You cannot compare this to the Canada situation, you have the guy who actually lobbys for the trade deal and George Bush unleashes the trade deal the week after, the reporters should be all over this.

He is SO RIGHT.

Senator Obama has proven he is an effective manager throughout this campaign.

The difference is that even the Canadian goverment official has indicated that no conversation with any inference of support to NAFTA ever took place. Mark Penn has freely admitted to the meetings. Hillary needs to understand the difference between fantasy and reality. Like her chances of getting the nomination are a fantasy, and Obamas chances are a reality.

No comparison Dear-O'le-Hill. Mark Penn should have been fired. I find it curious that he hasn't been. Could it be that Hillary supports his effort with Columbia? I think so.

Hillary got three (3) Superdelegates yesterday. They are coming
in droves and clusters. I would imagine she begged all night long
for them to come out at one time. Or, she may have even threatened.
Can we know who they are. Really, who would do that for a liar??
And three at one time sounds fishy to me.

Obama must win or No One. 2008

P.S. Obama, you must say that it will not be easy to walk away from
that war. We support you and want you to do good, but our expectations might be a little high. The Republicans are leaving
you a messopatania!!!!!! I hope Colin Powell will be V.P.

Barack,
Give me a break. You would have gotten rid of Penn? Just as you got rid of your hatred-spewing pastor? You have known for years that he holds radical hate filled, country-splitting views, and yet you didn't "fire" him.
Don't be so quick to throw the first stone, buddy. Your record isn't perfect, either!

I agree completely with Obama here. We're supposed to believe that an economic advisor to Obama was speaking on his behalf when talking out of turn to Canadian dignitaries. However, we are supposed to brush off Clinton's chief strategist promoting this trade deal? I don't think so.

I believe Clinton is going to have a very hard time defending herself before the PA primaries and lose as a result. Hillary is a pathological liar and can't herslf.

Hmmmm hate to use the pot and kettle here but……….

Hillary supporter: I have to agree with Obama on this one.

Then I guess you should have fired the "monster" lady AND YOUR MENTOR MINISTER…….BO you are a joke…….

PLEASE DON'T GO THERE!

I would have left the church, you hypocrite

Would have….could have…might have…may have…etc.

There is nothing in Obama worth voting for.

However, Clinton is so conflicted and already bought and paid for by special interest groups. She is completely lacking in character.

This is the democrats Christmas present from Howard Dean.

McCain '08!

wow, Obama is getting nervous about PA and hitting hard….

the polls may be closing, but these polls don't take into account the large number of blue collar males (Archie Bunker Democrats who don't want to vote for Obama

Another thing: Clinton keeps saying nothing was done against the economic advisor on Obama's staff, yet they took action against Penn. However, Penn is still working on her campaign. So really, it is a matter of semantics.

Sen. Obama,fire Rev. Wright first,and finally Rezko.These I would I could are wishful thinking! Why do you have to base your policies on Hillary's first? Be original for a change,rather than xeroxing all the time.

Yea, and she would have left Rev. Wright in the dust if she were you…….Yadeyadeya…..words, words, and more words. You are as negative as any other campaign has ever been. Nothing new. Just a little better marketing.

If Mr Penn Was on Obama's Staff, Loo Dobbs would have said: "Help me undersatand this folks, the guy says one thing and his campagn strategis go lobby on his back? It's outrageous!" But as it happened to Clinton, Loo Doobs did not have the courage the debate about it!

Obama is right! Clinton should have got rid of this Penn. But it's too late now for her anyway!

Obamaman, she cannot fire Mark Penn!!! He would write a tell all book
About Hillary.

Not to mention that in the end of that whole Canadian NAFTA episode, it turned out to be a Clinton official that was downplaying campaign retoric, not an Obama official as the press led us all to believe!

Obama is such a hypocrite!

Go Hillary 08

This statement by Sen. Obama sounds eerily similar to one he made last month that he would have resigned from his church had his pastor not retired.

Indeed

Mark Penn should have been fired

Its even worst that Penn got the Columbian lobbying gig form Bill Clinton

and Hillary Clinton didn't know???

LIAR

Thank you Obama

I have never trusted this guy and I never will.

God Bless Barack Obama for having the strength and courage to take on America's nasty arrogant royal family.

Hillary and Bill Clinton are both proven liars and hypocrites! Bill Clinton isn't even allowed to practice law anymore because he committed perjury.

They should have a re-vote in Ohio now that we know Hillary Clinton LIED about her support of NAFTA, which was later revealed in her first lady papers.

The Clintons are pure sleaze. America deserves better!

OK…so does she have to fire her husband too? Ha Ha…she is busted.

Machell Obama did not get $800,00.00 to support nafta which Clinton supported and NAFTA is a done deal by Bill and Billary. The Obama staffer was talking about something that is already in effect, not a deal that the canidate says she opposes but whoes husband is being opaid to support. Hmmm …something not quite the same about this and hmmm somthing kinda smelly about it as well. Did Hillary step in it and then laugh it off?

Oh sure, say anything Obama to get elected. Wasn't it you saying stuff about NAFTA while your campaign told Canada you were just trying to get votes, and were lying to gain support, and Canada shouldn't worry?

I am dumbfounded that Penn is still involved in any way with the Clinton campaign. So many conflicting reports such as the whitehouse transcripts that show the meetings for NAFTA and yet now she states shes against NAFTA. Then the Penn and Colombia CAFTA which again her own husband and formor top advisior are for where she is again claiming to be against. This is a major conflict of interest. I guess she didnt pay much attention to her staff and their resumes to verify they were veted. I have 109 million reasons and even more now not to vote for Hillary.

Obama 08

What credibility does Obama have when his spiritual advisors are Wright and Meeks. Give me a break.

fire penn? or Billary lied and should be fired!

The first one that needed fired was Obamas pastor .

