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Racists. The only reason Hillary did not divorce her husband was because she needed his help. Look what she is doing now with William. It is like they are on cloud nine but it is all for the White House. Once in there, if at all, Hillary will ahve her sweet revenge. I am sure she will also ne denying having sexual relations with that boy. Hillary you are not presidential – you are better off pushing for change outside the white house. Just do not cry, seeing you are a cry baby. Do not say I did not warn you.

Go Obama – you are the next president

All you ridiculous idiots. Hillary and William Clinton have a lot of dirty laundry. Receiving money form the Arab world – who is bringing this up. Now, a picture with the so called "slum Lord" has surfaced and all the Clintons do is deny deny deny. We do not know this "slum Lord". YEs, just like you did not have sexual encounters with Monika. How Hillary hired private detectives and used public funds to pay for this. The private detectives were to investigate all of William's girlfriends – sexual encounters or not and make them keep quite for good. William is lucky he was not impeached. Clintons are used to getting the black votes for nothing because the blacks are idiots in that they would rather have a white prson than thier own. Wake up blacks. You think the Clintos later on the democrats have you at heart. NO, all they want is your vote.
The Clinton's start these fights knowing very well they can twist them in the futre to their advantage – anything to win the White House. Common wake up

i believe hillary is the best choice, who ever watched "sicko" MIGHT like her a bit better, i totally agree with her on the health care issue. you know what? i bet the people who are saying hillary sucks are mostly men, right?? women don't have to right to be president? don't say that u don't another clinton in the white house as an excuse. what's wrong with the last clinton???

I think Michael Goodwin is the first to write about this factor. John F.
Harris and Maureen Dowd also touch on this factor. However, they are just
describing the peak of the iceberg.

Hillary Clinton is On the Ropes (Michael Goodwin, New York Daily News)
"The nostalgia for the '90s, a move for a restoration of the Clinton
presidency, isn't a persuasive rationale. The flaw was on display in her
speech – surrounded by Bill and some of his old aides, she was a tableau of
the past, not the future."

"She needs to come out from behind Bubba and the barricades and the imperial
court of handlers who create a bubble."

Hillary and Bill Clinton's time in the White house was during a much
different, much easier time in our country's history than the next eight
years will be.

I think the voters realize that Hillary's claim to experience was that she
had only some experience and that it was during that much different, much
easier period.

It is not all that relevant to the difficult next eight years. Her time has
come and gone.

I think that voters are seeing Bill Clinton as someone who rode the wave,
not as someone who actively created the good times. The more I read and
think about Bill, the more I see him as someone who wasted a fabulous
opportunity to help the people of this country.

I think that is underlying Hillary's drop in the polls and the loss in Iowa.
If that is correct, I don't see how she can regain the lead without a very
negative attack on Obama. I think that having Bill on the campaign trail
was the cause of her decline. It made her look like his puppet, reminded
people of Bill's failings to seize the fabulous opportunity, and reinforced
the opinion that she was of the past that was much different than the
present.

If this is correct, Bill's taking over her campaign in NH for the next few
days will only make matters worse for Hillary. Sharp attacks by both of
them against Obama will also reinforce the differences between the two
candidates. It appears that the Clintons have decided on an all or nothing
tactic to NH.
I encourage your reporters to check out this angle more fully and, if they
agree, to publish an article on this aspect of the race.

Running to redeem a father and now, a husband, is a story worth writing.
Much has been written about George W running to redeem his father's "failure" to "go to Bagdad".
Some has been written this time around about Senator Dodd running to redeem his father's failure-ethical lapses- and Governor Romney running to redeem his father's failure-his brainwashing comments.
The press has been nibbling around the edges of Hillary running to redeem Bill and herself. That story, however, is the most intriguing of the bunch.

In addition, an article written about all of these "redemption" runs would probably convince us that voters should never vote for a presidential candidate who is related to a president or presidential candidate. I think with just my information it is fair to say that redemption runs lead to poor judgment in the political decisions of a campaign and in presidential decisions, clouding both. An experienced political writer or writers would be able to fully research and present clearly the results of that research.

I think that Hillary Clinton would still be leading if Bill Clinton had been kept in the background. What I am seeing and what I believe the press is starting to report is that Hillary's race is all about Bill redeeming Bill and Bill's legacy and Hillary redeeming Bill, Bill's legacy, and Hillary's legacy. Obama and Edwards have been clearly stating for a long time that their presidential race is about America or about the middle class or about the other America, not about them. Hillary in NH is just starting to say that her race is not about her. But she just said that the race for her is very personal, suggesting policy but in reality much more telling.

What will happen is Obama will win the next election.
Time will tell. Clintons are out> so Edwards.
First time in history USA will have a black president,powerful not necessary good

The last thing we need is another, or the same Clintons in office.

I have been a fan of the Clintons, since forever; they could do no wrong in my book - until now. I have been waiting to vote for Sen. Clinton for years; however, I am terribly disappointed by the way President Bill Clinton is handling the results of Iowa and New Hampshire. What is happening to Sen. Clinton's campaign is not the fault of the press, so he should stop blaming them and stop the unjust attacks upon Sen Obama.

What is happening to Sen. Obama is just what happened to President Clinton when he first ran for president.

I'm so extremely disappointed that it has made me change my mind. If they react to not getting their way now, how will they react IF Sen. Clinton becomes president and things do go their way?

Like her or not, Hillary has what it takes to be president. Obama is giving us what we want to hear, fluff, promises, but nothing concrete. He speaks of hope, and makes promises. He would change things, but doesn't tell us what, or how. Since Regan, this country has been sold to the rich and the big corporations, though tax deals, tax cuts, tax incentives, tax credits, and subsidies, down to sales taxes the little guy pays, and they get to put in their pockets, instead of going to the state, county, and cities that provide the venue for their businesses. 7 years ago, we got Bush, and thanks to him, Cheney, the Neocons, and the Religious right, this country has been carefully taken advantage of, and bled of wealth, power, and credibility in the world arena.

Bill Clinton looks really "old". And his remarks about his wife - well - if he didn't mind embarrasing her in front of the world with his extra marital affairs - what would make us think he would change now. i feel sorry for Hillary - she seems like a good woman - maybe if she dumps him - her numbers might go up.

Some are working on a "Stop Hilliary" campaign. Did not know that President Clinton was a memebr of that group. That is the scret sauce: let Bill get out in the public with his HUGE ego, make insane comments, and he will stop his wife from getting the nomination! ALSO: talking about the press and Obama – when will the liberal press, both print & media, get to the subject of Bill's infidelity? I also wonder how emotional Hillary will get when she realizes that she is defeated? Maybe all of those years sticking with Bill, to have him as her power base, will evaporate and she will finally divorce him.

Democrats, Will not let these two dinky states determine the next democratic nominee, this is a decision that requires thought, and soon that will be apparent.....Change........, it's in my pocket, and also occurrs when I take my pant's off....what does it all mean, and how will it be accomplished ,and who is the best for our government's stabilty,..............

I just want to ask the question, They have talked about religon with Mitt R. and Huckabee, But no one has asked Obama. at least not that i've heard on the news. I realy would like to someone at least ASK. I think we all need to know
Thank you RDM

Here is a piece from NYT's readers posting to show why democrats lose the 2008 president election in January:

Lenedone Wrote “Question about Obama’s electability. Which States do you think Obama will win in the General Elections?

Here is my analysis of why he will lose badly to the Republicans:

(1) The Republican nominee will be either, McCain, Romney, Julianni, or Huckabee. The Republican establishment will throw it’s full machinery behind whoever that nominee is.

(2) Next, they will make national security and terrorism the main issue in the debate.

(3) Then, they will define Obama based on his own record or lack thereof, as weak on national security, inexperienced and naïve. (Have we not seen this movie before)

(4) Next, they will do what the media and the democrats have not done, they will research everything he has ever done, and then the 527 groups will launch those famous “unaffiliated” Swift boat ads.

(e) They will attack him and define in the Southern and Mid Western States as a real threat to the future of our country and to our children. They will note how frequently he has abstained or failed to vote as a US and State Senator, and will claim he cannot be trusted to make the tough decisions. (did you not see the early signs of this last night in the Republican debate)

(f) They will say that in an unstable economic climate do you want to risk your family’s bread and butter with this rookie.

(g) Then they will ask him, what has he ever done? (compared to the republican nominee the answer will be “not much really”)

(h) The republican 527 groups will also do what has not been by his fellow democrats, that is, they will question his temperament, and ask questions about his drug use, and insinuate that perhaps he still has a problem in that area.

(i) These 527 will unearth allege drug users and dealers who will say that they shared a cocaine session with him then, and that they know someone who sold him crack cocaine last year. There will be a 1,000 stories like these. These fellows don’t play nice.

(j) The Republican nominee will stay above the fray and say that they oppose these 527 groups and want them banned, but unfortunately, like John Edwards said recently about 527 running ads. against Obama on his behalf, it is illegal to contact them in any way. Remember Bush and Kerry, and Bush’s father against Dukasus?

(k) For whom did the country vote in the last elections when Americans were dying in Iraq and Bush was seen as running a poorly executed war? Did they vote for the war hero who promised change and hope, or did they vote for the man whose military service records seemed to have mystic properties, and who got us into Iraq in the first place?

(l) Many of those who feel inspired today by Obama will cringe from him after the republicans 527 begin their attack, and other will simply no longer support him based on the “real” Obama as defined by these 527s.

(m) Given all of the above, Obama will lose every Southern State, including Florida, he will also lose Ohio, and then he will have to really fight to win all the states that Kerry one in the last elections. I can assure you he will not win them all when the republicans are through with him.

(n) So tell me dear chap, how will Obama win the 270 electoral votes he needs to win the presidency? He can not!”

American has come a long way. Geraldine Ferraro once said, . . . "It was not long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very, very small snack foods." Unquote. The point here is not to be so naive this time around. It's time to upgrade and get a women in the White House. Senator Hillary Clinton is capable of leading and I believe she has the qualities and experience in making foreign and domestic decisions. She has chosen a path to run for president in a land she loves. A path of change and peace. Win or lose Hillary Clinton is a winner. At this point she can claim victory for women and she has made an historical difference and a positive impact on the country since the day the women had won the right to vote. Wake up women!! Where is your vote!!

It is suspect that Chelsea Clinton is on the campaign trail with her parents but forbidden to speak. In pictures she looks like a mindless "Stepford" daughter. What in the world is up with that?

Lastly, I am against Clinton. I cannot bear to hear her pontificating as president for the next 4 years! She is calculating and too ambitous for her own good. Had she been taking care of her husband when he was in office, I believe it's a very good bet that that scandal would not have occurred.

Hang in there, Hillary. ALOT OF AMERICANS ARE COUNTING ON YOU! What about Clinton/Obama on the ticket? He can gain the much needed experience that he is lacking during his term as VP and take his rightful place as Prez next time around.

If you vote for any Clinton or Bush, you are throwing away our democracy, which was fought long and hard by our forefathers. What's the difference between U.S. and Pakistan or Russia? How can we get all excited if Putin wants to be the Russian leader for life?

I think no one has experience for the job except actual past presidents however that is why the president has the cabinet positions for.

Let's get back to basics. When you hire someone, first you have to sift through resumes of qualifications. Let's strip the candidates of their high-profile sound bites, party affiliations, personal backgrounds, type of sex, birthdates, (things you can't ask potential employees) and let their community service, foreign expertise, domestic intellect, and political record speak for themselves. If we just looked at experience and positive change they affected without the garbage, I think that the front runner would be obvious.

It is time for America to elect its first woman president! We need changes and Hillary
is ready to be America's first president and so should America. We, as a nation, always
trumpet that we are the most tolerant society in the world, where everyone is given a
chance. Yet, the male dominating society still tries to keep women behind, pushing them
back no mattter how well educated and skilled they are. Women throughout America,
unite and vote for Hillary!

Who the hell is Obama and where did he just appeared in the media?
I never heard of him until 8 months ago when he started to campaign begging for votes!
This guy does not have anything solid on his resume, except his good looks.
Thank you, but we've already got Paris Hilton, even though she is not that good looking.

New York State- WAKE UP! We need a real president such as Hillary not a celebrity like
Obama.

I am a loyal CNN viewer, but I have to say that I have been disheartened recently by their obviously biased coverage of this election. Obama HAS been given a free ride by the media and CNN has been the worst. I watch every evening and read cnn.com every morning; every headline in regard to Obama is how well he's doing in the polls, his awesome turnout at his appearances, how he is for change,etc. Change for WHAT exactly? He never says. Obama is a great motivational speaker, that's it. That's where it ends. He doesn't have anywhere near the amount of experience one needs to take on the task of being President after the Bush administration. He is not a straight-shooter like he claims to be. He can't tell you what he'll change, or how he do it. Watching people go crazy over Obama is really frightening for me. It reminds me of how many people could be led astray in Germany by Adolf Hitler! Obama seems to be a nice enough guy, but that doesn't make him President material. Seriously, this is the exact same way we got the President we have now, b/c people like him, he seemed like someone you would want to 'hang out' with,etc. The people I have who back Obama can't even tell me his stand on things, they "just like him"!!! This is a Presidential Election for a Country, not high school. It's sad to say, but you just have to apply the 80/20 rule in our country, even with elections. 80% of the general population is just plain stupid and have no logic. Sad, sad, sad.

How Ms Clinton so much emotion during the race over just one question. What is she going to do if she is elected to office and have to make serious decisions. Also why don't the candiates ever talk about what they are going to do for the Military Veterans. They are the one going to war and putting their lives on the line to let people in this country do what they want and that means even run for a political office. Congress wants to take away their VA benifits and don't want to give us a pay raise. But no one will stop them in giving themselfs a large raise. So I want to know what they are going to do to help the active military and the Retired personal.

Ex-President Clinton and his wife are grasping for straws! They are desperate because they are not honest with themselves to realize that the electorate wants a new direction to lead this country. We have had in the last 7 years a level of ineptness and backward leadership and now people are looking at someone who might be willing to change this nations future! I am voting for change and not the status quo any longer.

Hillary will get the job done. Obama's positions are only copies of Hillary's. I do not understand what change Obama would bring. He has not discussed any of the issues in detail that I have heard. Hillary knows the issues in detail and will accomplish her goals in office. If one wants change they can only find it in the ideas of the candidates. Personality has nothing to do with change. Solid ideas and experience will only bring change.

Obama talks too much. He talks of change, of new beginnings, but what does he plan to accomplish. I agree with Hillary, too much talk, not enough action or experience.

Romney For President!
And Why you ask…?

Ok, the Democrats…

Hillary :
She talk's alot about experience, but…what experience? Being a shady lawyer in a backwater state with a closet full of skeletons. Or maybe being the first lady now qualifies one to be the most powerful person in the world? NOT!

Obama :
He's always talking about change, the reason? Because he is a junior senetor who has very little experience in anything except local issues. So…presto "Change". This will all wear off soon. We have 11 Months to go and his message will wear thin early in that time.

Edwards :
He's just too angry, probably because he's been doing this for a few go rounds now and it doesn't seem to be getting any better.

And the Republicans…

Huckabee :
Well gee wiz let me think of something. Christianity is his only message that resonates with anyone. So if that's your thing, he's your man. He's just not a candidate that can win…the nomination or the election.

Thompson :
Represents the current administration too much. You get the feeling he's getting his advice from Dick Cheney.

McCain :
He is a patriot, but thats sort of where it ends. Thanks for your service John! But It's just not gonna happen, whether you dilute the process by winning New Hampshire or not.

Ron Paul :
Great message. Getting back to the constitution, great. But many of his other ideas are just…out there. And he suffers an unelectable personality issue. Again, he's not going to win.

Giuliani :
Good man, was in the right place to handle the 9/11 crisis, but couldn't beat Hillary in a Senate race, why does he think he'll be President? Sorry Rudy.

So…Governor Romney. :
A guy who's a family man, finished at the top of his class, headed up an Olympics, has done great in business and knows how to run a government! None of the other candidates come close in terms of qualifications! Take a closer look for yourself and get behind the right person for the job!

America has come a long way. Geraldine Ferraro once quoted . . . "It was not long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very, very small snack foods." Unquote. Let's not be naive this time around. Is this the time for a woman to lead in the White House? Yes! I do believe so! Senator Hillary Clinton is capable of leading and I believe she has the qualities and experience in making foreign and domestic decisions. She has chosen a path to run for president in a land she loves. A path of change and peace she believes is right. Win or lose Hillary Clinton is a winner. At this point she can claim the fact that she has made an historical difference and a positive impact on this country since the day the women had won the right to vote.

As a 72 year old daughter of a Kansan and someone who has felt so sad at how far down the USA has fallen in respect, I see Obama has our new hope. I am frightened that Clinton might win. I am suspicious of anyone who is driven by blind ambition.I get the impression she thinks she should be president by inheritance.When she talks about being a talker and rhetoric over reality, I want to jump through the TV.I would like to ask her how she would describe Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill, FDR, Ghandhi, and the man who never held office but by words inspired beyond description, Martin Luther King.In Clinton's world, non of these men would be worthy to oppose her "great accomplishments."Her derision of women, her Tammy Wynette comments, her "I don't stay home and bake cookies." may very well come back to haunt her as well. I also find it hard to believe that the American people would be willing to allow nearly 3 decades of their presidency be controlled by two families. I cannot believe the American voters will allow democracy put at risk. I do think that will happen if the Bush,Clinton,Bush,Clinton parade continues.No candidate should be taking their election for granted because they feel they it is their divine right. A canamerican

Just a P.S. to my previous comment: Mr. President, if YOU ran today, you would be elected!!!! I would actively campaign for you.

Obama will be our next president. The Clinton-Bush dynasty must end.

I have never seen such a highly well financed campaign lose so much sleep over one primary before in my life. I am a Obama supporter, but anyone who follows the election should know by now that you cant win the Presidency nowadays without taking the South. The same goes for the primaries. If the Clintons were smart, they would concede the first two and work hard as galvanizing the women and pro Clinton vote for Super Tuesday instead of doing these onesie twosies with Obama over experience/change.

I think its ridiculous and an insult to the voters to make this about "likeability" and being "new". The next president will be a new president, we get it already. She needs to stay focused on how she can better affect change with a jacked up deficit and a contentious partisan Congress.

I think Hillary still has the best chance to get it done, but its unsettling to see her become unglued and rattled so quickly.

Sally
thanks for pointing out Barack's full name...i would never vote for a person with that name..or someone who is less than 5'-10 ....or wears plaid....let's discuss the candidates on merit shall we???

I think it is really interesting that most Americans would consider electing an individual with so little on his resume, what company in this great nation would hire a CEO with this experience, he graduated from law school in 1991? Graduating from Harvard or being a lawyer or the first for anything doesn't qualify you to be President. I am not judging Obama's character I am sure he is a really nice guy, but think about it we need to consider someone with more experience, this is definetly not a position that we should even consider, no matter how desperate everyone is for "CHANGE" to allow someone on the job training. I'd imagine he would make a great candidate in a few years. In the meantime I hope most Americans think about this and get it right this time.

Almost 30 yrs of Bushes and Clintons running America, that's the biggest problem facing America. Obama 08

I didn't like Hillary then in polotics
As a person she's okay in my book
Hillary has been a lame duck senator since she's been in NY.
If she hasn't done anything noticible for NY,
Whats to say shes going to do anything good on a grand scale?
If she wasn't associated with Bill, how much weight woud she be able to pull?
Watch her be the next Taft

please please STOP HER- BETWEEN THE TWO (HILLARY AND BILL)

WE WOULD HAVE A HILLBILLY IN THE WHITE HOUSE IF SHE IS ELECTED.

not only that david. she has a resume with 35 years of elected office experience to boot!

Oh wait, she only got elected once to the US Senate for NY

I agree, in 2008 why are women still dealing w/ ignorance and stero types?? We as a country should be beyond this! There have been multiple times Bush was seen getting emotional when he spoke about "his passion" for "his country" and that was fine so why sould Senator Cliton be held to a different standard?? I don't understand why some people are so afraid of a confident, capable women. Let's stick to politices and issues folks not age old stero types that don't help anyone in the long run!

January 7, 2008 11:58 pm ET

Is anyone paying attention to what a double standard has been set surrounding Hillary? If she is confident, assertive, makes an argument and defends her position, she's seen as being cold, unfriendly and "unlikeable." If she lets her guard down showing more emotion then she's seen as insincere, weak or incapable. It seems that no matter which side she shows, candidates, voters and the media are taking issue with it.

The other candidates in the race (both Democrats or Republicans) are supposed to be strong and aggressive and if they happen to show some emotion, then they are seen as being "more human" and "more likeable."

How is this viewpoint fair and in the best interest of our political system?

I agree, in 2008 why are women still dearling w/ ignorance and stero types?? We as a country should be beyond this! There have been multiple times Bush was seen getting emotional when he spoke about his "passion" for "his" country and that was fine so why sould Senator Cliton be held to a different standard??

January 7, 2008 11:58 pm ET

Is anyone paying attention to what a double standard has been set surrounding Hillary? If she is confident, assertive, makes an argument and defends her position, she's seen as being cold, unfriendly and "unlikeable." If she lets her guard down showing more emotion then she's seen as insincere, weak or incapable. It seems that no matter which side she shows, candidates, voters and the media are taking issue with it.

The other candidates in the race (both Democrats or Republicans) are supposed to be strong and aggressive and if they happen to show some emotion, then they are seen as being "more human" and "more likeable."

How is this viewpoint fair and in the best interest of our political system?

Hillary Clinton has the intelligence, strategies, experience and passion to change this great country to a great DIRECTION!!!

She has the leadship ability and will achieve what she said! Not only an excellent orator who promises anything only for cheating voters to support for him. Unfortunately, he never considered whether he can keep his promise or how to realize what’s he said. If a person says he can do anything, we should doubt his honesty, such as Obama! Change is good, but can change to a positive or negative direction! We should reminder 8 years ago, Bush also said changes.

Let’s support Hillary, because we love this country! We will not allow this country suffer another disastrous presidential term! I find the similarity between Barack Obama and George W. Bush!

I, too, think Sen. Obama would be a risk. I may vote for Sen. Obama in 8 years, when he has more experience but right now, I think he lacks the necessary experience to be a world leader. In a few more years, I'm sure he would have that experience. I beleive Sen. Clinton has the credentials needed at this time.

Wow I didn't realize America wasn't ready for a woman president until I heard the old same rhetoric and insults said about a women in man's world. Like…She's emotional, too passive today, too agressive tomorrow, too many moods, which Hillary will we see today as if it is PMS…her cackle laugh, old looking, pantsuit insults, her hair, her make-up, her relationship wth her husband…and etc.

America, I thought we were past that. I knew we were past most racist views but you still can't deal with a woman in a an authoritive position. Wow.

The media, aren't you tired of spinning…
whew

He may not be able to make her younger or taller, but... wait, what was the third thing he said?

People are so short-sighted. You just can't let the hate for Bill Clinton go, and can't believe that Hillary is her own person. What you have been able to let slip your mind is the condition the world was in when Bill was in office. We talk about the lack of rationale in the eastern countries where killing someone is a way of life; well, how do we differ here when we can still hate someone so bad, that we'll elect someone with the very same culture and background, as what we're losing our men and women in uniform over.

When its printed that our country will be destroyed from within – and all you Clinton haters are working against Hillary (no woman should ever be more successful than a man as history has shown) you will take a chance on someone who has ties to the Muslim culture – because he talks a good talk.

He's nice to look at, but so is George Clooney. Would we all vote for George Clooney to be President – because he is articulate and handsome. Maybe we should think about Chuck Norris who is Huckabee's recent side kick – everyone loves his movies.

Get a grip on yourselves because I hope that whoever does become President, the first thing she should do is look for some decent, honest, nonpartisan journalists and reporters and news people – who just report the news, and not their own opinions because they're looking to make a star out of an unknown.

You've printed and admired every sarcastic word the current administration has spewed into your face, dastardly, evil inuendos possible, and the actions of all the Republicans who have been arrested, some indicted and jailed for their scurrilous activities, most liberated in the courts or by the President, and yet, you turn around and continue to beat up on the Clintons. Maybe some day we can all be privy to having your lives laid out on the internet, every minute detail about your personal life – so grossly stated as was done to Bill Clinton while you all sat back and gloated............................I'll wait.

Be careful what you wish for – you may just get it! I may be 75, but I still have my senses.

Exactly, Mike.
It is just like every election – the media can play God with all of the candidates; they can spin comments and events as much as either party.

For all of us who can't quite make up our minds, it is unfortunate if the tide turns due to a push by the media.

An Obama/Clinton ticket sounds good; either one in charge is fine with me.

Every democrat knows that Hillary would make a very good president, she is very knowledgeable, extremely intelligent and a hard worker.

The problem for her is that she lacks the leader's charisma that Obama has. Unfortunately for Hillary, the very same weapon that brought Bill Clinton to the WH, is making the difference in favor of Obama today.

Who was a better PRESIDENT (...not husband) than Bill Clinton? Seriously

Bill left us with a balanced budget and Hillary will participate in the Pledge to the
flag of this Great Country.

Hillary emotional?....
com'on stop kiddin me.
She's only breaking down as she's beginning to perceive imminent loss.
Don't see her as being real.
Go Obama or Edwards !!

hehe, my comments keep getting blocked out! What I keep trying to say is the doesn't CNN understand Bill was being humurous making a pun on what Edwards wife said???

It really seems as if CNN has basically annointed Obama the nominee.

Its very disturbing to see this play out. I am on the fence about these two, but I am pretty sure at this point the way the media is playing it Obama will win.

Don't worry guys...just like the rest of us who have been complaining about Bush for the past 8 years suffering, you'll get to complain about Obama when he takes the White House.

OBAMA '08 & '20016

I think Obama with little experience is playing around like he just wants to win the game. Once the game is won, he won't know what to do with what he won. We're not into a game, we're dealing with the United States of America. And the place for the leader, is someone of great experience that knows what to do when the Talibans come knocking at our door.
Yes, we need Hillary to be our leader and a great leader she will be if chosen.

Wow – so now you can't have a strong character AND any type of emotions at all? I thought that the two traits could complimenteach other. There is a difference between showing your caring, human, compassionate side, and having out-of-control emotions that take you down the wrong path.

Perhaps we should have a robot for President – one who won't care that young people are dying overseas, or that children all over the world are starving, or that so many people in this country can't treat a diagnosis of cancer because the insurance company's CEO needs a new yacht.

Oh....wait......we already have that President!

I believe Hillary Clinton to be a strong, compassionate and intelligent woman.
I would trust here over robot-man anytime!
As for Bill, I agree with the statement that perhaps EVERYONE's spouse should be followed around, and all of their inappropriate, but well-intended comments, be shown on TV.

I'd love to see the both of them (Obama and Clinton) in the White House when it's all said and done. Preferrably with Obama as the President of the United States, and Hillary as the second in command.
I don't know exactly what is going on with former President Clinton, but his comments strike me as odd, and certainly uncharacteristic. He has done a great deed for this nation, in serving two terms but nothing lasts forever.
This is year 2008, not 1993! I completely understand that the baby boomers of yesterday hold much weight in today's politics. However, this is the age of the 80's babies. They are turning out at polling stations like no other generation has at such young ages and making it known that they are truly a force to be reckoned with. They are tomorrows leaders and anyone who seeks office must secure it's base. It is because of those guys that I can envision not only a female VP, but more so a black male as president of the USA? Change is a slow process, and very necessary in this instance. How many young adults do you know between the ages 18 and 27, who are the least bit pleased with the doings of today's Republican Party? Change is a coming... it's a new day and age in America.

Hillary is the best from the Democratic side, but she must have a complex when she refers to having feelings "not like some may think". We all know you have feelings and you probably are genuine. Don't degrade yourself. We all want to see the true Hillary so we have something tangible from the Democrats to vote for. Come on Democrats... give us a reason to vote for you!!

If Obama or Clinton become president while the Democrats control Congress, the only change we will get will be the spare change left in our pockets. Is there any doubt that the right thing to do is elect John McCain. He will cut wasteful government spending while also providing the strong experienced foreign policy leadership the country needs. Vote McCain.

i am a 65 year old black, american mail, who has and is living the american dream i have a masters degree in business and have ben sucessful in my business, i have watched a lot of elections for president doing my time, most have ben slanted to keep america, under white control, i belive it is time for change,and i belive obama is the one to make that change,menny speak of his experiencs i dont re-call in american history that we have a school for presidental training, if we do i am shure mr,bush did not attend or he failed, it seems to be a on the job training position,i belive the key is to soround your self with staff that has the ability to help you make the right decision,s for the people and country,and i dont belive they should be old white men who have spent a life time learning to, lie,cheat,swindle,&work behind closed doors for self gain as mr, bush and his group has done, our goverment should be transparent,the president should tell the truth,which this president hasent don,i belive obama can bring people from both side,s of the isle with new and fresh ideas that will put this country back where it belongs on the world stage.IT IS TIME FOR CHANGE, WE NEED HEALTH & CHILD CARE, JOBS,AFFORDABLE HOUSING,HELP WITH EDUICATION,ETC.

Hey guys, you did get my post up there, thanks.!!!! 1/7 9:15 pm et.

