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  • Posted By: carrillo6807 @ 06/13/2008 8:31:58 PM

    I always suspected that it was a bunch of crackheads that somehow managed to get a bachelors in delicatessen; a more refined form of lumpenproletariat, a bunch of organized hookers recruited as interns for the Obama campaign, criminals attorneys with kkk hood hiden in the trunk the ones running all of those fraudulent caucuses in States that eventually any way will vote Republican!!!!

  • Posted By: olderwiser @ 06/13/2008 8:30:22 PM

    Hey, I bet a bullfighter would make a helluva president, come to think of it. Most of what presidents do hides behind a cape, anyway. Sometimes they jerk the cape aside and try to drive a sword through your pocketbook, just like a bullfighter. Good point, Carillo.

  • Posted By: olderwiser @ 06/13/2008 8:28:38 PM

    Well, carillo, why in the world do you want a president who knows how to kill a chicken?

  • Posted By: carrillo6807 @ 06/13/2008 8:13:57 PM

    Most of you seem to forget that more than 90 % of the Democrats voted for the invasion of Irak, and the fact Obama just like Kucinich voted against does not give them the qualifications to lead the most powerfull country with the bigest economy in the world. Obama never ever killed not even a chicken in his entire life, he does not even know how to use an sling shot. How can speak with authority about weapons of mass destruction?.. Where is his plan?.. How many jobs he is proposing to create in his first term?... With how many billions he is going to trim the national deficit ?....Yes, all of us want free health insurance, yes, all of us want food stamps and free college, but who is going to pay for all of that?....,

  • Posted By: equality supporter @ 06/13/2008 7:56:23 PM

    I HOPE OBAMA DOES NOT GIVE HER ANY POSITION OF POWER IN HIS CABINET OR VICE PRESIDENCY. HE WILL LOSE MY VOTE FOR SURE. HE NEEDS TO GET RID OF HER AS HE DOES NOT NEED HER. OBAMA HAS A BETTER CHANGE IF SHE DISAPEARS FOR GOOD. FROM OREGON

  • Posted By: olderwiser @ 06/13/2008 7:49:24 PM

    A lot of the conversation in this blog may as well be secret. It is mostly made of republicans who reveled in the disagreements between Hillary and Obama supporters and seek to continue that argument long past its normal life. If you read it real fast from bottom to top, it is obvious. The threats by supposed Hillary supporters to vote for Mc Cain are as transparent as a child caught with his hand in the cookie jar who claims that he lost something in there.

  • Posted By: junkmail6 @ 06/13/2008 7:24:44 PM

    I don't remember ever voting for a Democrat for President, or for much of anything else, either. And that's been over quite a few years. However, this is not the Twentieth Century. Experience fighting Vietnam and the Cold War is a big negative in today's world. The entire "you're with us or you're against us" mindset, which is so 1980's, is dragging us down as a nation. Look at how much damage Iraq has done to us economically, militarily, and in our relationships around the world. If McCain's experience tells him to rant on about Iran and North Korea, then I have two responses.
    1. With experience like that, who needs experience?
    2. I hope to turn Indiana into a blue state in November.

    • Posted By: Jurr @ 06/13/2008 7:34:04 PM

      Experience only matters if you learn something from it.

  • Posted By: sdeces77 @ 06/13/2008 6:18:22 PM

    With all due respect, you vote with anything but your brains!!! If you think that the situation we are in right now requires a confused, oblivious, inconsistent, un-accountable senior of 71 years of age that has no real plan than continuing what has not been working so far, then you are RIGHTLY LUDICROUS!!!!
    That is ON the issues and behaviors not on personal traits!!! This is on the right of future generations to have health care, social security, good education, this is on the new energy policy America has to start, and end its dependence on oil, this is on creating work opportunities for every segment of the population, blue and white collar, this is on how America is going to fit its new aura in the 21 st century, this is on how we are going to tackle our differences with our allies and our major disagreements with our enemies and mostly how we want to manage and end terrorism. This is what this November election is all about, so if you think it???s about a person, I would with the utmost respect suggest you to READ YOUR HISTORY!!!
    And only then will you be able to go and vote in November and be fully accountable for that Vote,
    Regrads!
    DEMOCRATS 08!!!

