THE DEBATE

Too Little, Too Late

Clinton connected—but only in closing. Inside Obama's night.

By Richard Wolffe | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Feb 21, 2008 | Updated: 11:37  p.m. ET Feb 21, 2008

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  • Posted By: Sam10 @ 03/03/2008 9:49:15 PM

    Besides Change, which no one supporting him can figure out what that means, aside from shouting about it. Isn't he supposed to have good judgement? Come clean. Obama's friends are not really something that can be brought out in public. Farrakhan, Wright, Rezko, Anuchi. Yes , I would think judgement is out the window. Now how about talking in your own words, gone too. Having you own political positions, well he's borrowed Hillary's. Give me some time, there must be something Obama's done. Oh yes, yes, he can raise money. Well, taking money from zealots wouldn't really be something to be proud of either.

  • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/23/2008 8:21:24 PM

    Should Obama become the nomination, he will be elected. The numbers dictate that. Obama has generated voters 2 to 1. He will get those votes plus some of Hillary and Edwards supporters. McCain will not be able to stop the vote. There is not that many republican voters. Unless the Republicans can show that they have more of the voting data base, Obama is it. I am a Hillary supporter and will cross the lines because Obama is not ready. But bit even my vote will stop Obama. I will have to wait 4 more years for everything to turn around. Or at least attempt to turn around. Too much authority on one side tend to be unassuring of equality. The democrats may not be able to see clearly and will lose sight. Everyone will want things to be done thier way.

    • Posted By: bluethunder1962 @ 02/25/2008 10:06:55 PM

      Glad you and GTX13! can have a conversation with each other, since you are the same person. Good luck with pulling both personalities together.

      • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/29/2008 10:29:54 PM

        As for me and GTX13 being the same person, sorry, no can do. So thats 2 votes not one.

      • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/29/2008 10:27:50 PM

        Lets see, Obama should he be lucky enough to get the nomination, the republicans will eat him up and spit him out. He is a hypocrit allowing dirty politics that he himself said he was against. The Obamacans are voting Hillary out because and Barack said it himself, Hillary would make a fine leader of this country. Getting to there is a battle for Hillary. Odds are stacked against her. The republicans do not want to go up against her, that would seal their fate of obtaing the White House. At least with Obama, they have a chance and throw Nader into the mix, its more than possible.

    • Posted By: GTX13 @ 02/23/2008 10:53:52 PM

      MANY GO OUT FOR WOOL AND COME HOME SHORN !!!

      • Posted By: bluethunder1962 @ 02/25/2008 10:12:15 PM

        How's holyroller doing?

  • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/29/2008 1:51:21 AM

    Obama doesn't respect our flag, he's affiliated with a hateful person of the jews, so why does he want to be president? He says he's for the poor, yet he supports a slumlord like Rezko. Put people up in his units of decay and mold and mildew. Do the rest of you Obama followers disrespect the flag as well? Are you that insensitive to the less unfortunate? The queen is still trying to find ways to bring America out of the abyss its been in for the last 8 years. She is losing yet she finds time to develop a plan to help our impoverished children. And I have viewed youtube, the debates, and I don't think Obama believes in God. He believes in something though. Like Louis Farrakhan? Rezko? ( according to chicago tribune he's been passing favorable letters).

  • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/24/2008 7:08:08 PM

    Can someone please enlighten me and tell me if any of Obama's speeches ever end with "God bless America"? I'm not sure if I heard him or not. Maybe that would stop the religious inuendos if he is indeed christian as we know christianity to be. Otherwise havng been a follower of Louis Farakhan, (please forgive me if I spelled his name wrong) who believes in the destruction of the United States, if this is true, isn't that like sending the cows to slaughter?
    I know you should never mix religion and politics yet every other candidate has always made referrence to the loyalties of the United States as one nation under God.
    I guess like marketingtruth has been trying to tell us, think and look at the facts. Read this read that and when we do it gets scarier and scarier. Where are we heading?

    • Posted By: bluethunder1962 @ 02/25/2008 4:58:38 PM

      Yes, he has. Get a TV.

      • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/25/2008 6:57:34 PM

        With all this uncertainty of he does, he doesn't, how about sending me to a link that undeniably shows him stating God bless America or better yet, how about his Senator inauguration. The only religion I have read him having is the same affiliation with Louis Farrakkhan. You know the one who hates white people and wants to destroy the United States? By the way, that is one job he's very good at, I must say.

        • Posted By: bluethunder1962 @ 02/25/2008 10:04:28 PM

          Si nce you don't really want to know what his message is, all you had to do was Google and find out he says, God Bless all the time. I heard him say this in the debate last Thursday. As, I said, either get a TV or get a computer. Well, I forgot you have a computer so you could find this stuff out if you wanted. But, you don't. You just want to peddle hate. Good luck with living with you.

          • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/28/2008 11:55:31 PM

            I don't peddle hate. I think there is a lot of issues and Obama is opened to interpretation. I taped the debate, didn't see it on there. I visited youtube, none there either. So maybe you are the hater. Oh wait a minute, you are voting for a person of color so that doesn't make you a hater. If I felt Obama can bring the country together and deliver his message of hope and change, I would jump on that bandwagon. I'm not that naive. I know he has no experience and no clue how to run a country. What are you getting for your vote? I know he uses other peoples words. The same words his good friend gave to him. It worked for his friend but his friend hasn't even delivered. Why are you so against a woman president? Hillary is more innovative and can bring the country together. At least she is concerned about our elderly. NAFTA and Iraq is a moot point. Her healthcare is great, her economy package will help America help themselves out of this mess, and now with all the distractions she has come up with a plan to help impoverish children. No other person I know would put themself out there and take the time to continue finding ways to bring our country out of the depth of an abyss we are currently in. I can say one thing positive about Obama's last debate he looked much better prepared than in other debates. I was impressed. That still doesn't mean he's ready. I am probably more openminded then you.

  • Posted By: GetReal2008 @ 02/25/2008 5:14:06 PM

    U vote Osama, I mean Obama and I will vote Republican....discussing this week during all the BS by that man in Austin, lots feel the same....so it looks like we will have another horrible 8 years....anything to keep that useless guy out of office....."CHANGE" where has he been the last 8 years? Where was his "CHANGE" then? I can't believe you people are falling for that crap he spins.....GET REAL!

    • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/25/2008 7:00:10 PM

      You can count me in, I'm a Hillary supporter. And unless holyroller is fake, that makes two of us. But I think she is already on that bandwagon.

  • Posted By: ddcohen @ 02/25/2008 5:47:11 PM

    HRC supporters now is your time to shine put your money where your mouth is so the queen can burn your hard earned $$$ in Bellagio Luxury Hotel

  • Posted By: RuthieM @ 02/23/2008 1:19:51 PM

    What a fake that Clinton. She set the entire ending up so she could use it in an ad which she is now doing. She plays this gender card, the wo is me little downtrodden lady victim card and it;s sickening because if Barack did this he would be blasted all over the media, and for days on end. So now what, the media's gonna keep playing this debate 'ending' until the nomination? Give me a break!

    • Posted By: GetReal2008 @ 02/25/2008 5:17:21 PM

      Your only running scared.....I see it in your comments...it ain't over yet my friend....and at least she is not using her "race" to win.....remember Oprah?

  • Posted By: be-my-niehboor @ 02/24/2008 8:41:05 PM

    Dear Jrmapu:

    God has blessed America.

  • Posted By: be-my-niehboor @ 02/24/2008 8:40:17 PM

    Dear jrmapu:

    God has blessed America.

  • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/24/2008 2:44:32 PM

    I just had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine. We both have our opinions. He wants Obama because he is tired of the Bush/Clinton/Bush era and Hillary's position on the NAFTA vote and the Iraq war. Well she may have voted to fund the support of the troops but Obama supported the extension of NAFTA allowing the process of hispanic laborers being allowed overtime when our country is dealing with layoffs. Also I think why the democrats is continually being elluded the White House is because they are thinking short term, not long term. An Obama/Clinton tincket will doom the democrats. I know that. A Clinton/Obama ticket will bring hope of the future. This is the difference between a 4 to 8 year run or a 8 to 16 year run. Especially with Ralph Nader running again. Obama has attract voters 2 to 1 only because no one wants a Clinton. Throw Nader into the mix, the playing field is leveled. Democrats may be left out in the cold again. Another food for thought.

  • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/24/2008 11:50:03 AM

    As a nation we have endured 20 years of ups and downs. The only difference is, the ups was when Bill Clinton was in office. We were prosperous and no one was trying to kill us or mocking our current President as America's greatest failure. I do agree we need change because the problems were not here only the last 20 years but the last 2008 years. Think about it, the males have been engaging our country in wars since the inception of the United States.
    We finally have women on the Supreme Court, the speaker of the house is a woman, women have positions of authority and they are doing a GREAT job.
    Its time for male dominance to step aside and allow a woman to lead the United States. Its not too late to do the right thing and vote for a woman who's voice is our voice. She knows the problems and can make the changes we need currently not down the road. I don't want to wait another 4 years while Obama learns how to use his fast pace brain to voice what we the people need.
    Her healthcare plan is solid, her foreign affairs skills are sharp, her economy plan is great to guide the US out of the recession we are slowly plummeting to, she uses her voice to fight for human rights, she has a plan to bring the troops home , and her experienced leadership skills are what America needs NOW. Its not too late to vote for the First Woman President who is more than qualified to lead this country to greatness. Remember the major states are Texas, Ohio, and Pennsylvania because they are the rich delegate states. But every state is a rich delegate state for Hillary Rodham Clinton.
    Every young girl will have hope to become what many women have been trying to do for years, prove they are worthy of position in a male dominant society .
    It is time for change but we need solutions so change can happen.

  • Posted By: GTX13 @ 02/24/2008 1:56:35 AM

    GALLUO POLL TODAY: CLINTON-OBAMA 47%-45% OHIO AND TEXAS WILL MAKE THE DIFFERENCE ! PENN WILL PUT THE FINAL SEAL ! BUT MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA WILL HAVE THE LAST SIGNATURE AUDIT!!!
    " ALL IS WELL WHEN ENDS WELL !!!"

  • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/23/2008 7:51:43 PM

    Times columnist Andres writes. He adds that, "despite her reassuring rhetoric" that her health care proposal is not a "government takeover" and contains no "new bureaucracy," Clinton proposes to "use the heavy hand of government" to require all residents to obtain health insurance. Her "near-religious zeal to force universal coverage strikes some as odd," Andres writes, adding, "Why compel someone to buy something he or she can't afford?" According to Andres, the "financial penalties for those who fail to purchase insurance ... stirs significant opposition," and Clinton "opened a political can of worms" when she said that she might seek to garnish the wages of residents who can afford health insurance but do not obtain coverage. "Improving health care is a salient bread-and-butter election issue this year," Andres writes, adding, "Compelling everyone to buy a product, whether he wants it or not ... sounds more like a mandate for defeat than a promise of political success" (Andres, Washington Times, 2/14)

    • Posted By: coolrepublica @ 02/23/2008 9:52:31 PM

      In California the law requires that every driver have car insurance. When I write that check I am convinced that my money could be used someone better because I can't afford it. She has the right idea. You have to demand it or it is not going to happen. We are humans and we will try to not do something unless we are told to do it. People would drive 100 miles per hour if there was no 565 signs posted everywhere to remind of the limit.e Making health insurance voluntary is not universal health siurance.

      • Posted By: GTX13 @ 02/23/2008 10:58:17 PM

        ALL TALK AND NO CIDER / MUCH CRY AND LITTLE WOOL !

  • Posted By: mksl1 @ 02/23/2008 6:05:49 PM

    Obama,the great motivational speaker,is offering the same,tired ideas the Dems have been serving up since Jimmy Carter's horrible "presidency." The same old "tax and spend" proposals that are being rejected by every growing economy in the world.Center left governments from Chile to Ireland to India are reducing taxes and dergulating.Even the communist Chinese have gone that way.But Obama wants to take us back to the failed economic ideas of the 1960's and 70's and dress it up as "change".Well it might be a "change" but it sure ain't progress.
    Oprah should give him a tv show.He could be a cross between Dr.Phil and Tony Robbins.
    Given how little he did in the senate it would appear it's all he's good for.

    • Posted By: GTX13 @ 02/23/2008 10:48:35 PM

      RIGHT ! HANDSOME IS THAT/ AS HANDSOME DOES !!!

