James Carville Says Obama Likely To Be Nominee

James Carville has been one of Hillary Clinton's most energetic defenders, but on Monday he all but declared Barack Obama will become the Democratic nominee for president.

Speaking to students at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, Carville argued Clinton should stay in through the final nominating contest in early June, but said the Democratic tide appears to be moving in Obama's direction.

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[ann1]

I don't trust him......I don't trust what he's saying. Is he up to something? OF COURSE HE IS

[Verified]

Carville hears the dogs barking? Hopefully it's Cesar Millan's pack coming to take him in for aggression rehab so he'll stop snarling and biting.

[MRb1000]

Well at least he is honest about the whole thing. He knew it was over a long time ago. He is loyal to the Clintons. Now, he is moving on to defeat the GOP.

[aznurse]

Ha!! When this election is FINALLY over, he'll still be married to Mary.

[frumke]

Amazing how many nasty comments are here.

Look, I don't care which candidate you support. But you can't deny that both are smart, experienced candidates. You may criticize some of Hillary's tactics, but that's politics. You may point to Obama's relative inexperience, but he has more experience than a number of our most successful presidents. As for Carville and other advisers/surrogates, they are all Party faithful

Either Democrat will be better for this Country than would be McCain. Do you really want to continue the Iraq war? Roe v. Wade overturned by the conservative justices that McCain wants to appoint? Universal health care thrown out the window? The Patriot Act extended and strengthened? Bush tax cuts extended? Etc.?

I'm an Obama supporter (no, not a cult kiddie, an older professional white male). And if Clinton convinces the superdelegates select her, I will be pissed off. But I will send her a check and rally behind her because that will be the best thing for the country.

If you are a Clinton supporter who says you would vote for McCain rather than vote for Obama, or if you are an Obama supporter who says you would vote for McCain rather than vote for Clinton, then you are an idiot. Do you remember how you felt about the people who voted for Nader? You would be doing worse.

[marco34la]

HILLARY WINS ANOTHER SWING STATE -- BY 40%

ALL THAT MEANS NOW...

IS THAT MC CAIN WINS THIS FALL.

THANKS TO THE ENERGIZED "YOUTH VOTE"

WHO CAN'T NAVIGATE THEIR OWN RELATIONSHIPS OR JOBS

LET ALONE A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

[Ariesjill]

"Swing State" in this is OLD PARADIGM. Nothing emerging with such power, incandescence & consistency fails to show us.....the definition of OLD PARADIGM....being OLD.

This "swing state" as Chris Matthews pointed out this aM on MSNBC.....would have voted the same in the 1950s as we all knew it would all along NOW. and that oses to the sometimes incurable sickness of rascism/bigotry.

Amd painting a big demographic with a vitriole brush as broad as yours....is another form of that. Bigotry. Forget, if you honestly think your TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC comprises Obama's base....you also do not do your homework.

[abby4ever]

Maybe he was using psychological warfare, saying that Obama would probably get the nomination, just to energize the discouraged Hillary supporters. I don't trust him.

[marco34la]

I don't trust him either... that is Obama I don't trust. Thanks to all the kid voters!!!!
4 MORE YEARS OF MCCAIN!!!

[Ariesjill]

Of course U don't trust him.... this clear, visionary, authentic, brilliant, elegant, principled HUMAN ...and with his, unique and inspiring history from birth to now---even what he's accomplished as a Jr. Senator in his brief tenure on the National scene.....do you have any REFERENCE FOR.

Forget ,he's not even completely WHITE! OMG, lock the doors!!!!!!

[GravitonX]

Carville is a Judas.

[Ariesjill]

No....Carville is a blind loyalist. Exactly like the woman he married. Neither has any ability to DISCERN ANYTHING. Ad there you are calling him a Judas for finally exiting the blindness!
This askin to some junkie being threatened by a colleague finally GETTING he has a problem.
Wut is this....Germany in the late30s??"?????

Again, BLIND LOYALTY....is NO LOYALTY.

[KarateKid]

For all you ditto head Republicans who are visiting this progressive site:

Mississippi First District Special Election
Childers (D) 52%
Davis (R) 48%

This is the third special election won by Democrats in previously very deep red districts. Hastert's district, the one I live in, was Republican for three decades and the one Cazayoux won in Louisiana was Republican for over 25 years.

Get ready for a thrashing in November.

[davidsnotinvolved]

The same ditto heads also make up the 19 percent that think the economy is going to improve:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-poll14-2008may14,0,2716686.story

:)

[BillyT]

Dear Mr. Carville,

It is time for a recount....of who's got how many cojones.

Sincerely,

BillyT
(Got two....and don't need more)

[Ariesjill]

Please do not give weight to (no pun intended) Mr. Carville's anachronistic caricature of power/strength having anything to do with the reproductive system. Power is within. It owes to intelligence on a foundation of emotional health and differential vision.

It owes nothng to gender, chromosomes or organs. Please get UP out of the insecure pre schooler mud.....which is apparently, Mr. Carville's native internal milieu. Along wiht the crawfish.

[punchmonkey]

"NO DOUBT!!!!!!! SURELY, HE HAS NONE!!!!!"

"IT'S OVER HILLARY, TELL BILDERBERG WE SAID SO AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR REDICULOUS "PANTSUIT!!!!!"

[DinOhio]

Carville must know his check will be late this month.

[NtFourSale]

Rabid dog.

But a loyal rabid dog.