  • Posted By: bouldaire @ 06/13/2008 5:08:47 PM

    Hillary doesn't have the soul of a vice president, a job that requires a degree of subservience. Furthermore she comes with too much Clinton baggage which definitely includes that loose canon, Bill Clinton. Hillary claims she can control him and keep him quiet,; unfortunately that is not possible by anyone. not evn a magician. Obama will select a vp that is good for the country. I am a Republican for Obama (ROP) from Denver. Let Hillary stay as a Senator or become a cabinet member for Health, Education and Welfare.

    • Posted By: Core Democrat in Texas @ 06/13/2008 6:13:17 PM

      I agree that Hillary should not be vp under Obama. And I prefer that she stay in the Senate.
      (There hasn't been a Health Eduction and Welfare for decades. It's HHS and a separate Dept of Ed.)

      • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/13/2008 6:15:55 PM

        Hillary should definitely stay in the Senate. Let Obama pick someone that will actually help him, like Biden or Bob Kerry.

  • Posted By: carrillo6807 @ 06/13/2008 6:04:57 PM

    There is people that thinks that politics is like mineral spirit that you can absorb and you still should be able to pass the sobriety test. No Harvard or Yale nor any other insttitution can replace political experience. Even the so called Obama friends like Kerry and Kennedy will be there to put stumbling rocks on his path. Dominguez is right: we'll see you in November!

    • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/13/2008 6:07:57 PM

      Hillary doesn't have more experience than Obama. McCain's experience has plunged this country into one of its darkest periods in at least a half-century. We cannot survive any more of that kind of experience.

  • Posted By: RDOMINGUEZ @ 06/13/2008 2:52:47 PM

    I don't think Obama should pick Hillary as his VP either, I was a Hillary supporter and since the end of her campaign I have been registering Hillary supporters with McCain, I have been successful with most, some took more talking to than others, but overall, Hillary supporters arevery receptive to defeating Obama in November. If she ends up on the ticket, I would probably stand to lose many supporters to Obama and so the best thing is to keep him off that ticket.

    Other than that..........McCain 2008!

    • Posted By: Politicaladdict @ 06/13/2008 3:15:02 PM

      Instead of having Hillary supporters vote for McCain have them write-in Hillary as a write-in candidate. If all of Hillary voters did that, there's a good possibility she could win the election, after all she won the popular vote. Hillary still has my vote.

      Hillary '08

      • Posted By: royalprince @ 06/13/2008 3:35:24 PM

        Your suggestion of doing a write-in vote is a good choce. That is what I am very likely to do if Obama doesn't offer the VP slot to Clinton. I believe, just like you, that Clinton would defeat both Obama and McCain. I'm sure you remember how Lierbermann ran as an independent and defeated the Democrat. Clinton can do the same thing.

        Finally, if Obama loses in November, I bet Clinton could come back in 2012 and win the nomination.

        • Posted By: delius1967 @ 06/13/2008 4:01:24 PM

          I'll ask the Hillary supporters again: Hillary would tell you face-to-face that, while she appreciates your loyalty and fervor, she wants all of her supporters to remain true to the Democratic ideals and vote for Obama in November. If this happened, would you really go against the wishes of the very woman whose... honor, I suppose you are trying to protect?

          • Posted By: royalprince @ 06/13/2008 4:26:40 PM

            That's a fair enough question. I wish all the Obama bloggers were as civilized as you. Of course Clinton is going to encourage her supporters to support Obama, but she really has to. If she didn't, I think her chances of getting tapped as the VP would diminish greatly. Also, I have a mind of my own. If I did a write-in vote for Clinton, I could say that I didn't support either McCain or Obama, and that would be great.

            • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/13/2008 5:30:32 PM

              You nuts can throw away your vote on McCain. However, the vast majority of the Clinton supporters will also support Barack. The bizarre Clinton folks here aren't representative and the polls back this up.

        • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/13/2008 3:40:00 PM

          How could Clinton beat Obama? She couldn't beat him in the primaries. Obama will trounce McCain, with or without Hillary on the ticket.

