It seems that Obama who's campaign initiated this "race" issue is trying to play the victim with the aid of the press.had they not twisted Mr. Clintons criticism of his contradictory actions with regards to the Iraq war into a racial issue, or the statement by HRC regarding the role LBJ on the civil rights legislation ,race would be a non issue. they were not satisfied with the overly friendly press, they sought to shield themselves from any criticism by hollering racism at every turn.I support HRC, but I thought that he was someone I can vote for if he wins the nomination.now, I see him as just another Jesse Jackson with a harvard degree.2 unproductive years in the senate and he dared to compare himself to MLK,THE NERVE.He is not even close to someone that was beaten ,jailed, and killed,for his beliefs.Signing the civil rights legislation was a heroic gesture on the part of the democratic party and LBJ,the democratic party lost the south since then.And this the thank you they get from the Obama supporter in the AA community.

I mean really the sitting president Bush has made more minority cabinet appointments than Bill Clinton.

Plain and simple RIMA, if HIllary is running for President then Bill C. (I won't even give him the honor of calling him the former Prez. because his actions have been less than honorable during her campaign and I believe this is only the beginning of Bill's negativity) should keep a much lower profile than he does. Its obvious, Bill C. wants to win the Presidency, this truth is pushing out through his veins in his face when a reporter calls him on the truth.

I wish you the best RIMA during this election for change.

I think the Hispanic voters don't understand what Obama is saying. They just know the name Hillary in Spanish and to them that's all that matters, a name that they recognize!

This is troubling. Obama needs to get translaters to do the do from English to Spanish!
No,we understand what he is saying,trust me,but we are democrats on a democratic primary ,Obama is a empty suit,nice oratory skills but not record.Sorry the republicans didn,t have better ideas,what next Newt the best speaker ever?
And by the way we lave Bill Clinton,the big Dog(cojones grandes)

Dr. West

Incidentally I'm one of those over 60 women who are supposed to be so strong for Hillary. I'm a progressive business woman who is NOT in the Hillary crowd. I'm leaning toward OBama or Edwards, but I'm not totally wild about them either. Both have plusses and minuses, but neither has Bill Clinton trailing his own very large, very special baggage.

Dr. West

In a year which should be a cake-walk for Democrats, Hillary and Bill are willing to do anything to save his legacy and continue this Bush-Clinton dynasty.

If the American people were paying attention, they would have seen the smear politics used by Hillary and Bill for the sole reason of gaining what Hillary stated was the "head of government". I'm sorry, but what separates Bush from Hillary? It appears she wants to believe she can grab as much power as Bush has during the past eight years. For someone who touts her "thirty-five" years experience, one would have to point out that she has no grasp on the Constitution or at least as much as the Bush adminitration. The fact remains, our government has three coequal branches and the President is not the "head of our government" as Hillary has stated.

Winning at all costs wll split the Democratic party, leave ill feelings against the Clinton legacy, and prove the Republicans may have had a point about Bill and Hillary. What our country needs more than this distorted political gaming is someone who actually knows how to tell the truth, include independent votes, and can repair all the damage done by the Clinton and the Bush power plays.

Of course this "voting" thing is just another illusion played upon the people when it is increasingly obvious that the "faction" of party politics will prevail. Getting people to believe their votes actually count is the biggest lie ever laid out to the American people.

cozumelkid-

Excuse me but have you not been watching the news lately? Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was a woman and last I heard from Pakistan which is the Middle East.

Brian-

Thank you. Computers are our friends, but only if we use them to gather the information.

By stark comparison, the Clintons have supported or disrespected the rights and sensibilities of African Americans throughout their careers depending only upon the direction of the politicial winds of the moment. (Remember the Sister Souljah moment?)

Women and men of all backgrounds should reject the unreliable civil rights support of the Clintons in favor of a genuine call for unity and equality by Obama.

OBAMA '08

For, the entire members or the Committee, who for reasons unknown or that never be known to the common of the members of their party, never to say the US citizens, or to their party members:
THAT SEN. HILLARY CLINTON CAN NEVER BE AND WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES NOT BECAUSE SHE IS A WOMAN OR A WHITE PERSON, BUT BECAUSE THE VERY IDEA THAT SHE COULD BE WILL INSTATANEOUSLY COALESCE A TREMENDOUS ANTI-CLINTON AND BY THE SAME TOKEN THE ANTI-DEMOCRATIC PARTY COALITION THAT WILL HAND ON A SIVER PLATE THE WHITE HOUSE TO ANY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY CANDIDATE.

