(CNN) - Illinois Sen. Barack Obama carries momentum from a sweep of weekend contests into this week's primaries in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Virginia.
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, is coming off a campaign shake-up, while her advisers are seeking to lower expectations for this month's Democratic contests.
Obama came out ahead in Sunday's Democratic caucuses in Maine after wins in Saturday's Louisiana primary and Democratic caucuses in Nebraska, Washington and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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More Experience? Obama – 11 years Judicial Experience; Hillary – 7 years Judicial Experience. (Being First Lady does not count unless you feel Barbara Bush, Laura Bush, Roslyn Carter, Nancy Reagan and other first ladies would also be qualified to run for President.)
Health Care Program? Obama – Gives you a choice and covers you if you can't afford it; Hillary – Mandated and includes garnishment of wages to collect your premiums. What every employer wants...to be a collection agency.
Economic Plan? Obama – Rated A-; Clinton's C+ by Washington Post and other Economists. Economic crisis is the result of the war and our billions of debt to China and other countries to support it. Hillary voted for the war!
The War and Economics? Obama was against the war. Hillary put us there.
Mortgage Crisis? Obama – Provides a Realistic Plan to Help Struggling Homeowners; Hillary offers a 90 Day Moratorium...of no help now when its needed and not enough time anyway...ask anyone who is trying to work with their lender.
Ability to Bring People Together? Ask the Senator Cooper from Tennessee who created a health plan similar to Hillary in the '90's and was told by Hillary that she would "crush him" and set out to do just that. He's supporting Barack Obama.
Resume? Barack started his legal career as a community organizer and civil rights atttorney; Hillary started her legal career as a corporate lawyer who also served on the board of WalMart, a corporation with one of the worst track records in the country with respect to labor and employment law violations.
You choose!
If our country was a true representative democracy, then Obama should already be president...instead it will come to down to the establishment candidate in the end, hillary, getting more superdelegates....
Then the extremely boring hillary/mccain snorefest can ensue...one voted for iraq but didn't mean it, the other supported the surge, and millions of excited younger people who finally feel their votes count will once again have no reason to even care, tune out, and be disenfranchised once again by two establishment candidates....
What exactly does Obama want to do? I've heard two of his speeches, and
pieces of several others, and all that can be discerned is: get out of Iraq and promote universal college education, both are appeasl to younger, less experienced voters. Obama's brief experience as a US senator and his lack of focus are not enough to win in November, despite the so-called "polls" that amount to nothing more than familar calls in all the usual neighborhoods,
to try to influence the election. He can't just keep repeating slogans like "change" and "hope" without any concrete plans and expect to win on a national level. He is wining blue primaries now in Red states–they will have no impact in November's results.
I think Obama looks like a leader and Mrs. Clinton looks like a follower.
I'm not just talking about the obvious issue of the Iraq war.
On healthcare, which Mrs. Clinton has made her forceful signature issue, she was the third candidate to release her plan- after both Obama and Edwards released theirs. The Clinton plan was almost identical to the Edwards plan.
Americans want a leader with courage and good judgement.
Lisa........Your comment is Gender prejudice you need to know which candidate is going to be truthful to the American people and that candidate is Obama.
Charlotte.....The majority of African American will stay loyal to the party...the Democratic party. And you must not have listened to the whole speech, otherwise you will have heard about Senator Obama implementing his version of universal health care by the end of his first term. You would have heard about his ending this war in 2009 and bringing our (and my) fellow soldiers home. You must have missed where he said that he would talk to our Allies and well as our Enemies. I could go on and on, but obviously you need to go back and listen to his whole speech again, and listen with an open ear and not a closed one.
Jim, how is it Hillary has more experience when Obama has held office 2 years longer than her? Bill's experience cannot be counted as her own.
Just please anyone that is touting her "more" experience please list it in comparison to Obama. Make me a believer.
OBAMA 08!!!
