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It is time for Obama to get out I can not stand to watch him and hear empy promises blaaahhhh

HILARY 2008 OR MCannneyyyyyy

Hang in there Hillary. Don't drop out. You have my vote.

I hope Hillary does not drop out of the race. Obama will never win the general election. America was initially deceived by this man. It is time to now wake up. Wright should have no access at all to the White House. He is a racist.

It seems to me that Clinton staying in at this point is ego driven more than anything. Mathematically, it would be extremely difficult for her to win. The only definate win she can count on at this point is Pennsylvania. A week later, a state with nearly as many delegates, South Carolina, is a likely Obama State. There are a few in the air, but Obama is likely to win most considering they are mostly in regions than have favored him. This isn't as bad as Huckabee staying in the race too long in that she is a lot closer, but she is mostly only hurting the party and her image at this point.

Hillary is determined to either win or spoil Barak's chance of winning in 2008 so she can run against McCain in 2012. It's so transparent that even I can see it! Why can't the talking heads see it?

Looks like the censor is at it again.

Do they really want McCain to win that badly?

Wow these Obama supporters are really getting nervous because they are going to continue to issue pleas for surrender. I wonder why they do not have more confidence in their candidate. Could it be that the race is actually closer than they would like us to believe.???? I think Hillary should answer it the same way they did when the Germans had the Americans surrounded in WWII. .........NUTS!

Ha. CNN, you guys are terrific and predictable. Thanks for the laugh. Pure journalism slug that you could pick a creepy picture like this for the story. Go back to journalism school.

Great idea! Too bad Hillary can't count!!!

First off. Look at Mc Cain..EVERYONE technically didn't get to vote. This is how it goes. I live Indiana and we have to face the music. Our primary vote never counts. So big deal..We will see you in 4 years Billary!

no, stop, let the people decide...

The people or the superdelagtes? For the party's sake, please make up your mind.

Well per what the Clinton campaign said before Texas and Ohio and that she had to carry both states convincingly or she would need to drop out has become tucked under the rug. Obama won more delegates in Texas and therefore she didnt win it convincingly. I do have to say that this seems like the same old change the rules as we go and I honestly cant see me voting someone to be president with that kind of trend as she has shown throughout this campaign.

Obama 08
Austin Texas

Shock–another Obama supporter wanting Clinton out. As someone who is finally, for the first time in my decades of voting, going to get to vote in a primary that is not yet done and over, I wish these people would just let it alone. Let the process play out.

so says another of the good ol' boys. GO HILLARY!

There are numerous Super Delegates endorsing Obama, where their constituencies have not. Do the math, they both have an equal shot. Folks like Leahy just don't want to get caught on the losing side. It's all self serving.

Really? I would think she got that figured out by now.....oh wait! The fuzzy math thing.

I think its a huge call.

Does anybody really care at all what Patrick Leahy has to say?

But he dare not say : Candidate with more votes must be the nominee.

Because that is anti-rule.

So, what he said is just nothing, although he is "The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and six-term Vermont lawmaker ".

And the avalanche of super delegates wanting Clinton out continues....

Go Obama!

True.. Well said Senator.

Give it up Leahy. The only reason you want Obama in the White House is so that you and your old Dem fogies can run over him...you can't do that with Hillary. Go take a nap, it's past your time.

Once again, an Obama supporter doesn't want everyone to be heard. Why did the Democratic Party set up the primaries to go into June, if they wanted it finished in February? Why say the winner has to reach 2025 and create super delegates if you just want to go by total delegates? The Obama supporters need to quit changing the rules and moving the goal post. The double standard being applied to these candidates is really stomach turning.

I know HRC supporters will be infuriated by this article. However, Leahy's comment that "Senator Clinton has every right, but not a very good reason, to remain a candidate..." is really very true.

Similarly on the Pelosi/Clinton-donor argument, Speaker Pelosi never said that superdelegates are not allowed or do not have the right to go against the pledged delegates. She simply said it would be bad for the party. In other words, they have the right but not a very good reason to do so.

HRC supporters out there: your candidate is an extraordinarily impressive political leader and I would vote for her if she were nominated. She has the right to carry her campaign on for many mroe months. But at this stage, the only way for her to get that nomination is to either win every remaining state by more than 60-40 margins, or to get superdelegates to counteract the pledged delegates and popular vote. The former is simply not going to happen and the latter would be destructive for the party.

By the Clinton comments, then all of the Democratic candidates who were originally running should still be running. I am sure they would be telling Obama to get out if the roles were reversed.

Perhaps it is time for the Superdelegates and other Democratic powers to make some difficult decisions and announce their preferences for the strongest candidate.

Please,please save us the agony of wasting millions of $$ and lots of valuable air time watching the Clinton Camp trying to find more inane ways of discrediting Obama.....I really, really worry about what they will do to win Pennsylvania. I have no absolutely faith in the integrity of the Clinton campaign. I believe they will resort to ANYTHING to win.