  • Posted By: prantikk @ 02/23/2008 3:21:05 PM

    What are you talking about? Read closely. It's Obama 47%, Clinton 45%. Far more importantly, look at the trend. Clinton is decreasing overall, and Obama is increasing. Also, it's 'poll', not 'pole.'
    Sorry that you are not hearing what you don't like :D

    • Posted By: GTX13 @ 02/23/2008 10:42:19 PM

      About the "poll" you are right, but REGARDING THE SCORE YOU ARE BLIND AS A BEETLE !!!

  • Posted By: Billary....NOT @ 02/23/2008 11:47:47 AM

    Again....exactly, Republicans know that with Billary out McCain is very likely to beat Obama. Actually, Billary's negatives are so high, she is not likely to beat McCain.

    The point is, we Republicans are going to stop her from even having a chance to be president. It is truly a beautiful thing and the ultimate political revenge.

    • Posted By: coolrepublica @ 02/23/2008 9:43:33 PM

      I never understood people who insist on calling Hillary Billary. Her name is Hillary. Yes she was married to Bill but she is her own person. She has her own thoughts. and beliefs. This election what I learned is that sexism has become acceptable in this country. Some people would rather have a dog as president then a human with a vagina They b elieve that a woman is not able to govern this country unless she has a husband to help her. How sad for America.

  • Posted By: go debbie go @ 02/23/2008 10:15:15 AM

    no obams not ...you people dont no him your just vote to vote...your not looking at thing look what his wife said i love americal for the first time in my life ..you think she will make a good fist lady you better think again booo obams go clinton

    • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/23/2008 7:58:54 PM

      Despite Clinton's reassuring rhetoric" that her health care proposal is not a "government takeover" and contains no "new bureaucracy," Clinton proposes to "use the heavy hand of government" to require all residents to obtain health insurance. Her "near-religious zeal to force universal coverage strikes some as odd," Andres writes, adding, "Why compel someone to buy something he or she can't afford?" According to Andres, the "financial penalties for those who fail to purchase insurance ... stirs significant opposition," and Clinton "opened a political can of worms" when she said that she might seek to garnish the wages of residents who can afford health insurance but do not obtain coverage. "Improving health care is a salient bread-and-butter election issue this year," Andres writes, adding, "Compelling everyone to buy a product, whether he wants it or not ... sounds more like a mandate for defeat than a promise of political success" (Andres, Washington Times, 2/14)

  • Posted By: eagle-r @ 02/22/2008 1:12:13 AM

    I HEARD THE COMMENTS OF OSAMA'S WIFE EARLIER TODAY ,THAT COMES TO THE COMMENTS I HAVE SAID BEFORE, HE IS NOT BUT JUST A SOFT SPEAKER,A PERSON THAT IS LETTING ALL THIS PEOPLE HEAR WHAT THEY WANT TO HEAR , HE SAID IT HIMSELF IS NOTHING BUT JUST WORDS,BUT STUPID PEOPLE FOLLOWING HIM THEY CAN 'T SEE IT,;YOU HEARD HIS WIFE TOO,THE COMMENTS SHE SAID , IS A NASTY ASS COMMENT ABOUT HER NOT BEING PROUD OF AMERICA,ONLY TO LATER ON SAID ,THAT,THAT'S NOT WHAT SHE MEAN TO SAY, IF THAT'S THE WAY SHE IS NOW ,I WONDER HOW IS SHE GOING TO BE WHEN THEY'LL BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE?OPEN YOUR EYES A M E R I C A,THIS MIGHT NOT BE MY BORN COUNTRY ,BUT, AT LEAST I KNOW WHICH DIRECTION IS GOING TO TAKE WHEN A BLACK PERSON BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE,IF RIGHT NOW THE JAILS ARE FULL OF BLACK PEOPLE CAN YOU IMAGIN LATER? HE DON'T HAVE NO EXPERIENCE WHAT SO EVER, HOW CAN YOU TRUST SOMEBODY LIKE THAT IN THE W.H?. IN THE OTHER HEAND ,HILLARY CLINTON IS A VERY EXPERIENCE WOMAN ,SHE KNOWS WHAT SHE'S DOING ,SHE MIGHT NOT BE AS FAST SPEAKING AS OSAMA (AS I CALL HIM) ,BUT ,SHE STEANDS FOR WHAT SHE BELIEVES IN, ; OSAMA , HIS IS NOT BUT JUST A SPEAKER,HE WON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO IN THE W.H. HILLARY KNOWS ,SHE 'S BEING THERE. V O T E H I L L A R Y 2008 OPEN YOUR EYES PEOPLE .ALL OF YOU ARE BEING LEAD BY A BLIND ,SOFT,CHARISMATIC ,INEXPERIENCE BLACK PERSON,HIS WIFE IS ALREADY SPEAKING OUT HER REAL FEELINGS . IF YOU WANT A CHAGE , VOTE HILLARY ,SHE IS THE ONE , IF YOU WANT A REAL CHANGE, FOR A GOOD CHANGE ,VOTE H I L L A R Y , VIVA HILLARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • Posted By: mag in OR @ 02/23/2008 4:38:09 PM

