Jake, the most effective way to get your point across, particularly when your goal is to promote your candidate over another should not be to disparage the other candidate.

Hillary is a tremendous politician, without question, and if she were to garner the nomination, I'm sure that she would do a fine job in representing the Democrats in the general election against John McCann.

Personally, I'm a supporter of Obama. And my support for him has nothing to do with race or gender or dislike or disregard for any other candidate. In fact, I respect each candidate remaining in the race no matter their party affiliation.

And conversely, I disagree with EACH (including Obama) on certain platforms. For instance, Hillary's stance on freezing interest rates to help the current housing crunch or mandating Universal Healthcare are both, in my opinion, bad ideas for the economy as currently constructed.

Obama and McCain's stances on illegal immigration which would allow an illegal to stay in the US forever simply by paying a fine, I feel is unfair to those who put in the time and effort to come to the US legally.

The bottom line is, no one candidate is going to make all of your dreams come true. But for me, Obama's message resonates because it harkens back to the fundamentals to which this country was formed. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A government of the people, by the people, for the people.

This country was once universally viewed around the world as great, and I believe we can be great again. And in my humble opinion, Barack is the leader that can make that dream a reality.

The Hillary supporters remain BLIND to several major facts:

The Clintons carry with them:

1. Special disgust by most Independents and Republicans.

2 Excessive dirty baggages (Blue dress interns etc), by their own designs.

3. Are very unpopular (especially Hillary) in the U.S. and around the world b/c of the last few years of the Clinton scandals, impeachment etc.

4. Are actually fighting, not for the "soul" of the nation or the Dem party, but to lay the foundation for Chelsea to be President in the future.

5. Hillary may be "famous" because of Bill, but she is "un-electable" b/c of her high NEGATIVES (compared to Gore and Kerry); there will be people who will come out to VOTE against Hillary (including this Independent observer). So, the Dems better wake up!!! Any woman nominee but Hillary can do a better job. May be Laura Bush should compete, given her recent 8 years of experience!!!!!

Ron Paul, im sure is a good person, and has lots of good ideas, but he is too out there, would never be able to get the things done he talks about. It wouldn't work, and he just does not have the backing to go anywhere as president. If he had more people behind him, he might go further, but the numbers tell the story. It does not have anything to do with the media. If he was a viable candidate, and he had anything to say that would work, the media would see it and report on it. Wake up people, if you want to find out more about a candidate, its not the responsibility of the media, it is your responsibility. You have to make decisions for yourself, not rely on others to do it for you. They all have web sites. I know I have researched and read up on several candidates, and what they stand for, and what experience they have and have made an informed decision on who I will vote for, which has not changed since I decided months ago, but at least I am informed on the issues, and who I think will make the best president, based on change, unity of our country, dipomacy with other countries, issues in our country, ability to be bipartisan and work well across the table, management style, education, speaking style and so on, It does not have anything to do with color, gender, party, race. It has everything to with the mess our country is in, and who the best person is to help us get out of it and how they work with others.

I was kind of hoping he would stay in it and play the "ralph nader: role in the general election, only on the conservative side….to this day, part of me is convinced Nader is secretly on the take from the RNC, b/c if he really wanted to make change (or at least have a chance to implement policy) he would run for congress with a realistic chance of winning (yeah I know it sounds silly, but still)…

And even though I am an Obama supporter, I certainly would have liked Paul (and Kucinich, Gravel) to get more media attention in the name of fairness in the media at least in regard to attention/exposure, which in this season might be oxymoronic.

To all of you posting comments about the Hillary vs Obama article, the comments link is at the end of the story, not above the headline. Follow the directions. That is why so many of you in Florida voted for Pat Buchanon or George Bush back in 2000.

It's ironic that Ron's ideas are now considered to be insane when most of what is going on in the country is insane.

If, in the process of psychological evaluation, it is discovered that you are spending money that you don't have, the money that you are spending is only pretend and you are forcing people to take it as payment at the point of a gun, you are choosing servitude over freedom, you are voluntarily giving away your wealth, you are leaving the door to your home open to allow people to enter to take your possessions, you are murdering innocent people because terrorists are out to get you, and you justify all of this by saying that things are different now, do you think that they would allow you to walk the streets?

Keep going Ron Paul. You provide a service to the country. A mighty oak tree begins with a seed!

Isn't a shame the only real republican is going down in flames. I would vote for Ron Paul because I am a republican.
I will never vote for Mccain. He is just an old man who really has done anything for
this country. Sure he is a war hero. What about the thousands of young Americans
who died in that ridiculois war?
What about the young men who died in this oil war with Irak?
Incidentally it is not a war!! We won the war when we disposed with Sadam!!
iT IS NOTHING MORE THAN POLICE ACTION TO MAKE SURE WE GET THE OIL

One of my parents is a minority but I support Ron Paul. To whomever stated he's a closeted racist, I'm sure Hilary and the rest of the Republicans are 'closeted' racists as well. I know, I know, McCain has an adopted child from Bangladesh but I know lots of folks married to Asians or Asian adopted kids and they are still racists.