Ladies and Gentlemen who are leaders of the Democratic Party...GET YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hillary needs to man-up and bow out. She has a better chance of getting red wine chunder out of a duck down duvet than winning the nomination at this point.

hmm...Another Obama supporter wants Hillary out of the race. Who is suprised?

Let the people vote and decide who they think the candidate should be. If this goes to June it goes to June. It wasn't untill recent years that the primary season ended so early and a candidate was chosen after a few elite states voted.

The states that are hurting the most are the ones being ignored. Let Pennsylvania vote, let Michigan vote, let Florida vote. We deserve a voice!

Hillary is a joke... She doesn't care about the Democratic party, she only cares about herself.

On a side note, I could understand the Clinton arguement that superdelegates should vote their conscience if the "pledged delegates" vote was close but, they are not. OBAMA is blowing her away. She should have stepped aside a long time ago.

I guess he doesn't feel TEN states should have their say.....how democratic of him.

My if all these people are so sure Obama is the nominee, why do they all sound so desperate and scared to finish a primary? They sound like a bunch of wooses wringing their hands over letting people vote.

CNN- Do you have the data to produce a trend line graph of the superdelegates? It seems to me that Senator Clinton had not gained many superdelegates over time. Her number has been stagnant, while Obama has made a steady climb in superdelegates. I think looking at a graph like that might be really telling as to who will have the ultimate advantage with superdelegates. If nothing else, it would be interesting to see.

Wow, this makes what 6+ super delegates this week alone, advising HRC to step down. Obama is being endorsed by additional supers, I wouldn't be at all surprised if a good majority more endorse Obama by the end of April, maybe within 2 weeks. Especially now that McCain is starting Presedential ads, HRC's unfavorable ratings are climbing and the mere fact that Obama does have more delegates and popular votes.

This is restating the obvious, but she is impevious to reason.

Dear Sir:

It would be nice if one of the commentator's on CNN would state that Senator Obama got the must total votes in Texas not Clinton. Since Texas has the famous "two step" primary and I know that that Clinton won the first part of the "two step process" but Obama won the second part of the "two step process" that gave Obama more of the delagates. Please have someone state that real clear on the evening CNN's political news, thank you very much. I think the public should know this fact, don't you?

Sincerely,

Bob Brock

Why? What about Michigan and Florida – Go Hillary Go

Ms. Clinton’s pastor speaking about Rev Wright this morning:

“”The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is an outstanding church leader whom I have heard speak a number of times,” Snyder wrote. “He has served for decades as a profound voice for justice and inclusion in our society. To evaluate his dynamic ministry on the basis of two or three sound bites does a grave injustice to Dr. Wright, the members of his congregation, and the African-American church which has been the spiritual refuge of a people that has suffered from discrimination, disadvantage, and violence. Dr. Wright, a member of an integrated denomination, has been an agent of racial reconciliation while proclaiming perceptions and truths uncomfortable for some white people to hear. Those of us who are white Americans would do well to listen carefully to Dr. Wright rather than to use a few of his quotes to polarize.”

obama is fake. he is thinking smarter than media and other politician. if pastor story out there before super tuesday his carier was over in politics.

So Leahy wants her to drop out before the primaries are done? This old man must be having a senior moment. Its funny how these Obama endorsers want Clinton out now since this Wright controversy broke. Their Golden Boy has muddied the waters a bit.

This would help start the process to win back the Whate House.

Tell you the truth... Comments like this aren't fair to the Clinton supporters. This is were all the frustration comes from. We need to keep all the Democrats united and if she were to follow these people suggestion, there goes the Election in November!

Clinton needs to understand that she can't get the nomination now. It needs to be "her" decision...

But if she stays in she needs to stop the negative attacks.

Obama 08

Uh Why? There are a lot of voters who think Obama should drop out. Lies Lies Lies. Is Leahy afraid more truth will come about Obama's shady character? GO HILLARY '08

What is the point of holding primaries into June if you don't intend to let all of the states vote? If it is intended that a candidate drop out before all of the states have an opportunity to vote than why not hold all of the primaries on the same date and be done with it. Neither candidate has enough votes to win the nomination. Why should the other candidate drop out? Since we know that some Democrats and the media want to annoint Obama as their candidate, just do that or quit whining. Other wise let the vote continue.

Yea, let's give it to a man who conviniently likes to say what he "would have done" but never does anything that risks his politacal neck. He WOULD have voted against the war; he WOULD have left the church if Wright had not retired; he WOULD do this or that.

No record=no leadership.

AMEN, Sen. Leahy! We need bold men and women in the party to tell Billary the obvious.
Hillary CANNOT catch up with Barack. The only thing she can do is to "destroy" him for the Repubs and produce more McClintons.

Yes, of course, Hillary should drop out.....right before she's to win several state primaries. God forbid she should get more delegates......

Gee do you think those of us in Penna will even get to vote.

Hillary needs to quit and stop this spectacle. bow out gracefully and stop tearing the party apart for her selfish reasons. That's an indication of how she would run the country. The Iraq war would never end because she would never let it go eventhough it's pointless.

Leahy,

You need to drop out from Senate!! You are so undemocratic!! Can't you see it is a dead heat race?? You might have endorsed Obama but we won't vote for Obama. If he is the nominee McCain will win in Nov.

