Democrats all about Pennsylvania
If there are any Democratic voters left in Pennsylvania who haven't run across Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, they'll have plenty of chances before Tuesday's big primary.
The two presidential contenders released their campaign schedules this afternoon, and it will be all Keystone State all the time.
Hillary Clinton's camp says she will barnstorm the state from Thursday through Tuesday, starting with a joint appearance with daughter Chelsea at Haverford College.
Barack Obama, after events in North Carolina on Thursday, returns to Pennsylvania through Tuesday's vote. His first event on Friday is in Erie, Pa.
The heavy schedules show the importance of Pennsylvania -- Clinton badly needs a big win to build momentum toward Indiana and North Carolina on May 6 and beyond; Obama, with an upset victory, could force Clinton out of the race.
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look why hasnt everyone noticed that barack obama has no experience wat so ever, about being a president hillary clinton does her husband bill clinton was president of the u.s. and i hope all of u people can remember he was a good president so why vote for obam experience or no experience hillary=knowledge and experience and good president on the other hand obama= no knowledge and no experience wat so ever thank u i hope this gets to all of americans please think about what u are doing thank u!
She'll win, but it won't be the "Big" win that she needed. Obama will then wipe her out in North Carolina, after that she "aint" got nothing left in the tank. LOL!
THE RACE IS NOT OVER , IF HILLARY DOES NOT WIN, WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK WERE WE WERE WITH THE REPUBLICANS IN CONTROL FOR ANOTHER EIGHT YEARS. AMERICA IS NOT YET READY FOR AN ARAB PRESIDENT, A G BURRIS
I am a democrat and I am mostly liberal. I taught 7th graders for 30 years. I am watching the two Senators and I am reminded so much of the immaturity of 13 year olds. It is so disheartening to see our future wasting away in front of our eyes. Senator Clinton behaves so transparently small. I will vote for Senator Obama. If Senator Clinton is our Candidate, I probably won't even bother to vote. This after the most depressing 8 years in American history. I had such hope we would choose a person with integrity, the ability to speak words that hold truth and a person I would welcome into my home.
For the love of our country, please do what you can to bring us back.
Sincerely
Robert Lord
HEY HILARY, WHY NOT TELL THE TRUTH TONIGHT ABOUT HOW IN TOUCH YOU ARE WITH THE WORKING CLASS? NO, NOT NAFTA WHICH YOU SUPPORTED (BUT NOW YOU DON'T / BLAME IT ON BILL) AND BASICALLY CRIPPLED PA MANUFACTURING. I'M REFERRING TO YOUR SUPPORT IN 1995 OF THE SOUTHERN WORKING-CLASS WHITES WHO HAD DESERTED THE DEMOCRATE PARTY. WHAT DID YOU SAY, OH YES I BELIVE IT WAS "SCREW 'EM". AS FIRST LADY YOU TOLD YOUR HUSBAND... "SCREW 'EM, YOU DON'T OWE THEM A THING, BILL. THEYRE DOING NOTHING FOR YOU, YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING FOR THEM".
TYPICAL CLINTON, IF YOU CAN'T USE THEM, THEN "SCREW 'EM". SLASH AND BURN IS ALL YOU CLINTIONS KNOW. WELL IT'S JUST ABOUT OVER. BOTH YOU AND YOUR HUSBAND HAVE SHOWN YOUR TRUE COLORS AND THEY AREN'T NICE. AMERICANS WILL NEVER AGAIN HOLD EITHER OF YOU IN HIGH REGARD AGAIN.
My son came yesterday evening, and I have asked him about the Maths marks. He said he got 85%. I thought its fine. In the night i have been cheking his books, and found the Maths Answersheet -- it showed 58%. I said haa.
I called and asked my son about his why he has lied to me.
He promptly said .. Dad-- i have not lied -- I just "mis spoke" about my marks.
Its my turn second time to be spell bound -- to find the difference between a lie and misspoke --
Arthur Burris --
We don't have any Arabs running for president.
We do have a candidate who's related to Lyndon Johnson, Harry Truman, James Madison, and Robert E. Lee.
That would be Barack Obama.
You need to get informed, pal.
If Hillary is nominated, she doesn't have a chance in the world of winning the general election. Firstly, you all must remember all her liabilities that the swift boat crew will jump on: her amazing commodity trading (exactly $100,000 in profit in 30 days and then quits the game), Vincent Foster affair, Bosnia lies, Health Care genius plan, Madison S&L connection (look it up), her involvement with Bill's creative presidential pardons assisting her Senate win, redacted White House schedules, failure to produce donor list of Bill's presidential library....