      Your misrepresentation of Senator Obama's last name is childish and denegrading. These two candidates together have done more to bring the Democratic Party together than any primary in the history of our country.

      Why is it folks with your mentality don't understand that either candidate in this race win or lose will be the best for our country to represent the United States in world standing 100% better than John McCain?

      I'd suggest you think twice before even trying to equate a person with the name of the worst terrorist in recent history.

    • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/22/2008 8:03:32 PM

      Comment: Comment: Hillary Clinton Goofs Again
      A Commentary by Dick Morris

      Who was it that defined neurosis as repeating the same mistake again and again, and expecting a better outcome each time? That???s really what the Clinton campaign is doing in its post-Chesapeake primary strategy. Now Hillary defines Obama as the candidate who makes speeches, while she is the one who provides ???answers??? and ???solutions.???

      Why is Hillary embracing this new line? It???s not that she has any great record of solutions or answers of which to boast, but rather that she wants to highlight Obama???s lack of a legislative record. Once again, she and her campaign geniuses are making the same mistake they made when they decided to use the experience as their defining difference with Obama. It???s not that she had much, but they sensed an opportunity to highlight that he had even less.
      Of course experience not only didn???t work. It backfired massively. By co-opting the experience tag, Hillary bought into the status quo and left Obama to be the agent of change. A candidacy that could have excited tens of millions of women, the first serious prospect of a female president, became merely a boring part of the status quo, shorn of its novelty.

      Hillary???s claim to be the solution-person won???t work either for the same simple reason: She hasn???t passed any...she hasn???t walked the walk so now she cannot talk the talk.

      As a first lady, Hillary???s sole important legislative involvement came during the first two years of her husband???s presidency when she sought to pass her ill-conceived health care reform, an effort that failed so miserably that it cost her party control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. Between 1995 to 1997, she was largely absent from the White House, traveling the world, promoting her best selling book and helping to raise funds. She never attended strategy meetings and her only intervention in the singular legislative achievements of Bill???s administration ??? welfare reform and the balanced budget deal ??? was privately to urge a veto of the former and to oppose the latter because it provided for a cut in the capital gains tax. Hillary returned to the White House in 1998 to oversee the defense to the Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment attempt, but the Clinton administration essentially folded its legislative efforts during those years and hung on for dear life. No portfolio of accomplishments there...

      Her only actual legislation included one bill to increase nurse recruitment, another to aid respite time for Alzheimer???s care givers and another to expand veterans??? health benefits, a paltry output for six years??? service.

      In her second term, she has spent full-time campaigning for president and has the worst attendance record of the three senators now still in the presidential race.

      • Posted By: mag in OR @ 02/23/2008 4:28:03 PM

        Your misrepresentation of Senator Obama's last name only shows your ignorance to have the admiration for both the candidates that have together in the race for the nomination have brought the Democratic Party more united than they have been in years. Either candidate....Win or lose will be so much better a choice to represent our country in world status and respect after either one beats John McCain.

        It's a crying shame there are people like you still around that want to do nothing but ridicule and downplay the importance that the correct party wins in November. This isn't done by denegrading a hard working candidate such as Senator Obama by resorting to kindergarten language.

