If Obama chooses to make Clinton his VP, that is his choice. Hillary needs to come to terms with the fact that her pressuring him to put her on the ticket will not help her case. Her holding back her support for him as the nominee will play to McCain, who she would have to work with as a NY senator.

Florida and Michigan held their votes in violation of party rules. They would have been much better served by not moving the dates up since for the first time in a while the nomination contest went through the final days. Both states deserved to be punished and giving them half delegates seems fair. Even if the delegates were allocated in the most beneficial way for Clinton, Barack would still be the nominee. Your vote was counted, though you can thank the state legislatures for diluting it's impact. This was largely out of Obama's control.

As for those who say that Obama would be dangerous for the country, please back this up with some facts or at least policy positions. I see nothing in his past or his policies that would make him dangerous. If you are a democrat I cannot see how you would stand to benefit from McCain, a man who believes that the Iraq war was a good decision, though not properly executed. Dangerous is the path Bush led us down and where McCain seems destined to go as well.

Have you lost your mind!? How can even claim you cared about Hillarys stance on the ISSUES and then say a vote for McCain is "best for the country?!" You have lost your mind!

Also, Obama won this fair and square, he didn't "steal" it. My word, what is wrong with some of you people!?

If Obama and HRC are basically the same on the issues then what should it matter that Obama is the one leading the charge? It shouldn't, so now that we see how this part of the election piece is shaken out – the HRC supporters want to cry foul – even though – in all HRC ran an ineffective and piss poor campaign. This should be sign of how she'd run the country.

It doesn't matter that she has all this policies she wants the implement – the fact of the matter is that she doesn't have the basic appeal to this country's innate inspiration or motivation factor to ensure her policies would meet with great acceptance.

She lost on her on accord.

The people dividing the party are not Obama and Clinton or the DNC. Quit pointing fingers and look in the mirror, those of you screaming about Hilary getting jobbed. YOU are the ones dividing yourselves out from the party. YOU get to make the choice as to whether you are included in the campaign.

Primary season is NOT an election. It is a series of primaries and caucases. Total votes mean nothing. Let it go. There are 13 states that have caucases instead of primaries, where votes aren't tabulated the same way. For you to say that only the popular vote matters is to say that a vote in New Hampshire is more important than a vote in Iowa, that a West Virginia vote is more important than a vote in Minnesota. Well, it's not. You need to realize that the sytem that Hilary agreed to, and the 36+ million people that voted, chose Barack Obama. The system worked. If you don't like the system, get involved and get it changed.

But she didn't get robbed. She didn't get screwed. She was defeated. Period.

It is your decision who to vote for, or whether to sit it out, from here until November. For people who seem to care about the direction of the country, many of you seem awfully willing to hand the next 8 years to the GOP just out of spite and frustration and dissappointment. Well, be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it, then.

That landslide victory would have given us the first black/female president and the first black/female V.P. all at the same time. What a monumental moment in history that would have been. They could have agreed to campaign positively and avoid the mudslinging and polarization that has occurred. They could have acknowledged that they agree on 90% of the policy issues that are most important to this country. They could have brought their constituencies together like a tidal wave across America.

When Reverend Wright came up, Hillary could have stated that she knew (like I know she does) that Wright's views do not reflect those of Barack. When sexist comments were made by the media, Barack could have condemned them. When 20% of voters admitted that race that race played a role in their vote, Hillary could have spoken out against that line of thinking. Both candidates could have jointly condemned the racism and sexism that has been a part of this race.

Sadly enough, the wrong road was chosen. Both of them deserve some of the blame, but my opinion is that one of them has much more work to do to make up for the division that has been created and magnified by that group's campaign. One side tried to keep the attention away from its "-ism" and the other tried to focus attention on theirs.

So, an opportunity of historic proportions may have slipped through the fingers of the Democratic Party. Party leaders should carry some of the blame for not recognizing the opportunity and jumping at it from the beginning. Who knows, maybe they tried but couldn't influence the decisions of campaign(s) involved. Now, instead of having 36 million (or more) Americans saying they enthusiastically support their democratic candidate, we have two groups of 18 million who have strong reservations about the other side. What a shame. But who’s to blame for what has become?

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are two of the strongest candidates in the history of the Democratic Party. If the process had been choreographed properly, they could have expanded, unified and transformed the party no matter who won the nomination. Theirs could have been the most formidable ticket our country has ever seen. Now, instead, we will have to wait and see what kinds of scars will be created from the wounds that have been inflicted. We can only hope that, like in real life, the scars will lead to some thing stronger than the skin that was broken.