I wonder if anyone at this site has any comment about it ?

IF Obama does not win the White House.............

Will he do the Odinga and refuse to concede?

I might also add to might last comment that all of you Obama supporters who are dumping on Hillary now will need her supporter's votes if he is the Democratic nominee..turning off her supporters through your negative blogging is not going to help you in the future.

Having a Republican in the White House again guarantees the continuation of the Iraq war, spiralling debt, and a long recession.

Anonymous * ... it's those who are blind who cannot accept it.... those who take the Bible (with all its discrepancies and contradictions) as the infallible "word of God". Geeze, wouldn't you think God could have been consistent instead of contradicting himself? ... Wouldn't you think he could have figured out that the sun and stars don't revolve around the Earth? ... Wouldn't you think he could have known the world wasn't flat and that "heaven" wasn't up while "hell" was down?
... Wouldn't you think he could have given us a correct reflection of the universe? ... You evidently worship a pretty stupid god.

Hillary didn't break down. She got chocked up, and thank God she did. It made me realize that she DOES care, and that this race IS personal to her. It made me realize the depth of which she feels for this, our, Country. People, stop judging. Use your heads.

I like Barrack. I like John. And I like Hillary. But who do I think is the best candidate for the Presidency? Hillary Clinton. I DO think experience matters. Think about this: Obama didn't even finish his FIRST term as a Senator before jumping on the Presidency bandwagon. Would you hire a lawyer who bailed out of law school? Or a doctor who didn't finish his/her residency? Seriously? It feels great to have this surge of energy, but what will happen in the long run? I believe all three candidates are sincere about wanting to bring about change for this Country. It's just that Hillary is the only one that is ready now and in a position to do so. And will.

Hillary does not need to be younger nor taller nor prettier. She is who she is and she is just fine being who she is. I'm not voting in a popularity contest, not a beauty pagent and who can rythm more when they speak. I am voting for the best qualified person to be president and that requires action....past actions. Gauge your candidates based on the content of their resume and not their sex nor their looks. In this case, Hillary is the overwhelmingly obvious winner for me. You have my vote HILLARY and it is because you have the experience to make me feel secure about the future. You have my vote also because I have a wife, a daughter and a mother and I pray that when my daughter grows up she will no longer face the double standards I have seen on this national stage against you. I hope that the future will be brighter for my daughter as she will have a strong woman president to refer to and know that it is women like you who have defy the odds in this society to give her the true equality she deserves in this world. GO HILLARY! GOD BLESS.

Anonymous? I don't blame you for signing "Anonymous". If you are a pastor, and still support Bush, then you support someone who is willing to lie, cheat, commit crimes, appoint totally incompetent underlings, and murder babies, women and innocent men. You support someone who is willing to torture detainees who are innocent of any type of crime (but who have been turned over by someone with a grudge, or someone who wants to gain favor). You support a war against a selected tyrant and not others. You support an incompetent and stupid president who pretends to be Christian (when Christ wasn't about any of these things you evidently support).

My guess is you also don't believe in evolution, which has now been so massively evidenced, it's those who are blind.

There are various wise quotes in the Christian Bible, and one of them is "None is so blind is the man who will not see".

Anonymous? You need an eye exam.

Hillary; we need a strong character person as president, not a cry baby. Are you going to get emotional when you can't cope with Bin laden or the Taliban? or it's just a show to get sympathy.

You people make me vomit. You profess your blind love to these candidates - but in reality, you have no idea who will make a good president. You can't know. That's the whole point of democracry. If there was one correct political viewpoint, we'd all be part of the same party. Anyone who puts forth any sorth of exuberance towards one candidate is an idiot, and should have their voting privileges revoked.

Politicians distort the facts to get elected..check out http://www.factcheck.org..Hillary distorts about her own record and about Obama, and vice-versa..no one is innocent on this one.

Supporters distort the facts to support their candidate..people who afraid of Obama because they think he is Muslim or anti-American do so out of fear, ignorance, and discrimnation.

Both (Hillary and Obama) will have a tough time against the Republican nominee.
Hillary will polarize the Republican base to vote against her, Obama will have a tough time due to inexperience and the built-in racism among voters in the American south.

Hillary might be the best choice, but all of you Hillary supporters who are dumping on Obama now will need his supporter's votes if she is the Democratic nominee..turning off his supporters through your negative blogging is not going to help you in the future.

As I watched Hillary's angst, spread out for public consumption like a deli buffet, I couldn't help but wonder how she would react if Al Qaeda managed to launch another attack anything close to the scale of New York. Would she quietly but with determination send our military around the world to identify, locate and exterminate those who are the network that is islamic fascism? How would she fare in the midst of a battle with a Republican led Congress that is determined to deny her her desired legislative agenda? How would she deal with constant negative press and persistent twitting by the mainstream media (oh, I forgot...this is Hillary....she wouldn't get negative press as President). One of two things is true. Either she is too emotionally unstable to be President, being under the constant, 24/7 stress that being Commander in Chief demands, or; this entire Barbie doll breakdown in New Hampshire (at which the cameras were rolling) was another "wag the dog" contrivance on the part of the Clinton campaign. Either way, Hillary's best days as a national platform politician are behind her. And, an added benefit of her backing out of the Presidential race is that such a move would decrease, exponentially, the likelihood that we'd have to cringe in fear about an attempted Bill Clinton run for the White House in 2012.

I have been the Pastor of several churches in 19 years of ministry. In each of those four churches, my wife has stood faithfully beside me. It goes without saying that my ministry is enhanced by her presence. But it DID NOT prepare her to preach, nor did it prepare her to lead a congregation. Likewise Hillary's "hanging around" Bill's dallying self did NOT prepare her to be the president. On the resume given above, Ms Araktingi says that she is an attorney, and that makes her a civic leader.....GAG!. Two of her other "leadership" experiences have to do with being a President's wife and a Governor's Wife. My argument stands. Being the wife of a President and a Governor no more prepared her to run this country than my 36 years of marriage to a Dental Assistant prepared me to pull your teeth.

Micahel,

Look in the mirror. Your post only shows that YOU are the "INCOMPETENT LIAR". Try posting this crap in some bs forum. Not here buddy. Sorry.

Desperate times require desperate measures, I hope we are finally through with these two.

Go Cubs

Hi, Vince! Please know I'm very poor. But who knows.... I might win the lottery! If I did, we could both decide which best charity to give to. Anyway, good luck to your presidential choice and I sincerely pray that the U.S.A. will be blessed with a
strong and respected leader.

None of these candidates in either party are truly addressing whats wrong with this country. The only person who truly has a platform of change is the guy who wants to completely overhaul our government. It's a new modern-day revolution in this country that simply doesn't adhere to more of the same business as usual. Ron Paul is a constitutionalist and the only candidate that speaks the truth about our state of affairs and has a real plan to remedy it. No wars w/o declaration, freedom and liberty, small constitutional government. This is the new revolution. No Hillary, No Obama, No Huckabee, No McCain – you have to look at Ron Paul and listen to his message. He's the only choice we have for fixing the messes that both parties have established for more than 1/2 a century.

I like Eric's comments. Billery needs to retire. We don't want you two back in the White House!

Ms Araktingi:

Being a lawyer is evidence of civic leadership? Give me a break! It is the legal profession that has prostituted the legislative process to the extent that even the government is unwilling to take over public campaign financing, and tort awards are out of the stratosphere. Two of Hillary's "leadership" positions were as Bill's wife. I have pastored four churches, and my wife was standing by my side throughout that entire time (19 years). But to say she is the leader of our congregation? hardly. She will be the first to tell you that she wants no part of the political connivance that, sadly, also takes place in the ecclesiastical world as well.

When I saw Hillary having her breakdown in that cafe, my first thought is how she would have reacted to a Republican controlled Congress that managed to stymie all of her legislative agenda. Or, news that iran had just attacked an embassy somewhere (a reality that, in my own mind, hasn't happened precisely because of the man currently holding the office of President). There are, without a doubt, women in this country whose emotional strength would be of great benefit in the office of President. But, Hillary Clinton isn't one of them. Wake up, America, before it is too late!

Shame on you, Michael. You sound like the Swift Boaters who would rather be dishonest and try to defame someone with total lies than listen to what he's saying and look at his true background. I bet you haven't read his book "The Audacity of Hope". If you had, you would notice he's a genius.

But, I thought your type of slam and besmirch was owned more by the Repugs than the Dems. Evidently I was wrong.

PS: I met to ask as to what is Hillarious Clintons true lifestyle......

The more things change the more they stay the same – ever hear that?

ch-ch-ch- changes – Ziggy – yeh – now there’s an agent for change!

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there once was a man named Obama
who spoke of a land called Nirvana
he said change was his game and hope was his name
and all the people who heard this would follow

time for business – need to fly to New Hampshire – let’s see, new airline been in business a couple of years, young pilots with enough hours to pilot the plane, just not that many hours under their belt. Or, other airline, been in business long time now with pilots with a gazillion hours of flight time, maybe 35 years worth – decisions – decisions. Got some change? Flip a coin and hope for the best.

There once was a girl named Hillary
Who married a man named Bill
Wife, mother, first lady and senator all
Were titles she carried yet still –
“Experience – that’s just so old school!”
“Wake up smell the coffee you old fool!”
“You’re so yesterday in this new world!”
chanted the masses as they rushed by her shouting -
….all on their little rabbits feet.

“And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin
There's no tellin' who that it's namin'
The loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'” BD

Hillary's emotional moment came yesterday because she is seeing her long awaited (and over the last year, expected) dream of the presidency disappear before her eyes because of Obama's now unstoppable momentum.

She's done and she knows it. Thus, the tears....

She'll make a great cabinet member or Senate Majority Leader.
Alot of great people haven't been able to win the presidency. Add Senator Clinton to that list.

It is so refreshing to realize that the american public has finally overcome bigotry and ignorance and are thinking of the best person that can work with everybody without prejudices and misconceptions.I know the USA is still a baby in conparison with Africa, Europe and Asia but it was time to grow up and behave like smart and educated adults.

As much as I appreciate Senator Clinton we really need someone who believes in the concept that politicians work for the people not the other way around.

Congratulations Senator Obama. You completely deserve to be recognized for uniting most of the people for the good of all the people.
You can count on my partipation support and vote.

Just make the Clintons go away – will be great for our country. Hopefully, it will be a 'blue ribbgon trail' for Mitt Romey all the way to the White House. He will bring us change and all for the good. God bless Mitt Romney.......

Unbelievable....simply....unbelievable!

The muslim nation must be sitting back and laughing their butts off at the prospect of "one of their own" being President of the United States.

Americans are proving...in general...to be idiots. How else do you explain voting George Bush in office TWICE...and now....voting for an INCOMPETENT LIAR like Barack Obama.

Think people...THINK...!

Bush beat out Gore because inexperienced George Bush clamored about change and leading this country in a new direction (despite have no experience). What he did have was MORE FLAIR than Gore...and the idoits in American bought into that FLAIR instead of looking at the records and experience of both candidates.

Hilliary Clinton was battling against Republicans for decades while Obama was hiding out at the university discussing ideals with freshman students. She is "hands down" the most knowledgable candidate in the Democratic Party.

The Bill Clinton presidency was some of the best eight years we've had in the past 30 years....and yet....for some RIDICULOUS REASON....people are forgetting that and spewing forth hatred for Hilliary.

Hilliary should have neutered Barack Obama and John Edwards challenge of the "status quo". If the "status quo" brings us back to the type of country we were under Bill Clinton's presidency...then Americans should be supporting the movement 100% instead of playing around with inexperienced candidates that have never brought about change in their entire careers.

Barack Obama is a racist (see the church he attends), closet muslim (family influence), with little experience (freshman Senator), and NO HISTORY of making any type of real change (the amount of times he skipped voting on measures as a Senator).

And...if he goes on to win...he will represent a third straight term of INCOMPETENCE in the White House.,,and a third straight term of American's going with emotions rather than using their brains.

Obama!

One thing I am tired of is politicians saying our country would be at risk for voting for someone. That is what Bush said and the country could not be any worse off.

There are a ton of posts here asking America to get past the gender issue and in the very same sentence make statements like "how about voting for a woman for a change." Then they go on to say it's okay that Hillary choked up but when Musky, a man, cried his campaign ended.

Never mind the issues. When Hillary is discussed it always comes down to "how about voting for a woman for a change" or "imagine what a woman as President will do for other women." So what if Hillary's health care program is unfunded and will cost tax payers more than they pay now. So what if she flip flops on Iraq and made a grand speech on the Senate floor emphatically stating she knew Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. So what if she puts down homemakers by making comments like "I could have stayed home having teas." Let us all vote for her simply because she's a woman.

That's as stupid as voting for Huckabee simply because he has religion.

She said "it's personal" and you better believe her. It's all about the ego, not about you, me, us, the country. She wants that golden crown so bad, she cried in front of everyone when she realized she may not get it. Weed out the egomaniacs and find a candidate that may actually be in the race for their beliefs, wanting to attempt to make the country better for us.

McCain in '08

Bill, you apparently cant make her into the only woman you want to make whoopie with either.

the obama train and the zombie voters, stops in Nevada

The Clintons and their supporters are showing their true colors in this campaign. While they may have different positions on issues than Bush, they essentially are the same. Resort to fear-mongering to get votes and to scare the public away from a candidate who is trying to inspire Americans to get involved and be a part of this process. People are tired of this brand of politics and the sentiment expressed by "Jeff from New Jersey". I'm sorry Jeff but we are not afraid, you can't scare us into voting for your candidate. It's time to end this brand of politics, and move onto a brand of politics that is positive, hopeful, inclusive, and inspires Americans to be a part of the process.

Jeff, jeez guess you got yourself really worked up. Hillary cries, whines and Bill pulls the "hillbilly" husband routine. Get over it. Clinton's got less experience in elected office than any Democrat running except Edwards. Gave Bush a blank check on both Iran and Iraq, tries another "mandated" health plan that crashed in the 90's and is straight out of Massachusetts' current disaster authored by Romney.

Clinton's a bright, effective and formidable campaigner plus a great Senator from New York. At 57, I'm not one of those kids that her campaign claims is empowering Obtama. What I have is a terminal case of "Clinton Fatigue". The Nineties are over and both Clinton's time has come AND gone.

Just imagine four years of embarrassment about Bill's continued womanizing. The leopard doesn't change his spots, and if you think Bill has reformed, you also look for another dollar from the tooth fairy.

Bill Clinton was a gift in his time...This is a new time and Obama is our gift for this time..He has researched all areas where our country is struggling and his new ideas are well thought out. This from a 78 year old Democrat woman.

I think that Bill Clinton will be happy if Hillary does not get the democratic nomination, because as a extremely clever politician he realizes that she will lose
against McCain. So, he wishes to spare himself the many months of useless campaigning and more important, to avoid the perception that her failure will be
his own failure and so darken his image as a ever succesful stateman.

And possibly, unconscientously, he does not like much to play publicly the second fiddle to his wife!

If you can't win by being manly, cry a little. If crying doesn't help, call on the husband. If Husband can't help, go under the knife and look younger and sexier...Sadly, husband said, he can't perform such surgery.. Oh well!
What some people will do to get elected...

Wanna put some money on that, lola?

I'm very uncomfortable that we have so many of our 40years and less voting for Mr. Obama but yet when the same people are being asked what his positions are – they don't know or don't even care as per CNN news report out of Iowa & N.H.

Well I belong to the 60 and over growd and I want to remind all of our voters just to think back what happend after the Nixon years. We where so fet up with the republicans, that we put somebody new and fresh, oh yes, no secrets was the spin at that time. Well we got Jimmy Carter, and during his years we had to deal with the Hostages taken in Iran, Interest rates up to 19% and high unemployment.

Please people wake up and research the candidates history and his/hers accomplishments before making your judgement.

It want do us any good, if the next president ends the war in Iraq and gets us involved in a confrontation on another continent.

I do have a problem with Mr. Obama always remarking that he did not vote for the war in Iraq – I'm shocked, that none of our press is asking him what he new at that time what nobody else knew??? What ever he knew he should have shared with Colen Paule, just maiby the men would have not gone infront of the UN and laid out the fact that Sadam H. had WMDs???
It can't be, that Mr. Obama is opposed to war, because he said, that he would send trops into Darfor/Sudan???
Please forgive if my grammer is not perfect, english is my second language.

I live in Wisconsin were my Grandmother-in-law will not vote for Hillary Clinton because she feels the presidency is a man’s job. Also, my five year old daughter has just found out that there has never been a woman president and would prefer the first female president to be either herself or her older sister. It amazes me to watch my daughter’s faces every time they find out something new about women’s history in the USA. For example; they were shocked that women could not always vote. Moreover, that women obtained this right to vote five years before their great-grandmother (mentioned earlier) was born. Personally, I am torn between Obama, Clinton and Edwards. However, when I hear news reporters state that women under 30 years of age are not voting for Clinton because they have not experienced gender discrimination, I am flabbergasted. I cannot believe this is the major contributing factor in their decision to vote for Obama. If so, I hope that we teach our daughters just how valuable our rights and history are as women. (Maybe if I only had sons I would see the world differently?)

jesslyn james: "It was then that I realized how much I love America….and how sad it has become. There no longer is any pride in being American….my God….how did this happen?

Oh ye of little faith. I am an Englishman who stood (and still stands) shoulder to shoulder with Tony Blair, my ex Prime Minister, when he declared to the US Congress that he stood shoulder to shoulder with America (over 9/11) in its hour of need. Throughout the Iraq war I have witnessed frequently American forces boys and girls fighting and dying for their country. And I have witnessed British soldiers getting wounded and dying as well. Each time I have heard of these deaths (British or American) I have felt so very sad; but oh so very proud. I feel for their loved ones every time.

I am sickened to hear American's proclaiming that "there is no longer any pride in being American".

There is much wrong with America and I will concede that; but given the choice of the American way of life – with its freedom and democracy free expression and right of choice, and ISLAM; with all of its oppressions; and its intent to world domination; is the real choice both Americans and British must make today. America, and Americans, wake up. HOMELAND SECURITY. This is the real big issue that is at stake in this Presidential election.

If you have 'no pride in being American' – you cannot be American. And you do not deserve the vote.

I like Obama, but for now, HILLARY is the best and will be the next President of the United States. GO HILLARY!!!!!!

Crying on national television!!!! I was wavering between Hillary and Obama but when I saw Hillary tearing up at that news conference all I could imagine was her sitting at the desk in the Oval Office of the White House, things getting tough, not going the way she wanted them to go and she sits there and cry!!!! Not a good picture!!! Not a good move Hillary!!! My vote is going for Obama for sure now!!!

I posted this once already, but I guess socks the cat ate my last post!

Has anyone on CNN or other news outlets counted how many times BOO!
( Barak O Obama) as I call him , said the word change in ONE speech?

Quite frankly America will get tired of hearing that word real fast folks, Any one
realize that its going to take more than change to change America, with the changes it needs? After Bush anyone would be a change!! How about voting
for a woman for a change. I'm not going to use that dirty word again. ok.

Wake up America, lets not make the same voting mistakes again, we're not voting
for the GUY to go to the allstar game. Let's not vote for the cute guy, the cute guy
the fun guy, the eloquent but hollow speech guy, that dumbs down our election.

Lets vote for change by voting for experience, intelligence, and ideas on solutions.

by the way , change is the stuff you find under your sofa cushion.

oops I did it again, I said the dirty word.

Go Hillary!

Many people, including myself, have wondered about Hillary's electability. Are Obama's chances better? I doubt it. Guess what? Any time you have experience, you have baggage. But it's still better to have someone who's been in the game for awhile to lead. Obama has a good start and may fare well better in the future, but hell, he just got out of the mail room; he's just too immature for the front office this soon.

President Clinton is responding to the polls, probably a mistake but hard to ignore. I believe Hillary Clinton is far smarter, way more experienced, and is likeable, if given a chance. Obama is a dreamer, and that's not always a bad thing, but he has some issue points that are problematic as well, including his approval of faith-based organizations as operators of Government programs (didn't we get this from Bush?), a continuing support of the always failing War on Drugs (Geez, I hope the War on Terror isn't this stupid), etc. He just doesn't believe in the Democratic principles the way I do. Hillary reflects my beliefs more succinctly.

And as far as Hillary being the first woman president, well, other countries have had women to serve them very well as President or Prime Minister. How long can America shy away from women in power without being seen as ridiculously out-of-step with the way of the modern world?

Patrick, are there young voters in those big states? If not, then your predictions will be right, but, if there are young voters, the same thing will happen...

Hiliary Clinton has a long history of active Civic Leadership.

A Lawyer, Governor's wife, President's wife, Congress Woman.

From Park Ridge, Illinois, a graduate of Yale Law School, Mother, Wife, Daughter, Politician.

It appears her Life History reflects her strong-will and true devotion to DUTY" for the American People.

History is in our Hands.

Vote!!

I am a staunch Democrat and think Hillary is quite capable. However, the thought of seeing Bill Clinton again for at least four more years, together with the suspicion both he and Hillary elicit, makes it impossible for me to support her. I read her near-weepy remarks in New Hampshire as being totally contrived. They just aren't authentic people...they care about their own legacy...especially Bill.
Finally, I would like to ask Hillary if Laura Bush would also have "experience" to be President, given that she and Hillary share a resume, in-part, as being former First Ladies of states and the U.S. Hillary has cut off her own nose by using this as her experience. It brings a reminder of the Clinton scandals that kept Bill preoccupied while the terrorists plotted. They had their day in the sun...filled with a lot of clouds. Bill ruined it for Hillary.

To chaos45 and Dan thank God people are seeing through obama! Obama is anti-American,anti-jew anti-hispanic .he does not answer any questions at his brainwashing rallies,he plays music to get the people going,and so nobody can hear him after the speech,in case someone asks him a hard question.Fox yesterday finally said on national t.v. that he is anti-American.He wants to change the world,and he means that. thats why is is so sincere.The thing is its scary change,He is going to meet with the muslim leaders fo the world when he is pres, and he will be one of them..And who is he going after now ? our young people! He thinks he can get the black voters because he's half black. wrong .

My Goodness...seems like we have a well-organized mass of Hillary operatives out en force to give the impression that this comment board reflects a "pro-Hillary" stance. Er, sorry you guys. We don't buy it. You know why? Because this is EXACTLY the type of "Old Guard" smoke & mirrors campaign trick which is turning people off from Hillary in DROVES! You can't fool us anymore with your "business-as-usual" campaigns and "Washington Insiders" terms of office.

Obama will give Shrillary the biggest drubbing of her career...and you know what? SHE DESERVES IT!!! She is the most hypocritical, fake, candidate to show up in years. So...keep filling up this board with comments, ostensibly from "normal, regular ol' citizens", but get this: We're NOT buying it.

[memo to Shrillary zealots: the noise you hear after Super Tuesday will be me laughing.... as Obama moves into the general election, and the Hill'ster heads back to Washington, astonished and wondering how her plans could have been dashed so completely by someone who didn't know "the game" as well as her]

Its quite incredible how politics works in this country. You have 30 percent of the country who still stands behind George W Bush, even with all of his transgressions the past 7 years. I'm amazed that Hillary Clinton is still polling in double digits, she has run a travesty of a political campaign. Clinton's support is made up of the same type of people that still support George Bush. Clinton supporters are stubborn and refuse to look at the race from an unbiased standpoint. They stick to Clinton regardless of what she says or does, and nothing is going to change their vote. Bill Clinton was better than George W Bush so therefore let's arbitrarily elect his wife because we pre-emptively decided she was the best candidate. Barack Obama is not the most experienced candidate, but does have experience. He's not the perfect candidate but he's the right candidate for the country at this point in our history. A good portion of the American public is fed up with the fact that America is no longer a representative democracy that operates for the people and by the people. Partisan politics which have drifted into the extreme have ripped this country apart, and we need a President who is a leader, who can unite, and who can inspire America to a better tomorrow. One person can't fix this country, its something we all have to do together. Senator Obama gets it, and embraces such a fact. It's not blind optimism and its not a false hope, we can right this country, we just need to do it together.

Can't find anywhere else to contact CNN, so am using this venue:

As someone who has watched every single primary, convention and election since I was in diapers, I consider myself to be fairly savvy in my understanding of the election process. However, CNN's graphics during the Iowa caucuses were so confusing as to mystify even an extremely interested and serious viewer. You made my head hurt as I try to figure out what your pie charts represented and how your numbers and break-downs added up.

C'mon now ... aren't we trying to pull in viewers AND voters? Let's remove some of the visual bells and whistles to we can understand what is happening during the assorted upcoming polling processes.

You know, I CAN't watch Fox, so ... a little help?

JV

Senator CLinton will win in the big states and it will all come down to Cali.

Hillary is to divisive! She will never attract as many independents or republicans than Barack Obama has. Now sheis dividing the democratic party between men and women. Clinton's supporters how will she get enough votes in a general election. Please explain anyone, dont worry i'll wait. Obama 08

Maybe if he could make her younger, he wouldn't have to chase the interns.

It's all about ****POWER*****....Hillary/Billary can't stand the idea of not living in the White House again.

My heart and prayers are with Hillary Clinton through this presidential campaign. People in this world need to start having a heart inside of them and stop displaying so much negativity of who will be the best for president of the United States. Everywhere you go all you see, hear and read with this presidental campaign is he said she said things. Instead we need to learn more about these people as individuals who are running for president and how they are going to change the United States to make it a better world to live in. We have people who hold a grudge on Hillary because of Bill's actions when he was president. We need to learn not to judge people for others mistakes they have done in life. When I saw Hillary Clinton have tears roll up in her eyes this morning, I know inside it wasn't just about being president for her. This women is taking this campaign to heart. She see's what this world is turning too. She wants to be able to make that change for our country. I feel that communication is a key factor in Changing the World Today. We need to stop displaying so much hate and crimes in the world today but instead display the good this world has accomplished. When you turn on the radio, television, or even go on the internet, what is the first thing we see? A robbery, killing, or drug trafficking. What kind of example is that setting for our economy today? What is this displaying for our children? I have full confidence in Hillary Clinton when she is elected president that she will address these matters and make our country safe for ourselves and our children. I have full confidence that Hillary Clinton will bring our men and women home to there families from Iraq to protect our country and start addressing the issues that are occurring in our world today.

Go! Hillary! . . . We need a change and above all experience in the White House.

Can someone help me with this question? Hillary says she has all this experience but the only thing that I know she was a senator. Is she counting the year that her husband was in a office?

Go! Senator Hillary Clinton! . . . We need a change and above all experience in the White House.

Hillary may have the experience. So did Gore and Kerry, but she also has something else in common with them; a lack of charisma. Hillary, like Gore and Kerry, is very stiff and not a natural outgoing person.

We know from past experience that the majority of voters will opt for the "most likable" candidate for President. That is why they rejected Gore and Kerry, and opted twice for a amiable guy without much else to offer. Hillary has run into the charisma wall, and there is nothing she can do about that. She can not obtain a charisma transplant or act as if she had.

People are not going to vote for someone that they do not first have a sense of comfort with. They do with Obama, and not with Hillary. That leaves her with no where to go to find more support beyond her hardcore supporters.

So it is no longer the Republicans versus the Democrats, it is now the young versus the old? The young do not understand the older generation's problems? Do none of us have grandparents or aunts and uncles who are struggling to pay their medical bills? I find this rather insulting.

What I do understand is that the "older" Presidents we have had have not changed the country for the better. The same old issues, different Presidents. I won't vote for Clinton because she is The Man. The Man who sends our jobs overseas, who lives in a multi million dollar house while many people are struggling to meet their mortgages. The Man does not inspire change, He inspires political posturing to make sure his interests get taken care of first. The Man does not encourage compromise, he operates on What's in it For Me? Whose looking out for the average Joe? Nobody.

Obama may be inexperienced, but sometimes ignorance is bliss. He will bring a new way of thinking to Washington, and I'm sick of the same old crap happening in Washington. He's younger, which means he hasn't spent years catering to special interest groups and questionable donors.

Those who say the country isn't ready for a black president: when do you think we'll be ready? Never? Speak for yourself. I'm not waiting around for the rest of you to come to your senses.

George Bush yesterday gave a speech on EDUCATION and the ECONOMY. That is analogous to my grandmother telling you what she knows about computer science and the National Football League. Well, campers, I am 71 years old so you do the math and decide whether my grandmother can tell you anything.

Hillary keeps talking about her 35 years experience. Speaking of math, I don't believe she can claim to have national experience since 1973. Did you know who she was then? She also keeps touting her experience and "history" of experience. Every time she does that, the voters HEAR her say she IS HISTORY. It's been a big mistake NOT to tout her VISION and not her "history". And BILL isn't helping. His impeachment (and womanizing) coupled with Hillary's inability to effect much with healthcare (and work with Republicans to get that done) are both liabilities. HISTORY is not HILLARY'S best card to play.

What this really comes down to is OBAMA v.s. BUSH. Bush embodies the rejected establishment incompetence (as also does the Republican side of Congress, by the way). Every time Hillary boasts of her "experience" and sounds like she also is "establishment", she allows OBAMA to run against George Bush.

One more thing: When Obama gets the nomination and then wins the presidency, there will be a wholesale "sweep-in" of Democratic congresspeople and senators as well.