Anyway it's appalling how Ron Paul has been treated by the media. How is Paul a lunatic? Is not wanting war lunacy? Is voting against the Patriotic Act lunacy? Is voting against Real ID lunacy?

How can Americans be fed up with the war but go around an vote for "100 years of war" McCain. Hilary voted for the war herself. It makes no sense. Americans don't want the war to continue but are so eager to vote for someone who'll let it linger for who knows how long. Then someone like Paul, who wants to end this war ASAP and who does not want war against Iran is considered a lunatic?

This was my first time voting so please CNN, FOX, and the American people I ask all of you why is it normal to LOVE war. Why do you give so much attention to candidates who love war. Why is loving war normal? I don't understand. Why are we people who don't want war crazy? Why will loving war make me a normal person in the eyes of the media and my fellow Americans.

I still say Ron Paul is a nut but I am now prepared to say proudly that he is a Patriot as well.

"But that does not affect my determination to fight on, in every caucus and primary remaining, and at the convention for our ideas, with just as many delegates as I can get," her wrote.

There's a typo in this sentence. It should be "he wrote," not "her wrote." Just a heads up.

Dear Ron Paul,

I disagree that you are a Republican. Your Libertarian ideals are what are making you so popular. Libertarianism is back, and you have shown the way. Reject the parties of corporatism, big taxes, and world wars… Republicans and Democrats are one and the same. You have nothing in common with them.

That is why I am voting for you.

"I used to be a Democrat"

"have a clear conservative — a clear, strict interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, then you don't have to worry about what their decisions will be, because it's pretty obvious that people who strictly interpret the Constitution of the United States are worthy of our confidence."

Should this be the standard to be a PRESIDENT..then it should be clear that Ron Paul is the only canadate that fits that standard

Senator Obama says he wants to help people. However, during Senator Obama's tenure as Illinois State Representative and U.S. Senator, Senator Obama has not helped the status of Negroes. In Chicago, an overwhelmingly percentage of African Americans are high school drops. In Chicago, African Americans are experiencing high unemployment. If Senator Obama has not helped African Americans, how is he doing to offer hope to Anglos, Hispanics and other Americans?

"But that does not affect my determination to fight on, in every caucus and primary remaining, and at the convention for our ideas, with just as many delegates as I can get," her wrote.

Should be he wrote, not her wrote

Wow the media decides to report on Ron Paul in long time. I am writing in Ron Paul's name even if he doesn't get the nominee. Everyone else should do the same! McCain is just as bad as the dems. We will have another four years of disaster and there will most likely be a draft so, Kids be prepared for this. Thousands of more american troop will die in these wars ahead of us. Our economy is going to crash so lets be prepared for this too. So buy your gold and silver now because the dollar is no longer going to be worth anything anymore. I am also refusing to get a national I.D. Card and you guys should do the same, no it doesn't mean we're terrorists or convicts or Illigals it means we are American Citezens fighting for our liberties.

CNN thanks for finally reporting on Ron Paul it really made a difference!

Give me liberty or give me death

It's great to see the support that Dr. Paul has from all sections of America. I agree that when the Republican party left it's conservative roots it handed the election to the Dems. John McCain couldn't beat anyone that the Dems had up. But the real message from the Paul campaign is that this is the beginning of a revolution to take back the party and America, and not just in Washington, but in city halls, and town councils and state houses and in Congress. One man alone can not change the world, but with the inspiration of Dr. Paul, we will see a flood of conservative citizens running for partisan offices nationwide in the coming months and years. This is more than just a presidential campaign focused on one man, it is the beginning of a movement for freedom and it has only just begun. Check and see the bent of the Republican party in a couple of years and it will make the Reagan years look like a bunch of new dealers. Americans are sick of wasting money and losing civil freedoms to a bunch of self-serving hypocrites. Change is coming and many will be taken to task for they're actions.

Ron Paul, I sincerely wish you were the Republican nominee, as I would vote for you; I am an Independent.

I do not believe, however, that your continued presence in this race does anything more than waste your supporters money.

Go back to Texas and win your seat in Congress; perhaps, having highlighted the importance of the CONSTITUTION during your campaign, you may have awakened some Americans and you might just have a few more allies in Congress now…

McCain is toast and will never be elected…

Jake

You write:

"Ok, yeah, Obama is a nice guy and appeals to the "multitudes", but what can he really do for US? I've heard alot of rhetoric, but nothing substinative"

Whats about Hillary ??

