Clinton Facing Narrower Path To Nomination

The New York Times reports on Sen. Clinton's increasingly narrow path to nomination:

She has to defeat Mr. Obama soundly in Pennsylvania next month to buttress her argument that she holds an advantage in big general election states.

She needs to lead in the total popular vote after the primaries end in June.

And Mrs. Clinton is looking for some development to shake confidence in Mr. Obama so that superdelegates, Democratic Party leaders and elected officials who are free to decide which candidate to support overturn his lead among the pledged delegates from primaries and caucuses.

Part of that strategy has been suggesting the liability of Obama's ties to Rev. Jeremiah Wright:

Mrs. Clinton's advisers said they had spent recent days making the case to wavering superdelegates that Mr. Obama's association with Mr. Wright would doom their party in the general election.

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Meanwhile, at least one Clinton surrogate has brought up the issue of Jeremiah Wright, despite strict instructions from the Clinton camp not to bring up the issue:

But many people, including Obama supporters, may still have two questions that Senator Obama's speech did not sufficiently answer, at least in my opinion. And, for any Democrat whose priority is to win back the White House in 2008, they need to be answered now -- because, if Senator Obama ends up the party's nominee (I am a supporter of Senator Clinton's) -- for sure Senator McCain will insist they be answered in the fall.

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[starrianna]

WAKE UP AMERICA:

*** America wants to feel good about something. Obama is not the magic answer.
*** Obama is a great speaker, but that doesn't mean he'd be a good leader.
*** Obama will lose to McCain. Republicans cannot wait, read the Wall St Journal.
*** McCain will pick Gov. Christ as his running mate. Game over.
*** Moderate white men do not feel comfortable with Obama any more, period.

Just because Obama is America's new "black friend", doesn't mean he's our savior.
America needs to be FIXED. Hello? Do you realize how screwed up we are after Bush II?
Hillary & Bill have been through it all. They are America's best chance for recovery, and for us
to squander the opportunity just to vote for someone with a nice voice is more idiotic
than voting for George W. Bush just because he might be fun to have a beer with.

Give me a freaking break! I wish people were smarter.

[Lisette]

ENOUGH ALREADY ABOUT OBAMA'S PASTOR!
IT IS A NON ISSUE!!
IT IS JUST BLACK CHURCH THEATER!
AND IF ANY OF YOU WERE TREATED AS POORLY AS BLACK PEOPLE
HAVE BEEN TREATED IN THIS COUNTRY
YOU WOULD BE ANGRY TOO!
IF ANYONE IS MISTREATED, DON'T YOU THINK IT IS NORMAL TO BE ANGRY?

[SoulSistah]

"And, for any Democrat whose priority is to win back the White House in 2008, they need to be answered now -- because, if Senator Obama ends up the party's nominee (I am a supporter of Senator Clinton's) -- for sure Senator McCain will insist they be answered in the fall."

--unknown Clinton staffer

ATTENTION: All Members of HRC Hateration Nation & Your Mean Stream Media Lackies (MSM)

10 Steps to Clarification----

(1) Who gives a flying hoot that an unnamed Clinton staffer is demanding answers
(2) Anonymous, unknown, unnamed is so Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton
(3) You went 8 years without demanding a daggone answer from Bush/Cheney/Rumsfield/Rice
(4) Yo girl, Hillary, has failed to provide answers to why she voted with Bush on Iraq
(5) Our guy, Obama, unanwered questions didn't lead to 4k dead American soliders
(6) Our guy, Obama, unanwered questions didn't lead to 1/2 mil dead Iraqis
(7) Our guy, Obama, unanwered questions will not lead to a USA diminished standing in the world
(8) We're still waiting to hear yo girl's position on race, gender, & separation of church & state
(9) Hillary needs more time than we have to give answers to all of our unanswered questions
(10) The HSC hateration crew has no power to create a false reality & that's a fact jack

The majority of the USA population shall not be bamboozled, hoodwinked or led-astray by someone who walks like a divider, quake like a divider and whose last name is Clinton.

Yo girl, Hillary, needs to pick up that red phone and call someone (other than Richardson) cause she needs help.