And that's the truth from this old Geezer who still remembers things.

Signs of desperation.

OBAMA in the white house is a change worth voting for.

Hillary feels that winning the election and becoming President is a sense of entitlement......It's time for the Bill & Hillary to ride off into the sunset.....After all, when Bill Clinton Bill left office, and the smoke cleared..... his inactions left this Country in the shape it is today......Their partying days are over !!!!!!

Why are so many men and women afraid to have a woman as president? It is 2008, not the 1950's! As for Hillary Clinton and changes...she is the ONLY one who this far has shown how she can substantially "change" our country. IF in fact Obama (who I think is a great political figure and "SOMEDAY" would make a good president, after obtaining more experience in real politics), wins I just "HOPE" he can handle Washington, the United States and the world. We already know Clinton can.
I have talked to many people (democrats, republicans and independents) who say if Obama would start out as Hillary's VP in 2008 and then go on to become President....we may just have a solution to some of our problems!

Come on America...isn't about time to allow an experienced woman become president. (Many years ago I would have liked to see Barbara Jordan of Texas become our first black woman president).

Janet
IOWA (P.S. In the small town I live in 100 democrats turned out to caucus, Hillary "won" by four votes; in her group was a combination of men (both young and older men and woman!)

Everybody talk change. but to Obama, change is just a symble. He has no capabilty to make any change.

Obama Rethoric (Bla..Bla) adjust to the Chavez Populism

Vote for Hillary and live better life.

Here is a piece from NYT's readers posting to show why democrats lose the 2008 president election in January:

Lenedone Wrote “Question about Obama’s electability. Which States do you think Obama will win in the General Elections?

Here is my analysis of why he will lose badly to the Republicans:

(a) The Republican nominee will be either, McCain, Romney, Julianni, or Huckabee. The Republican establishment will throw it’s full machinery behind whoever that nominee is.

(b) Next, they will make national security and terrorism the main issue in the debate.

(c) Then, they will define Obama based on his own record or lack thereof, as weak on national security, inexperienced and naïve. (Have we not seen this movie before)

(d) Next, they will do what the media and the democrats have not done, they will research everything he has ever done, and then the 527 groups will launch those famous “unaffiliated” Swift boat ads.

(e) They will attack him and define in the Southern and Mid Western States as a real threat to the future of our country and to our children. They will note how frequently he has abstained or failed to vote as a US and State Senator, and will claim he cannot be trusted to make the tough decisions. (did you not see the early signs of this last night in the Republican debate)

(f) They will say that in an unstable economic climate do you want to risk your family’s bread and butter with this rookie.

(g) Then they will ask him, what has he ever done? (compared to the republican nominee the answer will be “not much really”)

(h) The republican 527 groups will also do what has not been by his fellow democrats, that is, they will question his temperament, and ask questions about his drug use, and insinuate that perhaps he still has a problem in that area.

(i) These 527 will unearth allege drug users and dealers who will say that they shared a cocaine session with him then, and that they know someone who sold him crack cocaine last year. There will be a 1,000 stories like these. These fellows don’t play nice.

(j) The Republican nominee will stay above the fray and say that they oppose these 527 groups and want them banned, but unfortunately, like John Edwards said recently about 527 running ads. against Obama on his behalf, it is illegal to contact them in any way. Remember Bush and Kerry, and Bush’s father against Dukasus?

(k) For whom did the country vote in the last elections when Americans were dying in Iraq and Bush was seen as running a poorly executed war? Did they vote for the war hero who promised change and hope, or did they vote for the man whose military service records seemed to have mystic properties, and who got us into Iraq in the first place?

(l) Many of those who feel inspired today by Obama will cringe from him after the republicans 527 begin their attack, and other will simply no longer support him based on the “real” Obama as defined by these 527s.

(m) Given all of the above, Obama will lose every Southern State, including Florida, he will also lose Ohio, and then he will have to really fight to win all the states that Kerry one in the last elections. I can assure you he will not win them all when the republicans are through with him.

(n) So tell me dear chap, how will Obama win the 270 electoral votes he needs to win the presidency? He can not!”

"Obama, you are similar with Bush. We don't want another Bush as the president. "~Peter

seriously peter? take a step back, take a deep breathe, and think about what you are saying.

Hilary is just riding the interia of name recognition, Bill's presidency and the great economy of the '90s. Let's face it, the president is, first and foremost, the face of the nation and a catalyst to push through their own initiatives. Please to god let Obama be that catalyst.

wow Bill, you come up with some really good ones. I think you should start being a little more low key for your wife's sake. not that it will matter since she is just too polarizing to be elected president. even crying to show the softer said comes on as being completely lame for this lady. just face it, Obama is kicking the crap out of you right now. no more Bush/Clinton rule!

She doesn't have a chance, she should quit now.
Give up now while you still have some dignity.
America doesn't want you, and your sad sack husband isn't helping your campaign at all.

Any woman who stays with a man who cheats on her at least twice has an agenda I don't trust. It must be POWER.

She seldom answers questions directly but swings into a stump speech so as not to offend any segment of the voting public. Talk about Earmarks by Pelosi and Murtha and others; take Cuba off the X list; start the Mexico fence NOW with no ammendments.

As an outsider to U.S. politics, I would like to say that I admire Hillary Clinton and I think she would make a good President. But the idea that Bill Clinton is trying to share the limelight with her, or even overshadow her, is very repulsive and turns many people off.

Bill Clinton should avoid suggesting that the election of Hillary would mean a co-leadership in the White House. He's had his time. This time, he should leave Hillary to prove she can do a better job than Bill or Obama.

I have this small piece of advice to him: shut your mouth and let the candidate articulate her views and persuade American voters to make her the first woman President of the U.S.

Obama, you are similar with Bush. We don't want another Bush as the president.

we have paid price for him.

Seriously. If you want change, you need to change. You can't wait for someone else to do it for you. The President is one person. One person who must battle other legislative branches that don't want change. It's great that we live in a country where we can freely express ourselves. But where is this getting us? This blog is starting to sound exactly like that which we say we despise. Your wife couldn't do your job. You couldn't do your wife's job, either. But if you need to know what Hillary has done for this country, then do some research. She is the most experienced Dem candidate - not because she was the First Lady. Because she was a Senator who fought for, and often made, change. I like both Obama and Edwards. But I do not think they are ready to be the President of the United States. Hillary has worked with Congress. She has already MADE CHANGES. Please replace ignorance with thoughtful, intelligent decisions.

Can you make her tell the truth?

Go Hillary!! Keep up the chin. You are the best candidate. Don't give up the faith!!!

I agree that temperament is Very Important to President. He has to stay cool, 24/7.
However, I would want President has compassion that he shows his emotioin compassionately for this country, further for this world but put aside his personal passion for awhile.

I think compassion is key to be the president and motivates the president 24/7 for 4 or even 8 years but it needs to be the right, constructive way.

It's nice to have husband/wife team stays as couple but it even further amazing to see that the spouse has equal, independent compassion for the country.

The compassion, the practical, realistic approach to carry out the compassion to work for the country is where the key to be the president/first lady team.

The last week has been very dissappointing for me as an American.

First...I don't care what party you're from! I want someone that is smart, knows the issues, and has shown they can produce.

I can't believe how many people 'eat up' the Obama line of BS. He's smooth and that's it! I'M DISSAPPOINTED THAT SO MANY PEOPLE FALL FOR THIS...THIS IS UNBELIEVEABLE!

Hillary talks circles around the rest....it's like watching the twighlight zone...she's the only one that has experience and talks in details and yet that's bad somehow.

Get a grip people!

Hillary, the best president she will be . American will be blessed with Hillary as the president.

Why are we stuck with letting a couple of states decide the fate of the Presidency? Regardless of who wins today, considering the Republican record of late, I'll vote for the donkey if it wins the nomination.

DON'T GIVE UP, Sen. Clinton! Seeing what Huckabee, who doesn't believe in evolution (!), did in Iowa, only makes me not want to live in Iowa. The Democratic results were an offshoot of this. Don't let the first primary change you!

We all no that not just a President alone can make change but it take Congress and Senators to vote for the change. So if we put in a president that wants change then he/she can bring changes to the table and hopefully who we put in the House and Senate will want it also. So it is about change but it is also about who is a catalyst for change or a changing agent.

WHO WILL CHANGE AMERICA!!!!!!!! WHICH ONE OF THOSE CANIDATES WILL GET THE BALL ROLLING? NOT WHO TALKS ABOUT IT OR WHO HAS THE EXPERIENCE BUT WHICH ONE OF THE CANIDATES CAN BRING AN ISSUE STRAIGHT FROM THE DESIRES OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND BRING FORTH A CHANGE OR STRATEGY THAT COMPLIMENTS EVERYONES HAPPINESS, BELIEFS, AND ECONOMIC STATIS. WHO CAN UNITE OUR PARTIES AND STOP THE BUTTING OF HEADS WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO HELPING PEOPLE. OUR GOVERMENT WAS BROUGHT FROM THE PEOPLE AND IT SHOULD BENEFIT THE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CANIDATES IF YOU ARE READING ALL THESE DIFFERENT COMMENTS KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT. JUST DON'T SPREAD FALSE HOPE WITH INTENTION BEHIND IT. WE HAVE NOT BEEN HAPPY FOR TO LONG TO BE LEAD IN THE WRONG DIRECTION...

"WHOEVER CAN CHANGE 08"

Daine Whitestone and others...it's not a wave...it's a movement. There is a difference. Go OBAMA!

Anonymous,

Where is your faith? I don't give the Republicans that much credit.

People are out in full force to make sure that the Republicans don't steal another election.

Give the American public credit! People are more intelligent than the media understands.

I never thought I would live to see this day. I am grateful and now see that the suffering we have endured under the Bush Admininstration has served to wake us up!

CNN got sucked into Clintons new strategy. They are very naive or they are backing her. Even a child could see through the tactic. She is getting creamed by Obama, the only way to pick up was to get into the thought of the voters. How to do this? make a scene on national tv and get in the news for the next 24 hours. She was comming across as a hard, unfeeling boys club tomboy, she had to appeal to woment so she had to play the crying sensitive woman card.

Shame on her to trick the voters.

So that is her propolsal for change, to play campaign tricks like any other politician.

The early primary schedule which Obama is riding to the nomination will hurt him in the long term. FOX/Rush are holding back till HRC has no chance to get the nomination, then they will use the long period between Feb 5th and Nov to completely redefine Obama in the voters mind. This early excitement will fade. Every picture where Obama is even in the same room as Rev Sharpton et al will be blown up to life size. Heck a montage of them may even become the backdrop for a FOX show. Who is kidding who, the GOP loves the status quo. The GOP has way to much to lose to let Obama win without a really ugly fight. GOP usually wins ugly fights.

I don't want a President who's going to crack up under the strain campaining. I'm sure the office of President is extreamly stressful and the Russians /Chjnese/Arabs aren't going to be any easier

MADAME SENATOR H.CLINTON .

OF COURSE YOU ARE A FIGHTER, REAL FIGHTER. ONE WHO COULD MAKE THE DIFFERENCE. CNN ON SUNDAY.

YOU GOT TO BLESS YOUR ENEYMY TO REDUCE TENSION IN THE WORLD .
COURSE YOUR FRIEND TO PUT HIM OR HER ON THE RIGHT TRACK SO THAT HE OR SHE WOULD NOT DERAIL. . MADAM YOU ARE GOING TO WRITE DOWN YOUR STORY AND MAKE HISTORY' NOT HIS STORY. BUT HER STORY. HER STORY MEABS YOUR STORY.

I AM VERY KEEN TO SEE YOU WIN THE PRESIDENCY. RUN THE RACE TO WIN THE RACE .
GOOD BYE.

that is so pathetic comparing obama to bush. obama is NOT a redneck who has a speech impediment, so the comparison is not even close! hillary supporters are simply jealous because her Royal Thighness will once again lose to the great OBAMA again today. So long suckers................................

OBAMA 2008!

Bill says "I can't make Hillary a male"

What if Michelle said, I can't make Barack white.

Stop this BS gender garbage. Vote for whoever is most qualified, not based on what they got between their legs.

And all of you women are the worst offenders!!!!!

I personally think Hillary is the biggest player out there. She comes off too mean at the debate. Her handlers have been quoted as saying so, and, oh my god, she gets all emotional the next day. Coincidence? NO!

She is a manipulative, lying, power hungry person, who is known as being such behind the scenes. She has an incredibly high disapproval rate. She loses to most Republicans in head to heads. Obama stands a much better chance!

Bill Clinton didn't want Hillary either, that is why for nearly half of the Clinton marriage Bill has cheated on Hillary and Hillary accepted it. For Bill to diss Hillary like that is not amusing. Bill Clinton's comment, "I can't make her younger, taller, male, there's a lot I can't do," is a slap in the face of women, and Hillary stays with this guy. Wow.

Last time I rode a wave, while fun, it crashed and I got sand in my bikini. Obama's wave will crash, too! GO HILLARY!

Its not about Barack its about what he stands for that is uniting the people in Iowa and New Hamspire. The last Presidential election we voted out of fear and ended up with George W. Bush and now we are entangled in what may be the worst war in US history.

***We need a new voice in Washington-The American People***

Thanks CNN for another disappointing story..why can't we ever have fair and balanced. I may never log on again!

Currently, I'm following this nomination process with great interest. I think it's fantastic that the public has been properly introduced to all candidates since early last year, while the presidential election itself is still eleven months away. Here in Ireland, elections happen typically 6-8 weeks after they are announced, leaving a lot less time for proper discussion of the issues by candidates.

Like most other observers, I am amazed by the emphasis on change placed by many candidates. Obama has done such an excellent job of bringing this issue to the public attention that others are now following his example & trying to portray themselves as "agents of change" also, i.e Clinton & Romney.

My question is this: How is it that so many Americans are dissatisfied with the current situation that the need for change dwarfs all other issues, e.g. Iraq, economy, immigration? Why do people (Democrat, Republican & Independent) have such hatred for the way things are done in Washington, and instead wish to change the "status quo"? I would be grateful to all those who could help answer this question for me.

As a Barack Obama supporter.

I am not an advocate of the media and I agree they distort the truth at any given moment if they can. Before the Iowa Caucus...the media and every political junkie and the Clintons boldy declared that Barack Obama had no chance, so much so until to the Clintons own ego and apparent flaw did not "adjust" their campaign to the growing movement of Obama. Instead, they picked at his "school papers as a little student", "they promoted the idea that he was "black enough", "the campaign tried to attack his character and paint him as a "drug user", "the campaign tried to attack him by attacking his predominantly black church as rascist"...well the Clintons didn't do any of this on their own; they had their little agents do it for them.

Let's give credit where credit is do. Barack won IOWA even if the young vote, independant vote or Republican vote ever turned out in his favor..the final poll shows that Obama beat hillary among registered dem's in IOWA by 3 or 4 percentage points. A win is a win..no matter what. So the argument that some how "young people" gave him the win by the clintons is a great error. Obama even got more "women" votes than Hillary. It wasn't just young people, it was Rep's and Independants. Stop making excuses...stop winning....stop trying to play the "beat up card"...no sympathy votes; there is too much at stake.

Obama's Record: "Let the record be noted and noted well"

Barack Obama's Record
Housing: In the U.S. Senate, Obama introduced the STOP FRAUD Act to increase penalties for mortgage fraud and provide more protections for low-income homebuyers, well before the current subprime crisis began.

Predatory Lending: In the Illinois State Senate, Obama called attention to predatory lending issues. Obama sponsored legislation to combat predatory payday loans, and he also was credited with lobbied the state to more closely regulate some of the most egregious predatory lending practices.

American Jobs: Barack Obama introduced the Patriot Employer Act of 2007 to provide a tax credit to companies that maintain or increase the number of full-time workers in America relative to those outside the US; maintain their corporate headquarters in America; pay decent wages; prepare workers for retirement; provide health insurance; and support employees who serve in the military.

Record of Advocacy: Obama has been a leader on educational issues throughout his career. In the Illinois State Senate, Obama was a leader on early childhood education, helping create the state's Early Learning Council. In the U.S. Senate, Obama has been a leader in working to make college more affordable. His very first bill sought to increase the maximum Pell Grant award to $5,100. As a member of the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions committee, Obama helped pass legislation to achieve that goal in the recent improvements to the Higher Education Act. Obama has also introduced legislation to create Teacher Residency Programs and to increase federal support for summer learning opportunities.

Health Insurance: In 2003, Barack Obama sponsored and passed legislation that expanded health care coverage to 70,000 kids and 84,000 adults. In the U.S. Senate, Obama cosponsored the Healthy Kids Act of 2007 and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Reauthorization Act of 2007 to ensure that more American children have affordable health care coverage.
Women's Health: Obama worked to pass a number of laws in Illinois and Washington to improve the health of women. His accomplishments include creating a task force on cervical cancer, providing greater access to breast and cervical cancer screenings, and helping improve prenatal and premature birth services.

Tax Relief for Low-Income Working Families: Obama created the Illinois Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income working families in 2000 and successfully sponsored a measure to make the credit permanent in 2003. The law offered about $105 million in tax relief over three years.

Housing: In the Illinois State Senate, Obama championed multiple pieces of legislation to help low-income families find adequate affordable housing.

And most importantly in my mind:

Barack Obama opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning. In 2002, as the conventional thinking in Washington lined up for war, Obama had the judgment and courage to speak out against the war. He said the war would lead to "an occupation of undetermined length, with undetermined costs and undetermined consequences." In January 2007, Obama introduced legislation to responsibly end the war in Iraq, with a phased withdrawal of troops engaged in combat operations.

Obama has a plan to immediately begin withdrawing our troops engaged in combat operations at a pace of one or two brigades every month, to be completed by the end of next year. He would call for a new constitutional convention in Iraq, convened with the United Nations, which would not adjourn until Iraq's leaders reach a new accord on reconciliation. He would use presidential leadership to surge our diplomacy with all of the nations of the region on behalf of a new regional security compact. And he would take immediate steps to confront the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Iraq.

In conclusion, what is more impressive is what his plans are. Please visit. "www.barackobama.com" for more info. Barack will be able to carry out his plans because he will have a demorcratic majority; that is the only way things will ever get done. I am registered as a "independant" and I am voting for Obama. I believe that he is the only candidate that can unite this country and restore our good name. I am tired of the "dynasty families- Clintons and Bush's"...its got to end. I am 32 years and I have never been passionately involved in American Politics as I am right now..because of what Obama stands for. His race is the last thing on my list. I meet him many years ago when he came to home state to help campaign for our Sup. of Education for the state of SC and the man I met then..when he was practically a nobody is the same man today. He had the same message back then..he has the same mesage today.

I want to see a good fight for the white house..I welcome a fight from the clinton's..one that is respectable and void of nasty politics' same ol' washington polictics. Hillary; I also believe you owe IOWAIANS an apology. He totally dissed them the very next day after you lost badly in their caucus. That was not being a good team player. There is nothing flawed with the Caucus vote. More people caucused in the Caucus than ever before..which means it working for the majority and you lost the majority.

The the HRC campaign..get your stuff together so that a respectable "fight among the candidates" can take place. We welcome that..Obama welcomes that.

Did Bill have a stroke? He looks different.

I don't understand what the big deal in this story is. They picked out one word in a laundry list of words to describe the differences between Hillary and Obama and used that in the headline of the story – just to get peopel to read the story and then you people follow their lead like it is some big deal. This is why we need more people who can think for themselves and not make decisions based on what other people tell us we should think.

Maria, we are electing a President, not the best debater.
While I would not mind voting for Hillary Clinton (although I believe Obama would be the better President), I do think she is less "electable." This is an opinion, which does not require articulation of the reasons, just observation of the reality. For whatever reasons, good or not, many people, and not only Republicans, distrust Hillary, and would not vote for her.

People are saying Barack has no substance, can't figure out where he stands on the issues. I'm tried of hearing politicians who promise us the world when they are running but don't deliver when they are in office. Barack is doing exactly what he said, he is changing this nation starting with Election. He is unifying this country. Hillary and the rest can talk all they want about their agendas but unless they can unite and inspire people nothing gets done or to get something done you have to grease palms and make back door deals. This Election has a new voice-The American People.

Hillary's problem is Hillary, and to some extent , Bill. While she's been busy reinventing herself numerous times – and dismissing her shellacking in Iowa and dissing the Iowa voters as illegitimate – in the last week, her competitors have been delivering consistent messages of real change that they believe in. Not change in the form of evening the score with the Bush Dynasty. Not change in the form of do-overs because they didn't get it right the first time around in the 90s. (If the Clinton years were oh so wonderful why couldn't a sitting VP get elected? Granted Al Gore bears some responsibilty for his own failure to get elected, but I hold both the Clintons partly resposible for the Bush Dynasty currently occupying the White House).

We love this country, too, so please respect that. We are ready for a new kind of politics and are want to lift this country above the fray, not tear it down with all the political, dirty tricks the Clintons are so famous for. And now, as announced on CNN last evening, they are considering bringing their own version of Karl Rove, James Carville, into Hillary's struggling campaign, so we can look foward to some real slimey, unforgiveable, win-at-any-cost, slash-and-burn tactics any day. I hope they do because that will give the broadening coalition of Edwards and Obama supporters more reason not to vote for Hillary in the general election if she happens to win the nomination. This isn't a threat, this is her reality check.

These are not perfect men, but at least they are not manufacturing Hallmark moments for cameras; busing in fake audiences to their rallies to give the illusion of support; deriding their competitors about their messages of hope and dreams while stealing those same ideas and then peppering their next stump speech with the same messsages; or sending out the same old subliminal message of fear to the voters.

So, Hill and Bill need to bow out – gracefully please – at some point if necessary, and not discontinue sullying our politcal landscape with all the trash they brought to Washington and have continued to throw around already in this campaign. Our country deserves better.

This is personal for me, too. I want someone as my president who isn't giving me an illusion of who they'll be in office. It saddens me that Hillary can't decide which Hillary she wants to be, what consistent messages she wants to deliver or which of her competitors' stumbles she is waiting to pounce on. If she hasn't been able to show us the real Hillary in the last two decades, what proof of unstaged moments can she offer us now?

If Hillary wants to run with the big dogs, she doesn't have to lift her leg, but she does have to piss straight , and frankly, she just doesn't quite measure up. We can no longer invest the trust in her (and Bill) that they so carelessly squandered in the past. They had their chance, they blew it, and we"ve been "feeling your pain" ever since.

Umm so let me get this straight. Former president Clinton said that his wife stands for the same things she did back when Bill was president, she is not Barack Obama and that she would make a better president than Barack Obama. Wow, CNN that is some incredibly riveting news. I can see how that is so controversial. Thanks for shedding all that light on what the differences and similarities between Hilary and Barack are, what their platforms are and what that means to me as an American. I feel like I can really make an informed decision now. I smell Pulitzer!

CNN took Bill's comment entirely out of context on their headline.

The loss of Hillary in this race would be devastating. She has more brass and sheer intelligence than all of the male candidates combined, and can actually get Washingtonians to listen. The two biggest attacks against her are her votes on the war, and her desire for universal health care.

For starters, we could afford universal health care if we weren't entrenched in a multi-front trillion dollar war of choice. In addition, hundreds of congressmen and senators voted the way George Bush wanted them to, because the intelligence he provided made the threat appear far more imminent than it actually was. (Anyone recall Bush's allegations that Saddam Hussein was trying to acquire nukes?)

How many of you armchair quarterbacks wouldn't have voted for the war if you were led to believe Saddam Hussein was developing nuclear weapons? It's no question. All of you would have voted for the war.

So, instead of trashing a good woman and politician, why geniuses go study the voting records of the idiots you're supporting "for change."

This is a little off-subject of this blog, but there is a recurring theme throughout where Hilary's "experience" is cited in glowing positives. I am baffled by this as this woman has never held a decision- making position in her life! As the first lady of Arkansas and the U.S., she had no involvement whatsoever in any policy-making efforts, except for her miserably flawed health care bill that was promptly scrapped. While in the White House, she did not even hold a basic security clearance and did not have access to participate in the day-to-day business of the President. Living above the bakery for eight years does not qualify one as a pastry chef.

As a Senator, she has not crafted any significant legislation that was passed into law (Her SCHIP legislation was vetoed twice). Voting on a budget does not mean that she is an expert in economics, but I am sure that she will eagerly claim that distinction. Finally, the U.S. Senate is a legislative body that does not make policy, foreign or domestic. So, I ask again, what experience does she have to qualify her for the most important job in the world? She has NONE...ZERO...ZIP...NADA!

She is a cold, heartless, calculating politician whose only interest is in her own power. Every move she makes, including the tears, is practiced and preplanned. I am sure that the question that was posed to her today was planted and rehearsed to create sympathy. I wish I hadn't said that, but I don't trust Hilary Clinton...not even a little bit. I don't care who you vote for as long as it is not for her.

At the risk of sounding racist, do we really want a President with the muslim name of Obama? President Obama sounds like an abomination to me. Are we kidding ourselves?

Was not that long ago that Hillary was not very supportive of women who stayed home and took care of their childern, now that she need your vote she is trying to act like Little Ms. Susie Homemaker, don't be fooled, it all about power, Hillary
can't relate to the very day middle class person.

Vic, that was perfectly put. She is NEVER asked about the "I could have stayed home and had teas, but I chose a profession instead" comment, basically mocking the people with the HARDEST JOB in the world, MOMS.

She carts out her Mom and Chelsea in NON-SPEAKING roles after years of being off limits.

She cried only because the campaign told her too as part of the STATED GOAL to make her APPEAR softer and gentler.

She has never run a company, a government, a non-profit or yes, even her own household.

That isn't spin, it is a factual statement.

Funny reading you sheep that are blaming the media and even the Republicans for Obama's surge.

Just like the Clinton's, you can never look inward when mistakes are made or people simply don't agree with your philosophy, it's always someone elses fault or some conpiracy, this time you might be partialy right, it is part of the VAST LEFT WING CONSPIRACY.

How appropriate.

Having fun yet Hillary?

How can you still support Clinton? Yesterday, during a rally in N.H. she needed to connect with people and tell them what she stands for... use her words to paint a picture of who she is. So, what does she do. She uses fear based comparisons and rewrites history. I am still in shock over the whole "LBJ is the real hero of the civil rights movement" comment... unbelievable.

Have we already elected a president. The media has already elected Obama with only two state voting. What about the rest of us. We had someone in the White House with no experience and look where we are: the economy is going bad fast, the house market is putting people in debt for the rest of their lives, the war is still cost us a billion a day, people are still dieing for a country that hates us, we are giving our country away to the Chinese, and now we have no election. We have no middle class, just the rich and poor. McCain will beat Obama because of McCains experience and the republicans are switching parties so they can get someone in that he can beat.

DEAR SEN.HILLARY CLINTON .

YOU HAVE WON ALREADY IOWA AND NEW HAMSHIRE . YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE OVER STATE AFTER STATE AND GET YOURSELF NOMINATED FOR THE P . ELECTION FINALLY YOU ARE GOING TO WIN THE PRESEDENCY. AMERICA IS GETTING READY MAKE POLITICAL HISTORY. I WUOLD LIKE TO ASSOCIATE MYSELF WITH THIS HISTORY MAKINF EVENT.

VERY BEST OF LUCK. MAY ALMIGHTY GOD BLESS AMERICA.

NEDERLAND.

BLSS YOUR ENEYMIES AND COURSE YOUR FRIENDS .

THANKS

Hello, Hillary knock-out, her body is tired, her mind is tired, her heart is too tired to go. Bring it on, John Ewards... Republican John Mcain RULES !!

I think that Bill was the best president we've had in the last quarter century, easily, but I get the distinct impression somehow that he doesn't actually care that much about his wife winning.

He's got his place in history, he did what he could to progress America, and he's cool with that. He's a brilliant man, and I think he's known since day one that HIllary would NOT make it; she's too galvanizing a politician. The mere mention of her name makes the heart rate of conservatives jump 50%.

Just as well... I love Bill but don't like Hillary.

Obama '08!

Are you serious. I see nothing wrong with what he said. The media goes way overboard with this stuff. If this is a story, it is a sad state of affairs for CNN.

Hello, Hillary was choking back in tears. Its a man job, leave it the men. America is finished, entering a new phase of Recession. 1) Sky rocket Oil prices will made Amercia suffer. The World would be fine, Opec will be fine, Asia like India and China can made up the missing numbers. 2) Raw materials brass, silver, copper America got no money however Asian will snap up all the new orders. 3) Inflation on daily products, Asia will cope up well we are booming. America catch cold, Asian will not be affected, only Yankee suffered alone.

Long way before it's over i would not count folks out till after super Tuesday.
I agree that the press has been brutal to Senator Clinton.
I imagine most folks with cameras in front of their faces 24/7 slip from time to time and there humanity shows through .
Depending on who the front runner is for Democrats i may be voting else where this time.

From an outsider's perspective, it seems as though CNN has developed an unusual desire to 'promote' a particular candidate, rather than simply 'report' on the activities of all. As someone mentioned, CNN covers/critiques every statement made by Bill Clinton re: the race, but for some reason fails to report as vividly on Michele Obama's lovely little missive about how wonderful it would be to have a 'black first family in the White house'. And all your analysts challenge Senator Clinton and her supporters of 'playing the gender card'! I suggest that you take another look at Mrs. Obama's statement and pose the question for your viewers, and the American electorate in general – 'is Mrs Obama pushing the race envelope?'

