Message to Superdelegates: Stand Aside

Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham, both radio show hosts, have told republicans to vote for Hillary in order to keep the democratic fight alive and to get Hillary to win the democratic nomination because they feel McCain can win against her and not against Obama. This means that it is not the will of the democratic public that is being heard, no one has to vote for McCain anymore so they can cross over and vote for Hillary just to cause problems. Doesn't this tell the Superdelegates that it is Obama that needs to win? Before McCain won, many republicans voted for Obama because they truly wanted him to win, now we are being scammed. Hillary is a joke to them. Why can't the democrats do something to make this obvious to the nominees and to the delegates?? She needs to step down, or we will continue as a divided country. The rebublicans are playing with our lives. And we are letting them!!

Good piece, Eleanor. You're right on track. I'm an African American woman in my 40's and professional and educated. Having said this, I've had my share of voting in presidential elections and watching and listening to campaigns and quite honestly, from the beginning, I was nonplussed by Senator Obama. His speeches didn't move me. That's not to say that he is not eloquent, but in comparing him to dead civil rights leaders and former martyred presidents made him less palatable because I couldn't see then, and I still can't see what he stands for. I've watched his voting record as a senator and it differs from what he says in his speeches. I don't get it. And when I see super delegates who happen to also be African American actually switching their votes to him and blaming it on the will of their "constituency", I have to note that this smacks of a double standard, What if Senator Obama had the experience and service with these men and they were White? And what if Senator Clinton were a Black man and they announced that they were switching their votes because their constituency would want them to support the White candidate? Senator Obama can't have it both ways. His "change" message is the same -- only reversed, and he's using emtionalism of youth and skin tone to run a very unusual race to get what he wants. He has no unique skills beyond the gift of gab. If history teaches us anything, it teaches this: we've seen great orations that turned the tide toward an approach to nationalism but was something completely different. We saw voters back a man who wasn't a great speaker a few years ago, but he was charismatic and had an "aw shucks" feel about him. He felt safe. The other man was a bit colorless and he was an intellect and this was shunned. Seven years and wars and economic failure and failed domestic and international policies later, ine man struggles not to go down in history as a total flop, and the other is the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. I wonder what those delegates would have done then. Today, they have that decision and since they have history to follow and not emotions of long-winded speeches and the desires of one man to make the history books.

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THIS pROVES THAT OBAMA IS THE REAL DEAL SON.

Obama proved persuasive enough that the bill passed both houses of the legislature, the Senate by an incredible 35 to 0. Then he talked Blagojevich into signing the bill, making Illinois the first state to require such videotaping.

Obama didn't stop there. He played a major role in passing many other bills, including the state's first earned-income tax credit to help the working poor and the first ethics and campaign finance law in 25 years (a law a Post story said made Illinois "one of the best in the nation on campaign finance disclosure"). Obama's commitment to ethics continued in the U.S. Senate, where he co-authored the new lobbying reform law that, among its hard-to-sell provisions, requires lawmakers to disclose the names of lobbyists who "bundle" contributions for them.

Taken together, these accomplishments demonstrate that Obama has what Dillard, the Republican state senator, calls a "unique" ability "to deal with extremely complex issues, to reach across the aisle and to deal with diverse people." In other words, Obama's campaign claim that he can persuade us to rise above what divides us is not just rhetoric.

Avian flu: Obama was one of the first Senators to speak out on avian flu, back in the spring of 2005, when it was a quintessentially wonky issue, not the subject of breathless news reports. There's a list of Democratic efforts on avian flu here; Obama shows up early and often. He has sponsored legislation, including what I think is the first bill dedicated to pandemic flu preparedness. It's a good bill, providing not just for vaccine research and antiviral stockpiles, but for the kinds of state and local planning and preparedness that will be crucial if a pandemic occurs. (I was also very interested to note that it requires the Secretary of HHS to contract with the Institute of Medicine for a study of "the legal, ethical, and social implications of, with respect to pandemic influenza". This is actually very important, and not everyone would have thought of it.)
"We recommend that this administration work with Congress, public health officials, the pharmaceutical industry, foreign governments and international organizations to create a permanent framework for curtailing the spread of future infectious diseases.

There were death penalty abolitionists, some of whom worried that Obama's bill, by preventing the execution of innocents, would deprive them of their best argument. Vigorous opposition came from the police, too many of whom had become accustomed to using muscle to "solve" crimes. And the incoming governor, Rod Blagojevich, announced that he was against it.

THIS IS A pERFECT EXAMpLE OF WHAT OBAMA CAN DO AND HAS ALREADy DONE, BRING DIFFERENT FACTIONS TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE A COMMON GOAL.

"YES WE CAN" T SHIRTS WILL SELL LIKE "HOT CAKES"

BARAK NEEDS A YES WE CAN SLOGAN IN SPANISH.
THEN MAKE T SHIRTS AND OTHER ATTIRE and HAND THEM OUT IN TEXAS AND OHIO.