She speaks about a plan without any definition and funding support, stating that it
offers coverage to 100% of Americans and Obama's does not. She does not know how to enforce it and I suspect that her real goal is to implement free
healthcare paid by taxes similar to the disastrouus Canadian OHIP, which is abused by many and other flock across the border to get a decent medical attention.

Factually, neither Obamas is defined nor funding supported, but it is outrageous
that Hillary continues to propagate the falsety that it does not offer coverage to all!!
IT OFFERS IT TO 100%, but does not impose it to whom does not want it and states that the latter will have to pay for any emergency asistance.

The only way to achieve obligatory universal coverage is make it obligatory and pay for it by deductions from salary and other income, as in Germany.and many other countries. But as Ameicans does not want such, Hillary does not consider it!

TOM

How unfortunate that CNN decides to give Mr. Paul coverage now.

Shame on you for your blatant blacout of his entire campaign.

You will reap what you sow, and wonder if it was all worth it.

I am ashamed at the way CNN goes after Hillary Clinton–clothes, replay of sound bites that depict her in a negative light, calling her polarizing, and placing pictures of her that portrait her as unapproachable. I have yet to see or hear these things as it relates of the old white men running for president, and I don't hear or see them about Obama. Of course I realize that the network is behindObama's campaign and trying to sway the votes toward him–right now. Of course if he gets the nominatin, there will be plenty of sound bites and ugly pictures to show the audience.

Hey! Go after all the candidates equally!!! I do suppose it is hard to swallow that there is a women smart, strong, and an independent thinker–perhaps a threat to the "good ole boys".

what does this article have to do with obama?

End sexism in the 21st century, vote for Hillary!

Ron Paul may be our last hope to take our country back.

He's a Fiscal Conservative and will work to take back our economy.

If we stay today's course. In less than 20 years the War will bankrupt our country. Just like the former USSR.

Do you remember ?

Those who forget History. Are doomed to repeat it.

DS

Ron Paul, you never got close to the chance you should of. From FOX NEWS calling you crazy, to Giuliani laughing at you, to the rest of the media constantly saying you can't win. You have brought up subjects and ideas that don't get talked about in America, that really should be. You were the only one in the race on either side that spoke the truth of the actual changes that need to be made within our government, as well as within our own minds. Let's be honest, we're in for another 4 years of war and recession, maybe even depression, if Ron Paul doesn't pull a miracle out. God bless you Ron Paul; I will continue to send money to your campaign.

To the first two posters……franklee and jake, what exactly does this article have to do with Obama? NOTHING!!!!! The fact is this article is about RON PAUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you want to write about Obama or Hillary…..find an article about one of them to post on.

I like Ron Paul. I really hoped that he would have done better in this race, but it looks like the media has basically pulled the plug on his campaign. Did anyone notice during the Reagan Library debate the moderators kept cutting him and Mike Huckabee off if they were allowed to answer at all? It was actually quite sad to see. I actually like some of his ideas. I could have seen myself voting for him, if I were a Republican.

As a Democrat I could have seen myself voting for him in the general, depending of course on who the Democratic nominee is.

I have been watching your elections from South Africa with keen intrest. I hope Hillary Clinton wins. Would be good to see what a women can do in a mans world. Obama would be my second choice. As for those republicans keep them out they all like Bush and the world despises the peanut.

hey "concerned voter" maybe if Hillary Clinton didn't, you know, play dirty so much she would get better coverage. Just a thought.

It is sad that Ron Paul doesn't get hardly any news coverage when he is the only person at the republican debates that didn't sound like a lunatic.

Not that I care THAT much since I was planning to vote for a Democrat anyway since I had Paul's domestic policy, but still, he deserved at least a little more attention.

I like Ron Paul. He is the only Republican I've ever heard who speaks with good sense. Maybe that's why his campaign has not been successful with Republicans. If he can appeal to someone like me who is far left of center, then he probably does not appeal to the die-hard Republican. I personally support Obama and I'm cautiously optimistic that he will win the Democratic nomination. If Obama does not win the Democratc nomination, I will not vote for Hillary.

Hillary was my girl but I have been saddened by the type of devisive campaign she has run. Even her supporters, who seem to be the majority on the CNN blogs, are devisive.

If Obama receives the endorsement of an African American, Hillary supporters say Obama received the endorsement because of race.

However, if Hillary receives the endorsement of a white person or a woman, neither of those endorsers are insulted by saying they support her because she is white and female.

Hillary is not good for America.

If I had to choose between Hillary and Ron Paul, Ron Paul would win hands down.