CNN seems to enjoy covering stories about Obama's and Huckabee's "blah blah blah" on how they're going to 'change political action and outcomes in Washington', but has failed miserably in posing to them the question of 'specifically 'what' are they going to change...and what strategy are they going to employ to do so'? I think you owe this to the American electorate.

I think Clinton is a good person, but all the candidates are, and she is just too corporate for me. We need to stop the lobbyist stranglehold in Washington. Clinton takes the most money from the pharmacutical industry, so there is no way she will be the one to deliver on health care. I hope she drops out if she loses tonight. The corporate democrat legacy of Clinton, Gore, and Kerry needs to end!

Although I am against Hillary (Obama as well), I see a lot of similarities between Obama vs. Hillary and Ohio State vs. LSU. Obama, like Ohio State, exploded into an early lead whose momentum would lead them to the National Title. Slow and steady wins the race.

Hillary has a remarkable lack of character and actually not a lot of experience (she's done very little in her terms in the senate). Obama has character but no clear idea of HOW he will lead the country to his vision of where we should be.

Looking at all the candidates, Republicans and Democrats, there really isn't anyone there that has the political intelligence or character needed to unite the country.

A Hillary administration will mean 4 more years of partisan political bickering with no tangible result (dangerous as the country moves through a recession and Islamic Radicalism continues to spread). On a positive note, a Hillary administration would probably result in the Republicans taking back the House and Senate; and if you look back over the recent political past, it seems that the country works best with the Republicans running congress and the Democrats in the White House (i.e. Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich).

Newt would be the best president for the next 4 years but is not running. That leaves us with the current field of Republicans and Democrats. Heaven help us!

**CNN last night Lou Dobbs said they polled the young voters supporting obama (which is how he is winning the recent caucuses) NOT ONE COULD SAY WHERE HE STOOD ON ANY ISSUE?? With the country at odds with so many foreign countries, it is horrifying to think of Barrack “Hussein" Obama (Muslim) running our country. You think we are in trouble with bush/Chaney!

Giving Obama a free ride is doing a disservice to the country. It really is about Obama's message. He can't point to a record of accomplishment so he talks about bringing people together and giving people hope. The media has forgotten their job! They are responsible to inform voters of the differences between candidates, not to endorse or support just ONE! As they have with obamaboy!

OBAMA CHEATED in the Iowa Caucuses. New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson placed fourth. But did they really earn their finishing positions? The answer may be surprising. In the last hours before the Iowa caucuses Obama, approached Joe Biden with this, proposal: In precincts where Biden had a local official loyal to him, and if Biden wasn't viable, then Senator Biden would tell his organizers to move his supporters over to Obama,in precincts where Obama had more than enough supporters, he would lend people to Biden to ensure Biden a fourth place finish so that he could continue. Biden told the Washington Post that the strategy could be "viability for victory except when the media found out, Obama's camp admitted that the conversation took place. Biden, who when asked about the proposal at a campaign event said that the deal could "probably" help both campaigns; he rejected the deal on "moral grounds," History recorded that Joe Biden placed fifth in Iowa, and subsequently dropped out of the race. On January 4, the day after the caucus, the New York Times reported Obama made the same deal to Bill Richardson only this time the deal was accepted. The Times article gives an eye-witness account and confession of an Obama official telling Richardson supporters that a pact had indeed been made. Deb Copeland, an Obama volunteer reported by the New York Times. "What we're concerned about hearing people going to Hillary. Volunteers for the Biden campaign told the Rev. Rob Times that Obama organizers used the same speech about a "pact" to lure supporters in at least two precincts. The Effect of backdoor wheeling and dealing between campaigns is that Richardson's fourth place finish and Obama's would not had a victory in a democratic system. Our democracy is based, in part, on the concept of "one man, one vote," and a vote by a secret ballot, free from the judging eyes of neighbors and the media, free from bribery, and free from the influence of political activists. Had the Iowa contest been based on a ballot, and had caucus voters cast a single vote for the candidate of their choice as is the most fair method of picking a president, then Obama may have come in third and Richardson in fifth. Obama's would have placed second to Clinton, and the dynamic of the race would have changed drastically. Edwards, Clinton, and even Biden all would have come out of Iowa in stronger positions. Those who took advantage and exploited it for their own purposes, namely Barack Obama and Bill Richardson, are not without culpability and their misdeeds should be remembered in the minds of voters.

> "I can't make her younger, taller, male, there's a lot I can't do"

Just goes to show that the Clintons would do anything to get into office, as if that weren't perfectly clear to all of us already. I know I'm not the only one who's totally sick of this Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton same-old.

Voters want this divisive silliness between the Democrat and Republican old boys (and girls) to end. Kucinich makes a principled stand (at least on the war). Ron Paul has great ideas. We have options, whether the mainstream media wants us to know about them or not.

I'm personally not concerned about front-runners or "electability." A vote for anyone at all who doesn't represent your views is the very definition of a wasted vote! We are all independent Americans, and we have the power to take back our out-of-control government. I'm leaning toward Ron Paul right now because I like the way he's been raising the level of debate in terms of foreign policy and the economy.

Bill & Hiliary rock. We'll see what the American public does behind the closed door of the voter's booth. We are talking leader of the free world, not some guy who thinks he can snap his fingers and he's going to change the world in a heartbeat. Obama has a Messiah complex. Please. Get real. I don't want a surgeon to operate on me unless he/she is qualified. Gender is not the issue. Skill and training and love is! Go girl Hiliary! America loves you!

Allen, can the caps, we can read and we don't need shouting. Bill's off base here and comes over in NH and the rest of New England as the injured hillbilly husband. It doesn't work here. Be prepared as the powers that be" are circling the wagons. All the "good ol' boy" Democratic power brokers are trying to figure out not how to stop Obama, but how to get HRC in the White House so they can call in their "due bills" and retain their power.

Union bosses (not memebers), big wig execs et al. Think about it! 1968 and Mc Carthy gets blindsided, RFK was on a roll until he was killed, more recent history with Gary Hart, Bill Bradley and, yes, Howard Dean. They'll push for a sure loser in the election just to hold power. History proves it.

Only hard work, fact checking and a huge money war chest can break this cycle. It doesn't matter if it's Edwards, Richardson, Obama or whomever, they've got to have Clinton or their "meal ticket" is in danger. Think about it and act accordingly.

Hello, Go back to the kitchen and do your laundry. "Iron my clothes" this is no place for a women. It's God country, Mac win.

I am a voter from out west , and I feel like Obama has totally discounted us voters. Before the New Hampshire primary ,his comments have told me he thinks my vote doesn't count he stated if he wins New Hampshire that he will be the next president thus discounting a great many other primaries and voters.

Dear all Americans,
As we know the Clintons were on the top and was not able to bring freedom and friendship among the people.The new American President should bring about lost moral values to their own people and Bill should not make again scandal at White House

I, am sure that Senator Obama will do better and he is going to become the next American President. Iwish him all the best from Europe and Asia. God bless the Americans with a great President and Americans need some one very special for their great Nation. Obama is good enough to win and lead the people of America and he will also be a friend of many good people on this planet.. We do pray for the people of America.

So discusted by CNN's push for Obama. Everything Hillary has a negative feel and Edwards is being completely ignored. They are waiting for Obama to become the candidate then they will ruin him by pushing his muslim heritage. Ultimately, once again we will be stuck with a republican. All for the sake of news ratings.
It would be refreshing hear the candidate's point of view not CNN's.

There is no constitutional basis for "co-presidents." Infact, the constitution clearly and explicitly states that no person who has been president for two terms shall be president again. And that would include so called "co-presidents."

The presidents for the last 20 years were Bush, Clinton, Clinton, Bush, Bush. Enough Clintons. Enough Bushes. Time for change. Time for new blood.

Remarkable picture above this story. Hillary looks much younger than Bill. Maybe she needs to make Bill spruce up his appearance and look younger.

DEAR SEN. HILLARY CLINTON. YOU HA VE WON IOWA AND NEW HAMSHIRE, YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE OVER STATE AFTER STATE AND GET YOURSELF NOMINATED FOR THE P.ELECTION. AND FINALLY WIN THE PRESIDENCY.

AMERICA IS GETTING READY TO MAKE POLITICAL HISTORY. I WOULD LIKE TO ASSOCIAE MYSELF WITH THIS HISTORY MAKING EVENT.

MY GOD ALMIGHTY BLESS AMERIKA. . BEST OK LUCK.

THANK.S;

BLESS YOUR ENYMIES AND CURSE YOUR FRIENDS.

NEDERLANDS.

It is sad that so many people are Against Hillery Clinton....If You stop and think about it, She has accomplished what Use to Be Accomplished only by the "Good Ole Boy" network...This is a Female who has become one of the only Female Senators and has shown Her Capacity to Tear Down the Walls of the "Good Ole Boy" system....It would seem to Me that particularly Women, would Support the first and Only Ever Female Candidate...She has been able to throw Her Hat into the Arena of All Male candidates, and has done a remarkale job at raising money for Her campaign and standing Out as the Only candidate to Ever be First Lady in this campaign or for any campaign throughout American History...............I truly believe that The Anger towards Hillary from So many of the women, stems from that age old trait of pure jealousy.....And I think it comes from So many men, because They too are extremely jealous of what She has accomplished in Her Life, and has risen to National Prominence.....Most men are still threatened by their juvenile fears of what effect having a Female President, might have on Their day to day Lives...They are afraid that having a Female President may even the Playing Field, not only in the Public arena, but also in the Private ( home) arena...And Yes, alot of Husbands are Teaching their wives to Hate Hillary, so They can maintain Their disillusionment of Control....It is juvenile, isn't It?

Just what is Barak Hussein Obama going to change in Washington?
Could it be the wallpaper in the Blue Room??
He hasn't told us just what it is he's going to change or more
importantly how is going to pay for it.
He does a lot of "preaching" but never lays out a constructive plan!!!

Get on the Obama train and ride into the land of freedom where a great reconciliation of the races will come.

But wait, there is more. The messiah has come to save us from difficult times. Obama will save us from the world.

But wait, there is more. When our country is attacked, he will shed his charismatic charm upon them and they will bow down to him.

But wait, there is more to come,..............................

Beware of the smoke screen. Ride the wave as long as you can. Once you get beyond it, you'll find very little substance to stand on. The only thing beyond the smoke screen is quick sand.

Could it be that the numerous scandals that have plagued the Clintons for years are finally taking their toll?

You reap what you sow...

God helps he who helps himself. We need to have president who is "SOLELY devoted" in domestic problems. Putting domestica problmes as first priority, leave foreign countries intervention as minimum.
We can't rely on foreigners' help. No country these days has zero problem.
We need to find our strength by solving our own problems.

We should encourage those candidates who really devote their time on where are the really problems and determined on solving the problems, leaving their own family issues behind. We understand it's critical. We have gone through and all the medias reporting. We knew if the family love each other/one another. They will survive eventually. Otherwise, "God" will prepare the best.

So, I really like to vote candiate as President who has "minimum of unnecessary problems" (those problems may not be their faults but excuse me......there's only ONE we can choose) such as
1/ age – if he is too old it might be the issue when he were the president, suddently he went ill but there's top urgent issue that need his continuous attention then he won't be able to. There will be the risk of delay and causes the problem worsen.

2/ race – no matter how hard we have been told there's no discrimination... Being the president he/she will face this racial issue. If he has to spend time on such issue, then he won't be able to fully devote in the real critical domestic problems.

3/ other – such as if this candidate is too handsome, too charming or too beautiful overpowers his/her ability to perform his duty, distract his problem solving..

It's critical time for US now. Too many problems need to be solved. There are too many to choose from so I would not want to choose candidate who has such issues above. It doesn't mean they are not good. It's just too bad we have "no luxury" to choose such president like those days before war any more. There are too many to repairs in this country.

I want president at this Critical Timing that "he shows he is ONLY and SOLELY devoted in problem solving." He doesn't need to be himself spent time but
he sure needs to have "SHARP MIND", "GOOD at Finding the best of best experts, professionals to solve the problems."

Dear all Americans,
As we all know The Clinton were on the top and was running arround trees and women. They could not change the world to a better place but lots of people with long beard have taken refuge in Afganistan and all had to suffer a lot in USA and arround the World. The American President should bring about lost moral values to their own people and Bill should not make again scandal at White House and there are many other factors too.
I, am sure that Senator Obama will do better and he is going to become the next American President. We wish him all the best from Europe and Asia. God bless the Americans with a great President and Americans need some one very special for their great Nation. Obama is good enough to win and lead the people of America and he will be friend of all Nations.

John Chacko

There is no reason for Bill to make Hillary, younger or black. It will not help her get elected.

This country IS ready for a woman president, and or a black president. It is just that Hillary is NOT the right person for president, plain and simple....

This election is Not about color or gender, it's about CHANGE AND FUTURE OF OUR GREAT NATION. AND IT'S ABOUT FINDING THE RIGHT PERSON TO BRING THAT CHANGE TO THE COUNTRY.... OBAMA IS THE RIGHT PERSON.

HILLARY IS JUST TOO MUCH OF THE SAME OLD WASHINGTON INSIDERS, NOT THE CHANGE WE NEED.....

EXPERIENCE = OLD FOOLS WHO JUST GO ALONG!

These "experienced" candidates and others in Washington are the reason why we're paying millions of dollars for research on fruit flies somewhere in France, paying China millions of dollars to house Panda Bears in U.S. zoos, and building bridges to nowhere in Alaska. Since the "experienced" people have been in office for the last 20 years, they're the reason why our government is corrupt, inefficient, ineffective, incompetent, and for sale at this point. They're the reason why we invaded another country, tore it apart, lost almost 4000 soldiers, and have spent nearly a trillion dollars. At this point, I don't have any incentive to vote for "experience" because I see what it has gotten me! Why can't the rest of you see that? Oh, I know why...you're afraid to do anything new. You're afraid to look at anything from a different perspective. You're afriad that someone who is not a corrupt back-door dealmaking "Washington Insider" won't make any progress. Let's take a look in the mirror here folks, you're simply afriad. And that fear is a far cry from the HOPE for a better tomorrow that Obama is instilling in the rest of us. So the hopeful are aggressively moving forward and leaving you fearful, timid, lost souls behind.

Just reading various comments on this site and others lets me know that people don't read and do not find out information for themselves. Senator Obama's positions and ideas are clearly spelled out on his website. Please go there and read them for yourself.

8 years with Bush – a guy americans wanted to have beer with. They still didn't learn and going to another guy to have beer with...Obama..not much hope for america

Of all the fool things Bill has to go and say right before the primary's

For 35 years, Hillary has stood in Bill Clinton's shadow. That is just about the extent of what she calls "experience." If this is the "experience" she is touting, I am so unimpressed. Her husband's administration was accounted a disaster by civil libertarians and by all of those who treasure the Constitution and want to restore our Republic. She may give lip service to civil liberty, but she is most likely even less sympathetic to restoring our freedoms than he was. Bill can say that he can't make her male, taller, or younger, but those things have nothing to do with her failure to ignite the voters. They see through her and through him.

Change is going away from the devilish ways of the Bush administration. Changing from the politics for the few, toward the politics that makes America a better place for all. Universal health care, housing for the homeless, permanent affordable mortgage rates, the wealthy paying a much higher percentage of their income in taxes while others pay a lower percentage than the wealthy. A public works program that will fix the infrastructure of highways, schools. Care and humility when dealing with other nations. Incentives for illegals removing themselves , voluntarily from this country , the carrot and stick approach. There is so much work to do, full employment should put everyone to work, even those that don't want to work. We have had so many out of work at times over the years, while the infrastructure crumbles. Change is realizing that works, works literally, toward the economic wealth of the nation, not of the few is the change that the people long for. There should be penalities for those that get wealthy off the misery of the American people, ie. shipping of jobs overseas, low pay and low benefits, trashing the environment, and ways that make the children suffer in one way or the other ie. obesity, depravity.

I love the reverse discrimination. It's OK for women to vote for Hillary because she is a woman. Statements like "think about what she can do for all women".

Let's change that up a bit. Vote for Obama because he is black. Think about everything he could do for blacks.

One gets a pass, the other would raise hell. I am not black, but clearly something is amiss.

And by the way, the last person to cry while running for office, was determined to be to weak to be president. That was a man. It has nothing to do with gender. A candidate running for office who says, "I'm so tired" boo hoo hoo is too weak to be President just like Musky.

Giving Obama a free ride is doing a disservice to the country. It really is about Obama's message. He can't point to a record of accomplishment so he talks about bringing people together and giving people hope. The media has forgotten their job! They are responsible to inform voters of the differences between candidates, not to endorse or support just ONE! As they have with obamaboy!
**CNN last night Lou Dobbs said they polled the young voters supporting obama (which is how he is winning the recent caucuses) NOT ONE COULD SAY WHERE HE STOOD ON ANY ISSUE?? With the country at odds with so many foreign countries, it is horrifying to think of Barrack “Hussein" Obama (Muslim) running our country. You think we are in trouble with bush/Chaney

Let's face it, this country (unlike others in the world) is not ready for a woman president. Let's consider that it's 2008 and a viable female candidate is on the ballot. What does she face?
1) Heckler shouting out "iron my shirts"
2) Numerous hours of commentary on whether her emotions are real or not and, if real, does it make her weak? If she's emotional, she's weak. If she's strong, she's a b-tch.
3) Republican men and women (I hear this every day at work) disrespect her for not leaving her husband when he cheated. These are the same people who themselves are on their 2nd and 3rd marriages but still have the balls to spout family values.
4) I actually saw a commentor suggest that she step down to get out of the way of history (first black president). What does that mean? Does that mean every woman in the work force should step down if a black male is in line for the same job (for the sake of history)?

We like to think that we are so far ahead of other countries in the way we treat our our women. But all that is is talk. And while we're talking and talking abut whether we really "like" Hillary (instead of lining up the issues and discussing them one by one as well as looking at actual job qualifications), we have male candidates (on both sides of the ticket) comparing themselves to Jesus (Huckabee) and Martin Luther King/John F Kennedy (Obama)!

This election is turning into a fiasco. For the first time Americans are being presented with a really diverse choice of candidates and instead of focusing on the issues we are focusing on the skin color, religion and gender.

President Bill Clinton and future President Hillary Clinton will never, never, never go away. Thank God. They are good people who are desperately needed in America at war and sliding into recession.

I think Bill is right he can't make her any younger. He can't make her President and he can't make her likeable. This is the American system and dreams at its best. Please find a way to convince yourself to gracefully bow out. Many people do admire Hillary's intellect and truly believe she can probrably do some good some where, just not as President of the United States.

Barak Hussein Obama was named after his father, who was a Muslim.
However, we hear very little about that true fact. Why was such a big
deal made out of JFK being a Catholic and Mitt Romney a Mormon?
Are his supporters in deniel?

I think it is time for Bill and Hillary to go AWAY

I find it somewhat ammusing that after all this time people still hold a grudge over President Bill Clinton but when it comes to Bush they let it slide... Do we hold different people to different standards? Probably but when it's the President of the United States of America can't we all agree that there should be ONE standard... Maybe we could just settle on agreeing that in the grand scheme of things (meaning not only looking at things from our own little world but the big picture) that anything President Clinton far surpasses any good that Bush could/could of done with his "presidency" .. Get off the Clinton's bashing and put your effort to something better!

PLEASE!!!! LISTEN TO HILLARY SHE WANT YOUR COUNTRY TO BE PROUD AGAIN NOT LOOK SO STUPID BECAUSE OF YOUR PRESIDENT NOW.SHE WANT YOUR COUNTRY TO BE A GREAT COUNTRY AGAIN...IMAGINE WHAT BILL CLINTON'S DID WHEN HE WAS STILL A PRESIDENT, GUYS YOU HAVE TO AKNOWLEDGE THAT, HE MAKES YOUR COUNTRY PROUD ALL OVER THE WORLD HE IS THE VERY BEST AMERICAN PRESIDENT EVER.NOW HE IS ASKING YOUR HELP TO VOTE FOR HER WIFE,BUT YOU ARE IGNORING HIM AND MAKING HIM NOT IMPORTANT TO AMERICANS,THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO CHANGE THE LEADERSHIP OF YOUR COUNTRY .HILLARY WILL MAKE YOUR COUNTRY PROUD AGAIN. SO PLEASE HELP HILLARY CLINTON TO WIN THE ELECTION.SHE WILL NOT BE AN EMOTIONAL LIKE THAT IF SHE DON'T LOVE AMERICANS SHE LOVES AMERICANS THAT'S WHY...CNN BE GOOD TO HILLARY PLEASE DON'T LET HER DOWN SHE WILL MAKE YOU UP...

Hillary is a force for change, and somehow, I think her campaign people or her writers have let her down~

She wrote, It takes a Village, and i think she needs to go back to her ideas in that book~ It is going to take multipe villages torepair not only the state of affairs in this country, but, to also attempt to correct the problems created around the world by GWBush~

It is going to take the wisdom of the older ones, the energy of the younger, and it is going to require the cooperation of everyone~ HIllary, please, if someone gets this message to you, stop talking about just the experience, but, talk about the village, and the unity of all of the villages~

If Obama is elected as the party nominee, I will vote republican~ I am not opposed to a black man, I am opposed to a muslim reared man~ I would also be opposed to a muslim reared worman, as well~ I believe he will be too vulnerable to the muslim, Iranian influences~ Money buys power, and money corrupts. All it takes is one powerful position to be mistakenly given to an infiltrator, and this country will see the hell that is on it's doorsteps, now~

Paula Pisano

When people vote based on personality, they are making a mockery of the democratic process. Hitler rose to power due to his popularity. Today, we have more information at our fingertips than at any point in the history of mankind. So, why aren't "facts" and "issues" at the forefront of our debates and media reporting? It's truly sad that the top news stories of the day are about the train-wreck life of Britney Spears and the price of Hannah Montana tickets! From the candidates 15-second appearances on CNN in a soundbite, you'd almost forget we are engaged in a war in Iraq, that Osama Bin Ladin is hiding in a cave in Pakistan, that Social Security is in tatters financially, and that some maniac sent anthrax through the US Postal Service several years ago (and we still don't know who or how they did it)!

At this point, a vote for Obama is a vote for the Republicans and the Independents know this.

My husband came home today and told me something a male co worker said that offeneded him. "A woman's place is in the home bare foot and pregnant. End of story." I was very offened, by not at all surpirsed. I have been seeing and hearing a version of that ever since Hillary Clinton decided to run for President. There are some hateful men out there. Hillary has gotten death threats because there are men out there who are scared to death of a woman President.

Every woman in America sometime in her life has met a man who thought they were better than her. That her thoughts did not matter. For me that was my grandfather. And even my father. But I fought against that and grew up to be a very strong woman. And I married a man who loves that about me. And he is supporting Hillary. My husband once told me one of the most attractive quality's about me is that I am strong woman who stands for what I believe in.Thank god for Hillary Clinton. She is standing up for al l women in America. And I pray every night, every woman thinks long and hard about how having the first woman president would effect their lives. About how womens issues that have never really been discussed by any President in over 200 years would finally be addressed. Please consider voting for the first woman president in the United States of Americas history.

ITS ALL OVER HILLARY

Yeah, right Bill...and we're supposed to take your 'word; on this one...please!

She is done

Did any of you Barack Hussein Obama supporters watch the debate on
Saturday night? If so, how could you posibble come to the conclusion
that this man could be leader of the greatest country in the
World.
Mr Obama just sat there, rather smuggly, and actually acted
disinterested. He has no platform, except change, change,
and more change. Change means nothing more than "something
different" and he's something different alright!!!!

and you cant make the millions who feel about her like your side feels about Bush change there mind

Actions (Clinton) Speak LOUDER than Words (Obama)

ALL TALK NO ACTION = OBAMA

UNDECIDED VOTERS – I'm from Illinois and I love Obama's speeches ,and I also know, as a great orator myself, that he is an excellent orator, BUT he – OBAMA is ALL TALK AND NO ACTION! Honestly! I am so upset – why don't reporters ask what he has done for Illinois – NOTHING! The only thing I know is that he is our senator who gives great speeches and does NOTHING! He claims he has brought health care to Illinois and he will do the same for the nation – please! I am paying over $500 for my 60 year old mother because she can't afford it as a widow and with a minimum wage job, which only brings in $1000 per month! This means her health expenses would be over 50% of her income if she paid for it without my help. TRUST SOMEONE WHO KNOWS AND LIVES IN OBAMA'S HOME STATE – he has done ZILCH NADA NOTHING ZERO for ILLINOIS.

I recognize he has given us the national spotlight with his inspiring speeches, and so-called likability factor. However, where did that likability get us with Bush – it got us into a WAR, economic crisis, and has made the US the most hated country in the world. So see what likable characters who tell great jokes can do for America – NOTHING! If you want smarts, experience and true CHANGE for the US – vote for Hillary Clinton... she represents experience and action NOT a bunch of words (false promises) that will mean nothing after the election.

VOTE FOR CHANGE, VOTE FOR ACTION, VOTE FOR CLINTON!
VOTE FOR ACTION, NOT FANCY WORDS!
VOTE for CLINTON!

-Alex Milo Chicago, IL
(INDEPENDENT VOTER – NOT A DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN ONLY VOTE FOR THE BEST CANDIDATES AND THE FACTS!)

I didn't realize America wasn't ready for a woman president until I heard the old same rhetoric and insults said about a women in man's world. Like…She's emotional, too passive today, too agressive tomorrow, too many moods, which Hillary will we see today as if it is PMS…her cackle laugh, old looking, pantsuit insults, her hair, her make-up, her relationship wth her husband…and etc.

America, I thought we were past that. I knew we were past most racist views but you still can't deal with a woman in a an authoritive position. Wow.

The media, aren't you tired of spinning…

but, you can definitely make her go away. and please do, you would do us ALL a favor.

God Bless America!

you are right Mr President ! Hillary is the best candidate.

Just because she was emotional in one of her campaigns today does not mean that she is weak. This means she has the heart and feelings to understand what America needs! she will be able to relate to the problems we have right now.

this is the kind of president we need. Obama talks like Bush, he goes around the bush when explaining which means he does not know what he's talking about.
I agree

I'm so confident that New Hampshire voters will think with steady minds and big hearts when they choose Senator Clinton today. They are notorious for not "jumping on the band-wagon" for the flavor of the week….When they invest time and energy into making a decision – they won't change it on whim and a caucus result (even if it were the other way around).

I'm proud of New Hampshire for this, and I look forward to them making Senator Rodham Clinton THE choice for their primary.

So True

Wow after all the media beating...I guess the candidate they chose(Obama), is in trouble.
Now watch how the meidia turns on Senator Obama and start revealing negative stories to create more sensationalism. All those stories they hated to report will surface and the media again will be licking their chops.
Glad to be and Independent...I'd say....hehehe

Pollster John Zogby:
Democrats NH Tracking
1-2/5

Clinton
31%

Obama
30%

Edwards
20%

Undecided
6%

If Hillary can't make up her mind on how she is going to run her campaign (nasty rumors emailed about Obama, falsifying his record or positions), playing the evil stepmother role, now wanting to play the genuine person – come on, which one are we to believe?

Romney and Clinton are two of a kind – willing to switch to the latest buzz word of the day, because winning is "personal" to them. They want to win for themselves, not for the betterment of our country.

To hillary's supporters.... Hillary can never become become president even if by some miracle she gets the nomination (highly unlikely now). The reason is Bloomberg has made his intentions clear that he will stand as an independent if HRC is the nominee, but wouldnt if obama gets the nomination. Now i agree, shes been unfairly vilified...but the problem is more than 50% of America don't share this view. If she's the nominee they'll definitely (including many democrats ) vote for Bloomberg. So it would be practical to choose obama. Also to people questioning Obama 's experience; A president makes decisions that affect all of us.But he has aides(EXPERIENCED aides)who 'll help him in making those decisions. So please dont use the scare strategy to goad people into voting Clinton

I'm a Black Republican living in New York! The preceding posts that largely support Hillary are posts from people in an orchestrated campaign that is waging a losing battle.

Listen you losers: Obama is not better than Hillary and may not even be elected President. But it is not Obama who is making waves, but the people. They don't like Hillary so they are casting their votes AGAINST Hillary by voting FOR Obama.

How in the world can whites strongly believe a Black man can ever win the White House, except the believe he can be used to keep a hated white female candidate out?

Bill is a nice guy, his falws an all aside. But Hill is no Bill! She's more like a chill. She's got an ice box where her heart used to be...she's so cold, she's so cold...she's so cold!

Bill - "you can't make Hillary younger etc". Why is this about what YOU can / cannot do??????

This campaign is so on the wrong foot. Americans want substantive discussion and VISION - Hillary (and Bill) is failing to demonstrate either.

Bill, you can't make that fraud anything.

You can't make her experienced.

You can't make her sincere.

And you certainly can't make her qualified.