[simplysimon2]

I am the only one who has noticed the landslide of Republicans and right leaning Independents who are switching to Democratic in the primary so they can vote Hillary like Rush and McCain want them to and then change back to Republicans after the primary? They will then have voted in the Democratic candidate they know they can beat. Is it to late to lock the barn after all those faux Republicans have already stole the nomination and, thereby, the election? There ought to be a law that whatever party you voted for in the primary, you must vote for in the general election. If not, you're vote should be nullified. I have a staunch PA Republican who is doing the 2 step dance for Hillary and has no intention of voting Democratic in the general election. THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW YOU CAN'T CHANGE HORSES IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ELECTION!!!! LIVE WITH YOUR COMMITMENTS!

[pleeezzze]

I agree about how people can change partys for one day !!
But you need to Recall Obama started this crap in Iowa and continued to do so !!
I can't imagine how this can allow an Honest Election !

[JiminNC]

http://ruralvotes.com/thefield/?p=926 - Lets get a little coverage on Hillary LYING (yet again) about her February fund raising. 19$ Million phantom dollars and 3/4ths of what she did raise is by fat cats and only for the general. Very little small donors (another Clinton lie)

19 million never existed - 10 million from her general election fund and 5 million from Bill's deep pocketed friends overseas in the form of her personal loan. That leaves about 1 million raised in small donors.

Do these people ever tell the truth? - Oh, and she only has 3 mil in the bank - not even enough to pay back her 5 mil personal loan ... sad desperation

[Grannysue]

So the whole Wright contrraversy was not him but a quote of a White guy's rantings, well knock me over with a feather, and yet Clinton is telling the superdelegates that Obama cannot be elected because of his association with Rev. Wright, hum, and Hillary's molesting Rev. he gets a pass huh.
Let's wait see if they can hire an outside investigator to look into the Obama Visa file situation three times, over three months, during voting in very close races, which he won?? I smell Rove turds.

[treadway123]

No, it was taken out of content! Shame on Fox news for doing that. I know have heard all the sermons on utube------Isn't the interment wonderful folks. It can destroy some one one minute and vendicate them the next. I think it's time to let this die. And if the clinton campagne had any thing to do with this---------It will come out just like the Lie she told going into Ohio that she was against the NAFTA program Even at the beginning. Posted on other space's is the trueth of all that. Like I said , isn't the internet wonderful. Can't now keep up with all the lie's catching up with clinton. and Il;m sure more to come.

[lissielu]

2 days after the second breach Clinton said this
"As voters evaluate you as a potential commander-in chiel, do you think it is legitimate for people to be concerned that you have traveled to only one NATO country, on a brief stopover trip in 2005 and never traveled to latin America/

The only way Clinton got this information is by having someone check his passport records
Why isn't the press reporting these terrible breaches of the Clintons
Shame on you

[mickeyrat]

oh for god's sake, no one needs that from his file. His travels are a matter of public record. Lord, you Obamabots are just falling off the wagon.

[SoulSistah]

And you members of the HRC Hateration Nation are being ran over by the wagon.

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No more Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton

[desertclair]

The Superdelegates should perform their function and determine the most electable candidate just prior to the convention so a Democratic win in the general election is possible. In my opinion, Obama cannot win he general election now that his pastor's words are all over YouTupe. McCain's campaign sent out a link to this video: "Is Obama Right?" http://youtube.com/watch?v=72B3tUAqpo4

[ObGyn]

desertclair

Unfortunately, your candidate is unelectable. She knows this. She cannot even win the primary where she had tremendous advantages, which why she spent all her time since Iowa trying to destroy Obama. She has not been campaigning about what makes her a good candidate, only on what makes Obama a bad candidate. This has increased her negatives even within the Democratic Party. She certainly will never be elected president. So, stop trying to stall and focus on what is important. The Republicans already have a nominee. Even without you and others like you, Democrats will declare their nominee, in advance of the Convention.

Peace.

[treadway123]

Come on boys and girls! ALLL THE SERMON FINALLY CAME OUT ON UTUBE! It vendicates your rev. wright! Time to move on. Mccain will have to side step on that swift boat ad he put out there very soon-------------or he may find himself saying Iran was training Al Queda and than sending them back in to Iraq over an over an over an over! Got the idea guys---------mccains running on his knowledge of the Military and the war in iraq----------and keep keep straight that Al Queda and Iranians are of two seperate sec's that hate each other! Man talking about a scary man! Than you have lieberman, correcting him, an correcting him.etc11111111111111111111 222222222222222 333333333333333333 Yer guys he said it three times!

