To the La Raza ethics professor that backs censorship of opinions different from his own

What part of my first message sounded like I was trying to censor you? I was asking you to clarify your opinion, and clarify it you did, revealing your true sentiments. I could be wrong, but I don't think your sentiments reflect the politics of hope and change that Obama is heralding.

Thanks, though, for teaming me with La Raza--that's a great compliment considering I'm not Hispanic. And by the way, I'm not a man either.

I wasn't trying to be funny. Not yet, anyway. I just didn't understand the gagamatic post. The writer seemed to be saying that the proposal to assign gas taxes at retail to the oil companies was the first step towards some other, undisclosed plan. I wanted to know A) if I understood what the post said and B) what the undisclosed goal is.

1. Is it possible to measure which personal characteristic has been more influential with voters: Obama's race, Clinton's gender or George Bush's cowboy boots?

2. Isn't it legitimately exciting the first woman or the first black man will be the Democratic nominee in a couple months (maybe sooner)?

3. How do you decide which is more exciting?

4. A solemn vow: if Clinton wins fair and square, I will campaign for her door to door in my neighborhood.

Senator Clinton has courage; tenacity; sharp intelligence and a sense of humor. I felt Obama was off his game seriously this week. Im an "intelligence gatherer," by training. Who is in the background shots? More & more, mostly African-Americans in Obama's; a wider, more diverse group, in Clinton's. He's sought out smaller "venues;" she does both. She has 3 people on the campaign trail: herself, Chelsea & Bill. Hey, why is Michelle with him this week? It's been a hard week & he nose dives, emotionally, psychically, spiritually, when he does a week with Rev. Wright.

John King, CNN, said what I've said for a long time: why DIDN'T Obama allow Rev. Wright to bless his candidacy? I said, early on: he KNEW Wright'd be trouble when that candidacy was announced because he'd Wright's diatribes & KNEW that would cost him votes. Not just from whites: if he threw Wright under the bus that early, it would cost him the monolithic African-American votes he's received.

Obama first had to consolidate a near total A-A vote because, if you recall, there WERE questions about whether he was "black enough." To ditch Wright's Black Liberationist Theology would've cost him black votes. It would have cost him more white votes. And so when John King added: "that was a 'calculated' decision, and he has suddenly begun to look more and more like a typical politician," I thought: finally the press has got it. None too soon.

Obama's a phony. He says he's not a real politician: the Wright decision shows he is exactly a typical politician. He excoriated Senator Clinton for her "poor judgement" on the Iraq War vote, but he, too, we know now, made a 'calculated decision,' which was also "a serious error in judgement.'" He has die-hard supporters who won't leave, but my reckoning says, he won't develop many new ones either.

Obama has to have Michelle along. I watched how HE reacted on New Hampshire night. Michelle came on stage, at the end of his concession, and I saw his eyes meet hers, and she clasped his hand and the gesture said, "Here, here, honey. I know we'll do next time." She is with him now because he's privately suffered a serious defeat over the Wright thing. He's a sensitive man & probably wept over the severance of his ties to Wright. John McLaughlin replayed Obama's statements at a BIG convention last year in Hampton, VA: Obama's lying when he says he didn't know Wright was capable of such posturing.

That hypocrisy's been covered & smoothed over by MSNBC, Jack Cafferty on CNN & Eleanor Cliff on McLaughlin Group. They're all ULE's - Ultra Liberal Elitists. As such, they have jettisoned their journalistic standards to help elect the first African-American president. Even Bill Moyers sold out his integrity by asking Obama soft ball questions.

I don't know what exactly Hillary & Bill have done to drive so many journalists to pure hatred. What they have as their own specific examples has rarely, if ever, been publicized. The ULEs have forever exposed themselves by supporting Obama the phony.

I do expect politicians to have a HIGHER sense of integrity. I haven't sensed Ron Paul is a liar. The cost of having integrity is what Ron Paul achieved: a limited but honest return of votes. HIS supporters understand that what they see is really what they get.

Senator Clinton is closing the gap through courage, tenacity, & stamina. Obama in one reportwas so "fatigued" he forgot in a small venue, what he'd just told people a few minutes earlier. His fatigue, I'd guess, is psychic. He knows he bit off more than he can chew by challenging Senator Clinton.

Her crowds have people who need her. Joan Walsh may be right about the economic repercussions about the "gas tax holiday." But, is it just pandering? Jonathan Alter on MSNBC say he guessed Clinton & McCain count on people being "too stupid" to understand the suggestion's "a shell game.". Look at who is really, taking it on the chin. The poor & lower middle incomers with kids, jobs they must drive to, & credit that won't allow them to hop on planes, ships, even trains, this summer, and go for "family vacations."

They're stuck with fuel inefficient vehicles; mortgage payments; 2-hour round trip commute every day because they've tried to keep their kids out of poorer quality inner city schools, & opted for suburban schools. Their families are too far away to fly.

They have rising food & energy bills. They don't have business expenses wherein the can "pad" some of the fuel cost increases. .

The gesture is a gesture to the expense account deprived.

Senator Clinton's changing as she experiences: "what you do for the least among you, you do for me." I don't believe, when her voice cracks, that she's lying about wanting to give something back to those less fortunate than her. The overweight, sweat suit, beer drinking, cholesterol corn dog eating crowd; ethnics; inner city whites & blacks who know Bill & Hillary stood firm eight years for A-As; "the beautiful Starbucks people" - Obamistas -have the resources to sell their gas hog & buy NEW hybrids.

Her folks aren't so jaded that they won't see her gesture and hear her say we've not made the best energy choices.

This country is getting an education about "gender." It's remarkable that blue collar white guys are deciding to vote for "a woman over an African-American." The ULEs are o.k. with Michelle whining they have to pay $10,000 for piano lessons for their daughter: they don't give a thought that millions in this country don't have $10K to buy a USED more gas efficient car, though.

I'll support her, but if Obama somehow's finagled into the nomination, I won't vote for him. I'll vote for Ron Paul. If Senator Clinton doesn't get it, Ron Paul's a candidate I can respect. Obama will cost the Democrats the election, if he's the nominee.

I believe this is the best candidate who has ever represented women & men in America.