"YES WE CAN" "YES WE CAN" "YES WE CAN" TEXAS AND OHIO.

IT is TIME TO SEND A MESSAGE AND DELIVER THE KNOCK OUT BLOW.
TAKING YOUR GLOVES OFF EARLY IS NOT ALWAYS THE WISEST DECISION TO MAKE. SOME MIGHT EVEN CALL IT NAIVE.

ONE OF THE MAIN POINTS OBAMA MADE IN LAST NIGHTS SPEECH WAS THAT THE CHALLENGE of implementing change is JUST BEGINNING> THAT CHANGE IS NOT EASY. AND WILL TAKE A UNITED EFFORT from all not just a few.

CAN HILLARY MAKE HER LAST STAND IN TEXAS AND OHIO A SUCCESSFUL ONE.

"OR WILL THIS OBAMA WAVE , POWERED BY A THUNDEROUS MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE, SWALLOW HILLARY AND HER ARMY OF LATINOS" eddiewhere 2008.

OBAMA GAVE A TREMENDOUS SPEECH IN TEXAS LAST NIGHT.
THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE SPEECH WAS WHEN OBAMA MENTIONED THAT SOME LEADERS SAY THAT I CANNOT ENGAGE OUR ENEMIES IN DISCUSSION. TO THEM I SAY YES I CAN.
YES WE CAN. YES WE CAN.

I think the message that Democratic voters is trying to convey to the leadership is team-manship. As a retired school teacher, who taught in an inner city high school in a notoriously dangerous neighborhood in south Los Angeles,I was often drafted into serving as the sponsor or co-sponsor of various organizations and activities. (I served a senior class sponsor 4 times.) I always preferred working as a co-sponsor, teaming up with one or two other colleagues rather than getting all the glory myself. The same must apply to the Democratic party - Clinton and Obama need to start working toward teammanship NOW. They also need to include John Edwards. When we talk about change we can believe in, the change in our concept of leadership is one thing we need to put into effect, with an emphasis on "we" rather than "me". I invite you to consider that concept seriously, Applied both across this nation and across the world, the concept of "we" rather than "me" is the only was we can ensure that this planet will make it to the 22nd century.

Let's hear it for Hillary - the one choice dems can make that will put another republican in the White House. If she gets there via superdelegates and thereby destroys the democratic party that's all the better.

NOBAMA!!!

Personally, it says seperation of church and state right in the constitution, or are you against that too??? Seriously, who the heck cares. He says he's a christian and so does his pastor..good enough for me. I'm voting for Obama, even if he is a Christian. I'm not that fond of Christians as a rule, I find them far too judgemental and self righteous. But as a good American, I'm willing to put our constitutional requirements for the greater good above my own personal religious preferences, and try to judge a candidate on what I can find out than on a pre-concieved notion based on what I think of a candidates religion.

Obama graduate Harvard. How latinos there?

He not understand latino. He only know white.

Mccain send to war 100 years but he give us amnestie.

Hilary unite latino and white woman.

Obama only care white.

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Thank God a woman finally understands and stands up for an intelligent woman instead of a man with a good speech writer. Change is a word not a plan. He is a copy cat of other plans. It is amazing that white males will vote for a man with no plan over an intelligent woman. What does that say about the way they feel about their wives, daughters, mothers and sisters. Sexism is alive in the US. Obama is guilty of taking lobbyist money in large amounts while lying and saying he is against lobbyist. He is in bed with big donating lobbyist, slum lords and Oprah. Oprah has based her show on women. She wants us to buy her magazine, the products she pushes, and of course her show. She says "She is all about helping women" Yet she goes for the first swinging dick she sees. Do you feel used? Clinton has done more for women and children than Obama. Why is it women will be lead like sheep to any man, are jealeous of other women, and vote the way her husband or boyfriend tells her to vote. Grow up girls vote for women not another man who will send the money to Africa (of course they need it) instead of helping the poorest of all here - women and children. Compare yoiu salary and needs to survive with thoses of men in this country. You come up way short especially if you are divorced or widowed. Clinton has been critized by the Republicans since her husband was first elected because she was intelligent ans wanted to help get insurance for all Americans. The Republicans and the insurance lobbyist said she should bake cookies like all other women. Now we have a health care crisis in this coiuntry and she is made fun of by Obama because we have no health care. His plan is a copy of hers with a vew variations. How long will you allow women to be pushed back by sexist men who fear a smart woman. If you disagree I guess you will go to the kitchen and fix more cookies.

Thank God some woman realizes that voting for an intelligent woman is more important than voting for a man who has good speach writers and not substance. Change is a word not a plan. Sexism is alive and well in the US. White men will vot for any man instead of a quailfied woman. What does that say about his view of his wife , mother and daughters. Ignorant woman vote the way their husband tells them to vote. Clinton has proven many times she is for women, children and the poor. Obams is in bed with lobbyist who give him big money and slum lords and of course Oprah. Her show is based on women and she goes for the first dick she sees. Do you feel used by Oprah?