[nazgul]

You're making a mountain out of a molehill. And the problem is, rather than taking the opportunity of Obama's speech to demonstrate leadership on an important progressive cause, HRC has done just the opposite: she's thrown Wright under the bus, she's thrown away her chance to add to the discussion on race, and she's opted for cheap political points. Hardly progressive leadership skills.

They've scoured 10, 20 years of tapes and found a few minutes of mania, mania which Obama didn't even witness. With what we know, any other controversial remarks were few and far between.

That an old black guy might actually have moments when he buys into a conspiracy theory, racial or otherwise (let's not forget the experiments, etc., that did happen), is not so startling or offensive. That he might see "violence begets violence" blowback involved in 9/11 is not so startling or offensive, except perhaps to those who believe US hegemony continues to be a form of manifest destiny. The occasional "Goddamn America" is not nearly so offensive or disconcerting to me than persistent, powerful hate speech from evangelicals and the end-times politics that exists in DC and treats our nation as a Biblical pawn. That IS real, and Hillary is connected to that through The Family.

Let's maintain perspective about Wright. As HRC likes to say, let's get real.

Also, Obama's approach helps underscore the fact that, contrary to what HRC and the right-wing are saying, HIS references to race have always been reactionary. He has tried to campaign without race. Every reference to it is in direct response to something from HRC &/or the media.

[nkgilb]

Deserclair:

Did you know that the Clintons were close friends to Rev. Wright. Infact he was a spiritual prayer warrior for Bill Clinton when he got into trouble in the 90's?.

At this moment in history, Obama is the right person to lead us and he will make a wonderful president.

[Rarignac]

Since the moment Obama finished speaking in Philadelphia, they’ve been at it. Asking “Was it enough?” “Did he do it?” “Has he got it behind him?” to quickly reply in the negative. Somewhere along their way they either mention that they are partisans opposed to Obama or the reader discovers that the article originated in some right wing organ.
More recently come the headlines “How Truth Lies”.
First they focused on Grandma. Obama betrayed his white grandmother, they screamed. A half-dozen articles on Senator Obama's speech accused him of “throwing Gramma under the bus”. This was talking point N° 1 for those looking to negate the speech and defeat its message.
Obama, they said, was using his grandmother to excuse Jeremiah Wright, and this constitutes a terrible betrayal. After all, there is a great difference between a private family conversation at the kitchen table and a public meeting in a church that holds thousands. This shows Obama to be an ingrate, an abuser of an old woman who self-admittedly did so much to help him become the man he is today.
In his speech, Obama makes clear that his grandmother was for him very much a surrogate mother and a woman with whom he shared a strong bond of love, a love that forgave, a love that accepted her person even in moments of discord. I believe he was trying to suggest that Jeremiah Wright was for him a surrogate father, the black father he hardly knew but that had manifest himself in the color of his skin for everyone in a racially sensitive culture to see. Jeremiah Wright was his spiritual father, bringing him to Jesus.
The further parallel Obama establishes between church and kitchen table is also ignored by the Obama critics. The connection is that church and kitchen table are both places of communion. A church, particularly a Christian church, is a gathering at the table; it is always a reenactment of the "Last Supper". What is said in the church is said in intimacy, no matter how large the congregation. The kitchen table conversations, too, embody intimacy, but they also have a public aspect, sharing with a larger community the intimate facts of one's life, one's business, one's day. It is the time when we might learn about the job lost, the opportunity that has presented itself, the exam passed, the good news and bad that might influence all the members of the family or congregation.
I don't think these conservative commentators all come to the same conclusions by accident, and I don't think they all misunderstood what Senator Obama was saying, they were just doing their job. Their job is to try to confuse people and have them think things that are wrong but necessary for conservatives to maintain power.
Now they wonder what kind of monster Obama is for not having left his church. The answer is “Christian”. The church is an integral part of the community he has represented in Illinois and continues to represent in part in the U.S. Senate. Should he have left his community too? How far should Senator Obama have gone to show that he doesn’t agree with everything that the pastor of his church happens to say about politics? It seems that Obama’s legislative and teaching careers show that he emphatically disagrees with some of the inflammatory remarks that have been excerpted form many hours of video. How responsible should one person be for the thoughts of another? This seems to be witch hunting a church. What Senator Obama chose not to distance himself from was the spiritual ministry of Pastor Wright, a ministry in which he found much good, much Christian love. All those rushing to not be the last one to throw their stones, apparently are unfamiliar with Christian doctrine.