Please quit insulting the intelligence of women by asking "don't women want to have a woman as president". Being a woman is not a reason to vote for someone nor is it a reason to vote for them! The person's politics are what count for heaven's sake! That is why I will not vote for Hilliary plus the fact that she says she has 35 years of experience......doing what?

"The reason Hillary got so much support in the beginning was because 60% of the people would like to re-elect Bill Clinton again. Once they figure out that Hillary is the one running instead of Bill, her support slipped. He's right about one thing – he can't make her into him!"

You're precisely right, I've been saying the same thing. I love Bill Clinton, but dislike Hillary. I would vote for Bill in an instant. I think Obama is the better candidate in this election but I wish Al Gore or Bill would run again.

I'm so confident that New Hampshire voters will think with steady minds and big hearts when they choose Senator Clinton today. They are notorious for not "jumping on the band-wagon" for the flavor of the week....When they invest time and energy into making a decision – they won't change it on whim and a caucus result (even if it were the other way around).

I'm proud of New Hampshire for this, and I look forward to them making Senator Rodham Clinton THE choice for their primary.

Hat's off NH !

NO-BAMA........Barack Hussein Obama, President to the United States?
DON'T THINK SO!!!

Do you have any reporters that aren't hearing impaired? During the debate,Romney,Huckabee,Juliani,and Mc Cain each stated,at least once that they agreed with statements made by Fred Yhompson. In my opinion that shows that Fred Thompson was prepared and they were not;making Fred the winner of the debate.If the voters of New Hampshire are foolish enough to want any of these other candidates for President who do they expect them to call to supply a reasonable response to an emergency situation, FRED THOMPSON ? How long would it take to locate him ? Wouldn't it be better to have him in the oval office to handle the situation IMMEDIATELY ?

We all know what Bill was really trying to say with the younger, taller, more male thing. He's saying he can't make her Barack Obama. He can't make her a phenomenon, and I can live with that.

But, that isn't the real problem as I saw it yesterday. The real problem was the "I can't make her.....". It's the "I" that was the problem. That was no slip. Bill is the center of the universe, and quite full of himself and his popularity. That was the most narcississtic comment he could make, and we don't need that anywhere near the White House anymore. It divides.

I feel very sorry for the Clintons, and especially for Hillary, but their time has come and gone. Their politics have come and gone. The sea change has begun.

Please get rid of PACs. It is obvious that people want big money and big corporations out of politics. PACs were introduced in 1978 and ever since then politics has been about money to a horrible degree, much to the disadvantage of the middle class, but to the advantage of the major corporations. Politicians have to raise a certain amount each week just to stay electable. Each time campaign finance comes around, a Republican filibusters it because Republicans know that they raise more money than Democrats. The country was running much better before PACS came into existence in 1978. Politicians felt more free to stand up to different interest groups, not wory about offending them so that they wouldn't raise enough money.

I believe that part of Romney's and Hillary's problem is that they pander too much, are too expedient and caretake special interests too much. How can Romney be an agent of change when he grew up in a political family? He also had Bush's father at one of his events and Bush's father also helped to announce Romney's endorsement by the National Review. Clinton's husband also recently stated last year that he "loves George H.W. Bush."

Neither Romney or Clinton are agents of change, especially not with the closeness that they share to George H.W. Bush. The only agents of change they are is the ever changing of their positions on the issues.

Please get rid of PACs. It is obvious that people want big money and big corporations out of politics. PACs were introduced in 1978 and ever since then politics has been about money to a horrible degree, much to the disadvantage of the middle class, but to the advantage of the major corporations. Politicians have to raise a certain amount each week just to stay electable. Each time campaign finace comes around, a Republican filibusters it because Republicans know that they raise more money than Democrats.

I believe that part of Romney's and Hillary's problem is that they pander too much, are too expedient and caretake special interests too much. How can Romney be an agent of change when he grew up in a political family? He also had Bush's father at one of his events and Bush's father also helped to announce Romney's endorsement by the National Review. Clinton's husband also recently stated last year that he "loves George H.W. Bush."

Neither Romney or Clinton are agents of change, especially not with the closeness that they share to George H.W. Bush. The only agents of change they are is the ever changing of their positions on the issues.

I think we need to pass a law against allowing former First Ladies to run for office. This clearly violates the intent of the term limits imposed on the presidency. I have no problem voting for a woman for president, and I am a Democrat, but the very idea of putting the same people back into the White House who have already been there for 8 years, it undermines the very core ideas of our limited democracy and checks against corruption and building of political dynasties. It's bad enough having to worry about the sons of presidents getting elected, like Bush Jr., but now we have to worry about their wives and/or husbands too? Forget it Hillary, you would set a horrible precedent, no matter how good you may be. If women want to run for office, and I hope they will, they need to do it on their own terms, not by riding the coat tails of their husbands.

Man!!! I haven't seen the femanists this pissed in DECADES...

Look.... I do believe Hillary 'would' do an admirable job as president. I do not doubt that. Obama has intangibles that Hillary cannot compete with. Were he not in the race, it would have been all Hillary.

But I can sense, taste, touch and smell the desperation in Hillary's camp. Patience ladies. There 'will' be a woman president. Due to timing... just not now.

This nicely sums up what Obama's change is all about:

At Saturday night’s debate Hillary directly took on Obama’s false hopes and small change – and lies. Hillary later expanded on her comments.

If you give a speech saying you’ll vote against the Patriot Act and you don’t, that’s not change.

if you say you’re going to prevent members of congress to have lunch with lobbyists sitting down, but they can still have lunch standing up, that’s not change.

If you say you passed the Patients Bill of Rights, but you don’t mention it never got signed into law, that’s not change.

If you rail against the special interests…but you voted for Dick Cheney’s energy bill, that’s not change

If you gave a speech — and a very good speech — against the war in Iraq in 2002 and then by 2004 you’re saying you’re not sure how you would have voted, and by 2005 six and seven you’ve voted for $300 billion for the war you said you’re against, that’s not change.

She contrasted that her accomplishments she said had affected people, taking credit for the children’s health funding known as SCHIP and for getting health care for guard members and reservists, among other things.

And she quoted Mario Cuomo: “You campaign in poetry but you govern in prose.”

As an Obama supporter:

Hillary would make an awesome President. But, I think just because it is her "turn" does not mean that it is her "time"

There are so many women that I would support for President: Janet Napolitano, Barbra Boxer. I love strong women such as Clinton so much choice has not to do with her sex or Obama's race.

Obama might not have alot of experience in Washigton, but he has held elected office three times as long as Hillary, and twice as long as John Edwards. That does matter.

I would proudly support a Hillary presidency, but my heart is not with her. I don't think it is fair to the American people to subject them to a two family rule for over 28 years.

I will be glad when this is all over. I have supported Obama since before he annouced, knowing he was up against a tough battle. I am ready to support the Democratic candidate, even if it is Hillary Clinton. Because she is a great candidate and better than any Republican.

I just feel that the country needs someone like Obama. Someone to bring our nations youth away from the TV screen and into the business of retaking our country. Dear Clinton supporters: Please join me in supporting our Democratic nominee. We have alot of work to do!

go hillary we are with you

Hi Please wake up wake up. My name's meaning is wake up. what a coincidents. I am American Indian from India but citizens in USA & this country is so far behind. still people think woman can't be president. CNN reports so any where woman work they work more than 2 times than man.don't forget our mother is woman. we need it right now who can be give us piece & food health come on dears . muslim no no no. no way please think before you stamp.
thanks
Jagruti

HI MY NAME IS RALPH JOSEPH TORRES,
I,AM DYING FROM H.I.V. AND A.I.D.S. REAL SOON ,
I,AM PRAYING FOR THE CLINTON TO WIN BECAUSE I,KNOW THAY DO NOT KNOW OF ME BUT I,STILL LOVE THEM AS FRIEND,S
AND I,ALSO HOPE THAT I,CAN MEAT THEM BEFORE I,DIE THIS YEAR
MY BIRTHDAY IS ON MARCH 3,2008 I,WAS BORN ON MARCH 3,1960
MY LOVELY WIFE HAD DIE ON AUGUST 23,2007 AND SHE WAS BORN AUGUST 29,1927 AND SHE HAD 8 GIRL,S OLDER THEM ME AS I,AM THE STEP FATHER .THAT I,LOVE THEM ALL WITH THE LOVE OF GOD

My candidate is not in this race because of the lack of Fair media coverage prior to the Iowa caucus. and d/t Iowa, allowing giddy 17 yr olds to vote.
What is fair about the media repeatedly playing the newest ads of the Top3, and following them around, giving them so much free advertising, then giving the rest of the candidates 2 minutes to state their cases.? Multiply that by the many shows, on network and cable, each doing the same... our guys did not stand a chance..
Now we hear that Clinton is being talked about by the media as though she could just drop out....
To the Media.... Do you plan on letting the People of the United States vote on this or will you just decide it for us?
When you think your candidate has been treated unfairly, you can post that event at http://www.fairelections.dough4joe.com.... any candidate, not just Biden, no 'dough ' involved... There were several already listed there.
If I could vote in New Hampshire, I would STILL VOTE for Joe Biden... If you supported him before, then keep the faith... there are many people out here, trying to get him back into the race...

Hillary Clinton has the intelligence, strategies, experience and passion to change this great country to a great DIRECTION!!! She has the power and will achieve what she said! Not only an excellent orator who promises anything only for cheating voters to support for him. Unfortunately, he never considered whether he can keep his promise or how to realize what’s he said. If a person says he can do anything, we should doubt his honesty, such as Obama! Change is good, but can change to a positive or negative direction! We should reminder 8 years ago, Bush also said changes. Let’s support Hillary, because we love this country! We will not allow this country suffer another disastrous presidential term! I find the similarity between Barack Obama and George W. Bush!

Obama is not veted and Hillary remains a viable candidate. As a voter here in New York waiting to vote for Hillary, I say some talking heads on TV really need to get over themselves and face reality. We the voters feel that they know nothing about us and they should stop telling us what they think we would do! Here is what we think they should do, we think they should just shut up and let the process work itself out. What do they know of us anyway!

If someone were to invite this voter on TV, here is what I would be saying,

Bush used to chant like a mantra what the Republicans and many Independents fell for, "I am a Uniter, Not a Divider!" and "Compassionate Conservative!"
Now we have "Change, you can trust!"

You would think that we would have learnt by now that substance and not rhetoric should be what we look for in our candidate.

I am a Black woman who prays to God that the Hil stays in at least until Feb 5. Then we hope to demonstrate to Iowa, NH and whichever else state that would be moved by Obama's Cum-By-Ya, La-De-Da, One-love, let's-get-together-and-feel-alright how to use the little mass of tissue right beneath our hairline.

Please, let's vet Obama now!

The democrats could run an ape as canidate and sitll win. the ape wold sound better in interviews then Bushler. The damage that fool has done to the country will be felt for years.

Hillary is losing it in every sense of the word over Obama but can he actually lead the nation? I did not think he had a chance before Iowa but now he looks downright unstoppable. Agree with Karen on voting for Ron Paul because even an Obama presidency would mean more big government solutions to our nation's problems.

I'm no less than shocked with the current development of the presidential race in America. I could not expect to see not even in my wildest dreams such a mess and misguidance among voters, mostly among the youngest ones. I wander if this people really realize what they are doing. Do these people realize what's really at steak here?? I couldn't be anymore frustrated to watch 24/7 on TV the increase of young and independent voters wishing and hoping for change in this country, but the way things are turning it doesn't seem to me that they are hoping for the change for the better. We have tons of domestic problems that need to be adressed immediately, we have a global problem that has been growing worse everyday for the past 7 years, and for me to see all of these people being fooled by false hopes is disconsolating. I understand that to bring about change we all ought to come together with a common goal and to work together for as long as it takes until we have accomplished it. But every one in that group needs to realize that in order to achieve their goals they need a strong, intelligent and experienced leader to guide these people through the the good and bad that may come their way, and i have no doubt we have some bad days just waiting for us right ahead. It is not hard for to believe and to be almost certain that in '09 the WH will be taken back by a democrat, but what has been very hard for me to swallow is that if things keep going this way it could be taken back by the one democrat with the least capability of doing what it takes to put America back on track. The one with no executive experience. The one who has never been tested, and that has not proven he can deliever what he promisses. Electability, popularity and likability are not the only aspects to be taken in account. Paris Hilton, for example, has been elected a celebrity, with that she has gained popularity, and believe it or not, she's loved by thousands of young Americans around the country. Still, it doesn't bring her any close to be quoted as a good leader. This is what we must keep in mind. It takes more than the powerful marketing empire of Oprah and alikes, and much more than beautiful, and captivating speeches rehearsed over and over again at Harvard. I don't believe Obama is our best choice. He doesn't have the experience it takes to make the changes he promisses, and we don't have the time to allow him to get that experience after he would get elected. I am sure that at this moment and time our next president must have not only good speech skills, willingness to bring about change, and popularity, but I believe that she also has to have the experience to do so, on day one. She has to be someone who's been tested, and the one who has a record of 35 years serving this country. This is not the time for any of us to take chances, it is time for us to take actions. Let's make change for the better.

GO HILLARY!

barack is jimmy carter

Would Obama have won the Iowa caucus had not out of state students, who could register the same day and then vote, been brought in? The media has done the voters a disservice by not covering this story. It's obvious that Obama is the "story" they want to cover. They, along with Oprah, are deciding who the Democratic candidate should be. Oh, and I must not forget all the Republicans who are crossing over to vote for Obama in hopes that he will be the nominee. You can be sure that they will not be there for him in November! I am so glad that I am not gullible enough to be hood-winked or bamboozled by the media hype.

As african american democrat, I am worrying about Obama success in this election. It is not I don't like him or will never vote for him, but his victory for the nomination could be an opportunity for republicans to remain in the White House. After Obama's triumph in Iowa, everybody has been talking about change, The change that voters, especially in Iowa, have seen in Obama is not in his policies, but his person. His victory in Iowa or even New Hampshire does not reflect that this country is ready for a black president because all America is not driven by the desir to elect a black president who has been particularly reproached of a lack of experience by other candidates. Obama is what this country really needs but not at this time. Hillary has more experience to do this job because she lived in the White House for 8 years, and she is among the most influent political personality; however, I don't support her. I think it is time for the Clintons to retire and let somebody else do the job. So, I give my support to John Edwards who ran for the presidency before and still sticks with the same beliefs. People, especially media, have been ignoring and underestimating him but this guy has more chance to win the election from both sides in November if he wins the nomination.
So, America is not to late to make up your mind. Vote for Edwards.

Ohhhh, Obama...please, please .....stop it. Obama please take it easy!

You are driving people nuts!

Why, with all due respect, does Bill want to make his beloved wife as tall and handsome as Obama? Ridiculous!!!!!!!!!

This is desperate!

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i will be voting for obama in the primary but if he does not win the nomination then
i will vote for whoever does, be it clinton or edwards. the problem is that the president alone can not bring about any type of chamge if we do not change the
make-up of congress itself. with the small majority that the dems have you can see how the republicans block legislation now. so if people really want change
then change the whole make-up of the cingress to a vastly dem majority so that the next hopefully dem. president can bring about that change we want.

The Obama supporters love him and hate Hillary precisely because she is a "doer" who is controversial because she has committed to a side and he is a "feeler" who avoids the specifics and has made a career out of voting "present" instead of committing to a side. His supporters don't want him to do anything – they just want to feel good and he makes them feel good. She (and Edwards BTW) want the people of this country to face their problems, but a substantial group of people, including many young people, don't want to because that would make them feel bad, hopeless and depressed. Let's face it – working to solve problems is hard work and compromise and that doesn't make you feel good all the time. You have to have faith in yourself and your skills and work with others in a forward-seeking way. This is impossible for someone who doesn't believe that anything they do matters – that only some kind of superhero can save them – and this is also why Obama can get away with saying Hillary is "depressing". This dynamic could also be occurring in the current battle on the right between Romney (and McCain BTW), who are "doers" and Huckabee, a "feeler". The country isn't divided as much by "left and right" as actually by the "doers and feelers". We don't have a lot of time left to indulge the feelers, but they will be indulged no matter how bad things get.

Was not that long ago that Hillary was not very supportive of women who stayed home and took care of their childern, now that she need your vote she is trying to act like Little Ms. Susie Homemaker, don't be fooled, it all about power, Hillary
can't relate to the very day middle class person.

The U.S. public has to ask Hilary Rodham why she is using her husband's name Clinton to get voters! If she is supportive of women's rights and as she claims to stand on her own, why is her Clinton last name dragged in her campaign? She is afraid that what she represents on her own is not good enough, do US citizens want a President who cannot stand on her own heritage, last name and beliefs? That is a scarry thought if the US is to elect a woman with no identity of her own or of her own country.

True, President Clinton is just giving a ridiculous response to a ridiculous notion that Hillary is somehow "too old" or the "status quo"
Pres Clinton WASTED HIS BREATH JUSTIFYING ATTACKS on Senator Clinton-The Rush Limbaugh/Hillary Haters are a bunch on relentless, juvenile idiots who continue to waste air-time and bandwidth on silly, baseless attacks on Hillary...

SENATOR CLINTON IS THE MOST PRACTICAL, ELECTABLE, EXPERIENCED AND ACTIONABLE CANDIDATE TO BE PRESIDENT ON DAY (1)...

Bill, ingore the silly hacks.... Let's focus back on Hillary 08

It's amazing how the media can somehow constrew these comments to sound like a negative comment, when all it was was a joke, and you morons but into it.

The american people are so stupid and so easily persuaded it's not funny.

Rumor has it that everyone is jumping on board for obama, because he is the weaker candidate, who the republicans can win against in november. This is an absolute strategy by the republican party to jump on board for Obama who they can defeat come election time............Be aware...........

oops – sorry – I had a typo – shoud read "Hillary" not illary – I left off the H.

Bobby – Obama did NOT disrespect illary. In fact, his response was to say that he understood how she was feeling. I'm not sure about Edwards but I have a hard time believing that Elizabeth & his daughters would let him get away with disrespecting a woman for showing emotion.

One has to wonder about the Clintons. Given that they are a part of that generation that worked so hard to "bring change" to America beginning in the 1960's, helping to make possible the viable candidacy of someone like a Barack Obama, and seeing that it's come to pass, you must wonder why Hillary is even in this race. How dare she impede the first serious black candidate's pursuit of the White House? She should end her campaign immediately and throw her full support to Obama; not only would it quell suspicions that she is just a power-hungry politician, but it would also be the logical conclusion of some of the major premises of her own personal worldview.

Oh well, I don't think any of us expect that to happen. But it's important to remember that given sufficient time, all successful revolutionaries become the establishment. And at that point you've come full circle again: the entrenched don't wish to give up their power. The Clintons are no different.

Campaign hype... Americans are coming together, as a unified voice, to demand change in washington, from congressmen, to senators, to the president and cabinet. It is very clear that the washington game players are those who have cultivated relationships and favors.

The misuse of power placed us in Iraq, removed habeus corpus, allowed torture of prisoners, stomped on the 4th amendment right to privacy, ruined America's reputation internationally and lined the pockets of special interest groups.

Regardless of the party, Americans do not want the same old game. Think back on John F. Kenedy's election to president...he had no more experience than many of our candidates in 2008, he was fresh, he was daring, he was ready to move our country into an era of change....so goes the country in 2008.

My concern is that we had Bush Sr. and republicans brought another generation of that family into the white house with disasterous results. We had Clinton for 8 years, I don't think we should bring another generation of Clinton's back into the whitehouse. We need a bold, fresh, idealistic leader who can turn this country around.

We need to begin impeachment processes for violators
(CIA outing, torture, firing of US Attorneys, no-bid private contracts...)
We need out of Iraq
We need tax reform
We need postsecondary education for all who desire it
We need health care for everyone who needs it
We need our fiscal situation addressed
We need corporations to stay in the US or imposed tarriffs
We need corruption among politicians addressed
We need habeas corpus protected
We need FISA

Elaine Premo

Likable is such a strange criticism to me; she's the only one I DO like, the only one who strikes me as honest.

I agree with the commentor who asked why the ticker doesn't mention that Bill said she is by FAR the best candidate for the job.

Everyone else running, on both sides, is a slick gumby. I would have voted for John McCain before he became a flip-flopper. I wouldn't vote for Ron Paul Nader if you gave me 10 grand. I wouldn't vote for that greasebag Romney if you gave me 20. I may just sit this one out; I think we're stuck with a lemon on this round unless Hillary can get her legs back under her.

Hillary Clinton has got my vote. For those of you who call her a closet neo-con or a Republican-lite, what are you smoking? Is easy rhetoric more important than the truth? Do you honestly think there would be no difference between Clinton and Romney/Guiliani/Huckabee as President? If you believe that, I feel sorry for your cynical, sad selves. And those Republicans who bemoan the possibility of a Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton dynasty will be the first ones to line up for old Jeb when he runs in 2012. Anyone who believes the right wing isn't going to shove another Bush down our throats is deluded. If Dems and independents don't stop the Republicans now, then our country is lost for the next 20 years. Wake up, America!

Hillary is the real deal. She definitely is unscripted and sincere. She is the kind of woman who lets out her emotions at the right time... when the cameraman says 'Action!' Queue the tears!

For more good viewing, check out the Hillary Cackle on You Tube.

I truely hope that all you Hillary supporters get what you want. She will be THE easiest to defeat out of the top three democrats.

AND NO MORE CLINTONS...............IN BUSHES

I think that there are lots of Clinton campaign operatives posting here, and I am appalled by her adoption of Bush's rhetorical strategies in her campaign. I am a lifelong Democrat, and I planned on supporting whichever nominee wins. However, after hearing Clinton's unfair mischaracterizations of Obama, I will never, ever vote for Hillary. I held my nose and voted for Gore (before he was willing to speak out), then Kerry, and I planned on doing it again. However, since Clinton had to resort to strategies straight out of the Bush/Rove playbook, I realize that her campaign is really more about her, and not what is best for our country. I will never support her, ever again. She let me down with her vote for war in 2002, and I would have been willing to forgive her, but I will never forget the underhanded attacks I've seen from her and her campaign over the past few days. Its more of the cynical politics that put us where we are at today. I do appreciate the positive contribution the Clinton's have made, and thank them for their service, but now its time to step aside. There's a reason why Clinton is seen as so divisive. Obama brings in record numbers of independents, cross-over republicans, and new democratic voters, and he'll be our next president if he gets the nomination.

Obama's time will come, but he needs to earn it and not expect people to believe in it based on great speech giving skills!

This is not the time to take chances, this is the time to make real changes and as God is our witness, hundreds of milllions around the world are awaiting a genuine change maker and not promoter of hope!

I hope we all wake up and realize how much we actually need for Hillary to be our President and not vice-versa!!!

If some of you folks are old enough, Clinton has given us 8 yrs of prosperity. I think H. Clinton will deliver the same for the US. If the same is given again, I will take it – without change!. So far, from Obama's side, just bunch of promises, promises. Young folks, please understand the positions of each candidate before you cast your vote. Otherwise, you are not doing your country a justice.

I was shocked at how many Americans voted in 2000 for someone who:
-Promised "change" and completely "changed" millions' lives for worse
-Campaigned on "hands off Middle East" approach and his blood filled hands haven't actually left the Middle east.....
and so on and so forth.....
Are we blind people? How selfish can Americans continue to be by AGAIN electing someone offering "hope/change/blah blah" when we are at one of the most critical junctures in world history?

Do you people understand how dangerous things are around the world? Do you realize how much hatred there is for us Americans around the world?

Do you want to bring somebody who promises "hope/change" while offering absolutely nothing concrete on how this "hope/change" will materialize?

I travel 200,000-300,000 miles/year to dozens of countries and I am literally scared to show my US passport in most countries because what us Americans did by voting Bush into office in 2000 and again in 2004!

If we do not make a "real change" and actually elect the only candidate with a proven record and ability to make that change happen, we will be in real trouble in the next years-and our children will not forgive us for our mistake!

Wake up America, this is serious business, a vote cast in NH, NV, SC and elsewhere may determine how the world will see, treat and feel towards us for decades to come, and it is actions that will do that and not a promise of "hope" and "change" because I promise you, the hundreds of thousands whose lives have been "changed/ruined" by our President don't have the energy, time and hope to gamble on any more US Presidents and their promises of "hope" and "change".

Actions speak much much much louder than words.......

Clinton has done more to make change than Obama can dream of, and I hope we don't get fooled by the rhetoric of change/hope at the expense of our chilrden's future and that of hundreds of millions of people!

It's your vote, you decide-but can you live with it?

Remember the saying "If we close our eyes to the past, we will look at the future blindly"!

I don't want her to be President – because I love the only candidate for change RON PAUL...

But I am starting to feel sorry for her.... married to that albatross! I think she would have done better – if her first stop after leaving the White House was a divorce lawyer!

Hillary's real defining moment will be when someone finally ask her a real question!

Like "Of all the women that have accused your husband of everything from rape, indecent exposure, groping, and sexual assault do you believe everyone of them are lying?"

Yes? Well you support abuse against women!

No? Well why are you not asking the the sexual predator not be put in jail?

There is only one truth you all need to be concerned with. Its not the next president. Its that the current president violated the rules of international law, having not produced solid evidence for an "imminent threat" and having not acquired enough international support for his preemptive war. Bush did not wait for a second resolution, he was already actively involved in a rush to spark war. The coalition of the willing was predominantly Blair And Bush. Blair made it clear from the beginning he would support Bush and do whatever it took to disarm saddam – even war. This war was for the most part unilateral and preemptive, as bush made it clear in his speeches that he would do whatever was necessary to eliminate the "threat" – even skirt around authority to get what he wanted. No matter how pressing it might seem to me that the next president matters, I also understand that my countrymen are losing their grip on what accountability means. It does not mean only holding people accountable when its convenient. Our cilivzation and the relative peace we enjoy is based on accountability across the board. Without it, it would all literally crumble to ashes. By meddling in the affairs of other nations and breaking our own rules, we have thusly made it clear for all to see that the land of the free is not any place for law and order. We are in no position to hurl insults at russia or china or anyone at this point. Until we can follow our own rules and respect international law, we're no better than they and have no moral authority whatsoever.

She couldn't keep Slick Willie under control so how's she supposed to run the country??

I am so sorry Americans!
Every nation deserves its leader!
Lucks to me that Hillary is to advance for you.
You are behind England, Germany, India, Pakistan... even Afghanistan one day.

Obama-Osama will bring you the "Change" similar to South Africa, I suppose.

Lets you suffer 4 more years; at least!

Canada

I don't care who wins as long as its not another one of you self serving Repubicans.It blows my mind how they talk about Christian values and then cry about not being able to force the working man to goto war for them or work for free so they can get richer than everyone else.The only trickle down in this economics is into the wealthy peoples pockets.I had a feeling that we would regret it when we got"Gee Dub" in the White House,every time the Repubs get control they destroy the economy for everyone but them and then hand it to a Democrat so they can blame them for it.The reason they hate Bill so much is he did things that the Republicant's said couldn't be done

Please go away Mr. ex-president. Why are you in the news all the time ? Are you really desperate and want to be the center of attention all the time. The more I see you the more I won't vote for your wife. GO AWAY.

Obama just looks so good because Hillary is such a weak candidate, and its really a stop Hillary movement.

If Bill could make Hillary any younger...there would have been no need for interns under the desk...and Hillary is so desperate to become president that she has now resorted to crying...like a chick trying to get out of a ticket...how pathetic...makes you feel sorry for chelsea...what horrible parents...how embarrasing it must be for her to live in that circus

Nice try, Nobama, but your distortion of the facts has all the hallmarks of a Clinton supporter.

Not to worry, Hillary! This wunderkind will fade because "hope" doesn't pay the health insurance bill or contribute to the Social Security fund or fight to ensure stem cell research or fund child health. Wait 'til he has to campaign with the big kids in NY and California. All these college kids who may be turning out in sufficient numbers to skew the primaries in small states think "hope" instead of getting off their duffs and voting is what will win the election...

No one has been able to successfully attack Hillary on the issues, not even her vote to authorize Bush to go to war. So instead opponents and the media have attacked her personally by saying

1. She's not likeable (Pundits killed Al Gore with the "he's too stiff" line and preferred to have a beer with Bush instead. Look where that got us),
2. She's too old (As Ronald Reagan would say, "There you go again.")
3. She's devisive (Why? because she's married to Bill Clinton and survived being humiliated and investigated for 8 years? She should be given a medal),
4. She represents the status quo. I don't think so. She will be the FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT. She represents a new beginning, a new day and she's ready to effectively address the challenges we face.

Hillary has been PERSONALLY ATTACKED at every turn. I am really sickened when I see her opponents and mostly the pundits attacking her in this way. The media elected the "likeable" George Bush to the White House because Al Gore was "too stiff." Eight years later, Al Gore has received the Nobel Prize. How different our world, our country would be today had he been elected.

We need someone smart and experienced in the White House. We can't afford to have someone learning on the job. For evidence of that, consider what has happened in the last 8 years. At the very least, the media should give an unbiased and factual report on all the candidates. Too much is at stake.

Just because Hillary and Bill made an agreement that if she did not divorce him, he would help her become president is not America's fault. He lied then and he is lying for her now. Bill is more full of it then she is.