IN SEEING THE WAY THE CLINTON COUPLE WHOSE STRATEGY RIGHT FROM THE START HAD BEEN ENGAGING IN A COORDINATED THAT ARE LONG ON SLEAZE AND SHORT ON SUBSTANCE. THE CURRENT DEVELOPMENT IS ALLOWING PEOPLE TO IMAGINE WHAT THE THIRD CLINTON TERM IN THE WHITE HOUSE COULD BE! VOTERS AND CAUCUSE-GOERS SHOULD, THROUGH WHAT IS HAPPENING THAT BILL’S CALCULATED SMEARS ARE JUST PREMONITORY TO EVERYTHING THAT WOULD FOLLOW. PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW THAT THE COUPLE REMAIN PATHOLOGICALLY AND ANATOMICALLY FORMS A SIAMESE ENTITY. AS SUCH THEY CAN NEVER STRUTURALLY CHANGE NOR BRING THE NEEDED CHANGE TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. NOMINATING HILLARY WOULD MEAN TWO PRESIDENTS FOR ONE. THE STRATEGY WHICH SEEMS AS WORKING DURING THE CAMPAIGN WILL NEVER HAVE THE LEAST CHANCE OF WORKING IN POST-ELECTION.HILLARY COMPLAINS TO BE THOROUGHLY VETTED. IF, SO IT IS JUST PEOPLE ARE DESPERATELY HAVE THE LEAST IDEA ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE IS TALKING ABOUT.

DON’T LET PEOPLE REMIND YOU IN NOVEMBER YOU WE HAD TOLD YOU SO! COMMON WISDOM MUST PREVAIL AND LET YOU DROP THE SHORT-MINDEDNESS AND MAKE GENUINE DECISION. PLEASE CHOOSE EDWARD OR OBAMA TO SUCCESSFULLY CARRY THE FLAG OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

I think most people believe that Hillary's comments were not racially motivated. Granted she could have said it in a better way, but nonetheless it was not racially motivated.

Yet the Obama supporters immediately turned this into a racial issue. I assume Obama found this strategy to be acceptable because he did not attempt to censure his supporters from making it a racial issue.

I was hoping for Obama to take the high road, to tell his supporters that they are wrong, that he does not see this as a negative remark on black people, that just because any criticism is heaped upon a black person does not automatically make it a racial issue. This was a fine opportunity for Obama to show that he is color blind. But he failed to rise above the occasion, to lead people to a high moral ground. A great opportunity was squandered indeed. There is a saying that in tough time, one's true color will show. I guess Obama has just shown us his true color....and it is definitely not color blind.

This could be a harbinger that Obama might just be the type of person who would invoke the racial issue every time we the citizen have any strong criticism against him. If he were elected president, it could be a daunting task to criticize him lest we be labeled racists. I'm having doubts about him.

Mario Uy
Streamwood IL

Obama supporters are probably the same people who voted for Bush because they didn't like Kerry..look where that got us. 4 years from now we will be at this again, because the republicans are going to attack Obama, if he wins the nomination, with all his dirty laundry that the democrats aren't allowed to bring up.
For the Hillary haters...I don't have to like her, which I don't by the way. I don't want her to be my friend. She has told me in the last few months what she sees wrong with our country and how he intends to fix it. She doesn't stutter through answers and hesitate in telling me what she thinks. I might not agree with her 100% of the time, but she's telling me what she'll do. He can't even come up with an Economy Plan of his own, he has to come up with one similiar to hers. He can't be bothered to take a stand on issues enough to vote in the Senate, but he wants us as Americans to believe he'll do differently as President. Obama has the words of CHANGE, UNITE, AND HOPE.
What is he going to CHANGE? How is he going to make these CHANGES? I've checked his website and I still didn't see any specifics.
He wants to UNITE this country? How does he plan to UNITE billions of people? People have been trying for centuries and it hasn't happened. What makes him think he can. The closest we came to being UNITED was during 9/11and that only lasted for a few months and then people went on with their lives and now we unite once a year on the 9/11 anniversay. Sorry everyone, but I for one don't want to be UNITED under those circumstances again.
He's going to give us HOPE? I can HOPE for a better future all on my own, I don't need him for that.

I want experience in the White House, not a rookie.

But that's the exact opposite of the argument Bill Clinton made last week when he defended the vote suppression lawsuit. Sadly the only conclusion I can draw is Bill Clinton is a liar and I can no longer trust him.