Her getting nominated would be like Carl Rove hitting the lottery.
To the commenter who believes she has so much experience... don't be fooled into thinking she is the second coming of Bill. She is too independent to let him run the show. Additionally, clearly Bill hasn't been especially helpful in the campaign to help her overcome her incredibly strong negatives.
Well consider this.....
According to realclearpolitics.com, the authority for all polling used by most of the media...
Hillary has a 7 point lead in Pennsylvania and a 5 point lead in Indiana (rounding up for both states)
Barack Obama has a 14.5 point lead in North Carolina
What does that mean.....if you check "Slate.com"'s delegate calculator this means that Obama will still beat her after these contests by 3 delegates......check it yourself...
Even if Hillary wins PN and IN, Barack will still lead after all these contests with a bigger win from NC, at least thats what the math is today.....
Hillary needs to win by 15 points in all the remaining contests to close Obama's Lead, and with superdelegates going to Obama at a rate of one per day, he chances are becoming more and more slim
She needs to drop out of the race so the Democratic Party can be unitied against the obvious United Republican party and its nominee....John McCain
Its nothing personal against hillary, but if we want a Democrat in office we need to think TEAM.....
Speaking of no experience - David, have you had much experience with the English language? I started counting the mistakes in your comment, but I stopped at a dozen.
Now you may think, "Hey, what difference do a few mistakes make?" Well, some people will discount the content of your comments because your spelling and grammar seem to indicate that you're highly uneducated.
It's kind of like showing up for a job interview wearing old clothes and needing a haircut and a shave.
Obama is a racist and starting to show his inexperience, Hillary is strong on the environment, the economy, and foreign policy. If Obama wins it will be handing the presidency to the republicans and we are shot for sure with more years of war, worn out tax cuts for the rich, no education plan, poor security, torturing people, and oh yeah open borders and more out sourcing our jobs. American voters are so stupid to buy into a guy who can give a good speech but lacks experience and integrity. The choices are none too good but we have to make the best of it. Vote Hillary. As for Robert, no wonder our voting electorate is so stupid after being thought by people like you. Get a clue, study history, the history of the republican party and George Bush and Dick Cheney, is that what you want.
LET'S FACE IT. WE ARE A COUNTRY OF MISOGYNISTS. WHILE WOMEN HAVE CONTRIBUTED SO MUCH TO BUILDING THIS COUNTRY, YET WE STILL CANNOT TRUST A WOMAN TO BE OUR PRESIDENT. ISN'T EVERYONE OF US BORN AND NURTURED BY A WOMAN? DOESN'T EVERYONE OF US TRUST IN HIS/HER MOTHER? WHY DON'T WE LEARN FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM WHERE YOU SEE THE QUEEN, AND ALSO PRIME MINISTERS SUCH AS THATCHER. SHAME ON US.
I am really glad Obama is coming back to PA...the people here need to see more of him and I hope he does more small venues and reaches out to older voters more.
I have lived in PA for 12 years and I am amazed Hillary has continued to pull the wool over my neighbors' eyes all this time. She is such a liar, and rode her husband's coattails to get as far as she has. Her pathetic campaign has been a disgrace to hard working women everywhere.
Let's go PA: Think. Research. Vote.
The literacy level in this blog is pathetic. Are all Democrats this dumb?
Look in to the future : Obama is the US President- US slowly becoming the copy of New York's Harlem-Change we can trust-Yeaaa right!!!!!!
Once again we are faced with voting for the lesser of the evils and personally I can't understand why any American earning less than $250,000 a year would want another 4-years of a Bush-like McCain government or for that matter just another political machine that will say anything it has to in order to get the power it ultimately feeds off of like the Clinton twins.
Obama may not be the all inclusive answer to our problems but he has a fresh approach and is certainly the least corrupted at this point. Inexperience should not be the issue here when we are talking about an intelligent, well educated human being who has spent most of his career in some sort of politics. The President doesn't make every decision on his own people, he has a full staff of highly qualified individuals to offer all of the experience necesarry to run this country. Look at what we have had to deal with for the last 8-years!!! Need I say more?
Why doesn't anyone press Obama on exactly HOW he plans to create this big "change" that he touts. Surely he will have to compromise with Republicans. The big question is, what is he willing to sacrifice? Medicare, Social Security, Universal Health Insurance, Education? The Republicans aren't liberal on these issues.
With Hillary, we know THAT she will fight and what she will fight for. With Obama, we don't know what he will give up to AVOID fighting.... Is this REALLY a "new approach" or just a weak presidency? I think the Republicans will cut him off at the knees and Obama will be another Jimmy Carter... WELL-INTENTIONED but ineffectual. Then it will be too late for HIllary, who could effect REAL change.