Talk about double standards. We are suppose to feel sorry for HRC, yet when Senator Muskee cried in a New Hampshire primary his presidential run was over. U.S. Presidents DON'T cry! If we are really to believe that she has the "experience" to be president, and she wants to be treated no differently than her male opponents, then she should know better than to turn on the water works.

Maybe its not to late to save the Clintons' chances of being elected president this cycle, if HRC drops out, and leaves it to Bill.

There are so many reporters and pundits I wll never listen to again or wach on TV. Not after what I have seen in this election. I just can never forgive them for what they have done to Hillary Clinton ad the first potential women President of the United States. You won't publish this so what's the point.

You influence America. You allowed the wholesale slaghter of Hillary's reputation.

You say not us! You make money from the controversy. It might as well be blood money.

Let's get this straight, this campaign is not about CHANGE, but EXCHANGE.

Listening to Edwards, and his wife Elizabeth, in their response to Hillary
cyring, I could only think, that he being the good man he is, and should
he be president, and his wife with dire cancer, should die, he will
be devastated. How would he feel hearing toughten up, stop crying
and shut up. Is that how he responds to his wife tears?

Clinton started heading up this early morning!
People started seeing the right direction finally!
Hillary will win tomorrow!

America has just begun the presidential campaign and it is already looking like the American Idol contest.

Everybody is talking about “change”. The preference for change can only mean one thing. The Americans naturally feel that the status quo is “bad”. However, what “change” would the next President have brought about by the end of the next term, I wonder. The “change” could go either way of course. From the status quo position, it could be either “better” or “worse”. On the other hand if he or she has exceptional skills not only to solve the Americans’ problems but to a certain extent the problems of the world (after all USA does consider itself to be the superpower!!!) then it might be “excellent” or “worst”.

Problems are not going to disappear just by saying they are agents of change. They are only at the second stop and all candidates are focusing on beating Barack Obama. The presidential hopefuls (including and especially Hillary Clinton) should be focusing on becoming the next president. The American Election is like a political marathon and they still have a long way to go. Barck Obama can bring some change but not necessarily during the next term. He still has age on his side and perhaps during that time he can build his credentials and experience. Hillary Clinton had witnessed first hand what former president Bill Clinton achieved and where he could have done better. Is it not a fact that “on hindsight all of us can make better decisions” She may not have the skills to “stir” the electorates but she certainly has the political experience and the support, wisdom and experience of Bill Clinton.

I can hear Jimmy Dugan now: "Are you crying? Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? THERE'S NO CRYING IN POLITICS!!!"

I dont believe we will see a female president in my lifetime.

People talk a good "game" of equality & fairness; But, deep down,
there are too many individuals (male & female), that are afraid
of even the thought of a woman as president.

Fortunately, I am not one of these individuals.

Go Hillary!!!!!!!!!

Why wasn't my response posted?

Lord knows, if Bill could make her younger, he would have already.

It's me again. I wanted to follow up my comments on my beautiful child Hillary.

It saddens me to think that Hillary and the other beautiful children in the Democratic party continue to support and condone the wanton slaughter of the innocent.

WWJD - I would vote Republican.

If Obama wins... i'm not voting Democrat. He scares me and I really don't think he can be trusted especially on Israel.

I been married for 37 years BILL YOU WAS WRONG on that joke .IF that was me I be in the dog house for years!!!!!!

Hillary needs to talk about why she has received funds from drug companies, etc. She talks about change but practices the same old political games. I don't know if we can trust her.

I go for Hilary. I propose for more debates between obama and hilary and have everyone witness how hilary will lambast obama who has nothing to offer other than his youth and good looks (debatable). Wake up America.!!!!!!!!!Do you want us to further go down than what we are now? THINK ABOUT IT

FL, Miami

Before making a comment, I would suggest that you dig a little deeper. Senator Clinton was responding to a specific question asked by another woman. It was the question and her impromptu expression of effection and sympathy to Senator Clinton that generated in her an emotional response. Your shallow assessment is so characteristic of the Obama cult for Change and Hope, using a back handed slap in order to make a skin deep assesment. When you become a victim of institutional misogynism, don't complain AND GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!

man, its amazing how the press twists words around.

Hillary Clinton has the intelligence, strategies, experience and passion to change this great country to a great DIRECTION!!! She has the power and will achieve what she said! Not only an excellent orator who promises anything only for cheating voters to support for him. Unfortunately, he never considered whether he can keep his promise or how to realize what’s he said. If a person says he can do anything, we should doubt his honesty, such as Obama! Change is good, but can change to a positive or negative direction! We should reminder 8 years ago, Bush also said changes. Let’s support Hillary, because we love this country! We will not allow this country suffer another disaster presidential term!
I find the similarity between Barack Obama and George W. Bush

Obama's past? Hey Hope-killers check out Obama's books DREAMS OF MY FATHER and THE AUDACITY OF HOPE. Obama's past is known to the media but most of the good "dirt" that is out there, Obama already published 10 to 15 years ago.

I find it interesting that Bill Clinton is touching Hillary in this picture. I think 2007 was the most that Bill Clinton has touched Hillary in 15 to 25 years. NO JOKE!

If the democrats are not wise in our choice for the nominee then we will be defeated in the fall by the republicans. It makes me sick to see so many voters who are willing to take a chance on a person who has no experience.

Hillary is real. Her campaign is based on a lifetime of public service, not on one admittedly eloquent speech at the national convention. Hillary cares about the ordinary people and works to make their lives better. Obama scares the hell out of me – why not elect someone who actually will pledge allegiance to the American flag? What is up with that? How can we trust Obama to uphold the Presidential oath of office if he refuses to pledge allegiance to our country's flag?!!!!!!!!!?????????(see Youtube) The scariest is his naive behavior – look at the Huffington Post video of him personally attacking Senator Ted Kennedy , a senior statesman and fellow Democrat, calling him "old." and saying he "has no spine." – this over a health care related issue – an area which Kennedy has devoted his life to. What hubris! To think that 3 years in the Senate prepares him to be President. How about the N.H. ABC debate?? Yeah. let's just rush right out and bomb Pakistan!!!!!!!!!! We do not live in a vacuum. Obama, every action needs to be carefully considered – didn' t he get the bulletin that this world is a global community nowadays? Isn't anyone listening to him? He can hardly respond without a script. His ego and lack of experience are downright dangerous. We cannot survive on hope – we need experience and leadership, compassion, not hubris. Obama needs to get a job with his friend Oprah – he is an actor with a big ego in search of a stage. He has not earned this one.
And where does he get off comparing himself to JFK and MLK? These things have to be earned. He is all about flowery talk with no resume or workable plans to follow through. He came to prominence because of words and he is all about words – words can be very convincing, very inspiring, and words can also be very dangerous.There is no substance behind his words. We don't need a cult. We need a tried and true leader. We need Hillary – she has earned it. He is an opportunist - and he is dangerous. The only scarier one out there is Huckabee – "duh – who was that Bhutto person? Duh. Pakistan – yeah – central America, right? Yeah , better build a fence!?" What a funny guy – laughing all the way to our demise.
I'll support Rudy or McCain before I vote for Mr. Roulette and I am a lifelong Democrat – loathe the Republican mentality, but BO really scares me.

As usual, goofy Bill Clinton is thinking of HIMSELF. According to him, he is to blame if Hillary is losing because HE cannot make her into another kind of person the kind who will win ( according to his perception).... younger, prettier and a MALE. As if it is He who is running for President. Where was your protectiveness, Bill, when you were being unfaithful to your wife?

Just tells you what a paranoid, egotistical individual our ex-president is. Why is is it that most Democrats are loonies. Include Al Gore, and Jimmy Carter to that list, Thank You.

I agree with Anne (Coulter) . Liberalism is a mental disorder.

Hillary choking up today just proves she is not ready to be the President. World leaders do not get all teared up!

I would really like to know what CHANGE are people talking about! Obama is part of that same Washington Establishment! What major changes have he spoke out aganist since his time in Washington. VOTER let people sale you false hopes. Its going to take more than hopes of change to fix the problems of this country. Obama simply lacks experience to be President. If talks of change but what changes can he cite as a state senator or u.s. senator that he was responsible for.

No one knows much about Obama. Why would you send someone that you know nothing about to the White House. At least we know Hillary as the Governor's Wife, First Lady and as two term Senator Clinton.

I was not a supporter of Mrs. Hillary Clinton until now. We (Edward and Obama, do they have daughters?) must give her some respect. She is one of our first ladies. I have changed my mind and I will not be voting for Edward or Obama, I will give my support to her or Ron Paul. The Republican Party would never let anyone disrespect the first lady of their party. She should have her husband with her for support; Edward used his wife illness to support him when he was down. We already talk about how the world views us, what are they saying now when we can not show a little respect to our first lady. What are we teaching our kids?

Bill got it right. There is much the smell, walk, and talk associated with sexism from the other candidates, media and a whole lot of bloggers rather than actual thoughtful consideration. Hillary is the best choice, bar none, hands down and without reservations ... if there were 'fair' minded folks in the world other than those who merely chatter to the knock of low brow pundrity. I take experience and ability over flash-overs.

If you could just make Hillary go away and take you with her, Bill, it would be greatly appreciated. I think you've screwed enough of the public for a long enough time. Let's get somebody who's for America and not just themselves. That leaves McCain or Obama.

Please good people of N.H. don't vote Obama his lack of experiance scare's me I understand you want change but the only thing that will change is there will n ot be a christmas tree on the lawn of the white house

please vote Hillery or Edwards

thank you live free or die

When men tear up, it's a sign of strength. When women tear up, it's a ploy.

Man, pathetic but not surprising to see these comments.

She so clearly is far and above more knowledgeable and prepared than the male candidates. Obama is, honestly, a joke to me. I simply am amazed that anyone would even consider voting for someone this inexperienced as candidate for president.

The author who suggested this may be another Republican upset could well be quite right.

Hope that sinks in soon, before Obamamania takes the Dems too far down this road.

Here in Seattle, we are perplexed that the middle state of Iowa and the little
North East State of New Hampshire are so quick to say that Hillary is losing. As I recall 1 point difference is not a LOSS. I would call it very close. I hate to tell the folks in these places, they are really not as important as they seem to think they are just because they have their primaries early. They are not indicative of the whole United States point of view. Besides, a Hillary and Obama ticket
is going to be likely anyway. It was delightful to see Hillary's softness, good for her for showing her realness. S Vaughn

eric from WI – "which website can we go to discover whose campaign is behind all these attempts to make Obama's church look like a nefarious organization?"
There was a show on the other night (Bill Moyers or 60 Minutes – I forget) that addressed that very topic. It seems that they're being circulated by the far right loons & originated out of SC – think it's probably the same slime that smeared McCain in 2000. Unfortunately, it's not a single website. It seems to me that there's a small coven of crazies who just keep the slime circulating no matter how many times they're proven wrong.Obama's church is a highly respected, nationally affiliated, predominately African-American Church. (IMO- it's the African-American part they have the most problem with – nuff said.)
To Eric in Mass – CNN has investigated (last summer, in fact, they went to Obama's elementary school in Indonesia) & proved that the hate-mongering rumors were LIES !!!!

As a Democrat I will vote for a Republican before I would vote for the high priest, Obama in the cult of CHANGE and HOPE.

The American media is so corrupt and biased. Why won't they talk about the dirt about this Muslim OBAMA. It is dangerous to have a President like him. Our country is already being infiltrated by Muslims and they start at the top. It is scary and the Americans are so stupid about this ...

Rick Lazio. Jeannette Pirro. Funny. Easy to beat. Their own party didn't like 'em. She's used to running against losers. Easy coast into Senate. Thank you NYS GOP for running clowns against the preordained queen.

She's not running against a loser now.

And she can't stand it.

It's also been long discussed that Hill was probably more into winning the white house in '92 than billy was. So let's not forget her career was pointing to a power grab as well.

Let's also not forget that stylistically, she still comes off as talking at people, rather than with. Today's NYTimes had two photos – Obama in a 'circle in the round' setting, and Hillary with lotsa space on her left, then a WALL of hillary signs in front of barriers. She actually had to move her pedestal toward the wall to even be seen with the people in that shot. Bill can fix gaffes like that. Perhaps.

Clintons, please, less ego. More populism.

Barack Obama's message of change and unity is based on a lie as he still condones preventing certain Americans the equal rights to file race dicrimination charges in Illinois.
It can be verified Barrack Obama as an Illinois Senator has been placed on
repeated written notice of ongoing illegal race discrimination against American Hispanics. I ,a Hispanic American, have been denied the right to formally officially file race discrimination “IDHR & EEOC” charges against Hormel Foods Corporation and UFCW at the agencies IDHR & EEOC in Illinois since 2004 when in fact other nonHispanics are allowed to file such charges of Race discrimination. Despite Barack Obama and his office having full knowledge and understanding of this serious situation Barrack Obama a civil rights attorney himself has refused to hold anyone at IDHR & EEOC accountable for their actions regarding the issue of IDHR & EEOC discriminating against Hispanic American complainants and to date Barack Obama is not investigating or even asking for any independant third party to investigate this racial discrimination citing only a separation of powers. It is unconscionable for Barack Obama to have used this device as it regards race discrimination which has effectively empowered IDHR & EEOC to maintain their illegal & discriminatory position and with Barack Obama’s inaction Barack Obama is in fact discriminating against Hispanic American constituents of Illinois. I have been reporting this information on blogs longer than he has been running for president. I wonder how he would have done in Iowa if more people knew the truth. And if he is truly change; open and honest he would tell America himself what is going on in Illinois right now!

I have nothing against Hillary. She has served her country well and I appreciate it. But there is something really wrong with allowing 2 families( Bush and Clinton) to control the fates of 300 million Americans and the entire planet as it is for over a quarter of a century and more.

The so called experience of Clinton in government is not as impressive as it sounds.
What in particular has she done? voted for the Iraqi Invasion? helped unsuccessfully to back the big time polluters and industries until the tide began to turn against them.
Where was she when global warming as front and center stage of the debate affecting the entire world?

These politicians like her always reactive as opposed to being agents of change that Obama is. When the news has passed, they quickly hang on to it for their own expediency as the recent battle cry "change" has become.

But he can make her bitter by cheating on her while acting as the President of the United States... THAT he can do very well...

Hillary's time is up, it's time to move on and save what's left of her political career.

I think Hillary was crying for herself today, she even stated " this is personal for me", and that's the problem with her campaign it's been about her and not the country. I will never vote for Hillary because I take offense to her campaign signs vote for Hillary the smart choice. As if voting for anyone else is a stupid decision. What is stupid is to elect a President that will cry when our country is attacked, or get emotional when North Korea won't listen to her, or cry when the Muslim men according to their religion won't even shake her hand. It's time for our country to change before it's too late. I believe Obama when he says we are at a point in our country where we are facing the fierce urgency of NOW. NOW is the time to change and now is the time to vote for OBAMA.I am fired up and ready to go!

Obama is a Muslim. His complete name is Barack Hussein Obama . He also marched with sympa Louis Farakhan Why won't the media talk about that?

Who is barak obama? he is talking about change and that he would bring changes to washing. I still don't know much about him, where he stands on most issues like the war in iraq, economy, abortion, illegal immigration, etc.

Can the media ask him where he stands and plans to bring about his CHANGE to these issues?

All that i know of him: he good at speeches, he is inexperience, and he is cocky.

I think hillary is the most qualified, experience, and will get things done in washington. I think she can bring both parties together. she is by the most like-able and can bring the best people together to help solve the iraq war and more importantly, improve our economy that bring down the deficit with more surplus.

These good things was evident during Bill Clintion's administration. And I strongly believe that with her as our President, it can happen again.

I think she is by far the best candidate for president.

Having to choose between Clinton & Obama, for me, is almost like having to choose between saving your mother or saving your child from certain death. Both of them are such phenomenal gifts to America at this point in time. How I wish one of them had been delivered to us back in 2000.

That being said, I think Obama's unprecedented ability to motivate even the most cynical of cynics beats out Hillary's experience. At a time when all of America is needed to get on board to chart a new course for the country, Obama appears to be the one capable of the task.

Wow, looking at Obama's church's website tells me all I need to know. When the truth comes out about things like that, why is there always someone asking who is behind it? I mean, obviously Obama's church needs no help looking like a nefarious organization. They are doing fine on their own.

Well that seals the deal. I would never vote for a candidate that falls to pieces on the campaign trail. Not the pillar of strength I'm looking for to run the country.

Well, the public apparently prefers to elect someone with no record to run on. That way, the voter gets to feel great about the emotionalism. Good golly, but Oprah is really going to pick presidents like she does books?

Whew*

The Clinton campaign is getting more and more pathetic by the minute. This is the third guffaw of the day. First, she cries. Second, she plants shirts and chauvenists in an audience. Now, third, this. Where's Carville when you need him?

Pathetic

"Phonies Fade Fast"

HOPEFULLY AFTER TOMORROW ALL THESE PAID INTERNET THUGS WOULD COLLECT THEIR LAST PAY CHECKs FROM THE BOSS LADY AND WE COULD HAVE DECENT POLITICAL BLOGS FREE OF THESE HATEFUL, CHILDISH AND SILLY SLIME ABOUT OBAMA

THE CHARACTER ASSASINATION AIMED AT OBAMA IS SO 90'S, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY.

THIS POSITIVE CHANGE OUR GREAT NATION DESERVES HAS REALLY COME TO STAY, SWIFTBOATING, DESPERATION, CHARACTER ASSASINATION PLOYS AIMED AT OBAMA CAN'T STOP IT

Again.

Hilary supporters.

Do you really think, she has a better chance than Obama?

Nothing unites Republicans (and wavering independants), like a battle against the Clintons. NOTHING.

Obama is winning votes from both those groups. You are tearing down your own party, in attempts to get Hillary in....

Obama is charismatic but not knowledgeable or ready to lead this country. Hillary obviously knows what she is talking about and has shown her superior strength in all of the debates. Bill's comments are perfect. He also know what he is talking about and is using humor exactly where it is needed. Health Care and Environment are my two passions – Do the research as I have – there is not a better candidate than Hillary.

who cares about Oprah? I guess millions of stupid fat people do. People can't you think for yourselves??? you need Oprah to tell you how to live your life?
please wake up, exercise, lose some weight and look at how the rest of the civilized world is leaving their lives. America is heading in the wrong direction at the speed of life. people live their lives stuck to their television sets and allow the television and media to dictate their lives.
Oprah is an idiot who forgot how hard it was for a woman to get to the power. I have no respect for her anylonger since she turned her back on Hillary. she should have sided with the women. but she is such a typical stupid woman, she sides with the men, typical women. instead of us smart women to unite together and be strong and unite against the hurt we got from men, we turn against each other and kiss us the guys who hurt us. or maybe Oprah couldn't stand the fact that there might be a woman out there more powerful than she is. I have no respect for Oprah what's so ever. she is an big time idiot.
Obama stole all Hillary ideas and now he is turning into a major jerk. let's not forget that he put her down on national television many times. I don't like him and I don’t trust him. Hillary will make one good president, but I guess this country is way behind the rest of the world to allow a woman to lead. This country is pretty sexist so I am not surprised you will vote for a black guy who is inexperienced rather than vote for a perfectly good experienced candidate who is a woman. Well, I think you guys are making a big mistake for voting for Obama. On the day when you will have to vote for your president, the majority of people will vote for the white republican guy, and hence one more time there will be 8 years of long recession and republican, conservative and narrow-minded era.
wake up and smell the coffee and vote for the right candidate who can bring the country back to the glory days of Clinton when the economy was booming and things were good.
and one more thing, so what Bill cheated on Hilary, how many men out there cheat on their wives on daily basis? or how many physically abuse their wives? please wake up to reality. what's worse cheating on your wife or abusing her physically or emotionally??? please there is at least one case of abuse in every single relationship in this country. but how do you go on with your relationships?? you forgive and learn and go on, because you need each other for different reasons, money, children etc. so think straight before you vote for the wrong candidate just because stupid Oprah said so. Oprah please.. I have no respect for her what's so ever and I am a smart engineer and very educated and well traveled woman. but I know how this world turns and I hate to see smart women turning against themselves just because of jealousy. shame on Oprah. have no respect for her.

How young exactly would you like her to be, Bill? I'm sorry, but this is just not exactly a helpful comment coming from the man who cheated on her.

I agree with a comment earlier that a person sent in by emai...We are electing a new President of the United States, not CEO of an Advertising PR Firm. I find the idea of people actually supporting a candidate for President because they are on "Opra's Favorite Things" list totally bizarre and frightening.

What is going on "WAKE UP PEOPLE" I like Opra, but who is this Obama. Let's please look at the issues and don't let someone offer a 50,000 dollar home and if you don't like your school olay we will change that, come on....what is this PICK A NUMBER and we will make it your way, brought to you by Burger King....This is beginning to look like a joke and the ealier point about BIZARRE is frightening.

I use CNN as my home page and watch their CNN station on TV and
I have observed this:
You are out to get Hillary by continually touting Obama. She is not
getting any kind of a fair shake from you people. I admire Mr. Obama and
think he should be on the High Court – but he is far too young and
not either tough enough or experienced to cope with the mess made
by the Bush administration. The Republicans think they can beat Obama
in the General Election – and they apparently fear Hillary because she
has all the qualities required to be President of this country. As for me,
I think the Democrats have people of enormous talent running on their
ticket – makes choosing a real problem. As for the Republicans – I used to
be one – it is time to clean house and they may have maybe two
people capable of governance, but because they are Republicans, their
chances are slim. I became an independent the second year of Bush's
administration. Such corruption visited upon our heads!. No more!

Bill, we dont need her younger, male or black. What we need is her to be REAL. Stop being a phony, crying or being "softer" when needed, "experienced" when it counts, and all for "change" when a poll says its what people want.

Can you tell her how lying about your drug use, affairs and financial scams made you look?

Oh wait... the American people voted for you even with that. Very well, tell Hillary to keep lying and being a phony. Maybe the American people will fall for it again. You go slick Willy and Hillary (not Rodham-)Clinton.

Hillary is a joke!
It's scary to think there are actually people that would like to see her president.
I do not look forward to the democrats telling me how my money should be spent and given to others that don't work their butts off.
I am a staunch republican and fully support their platform!
Now let's go kick some more terroist butts!
Been there, done that, and would do it again for the U.S. safety and security.
Signed,
"Proud to Serve and Die"

Hillary, no one needs to change you or make you into something you aren't. You are intelligent, attractive, funny, passionate and a great candidate. obama will fade as most new trends do. Just hang in there and don't let anyone tell you that Iowa and New Hampshire will choose our president. There are 48 more states and by golly my vote is going to count and it will be for you. You are certainly the most qualified person for the job and would be a wonderful President. The republicans like obama because they know they can beat him and the are scared to death of going up against you. You are the only one who could beat these republicans but I will have to say if people are dumb enough to make obama the nominee, then I will vote republican for the first time in my life. GO HILLARY...

I believe that Hillary is the best person for the position of Commander-in-Chief. She is something that has been shining brightly for so long that I cannot help but believe she will continue to shine beyond this moment in time. She IS CHANGE. She is the NEWCOMER. Simply put, women, such as myself, deserve to see how a WOMAN can hit the floor running in the Oval Office. I like Hillary, always have since I voted for her husband in 1994. She has impressed me and I am happy to be an advocate for her in FLORIDA.

Ray Angel, I agree with you, I always said I would never vote Republican but if Obama is the nominee I have no choice but to do so. At least we don't have to worry about obama being president. The republicans like him so much because they know they can beat him and they know they couldn't beat Hillary. IF people are dumb enough to make him the nominee then they deserve another republican president and I'll be helping them.

I think the press & voters, men & especially women, have to be honest with themselves about how hard they are on Hillary. Too hard, too soft, already beat with the whole country ahead of her, too experienced, ...

I wonder if the truth is that they are not willing to elect a woman into office. Earlier people have commented about whether or not Bill really wants her to be President. I think he should answer that question honestly as well. In my opinion, any spouse that would stand behind her husband with the disrespectful behavior he showed while in the White House, should have the decency to return the favor.

Without a doubt, I think she is the best qualified & has demonstrated herself as an incredibly resilient individual. I hope that the new media, including CNN, and the American public, especially the youth & women will give her the credit & votes she is due.

p.s. Let's stop dissecting the moment of emotion from earlier in the day & discuss instead her rally this evening that was incredibly impressive & deserves press.

I am actually shocked at the bashing of Hillary Clinton by the press and that includes all channels. I can't wait for the campaign to go more national I think the press will be very disappointed in the outcome. When you pick on a man for saying he can't make his wife younger jokingly and call her unemotional that is a joke. You know we are all human beings with feelings no matter who we are. Lets really look at the issues and resolutions the candidates have before we all jump on one ship. I watched TV MSNBC, CNN and of course Fox and have seen every media outlet add helium to the Iowa balloon. I am an indepedent voter by the way and actually could vote Democrat or Republican. I am sickened that this is a serious year when our economy is hurting, Iraq War and Immigration are so important in this election. One night I counted the number of times we bashed certain candidates not just Hillary even though she gets the most and if you don't believe me add the negative comments on each channel yourself. By the Way my favorite candidates right now are O'Bama, Clinton, McCain and Huckabee. So I am clueless but trying to get a fair and balanced coverage of all of them. The press is supposed to be neutral but I honestly don't see that. They already are pushing certain candidates. But we the People if we wake up and vote with our hearts and forget the biased coverage can make a change. Thanks

I love the Clintons and appreciate their service to our country. But sorry Hillary, not this time.

Obama seems to be leaving her behind BUT we're still many months from the actual election. I don't like people who "plant" questions with college students or get all emotional thinking that will get voters either. If some candidates are playing games already then what can we expect if they actually become President? I find that scary! I want a President who lets us know who they really are, what they do or do not believe,etc., no excuses. No constant changing on their beliefs. Someone willing to deal with terrorism as you'd have to be totally ignorant to believe that will ever go away on its own. If our country is attacked I want to be assured that our President will do everything in his or her power to protect us even if it means another war. By the way, I'm not endorsing any War but every generation here in the good ol' USA has gone to War so don't think Iraq will be the last. I hope our next President gets the spending under control and penalizes those employers who try to make more money and cut corners hiring illegal immigrants. If there are no jobs then the illegals will leave, it really is that simple. That won't stop the drug cartels but that's another subject in itself. There are so many issues: abortion, death penalty, taxes, real estate problems,religious groups telling us what movies we should or should not see,etc. No President or American citizen will ever agree on everything but I think it's ok to disagree without getting ridiculous about it. There will always be fanatics who think they know what's best no matter what any of us tell them. I find them the scariest of all! I will continue to listen to these Republicans and Democrats and anyone else willing to run for President. It's a while yet before the elections and I want to learn all I can before I cast my vote in November!!

What it boils down to that the country is feeling is this

"Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved. "

Hillary Clinton is of the old bottle, the country is looking for something new and different. America is tired of the old ways Hillary is from the same old bottles in Washington. You can't take the new which is about change and pour it into the old which speaks about experience but really hids that facts about change. American is tired of those who say they are experienced. It's not about putting a female in office its about putting the right person in office.

Obama, is fresh with a new vision and a new focus we are ready for NEWNESS and CHANGE

Faye, NC

NO MORE BUSHES............AND NO MORE CLINTONS

I didn't realize that Obama was a muslim....What does this mean for our beliefs for this country "anything goes" ? I just pray that GOD is in charge of the decisions that are made in Washington. These ideas that it's okay if we all believe in something that doesn't exist and making promises based on the word "change" is going to make everything okay "IS STRANGE" Let's stick to the issues and leave emoetions out of it.....

The Clintons are disgusting. Contrary to what a poster said, Bill would never get 60% of vote in a general election. He NEVER got over 50% to begin with. Hillary would not on both counts either. That's the problem with the Clintons, don't you people get it? They are divisive, arrogant, and have an aura of entitlement that is a turn off to many people.

I feel an urge to vomit just thinking about them.

Good luck Obama!!!

Ray Angel, I agree with you, I always said I would never vote Republican but if Obama is the nominee I have no choice but to do so.

Bill can't make her younger, nor can he make her win!

She reminds me of Al Gore, who spent 8 years as Bill's VP, and still lost to Dubya Bush, including his own home state of Tennessee. How do you, a sitting VP, lose your home state in a presidential elections is beyond me.

And how do you, the wife of the country's most popular politician, make a run for the presidency and not be liked by people, even though the most popular politician is stumping for you?

Notice Al Gore is visibly absent? Why?

Bill doesn't have to make Hillary younger, he needs to make Hillary nicer and that won't happen. She will not win the election because of herself, not her gender or any other excuse she cares to make.

If she breaks down and cries because someone complimented her hair (look at what they did to Edwards over his hair), how in the world can she possibly handle the task of running the free world?

She can't even keep her husband home. Why trust her with an entire nation? If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen, or in her case, just go to the kitchen and try it for a while. You might be surprised how good it is to "stand by your man" and keep your dirty laundry at home. Surely there are women of substance able to run.

To Eric

CNN has no intention of bringing up the 1,000 negative things about Obama.

From his coke and pot use to his absentee votes in the senate to flip flopping on the patriot act to voting to fund 300mil for this STUPID war he says he hates.

Not to mention his NO WHITES ALLOWED church he goes to.

