At this point..my vote is going to Hillary..just because she has been involved in MAJOR politics almost all her life. And she is the strongest candidate out there at this point.

Calling someone an African-American, A Latino, or a Hispanic states a disconnect with The United States of America; while one of a previous foreign based dual citizenship could become a full Senator or Member of Congress, once loyalties to that foreign nation were severed, one who held a dual citizenship and was first born in America could not easily become president due to association to the people with the non-complete-American label.

Republicans and Democrats are a foreign body a label separate to the Federal Government, as one could be a French democrat and still be a democrat and be working with a French ‘Jacobin’ method of party politics. When one has enough personal clout the party should not be required for election.

‘Clinton’ when taken alone makes it an individual.

US citizens, black, yellow, red, brown or pale, need a president better than any our country has ever experienced. One who cares not only about the middle class, but the working and poor classes, as well. Ms. Clinton and numerous other candidates err when they state that our country was built by the middle class (only). They conveniently forget, that slaves and the working poor gave the US its economic EDGE. This fact is often, if not always, omitted.

Judging the current crop of presidential candidates, I believe only Edwards and/or Obama possess sensitivity to those and other critical domestic issues. Plus, over the long-term, they seem to be closer to embracing much healthier foreign policy and diplomatic approaches.

Don't cheapen your vote by ignoring the issues and voting for the yesterday that certain panderers advocate.

Do your research! Many of the programs by the Clinton Administration for Inner Cities, Health, Children, & Small Businesses were significantly rolled back or canceled immediately upon the election of the Bush Administration. Hillary has advocated for all of these things.

Literally every volunteer I know has never worked on a campaign before, including me, but we're out hitting the streets anyway. We've agreed here locally to hit the streets for Barack every single weekend until the primaries. You gonna tell me that Hillary has that kind of commitment?

Obama 08

What has Hillary done for black women? Last night and during the Howard debate she talked about how AIDS would be a national emergency if white women were being infected at the same rate. This is not a new topic in the black community. If indeed she was concerned about the issue, she would have made it a priority as First Lady or as a Senator. She has not done so. She is really on giving lip service now that she is running for President. Black poliiticians know this, but because of political greed they are endorsing her. If she really cared about these issues, they would have been on the radar screen a long time ago.

Unfortunately, however, black people generally vote for those they are told to vote for. Now, some older black folks with a sense of community will vote for Barack because they want to see a President who is black. But many others will vote for Hillary because they are told to by there local religious or political leaders. I wish we as a people were not so blind. But I do hope that every free thinking black person call to task every black politician whenever they call for black people to support one another or to support them. Last night, Charles Rangel claimed that he didn't want someone (Barack) to learn on the job (President). The statement makes no sense, because unless a person has served as President, they will be learning on the job. Hillary has never been President. Thus, she like everyone in the field will need to learn on the job. But such foolishness is passed off as serious thought. It's really shameful.

Obama walks the walk, Hillary just talks it. You'd be a fool to believe it.

"In her campaign to lock up black support, there are no qualms about playing the race card. Senator Clinton scored with black voters when she declared in a June debate at Howard University that the country would be more worried about HIV/AIDS if the disease were disproportionately affecting whites instead of blacks. The powerful political impact of her statement was not diminished by the circumstance that her facts were incorrect. The annual federal budget for HIV research is $3 billion. This is more than the nation’s entire appropriation for research on either heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, or breast cancer. But Clinton’s assertion that racism drives white-controlled government decisions on the allocations of disease research stoked anti-white anger and won her acclaim among black voters.

Probably no one at the Howard University event, black or white, was aware of the fact that in August 2006 Hillary Clinton was the only one of 20 senators of the Republican-controlled Senate Health, Education, and Labor Committee to vote to gut a plan that would have redirected more AIDS funds to heavily black communities in the South. Her vote prompted the National Black Chamber of Commerce to publish full-page newspaper advertisements denouncing Clinton as being “two-faced” on the issue.

~Theodore Cross

The African American community is capable of recognizing pandering when they see/hear it.

Ask Marion Wright Edelman what she thinks of Hillary Clinton's ability to lead.

Hillary does not possess the judgement for the job. It amazes me that anyone is willing to vote for someone who supported the Iraq war, refused to limit GWB's power to execute the war, and has now voted for the Lieberman-Kyl ammendment.

No mother in good conscience could possibly support this woman. If her name was not Clinton, she would be competing in the polls with Mike Gravel.

How do I explain your endorsements to my fourth graders, 98% of whom are black??? That even if they do all the right things I've been talking to them about…studying, getting a good education, playing by the rules, believing in themselves…that it still won’t be good enough for some black people. That white people will believe in their capabilities and talent, will support them, but other black people won’t. That a young black man who accomplished everything Martin Luther King envisioned in his dream, will not be supported by other black people? Not because he isn't qualified, but because they "like her husband"!!! Dr. King would be ashamed today, very ashamed. The inane reasoning behind the ADC endorsement makes me ashamed to face my students.

I don't vote republican democrat or independent...I vote AMERICAN!!

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Way to go, Hillary. We know that you want us to just stay in our place and let the white folks (you and Bill) take care of us.

Let me tap dance on home now!

It wouldn't be so sad if Obama weren't so exceptional.

But as some of us know, plain white is better than brillant black any day in American.

Witness her saying “I want African-Americans to feel that, when I’m president, it’s another Clinton presidency.”

She runs ON Bill's record when it suits her; she runs AWAY FROM IT when it doesn't.

It is well past time that America WOKE UP!!! How about a president who will tell us the TRUTH, even when it hurts?

John Edwards 2008…Because America deserves better.

Where is the mentoring of the future leaders? This is why Rep Lewis and a number of other high profile African Americans will see their own demise and relevance disappear in the future for the young African Americans that want to follow. I am talking about the immediate generation behind them, their children, who already find them not relevant. They don't know how to let go and endorse someone that is truly worth endorsing Black or White. So what are they telling future generations, we won't endorse you even if you have all of the crendentials. Why would the country want 28 years of only 2 families in the Whitehouse. 300 Million people in this country, and we can only endorse the same 2 families. It is totally ridiculous. Hilliary is not Bill Clinton. They are living in the past. They had their time in the Whitehouse. Can we move on to new and real change?