Go OBama…!!! Good job! She asked you to fired your adviser, she should do the same? How can she stay with her husband when she doesn't agree with him? I think this is a personnal choice… like you didn't agree with your Pastor but stays with him… Hillary go away

I'm an Obama supporter and I think enough has been said. She let him go. Let's move on.

Hillary can't serve her husand and this country if her husband opposes what this country wants for his own self gain. Listen up folks. If Hillary's opinion doesn't weigh much in her own household, what makes you think its going to weigh much in the WHite house? It says a lot when your own spouse said they would vote for you but they disagree with your policies. This isn't the only policy they disagree on. ANybody who thinks that a marriage is solid when you can't agree on major things is mistaken. The bible says how can 2 walk together if they don't agree. And if anybody thinks that her husband won't sway her like he did with NAFTA when she was in office you're mistaken.

If these are the kinds of things that matter to voting decisions, those decisions are going to be badly made.

I suppose it is a lot easier to make yourself into a finger-puppet to demagoguery than to really study policy issues, though, and Americans are the laziest thinkers in the world.

Isn't that calling the Kettle black

"I think it was surprising to me that a high ranking if not the highest ranking member of Senator Clinton's team would be engaged in business activities and lobbying that is directly contrary to a position that Sen. Clinton had taken."

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is politician-speak for "You're a liar."

Hannity was at it again last night. We can give him an award for
Obama bashing, every night. I guess Rove had the night off from
his new job at Fox. And he is an employee and they give him a
actual paycheck.

Barack, not only Mark Penn but her Husband. She is a liar. She is for the trade deal with Columbia. But not for it when she is in OH and PA.

Hillary is a Fraud. It time to stop voting for Crooked Politicians

Obama 08 not Chelsea's MAMA

Dick Morris said Clinton folks are never fired. They work from the basement. Typical fo the Clintons. This is the kind of White House we will have.

Barack will have problems too, no administration is without problems, but Hillary will bring baggage, and add to her baggage. Clintons are bad news, and I hope America will see this. We can not afford a war overseas and a war in the White House, as well.

Since Obama is going negative, you all Obama supporters better not complain when Hillary brings up Obama’s past. Fair is fair, right? You all seem to cry whenever Hillary shows Obama's true colors. But when Obama goes negative, you all are blind and say that he doesn't go negative. Give me a break.
Hillary or McCain '08.

ISNT THAT A RIDICULOUS SATEMENT.. He is jerk

Tim in Atlanta….I keep hearing that story from the few who didn't follow it very well…….Clinton name was used in accident….the memo's were of Obama's adviser's support…….time to put that story to rest!

I think they are dragging him into the mud. Watch out Barack!

Who cares?
Mark Penn, Clinton, Obama…..
Fact is…we need an open trade zone with the nations on our southern border. Right now…thanks to our Dumbocritically controlled congress–the agreement with Colomibia is entangled in dumbocratic politics–I'm sure President Chavez will be more than happy to supplant any promises the U.S. Government may have made–to sweeten the deal and expand his own expansionist/socialist agenda in South America.

Our congress–and these candidates are asleep at the switch. Is this really the best that America has to offer us for the Presidency and government leadership?

I CANNOT BELIEVE SHE IS STILL STICKING TO THE STORY THE THE OBAMA CAMP WAS SHADDY IN CANADA sorry for the CAPS but it is infruriating to know that the shaddiest of shady politicians are so blatantly shady!She knows darn well that because the media hasnt harped into the story of Clinton lying in Ohio about Barak and Canada.. she will just keep right on going with it! And CNN, if i may, since we are replaying events over
and over because of the PA Primary downtime.. replay the story where the Canadian government made it clear who the NAFTA liar really was!!

Why would Obama be surprised? Two of his campaign people did not show the best judgement by their behavior.
I think telling Canada not to worry about NAFTA because Obama's stance was political talk is much worse than a campaign person doing a business deal.
I would still like to know why Rev. Wright suddenly resigned so Obama could stay at the church in Chicago? He should have left when Oprah did unless Rev. Wright's views are really his core beliefs.

Obama sat up in a racist church for 20 years but yet he would have fired Penn. Yer Right!!!!!

Obama is all hope we have. Why go for good when you have better. Obama knows this thing is over and it's only that Hillary is is dropping out and dealing with the reality …..
We don't need liars Hillary. Give me mr. Obama anytime!

Please Obama why are you not paying people in Penn. State. Shame on you Obama

He didn't fire his person that went to Canada and said something opposite of him though?????? hmmmm double standard

He's totally hypocritical!

Obama will take down America!! pure and simply. WHAT COUNTRY ARE YOU OBAMA SUPPORTERS FROM?????? You all sound a little foriegn to me…. MSM please stop this mess! We the people are scared, this just keeps getting worse….

What do Obama's spiritual advisors have to do with Hillary's lies aobut freet-rrade deals?

And that is why Obama is winnning. Go Barack, we have your back!

Sorry Clinton, you lost my vote.

Poor poor Billary…. anything to make the news and keep her name in the paper! I bet that now she will win that state with the sympathy vote, just like what occured in NH with those fake tears and its how she won the Senate seat the first time out…poor poor Billary…stuck with a lying cheating disgusting man…..lol

$800,000 earned in Columbia and $20 million earned in oil rich Dubai. What's really going on here?

I love how we think we are going to change nafta with canada, its actually pretty hilarious considering they are our primary source of oil and pretty much the oil country on this globe that we can trust any.

They also have the same work standards and enviromental standards as us yet people for some reason have this notion that jobs are going their?

I believe any country that america goes into free trade with should have a similar wage structure, safety standards and enviromental standards.

Colombia is not a good choice jobs will go their because labor will be dirt cheap. But before anyone screams look at canada and nafta they should think twice about our closest ally and primary trading partner.

I love the responses of Clinton supporters…

"Why didn't you fire Goolsbee?" …um, the Canadian government contacted Goolsbee separately…and Goolsbee's an unpaid economic advisor to the Obama campaign.