Having Obama and Clinton together on the same ticket, after all the negative campaigning and polarizing, may just be too hard for the American public to digest. I think Senator Obama tried to leave the door open for Senator Clinton to join him one way or the other. But the important question is, did she reciprocate and do the same for him? How will that affect what happens from here? I guess only time will tell. I know what hopes I have for my country. What are yours?

Steve
Rochester, MN

We need to feel loved and cared for. I am really sad right now. Why did this happen? Hillary is a Clinton. She is entitled to be president. Can't you all see that?

sen. john mccain: Boredom is an emotional state experienced during periods of lack of activities or when individuals are uninterested in the activities surrounding them. Boredom is a condition characterized by perception of one's environment as dull, tedious, and lacking in stimulation.

Your mothers didn't teach you about being sore losers? When you lose you are supposed to be gracious, (like Barack for example). The dark side will NEVER win, doesn't history teach you fools that? So come on over to the light....or don't. If you hadn't noticed, we still won without you. Don't be bitter.

My question, though, is why did CNN not mention that the group chanting "Denver" in a lobby at the hotel where the meeting took place consisted of about 12-15 people? CNN shot them up close so they'd look bigger, but a wide shot slipped through and I counted them. The Clinton-or-McEvil crowd are really just a very small lunatic fringe.

Hillary would be the knife in his back.

Obama/Edwards '08 and '12

Send her a message to step down...

..Ask her to put our Country first..our Democratic values first...

...Remind her that the "Dream Ticket" is impossible because of her primaries anti-Obama rhetoric....

...Let her know we don't want her as our Veep...

Thanks.

Obama-Richardson 2008

But please, stop SHOUTING in these forums about how Obama stole the election. He did no such thing. You really think he's a media darling? I think Rev Wright or the "elitists" might disagree with you. If Hillary got any negative media attention, it's because she was doing things to deserve it. Saying that the media was out to get her is about as realistic as that sniper fire she had to run from. He won more pledged delegates, and not just a few, OVER 100 pledged delegates. That's not stealing an election in any way you can break that down. Even if they gave full votes back to FL and MI (after they broke the rules) she still wouldn't have enough pledged delegates. Please, feel free to come back to reality any time. I know it's fun to live in fantasy land where you get to make up anything you want to be enraged about, but that's not how adults think.

You people that say you'd rather see McCain win out of spite disgust me. Think about what you're saying for a minute. If you ever said you wanted to end the war in Iraq because you cared about American soldiers lives, then you are a hypocrite on an epic scale now that you're saying you'd rather vote McCain because your hometown football team didn't win the playoff. If you'd rather vote against the environment, Iraq, health care and the future of innovation and education in this country, because your candidate didn't win… then you frankly, don't have much of a soul.

So fine, go vote against OBAMA… I hope you can live with yourself afterward. As for the REAL democrats that supported Hillary, they'll be voting for Obama and to change the horrible course the republicans have set us on. The rest of you are a crying minority of people who have nothing better to do than sit on the internet all day and blather on about stolen elections that never happened.

You're all disgusting children.

You realize they stole the last 2 elections by NOT counting every vote.

You Lost Get Over It!

- Hey Beverly, Hillary has more Democratic voters then Obama. Obama won more independent and Republican votes then Hillary please check your facts. So if you ask me the pseudo Democrats are the ultra left voters for Obama who will lose the General election because they feel guilty about the way the US treated the black population in the past.

Yes to a Black pres just not this black man who in his own words is not ready yet.

Writing in Hillary Nov 08' with about 5million other people, or if she runs independent 18million other people...

Without Clintons 18 million + supporters, Obama will not win in November. As it is, it would be difficult at best for him with over 30% of her supporters not willing to support Obama. This runs deep and if Obama supporters are serious about wanting him to be President, they need to change...alot....of their comments. No matter what – Senator Clinton is a United States Senator, past First Lady and is well deserving of respect....even from the sleezy Obama supporters!!!!!!!

Obama '08

As for the "bitter" Hilary supporters, get a life. Are you Democrats or just haters? Either get stuck in the 20th Century or begin to dream about America's golden future; contribute something other than vile. If you can't see what a gracious, generous and brilliant leader Barack Obama is, then there is no hope for you.