Hillary had the support of the whole Nevada Democratic party apparatus. In some caucuses they outnumbered Obama operatives two to one. There's nothing unfair about that advantage, she probably worked hard to win Harry Reid's support.

From what I've read about Hillary's campaign use of underhanded, undemocratic tactics yesterday I'm very disappointed. I'm a Democratic precinct committeeman, will be 52 next Thursday. I'm no babe in the woods, I've been working my butt off for Democratic candidates for decades on my time and my dime. I'd quit before I'd engage in those kind of tactics. If this keeps up and she wins the nomination pulling that garbage she'll have find someone else to turn out votes for her in my precinct. I won't do it.

She said she found "her own voice" after NH, (btw finding her own voice at age 60? She's just now "finding herself" and learning how to present herself to voters? That's some 35 years of experience she's got going there. It sounds more like after years of trying everything under the sun she was just happy that something finally clicked in NH.) Now she wants to be my voice. I'm sorry Hillary nobody who does the things your campaign does speaks for me.

But I never thought the day would come when I would detest Bill Clinton. The clinton's naked hunger for power and the way they have demonstrated they they will say and do anything - including exploiting race, religion, admitted past foibles - to get there have been extremely disappointing.

Hillary , it is clear now, will be anointed the party's candidate , thanks in large part to Bill Clinton with his carefully timed 'explosive anger' episodes that served them well in spreading canards, the Clinton surrogates who, for weeks, have been playing the dirty games with known facts about Obama's past drug use and his father being a muslim. But, I guess that is what they mean when they say Hillary has a well run campaign , the famed Clinton machine

Cynicism is easy ... Optimism , especially these days is not . At least not on the Democrats' side. So, unless a miracle occurs sometime between now and March , it is candidate Hillary Clinton and I, for one, will vote for Mc Cain unless, of course there is a Obama-Bloomberg independent ticket .

"Too bad the country is only 14% african american. Unless Obama wins 90% of that vote it isnt going to turn the election."

Before this past month she was winning the black vote but her other numbers were going down so the Clinton attack machine went into overdrive........

No spin "Tom", all her oh so apologetic or FIRED surrogates did their jobs real well within the last month, they spewed lies, hate and bigoted specific remarks towards Obama to purposely DIVIDE and conquer.

When he had the nerve to speak back, the media turned it into a BS race war and the foolish WHITE clintonista liberals flocked to her as the media DISTORTED the whole story.

Smart move, as just like you say, why bother with the 14% of the population when you can use racist attacks to fool the the MAJORITY.

Part two of the "master" plan was the STATED GOAL of her campaign to make her APPEAR to be softer and gentler and along with the smears and fears it fooled the majority of woman into thinking she was really "one of them".

A simple question of "How do you do it" causes her eyes to well up and get weepy, but talking about her LYING, PERJURED, ADULTERER "husband" CHEATING on her, brought nary a hint of tears on the Tyra Banks show.

The Clinton's have made a mastery of dumbing down the electorate and you sheep with the help of the media, fall for it hook, line and sinker.

Dirty money, smears, racism from surrogates, flip flopping from one debate to another, planted questions, planted PEOPLE, playing the gender card, using Mommy and Daughter as props are all just examples of what has gone on in plain view and in reality the media has not been tough enough on her as all these would have BROUGHT ANY OTHER CANDIDATE DOWN, but not the annointed one.

ABC.

Was anyone around when the republicans had the swift boats for "truth". When they slammed a guy who was in Vietnam (a harrowing experience) to support a man who cowered out in the Texas Air Guard? (That's if he really did serve his time in the guard) My late Father-in-law ran boats from the supply ships at sea, to bases inland. He never talked about it with his family, and only once did he open up to me about it, knowing my strong background in military history. My wife was shocked to hear him talk about it. It was an experience you would have to be a sick person to hold AGAINST a person. Now THAT is a disgusting display of political tactics.

So for all you crying foul, stop. What do you expect?

I don't care what race or gender a person is.....what does interest me is their resume. If I go for a job, I need to provide a resume to allow the company to see if I have the necessary qualifications to fill the positon. If I'm a waitress with no education and I am seeking the position of a Marine Engineer do you think I would get the job? Do you think the company would say "let;s give her a shot." I think NOT! regardless of how nice this person may be. Wake up American, we cannot put someone in the Whitehouse if they do not have the necessary qualifications to fill the position.