Big Money on Barack Obama as Hillary Clinton's Donors Defect

Hillary Supporters will not vote for Obama unless

None of my friends who are Hillary supporters will be voting for Obama UNLESS he puts Hillary on the ticket as VP. All of us feel the nomination was GIVEN to Obama -- he did NOT win the popular vote -- and we feel what was decided in Michigan was corrupt. There were 5 CANDIDATES who were not on the Democratic ticket in Michigan -- Obama, Richardson, Edwards, Biden and Dodd -- therefore, Obama should NOT have received all of those votes and delegates plus some of Hillary's; it's as ridiculous as Bush v. Gore when the Supreme Court GAVE the nomination to Bush by halting the recounts and the REAL winner awarded what was honestly won -- the presidency.

Pony Up

By spending all that money – and $20-million dollars is a lot of money, just ask someone for $5-dollars – Hillary Clinton stayed in the race. And, at the end of the day Hillary claims a sizable constituency. So long as someone else picks up the tab, she'd have been foolish to quit. A no fault campaign, so to speak. However, let the voters Hillary claims, put their money where their vote is. The act of pulling a lever, touching a screen, or punching a chard costs nothing. Surely the Hillary voters will be more than happy to buck-in for their favorite candidate, and for having had the privilege. Come on, pony up: http://theseedsof9-11.com

Wrong about supporters

Wright about delegates

check out hillry opposition sites and blogs

You are very very wrong Hillary supporters are not leaving her to support Obama but are staying to defend her.

Keep level

Mr. Obama, now you are the nominated candidate, please keep your head level and not swelled. I like your mesage,and hope you will deliver . You are the boss, and remember you said you had better judgement than Hillary.

Today's News:

“In the end, what was exposed was Hillary’s position was all about her own political survival, and had little to do with the enfranchisement of state voters or winning the state in November.” In the words of long-time Clinton supporter Harold Ickes, “inexplicable.” “One final word,” says Mr. Ickes, “we are, Mrs. Clinton has instructed me, to reserve her rights, to take this to the Credentials Committee.” Fade to black, as a pro Hillary crowd howls Denver … Denver.

Fox Cable TV News personality Shawn Hannity, who was last seen installing a variety of listening devices under the pews and behind the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ, could not be reached for comment on Barack Obama’s resignation from the church. A Fox spokeswoman did say however, that Mr. Hannity saved the receipts for the electronic surveillance equipment, and is expected to receive a complete refund. While it remains unknown what church, if any, Mrs. Clinton attends, Father Michael Pfleger has been working on an impersonation of the outspoken Obama detractor and Fox news commentator, which the renegade Catholic priest hopes to unveil for congregants Sunday next: http://theseedsof9-11.com

Hagee

have you noticed that Rev Hagee was hanged with the same rope as Rev Wright......gee maybe religion and politics aren't the best combination.......who knows maybe we won't get another born again pandering boob..........

Lets use our heads not our hearts

For those democrats who insist they will vote for McCain when Obama gets the nomination, what do you think you're doing. This is not a game. You are acting like spoiled brats instead of thinking adults. Do what is right for the country. Hillary is a person, not a monument, not an ideal. You vote for an ideal, an institution. This is the last chance this country has. Obama is elected by the people, supported by the people so only beholden to the people. Mccain is a corporate candidate. Unless you want to see the United States of Walmart. Do the right thing. Hold your nose and vote Obama!

Clinton Unplugged/Obama

Clinton Unplugged

Before the presidential primaries, Hillary Clinton historically shied away from responding to personal attacks, whether it comes from sexist Manhattan firefighters or Chris Matthews' daily disparagement of her on MSNBC's Hardball. Her campaign briefly cut off relations with NBC when another MSNBC reporter, David Schuster, said the Clintons had "pimped-out" daughter Chelsea as part of their election strategy. Over the course of several debates, however, her political reflexes sharpened to the point where nowadays, no personal attack has gone unpunished. (Accusations involving racebaiting seem to be an exception.) During a contentious April 8th radio interview, Clinton took NPR reporter Michele Norris to task for asserting that she was trying to "win ugly".

Yet Clinton has demured so far in implicating Karl Rove as one of the brains behind the G.O.P.'s covert operation to help Obama defeat her. After being targetted with offensive direct mailers in Ohio, she accused her rival of tactics "straight out of the Rove playbook", but has never mentioned the impact of the crossover voting scheme in the red states, part of the reason her opponent is still far ahead of her in the delegate count. As for the rest of the Bush Administration, all Clinton has mustered to date on the subject is her oft-repeated statement, “They’re not going to surrender the White House voluntarily." Last spring, she suggested that another terrorist attack against the United States would inevitably play into the hands of the G.O.P.