CNN is doing ANYTHING it can to promote Obama , hyping him into the greatest thing since sliced bread. Why?

So the Republicans can WIN . Why else ?

Obama cant beat Mc Cain or Rudy. Not a chance.

Mc Cain and Rudy are both HEROES to the republican party, and have very strong leadership capabilities.

His 'I can hype a bunch of change ' schtick isnt going to work in the general election. Especially if there is an Independent candidate that Lou Dobbs seems hell bent on creating.

I've watched Romney, Clinton, McCain and Obama on C-Span. Each candidate is amazingly intelligent and capable. I loved McCain and Clinton and now respect Romney and Obama. Earlier, I thought Romney a freak sectarian and Obama a bright un-electable visionary. I was so wrong—and ignorant. I would love to blame the news commentators for interpreting events for me—but it was my laziness that shaped my understanding. It’s much more complicated than relying on 15 second news inserts. There are truly different visions of getting to the future (all candidates have similar endpoints—strong America, undefined)–but one has to try real hard to understand them, as the prime-time news seems to be all about memorable moments rather than important substantive discussion.
Businesses are run by visionaries who are capable of finding concessions and agreements amongst all but who are steadfast in core ideals, to progress for the good of their constituents. Steadfast need not mean correct and vision without capability may simply be preaching.
I respect Clinton and McCain. I would love for them to join together and unite our country in a single ticket. We would have experience and vision, no matter how strange, but possible, it may seem—(probably impossible). If not them, then Obama and Huckabee/Romney. They are all great! We need bright people in charge. Each candidate is an intellect. Obama is too bright to be a president now and Huchabee and Romney can offer so much more if they did so with a democrat by their side. But each of them is intelligent enough to learn what is best so quickly that differentiating amongst them is like trying to forecast which group of scientists will first decode a genetic sequence to save us from cancer.
As a business person, the only experience I can rely on is proven records. I can’t bet the welfare of my family on eloquent rhetoric or erudite visions alone. Leaders can't be nice too all. Leaders need to lead. It’s a tough call—but experience is empirical and not all leaders can always smile. We have a serious problem in the US. We have a diminishing median income and we are losing positions across the board to the same weak states that we nurtured over the last 20 years. We have a deficit that is not manageable and an aging population that can’t afford to wait. We have no real plan to deal with rich, aggressive nuclear states. Surely, bombing is no option. But sitting and waiting for our financed states to finance our enemy in no option, either.
We need to think about what is best for all in the US. At the same time, we can’t underestimate the weight of the global economy on each—funny, it is our nurtured monster that now scares us. We have the burden of an empire but the benefits of a servant. We need to bring proper leaders to serve the State!
Only by electing bright, experienced professionals, will we be strong once again. And only by uniting our parties can we re-establish our leadership in this world.
And whatever the choice is, as a minority (non-US born), I will respect the wishes of the majority—unlike in Pakistan, Russia, Georgia, Kenya (the list can go on…)
Let us unite behind a choice and work together to make our lives better. We can’t afford to fight amongst ourselves when everyone else is building an army against us!

hillary is most qualified answering questions asked at debate specifically in well thought out detailed manner such as 5 point plan on how to leave iraq. She should be our next president and have Joe Biden as her running mate.

It is funny how everyone just wants "change". What is that? I have asked a dozen different Obama supporters what they think Obama will do and the answers I get are all so different and some are contradictory.

Melody is correct. This country needs to get educated and not just via reading some blogs that rehash the same garbage. Do some real thinking and ask yourself what Obama would do in certain situations. No one knows. He has never been an executive. He does not have it in him to run the largest Super Power in the world. He just doesn't.

Tough decisions now the the best and most qualified two candidates on the Dem side have dropped out, namely Dobbs and Biden.

Hillary...

No defined measurable experience

No defined tough decision making background

Never really managed/lead anything or anybody

Can't wait to go to war with the GOP if elected, don't think we need that.

Will raise taxes, create more entitlements, and raise taxes again

For Illegal immigration and amnesty

Obama...

No defined measurable experience

Promotes "change", but the specifics on what will change, and how it will change is in short order.

No defined tough decision making background

Never really managed/lead anything or anybody

Votes present quite a bit, that is not a decision

Will raise taxes, create more entitlements, and raise taxes again

For Illegal immigration and amnesty

Belives in God, but gets a pass on that, unlike Huckabee

John.....

No defined measurable experience

No defined tough decision making background

Been unemployed for all practical purposes for the last few years

Will raise taxes, create more entitlements, and raise taxes again

For Illegal immigration and amnesty

There is a trend here

There is a reason the senators do poorly in the election no matter what the party.

They have minimal, if any leadership and managerial skills.

They would never be contenders for any CEO position of any company of consequence.

The purpose of a senator is to represent his/her people, a trait forgotton by all of them.

In reality all they do is move money from one entitlement program to another to buy votes and raise taxes when the run out of money so they can buy more votes.

If the Dems really want a shot at the White House you had better draft Biden otherwise you will be blooking in from the outside again.

As an independent I would not vote for any of the current Dem contenders

These big news paper are slave of marker; they wants to print and publish whim. shame on CNN. Hillary will win with big Margin in NH..breaking all polls' record. In the internet all the youngster who lives in parents money. For those who have experienced life..Hillary is he best choice.

If Obma and Edward ticket in general, i will vote to either my dog or republican instead of these these two deceptive power hunger men..

When I read what the former president Clinton said about his wife Hillary, ""I can't make her younger, taller..."

The thought went through my mind that over the years I bet he has had many a fantacy about how he wished Hillary Was younger and taller.

He probably should stay home from now on and let her loose on her own. That way she won't be able to blame it on him.

Thanks

BobH
Pinetop, AZ

Message to Frank Mayans, Los Angeles:

You must be kidding, or a lesbian in men's clothing.

Younger, taller, male? None would help. Sen Clinton is a standard-issue old-school politician with substantial baggage and a penchant for dipping on the truth and sitting on the fence. I will happily vote for Sen. Obama on Feb. 5th as he represents a break from the old school and who does not fear telling unflattering truth about himself or taking an unfettered stand on an issue.

I have been waiting since 1976 (the first election I was old enough to vote in) to cast my vote FOR a candidate instead of against another. Sorry Mr. Nader, should you choose to run I won't be voting for you this time.

I thought Hillary did better than ever Sunday in the debates but was reminded today that a woman should not be president! When she got chocked up and almost cried today she lost me. I realize that they are all keeping long hours and this is extremely demanding but what if she is in the process of demanding negotiations with another country as president and lets her emotions show through? I can sum it up in her using her sentiment; Wrong women, wrong office! We need change and Obama represents that change needed. Bill did a good job but he depleted our military and intelligence to pay down our deficit and they both take money from the shadiest of places! Our country needs unity, not more Hillary/Polosi/Reed type hate. My only hope for America is Obama and if he does not deliver on his promises of getting the lobbyists and big business out of our government, I am moving to Brazil! Our county is less than it once was because of the Hillary’s and Bill’s and Bush’s and such. We have not had a good president since the Roosevelt’s or Kennedy!

which website can we go to discover whose campaign is behind all these attempts to make Obama's church look like a nefarious organization?

which website can we go to discover whose campaign is behind all these attempts to make Obama's church look like a nefarious organization?

Given what we are facing as a nation today – the economy is imploding, we have critical mass in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Sudan and others we can not afford to have a president with a lot of speaking abilities and very little experience, this elections is not about who can be the best cheer leader it's about who can be the best world leader, one who is ready for the task from day one and not one who has to learn form scratch. American can not afford any more of that. Would you ever select a doctor simply because he was better at telling you what you like to hear or because they have a better hair cut and not the most experience one? That kind of selection could be disastrous for this nation. The republicans are all sipping bush's cool aid and banging on his war drums. Hilary is by far the best chance we have to shore up this nation during these very perilous times. I going to vote with my “children” in mind and what is best for this nation and that vote will be for Hillary !

Why isn't the media exploring Obama's past? If anyone can do this, it's CNN. So, what do you say guys, let's do some research and get the facts out to the American people. It's going to come out sooner or later, may as well be CNN that does it.

The Clintons are the "Titanic."

Start up the violins!

This is quite sad. Bill is actually quite likeable, even though Hillary never was.

no wonder this country is in the state it is. most of the people let the media make up their minds for them. most of the comments seem to be repeating what the media says. This shows just how dumbed down america has gotten under the bush/cheney administration. most of you need to get an education. you are way off base with your thinking. Hillary is the only candidate that has the brains, and the guts to do a good job. the media is promoting obama. it is a shame that none of you are capable of orginal thought. how sad!!!

Bill and Hillary are clearly losing their grip on this campaign. HRC's tear-filled campaign stop was clearly not planned, Bill's outburst last night... It's not looking good – even if they stay close in New Hampshire. Their firewall strategy is silly and bound to fail.

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Hey! Mr.Nobama.

First why don't you put some kind of a name up you white supremest coward!!!

You have got to find professional help to deal with irrational anger. There is medication that can help as well.

Really you must get a life and somehow evolve into the modern world where
people have transcended race hatred. Move along man!

If I were you I would find a way out of that hate compound you're holding up in
and stop watching American History X as a cult film. Seriously you DO need help.
Good luck.

Great! Just what this country needs – a choice between a post-menopausal Hillary or the younger one PMS'ing!? I think I'll stick with the older woman thank you!

Good grief, folks! Bill made a little JOKE. How can you all make such a deal out of it.
I took a look at Obama's church website, and it is SCARY. Take a look for yourself.

And, I would love to know what changes Obama thinks he can make. Sounds good, but I doubt he can accomplish much of it. It is too bad that something like this gets to snowballing. We need Hillary to get this mess straightened out.
Hillary has my vote! Go, Hillary!

Bill you didn't need to make Hillary younger, taller, more attractive, or for that matter, willing while in the White House either, since there were 21 year old interns to choose from.

Go Home, Bill and get the house ready for Hillary. Then you two can co-author a book that blames Obama and the Right Wing Conspirators for ruining your destiny.

In the meantime, our United States will finally be able to re-unite in a way that we haven't for decades!!!!!!!

Welcome back America! Vote for Romney or Obama! The candidates that can reunite us. Hey, don't tease me, if these 2 are the candidates (& I truly hope they are), I won't be able to sleep at night.

If Huckleberry quickwit wins (there's no way he can), I'll go with Obama, a first ever Dem vote for me.

Don't American remember what has they done for Bush that he has another team. And how terrible he was. American believed in him once and never again. SO what I want to remind is who REALLY DO a great president, not a one they think IS GOING TO BE. American had done wrong once and I don't want ANOTHER ONE.

God bless American! GOD BLESS HILARY CLINTON.

I loved Bill Clinton as president but here's a good example of what we'll have if Hiliary gets elected: another round of the Clinton circus. Do we want a constant barrage of "he said-she said " from the White House? That's so yesterday! Let's move on to something new and hopeful. For me that's Obama.

Guys, here it is.

What Bill is doing here is all about " EXIT STRATEGY " .

This exit strategy is all about saving face and quickly.

" I can't make her younger, I can't make her taller – that's right Bill, you can't do that .

But, WHOOOOO........ " I can't make her male" .......... Uh O.. – Not good Billy !!!

What Bill would be implying here, is that the country is not ready for a female president at this point in our history. Thus, Hillary saves face and EGO. Now we go on a national tour with book deals, documentaries etc. .. Telling AMERICA how Americans aren't quite ready for a woman president.

I say, BULL .... If Hillary was more like a Mrs. Bhutto she would have been a shoe in without question. There was a woman of conviction and compassion with a huge heart full of caring and HOPE for her people. End of story.

Hillary needs to run in her own way. Not for Bill, Not copy Obma. This is just the
beginning and you can never, never, never give up so soon. P L E A S E do not
listen to reporters ant talk show hosts. I have learned some will say anything.

E S

Remember everyone, this campaign is politics in itself. Politics is defined as the ability to utilize one's skills to obtain a position of power. So far, Obama is by far the more intelligent. Barack Obama has thus far best utilized his skills and talent to win over the American people. That's what campaigning is all about. It seems to me that Hillary does not even understand what she's doing. If she can't campaign to win over the American people how in the heck is she going to run the most powerful country in the world? She says she has the most experience but we are not seeing it. Does Hillary even understand what politics is? I thought she would be better than this and I am somewhat disappointed. I am sure she has a plan for the big picture. Surely she didn't think obtaining the highest position would be a walk in the park. Along ways to go. Let's wait and see. Good luck Hillary, but GO OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone is on an "Obama High" tonight awaiting the NH primary. Even John McCain today could not stop complimenting Barrack. The man is for change and I agree a change is needed but haven't you Democrats learned anything yet? I am a Democrat so I'm not being partisan here. But in '04 several polls showed that John Edwards was more electable in the general election than any other canidate,but you nominated John Kerry anyway and you see what happened. All the republicans that I know are praying that Barrack Obama or Hillary Clinton win the Democratic nomination because they know that the conservative element in this country ( the same idiots that put George B in office ) will pull out all the stops to keep any female or an African American out of the White House. THe press is gushing tonight about how even Republicans are falling under Obama's spell. Don't be fooled. They welcome his nomination because they know every member of the Religious Right and Racist in this country will flood the polls in November to keep him out of the Whitehouse. Barrack and John Edwards have practicaly the same platform and are both campaigning for change. Nominate a guy that can win in the general election. After 8 years of the transparent idiot we've had almost anyone democrat can win the general election. But a certain fringe of American citizens would sell their mother to keep a black man or a female out of the Oval Office. Think About it!!

I'm SICK of the MEDIA telling everyone what they should think.

Speculation before things happen.

This isn't the a football game GUYS, and Hillary isnt running for PROM QUEEN.

You chauvinistic blowhards in the media aren't FIT to be journalists, you're nothing more than political sports reporters.

REAL JOURNALISTS REPORT NEWS AFTER IT HAPPENS THE DONT CREATE IT.

I'm a few years older than Hillary, but maybe somewhat smarter, there are oh so many young voters who she, as "establishment" didn't felt she needed, how wrong she and her high priced team were. However, as soon as she came in third in Iowa she changed that thinking, unfortunately the majority of the your people today can see through the "smoke & mirrors". She said she has more experience than Obama, no, she was around it for 8 years. And correct me if I am wrong, former Presidnet Clinton didn't have any more experience dealing with world situations when he was elected, unless Arkansas had an international war going on none of us were aware of!? And I just saw Hillary "getting" emotional "I am taking it personally" oh get over it, I really don't want someone getting emotional especially now, this is a primary election, what in the world would she do it if we had another terrorist attack. (If she were as smart as she said she is, she would have said well we need to do better in getting out our message, and move on, teary eyes just don't work!
I really wish the candidates would focus on Illegal Immigration. whoops it's an election year. Here's a thought, when the democrats were able to take over congress, Nancy Pelois said she would change things and the war would end....nope... nothing has happen... Let's start at home, 1) make English the national language, no more have drivers licenses, signs or anything else in multiple languages....2) send all illegals back to their country of origin with their american children and let them come back in the right way. We need to fix what is happening on our land, please recall that those that created 9/11 were here either illegally or on visitor permits and were never followed up on. Illigal immigrants who protest against our government have NO rights PERIOD. Let them go pack to their homeland and protest their goverment for better pay and living conditions!!!The war will end. But we need to take back our land ..lets start at home first. SECURE our borders!

Its all about the delegate vote people.
The Clintons have this mapped out, and she can take it all. Why does CNN not talk about the delegate vote. Think about it, CNN has a section on this site about the delegate but they never talk about it. HMMM
If Hillary gets to 2025 delegates she wins.

Obama is only winning due to the independent vote. There is almost assured to be an independent candidate. Obama will not stand a chance against the conservative base when there is also an independent candidate ripping his votes away.
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Yep. They're so delusional. I wonder if they know about the possibility of Mayor Bloomberg entering the race for President as an Independent.

If Bloomberg enters, Obama is definitely in serious trouble.

Bill, you do not have make her younger, or male or tall, but if you can make her less arrogant and make her admit her mistakes, then we can consider her.

Sounds like Bill was inhaling this time. Please, make them go away.

Wow. When someone makes a comment such as this, you know the end is near. Is this so we can feel sorry for her? Because after all the dirty-politicking Hillary has done, comments such as this make me laugh.

Only losers "bow out gracefully" when the race is just getting started.

OBAMA SUPPORTERS – FORGET IT.

Give it up.

Hillary is going to STAY THE COURSE. She is going to fight to the death. To the very end.

So roll up your sleeves – because you're DEFINITELY in for a long fight.

We're done with the Clintons. That's the message. 16 years of baby boomer Presidents.

It's time to pass the torch to a new generation.

You working women have talked about the GLASS SEALING for a long time.
Well it seems it is in your grasp.
But go ahead, slang it out the window.
I wouldn't care if she was old, fat, and ugly as home made soap.
It's the GLASS SEALING STUPID.

The two party system is obviously breaking down. It's time for a strong third party...it's time for Bloomberg to enter the race.

VOTERS LIKE TO PICK THEIR PRESIDENTS AFTER A TV-HOST HAS ENDORSED THEM, THEY HAVE TO BE TALL,ATHLETIC LOOKING AS IN BOUNCING, CUTE, POETIC, SWEET AND ACCOMODATING TO EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE AND I WAS FORGETTING. THEY MUST BE MALE....

Very interesting turn of events for Hilary Clinton. I really hope this is a ploy, a campaign strategy because if she thinks the campaign is tough, the White House be even tougher. Buckle up Hilary, you have not even started, it's only January.

As a woman, I could not believe she would resort to the age old "tearful, poor me" tactic – So sad... and pathetic.

barack obama is fresh blood. we need a new kid on the block. tired of the
same old insiders. can't wait till he gets in the white house.
he is a breathe of freah air. bush is the worst president we have ever had. can't wait till bush is out.
all i can say is go barack go. keep it going all the way to the white house.
tennessee for obama. go buddy go.
go big orange. tennessee football an basketball the best. like barack.
carl from the great state of tennessee. tennesse for obama. we need obama change.
carl from tennessee.

Again.

Amazingly.

None of the Obama supporters ever talk about why he is the BEST candidate. All they care about is if he WINS , not if he can actually do the job.

ANOTHER republican win .

Obama folks listen up.

Obama is only winning due to the independent vote. There is almost assured to be an independent candidate. Obama will not stand a chance against the conservative base when there is also an independent candidate ripping his votes away.

Bill Clinton is a wise guy and couldn't understand what is going on with him duirng the time when his wife is running for the President of the United States.

We know bill, you cant make her younger. Thats why we just get someone younger,

Oh just like you did....LOL

Gus

If he could make her younger, he would make somethings bigger, somethings smaller, and remove some other things. I will let the voters decide what Bill means.

All you people who are concerned about an Obama nomination need to send Hillary a check, see http://www.HillaryClinton.com so she can keep fighting.

CNN's evening news talking heads just said that passionate Hillary supporters are saying to themselves, "maybe Obama is not so bad..."

CNN, you got it wrong again. This is untrue. Hillary supporters are passionate and loyal about electing her and will propel her through Super Tuesday to victory. If anything, it's the opposite. Read the comments on your own blogs: throngs of Obama supporters are starting to get turned off by his empty words, pour performance in the debate, arrogance, and thin resume and noticing that Hillary is the most qualified for the biggest job on earth.

The Clintons are shameless people... they will say or do anything to get votes.

Pathetic. I need to barf!!!

Hillary, Please, you are making the entire country look stupid.

http://www.golden-lamp.com

For crying out loud! This is a soundbite. Who knows what came before or after...if a question was asked...if it was humor or not!

The point being that every single word, gesture, look, etc...that the Clintons make are being scrutinized and crucified and not just by some of the respondents here but also by the biased media.

Obama says that Clinton's campaign is depressing? GMAB! Every time Ms. Clinton brings up something that this man doesn't like, he resorts to fudging by making comments that mean absolutely nothing? Does he respond to the concerns? No! Does he have even one answer that is original? No!

I am so tired of the attacks on this woman. It would be one thing if they were warranted but for goodness sake!!!! She looks tired? Heck they all look worn out! She cried for 30 seconds? Obama cried on Oprah's shoulder!

Enough all ready! Clinton is doing the media's job for them. It's about time that the media learned the meaning of "fairplay" and sooner rather than later!

The ego's in the Clinton's is starting to show up big time...They can't even handle the loss in Iowa well, a bit of humility is a GOOD THING! Bill's statement was idiotic...in fact he is doing his wife more harm than good. Bill's ego is upset because Obama is getting more attention than he is...horrible statement about I can't make her younger..taller.

Obama all the way, can't wait until you come to California!

Hey Bill,

Do you think you can make your wife leave the race gracefully tomorrow night without tears when she loses and realizes she will never have a chance at the presidency? Because that would be nice.

America Wake up please and stop supporting this woman just because of her last name. Dynasty was fine a show in the 80's but for the presidency it should scare you silly.

We do not need another 4-8 more years of Clintons even near the whitehouse and no Bush' either. We will look more like a joke to the rest of the world if we let these two fools anywhere near the Oval office on anything but a tour.

Wipe clean the rose colored glasses of the Clinton years with mis managed health care, a bogus inflated stock market and 8 years of ignoring terrorism. this country can not afford this now. Stop acting like sheep falling for her BS and antics. Even CNN has abandoned her for Obama.

We need change and desperately at that. And the first rule of change is this.

Do not vote for people because of their last name because some other member of their family had the Presidency.

Repetition is not change. Do we dare risk that we could have only two families rule this country for almost a quarter century or more. Scary thought isn't it.

I AM A DEMOCRAT. I AM NOT A FAN OF MRS. CLINTON, BUT I DO RESPECT HER CONVICTION, HER STRENGTH, AND I KNOW WHAT SHE HAS TO OFFER. I HAVE NEVER SEEN A CANADATE BE SO MISTREATED AS SHE HAS BEEN. I KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE DONE FOR THE COUNTRY, AND I KNOW WHAT SHE OFFERS, BUT WHAT IS SO SAD IS HOW BRUTAL SOME PEOPLE IN THE MEDIA ARE TREATING HER WITHOUT MERCY. MOREOVER, THE MEDIA TAKES EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO PUT HER DOWN, AND SHOWS HER NO RESPECT. IS THIS BECAUSE SHE IS A WOMAN? OUR COUNTRY DOES NOT OFFER AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A WOMAN TO BE OUR PRESIDENT. I AM NOT A FAN OF MRS CLINTON, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
I WILL BE VOTING FOR HER. SHE OFFERS A CLEAR PATH FOR CHANGE.

ATANIA

Everyone is getting excited about barack Obama and his win in Iowa. What most people haven't realized is the the Iowa caucus was flawed. Out of state students were allowed to vote in the Iowa caucus. They are not true Iowans. The Obama campaign targeted these out of state students for their votes. These students are now allowed to go back and vote in their home state primaries. They are voting twice. Something is wrong there. Barack would have received only 19-21% of the overall vote in Iowa if these out of state students had not voted. He used an old Chicago and washington insider trick to win an election. He is the establishment that he says he is against. He is the proverbial sheep in wolf's clothing. He will not change anything, just adjust it for his own success.

They both are old has beens, just let them go away and never hear from them again.
Go Mitt!

Bill Clinton’s comment is a clear indication of indirectly declaring his wife’s campaign obstacles. He was absolutely wrong to say such a comment. There are much older people who are now running and no comment like this has been raise by their spouses or relatives. Sometimes mistake can occur with out warning—may be this is one.

Wow- I just took a look at the web site for Senator Obama's church after reading the post above. What an eye-opener!

Here we are already (or again) reading Bill's quote-of-the-day about Hiliary. Tomorrow it will be Hiliary's reaction to what he said yesterday. Do we really want another round of the Clinton circus in the White House? That is so yesterday!

I am an American living in France. I am taking french classes to learn the language. Last week the professor gave me a translation exercise to be read in front of the class. It was the "Star Spangled Banner" in french. My job was to translate it into English. When I got to the place "that our flag was still there" I suddenly, and quite unexpectedly, burst into tears. I could not finish the class. It was then that I realized how much I love America....and how sad it has become. There no longer is any pride in being American....my God....how did this happen? All the things our forefathers, along with their wives, children, parents, friends, etc. etc. etc....fought and died for is now forgotten. What a shame. How did the American people let this happen?

Wow !, who would have predicted that the well oiled machine called the Clintons
will be having a cash problem.

You heard it here first.

The lady is done, put a fork in it.

As I see it the Democrats must unite and make darn sure another republican does not get elected President. If that happens we may as well kiss our Freedom good bye. As for the Democrats, My vote is for Sen. Clinton all the way. If you do your research and listen, I mean really listen to all the issues you can see that she is the onlyone who will help all people and not just the rich. She may not be able to acomplish all she would like to do but she'll give it her best shot thats for sure. Or do you all want your m=oney supporting Africa and not the U.S.A. You jmen need to take off that mocho coat you ware and start thinking with your brains. Just because Sen. Clinton is a woman doesn't mean she isn't capable. I think she would do this country a world of good.
SIncerely
Mary From Michigan

Interesting that he left off his list "black."

America needs to wake up. I cannot believe seeing Hillary crying to be on power which make think that she is fake. It is time to change and focus on something new. I can't see how she can resist the Republicans machine if she cannot stand up Obama. That is crazy. Let's turn the page and focus on something new.

Thanks,

Kokou

True humility is CONTENTMENT.
there is no respect
for others without
humility in ones self.

http://tpmelectioncentral.com/2008/01/on_eve_of_primary_hillary_drops_negative_mailer_hitting_obama_on_taxes.php

First she cries and then this!

I hope some of you have been watching CNN tonight. They did a clip on Obama's grandmother living in Kenya. She is 83 years old living in poverty, still working the fields and missing some teeth. this is the testiment to the man. Can you honestly believe he will help the poor in this country, when he doesn't even help lift his own grandmother out of poverty? I am sure he lives in a Mansion, has a nicer lifestyle than most Americans will ever know, and allows his own grandmother to live in poverty. This is the man. For shame Obama.

I LOVE HILLARY CLINTON. I BELIEVE SHE SHOULD LOOK BACK @ WHAT GOT bILL ELECTED. HEALTH CARE, HOUSING, TAXES, MEDICARE ( SOMETHING I HOPE TO SEE WHEN I RETIRE )., MEDICAID , and THE INFAMOUS WAR. STAY STRONG HILLARY YOU WILL PREVAIL. TELL BARBARA TO RALLY VIA SATELLITE AND INTRODUCE THE WOMWN WHO WILL TAKE US INTO THE CHANGE OF THIS COUNTRY. TRY TO TALK TO THE CUBAN COMMUNITY AND STIR UP THE VOTE WITH SOME LATIN ARTIST THAT THEY ADMIRE THAT'S ON YOUR SIDE SEANTOR CLINTON. OBAMA HAS NO EXPERIENCE COMPARED TO YOU. MAKE A STAND AND STICK TO IT. PLS WIN. I BELIEVE IN YOU SENATOR.

GO HILLARY! We love you and Bill!

I agree with Bill Clinton regarding the appeal of Obama to voters right now. Otherwise, I'm left with wondering if the public is really as stupid as the press is reporting. Change candidate? Oh please! Any Democratic president will be a Change president. That's obvious. And if there's any candidate who actually has the skills and know-how to bring out change, it's Hillary.

I completely agree with Hillary Clinton also that this is not the year for voters to be superficial. There's much work ahead to rebuild the infrastructure that Bush tore apart, and it's not a job for someone who has never run even a household budget, nevermind a government.

but.......alas......this IS the same public who voted in Bush not once, but twice.

So makes sense, in a very sad way.

I'm trying to figure out why if Clinton is getting all these "super delegates" that anyone cannot think that she isn't the 'frontrunner". Obama has to make up a WHOLE lot of prefabricated votes Clinton was just GIVEN from the establishment. If I were a hardcore Democrat – I would be having a fit over the deficit that Obama was given from the beginning and has to overcome.
Also if the media is not careful – they will cripple his campaign by implying that he is so far ahead that no one needs to vote. They have to vote and make sure they are counted – or Clinton will sneak back in there using these canned votes. As a "hardcore" independent – I have a real problem with these superdelegates. The Republicans got rid of them.

kelley c
huntsville AL

Xtina from Chicago,
Hillary has in fact stated that she will do something about taxes. She has proposed getting rid of BUSH's tax credits that only help corporate America and the rich (like himself) and INCREASING the taxes on the rich, anyone making over $250,000 a year. Which by the way, INCLUDES her and Bill. I would say that says a whole lot!!!

Do you Obama supporters even know Obama. Get to know someone before you make such an important decision. You are only listenning to what he is saying not what he can do. Hillary has a good history in politics. We know what Hillary is about and what she can do. Hillary is about restoring this country to its formal glory.

You are trying to make an issue of Obama attending a mostly African-American church. Let me give you a short history. Back in the day blacks were not welcome in a lot of churches, so they started their own. You do not have to be black to attend, but they are mostly black people there.

There are crops of African-American churches across America and they are not racist, just as there are hundreds of Baptist churches with a huge population of whites.

Stick with the issues!

Obama 08

Nobama!!!! You had a lot to say, good for you. If a Dem is going to win, then the party hasn't provided any good options. I would trade all three front runners to the Middle Eastern country of their choice for only a couple of slighlty used camels.