"Why didn't you leave Rev. Wright?" …here, we have a 20-year relationship with a pastor that doesn't concern questions of national trade or conflicts of interest in office (and a pastor that was certainly good enough for WJC to invite to the White House to pray for him during the Lewinsky scandal).

On the other hand, we have HRC's chief strategist and chief pollster being paid $300,000 by the Colombian government to lobby for a trade agreement that HRC publicly opposes. We also have HRC's ex-President husband being paid $800,000 by THE SAME COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT

Hannity bashed Michelle Obama last night for her "one remark"
about being proud of America. Bash. Bash. Bash. Bash. Michelle!
Ruthless, to say the least. Carl Rove must have been bashing Obama
somewhere else, like theAmerican Youth Foundation, Rove hardly
mentioned Hillary's name and the whole speech was against Obama.
Go fiqure.

Yes Barack, they underestimated you and now they are making you a better candidate each and everyday!

I'm becoming quite amused at the constant cries of "Rev. Wright!" from the McCain/Clinton camp. If that is really the only reason they can come up with to rationalize the unseemly rancor this campaign season has whipped up, then Mr. Obama might as well start measuring for curtains in the Oval Office.

Keep up the good work Obama.

You are a God send.

He didn't fire his person that went to Canada and said something opposite of him though?????? hmmmm double standard

Wright does not have anything to do with policies, and jobs being lost, and the economy failing

but trade agreements do, and so therefore, Penn should be fired!!!!!

OBAMA 08!!!!

LET THE HATES KEEP HATING, WE SUPPORT YOU 100%%%

And how long has your relationship with your friend Jeremiah Wright been?? 20+ years so far? Did he not marry you and your wife and baptize your children? Please shut up already and go away…

Oh Good grief!!
Can we get off of the Wright/Meeks preacher topic already!!??!!

BIHILIARY'S CHICKENS ARE COMING TO ROOST! THAT IS WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT. THEY KEEP DEFENDING LIES HILARY AND BILL, WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE TOO SMART–BILL YOU THOUGHT YOU WOULD OUTSMART US? NOT THIS TIME AROUND. YOU GOT YOUR CHANCE WITH MONICA AND WE FORGAVE YOU, THIS TIME YOUR PATTERN OF LYING HAS RESURRECTED AGAIN. NO MORE CLINTONIAN LIES!

Here is what I don't understand is why you people continue to bring up his former Minister? I mean if you idiots would go check out the entire sermon that day, you will see he was only speaking the truth!!! He may not have used the most eloquent words but it was the truth. So, for you idiots who keep harping on it, I would advise either hear the whole sermon or be quiet!!!

Oh and yes she needs to fire the guy!!! Because he basically made her look stupid!!

i hope u always talk about the truth what is going this election go obama-go red sox

SHUT UP EVERYONE.

Hillary didn't have anything to do with the Colombia meeting.
WE ALL DID.

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was wondering when he was going to say some thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Give me a break Obama. This news is old, stop trying to bring up a dead story. Talk about the issues and not who you would have fired. The American people want answers and they want solutions to the problems that this country faces, you're not the one to deliver the solutions….Hillary is!

You cant compare a pastor to a person who discusses NAFTA and is the highest ranking person on your team.

Apples to Oranges here people

Besides, he denounced what the man said and he is no longer on the team

But Penn is stil there……

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Is Obama questioning Clinton's judgement for keeping Penn? If so, what about Obama's judgement in dealing with Tony Rezko while Rezko was under Federal investigation, and Obama knew it?

Obama always claims he "would have" done differently. He was against the war before he voted continually to fund it. He would have fired Penn like he did his pastor.

This guy is nothing but Fool's gold.

Where is his judgement! Why fire him when you can just laugh it off. hah ah ah

Apparently Rev. Wright's ugly rantings were not "directly contrary" to the positions of Senator Obama. Otherwise, by his own logic, Obama would have "fired" Wright from his life during those 20 years.

She would have fired him too if she disagreed with his position. Remember if she is elected then Bill will be running the show.

I cannot even believe Obama would have the nerve to make that statement, after his high ranking committee member met with
the Canadians and did not get fired. Obama always talks out
of both sides of his mouth.

And mark my words, if Obama is elected the Rev. Wright will be
right by his side.

It's been proven that Obama's campaign had no meeting with the Canadians, and that this story was spun by the same Mark Penn. If you're going to attack anyone, get your facts straight.

Obama's spiritual advisor may have been Pastor Wright, but who advised HRC to tell the Bosnia story over and over and over? Or fact-checked the hospital story? Isn't there someone advising her how not to mismanage millions of dollars in campaign spending? Her campaign has larger problems than America's elderly white women are willing to admit.

ALL Obama says is "I would have" this and "I would have" that, "I would have voted against the war," How do we know? He wasn't even in the senate at that time to even HAVE a vote! Its easy for him to say what he WOULD HAVE done, because he was never put in the line of fire to actually have to make those hard decisions. He's always talking about what he WOULD HAVE done. Just give it a rest and actually DO something.

Obama is a blatant hypocrite.

Hillary or McCain (God forbid) will get my vote.

NOBAMA NOBAMA….WE NEED AN EFFECTIVE LEADER, NOT A CLUELESS COPY CAT.

Yes, I'm sure $800,000 with the prospect of more had a little bit to do with it… the Clintons are lying sacks of #@$& and they have become everything that they say the oppose. These people are at the heart of America's decline into third world nation status.

I think Clinton campaign is dragging this on and using so much money without thinking the repucations of fracturing the party eventually. Why don't you drop sen. Clinton. Nobody in America believes in you and I have never seen a president that can not be trusted with what she/he says.

You spinned all the cards and no card to flip now.

YOu blamed the media but I remember you saying in a very candid manner how you were on Bosnia fire. That image will never go away when I saw the footage of the tape you walking out of the plane and kissing a girl in Bosnia.

keep wasting your money but not with my vote.
I have heard so many PA people say how disgusted they are with you.
We don't vote for liars!