I entered this polical season voting for Hillary thinking Obama was a charismatic personality and wouldn't last under scrutiny. I have changed my mind. As I see it Hillary doesn't have any more experience than Barack. Both have been U.S. Senators. Hillary has the experience as first lady of a popular president but that isn't experience as a leader or the campaign might be between her and Nancy Reagan because Ronald Reagan was also a popular president. Hillary has some good ideas but they are matched by Barack's ideas. Barack hasn't ridden coattails to get there. He has proven he can lead. I vote for Barack Obama.
Actually, I would say that Obama won Super Tuesday by getting more of the states that were up for grabs. Clinton just got the two largest states.
Eli in Milwaukee: Bill's experience cannot be counted as her own.
Oh yes it can! My friend is a cop and he gives his gun to his wife all the time to go and shoot criminals. How could you say such a thing?
GO OBAMA !!!!!! THERE IS AN AFRICAN SAYING THAT SAYS ... WHEN U CONTINUE TO PURSUE AN INNOCENT MAN WITH NO JUST CAUSE HE RUNSS INTO A BETTER PLACE. SHAME ON YALLL SUPERDELEGATES TRYING TO OVER SHADOW THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE . SHAME ON YOU BILLARY FOR TRYNA INJECT THE RACIAL FORCE INTO THE CAMPAIGN, AMERICAN ARE NOT FOOLS .... YES WE CAN......................OBAMA 08!!!!!
Eli... Hillary has been the JR Senator of New York for almost 7 years now, Mr. Obama has been a real senator for almost 3 year years. I am not talking about a State Senator of ILL
Also, in Mr. Obama's speeches, all he talks about change... He says everthing to make us feel good, but feeling good will not fix the problems we have. REMEMBER, Bush talk about change when he campaigned in 2000, and NO I am not comparing Senator Obama to GEORGE BUSH BY NO MEANS!!!!!
WHAT KIND OF CHANGE?????
Denial Denial Denial
That is all I hear. When will people face the fact that Obama is for REAL? Can you say S_W_E_E_P?? and not by 4 or 5 points but Double digits!!!!
He is leading Hillary when she thought the Whitehouse was hers for the taking.
It sounds like the Bush style denial and blindness has hit the Dems now!
How can some of you keep saying we need a woman to straighten things up? Is it just because we have always had men as presidents and therefore they have always screwed the country up?
If thats the logic you represent then Obama should be the president because we have never had a Black of any gender running our country and therefore all white people must not know how to run a country....Sounds stupid doesn't it? EXACTLY! I will NEVER vote for anyone because of race or gender. I will always vote for the person I think could do more for this country and its people overall.
And for that reason I will be voting for OBAMA!
OBAMA 08!!
So if Hillary being first lady qualifies her to be president, does that qualify a brain surgeons spouse to perform brain surgery? If you think being married to someone makes them qulaified to do their job, you may have already had that surgery.
Charlotte,
Powell has already endorsed Obama. If McCain chooses Rice it will futher be a referendem on Bush. McCain will have no chance.
I will vote for OBAMA because he will lead the Democratic Party to the Presidency in 2008! OBAMA ALL THE WAY
For the people who say Obama has no substance. What it really means is they haven't done their own research! If all you do is watch TV and expect to find all your answers from news rooms then shame on you. If you really want to know about the brilliance, depth and "specifics" of an Obama presidency go to his website. read his books, take a look at his 10 year record in the State Senate. He was a constittutional law professor for 10 years, a civil rights attorney and as you know a community leader. He's put himself out there for you to know where he stands. He held over 30 town meetings all over Illinois his first year as a US Senator to stay connected to the needs of the people. If you don't know about Obama, it's because you don't want to know about him. Don't blame him for that, what do you want him to do read to you. One more thing if you compare Obama's overall time in elected office to Hillary's he's actually spent more time in elected office and he won both his elections the one in 1994 and in 2004 quite handily.
Why are my comments still awaiting moderation? There is no inappropriate language. Are you also trying to bias the political tickers in favor of your candidate, Obama???