By the by is Obama a professor or a Lecturer??? He is such a lier and a racist and we never will vote for him.

This guy is wrong, million of people want Hillary Clinton to be the President, why she have to drop out, besides no one will have the magic number of delegates to get the nomination. So Mr. get your calculator (if you need one) and shut up. I want my vote to count and every fellow citizen vote to count.
HILLARY CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT!!!!

I was just reading about The University of Chicago confirming that Barack Obama is a professor and I couldn't help but think that Hillary knows, it would not be a bad idea if Hillary took some of his courses.
Senator Clinton; the voices are getting louder and louder for you to bow out gracefully: it's time.

AMEN!!!!!!!

Maybe Patrick Leahy should let the 8 remaining states, Guam, and Pueto Rico vote before he runs his mouth. There is more to the country than his left-wing lunatic state of Vermont.

Only a white male would tell a women to get out of the boys club without all the states voting. I think it's too important to Minorities and Women for either Obama or Hillary to get out of the race before it's over. This is the first time a viable woman or minority, is running for President. This race is too close and it's important for young women and young minorities to see both of these candidates campaign until all the votes have been cast. Stop listening to the media and just let the people vote.

"Not a very good reason to remain a candidate..." How about that MANY AMERICANS have not had their chance to vote yet or their votes heard and counted (Florida and Michigan) Wake up Democratic party and STOP trying to shove a candidate down our throats...Last time I checked the PEOPLE choose the nominee!

Obama can not win now.

The Democratic Party needs leaders such as Sen. Leahy owe it to the Party and the American people to bring pressure on Clinton to abandon her hopeless quest for the White House.

Sen. Leahy is absolutely right about the "math" of the situation. If Clinton and her cronies cannot understand this simple math, how can the American people let them anywhere near the federal budget?

Hello! I wish Hillary and her supporters are listening. I am ready to rally around Obama so we can focus on the real issue....McCain.

GREAT JOB, PAT!!! I HOPE THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR HILLARY!!!

NOW IF YOU CAN JUST GET YOUR FELLOW-VERMONTER, HOWARD DEAN, REPLACED, THE DNC WILL BE A MUCH BETTER PLACE!!! HE'S AN IDIOT, AND IN CLINTON'S CORNER!!

Clinton has a very good reason to remain in the race. Its either HER or no democrat under her belief. If she can't be the president, she wont' let the democrats win. Its as simple as that. She would rather see the democratic party crash and burn than unite the party to face John McCain.

Fact: It's over for Clinton.

Now, do the honorable thing and start the healing process...or...let your die hard fans hand the election to McBush.

It's a character thing.

Why? She's more than capable of being President. Again, why should she step aside ? As a registered Democrat, I will vote Repubican if she does

That picture looks like he's stuck in an elevator lol

Hillary should bow out gracefully. It is time for the American people to have a president who is for the people. Hillary is self-serving and sneaky. I don't trust her or Bill.

I agree Leahy!

Come on Hillary for the good of the party, be a stateperson and drop of. Please!

We need to win in November. Stop the fighting. We know you are a fighter. But stop now. Please!

Let's unite and win in November

DNC08

I'm glad that more and more officials are finally voicing what majority of the democrats already have stated. Clinton, I really liked you and your hub, but recent months have painted you in a light that is far from appealing. The people around you also paint a negative picture, but I don't base my decision not to vote for a person because of that. It is your what you would call "fighter: spirit, but I call "destructive, divisive" spirit that has turned me cold towards you. Please bow out gracefully for the good of the party and endorse Obama.

Leahy is entitled to his opinion, but it's noting more than his opinion.

12 million + Hillary voters disagree with him.

Just like Bill Richardson achieved absolutely no traction with Hispanic voters during his presidential campaign. Richardson's endorsement for Obama will carry no weight...and neither will Leahy's comments.

HILLARY SHOULD NOT DROP OUT!!!
THERE IS ALOT OF AMERICANS THAT SUPPORT HER
WAKE UP LEAHY OR WHATEVER
WE NEED HILLARY NOT OB

HILLARY '08

Very good point Leahy.. she should drop out.

Chuck Todd from MSNBC had some good reasons why she shouldnt drop out though. She is making Barack a stronger candidate by staying in, in some respects.

OBAMA 08!

Thank You Sen. Leahy!!

Obama/Gore '08

I think that the ranking Democrats endorse candidates for their own sakes. But there is no turning back now. The damage has been done. Both Obama and Clinton will see each other again next year, in the Senate.

I think she has every right to stay in until all the votes are counted. You never know what could happen.
BUT – I think she needs to turn down the rhetoric a couple notches.

Thank you Mr. Leahy for suggesting that millions of Americans not be allowed the oppertunity to cast their vote in this process!
I for one an THRILLED that INDIANA will have a say and that my vote might actually matter.

Stick with it HILLARY!!!!

Don't drop out Hillary, We're having too much fun!

I concur with you Mr. Leahy, I do concur....

Obama Richardson 08!!!!