Give me a break Obama. You wouldnt even let your Pastor go.Your just a smooth con man.you got a the young people's mind's twisted with your empty speeches.They have no common scence. You bought them just like a product. I seen through you from the begining.Your not even in the leauge of HRC. You have done nothing for this country.HRC has always been there for the people of this country.You have done nothing but brought your changes of division, hate ,and racist issues since you have been in this race.You play the race card everytime HRC fights back. All your O.B. supporters are haters.Thats the change this country is in for if you get a elected.God help us all

It's a shame she could laugh about it. American job losses are real, painful and unbalanced trade agreements are the reason why. I guess Hill can laugh. They made 109 Million dollars. 100 times more than Obama and Michelle made.

WELL SAID ,DAVID . IT'S OBAMA'S HOUSE THAT NEEDS CLEANING.
WILL HE LEAVE HIS PASTOR'S CHURCH?

Obama is such a JOKE.

Didn't Obama have astaff member meet with the Canadian government and say Mr Obama lied to voters when saying he would renegotiate Nafta but the staffer was demoted not fired.
Also he had one of his surogates say what he says to voters about Iraq would not be what he would do as president. That person was not fired they resigned.
Same with Penn he resigned or was demoted how ever you look at it.
Look who is calling the kettle black

Also the media and the dems new about Mr Wright long ago and everyone kept quiet and even Obama new all the hate Mr Wright spoke about yet he kept him as his adviser and ONLY AFTER it came out did he distance himself

One of his top advisors WAS involved in a NAFTA issue……and Obama DID NOT fire him!! Once again, he's talking out both sides of his mouth. His advisor told the Canadians that whatever Obama is saying about NAFTA, they are not to take it seriously because it's all political positioning. His advisor was acting on behalf of Obama.

Mark Penn, however idiotic this man is, was acting on the behalf of his employer…..and his employer is NOT Hillary. Penn also has a regular day job that he's responsible for and he was meeting with the Colombians to work out a NAFTA deal between them and his EMPLOYER. BIG DIFFERENCE!!! Was it completely stupid to try to work out a NAFTA deal with the Colombians, knowing that Clinton is totally against it?? Yes, and his employer could certainly have sent someone else out there to do the job…..but Penn chose to do it himself. And he should be fired from Clinton's campaign!!

But, of course, the Obama maniacs will spin this to their advantage. What they don't seem to understand is that people with half a brain can see right through them.

Obama should fire his own campaign manager David Axelrod. CNN should ask Obama and David Axelrod about their connections to Antoin Rezko, currently under criminal indictment on trial in Chicago, ask Obama and Axelrod about their connections to Odinga of Kenya, Africa, and of course ask about AUCHI, also currently under criminal indictment. (IS Odinga really Obama's cousin??)

The Obama-Axelrod-Rezko-Odinga-AUCHI revelations are fatal to Obama's candidacy now and in the future.

Obama's negatives are rapidly rising with these revelations and not to forget more scandals such as Crown, Exelon, casinos, Emil Jones, "pastors" Wright, Moss & Meeks, etc.

Obama is unqualified and unelectable.

No amount of 24/7 media promotion is ever going to change that. Why do you think the corporate owned media promotes him? They know he cannot win.

*VOTE SMART! VOTE PATRIOTIC! VOTE HILLARY CLINTON!

Hillary has a husband and a top paid staffer lobbying for a trade deal that she opposes. Conflict of interest. Point Blank. You really have to wonder what side she is on here. Obviously she is a liar so I don't take her on her word.

She keeps bringing up the NAFTA story but it was debunked by the Canadian Gov. and Goolsbee wasn't a paid adviser or a lobbyist.

She is a liar and this story is "The Reckoning".

Go Obama we have your back. Don't get tired, when the darkness comes, dawn is near…..Oregon is waiting it's turn for you !

The controversy around Clinton concerns something that one of her advisors DID, whereas the controversy around Obama concerned something that a Canadian official SAID one of Obama’s advisors SAID. There is a big difference.

More importantly, the section of the Canadian memo that specifically discusses NAFTA clearly stated that Obama intends to make changes to reduce the loss of US jobs and to strengthen environmental regulations. This is entirely consistent with everything he has said on the campaign trail, so the memo itself is internally inconsistent and not worth the paper it was written on.

oooooo…………BIG MAN TALKING! Easy to fire others but why not fire your pastor, why not fire the Canada employee of yours doing business "winking" on your part? Why man? You talk a lot of bull. Go back to doing business with Rezko and stop milking your donors for more money to go on vacation to the Virgin Islands brother!

sen obam is a man or courage and discipline,nd i know he would have fired penn
but the clintonns are corrupt liars,with no sense of dignity,shame or pride.i mean bill turned the white house into a brothel.
take ur pick

OBAMA ISN'T MARRIED TO REV. WRIGHT….YOU KNOW ABOUT PILLOWTALK…AND BESIDES…I'M SURE HILLARY HELPED TO SPEND SOME OF THE $800,000.00.

GOD BLESS OBAMA THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THESE UNITED STATES…..

sure you would have, just like you set & listened to Rev. Wright for 20 years with his racial slurs…all of us are not so taken with Obama's smooth talk….

Obama. YOu have an opening to take the Clintons down. Bill has been paid by the Columbian government. Mark Penn is lobbying the Columbian government. Relate this to job losses, conflict of interest and how this is indicative of the status quo and the type of shady administration you can expect from the Clintons

Please Obama, give us a break…you should have stayed away from Wright and Meeks. Are we going to begin to go negative again?? Because if so, be prepared to take some heat also. That photo of Barack is creeping me out.

he is no better, so shut it Nobama

Hilllary has this lying over and over and over. Just old people who does things over and over again and we expect a different thing. Change is what we need when we have this chance and it is hard for me to put my guard down . I will never rest till I see Obama through. I am not against Hillary but her character has put me off!