    • Posted By: Newshound777 @ 02/22/2008 7:08:15 AM

      "THIS MIGHT NOT BE MY BORN COUNTRY ,BUT, AT LEAST I KNOW WHICH DIRECTION IS GOING TO TAKE WHEN A BLACK PERSON BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE,IF RIGHT NOW THE JAILS ARE FULL OF BLACK PEOPLE CAN YOU IMAGIN LATER? "

      You weren't born in MY country, and yet here you are trying to bring the racial attitudes of YOUR country to POISON mine. MY country has lived through the shameful racial politics and racial injustice of the past. MY country has gone through a collective soul-searching called the Civil Rights Movement - led by people from Hillary Clinton's generation. It has taken another generation, but we are finally moving away from having a majority of people in MY country who consider skin color as a character trait, a determiner of life's opportunities, and a cause for celebration or scorn.

      Your comment shows mw that MY country, is still not YOUR country, but MY country is the GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. If you want to truly become a part of MY country, then you be ready to accept inter-racial marriages, mixed race children, black elected officials, and all the offshoots of a society that is more socially advanced and civilized than whatever society from which YOU were born.

      Hillary Clinton doesn't need, and doesn't WANT a vote like yours. She loves her country. I love MY country. And I am proud to be born into a generation that has benefitted from the hard work that HER generation did to heal the racial divide, racial politics, and end the domestic terrorism that characterized the lives of 30 million of our own citizens for 100 years AFTER the end of a 400 year period of enslavement.

      If you are proud of America, then it's time to finally JOIN it.

      - Go Obama/Clinton 2008 (the Dream Ticket)

      • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/23/2008 12:48:46 AM

        Well said, but I like Clinton/Obama better because then we can possibly have the White House for 16 years, instead of 4 to 8.

      • Posted By: marketingtruth @ 02/22/2008 8:04:41 PM

        Comment: Comment: Hillary Clinton Goofs Again
        A Commentary by Dick Morris

        Who was it that defined neurosis as repeating the same mistake again and again, and expecting a better outcome each time? That???s really what the Clinton campaign is doing in its post-Chesapeake primary strategy. Now Hillary defines Obama as the candidate who makes speeches, while she is the one who provides ???answers??? and ???solutions.???

        Why is Hillary embracing this new line? It???s not that she has any great record of solutions or answers of which to boast, but rather that she wants to highlight Obama???s lack of a legislative record. Once again, she and her campaign geniuses are making the same mistake they made when they decided to use the experience as their defining difference with Obama. It???s not that she had much, but they sensed an opportunity to highlight that he had even less.
        Of course experience not only didn???t work. It backfired massively. By co-opting the experience tag, Hillary bought into the status quo and left Obama to be the agent of change. A candidacy that could have excited tens of millions of women, the first serious prospect of a female president, became merely a boring part of the status quo, shorn of its novelty.

        Hillary???s claim to be the solution-person won???t work either for the same simple reason: She hasn???t passed any...she hasn???t walked the walk so now she cannot talk the talk.

        As a first lady, Hillary???s sole important legislative involvement came during the first two years of her husband???s presidency when she sought to pass her ill-conceived health care reform, an effort that failed so miserably that it cost her party control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. Between 1995 to 1997, she was largely absent from the White House, traveling the world, promoting her best selling book and helping to raise funds. She never attended strategy meetings and her only intervention in the singular legislative achievements of Bill???s administration ??? welfare reform and the balanced budget deal ??? was privately to urge a veto of the former and to oppose the latter because it provided for a cut in the capital gains tax. Hillary returned to the White House in 1998 to oversee the defense to the Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment attempt, but the Clinton administration essentially folded its legislative efforts during those years and hung on for dear life. No portfolio of accomplishments there...

        Her only actual legislation included one bill to increase nurse recruitment, another to aid respite time for Alzheimer???s care givers and another to expand veterans??? health benefits, a paltry output for six years??? service.

        In her second term, she has spent full-time campaigning for president and has the worst attendance record of the three senators now still in the presidential race.