[nazgul]

Agreed.

As for you last point, at issue the difference between liberal and conservative Christianity. Liberal Christianity focuses on the social gospel of love thy neighbor, the Golden Rule, help the poor, the meek shall inherit the earth... Conservatives focus on self-redemption, an "individual responsibility", every man for himself approach to Christianity.

HRC is on record as feeling their is too much emphasis on the social gospel in Christianity. We know that Obama feels the opposite.

[pheepher]

Why I'm just shocked that Hillary would do anythin, say anything, and throw anything to secure the nomination. She had a chance to save her political career; however, she chose to show us just who she is and tarnish her husband's legacy.

[ebbasta]

HOPELESSNESS!!! THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE INHERITED NOW. rejoice!!! this is a sign of the impending doom of this nation. I for one cant wait until the fireworks start. it will be beautiful to watch all of us scurry in our pathetic little lives for an answer to that question: Why? Why are we gonna be bombed again by "al-Qaeda"? Its all been rigged by those white super powers that run the media and therefore the nation. we are merely tiny little pawns in their humorous game. do not struggle anymore b/c its futile. you cannot win when you are not united and we are definitely not united in this country. the only thing that unites us is something/someone that we can hate. Right now its muslims. we can easily hate them. tomorrow it'll be someone else.

[goodsnservices]

Washington Post's Fact Checker just gave Hillary "four pinochios" for lying about landing in Bosnia under sniper fire. lol!

[vsign]

Obama

Maybe someday you could repair some damage you have done and find a way to apologize to all the older white , working whites, uneducated and educated whites, and most of all - the little old white ladies that your supporters, like you, like to pick on and call names. Maybe you could become aware someday of the harm you have done to our Democratic family.

You have made and are still making the argument that you can win the General - when you knew you had these radical associations. So you really thought it was OK to intimidate everyone to vote for you by calling everyone who resisted a racist?

It is not good to treat your fellow white Americans this way. We do not feel that you love all of us.

You need to learn to love America - the land and all of its people.

Please do not ask Americans to celebrate you and your family any longer. To do so - is not the American Dream for anyone but you and your family.

Comparing your white grandmother to Rev Wright tells me you understand little about racial realities. Did your white grandmother ever disparage America and incite others to, like Rev Wright (your adopted father)? Did your white grandmother ever stir up the masses, in a church, against America?

A vote for Obama indicates racial healing?

Oh my God. How distorted.

[bostongreen]

America does not need white people anymore. You are obsolete.

[desertclair]

This comment about not needing white people is the very thing the Republicans will scare people with in the general election. In my opinion, Obama can not win the general election now that his pastor's words are all over YouTupe. McCain's campaign sent out a link to this video: "Is Obama Right?" http://youtube.com/watch?v=72B3tUAqpo4

[SoulSistah]

bostongreen, you are flying a false flag. We know you're a member of the HRC Hateration Nation or a wannabee. Just like your leader, Sillary, you're pacing to and fro trying to cause dissent and chaos wherever you go.

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If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything

Baracking the Vote in '08

[unsolved999]

Please watch the entire video before you pass judgement. The first video is his infamous 9/11 speech.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/20/224958/631/841/481227

[bygolly]

thanks for the link....
I hope you send this link to the Fox and CNN drones and to all the newspapers. Once again they provide false and misleading info so they can up their ratings and make themselves feel important.
People need to stand up and say they are "mad as hell and aren't going to take it any more".

[phenixsantana]

Did you that the whole Reverend Jermiah Wright contreversy was actually a farce. GUESS WHAT!!! The clips being portrayed all over FOX news and MSM was actually Revrend Wright quoting direcdtly a U.S. Ambassador. Here is the link to the full video. AGAIN THE WORDS ON THE CLIPS ARE DIRECT QUOTES FROM A U.S. AMBASSADOR WHO HAPPENS TO BE WHITE. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQ

[nazgul]

You completely missed the message.