There seems to be a recurring arguement about Mrs. Clinton's experience over Barak Obama's experience. OK, let us discuss what I see, right or wrong, please feel free to correct my facts:
Mrs. Clinton says she's had 35 years of service and worked on family & children's issues. Her height of experience is the 8 years serving beside her husband (the president) and now her 6 years in the senate. I hope I didn't miss anything.
Mr. Obama says he's had plenty of experience on his own, working for communities straight out of college. I don't know how many years, so lets say 10 years (although I think its closer to 15). He then spent time in the Illinois legislative chambers for 4(?) years and then the last 2 years in the Senate.
It seems to me that he has had a lot of the same experince Mrs. Clinton has had except it's not all in Washington DC. He's worked the streets of Chicago, it the legislative chambers of state and federal government and lets not forget he taught constitutional law.
How does Mrs. Clinton have more experience and better quality of experience. I think leadership is God Given for the special gift of insight and the ability to bring people together for a common vision of a better futre. Mrs. Clinton does not offer that, rather a futre of more in-fighting and antagonism. She is already starting out with 1/2 of the country not trusting anything that she speaks about....how can we believe anything she says when the motive is to win the White House at all cost and attacking with everyting.....including the kithen sink.
Mr. Obama has shown vision, strength, courage and most of all,.........CLASS. He could have really drilled Mrs. Clinton on the intentional misleading statements (Bosnia, NAFTA, Travel Office-Gate, etc.). He didn't and let the public judge for themselves.
I think the public is NOT blind to what is going on and they WILL do the right thing. . I really think Mr. Obama is the one that can bring true change to washington. He can lead by example. I hope he is given the opportunity to make us ONE NATION UNDER GOD.....again!!!!
There seems to be a recurring arguement about Mrs. Clinton's experience over Barak Obama's experience. OK, let us discuss what I see, right or wrong, please feel free to correct my facts:
Mrs. Clinton says she's had 35 years of service and worked on family & children's issues. Her height of experience is the 8 years serving beside her husband (the president) and now her 6 years in the senate. I hope I didn't miss anything.
Mr. Obama says he's had plenty of experience on his own, working for communities straight out of college. I don't know how many years, so lets say 10 years (although I think its closer to 15). He then spent time in the Illinois legislative chambers for 4(?) years and then the last 2 years in the Senate.
It seems to me that he has had a lot of the same experince Mrs. Clinton has had except it's not all in Washington DC. He's worked the streets of Chicago, it the legislative chambers of state and federal government and lets not forget he taught constitutional law.
How does Mrs. Clinton have more experience and better quality of experience. I think leadership is God Given for the special gift of insight and the ability to bring people together for a common vision of a better futre. Mrs. Clinton does not offer that, rather a futre of more in-fighting and antagonism. She is already starting out with 1/2 of the country not trusting anything that she speaks about....how can we believe anything she says when the motive is to win the White House at all cost and attacking with everyting.....including the kithen sink.
Mr. Obama has shown vision, strength, courage and most of all,.........CLASS. He could have really drilled Mrs. Clinton on the intentional misleading statements (Bosnia, NAFTA, Travel Office-Gate, etc.). He didn't and let the public judge for themselves.
I think the public is NOT blind to what is going on and they WILL do the right thing. . I really think Mr. Obama is the one that can bring true change to washington. He can lead by example. I hope he is given the opportunity to make us ONE NATION UNDER GOD.....again!!!!
Rick Huffman (comment 11),
Did you read what One American Father said above (comment 6)? Clinton is my senator. I've voted for both her and her husband twice, but I am so disappointed in her tactics this primary election that I'm even rethinking my support of her as my senator.
She has looked at us in the face and lied - in three different speeches (and then said she misspoke - and then Bill tried to say it was once, late at night? She has tried to say that she is more like a gun-toting, bible-thumping, beer swigging redneck (and I'm from Oklahoma originally so I know plenty), than the latte-drinking, elite educated liberal that she is. I cannot trust a word that she says.
She makes sausage making look downright antiseptic.
Given her rovian tactics of late and the fact that she knows cannot win the nomination outright by the numbers under any scenario, I'm starting to think there might be something to the Machiavellian theory that she is trying to make sure that Obama doesn't win so that she can try again in 2012.
Obama has shown us tremendous integrity and judgment against all of this. He can beat McCain and Hillary should stop doing the Republicans work for them. At this point it seems that the Clintons are the real threat to our party's chance of winning in November.