    • Posted By: gatorgirl84 @ 02/22/2008 9:10:15 AM

      First of all, if you're going to support such an intelligent candidate, try to show some intelligence yourself. You sound like an ignorant immigrant, the type that fight to get into this country but complain about it and whatever progress we're making once you get here. What you call Obama's "lack of experience" is false, you need to check up on how much he's done in the Senate in just 3 years and his life's work as a community leader. "If right now the jails are full of black people can you imagin later?" Only an idiot would conclude that if a nation's president is black (which you are incorrect, he is biracial), then the jails will overflow with people who look like him/her. On the contrary, I believe that will not be so when the nation's underpriviledged African=american men and women see that a country can get over thier racist and ignorant notions and choose a leader, not according to the color of his/her skin, but according to what that leader can do to change what the ???experienced??? leaders of the past few years have so incorrigibly done to our country. Go back to your home country, PLEASE. Hillary would agree with us all that we can stand to lose such ignorant people as yourself.

    • Posted By: American256 @ 02/22/2008 9:07:55 AM

      Enter Your Comment You lack character, that is why you aren't an American.You sound like someone who came here illegally. Nobody forced you to come here.

    • Posted By: gatorgirl84 @ 02/22/2008 9:05:45 AM

      First of all, if you're going to support such an intelligent candidate, try to show some intelligence yourself. You sound like an ignorant immigrant, the type that fight to get into this country but complain about it and whatever progress we're making once you get here. What you call Obama's "lack of experience" is false, you need to check up on how much he's done in the Senate in just 3 years and his life's work as a community leader. "If right now the jails are full of black people can you imagin later?" Only an idiot would conclude that if a nation's president is black (which you are incorrect, he is biracial), then the jails will overflow with people who look like him/her. On the contrary, I believe that when the nation's underpriviledged African-american men and women see that a country can get over thier racist and ignorant notions and choose a leader, not according to the color of his/her skin, but according to how that person as a leader can change what the "experienced" leaders of the past have so distastefully done to our country. This might not be your born country; maybe you need to return to whatever country that might be. People like you are not needed in this campaign for change, and I'm sure Hillary would be glad to inform you of that.

    • Posted By: American256 @ 02/22/2008 9:03:56 AM

      I don't know what bio-stain you come from but you seem to be a member of the ku klux klan.You are part of the problem.I can read the facts that you fear Black people.You are a waste of a human-being.

    • Posted By: Newshound777 @ 02/22/2008 7:21:13 AM

      "THIS MIGHT NOT BE MY BORN COUNTRY ,BUT, AT LEAST I KNOW WHICH DIRECTION IS GOING TO TAKE WHEN A BLACK PERSON BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE,IF RIGHT NOW THE JAILS ARE FULL OF BLACK PEOPLE CAN YOU IMAGIN LATER?" - Comment by eagle-r

      Really, you know the direction that MY country is going to take whem a black person becomes President? Sir/ Ma'am, you may live in MY country, but you are not a part of MY country. MY country, the greatest country in the world, went through a collective soul-searching called The Civil Rights Movement - in which we started to heal from the racial hatred, social engineering, and domestic terrorism that characterized the lives of 30 million MY fellow citizens for up to 100 years after their ancestors were freed from a 400 year period of enslavement. That was brought about by the hard of the Hillary Clinton's generation, and has created the kkinds of opportunities enjoyed by Barack Obama's generation.

      We are a better people than the country YOU came from, because we are moving beyond the social, racial caste system that people like YOU brought from YOUR countries and tried (so hard) to instill them here. So no, I don't beleive you know how MY country will do with one OUR mixed-race citizens as its rightfully elected President.

      In fact, I don't believe you are truly a part of MY country because you don't understand OUR collective history. Hillary Clinton doesn't need your vote. And, since she is by no means a racist, she doesn't want your vote. In fact, it's safe to say she'd be ashamed you are her supporter.

      - Go Obama/Clinton 2008 (the Dream Ticket)

  • Posted By: prantikk @ 02/23/2008 3:18:30 PM

    What are you talking about? Read closely, its Obama 47%, Clinton 45%. More importantly, look at the trend! Clinton has been decreasing on average, and Obama has been increasing. Also, its Gallup poll, not 'pole'.

  • Posted By: GTX13 @ 02/23/2008 2:28:54 PM

    HE WHO SAYS WHAT HE LIKES SHALL HEAR WHAT HE DOES NOT LIKE !!

    • Posted By: GTX13 @ 02/23/2008 2:54:59 PM

      What the Gallup pole shows today: CLINTON 47%-OBAMA 45% !!

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