I wonder at all the shrillness, disinformation & whining. I have been supporting Obama since the day he declared his candidacy. I have never gotten one bit of information from the campaign suggesting any of the things that are alleged by some writers here. So where are they getting this whacko information?

We want the campaign to come to its logical conclusion. We want people to vote. It will be a fine way for the proof to rise to the top and end the whining, incompetence and lying. Whatever the Hill&Billobots claim, their campaign is mired in deceit, infighting, poor management & a failure to recognize the value of leveraging the information age & its tools; or, to hone a message and implement a plan to deliver it clearly: all skills that a leader must demonstrate and Hillary has failed in these.

In other words, Hillary Clinton's campaign is a dinosaur, unprepared & lost in the 21st century. Arrogant at its core, the HRC campaign failed to consider that in a country of over 300 million people there might actually be someone capable of fully taking on both Hillary and Bill and her campaign machine, and further, whipping her like a rented mule on a hardscrabble farm.

Its no wonder that people supporting Obama, or who supported Edwards & Kucinich--or even Hillary supporters who don't like bullies--gave money to the DCCC to send a message that bullies can't win with big bucks anymore. The people are taking back their government.

She is SO HOT!

Her brain makes my pants fit funny.

Do you guys even know what "the will of the voters" is?

(i.e., Do you guys even know what you guys are talking about?)

The Pelosi letter writers and Pelosi are both right.

They should follow the will of the voters.

Now, then, let's understand what the so-called "the will of the voters" is.

By the Party rule, superdelegates cannot overturn the will of the voters,

and, the will of the voters clearly and loudly says, "let the superdelegates independently decide!," if we the voters don't give you, a particular candidate, the magic number of 2,024 delegates during the primaries (a candidate needs 2,024 delegate votes to win, as of March 17) -- and, that's what we the voters did so far.

The voters know the Party rule, and that's why the voters collectively gave less than 2,024 delegates to each candidate so far, because they collectively want superdelegates to decide it independently!

Now, that is the will of the voters.

And, we should follow it.

MoveOn.org and OpenLeft.com should stop trying to "buy" the will of the voters by helping Obama outspend Hillary by 3 to 1 in Ohio and outspend even worse in Pennsylvania and the other remaining states(Aren't they being hypocritical?).

Instead, shouldn't MoveOn.org and OpenLeft.com send money to Hillary to make it even, so that nobody can "buy" the will of the voters?

It is amazing to watch the democrats grow a spine at long last. And damn I am a registered democrat but I'll say it.

We have a friggin torture memo from Yoo allowing the president to authorize torture, a war crime that this country tried and hanged Japanese and German servicemen over. And yet we will not investigate the war crimes of a reckless and out of control "unitary" executive who makes it up as he goes along and allows others to serve time for his misdeeds. Those young service men and women in jail for Abu Garib did not receive justice. They were cast as hicks with sticks by these men in power who authorized their actions. This goes all the way up folks, all the way to George the lesser.

And Nancy Pelosi grows a spine over party rules? My gawd where is her sense of proportion? And I am an Obama supporter.

Gee, even tho the Democratic Congress can't always stand up and defend our country or Constitution against the Bush gang, people still recognize it is a ton better than:
Republicans
Clintons
The DLC
Rich bastages who think they own the Democratic party through the DLC

ummmmmmm new pardigm - are the fat cats going to rue the day they tossed their weight around and the pesants rebelled?

let them eat cake ...

"We therefore urge you to clarify your position on superdelegates and reflect in your comments...".

In my view, this has got to be one of the most condescending and arrogant statements I have ever read."Reflect on your comments..." Someone needs to take the authors of this letter aside and say, "Who the hell do you think you are?"

As for Pelosi's "The will of the people must be respected in this election," she has boxed herself in now. If Hillary ever gets the lead in the popular vote, I mean; some seem to thnk she can. I am happy that Pelosi has gone back to her original stance, though.

Superdelegates to Hillary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSkYT6yWKCA

The lyrics:

I know what you're doing yeah yeah, I know why you dialed my number
I know what you're doing yeah yeah, I know why you care

I know what you're doing yeah yeah, I know why you say you love me
I know what you're doing yeah yeah, And I don't think it's fair

I know why you dialed my number, I know why you say you're mine
I know what you're doing, And it's not, gonna work, this time

I know what you're doing yeah yeah, I can never sing in that key
I know what you're doing yeah yeah, And you're the one to blame

I know what you're doing yeah yeah, I know why you can't forgive me
I know why you're singing lost love, The lyrics haven't changed

1-I can recognize the symptoms, You should know I've changed my mind
I know what you're doing, And it's not, gonna work this time

Hey hey hey, said it's not gonna work this time...

I know what you're doing, baby, I know why you call my name
I know why you say you love me, but I can't say the same

Dionne Farris

These rich donors threatening Speaker Pelosi are like dinosaurs floundering around oblivious of their pending extinction.

For years I've been watching U.S. politics and muttering "but that's legalized bribery!". I'm sure most politicians hate being in thrall to the money machines but cannot figure out an escape. Now, Obama's campaign offers a template.

For all the lobbyists, corporate bigwigs or even simple political groupies, this has to be frightening. If politicians can find money without them, what good are they?

Obama '08. Yes you can.

The Democrats have been famously eating their own in recent years. So say Clinton scores the White House. What incentive does the Speaker have to play nice, when Hil's campaign is busy pissing her off now?

Pelosi, Richardson, Reid, Biden in the backpocket of Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian
http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search_hp.asp?txtName=kerkorian%2C+kirk&NumOfThou=0&txt2008=Y&submit=Go%21

"The will of the people must be respected in this election."

That's cool. Keep up the good work. You've proved you can stand up to Democratic black-mailers.

But, Nancy, what about respecting the will of the people in the 2006 election? Why is Bush not impeached? Why is the Iraq war bigger than ever? Why doesn't Congress kick Junior's butt with the FISA/telecommunications bill? When will you stand up to the Republicans?

I'd have more respect for Nancy if her first act as Speaker hadn't been to take impeachment of Bush and Cheney "off the table". That said, giving the middle finger to Clinton's "big donors" is definitely a step in the right direction.

See, Nancy? Showing a little backbone isn't so hard, is it? Hopefully, this is a trend.

OBAMA 08

Man, she's speaking with confidence and a democratic clarity that is admirable. Go Pelosi!

Speaker Pelosi is living up to my every dream of the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives of these Great States United of America. I could almost hollar "Yippee!" but somebody surely will accuse me of being a child -- I am not, the grey is coming in thick and fast now, but nonetheless, I lived to see the day when a woman controlled the People's House of the United States of America and controlled it with class, dignity and respect! And always with an eye out for the people! Wonderful!