I too have read of Sen. Clinton's well-documented 1995 Camp David outburst, "Screw 'em" referring to working-class whites. She informed Bill that he didn't owe them one single thing, so forget them. THOSE POOR WORKING-CLASS WHITES CAN STILL REACH AS FAR AS A BALLOT BOX--AND THEIR VOTE WILL COUNT EVERY BIT AS MUCH AS AN ELITIST VOTE. Shame on Mrs. William Clinton; she wouldn't be where she is if it were not for the fact that she married Bill Clinton (and stayed married to him through his 33 years of philandering).
There are two major mistakes that can be made in Washington, DC. One is to be caught telling a lie. The other is to be caught telling the truth. Based on recent experience, the second evokes more outrage than the first.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's rendition of her excellent Bosnia adventure is an example of the first. She was not sent to Bosnia because the president could not go (He was there two months earlier.) Unlike our troops in Iraq, she was greeted with flowers, not sniper fire. This was not a misstatement late at night by a tired candidate -- although her husband continues to assert this falsehood. She reported the fictional event at least three times, never in the dead of night waiting for the 3 am phone call. This was not a slip of the tongue. This was not a misstatement. This was a lie. But the courtly protocol inside the Capital Beltway is to not use that three-letter word and to forgive quickly those many politicians who commit this offense frequently. "Spin" is used where possible to disguise the fact that it was a lie. And it was also an insult to the military who would face a courts martial for filing a false combat action report and to the Secret Service for allegedly letting the First Lady and her daughter go into so dangerous a situation. Despite this, the Obama campaign has not aped the Republican attack machine by constant harping on these facts.
Senator Barack Obama committed a greater offense by Washington, DC standards. He committed truth. However poorly phrased his California fundraiser comments, recorded by the Huffington Post, were true. The people of this nation are angry at being left with a war without end and an economy that has slipped into recession. They are bitter that the promises made by the last two administrations have not been met. A disproportionate share of those who serve, fight and die in Iraq and Afghanistan come from small towns and rural areas while the rest of the country is fed the bromide of painless patriotism. Average wages, adjusted for inflation have not risen. Family income has risen only to the extent that second earners have been added. Virtually all of the productivity growth since 2000 has gone to corporate profits and exploding CEO pay. And "creative" financial schemes on Wall Street are leading to recession and foreclosures. Of course middle and working class people are frustrated angry and bitter, they have every right to be.
And what about the inelegant (a spin word) phrasing about immigrants, guns and religion? There is a core of truth here. Read Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas? to see how conservatives use "Guns, God and Gays" and other social issues to con voters into voting against their own economic interests. That is the core of the Republican campaign strategy. And in times of stress, more people tend to look for scapegoats or to seek solace and hope in religion or other comforting communities.
In Washington, DC, however, such truth appears to be an unpardonable sin. Because he has spoken of the frustration of small towns and working class people, the right wing media brands him an elitist. Sen. Clinton proves that she and Senator John McCain are indeed friends by echoing the elitist line. Both Senator Clinton and Senator McCain are multimillionaires. Senator McCain, while downplaying the housing crisis and doing nothing for the 200,000 veterans who sleep on the streets, has to decide which of his 6 or 7 homes to sleep in at night. Senator Obama's mistake was being from a lower middle class background and understanding the plight of people in that situation today. Unforgivable.
Perhaps truth telling is considered worse than lying because so few in Washington practice the former and so many the latter. "Mission Accomplished." "The United States does not torture." "We have turned a corner in Iraq." "My votes are not influenced by campaign contributions."
It is not only small town residents who are angry and want change. And bitterness can be found across the country from the grave sites of our fallen youth to the foreclosure signs spreading across neighborhoods.
But do not tell that truth, it will get you in trouble with the elites. Lie instead, that's ok.
This was from the Huffington Post
I laugh. And laugh ... and laugh. Because if I didn't I would cry. The whole World is watching (and laughing too) at this pathetic bickering of Hillary vs. Obama supporters, endorsers, naysayers, hate-mongers, media-spinners, (Mr. Burris: an ARAB President? You really should READ the Constitution before you spew your verbal diarrhea, dude). And why are we so divided? Why have so many people hiding behind keyboards only to spit out such hatred. Do you feel safer doing this? Any one of you who diss either of these candidates online wouldn't have the balls to say it to their faces. Talk about juvenile.
You know, political discourse was robust long before the CAPS LOCK key was invented. All caps is like internet cruise control.
Come on, now. We're better than that.
SUPERDELEGATES SHOULD REMAIN INDEPENDENT UNTILL THE CONVENTION.....
Superdelegates remaining undecided should be left alone and independent to decide which candidate to support.
They should take all the time they need ….
http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/04/superdelegates-independence-of-vote.html