When did I ever personally slap any of those labels on you? When you use terms like Obamabot, it's pretty clear you just wanna feud.

is heavily slanted to the right.

During the primary, usually through surrogates, the Obama campaign regularly used race as political asset and weapon. As an asset in the black community, the campaign sought out black community leaders to talk up Obama as a source of black pride, to vote for him BECAUSE he is black. This is while telling everyone in the MSM that he was "transcending" race. (Having grown up in the race-tinged politics of Arkansas, I think Bill Clinton was, albeit clumsily, trying to expose this.) And as a weapon, often the response to criticism on even unrelated topics was essentially, 'is it because I'm black' when no, it's because what you're saying is objectionable.

The reason why this is a current issue and not just a rehash of the past is that the Obama campaign continues to use these tactics. Remember Obama's recent 'past presidents don't look like me' comments? This hurts Obama because there's a point (and we're well past it) where people who are not racist get plenty angry over being called a racist just because they dare criticize "The One." And further, how do undecided voters get to know what really makes Obama tick if they're too afraid to ask tough questions?

With both Clintons speaking, maybe we'll all have the chance to hear what real vision, real commitment, real hope and real new energy feels like.

Obama was the establishment and Washington machine candidate from the beginning. We won't see any serious change there under him. Too bad.

Oh yeah, and to those who didn't like being called Obamabots, I'm not that happy being called a post-sexual, stuck in the ancient feminist past, baby boomer racist slimebag, low information voter, utterly uncool and unnecessary to the Obama win, either.

I will vote for him, probably, but I don't trust or admire him. He is definitely more dangerous and less committed than either of the Clintons.

What a shame at a moment when we could have had a real progressive agenda brought to fruition in this country.

I agree with you right on the spot, some of these toiling trolls have got to drop the bot.

"Women, please, stand firm. Insist Clinton get every vote she won. It will still 'go' to Obama, but now is not the time to play the compliant spouse of the collective male ego of our country."

Wow. You can really say that with a straight face, huh.

If you're really voting against Obama because you think he lacks integrity, but you support/supported the Clintons? You're the one with blinders on. Women will lose big if McCain gets elected, and that is a FACT. Try those out sometime; you might like them.

We cannot let Obama come in and use Edwards and the media to smear the Democratic frontrunner (Hillary). Then buy the delegates he needs through "campaign contributions" to win a corrupt primary "vote" that gives him more delegates in states that he actual lost than the winner.

Then he flip flops on every one of his issues: after actually visiting the middle east says he can't bring the troops home when he promised after all, then he says he supports off shore drilling when he sees the latest polls, then he says he wants to count the Florida and Michigan delegate results now that he is the presumed winner.

Do not let Obama use the media and money to steal the Democratic nomination.

Especially from someone who already knows how to win.

We Dems need more than a speech by Clinton at a convention to win. It wasn't enough the last two times and there wasn't this amount of rancor.

I like Hillary, but constantly being called an Obamabots or pretending that people like me that (now) support Obama think that he's "the messiah" are really making me disgusted.

I just finished reading an article in Time and seeing how McCain's camp seems to be trying to link Obama to the antichrist. The word messiah, the one, and all that crap. It truly sucks and I really hope that some of you are just asshole trolls. (and yes, I know that some of you are diehard supporters, I get it, not ALL are trolls)

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1830590,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

I think this whole thing was trumped up form the beginning. I never heard Obama or Clinton imply that Clinton would not be asked to speak. There probably was discussion of when and timing, but that is happening with much more consternation at the Republican convention, too.

ginadem

Yup.

The Obama "legacy" retreads the Icarus and MacBeth legacy. It's just an update.

Hubris is its own reward. And generally, its ONLY reward.

Maybe those two lines should be Bill Clinton's shortest speech.

Really. Why should he need to say anything else at all? And who better to say that to exactly the right crowd.

And this campaign is how we'll learn step by step that there is a a reason for that.

Unfortunately for us all the Democratic Selection Committee is determined that the price we pay to find that out will be President McCain and the unknown president that will play out his term.

I guess when we prefer a doddering taxidermied republican withone foot in the grave after eight years of Bush and the Democrats still are in denial about what that means, it's time for visionaries to think about making money from the demand of all those who will be emigrating to Canada.

I know some doctors and nurses who've already left. Their single regret is that they didn't do it sooner.

-gala1

I liked your words and I like how you took the name of a city I lived in for a year.

In arabic cairo is pronounced il-kawhira, and it means "the victorious."

May we who are democrats be blessed with victory as well.

Maasalama.