I know a lot of people will vote for Huckabee. My husband and I will vote for him for sure. We believe God is the One who puts one in the office of His choice.We are happy with whoever is His chosen and pray for him. (God–JESUS is His name, and also "…….the ruler of the kings of the earth…….' (Rev. 1:5). Be at peace , let;s see how He does it! He is in full control. I also believe miracles, but most likely His way is normal, hidden, and wonderful. He is really good at being God.

The revolution lives on…

""But that does not affect my determination to fight on, in every caucus and primary remaining, and at the convention for our ideas, with just as many delegates as I can get," her wrote."

Her wrote? Yes her DID!

What a sad state of affairs we are in when the candidate with the most experience on the economy gets laughed at and ignored by the media. Ron Paul has spent over 20 years in public service to help fix the bad monetary policies coming out of Washington, and his voting record proves it.

Notice how Ron Paul is excluded from the Categories on the right of the CNN ticker webpage? Yet they include Edwards and Romney even though they dropped out! How low and sleazy can you get, CNN?

My hope now is for Bloomberg to throw his hat in the ring.

Holy . . . CNN covered Paul!

Kids, gather round, call the parents, ma' and pa', everyone look . . .

. . . There it is.

. . . CNN, a news network, covered Paul.

Why not a picture of him? I know I've seen enough pictures of Huckabee, Romney, Barack, Bill Clinton, and whoever else is running in this race. Why not a picture of Ron?

His ideas don't belong in the Republican party. I think he can make a good team with Denis Kunicik and Edward Kennedy.

RON PAUL, being an idealist, is at least more realistic as his fanatic supporters
by rejecting the absurd idea of an independent candidature

I also understand his emphasis on trying to ensure his Hause re-election.

But I do not understand his willingness to continue in the primaries, without any
chance o a brokered convention, which only diminish the Republican chances by
forcing McCain to invest some energy and money there, instead to concentrate on
the fight of the Dems

Mr. PAUL:

your prestige and influence would be greatly enhanced if you withdraw !!

TOM

I dont know how the GOP thinks it can win any election with a war monger as top dog. 70% of Americans want out of Iraq…Obama is getting not only the democrat vote he is also getting the independent and jaded republican vote in which is now being called a movement. The GOP should of embraced the movement coined the revolution of Ron Paul. The GOP has lost its way because it has gone against its own principals of small government, fiscal responsibility, and a humble foreign policy. I will switch my self to undeclared as soon as this election is over. The GOP with its snickering candidates and total disregard for Ron Paul and his supporters has made me not believe that anyone who is running for office is in it for any other reason than their own selfish motivation. I urge all Ron Paul supporters to stay in it until the end, and if Ron Paul is not on the ticket vote democrat….four years of tax and spend might wake the GOP up to what the base wants. As for me, I will not vote for John McCain just because he has an R beside his name does not make him a republican.

I'm very upset with the media coverage they have been unfair towards Hillary Clinton, Obama has been given a free ride. Why are you not going after his record, and we don't know his accomplishments we all know Hillary past the Clitons have been dragged through the mud for the last fifteen years. This is a man that has no plans you can't just draw our troops out with no backing no substance. I'm just asking cnn to be fair to all candiates treat them the same.
I feel that media is trying to brain wash us, this is not a joke this just to important, and we can't have another unexperience president . We are a joke world wide thanks to mr.Bush. The Clintons are very loved we had a great 8yrs. We need them back Hillary can beat John McCain. Can you please put this on a fair game to Hillary,McCain,andHuckabee. No more 85% towards Obama how wonderful he is, so you say, give the facts.

It is truly sad that Ron Paul doesn't get as much coverage as the other republicans. I like his message even though I think he's a closet racist and is a little wacky.

Ron Paul, even if you do not win you have shone a light onto topics we as Americans should be discussing. What you speak is the truth even if the MSM will not acknowledge it.

Ron Paul is the best man for the job.

If Ron Paul does not win the election it will be a sad day for America.

Example of someone running for president and also running for congress at the same time.

Ok, yeah, Obama is a nice guy and appeals to the "multitudes", but what can he really do for US? I've heard alot of rhetoric, but nothing substinative. As a life-long democrat, I just can't vote for someone who is so full of hot air. Hillary is "the girl" for US! She has definitive ideas and knows how to make it work! Don't be fooled by the hot air. If you want someone who can take our party to the WhiteHouse, Vote for the Hill!

Obama is very mean, rude, corrupt, shameless person. He is a divider rather than uniter .

He has been playing race card(Now he got he wanted, almost all African-Americans vote for him in every state), and playing games of JFK, MLK, Regan, Kerry, now Ted Kennedy..

What next? Bush? YES.

Indeed He is another inexperienced, divisive BUSH, we American DO NOT want suffer from Obama, and we should block the his way to White House!

Shame Obama!