the prism of Obama's own perspective. For example, I recently read on MSNBC that most of Barack's old friends from high school and college did not recall his drug use and certainly not his personal struggles. Interesting but it really has nothing to do with what Obama reflects upon. The struggle for identity was his (as it is for each of us.)

Lets all put this in perspective as to how our democratic vote works.

I think a lot of you are basing your wins by Obama as beating Senator Clinton. This is not a fair and accurate statement and the reasons are as follows:

1.) The democratic nominee is based on the number of Delegates you win, which at this point Senator Clinton has 1108 and Senator Obama has 1049.

2.) The democratic nominee also needs to win in the states that are blue states, which Senator Clinton has shown all of us she can win these states.

3.) The wins in the Red States by a democrat in the primaries does not show us any real strength, because they are not running against a republican in the red state at the time of the primaries. Senator Obama has won in the Red States, but once he is up against a republican, that state will most likely go to a republican.

Do not rush to judgment on these wins. I know you all have chosen your candidate, based on your personal reasons and I am voting for Senator Clinton because she is very strong, smart and the candidate with the most experience. She has shown me that she can win the states that are most important to the democratic race.

We need to be fair and democratic for the sake of our candidates. This election is of the utmost importance to the people in America and it is very important for all citizens of the Democratic Party not to be hateful to either one.

I have no idea what "criticism" you are referring to, but the Chicago Papers still endorsed Obama.

Roger64

Democrats should refuse to dignify those fake scandals by attempting to explain them one more time as if they need to. After all the corruption hysteria the GOP and the media generated they got impeachment for sex and thats it. The GOP spent around 60 million and caused thousands of decent and honorable people who came into public service to serve their country to be dragged in those investigations and stuck with hundreds and thousands of dollars in legal bills. They didn't even have the grace to allow poor midlevel staffers to be reimbursed for their legal billes like the Iran Contra participants were. Then to top it all off they shaft the 911 commission while exploiting 911 for the war. There is nothing the media or the GOP can say about Bill's alleged corruption that can distract from the last 8 years.

Life cannot be lived by a pop song..

Hillary was behind in pledged delegates after Super Tuesday, she lost 3 states and the VI's yesterday, VI/MD/DC vote on Tuesday where Obama is favored to win, then the HI/WI on the 19th where Obama is also favored. Maine votes today and we'll see what happens.

This is silently accepted by the Hillary campaign, they are banking on March 4th with Texas, Vermont, Ohio, and RI.

So she's behind after Super Tuesday and she falls even further behind for all of February (with possible exception of a win in Maine). Obama's name is in the papers. He's being talked about at the water cooler and coffee shop. He's got the momentum to seriously have an impact on the March 4th primary. Just as in Super Tuesday, he doesn't have to win, he just needs to come close and his momentum, cash reserves and long break between the HIWI primary will give him a good advantage to do that.

Now the Clinton campaign and her supporters can talk about the superdelegate lead but honestly, superdelegates are *Meaningless*. Michigan and Florida are also out of the game without another vote. Why? Because if the democratic party wants to have ANY legitimacy in November, there is absolutely no way the can do it by putting up a candidate that did not win the pledged delegate count nor can they let Michigan and Florida count without a re-vote.

Imagine if the DNC allowed Clinton to be the nominee if she loses of the state primaries/caucuses with superdelegates and a simple allocation of Michigan and Florida to Clinton. Seriously, those of you who keep arguing that this is the case. How does that make Hillary look in the general election? What does that mean for the Democratic party? Do you not think the GOP would have an even bigger field day with this?

This race is about pledged delegates and who ends with the most. If *anything* else happens, I'm not sure how anyone could be proud of or enthusiastically support that candidate honestly. It's not all about winning. Let's all remember that.

Every one of these incoherent weirdos, listed below. All – probably two of them, actually. Ezhik has posted over 60 times since Tuesday, I think. The Hillary campaign’s getting a lot of bang for their buck!!

Lezah 2, ezhik, old 91a10, dcbrown, jlapro, gecko 87 ,atlanta214, lancecordill, gabbyone, shyguy, ellonoday, moofadashaka.

The profoundly irritating (“only blacks vote for obama”) ncawley registered a month ago. Possibly the most spiteful of the Hillary supporting bunch, she’s the one who manufactured outrage at ‘mjkoch,’ the only Obama supporter who’s even approached the level of vitriol expounded by the Hillbots – after at least three fellow Obama supporters already called him out on his behavior.

I should have also mentioned that for most of last year, I was still on the fence about who to vote for. Another huge factor in making my decision was the way that Hillary has run her campaign. I'd try to list all the things that her campaign has done that turned me off, but you'd swear I was making things up. I would refer you instead to Frank Rich's excellent column on the nytimes website today.

Again, I would urge you to get as much information as possible and then make up your mind.