          • Posted By: royalprince @ 06/13/2008 4:02:10 PM

            The presidential race is based on the electoral college, which in turn, is based on popular vote in any given state. Head to head, Clinton would get more votes than either Obama or McCain; hence, she would win enough states to gain the necessary electoral votes. Clinton would do especially well against both McCain and Obama in the following states: CA, FL, MI, OH, NY, WVA, MA, NJ, and the rest of the states on the Eastern seaboard.

            Clinton beat Obama in total votes during the primaries and even trounced him in the vast majority of the primaries over the last few months.

            • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/13/2008 5:17:36 PM

              Clinton did not win the popular vote. Please stop propagating a lie.

        • Posted By: irvingbr @ 06/13/2008 4:06:26 PM

          Wake up wacko. Hillary is toast. You also deserve McCain. That man is a hideous creature. He has no regard for any one but him self. Not to mention that he has a very nasty temper. Senile to say the lest. If he is elected, I hope you can live with yourself. Make sure you call the family's of all our fallen soldiers. And make sure you take credit for over turning Roe vs Wade. Shame on you.

          • Posted By: royalprince @ 06/13/2008 4:22:50 PM

            Who are you calling Wacko? I never said I liked McCain. Where did I say I'd vote for him? Answer that!
            Saying something like "Hillary is toast" just proves that Obama supporters (especially bloggers) resort to slamming Clinton supporters at every turn in the road.

            I would only support Obama if he offered the VP slot to Clinton. Is that plain enough for your uneducated brain?

            • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/13/2008 5:16:33 PM

              Hillary is toast. She lost. It's crude way of saying that she lost, which is a fact.

          • Posted By: Politicaladdict @ 06/13/2008 4:24:52 PM

            No one is overturning Roe vs: Wade, that is a fear tactic. If it was going to be overturned the 6 years that the Republicans were in office was the opportune time. Also, if McCain is elected and we have a majority Democrat Congress they would never rule in favor of a Supreme Court Justice that would overturn Roe vs: Wade. And John McCain has a son serving in Iraq so I'm sure he does not want to see body bags coming to our shores. I am a Democrat and will not vote for John McCain however I just wanted to umpart a little common sense into the mix.

            • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/13/2008 5:15:42 PM

              All it would take is one of the "liberal" judges to die or retire and Roe V. Wade would be in jeopardy. Bush put on two arch conservatives but they replaced conservative appointments. We dodged a bullet there. Don't expect to be so lucky next time around.

      • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/13/2008 3:31:11 PM

        She didn't win the popular vote. This is a myth. Can Hillary supporters not count?

        • Posted By: royalprince @ 06/13/2008 4:28:37 PM

          Is your mind on some other galaxy? Michigan and Florida votes count! Hillary kicked Barack Hussein Osama's butt!

          • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/13/2008 5:18:06 PM

            She didn't win the popular vote. Look it up.

  • Posted By: royalprince @ 06/13/2008 3:21:14 PM

    It's pretty obvious that Eleanor Clift is an Obama supporter. She has made other disparaging remarks about Senator Clinton in the recent past. I'd like to see Ms. Clift run for president and get 18 million supporters like Clinton did. I think Ms. Clift is just jealous of Clinton and a wannabee.

    As far as VP selections, Ms. Clift's choices really stink! Sebelius is a weak Democrat from a red state, who wouldn't make a single difference. She can't hold a candle to Senator Clinton. Webb has foreign policy experience, but is from a state that Obama doesn't really need to carry. I believe Clinton is Obama's best choice. With her on the ticket, he could probably cruise to victory. Without her, it would be a lot harder to win.

    Finally, this garbage I've heard about "controlling Bill," if Hillary was the VP, is just that, "garbage." Bill wouldn't interfere with the Obama decision-making apparatus. He'd behave himself: I know he would.

    • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/13/2008 3:37:39 PM

      Actually, Clift has been accused in the past of being in Clinton's pocket. Clintonites think that any article that dares say anything negative about the candidate is biased.

      Face it, your girl lost fair and square. Either get on the Obama train or go dry hump McCain.

