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Obama won Oregon. Clinton won Kentucky. In Iowa, Obama skipped a victory lap and had gracious words for Clinton. So what's next for Democrats?
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  • which is worse joan? Which deserves more moral outrage?

    You "bi*ch" comment. or this?

    "McCain's Pastor Problem: 'Hitler Was Fulfilling God's Will For Israel'"

    Hagee

    your bi*ch comment or huckabee saying obama should fear getting shot at the nra? you show yoru true fascsit propogandist faces, gop (clinton's includeD)

  • @Lezah2

    What do you think of the latest rumors that Clinton has developed an almost obsessed crush on Obama and her aides are having to thwart her attempt to get secret notes to him?

    Also, is Clinton being honest about what a fabulous president Obama would make? Can we trust her when she says that she hopes her supporters will vote for him. I've thought she is being honest, but now I'm wondering if she is lying...

  • @biogirl -- Thanks

    Thanks for the mention, biogirl!

    I'm not holding my breath waiting for Joan, or the fanatics in Hillary camp, to actually respond, though.

  • you see joan. Gop hypocrites

    "Are you kidding me!? So now Hillary is supposed to call her supporters racists? Some of you Obama supporters have really lost it. And you have this notion that it's Hillary's responsibility to make sure Obama wins over her supporters"

    so court racist voters then. Court rush limbaugh's dittohead sabotuers. that is really going to help clinton the democratic party and the nation. NOT. :)

  • karenn22

    Funny, Oregon had a huge gender gap. Obama won male voters in Oregon by 31%, but nobody on TV is calling those men sexist, or asking Obama to condemn his own voters for supporting him.

    Funny, I didn't hear of any exit polling where 20% of Obama's voters in Oregon said they had a problem with gender, did you?

    but sure, keep on bobbing and weaving. Whatever floats yer boat!

    cheers!

  • Obama's crybabies

    Mike, I know you're not accustomed to your guy getting criticized but he'd better get used to it. He has had smooth sailing from a press corp that have had a crush on him and like you, they overlook all of his failings. To at least half of the Democrats, however, Senator Obama is inexperienced at best and downright dangerous at worst. We know how you have a blind hatred of women and the Clintons but that is no excuse for supporting someone that you know in your heart will cause us to have a Republican president in the WH in 2009.

  • analyzing Bob Dylan, JFK and teen oral sex @Carol Richards

    You have brought up a few important issues, like the fact that we should probably analyze a few things we've overlooked, like the fact that colors don't just matter, age matters too, as in, do colors change over time?

    For example, while at work I was listening to my headphones and trying to block out ALL thoughts of this election and the different colors of different supporters, yet this song came on,

    Come gather 'round people

    Wherever you roam

    And admit that the waters

    Around you have grown

    And accept it that soon

    You'll be drenched to the bone.

    If your time to you

    Is worth savin'

    Then you better start swimmin'

    Or you'll sink like a stone

    For the times they are a-changin'.

    Come writers and critics

    Who prophesize with your pen

    And keep your eyes wide

    The chance won't come again

    And don't speak too soon

    For the wheel's still in spin

    And there's no tellin' who

    That it's namin'.

    For the loser now

    Will be later to win

    For the times they are a-changin'.

    Come senators, congressmen

    Please heed the call

    Don't stand in the doorway

    Don't block up the hall

    For he that gets hurt

    Will be he who has stalled

    There's a battle outside

    And it is ragin'.

    It'll soon shake your windows

    And rattle your walls

    For the times they are a-changin'.

    and I thought that's an arrogant young fellow...

    Come mothers and fathers

    Throughout the land

    And don't criticize

    What you can't understand

    Your sons and your daughters

    Are beyond your command

    Your old road is

    Rapidly agin'.

    Please get out of the new one

    If you can't lend your hand

    For the times they are a-changin'.

    The line it is drawn

    The curse it is cast

    The slow one now

    Will later be fast

    As the present now

    Will later be past

    The order is

    Rapidly fadin'.

    And the first one now

    Will later be last

    For the times they are a-changin'.

    And I started thinking about those 75,000 people who came to stand outside in Oregon, and how much they must have done it intentionally to insult history, to insult the first female candidate for president who pundits, and people with calculators, have said has already "lost" a nomination, but who is still a fighter who will keep on fighting. Why is she fighting? Who is she fighting for? No one will say, if in fact, she has already lost her possibility of winning the nomination. Only that the guy who might or might not have ruined her chances (who otherwise might be considered to be a pretty good guy and a good canididate) shouldn't be president. Because it wouldn't be fair to her.

    And I thought about how in certain places in the country, like Portland, there has been this huge movement going on...this celebration and happiness and joy, and better, it's not a closed party but there are invitations enough for pretty much anybody who wants to come (even obnoxious people) but some people seem afraid that maybe they shouldn't come to the party unless all the other people at the party make them feel comfortable by being the same color and age and geographically distributed person as they are. They keep hearing that they want to come to a big party like this, in case it might be, a NOT perfect celebration of what might otherwise be a really good, but not perfect candidate for president.

    And I thought about how wrong JFK once was in a speech. He said sucess has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan. But the inevitable failure of Obama and his campaign (that W.E.S. keeps talking about, and possibly Clinton is fighting to prevent or possibly to cause...no one can be sure what she is thinking because she hasn't said which she personally prefers to happen..) keep finding a thousand fathers for failure (we haven't even started on flag pins, dubious associations with communists, or obnoxious Obama supporters...).

    We've gotten to the point now that IF Obama won this thing (which could not happen for many reasons such as the ones I've just stated, and more), his success would need to be an orphan, and I can only say god knows what color she will come out or whether or not oral sex as a teenager will cause her NOT to have sex with other teen agers.