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Barack Obama's epic win The young senator makes history not only in terms of race, while a determined Hillary Clinton delays the inevitable a bit longer.
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  • Where's Joan?

    I'm wondering when Phony Joanie will be reacting to this. Perhaps after the daily conference call with Terry McAuliffe?

  • Have you actually been to her website today?

    She just wants her debts paid off...the so-called champion of the working class liked having tens of millions in the bank I guess.

  • debaser...think what you like

    No to political correctness, especially when your hero's wife has no qualms to spew her hate of whitey left and right. When will we hear you tell her a racist troll/asshole?

    Double standards, are we?

  • 13 years in the IL legislature is not nothing

    It's called a career in public service.

    Name an accomplishment? Getting jobs for poor black folk as a community organizer ain't 'nuff for ya, huh? Who cares about them anyway?

    Name one of Clinton or McCain's accomplishments, tough guy. They got us into the Iraq war, I guess. McCain passed an abortion of a campaign finance bill that he doesn't even support any more. Hillary came up with an 800+ page monstrosity of a health care abortion of a bill.

    Anyway, here's something he accomplished -- he won the democratic nomination for POTUS.

  • Obama wins, Salon loses

    wow for an article about "obama's epic win" you certainly spent a lot of time on what clinton wants. as a matter of fact you quoted her more than you did him.

    i've been reading Salon sine 1999 at least and now i just don't feel you have the journalistic integrity you once did. you have lost me.

  • Barack Obama's Epic Win;

    Sen. Clinton should be offered the opportunity to be Vice-President. Why: he has earned it by getting a lot of votes; she, along with Sen. Obama, are about three yards smarter than anyone else in national life; and, while the Republicans may say they want to run against her, they really don't because she is so smart and so tough. An Obama-Clinton ticket will win in November and will get our beloved Nation out of the ditch into which eight years of Republican misrule have driven it.

  • indigo218

    Indigo, there are far more than one accomplishments he has as a public servant.

    You could look up health care for children in Illinois (sound like the pet project of another politician who we like and respect?) there is an open government access data base he created so people could see how our tax money is being spent. There was an aid package he created that went to people in the Darfur region....There was a bill to force police to videotape all interrogations in the state of Illinois (important for a racially charged city like Chicago particularly)...and you know projects like health care for children, SCHIP, he helped to sponsor that, along with Clinton. He has worked with McCain on government lobbyist reform efforts and a bill to help climate change. All but the climate change are bills that have passed.

    Let's retire the idea that he has no accomplishments, as exciting and entertaining as that assertion has for the opposition (and I'm talking now about the Republicans, since he is the Democratic nominee) it isn't based on fact.

    And Clinton also has many accomplishments. But the idea that hers count and his don't--or McCain's count and Obama's don't--is a packet of lies that needs to go back to the warehouses of mark Penn and Rush Limbaugh's collective imaginations.

    Carry on.

  • red_gti2000

    New Liberal Fascist brownshirts on the internet and in the MSM telling what remains of the old democrats what to do and what to think, no questions or protestations allowed. If you don't do what they say they will spread all manner of lies and propaganda to destroy you, as they did to the Clintons.

    - The Democratic Party becomes hostage to the Black Vote. 98% bloc voting for Black candidates. Not just in this primary, but in all elections, local, state and national. A gun pointed at the head of all Democratic officials at all levels.

    - The death of the Clinton Center. A surge to the Hard Left by what remains of this political party, in the manner of MoveOn.org, Michael Moore, Rev. Wright, et al. This is not your parents' Democratic Party anymore. That political party is dead. You know I'm right. You feel it in your bones. It is a sad day for all of us.

    The only way to prevent this from happening is for Obama to lose the general in November. It's your choice. It's your vote. Don't be railroaded. McCain will have at most a single term and the House and Senate will be dominated by Democrats.

    The country will survive a McCain presidency. But don't give the party away to these radicals. Or it will die.

    -- red_gti2000

    RED - Why is Peace so scary to you? You've got way too much fear about Blacks as well...the only massive social movement Blacks participated in was a peaceful one in this country.

    The country can survive an Obama presidency. No one is going to tell you what to think...that's the Republican's job.

  • Hey Indigo,

    How, exactly, is it that someone who wins his job via an election in which all of the state's registered voters are free to vote for him, against him, or not at all, is a beneficiary of Affirmitive Action?

    And, just to put one on-going argument to rest: There are exactly 2 qualifications one needs to be President - 1) must be at least 35 years old, and 2) must be a natural-born American citizen, whatever the hell that means.

  • it doesn't seem to be that way....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGeu_4Ekx-o

    LOL...that one is priceless!! For the first time in my adult life I am proud of Chris "Tweety" Matthews LOL...

  • foolish choice?

    There's another Motown song from the R-E-S-P-E-C-T era.

    It's called "Chain of Fools."

    Can a person who tried to win by tearing down her opponent be trusted in the role of his second banana? I can't say that I'd trust her.

    But Obama's a lot savvier than me and I'm certain that if he chooses her, he knows what's he doing.

  • Is indigo the color of your blood?

    They just don't want to risk this country in the hand of incompetent rookie who has zero experience and zero accomplishments other than getting to the top so fast with the help of dirty chicago political machine.

    McCain couldn't beat an egg. I sure will be happy after Barack wins, and shuts up all you jerky Republican trolls. Don't tell me you're not one, either. As Jesus said, "ye shall know the tree by its fruit."

    The most experienced person right now would be George Bush. He has a ton of foreign policy experience! Maybe we should change the constitution so that he can run again, to get at all that great experience he has!

    Nobody is buying your crap, GOP. The only experience we care about is the experience of GOP liars like you taking away our freedoms, politicizing the justice department, appointing far-right, radical fascists to the federal courts, destroying our image in the world, dragging us into debt so colossal it defies comprehension for a war that should never have happened, dividing the country along racial and economic lines for profit, committing treason by outing a CIA operative, and bringing our economy to its knees.

    We will continue to have those experiences with McCain in office, and I didn't even begin to talk about all of the things we've experienced.

    So I tell you what. Why don't you experience some fresh air, by pulling your head out of your ass?

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