There's nothing she can do now anyway. Too little too late for Hillary Clinton.

Obama seems to be a follower rather that a leader. He follows Hillary Clintons lead every chance he gets. Agreeing with her when she agrees with something and disaggreeing with her when she disagrees on something. Never seems to tell the truth untill he`s caught in a lie Plays the race card every chance he gets and tries to blame Clinton for it. What is going with him ? Does anybody know ?

To note for those bringing up Rev Wright are reaching as it has nothing to do with a policy type issue. I am white and had the one who brought me to christianity did some questionable things but i couldnt throw him under a bus any more than most. Being brought to god over rules anything they did as I am blessed. Those who still wish to harp on that werent going to vote for Obama in the first place so it didnt hurt him. Some need to grow up and do research before they post it seems.

Obama 08

I guess all Catholics should have left the church as a result of the molestation by some priest. America stop hiding behind the Wright issue. We go to church for God and fellowship not for a given pastor or preacher. It's ridiculous to leave a church for either of these sutuations. To do so shows a lack of faith. Obama and the Caholic members of the church's where young males were molested stood by their faith not there church leaders.

I recall Clinton ads that contributed to the Ohio win about NAFTA which facts have been disputed by the Canadian gov't. This is by far much worse especially when you consider Mr. Bill's contribution.
Then when asked about it HRC tosses up her hands and laughs - how do I answer this question?

Oh ya this is the person you want answering that 3am phone call

just a thought are the colombians helping finance her campaign with Bills 800K - or perhaps the US taxpayers with Mr. Bills 1m pension?

Time to butter her - she's toast!

of course he woud fire mark penn
he is a man of dignity
and to all clit=onites who say they would vote for maccain
pls get ready to do just that.
without ur votes we have been winning,so please flee from a sinking ship to a drowning sheep
obama is what the world needs
08

This is just retaliation to McCain saying he would fired on of Obama's aides, and Clinton saying she would have left Wright's Church.
Plus, Obama is completely ignoring what one of his aides did regarding free trade, and that Obama didn't fire him until Obama was pressured to. If that's not the pot calling the kettle black, I don't know what is!

I have lost all respect and trust in the Clinton's . A Clinton White House would be like George Bush on steroids.

NO THANKS

You Clinton supporters will be pathetic until the end. You will follow her right off the cliff. No matter what you say about BO, Ms Clinton has way more baggage. You remind me of the Bush supporters who refuse to jump ship even when it is nearly sunk. You are stubborn fools and we will all pay for your foolishness.

Yes! Tell them about how Hillary is getting paid while shipping jobs to Columbia! Let's talk about that $800,000 Bill Clinton got paid!!!
Yes! Let's talk about this and let's get louder about it every day! Go Obama!

How come Hillary is full of tragedies. I don't believe Billary any time no matter what. Give me obama anytime of the day…….
Obama 08,12! and beyond

Well, Hillary can just giggle and laugh her way through that instead of answering again. Much better than telling another lie.

If you Americans get it wrong again and elect this guy, you will spend the next 4 years wondering how you could've been so stupid yet again. He has drug /sex problems and can never stoop too low. First Bush, now this clown. AMERICA PLEASE WAKE UP! HE'S A FAKE AND UNPATRIOTIC.

HILLARY 08

First of all, Powers resigned after her Hillary comments, and she wasn't even a paid staffer. Jeremiah Wright is retired, so whether or not he would have left the church is irrelevant. In addition, Obama gave money to the church; he WAS NOT paying Wright.

The fact that Hillary keeps Penn on staff and allows her husband to continue to campaign for her shows that she believes that she is supposed to get a free ride for everything, and just blame the media if they hound her for it. This is the same person who is still harping on the Wright issue. It's her fault-SHE said during the supposed NAFTA gate that the media would be on it if it were her. SHE was the one who claimed that Wright "would not have been her pastor." Yet she believes that she is entitled to keep people on her staff after they do things that are questionable at the least.

For the people who insist on supporting her, they say that supporters of a candidate are often mirror reflections of the people they support, which might explain why the entire world thinks that Americans are greedy, self-serving crooks. If Obama doesn't win, we will have missed out on perhaps the greatest opportunity we have ever had to show the world that we indeed are decent human beings.

Just like Geraldine Ferraro wasnt fired and is still helping, Penn wasnt fired and is still helping with the campaign as so are the people on the clinton campaign who circulated pictures of Obama in Tribal attire. If the opposition NAFTA is such a serious issue with hillary and she should have fired Penn, She's a hypocrite who is just all bark and no bite, in other words, her words are just lies.

Ill say it once and Ill say it again….you cant choose your family…but you can choose your campaign manager…and if that campaign manager dealt in a deal that hurts american's pockets, showed my obvious double standard on trade, and showed that I didnt have the leadership to reprimand you fully…he would not have been my campaign manager…

Thats how I answered a question that was asked directly to me…*annoying nod*

Hillary '08! Karma…not speeches

OBAMA 08!!!!!

Obama haters need to accept the fact that we will win!!! Hilary lovers will be sadly dissappointed. She is a compulsive liar and has systematically played the political game to her advantage! Watch and learn peeps…she has got to many fooled!!

Wow! If all the hate mongers made any sense at all, we would have three candidates who not only should not be president,but should be put in jail!
Of over three hundred million citizens, they claim we have selected the three worst to run for office.the world must be laughing at us.

Obama has futile trial to mask the NAFTA debacle he introduced at a debate to wrongfully discredit Hillary.After unmasking of his debacle,with the Canadian authorities,Obama went cold,and has left his supporters to try and explain how to fix the untruth.Well it will not work.The Colombia - NAFTA comparison is nothing but a trial to pull a fast one on the faces of Americans! You are fooling the wrong people!