The message was that Wright came from a generation that experienced race as a difficult violent demeaning struggle, and that Obama's grandmother, however kind, revealed some evidence of subtle racism at work. It was for historical perspective, meant to demonstrate where Wright comes from vs. where Obama comes from.

My father was born in 1920, and while he wasn't an aggressive racist, he said "nigger" until the early 70s and definitely treated blacks like alien beings. That's not throwing him under the bus. That's just adding to the picture of the time Wright grew up in.

As for the "Goddamn America," I am not suprised or offended by occasional anger with what our leaders do or don't do. This is not all that uncommon. There was an article on the post here recently about a man whose right-wing father who was so angry at the US government in the late 70s that he said should be overthrown, a man who was later celebrated by Reagan.

[nazgul]

Your reaction, I think, demonstrates part of the context of the problem that Obama described: that we aren't supposed to talk about what was racism in various generations or what is racism today, as it is experienced by each race. Describing his mother's racism was not a put-down, just a factoid in the context of Obama's experience with both white and black racism.

[savertime]

Let's see if MSNBC reports the news that Hillary's former pastor has just been sentenced to three years for molesting a seven year old girl. It seems that the Clinton's now own that network. You will not hear any negative news reported on Hillary, thanks to Chris Matthews' obsessive rantings and diggs. The Clinton Camp and Women' Groups supporting Hillary have shut down MSNBC with threats to the station heads and sponsors.

[wanked]

What about Keith Olberman?

[MNDADDY]

Was Clinton's pastor sermonizing the need for all adults parishiners to molest seven year old girls? Then, after hearing such sermons did she continue, for 20 years, to attend such church? Moreover, after learning of this repulsive pastor's belief in molesting 7 year old girls, did she then get married there and have her child baptised there?

Obama supporters are showing serious signs of greeness behind the ears. Pastor Wright is a problem for Obama that all the Clinton bashing in the world isn't going to erase.

[Plowboy]

We will not hear much of this fromthe Neocon controlled media. Nor will any Clintonite attack dogs be changed.
This race has been through the early rounds which determined that Hillary cannot win on her merits, so she must get low down and dirty. So we see them broadcasting messages built on hate. And not Jeremiah Wright's! The sermon he preached quoted Jesus: Love your enemies, those who persecute you. The media snippets are intentional distortions of the man and his message. Ive said worse many times -- and I am a white Mississippian. I like Huckabee's response to both Wright and Obama. (See it on YouTube!) I liked Jim Wallis's response.
The hate used here is the irrational hatred of racism. (And who is actually lower in humanity, an honest racist, or a politicial who uses racist ploys to gain racist voters?)
Opposed to that is one man's quest for unity. I think his speaking of the love his grandmother bore him was beautiful. But that waas removed from the 'quoted' sentense some haters here have used in their illegitimate attacks.

[desertclair]

That was an act performed in secret, even though just as montrous. Pastor Wright's hatred was preached from the pulpit for 20 years without Obama trying to influence him to a higher perspective. In my opinion, that is much more relevant!

[rosecar]

Are you kidding me molesting a child is not a act performed in secret. It is a crime. You can not compare words to the act of molesting a child.

Good greif!!!

[c1ee]

Ok, i just gotta say that logic is sickening.

[MRb1000]

NM Gov. Bill Richardson Endorsing Obama
By BARRY MASSEY – 1 hour ago
America it is over republicans are endorsing Barack. Now Bill Richardson is endorsing Barack Obama after your husband Bill watch the super bowl with him. This is sad just leave the race.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is endorsing Senator Barack Obama for president.
The Associated Press has learned that Richardson is to appear with Obama on Friday at a campaign event in Portland, Oregon.
The New Mexico governor's endorsement comes as Obama leads among delegates selected at primaries and caucuses but with national public opinion polling showing Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton pulling ahead of him amid controversy over statements by Obama's former pastor.
Richardson is the nation's only Hispanic governor and had sought the Democratic nomination himself this year. He calls Obama a "once-in-a-lifetime leader" who can unite the nation and restore America's international leadership.