The party should not discount the real possibility however that women, the core of Clinton’s support, will be outraged that the Party gives the nomination to an obviously weakened Obama, therefore taking a calculated risk with the ……

You might be right Ben.

I heard Billo on his radio show for awhile today.

He was fretting in his own pompous way about what pointed questions he would ask Senator Clinton in order to keep her from “making me look like a fool”.

Back to topic, and my opinion of the three candidates, Clinton and Mc Cain are the closest match up. But please understand in my mind that is not a good thing! If that is my choices… I have a coin in my pocket just for voting.

McCain can’t win.

He should drop out of the race!

I am for that! Ron Paul is still in the race!
Ok so in order to reach the finish line he will have to hail a cab… But he is still running! Walking… strolling… stop to smell the flowers!

Are you asking ME why Obama’s and Clinton’s campaign strategy is what is? Sorry Vet, I have no insider information to share with you.

From your incredulity, I guess you are thinking that Clinton is appearing on a biased right wing news show and Obama is showing up doing interviews on the conservative cheerleading station just for grins, huh?

After all, with all the “raw vote count”, there are plenty of sure thing votes to seal the deal.

Or is there?

Well that kinda figures. There might be a sliver of voters that Obama or Clinton might court that watch or listen to O’Reilly.

I wonder which one of them agreed first.

See that’s how Billo does it. Whichever one he bullied into it first, he then went to the other candidates campaign and threatened them.

Either way, if ya don’t do O’Reilly’s show, he accuses you of “being afraid of the no spin zone”. Then he never ever stops mentioning it.

John Edwards told him not no but HELL NO and earned the undying scorn of schlockster, and B rate porn novelist O’Reilly.

Thanks to this prolonged campaign, both Obama and Clinton have sunk to new lows by appearing on a “far right” news program.

Only a few remnants of the once vast right wing conspiracy watch that program, right? Those are the votes Obama and Clinton are after now?

So much for McCain being the candidate who panders to the right and loses the moderates.

Clinton and Obama are pandering to the right to save their campaign.

Jeez, it should be an easy question, right?

“McCluer, how many tours of duty did you serve in Viet Nam?”

Christ, McCluer, just answer the question - you “should” be proud of your “service.”

Who cares what you think about me Clark? But please do continue whining and complaining, it shows every one exactly what you are.

And most of us were appalled. Lloyd Bentsen was at least a Democrat.

On most issues, McCain is and always has been a conservative. As a Congressman, he was Reagan’s uncritical cheerleader, both on maintaining a bloated military-industrial complex and bankrupting the government.

McCain showed an outbreak of common sense when he opposed the Bush tax cuts but apparently he decided that fiscal irresponsibility is the only way to win. Maybe after Jan 20th, they’ll go the way of Clinton’s middle-class tax cut, but I sure as hell wouldn’t take that bet.

Guess McCain only becomes ultra conservative when its convenient for duh Libs.

Who gives a good god damn about what you think, Rossell?

The political establishment in Washington has won and America has lost and Democrats and Republicans alike are celebrating.

This is a closed party and “uppity outsiders” (wink, wink, nod) are not welcome.

Immediate caveat, for everyone: the polls tend to swing wildly. in 2004, polls briefly showed Kerry carrying Oklahoma . He got slaughtered there on election day. This site also links to poll trends–the fewer polls, obviously, the less reliable the conclusion.

Having said that, it looks like–with both candidates–that red/blue divide is breaking down. Hillary is leading McCain in Missouri, while Obama is holding Colorado and tied in North Carolina. The bad news: for both candidates, several states in the Gore/Kerry coalition are looking weak.

This could prove to be a most unpredictable election.

J.C. Watts
Condi Rice
Walter Williams
Thomas Sole

I will not vote for a leftist like Obama.

Especially, not a leftist like Obama that does not even have the courage to tell us who he really is!

The only candidate is Barack Obama.

The other two are CONdidates.

Fact now - the economy has slowed down to a crawl. It is fixable and we need a strong person with the fortitude to do that. More taxes IMHO are not the answer. No economy has every been taxed into being robust.

We need job creation, commodity consumption and industry output to create an economy that will be self sustaining. Government expanding isn’t the answer.

I’m not sure if we have a condidate who has the expertise to do any of this. I cringe at the choices we have on both sides of the aisle.

The length of this campaign has allowed us to see the best and the worst of each candidate. It is up to us to make good decisions when we vote.

The Clinton/McCain Machine has gotten their wish - they have brought race into the campaign while maintaining a plausible position of not making race an issue.

The Republican/Democrat power structure has decreed that a black man should not/cannot be elected president.

And the nation is far worse off for their efforts.

We have now reaped what we have sown.

We thought that we deserved better but we were wrong.

However, every President will be confronted with things that were never expected, during the campaign for office.

These other, seemingly personal issues can give us a clue how someone might act, under pressure.

In this case, the long election season has vetted Obama, and the nation is better for it.