What a hypocracy!! Hypocracy at its highest order. Sen Clinton should have done better given the way she treated Sen Obama's campaign strategist on the eve of the Ohio primary about the Canadian-Nafta episode. She can't cosmetically fired Penn. I mean Penn must be completely "fired" to demostrate that she mean what she says. Any thing short is unacceptable, period. As the saying goes "If you can't remove the log in your eyes, don't attempt to remove the beam in anothers".

we have had 8 years of nothing being done other then spending our money on a war that will never end with this big jerk in office now .hey i got an idea lets elect another dumbie(obama) for 4 more years so nothing gets done at all. come on people wake up hes nothing other than a big talker .to bad you flushed joe biden down the toilet he was the only one that knew what is going on

I remember Penn say Obama is unelectable. Let's see his candidate if it is electable. This is what goes around comes around!

Obama for America forever!

Hmmmmmmmm like he fired Wright, sure Obama is a bunch of hot air.

I must say, Obama has proven that he would have fired Penn. He does not accept those kinds of behaviors and that's why he has been running an EXCELLENT campaign.

Yes we can!
Obama '08

What's up with Hillarry … She is totally scaring us Africans ..Why does she wants to be President at all cost ..Was it destined for her to be President … Come on America ..Please wake up !

You O.B. supporters and Clinton haters are nothing but spoiled little children. You havn't got your own minds.You have to follow the Leader because your bias against a woman Leader.Most of you probably live with your parents so you dont need Health Ins.Most of you probably dont work ,so you dont need to worry about the economy.Your the worst haters on earth.Something to be real proud of.The woman haters are jealous of HRC. They should show her support ,but thats the youth in this country.If our future has to look forward to the youth in this country, we are in for a big fall.They vote for a canidate they dont even know, only what he tells them. Thats the brains the young people have.They dont care about our country just glamour ,rock video's and head full of empty hope. You are the the change (HATE).

This is why there shall not be a dream ticket.

It would be a nightmare for the Obama administration to have loose cannon Bill out there making shady promises and pretending he's merely getting paid for speeches.

Wake up, Dems - we can't afford another 3rd term for The Clintons, nor for John W(ar) McBush!

Leave it for us Obama. American people are educated people and they are not ready to put up with liars like Hillary and Co.

Cruise on and never get tired, we have your back all the way.

May God bless you!

He should have been fired…… and Obama and his church should have fired Wright. Hypocrite!

She won't fire Penn, period. Imagine all of the inside dirt he knows after 20 or so years with the Clintons. Taking him off of that "campaign supporter" funded gravy train (what has he made in the last year from her, something like 7.8 million) would open a Pandora's box of revelation.

I personally would like to see it to confirm the suspicions I've held for years, but it'll never happen.

I do not believe Obama has any moral high ground to speak on this issue. Especially in light of the Pastor Wright and Meeks controversy.
Needless to say that he never gave up his ties to Ayers a known terrorist. Is that what we are in for in an obama-nation?

Yes, there were differences, the Obama offical went to meet with the Canadians to "wink wink', don't worry about what Obama was saying about trade, the canadians had nothing to fear. Mark Penn went as an offical of his company (which was stupid) and has since been relieved of his duties Here we have Obama saying he would have fired Penn, when he would not even tell his pastor that his hate white and hate America remarks were out of line, even up to the "God d….America" remarks Did not even have the judgement to remove his children from all this hate rhetoric. New polls show that Obama has lost about 14 point to McCain in the last few weeks. He has gone from ten up to four down. Hillary still still leads Mccain in the poll. Obama can not win the general election. He will lose all of the south, all of the border states, all the normal red states and Michigan because his lawyers held up the Democratic revote, plus he will lose one or both Ohio and Pennsylvania. He might even lose California. They have a repulican gov. and McCain has some support in the hispanic community.

Eh, an appropriate response given Hillary's "Wright would not have been my pastor".

I love it. This issue is about staff people and free trade. Of course, the defenseless Clinton supporter only want to talk about Rev. Wright. He was the pastor of church where Obama was a member — not a consultant on Obama's campaign. IT IS NOT THE SAME. You people look small with those arguments, but I say keep it up. The polls show that the more the Clinton campaign endures in that game of gutter politics, the better it helps Obama. When will you learn? When Obama takes a lead in the PA polls? He already has a 10+ point lead in the national polls.

Ok, the Rev. Wright thing, is null and void. He didn't leave the church. So? Did Catholics leave the church when the priest abuse scandal hit the papers? I seriously doubt it. Obama is taking a stand and I respect him for that. I also respect him for staying loyal to his church and his religion, like any other self respecting Christian should.

Who cares what this man would of done. The Obama-mania must stop.

Michelle Obama said she cant make ends meet on her $370,000 a year salary from the Univ of Chicago.

John the Clintons have taken money from Rezko as well so get your facts together and Barack doesnt have to fire his Pastor. Why don't you fire yours. A Pastor does not make policies, decide cabinet mbrs, they do NOTHING but Preach on Sun. So LET IT GO!!! The church has more than 8K mbrs some of them who are white. The clips you saw were not in context and some of what you heard Wright was quoting from a white man by the name of Peck. Ron Paul said our policies called 911 nobody was calling for his head. Pipe DOWN.

Obama is the biggest hypocrite in history. You should have left Rev. Wright and his church. You should have fired your campaign high rank official who spoke to Canada government about NAFTA. You make me sick!

I agree,I see this as much more serious than childish name-calling and even who your pastor was.I guess Hillary wants these kind of ties to fall back on.

Clinton and her campaign have divorced the reality and I don't think American people are ready to put up with them anymore. They said we hold them accountable. I was looking for a reason to vote for her but I think it is over for her with me. Simple!

I think Obama was indirectly jabbing at Clinton also about her exact same remarks when she brought up the Rev.Wright pastor answer last month.

Don't get it twisted though, he is right and she should (A) know what her top strategist is doing that would create a conflict with her own message or (B) fire him instead of demoting him.