Hey Bob from Memphis, do you even know what you are talking about?????
""She has never held any executive leadership position — not cabinet minister, governor, mayor, or even dog catcher. ""

Hillary Clinton is a Senator. I think that definitely qualifies as holding responsibility as a decision maker. This is her 2nd term as Senator for New York. Get your facts straight before you open your mouth and sound like a complete moron.

Has anyone seen Obama's church website. Do some research and look it up. Read the about page. Unless all of the comments above our from african-americans you will see that Obama has some issues of his own with white people. Do you really want someone that is a hypocrite as our next president. I think the worst candidate would be Obama. We really don't know what to expect. He says he wants change, but I think he wants white slaves in America. I will vote for a republican beore I vote him in for office. Good luck America, you are gonna need it!

Democrats will lose this election if Hillary is nominated and that is the truth they know it. Obama will give us a fighting chance to, and will WIN IT. I can't believe how crazy democrats are to vote for hillary it beats my imagination.

1) If Hillary is nominated expect an Independent candidate to come out, half of Obamas supporters will go there and all Independents will go there so where is the strength of the democrats, when all republicans are charged up seeing hillary? Or will you guys blame Independents and Obamas supporters if democrats lose?

2) Republicans will dust Hillary and democrats will lose the white house not having a credible candidate for the future because there won't be Obama there.

3) With Obama here now for now only the race is up for grabs and Republicans will have trouble keeping some members as republicans. Obama will win the democratic, independent and some republican votes.

4) Please democrats we can't afford to fail again, and we should stop the fight between the Clinton and Obama supporters we need to unite.

5) At this hour the republican big wigs are meeting to draw up a new strategy to stop Obama from winning more republicans and to fight him.

6) This is your last chance for the next 16 years and I mean 16 years because our future will be all about security if a repub wins again.

7) And I am so sick and TIRED of people saying Obama does not have specifics. If you are serious then visit his website and get the nitty-gritty details of his plan. Are you guys kidding me? or are you all so lazy or stupid and can't do a research. Never expect details on the trail but get it from Obamas mail or his website so stop being biased.

Thank you and may God help us if we decide to screw this up again. The choice is yours out there.

He may not be able to make his spouse different, but he could keep his dumb remarks to himself.

I have made the time to listen to the various town meetings, various debates we have been seeing on TV and in all of them, especially when they are altogether, Hillary had greatly appeared to be the BEST CANDIDATE to become the next US President.

There is a strong sentiment for Obama as he is very poetic in his speeches and the chance of having the first black president. But with what this country have to face now, each citizen of this great nation should really listen to what each of them says ... and you will come up with the same conclusion that Hillary will be the best choice for this election.

Don't change a thing Hillary! You are going to be our next President. GO CLINTON!

Obama is so fine, ohhh I just love to look at him and listen to him talk. My vote is firmly planted in Obama.

Can you make her an authentic person rather than the pandering phony she is widely and correctly perceived to be? Of course not, beacuse that's what you are!

I started out this election liking Hillary, but as every day goes by I can't stand that she is around anymore. She doesn't help herself by having Bill run around crying for her. She has to face the fact she is who she is. She can't be Obama. He is blessed to be the man he is.

I guess Obama has done his job in convincing the American people that his type of change is needed. He comes across as someone that cares and is not from Washington. He is the hopeful future of American politics. Hillary can't change the fact she is the old guard and part of the problem. I guess she falls into the category of you can't teach an old dog new tricks.

I have seen this women in person twice and shouted "HILLARY MARRY ME!" lol

She is such a wonderful person! lol She laughed and blew me a KISS!

If Hillary were younger, I would get at her! lol

Barack Obama's Racist Church
If Sen. Obama rejects the Rev. Wright’s warped view of this country, why does he continue to attend his church?

Monday, January 7, 2008 10:16 AM

By: Ronald Kessler Article Font Size

Imagine if Mitt Romney’s church proclaimed on its website that it is “unashamedly white.”

The media would pounce, and Romney’s presidential candidacy would be over. Yet that is exactly what Barack Obama’s church says on its web site — except in reverse.

“We are a congregation which is unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian,” says the Trinity United Church of Christ’s website in Chicago. “We are an African people and remain true to our native land, the mother continent, the cradle of civilization.”

That’s just the beginning. The church has a “non-negotiable commitment to Africa,” according to its website, and its pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. subscribes to what is called the Black Value System.

While the Black Value System includes such items as commitment to God, education, and self-discipline, it refers to “our racist competitive society” and includes the disavowal of the pursuit of “middle-classness” and a pledge of allegiance to “all black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System.” It defines “middle-classness” as a way for American society to “snare” blacks rather than “killing them off directly” or “placing them in concentration camps,” just as the country structures “an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons.”

In sermons and interviews, Dr. Wright has equated Zionism with racism and Israel with South Africa under its previous policy of apartheid. On the Sunday after 9/11, Wright said the attacks were a consequence of violent American policies. Four years later, Wright suggested that the attacks were retribution for America’s racism.

“In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01,” Wright wrote in a church-affiliated magazine. “White America and the western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns.”

In one of his sermons, Wright said, “Racism is how this country was founded and how this country is still run!...We [in the U.S.] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God.”

As for Israel, “The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now,” Wright has said. “Divestment has now hit the table again as a strategy to wake the business community and wake up Americans concerning the injustice and the racism under which the Palestinians have lived because of Zionism.”

Obama says he found religion and Jesus Christ through Wright, whom he met in the mid-1980s. He has been attending Wright’s church regularly since 1988.

The church occupies a tan building on West 95th Street near a public housing project and railroad tracks. Since becoming pastor in 1972, Wright has seen the church’s membership grow to more than 8,500. The church is the largest congregation in the United Church of Christ, a predominantly white denomination known for its liberal politics.

In 1991, Obama joined the church and walked down the aisle in a formal commitment of faith. Wright later married Obama and Michelle Robinson and baptized their two daughters.

The title of Obama’s bestseller “The Audacity of Hope” comes from one of Wright’s sermons. Wright is one of the first people Obama thanked after his election to the Senate in 2004.

But Obama’s life does not exactly support Wright’s thesis that blacks in America are oppressed. A Harvard Law School graduate, Obama married a black Princeton graduate who also has a degree from Harvard Law School. Obama is a U.S. senator from Illinois; his wife is a vice president of the University of Chicago Hospitals. With his wife, Obama has been making more than $1 million a year.

On a few points, Obama has sought to distance himself from Wright’s teachings or explain them away. While Wright is his pastor and friend, Obama has said, they do not see eye to eye on everything. In particular, Obama has said he “strongly disagrees with any portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that advocates divestment from Israel or expresses anything less than strong support for Israel’s security.”

As for Wright’s repeated comments blaming America for the 9/11 attacks, Obama has said it sounds as if the minister was trying to be “provocative.”

Just before Obama’s nationally televised campaign kickoff rally last Feb. 10, the candidate disinvited Wright from giving the public invocation. Wright explained: “When [Obama’s] enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli” to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, “a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.”

According to Wright, Obama then told him, “'You can get kind of rough in the sermons, so what we’ve decided is that it’s best for you not to be out there in public.'” But privately, Obama and his family prayed with Wright just before the presidential announcement.

To his credit, Obama so far has avoided race-specific appeals as part of his candidacy, accounting in part for his widespread appeal.

Obama “has taught the black community you don’t have to act like Jesse Jackson, you don’t have to act like Al Sharpton,” conservative commentator Bill Bennett said on CNN on Jan. 3. “You can talk about the issues. [Obama has] great dignity.”

But if Obama rejects Wright’s warped view of this country, why does he continue to attend his church, raising the question of whether Obama secretly agrees with his friend and mentor? At the least, Obama’s membership in Wright’s church suggests a lack of judgment and an insensitivity to views that are repugnant to the vast majority of white Americans who are not bigots.

That same lack of judgment has shown up in Obama’s gaffes—threatening to invade Pakistan and offering prompt negotiations with anti-American despots. More frightening, Obama voted last August to give Osama bin Laden and other terrorists the same rights as Americans when it comes to intercepting their overseas calls in order to pick up clues needed to stop another attack.

Jen Psaki, a spokesman for Obama’s campaign, has tried to paper over the candidate’s support of the Black Value System by saying that Obama “believes its basic tenets of commitment to God, to community, to self-discipline and self-reliance continue to have applicability not only to the African-American community but to all people.”

But that is not what the Black Value System says. One can only imagine the outrage that would erupt if a white presidential candidate like Romney subscribed to something called the White Value System. Yet while Obama has been referred to in the media tens of thousands of times in the past month, only one story in the Concord Monitor in New Hampshire offhandedly mentioned Obama’s church’s “unashamedly black” slogan.

In contrast, in an exquisite example of the double standard they apply to Democrats versus Republicans, the media love to focus on Romney’s religion, which is not relevant to how he would perform as president. Close to half the media references to Romney refer to the fact that he is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Very few of them mention that he is both a Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School graduate, credentials that are relevant to how he would perform as president.

When Romney’s father ran for president, his religion was not an issue simply because the media rightly recognized that it was not pertinent to his candidacy. Today, as part of their coverage of Romney, the media run denigrating quotes about Mormonism that they would never dare to run about any other religion. At the same time, the media have largely ignored or downplayed the clearly racist slogan of Obama’s church and the anti-American and anti-Israel stances of its pastor.

In two exceptions to the media blackout, Tucker Carlson of MSNBC described Trinity as having a “racially exclusive theology” that “contradicts the basic tenets of Christianity.” Sean Hannity of Fox News confronted Wright on TV and asked how a black value system is any more acceptable than a white value system.

If a white presidential candidate’s church had a similar statement and “you substitute the word black for white, there would be an outrage in this country,” Hannity said. “There would be cries of racism in this country.'”

“If your spiritual advisor makes outrageous statements, it’s incumbent on you as a leader to denounce those statements,” says Brad Blakeman, a former Bush White House aide who heads the conservative Freedom’s Watch. “Silence is an admission that you agree with what your spiritual advisor pronounces.”

If his church membership calls into question Obama’s judgment, the dichotomy in the coverage of his and Romney’s religious affiliations spotlights the media’s double standard and how its skewed reporting influences who will become president.

But media bias or not, if Obama is his party’s nominee, his Republican opponent will rightly be able to make use of Rev. Wright and his radical teachings as effectively as supporters of George H.W. Bush used Willie Horton’s furlough to help Bush win the presidency.

Hillary is the only suitable Presidential candidate for America, for North America and the world. I appeal to the people of Ameria dont do the mistake again (You did it twice) Bring Hillary Clinton to the front and elect her as your President. The world depends on you..AMERICA

Bill, Surrey, British Columbia

Give yourselves credit for Obama's rise in the poles. The headline reads like Bill Clinton thinks his wife is too old, and he is apologizing for her. Instead what he was really saying was "if you want a president and need one, she would be by far the best." Yet you falsely portray the main content of the President's remarks as an after thought by saying "The President added." The same misdirections were used to sell us Bush.
The Clinton's showed us that our government could actually work for us as it was intended. Clinton fought a war and nobody on our side died! And when our allies paid us we actully made money on the war. He made you folks in the media pay your fair share of taxes and used the money to balance the budget, pay down the national debt, while he hired 100,000 cops and 100,000 teachers. And you fought him every step of the way. I don't just want change. I want to CHANGE BACK. For you to sell the false proposition that Hillary represents the same ole same ole should a journalist taboo, Instead it is the norm. The quality of our decisions are based on the quality and accuracy of the information we have. The country is in the toilet. The credit goes to you and the person that chose the above misrepresentitive headline. Hope the tax cut was worth it. Thanks for letting me post.

This lady is incredulous! I have NEVER seen a candidate for ANY office pander so completely to virtually every special interest to flop into her path. As long as she can benefit politically from it (ie: votes), she will immediately "feel" and "identify" with any radical moronic agenda, giving it credibility in the process where none should be earned.

Negative campaigning, anti-obama/edwards push polls, audience plants for predetermined easy questions...

This woman (as well as her entire campaign staff) should take a real lesson from this: the American People are SICK of business-as-usual Washington politics (Oh, that's right...Hillary has now reinvented herself once again on the eve of the N.H. primaries, to be the "Change Candidate". [memo to Shrillary: Obama's been behind that sign since the beginning. You are merely an opportinist...a day late and a dollar short.

It will be a pleasure to see your whole family fade into memory. Buh Bye, now.

I just cannot understand why everyone gives Hillary Clinton such a hard way to go...she is human just like the rest of us...so to make such a big deal about her tearing up...you know she has feelings too...she not the cold person everyone thinks she is....what's wrong with the women in this country why they would'nt want to elect the first woman president...are you all insane this is our chance to show these men that women are fully capable of handling a job like the presidency and if anyone is qualified to do this job it's Hillary Clinton...all women need to take a stand after all we out number men about 20 to 1 so you need to take this opportunity to make this happen!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can the Clintons be over, yet, please!!!!

Hillary, I suspect you're just another self serving politician –that's right just waiting
to get some of that "executive privelege".

If you want to serve your country, drop out and support one of the other viable candidates. I don't want to see you flip flop on important issues as president for the next four years, while nothing important in the country changes.

Get Lost

All of you are so judging on how Hillary will do as a president...You need to think twice. I met her in a person. Shes so amazing and very smart. I can see that she is a good president. She has a big heart and she is very supportive. She does listen to each voter's concerns. Thats sad when you have said some bad things about Hillary. You dont see who she really is. I am sorry for you who have not seen who Hillary really is. She is amazing and she's great. Therefore, she will be better president. Again, it is up to you that you can judge on her everyday. It is just too sad to see your talking against Hillary.

God bless all of you.

Oh dear...

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Rosario January 7, 2008 7:20 pm ET
The only way Hillary Clinton can make real history here is quitting the campaign, and supporting Obama publicly. "

You are pathetic..

I may not be necesssarily a Hillary fan, However the truth of experience always will out weigh what emotion can't accomplish. I think during the debate when Hillary stated we needed a reality check....."Was right on target" emotion is one thing and the idea of change is another but without expereince "Good Luck"

I would like to hear from a Hillary Clinton supporter concerning her political experience. Did Hillary hold any office prior to becoming a senator of New York? I understand she was an attorney, but I am not familiar with her personal experience and involvement in government affairs. I know she was the First Lady of Arkansas, and First Lady in the White House. Just because my wife goes to my company Xmas party doesn't mean she can wear my uniform or is qualified to do the job I do. Is that what I am expected to believe in November when the votes are cast?

Please help me understand. I am supposed to serve a President that has never worn a uniform and served her country, a person that was elected to office in a state in which she never resided, and a woman that wasn't strong enough to make her own way when she was humiliated by her husbands affair in front of the entire world? Hillary's run is pure vanity run wild. Because you slept with a President (not even a good one), doesn't mean you are a President!

I wonder how much the R.N.C is involved in this? They already are "swift boating" Clinton. The Republicans would like Obama to be the Democratic candidate as no matter what Americans say in public, when they are in the privacy of the voting booth they are not ready for a black President. Unfortunatly they may even have problems with a woman.
The "good old boys" still have a lot of control. This is why a 3rd party cannot win. Too bad we cannot vote for a candidate not provided by the two parties. Not the lesser of 2 evils..

The photo posturing is simply atrocious..

Why is her husband holding her shoulders while standing in the forefront of the shot? Is she so desperate to garner voter support that she is simply standing in and posing as some sort of puppet to a former leader? Get a clue Billary..!!

ROLL OUT A CANDIDATE and let stop wasting airtime on a former senator.

We are electing a new President of the United States, not CEO of an Advertising PR Firm. I find the idea of people actually supporting a candidate for President because they are on "Opra's Favorite Things" list totally bizarre and frightening.
I will be voting for Senator Clinton!

Seems like all of her "EXPERIENCE" would have taught her not to cry in front of camera's while running for president no matter how young/old she is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We know who wears the pants in that family.
I pray everyday that Clinton doesn't win. Anyone else will do.
I've had enough of experienced ,seasoned Politicians!

This Family is like a Spanish Soaps on Telemondo, You can't wait to someone gets hit by a Car.

regarding Hillary...

If he can't make her "younger" (which wouldn't help)

can he at least make her "quit" ??

it is time for her to focus on her future speaking tour and her current district.

we need a real LEADER and she is far from that (polling is not leading).

Time for a change..

Voters aren't voting against Hillary because she's white, female, and old. They're voting for her because she's a blatant hypocrite and closet neocon.

Message to Bill Clinton:

You're right, your wife "can't be a NEW story . . . "I can't make her younger, taller, male, there's a lot I can't do," Clinton said to laughs.

But can you make her more real, more honest and more consistent in her policy positions? Our heads hurt from all the flip-flops she has made over the years.

Also, can you make yourself into an honest man who doesn't cheat on his wife over and over again and then lie about it? Can you NOT be the kind of person who tells the public, "I did not have sex with that woman"? Someone who can lie to the American public with a straight face can never be trusted again. Your lack of morals is shocking! And a woman who puts up with this kind of husband so that he can help her become an elected officialis NOT to be trusted.

Get the message – America wants a change, and you and her are not part of that change.

I think Bill meant , "I can't make her ME". He's actually apologizing to the voters for his wife !

Clue-He said taller,younger,and male. He didn't say black did he. Hmm, could Obama's turn be over so soon? We hardly exposed any racism yet.

The only way Hillary Clinton can make real history here is quitting the campaign, and supporting Obama publicly. That position will create what is needed for change, which is political honesty, and authenticity. If Hillary drops his candidacy, she will raise as a truly humble figure, and her influence, along with Obama's vision and charisma, will bring a completely new era in American politics.

CNN.com's attempt to smear Clinton and promote Obama is becoming increasingly obvious. It's disturbing that a media outlet as influential as this can be so polarized in the stories they provide. Please, people, vote on the issues and on what you've seen in the debates...not on the gossipy garbage posted on this site. If you need convincing to this effect, look at the following headlines about Clinton and Obama from the past month:
Clinton:
Bill Clinton: Can't make Hillary 'younger'
Obama says Clinton campaign getting 'depressing'
Prominent Clinton supporter criticizes Iowa
Clinton points to Obama-Edwards feud
Dodd: Clinton was sitting on the sidelines
Obama beats back Clinton's 'politicizing' claim

Obama:
Poll: 9-point lead for Obama on eve of N.H. primary
Cafferty: Obama changing race relations?
Big Obama crowds continue in Granite State
Republicans worried about Obama
Bradley backs Obama
Superman swoops in to defend Obama

Do ANY of these stories really look like legitimate news to you?

Instead of this superfluous stuff, why don't we focus on the accomplishments and what these candidates have already done that shows what they believe in . What has Hillary done that shows she won't be 'Washington as usual'? Has she stood up in the Senate and said "We're taking too much tax money from all Americans and wasting too much taxpayers' money?" I don't think she has.

He can't make her qualified for president either.

She has never held any executive leadership position - not cabinet minister, governor, mayor, or even dog catcher. Being first lady is not the same as "co-president". Do you really think Laura Bush is qualified to be president? Is your spouse qualified to do your job just by virtue of living with you?

When has Hillary ever held any responsibility as a decision maker?

Sorry Bill,

You can't make her President either!

Oh, Bill, you can make her OLDER! Or you have in the past anyway with your philandering ways.

The stress you caused your wife can make a woman, any woman, older.

But, Hillary seems fairly resilient to me.

So on the Today show Hillary said that Obama shouldn't be President because he, "hasn't done the spade work..."

Excuse me Hillary? Did you leave your political correct mouth at home?

For someone who keeps hitting with the gender card, I'm surprised Hillary would be so insensitive as to use a term like that when referring to the next President of the United States.

undo is misspelled...see "undue the harm".

http://bourbonroom.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/01/07/clintons-candid-assessment/-Politico-–Clinton rejoined the running argument over hope and "false hope" in an interview in Dover this afternoon, reminding Fox's Major Garrett that while Martin Luther King Jr. spoke on behalf of civil rights, President Lyndon Johnson was the one who got the legislation passed.

Hillary was asked about Obama's rejoinder that there's something vaguely un-American about dismissing hopes as false, and that it doesn't jibe with the careers of figures like like John F. Kennedy and King.

"Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act," Clinton said. "It took a president to get it done."

Clinton didn't explicitly compare herself to Johnson, or Obama to King. But it seems an odd example for the argument between rhetoric and action, as there's little doubt which figure's place in history and the American imagination is more secure.

"The power of that dream became real in people's lives because we had a president" capable of action, Clinton said.

The interview was taped, and I listened in. It's set to air later today.

Everyone in the media is trying to spin their own agendas. Watch it, folks. It's hard to see the truth in most anything written on these websites. Everyone has their own desires and their own morality- honest reporting is certainly something of an unrealistic ideal. Thankfully we can do our own research to make certain what we're hearing/reading is what's actually happening.

Just something to think about. It's easy to take headlines and punch lines as cannon, but most of the time it's someone's spin to try to get what they want. Just because they write/report it on a 'reputable' news website, doesn't mean it's any more valid than "Alien Babies Born to Mutant Cows in Wisconsin." Agendas and bottom lines will always take precedence, sadly.

She should have divorced him long ago.

Bill's put his foot in his mouth again!!I'm sure he'll get an earful from you know who and regret ever saying anything.On the other hand he'd probably like someone younger and taller and maybe he doesn't think a woman should be president.Maybe someone should ask him!!

My favorite saying has always been " Never say never " and I have always said I would never vote for a republican, but it seems that I may have to eat my words, because if Obama is the Democratic nominee I will have to vote against him, to be honest the man scares the hell out of me. When I look at him I get the same sick, scared feeling in my gut that I got the first time I saw Bush. All I can say is god help this country if Obama is elected president.

He's already starting to sound like a senile old man.

I am truly disappointed with cnn's unfair coverage of Senator Hillary Clinton and with the commentors predictions that if she goes down in defeat in Iowa and New Hampshire it will be hard to move forward with her Presidential Campaign. There are other States with much larger voting populations that support the Senator from New York to California. Senator Clinton is the most qualified and experienced candidate to become our next President of all the men currently campaigning for the Presidency of the United States.

Ann Miller

Another Hillary piece by CNN. Wow they must really like her. Or was it the exclusive coverage they enjoyed durring Bill's Presidency? Hmmm. It's now secret Bush does the same for Fox news. But come on. I want the news not some media mogals agenda.

I didn't realize America wasn't ready for a woman president until I heard the old same rhetoric and insults said about a women in man's world. Like...She's emotional, too passive today, too agressive tomorrow, too many moods, which Hillary will we see today as if it is PMS...her cackle laugh, old looking, pantsuit insults, her hair, her make-up, her relationship wth her husband...and etc.

America, I thought we were past that. I knew we were past most racist views but you still can't deal with a woman in a an authoritive position. Wow.

The media, aren't you tired of spinning...

And that comment was controversial because.....For goodness sake IT WAS A JOKE!!

Well, HEY!!! A picture of another candidate besides "eventual winner" (yeah, right) Obama.......

I want to respond to those persons who say that "young people are going for Obama"-–the Internet is the "younger generations'" expressive outlet, so to speak. OF COURSE this is why people might assume that is why Obama is popular. There are PLENTY of males and females my age (46) and older who DO NOT even use the Internet to post their political bloggings. In fact, let's remember that THE BABY BOOM GENERATION is the largest segment of the population (of which I am a part, thank you. There are SO many more people in America than just "younger people"-–and WE OLDER PEOPLE are concerned with issues like: Will social security be there when we retire? Will someone bring down the cost of our medications so that a lot of us don't have to choose between eating and buying the meds? I WANT SOMEONE WHO WILL UNDERSTAND OLDER PERSON'S ISSUES< in addition........not someone who is going to charge in and change things........the thing about CHANGE: Everyone will DISAGREE on what the changes should be.

Another thing that these "younger people" are forgetting--or do not KNOW, because they were too young 8-10 years ago to know: stop knocking Bill Clinton's legacy and what improvements he did for this Great Country. We prospered as a nation under Bill Clinton. Gas prices were low. He energized Blacks and Whites to work together. He PAID DOWN the national Debt and left the next Administration in the BLACK financially. Yes, oh, he had an indiscression. Let's talk about George Bush's transgressions toward this country, the most minute one is an impeachable offense--taking us into a war without just cause. But HE won't be impeached for getting us trillions of dollars in debt, nor punished for treading on citizen's personal rights. Hillary learned a lot about our country as FIRST LADY. Then she has paid her dues to work for a better America in the Senate. Whether or not you LIKE her is one thing, but you have to respect her. She is tough, putting up with critics like even those who blog here today, Most people would cry and run home. I haven't heard much that I could respect Obama OR Edwards for. Maybe Richardson I can respect.

Bubba, go find a campaign worker and leave Hillary alone.

Hey, lay off Bill, CNN! I don't see you hovering over Michelle Obama's every word. These spouses work tirelessly on the campaign trail, Bill included. Stop picking on him.

Why doesn't your ticker title read: "Bill Clinton says Hillary is by far the best."

I'm so sick of the media outlets extracting a few words from a larger context and turning them into misleading and inflammatory headlines, especially when the Clintons are involved.

I am also sick of the media giving Obama a free ride. You journalists need to do your job and explore his record and his life in more detail because that's what you've done with the Clintons for 16 years.

Bill and Hill: you need to let Chelsea speak to the American people about her mom. This will help you reach young people. I bet she's quite articulate on the subject of her mom's qualifications.

Please send Bill on a "world tour" tonight!!

Mr. Clinton forgets he is speaking as a spokesman for RHC not for himself.

Is he suffering dementia or Alzheimers??

no Bill, we don't want Hillary because Bush\Clinton\Bush\ has been enough to completely ruin our country. The LAST THING we need is another clinton.

Sounds like Mrs. Edwards saying "We can't make John a woman, and we can't make him black" (paraphrase). If I remember correctly, that comment didn't have a positive reception.

Hillary Says that she has pushed for "Change" for quite some time. Perhaps she is right, but the last time she said "Change", Bill heard "Strange" and went out and found some!

what?
i'm beginning to think that even Mr. Clinton prefers Obama!

You misspelled "undo" (undue??).

You meant to write, "a diplomatic mission to undo the harm the current president has done."

In fact, I would use the word "mitigate" or "redress" instead of undo, since one can't really "undo" consequences of that nature.

You misspelled "undo" (undue??).

You meant to write, "a diplomatic mission to undo the harm the current president has done,"

In fact, I would use the word "mitigate" or "redress" instead of undo, since one can't really "undo" consequences of that nature.

I could not agree with Bill Clinton more.

In every single debate, Hilary's performance has been heads and shoulders better than the other Democrats (which of course have been heads and shoulders above the Republicans).

To say that she is less "electable" and not articulate a reason for it absolutely mind-boggling. I take that to mean that they would rather vote for less qualified "pretty boys" than a more qualified female candidate.

I watched Ms. Clinton on CSPAN saturday nite. I thought she was exceptional. When she was asked about abortions she answered the question so well. When she was asked about gay rights she answered that question in the same manner. She is exceptional. Truly remarkable.

There will be a few bumps on the road. But Obama will burn out. You can only say the same thing over and over before people start questioning him. BLAH BLAH BLAH......................................................................

Hillary is the best choice...Obama will be great to step in when she's finished her 2 terms...

If only he could make her BE Obama! Brilliant. Hey Bill, how bout just making her likeable?

I'm a firm Obama supporter, but it gives me no pleasure to see the Clintons stumble over themselves and each other. I hope the Clintons find a graceful way to bow out. I have to say I'm not encouraged thus far. I've been disappointed in how they have distorted the record and on occasion even lashed out in anger. Its bad for their reputation, its bad for the Democratic Party, and its bad for the American People.

God bless Bill Clinton, and I love you man, but you're not doing Hillary any favors, she should have gotten the Oprah endorsment.

Although a lot of people love Bill, he makes people think of the past (including Bush – Clinton – Bush – Clinton), I trully think people want change, and want to move forward....

...plus the republicans are the ones who allway look to the years of yore, like the 50's where a womans place was in the kitchen, and the african americans were at the rear of the bus.

We will move forward and drag the repulicans kicking and screaming with us.

LOL

Is Bill Clinton trying to sabotage his wife's campaign? No problem really.

Every time Bill Clinton opens his mouth, he makes Hilary seems a LOSER and an INADEQUATE!.

First Barack, in effect, wasn't good enough to be President.
Now Bill, in effect, wouldn't mind if his wife was fine like Barack? LOL

We're not asking you to make her younger. We're asking you to make her go away. You too, while you're at it. Please.

The reason Hillary got so much support in the beginning was because 60% of the people would like to re-elect Bill Clinton again. Once they figure out that Hillary is the one running instead of Bill, her support slipped. He's right about one thing – he can't make her into him!

you are right Mr President ! Hillary is the best candidate.

Just because she was emotional in one of her campaigns today does not mean that she is weak. This means she has the heart and feelings to understand what America needs! she will be able to relate to the problems we have right now.

this is the kind of president we need. Obama talks like Bush, he goes around the bush when explaining which means he does not know what he's talking about.

"can't be a new story,"

Couldn't have said it better myself!! Thanks Bill!

Romney '08