[Ariesjill]

Interesting choice of species. Given dogs are pack animals and, U bet, all about blind loyalty to the alpha dog....to the point, often, of being loyal to abusive human owners. Ponder.

[TrueIndy08]

Obama is now looking for campaign members for his general election that we will be sure to start come june 3... or sooner!!!

All I ask is that he does not allow the likes of this idiot on the campaign... he'll drag us all down!!!!

[marco34la]

The only one who's dragged this party down... is the ridiculous youth voters.
Obama lost BIG in every BLUE state and SWING state NEEDED TO WIN a general election.

The REPUBLICAN machine worked again... by getting repubs to switch parties in all the RED states and vote for Obama. Those are the only real states he's won -- Red.

Kids want to help shoot the democrats in the foot by nominating an inexperienced big talker no-action Obama instead of a proven commodity -- great -- makes my vote for McCain much easier.
At least McCain has demonstrated that HE is willing to SERVE our country, unlike Obama
who just is serving his EGO.

People who jump from job to job (8 months as a US Senator and then announces run for President)... demonstate clearly that their interests DO NOT lie with the people.

[UncleJimbo]

If "older" and "less educated" voters give the election to Mccain,I hope they all lose their jobs and homes and retirement and medical coverage!

[VWR]

Carville is going to loose all of his cable TV time if he suddenly starts making sense. I cannot believe the charlatans all over cable TV tonight. The so-called analysts and commentators have absolutely no ability to put anything into perspective (with a few exceptions like Chuck Todd on MSNBC). I didn't hear anyone mention that John McSame only received 1% of the vote in the West Virginia Republican primary (held earlier in the primary season). Yet, Tweety Bird Mathews was talking about the Clinton voters in West Virginia switching over to John McSame. How does that make any sense?

[jgalvan]

Still a nuttsack.

[LeeinJax]

Does that mean she has four instead of the three he declared?

[BEHM777]

It appears Mr. Carville has calmed down a bit. Good for him.

[AnotherIADem]

Gosh, James, ya think?

[amayran71]

"fine...now will someone please get Terry McAuliffe off TV"
LOL
I hear ya!
he's so annoying... cant take it anymore

[seenitall]

fine...now will someone please get Terry McAuliffe off TV?

[ObamAtomic]

Take Lanny Davis, Terry McAuliffe,,,old guard politicians ,babbling all the times!
What spectacle to see this two made a living on the politic arena babbling!
Lanny you do not persuade no one even on your presentation on the Foxie channels!
Terry the speech of the century?Speech related to speaker?
I feel betrayed for second hand tactician!
The results was expected,congratulations,still no change the previous result!

[BillyT]

Terry, Howard....they are not getting paid by Hillary. They need to feed their own families. Hillary will need to pay Mark Penn 6+million bucks first, in donuts.

Just do what I do: look for the MUTE button.

[repugnicansfearme]

Nyah. The criminally insane have so few opportunities to make public appearances.

[amayran71]

I personally dont like Carville, he should be removed from the politics altogether, he represents the Clintons at its worst, hes a sore loser so i dont trust him to speak in favor of Obama as the presidential nominee.

[mrBlue1]

The candidacy of Barack Obama has a much deeper and far reaching meaning than the simplistic notions of so many, both pro and con. It should be noted that, already, in Europe and the rest of the world around us, his candidacy has elevated opinion about us, Americans, who had fallen so low in their minds secondary to the current adminstration's policies. No new POTUS will be able to just step in and solve all the problems we have inherited, but, symbolically, Barack Obama's election to president will shift the paradigm that is crushing us forward to a hated and maligned and failed nation. He is criticized for low experience in DC, but consider GWB who had much experience as the son of a POTUS and VEEP, as a governor, as an insider and how THAT turned out. He is the essence of what this country is all about...of two races, influenced by a step dad of Asian descent, has lived in other countries and the U.S. and understands the plight of the common people. Read his books and you will see why he is the right one now.

[AMJordan]

Let me be perfectly clear. I am suspicious of this entire campaign. It looks like some kind of bad comedy where the best political team in America tried to run a new campaign and can't seem to quit tripping over their own feet.

There's something else going on here...

[isis]

Has anyone considered that Hillary might be McCain's VP in 08? It would be a way for the GOP to win at all costs and honestly, they don't care about the social issues that bring in so many votes. They could put off the social conservatives in the name of "unity" and "change". I think we should all be prepared to how we would respond to such a move.

[Spiriteddona]

"Pantsuit Vixens for Hillary" yahoos as a video for Hllary!
will cheer you up!
Tribute to Tna Fey!
Link =http://video.yahoo.com/watch/2559101/7672083
or yahoos, "Pantsuit Vixens for Hillary"
Pas it on to friend and frenemy!

[Spiriteddona]

i love carville, sugar, this one not the week to say that!

[doublesvb]

these hillary supporters are really something. look, i understand to a certain extent because i would argue and defend barack at the drop of a hat, but when push came to shove i KNOW i would vote for her before mccain. it is absolutely ludicrous for them to now say "na-na-na-na-na i'm voting for mccain." you're not only hurting me but you're hurting YOU!

[ErinOK]

The whole "I will vote for McCain" thing makes me so sad. People are willing to vote for another Bush term (as if the other two weren't bad enough) just because the candidate they supported didn't win the nomination.

I hope these words are just spoken in anger and have no real meaning when it comes down to who they will vote for in November.