Vague as they sound, those last two remarks may prove prophetic in the event the Obama strategy fails and she goes on to win the Democratic nomination. The implications of a female president for American foreign and domestic policy are profound, especially when the candidate has promised greater oversight of corporations, federally sponsored job programs and improving women's human rights around the world. Such initiatives create jitters not only for Wall Street concerns but for the Pentagon, the CIA and the State Department. Officials accused of breaking U.S. laws or violating the Geneva Conventions could ostensibly be arrested and prosecuted by a Clinton-run Justice Department.

And if that's not enough to keep Bush appointees lying awake deep into the night, their long-running wink-wink with the ayatollahs in Iran, the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence and the Saudi royal family would likely be curtailed if a woman were to take over in the West Wing. The Saudis especially have reason to fret now that they and their counterparts in Kuwait and the U.A.E. have started buying up huge stakes in U.S. banks. In the eyes of the oil producing countries, Condolleeza Rice and Nancy Pelosi are one thing, a Clinton White House quite another.

Last year, President Bush himself may have implemented a back-up plan to a possible Clinton Administration Part II when he signed National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51. This executive order ostensibly allows him to suspend the constitution without prior congressional approval if he declares a state of emergency (i.e. martial law) in the event of a major terrorist attack or other “decapitating” incident against the United States. According to the language in the directive, the attack need not even take place inside the country.

Under NSPD 51, the President can cancel elections, padlock the Capitol dome and send the Supreme Court justices home. The directive also assigns his homeland security assistant - a low-level position exempt from senate confirmation - to administer what has been dubbed the Enduring Constitutional Government. (Here’s the text of the directive.)

Bamboozling the American electorate again

Evidence of a covert campaign to undermine the presidential primaries is rife, so it's curious that many within both the Democratic and Republican parties have ignored the actual elephant in the room this year. That would be Karl Rove. Long accused of rigging the two previous presidential elections, this master of deceit would have us believe that he's gone off to sit in a corner and write op-eds this time around.

Not so. According to an article in Time magazine last November, Republicans have been organized in many states to throw their weight behind Senator Barack Obama, hoping to deprive Senator Hillary Clinton of the Democratic nomination. While Rove's name isn't mentioned in the story, several former fundraisers and strategists for President Bush are identified. Together, these gentlemen helped flush Obama's coffers with cash early on in the race, something the deep pockets had not done for any candidate in their own party. With receipts topping $100 million in 2007, the first-term Illinois senator achieved a remarkable feat, given that most Americans only first heard of him in 2005.

To expedite the strategy, a website and discussion forum called Republicans for Obama formed in 2006, while the Obama camp launched its own "Be a Democrat For a Day" campaign a year later. A video distributed by its satellite offices explained the procedure to voters in Florida, Nevada, Vermont and elsewhere. In addition, many states nowadays hold open primaries, allowing citizens to vote for any candidate, regardless of their party affiliation. In Nebraska, for example, the mayor of Omaha publicly rallied Republicans to caucus for Obama on February 9th. In Pennsylvania, Time reported on March 19th that Obama was running radio ads in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia asking Republicans to register as Democrats and then vote for him in the state's April 22nd primary.

The tactic, called crossover voting, allowed Obama to capture the delegates in nearly all the red state caucuses, while trimming Clinton's delegate haul in the blue state primaries enough to open up an impressive lead. Republicans for Obama, for one, was not bashful in making its case in an email appeal linked to its home page before the March 4th contests. "Since Texas has an open primary," the appeal read, "Republicans and Independents should sign in at their polling place and request a Democratic ballot. They should then vote for Barack Obama... Just think, no more Clintons in the White House!"

Rove undoubtedly mapped out an ingenious strategy for 2008. Even with the full monte of election-scamming tools available to him - phone bank sabotage, fake polling data, swiftboating, waitlisting, electronic voting equipment, Norman Hsu, etc. - the neoconservative base he represents would be hard pressed to eclipse Clinton in November, no matter what ticket the G.O.P. puts forward. The former First Lady and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee has promised an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq, along with a massive New Deal-type jobs program and alernative energy revolution to address the country's economic woes. Thus, all the vote-rigging ingenuity known to man wouldn't make much difference if the contest isn't close. Several influential Republicans admitted as much in a February 11th story for Politico.

If, on the other hand, Obama wins the nomination (or even the VP spot), Rove's prospects brighten considerably. Largely unvetted by the press, the senator carries considerable baggage from his stint as a state legislator, particularly his 17-year relationship with Chicago slumlord Tony Rezko, who's currently on trial for fraud and influence peddling. Until the controversy over his pastor broke in March, most journalists had paid lip service to the particulars of Obama's past. And major media outlets continue to portray him as a fresh new face in American politics, a candidate whose speeches call to mind MLK and JFK, even Abraham Lincoln.