So answer that Clinton supporters! How come you guys don't respond to that but say blanketed statements like "Go Hillary '08!!!". You answer questions the same as your candidate does! By glossing over it!

Here is another example of Obama saying one thing and doind another.

I guess we can put this in the category that he would have left the church if the Reverand was still the Pastor.

Another statement he does not have to act on.

All words not action.

Senator Obama is such a hypocrite. He must really be getting desperate to find anything he can throw "his kitchen sink" at. He will not win Pennsylvania and he knows it. He absolutely has no credibility. Like others have said, he is a copy machine. Senator Clinton, please stay and fight to win the nomination. I am with you 100%. GO HILLARY 08!!!!!!!!!!

I have never trusted Obama and I never will.

We as Democrats should stnad by our principles and be united as people atha wants better in this country. Please try not to bash anyone

David, you are missing the point. Do you know that Rev Wright was Bill's advisor after his affair with Monica?

The fact that Penn was not fired, makes one believe that Hillary was behind the deal. Penn was negotiating and that is different to the Canada NAFTA incident, which Clinton was also accused of.

How come he kept those two insurance lobbyist til someone found out he had hired them to do his Health Plan…gee oh yeah he would have fired somebody…ONLY IF HE GOT CAUGHT AT IT.

BO, you are a prima donna, and a hypocrite and everyday I see your self inflated ego shrinking! What about your involvement with Wright? You brought him on board and continued to allow him to serve on your African American Religious Leadership Committee knowing what he was all about. Use something else to inflate your ego. You are so superficial! I'm looking forward to future news about your relationship with Rezko.

THE DIFFERENCE IS BILL CLINTON,MARK PENN AND HOWARD WOLFSON ALL HAVE BEEN PAID TO LOBBY WOLDWIDE.THEY HAVE THE POWER TO SWAY OPINIONS IN EVERY CORNER OF THE EARTH.OBAMAS PASTOR PREACHED IN A CITY, IN A STATE, IN THIS COUNTRY TO 8 THOUSAND PEOPLE.THAT THE DIFFERENCE!

I think Obama's Mark Penn comments are about equal to the "He wouldn't have been my pastor" comments Hillary made. In the end it won't change anyone's mind.

I do think a paster (and campaign spiritual advisor) having controversial opinions is far less severe (find me a pastor that doesn't offend anyone) than a top campaign strategist not giving up his job at a lobbying firm that's pursuing interests in direct opposition to Clinton's campaign. Should Penn have been fired? In a well ran campaign Penn wouldn't have been hired.

I believe, this issue, like all of Hillary's problems in this campagin, are directly related to how poorly her campaign has performed and been managed.

I don't understand why the people can't see clearly who to vote for already. From the start of this race I have been saying the same thing we need a new face, a new leader in washington. We need a leader with no special intrest and this leader is clearly Obama. What else we going to find out about Hillary before november that might cost the democrats the white house. She has been branded by washington, do we really want to take the chance and let her be the nominee and loose in November against McCain, who's going to be nothing more than a third Bush term……. Can we risk four more years?….. That's some hundreds of billion dollar question.

Boy, for the ones that think Obama isn't going anywhere, I just seen him give a speech and the place was loaded, big time ! Looks like the minister movie didn't effect him. Hillary was marching in the St, Patrick's Day parade looking like she was just elected President. She even wore a black coat to look Presidential, closets she will ever get to it. Our news channels are in bed with the Clintons with gender card being put at the center.
This lady is a disgrace!

Go Obama…….

Let's see, just like his own campaign staff talks to other countries and tells them that he is only talking rhetoric, that he doesn't mean what he says. He had on talking to the Canadians and is foreign policy advisor talking to the Britons. Give me a break, this guy is nothing but hot air and I wish someone would burst the bubble.

Somebody suggested Obama should have gotten rid of his pastor! How does one do that??? What a specious argument. Obama's pastor is not employed by his campaign. Come on, KC, put your thinking cap on. Hillary is in a really stew of her own making and I think she's just about cooked!

Barack,

You would have fired Penn, because you have integrity, something that is totally lacking in any of the Clinton family.

Did Obama "fire" his spirtual advisor? Folks don't for one minute think that there is not all kinds of monkey business going on in the Obama campaign — when the media is hyping you, you get away with much more. What about the news that the Obama campaign was blocking 100's of people in CA seeking to run as delegates. Out o 1,400 delegates the campaign wanted to eliminate 800. There's lots of stuff going in that is not so "clean" on the Obama side. Check out how he won his previous elections for yourself. Don't let the pretty face fool you. No wonder Michelle referred to Barack as "her accessory". Now talk about Hillary Clinton wearing the pants, guess who's wearing them in the Obama family.

Ok, let Senator fire Penn. She should. How can he trust as an adviser a person who went behind her back to cut the deal she opposes? But what can she do with President Clinton who collected $800,000 from Colombia company-linked to the free trade deal?

He has none David. There is NOTHING crediable about Obama!!!

Words actually mean NOTHING. He said, she said!!!! Words are NOT actions. Why didn't Obama do the same with his Church or his Pastor, or his communist and marxist allies???? I strongly believe both these candidates are absolute liers to the nth degree. They pander the we the people, and think we will believe them. ACTIONS speak way LOUDER than WORDS. I certainly hope America WAKES UP. We have three major candidates that will not take our country back, will not hear the average American Citizen. ALL of our Politicians need to be looked at with a microscope!!!!!

I am so tired of Clinton's double-standard. She hammered Obama about the Canada meeting then her top strategist meets on trade with Colombia and she laughs off a money connection. Every day I am more convinced that Clinton is pure rhetoric and politics-as-usual. If you like the deceit and lies that have plagued the White House, by all means, vote for Hillary. I can't.

And Rev Wright would have not Been OUR PASTOR!