      • Posted By: tmitch10 @ 06/13/2008 4:06:19 PM

        Ms. Clift's choices really stink! Sebelius is a weak Democrat from a red state,

        isn't the above statement and oxymoron. A WEAK dem from a RED STATE. Sounds real weak to me, winnint in enemy territory and all..........

        • Posted By: royalprince @ 06/13/2008 4:14:50 PM

          I guess you aren't smart enough to understand plain English.

          • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/13/2008 5:27:48 PM

            You can't be a weak Democrat and win in a red state. Got it now? Good.

      • Posted By: royalprince @ 06/13/2008 3:55:07 PM

        I've seen other Clift articles and she definitely was not in Clinton's pocket as you said. The Obama train is set to have a train wreck, unless it is smart enough to choose Clinton as VP. Also, the race wasn't won fair and square, as you said; if it had been, all the delegates in both Florida and Michigan would have been included. Personally, I think the Obama campaign ran a rather haphazard race and used the "race card" a lot. Obama should have been looked at as a man, strictly on his political views, not the color of his skin. Another thing, black Obama supporters were fools voting 90% for Obama, when you consider that he agreed with Clinton on the issues.

        • Posted By: joebjay20 @ 06/13/2008 4:02:05 PM

          Well doesn't that also make the 75% of white women who vote for Clinton idiots as well?

          • Posted By: royalprince @ 06/13/2008 4:17:38 PM

            I think the percentage was closer to 60% and to answer your question, it's women who seem to vote the right way in elections; afterall, they are usually Democrats.

            Also, if Obama can tap 40% of the white vote, why couldn't 40% of the black voters choose Clinton? I'll answer that: because they were playing the race card, just like all of YOU Obama supporters always do.

            • Posted By: joebjay20 @ 06/13/2008 5:23:19 PM

              Also, if voting Democratic is the right way to vote, then nobody votes better than Blacks, since Blacks have voted more strongly and consistently Democratic for the last 50 or so years than any other group.

            • Posted By: joebjay20 @ 06/13/2008 5:19:10 PM

              First off, you assumed I was an Obama supporter, when I merely was asking a logical question. Of course, Obama didn't start out with that level of support among blacks, and it really didn't get into the 90% range until after Bill Clinton decided to compare Obama's victory in SC with Jesse Jackson's. People also neglect to mention that Blacks have long been the most monolithic voting block in the country. It was perfectly fine when Kerry got 98% of the Black vote, or when Gore and Bill Clinton got well over 90% of the Black vote as well, but somehow when 90% of Blacks decide to vote for Obama, it's an issue.

            • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/13/2008 5:13:30 PM

              Clinton lost black voters on her own, with some help from Bill. She tried to slyly use race against Obama and got spanked for it. She gambled and lost. Get over it.

        • Posted By: delius1967 @ 06/13/2008 4:24:34 PM

          If the race was run "fair and square" the Michigan and Florida delegates would not have been counted at all. They were stripped of their delegates for moving their primaries up. All candidates, INCLUDING HILLARY, supported this.

          Those were the rules of the game that were set up at the beginning. To say that it isn't fair that the rules weren't changed halfway through is the height of hypocrisy. (Which of course just goes to show why you are a Clinton supporter.)

    • Posted By: Core Democrat in Texas @ 06/13/2008 4:51:41 PM

      I think she must have gotten her feelings hurt -- maybe denied an interview or position by the Clintons? Anyway, it's really personal and bitter for her. She is so unprofessional, and actually silly-sounding, but I don't think she can see it. She's blinded by some kind of emotional grudge.

      • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/13/2008 5:27:06 PM

        Projection at it's finest.

  • Posted By: Tony C. @ 06/13/2008 1:57:57 PM

    I think Hillary told B.O. just how it's going to be and made damn sure he understood it. Go HIllary!

    • Posted By: alexmathis @ 06/13/2008 3:00:14 PM

      You, sir, are an idiot.

      • Posted By: royalprince @ 06/13/2008 4:08:44 PM

        No he isn't! He is one of the smartest bloggers in here. Johnsonium is probably the biggest idiot loose in this blog.

        • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/13/2008 5:20:46 PM

          How am I an idiot? Please illuminate us.

  • Posted By: Factarereal @ 06/13/2008 2:08:50 PM

    The meeting was about helping her to settle her debts, and nothing more than that. Hillary will not be the VP.

    • Posted By: royalprince @ 06/13/2008 4:07:13 PM

      Hillary being the VP is Obama's best chance of winning. Without her, he doesn't have much of a prayer, because she has a large bloc of charged supporters who would bolt from Obama, faster than a mouse running from a cat.

      • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/13/2008 5:20:22 PM

        Wrong. It's sad that you think so little of Clinton supporters that you would think that they would vote against their interest rather than vote for Obama. I have more faith in their intelligence.

  • Posted By: RDOMINGUEZ @ 06/13/2008 3:20:34 PM

    Politicaladdict, I don't think that is a good strategy, there's not enough organization to do that so I'm not recommending that to Hillary Supporters. With the Republicans McCain is the only one who can defeat Obama at this point. People will be voting against Obama for a number of reasons, some are mad, some are Republicans and some are just racist, but whatever the reason, I want their votes for McCain so he can Defeat Obama once and for all. It doesn't matter to me why they vote McCain, as long as they do.

    • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/13/2008 3:29:31 PM

      Obama's going to win. You better get used to it. You sure are bitter.

      • Posted By: royalprince @ 06/13/2008 4:18:49 PM

        He may be bitter, but you, sir, are arrogant.

        • Posted By: Johnsonium @ 06/13/2008 5:14:21 PM

          No. I'm just confident in my candidate. One thing I do know, Hillary will not be President. That's assured now.

  • Posted By: Tony C. @ 06/13/2008 2:35:19 PM

    Impeach a president for having sex, but nor for lying to take a country into war and for the mass murder of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of innocente men, women and children in Iraq.

    Only in America, and only under republican rule!

    • Posted By: royalprince @ 06/13/2008 3:37:47 PM

      Tony:

      You hit the nail on the head. You and I both know that Bush and Cheney both deserved to be impeached, and Clinton did not. Having sex is not an impeachable offense. All that impeachment garbage with Clinton in 1998, was just a waste of taxpayers' money.

      • Posted By: delius1967 @ 06/13/2008 3:56:37 PM

        He wasn't impeached for having sex. He was impeached for lying under oath. But don't let the facts get in your way.

        • Posted By: royalprince @ 06/13/2008 4:30:49 PM

          He did lie, but the whole thing was a crock and a waste of the taxypayers' money. You and I both know that it was all partisan politics by the Republican Righwing machine. Both Bush and Cheney genuinely deserved to be removed from office.

  • Posted By: hillaryforpresident!!! @ 06/13/2008 4:28:21 PM

    LOL, these newsweek articles get more rediculous and bizarre every time!

  • Posted By: Jerome1947 @ 06/13/2008 4:27:02 PM

    Will all the Limbaugh "DITTOHEADS" please quit your fake DEMOCRATS FOR MCCAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: Jerome1947 @ 06/13/2008 4:24:07 PM

    First of all, McCain at any cost or pseudo logic is too high of a price to pay. I can't believe all of these pro-choice women would vote for a pure pro lifer, and also has promised to stack the Supreme Court with judges like Roberts and Alito. There may be two or more openings on the Bench in the next four years. Plus there is his stance on the war. Do not vote for him out of some silly little game you are playing in your mind as a harmless revenge on Obama. ANY faithful Democrat should not even be entertaining the notion to vote for McBush. It will not be a harmless vote, and we will have this Bush crap for four more years.

    Also, I would not be so quick to dismiss Webb as a VP candidate. He is tough, beat Allen in Virginia, was Secretary of the Navy and a hero himself in Vietnam. Since Barack has no militarry background himself, Bayh may not be the best or strongest security ticket .

  • Posted By: vakosh @ 06/13/2008 4:22:49 PM

    poor poor boo boo having such a hard time picking a VP, what is a presidential candidate to do. This is a really really hard job, I hope he'll be okay. Maybe he should try monster.com

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