Hilldog loyalists, please stop the smokescreen by confusing apples and oranges. This situation is nothing like Obama's past issues. Rev. Wright and the policy advisor weren't running Obama's campaign. Further, Obama did fire the advisor, and Rev. Wright is no longer his pastor nor does he have any affiliation with Obama's campaign. Face it, Hilly messed up this time.

clinton has damaged Obama, the Democratic Party and herself to the point where she has handed MCCain the POTUS job.

Nice work hillary. Can't wait until you run again 4 years from now.

Keep the faith, God will provide

Obama 08 - Dems Unite to beat McCain

Well, I guess many of Clinton support who make a contrast between a spiritual decision and campaign decision definitely like Hillary needs Jesus. The two cannot be compared. Bill and Penn shared the same view, and there both her Husband and Advisor should have been fired.

I as a voter I also want to know about Obama's tax records, CNN is not looking at his throught a fine comb like they did Hillary.

CNN I know you will not post this but I at least want you to read it and explain why are you so bias.

All this is showing is the Obama "PRESENT" BS.
Is the facard begining to crack?
Obama is simply a master of media misdirection, remember that AC 360 plug.

Can't argue with that.

Hillary should probably fire Bill as well

For all you guys saying that Obama should have fired his pastor or got out on his church. Is Wright on Obama's campaing payrole. The guy is a retired minister. We are talking about Penn who is said to be fired yet still actively involved in clintons campaign. Clinton things people are fools, the only people you are fooling are your supporters.

….and yet, you didn't fire your "friend" who went to Canada and told them to ignore what you were saying about NAFTA and you didn't fire your buddy Wright either. You are a Johnny Come Lately! You always think of things after-the-fact. It's like the person that you tell a joke too and 10 minutes later, they're like "Oh, I get it!"

IT'S EASY FOR OBAMA TO THROW MUD AT RIVAL, JUST LIKE OLD WASHINGTON POLITICS. WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS COMMENSENSE WHEN HE STAYED IN CHURCH FOR 20YRS WHERE HE HEARD CONTRO0VERSIAL STATEMENTS FROM HIS PASTOR, HE DID NOT HAD ENOUGH COMMEN SENSE AS OPRAH WHO LEFT THE CHURCH. SO HILLARIOUS, JUST LIKE OLD POLITICS WE ARE ALL TIRED OF.

he would have hired Wright in his place….

this is the NEXT "IF he had to make a decision…" after the fact.

God knows what he'll do when he has to actually make a tough decision.
cry maybe?

I agree Penn should have been fired, but Obama is not without poor judgment. Look at his relationship with his pastor of all these years. If he becomes President , there will be plenty of controversial topics for CNN to discuss on him too.

Don't overreact people. This is a hilarious way to use her own words back at her. One of the funny parts of politics.

Right when the Rev Wright story was dying down, she comes out and says If I were in that church I would have walked out. So, he comes back and says similar statement about Mark Penn.

It is pretty alarming that he still works for the campaign, just my honest opinion.

Yeah, just like he got rid of his pastor. He would fire the person only if it was in public headlines and had to do so for his campaign. The democrats are handing this election to the republicans, yet again. Democrat gone Republican.

Who really cares what Obama thinks? He has repeatedly shown bad judgment on several different occasions. We can safely use the term
"the xerox man". You go, Hillary!

Yea, well he should have gotten rid of his minister years ago too. Don't throw stones unless you have nothing to be stoned about. OOPs, no pun intended.

If this is how he will manage his Presidency–it will be a dictatorship–with only one viewpoint. Quite a comment–from a candidate representing a political party with such DIVERSITY.

So he would have fired Penn for meeting with a foreign official once, but he wouldn't have left a church that preached anti-Americanism for 20 years?

Oh, wait. He told Barbara Walters he would have "left the church" had Wright not resigned. He said this a week after he said he couldn't abandon Wright anymore than he could his "white grandmother."

Obama is talking out of both sides of his mouth. He is a hypocrite, and I hope the rest of the country will understand this before making a huge mistake in electing him.

Unfortunately, the all the Rev. Wright haters only hate Wright (and therefore Obama) based on 3 or 4 10-second snipets from sermon or speeches played over and over again by the mainstream news media.

This is unfair and judgemental. Even the main stream media has jumped on board as what was seen as only SEAN HANNITY talking points.

Rev. Wright served in the US Marines whereas most of these Wright haters have never served this country.

Obama speaks the truth once again.

Like he's one to talk!

Anyone notice how the stock market drops when camp Clinton takes a hit, but rises when Obama takes one.
I know this is merely coincidence, but interesting nonetheless.

Hillary is all laughs while My cousin has died In Iraq?

I have started to pay attention to obama as a anti war student and I have switched my vote to Obama. He had opposed war in Iraq from the beggining anyway!

Hmmm, doesn't remove himself from a radical church, but he'd of removed Penn. This guy will say anything if he thinks you want to hear it.

If the positions were reversed and Clinton was ahead in delegates, votes and states, Obama would have conceded already from pressure from the DNC. The only reason Clinton is still in this is because she's the wife of a former President and she refuses to accept the numbers. The Clintons are hoping they can swing a back room deal with superdelegates (and maybe even pledged delegates) to take the nomination.

Ferraro had it wrong. The only reason Clinton is still in this is because she's a woman. If she was a man, she'd be out and Obama would be the nominee.

You didn’t fired your staff who was talking Canadian government
Give us break
Hillary 08

That will never happen in Camp Clinton because it's the right thing to do.

Besides he's the Clintonistas' #1 attack dog who would possibly expose their lies even more if fired.

Obama 08

Maybe the reason Penn is still involved with the campaign is that HILLARY DOESN'T CARE THAT HE WAS TALKING WITH THE COLOMBIANS!

She only cares that he "got caught."

Will Mr. Obama please explain his connection with the terrorist Ayers. Why is he not being questioned by the media?

Isn't the entire Hillary campaign divorced from reality? Everytime Hillary goes to the black community to hand out "I'm sorry" for comments she supports, especially those of her husband, she demonstrates her tortured logic.