Also in that article:

"A senior Obama adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Obama's team will respond to Tuesday's results by going negative on Clinton — raising questions about her tax records and the source of donations to the Clinton presidential library, among skeletons in the Clintons' past."

That would certainly be something new for the Obama campaign. Not taking the high road anymore, or can he do this as a question of integrity and not as a smear campaign?

I am afraid that what Donna Brazile said sounds like a call to race rioting and voter disenfranchisement. This is Republican behavior and not acceptable in the context of the history of the Democratic party's commitment to making votes count.

WHY THE CLINTONS WON'T BE RELEASING THEIR TAX RETURNS?...

http://thememlingindex.com/hillary_clinton_net_worth-wealth.html

Someone in a earlier post stated that, despite her wins last night, Hillary is fighting a losing battle. I think it would be more accurate to say that Hillary's winning a losing battle, and will go on winning it all he way to Denver. I think we can expect to see Obama's poll numbers continue their downward spiral in the days and weeks ahead. Sure, he'll maintain an anemic delegate lead, but as time goes on (and time is no longer his friend) he'll seem increasingly vulnerable as a candidate. Meanwhile, Hillary will intensify her negative assaults, so that by the time April rolls around no one will be able to distinguish the man from the mud. This, to put it mildly, will sow doubts in the minds of the Democratic sachem. This past week revealed an astonishing ineptness in the Obama P.R. campaign. It was almost as if he had gone on vacation and left the field entirely to Hillary. She dominated on every front, and his attempts to parry her thrusts were not only ineffectual, but were downright lame. It's silly to try to dismiss Hillary's domination as nothing more than dirty politics. Dirty politics is politics, always was, always will be. If you think Obama is going to win the nomination or general election by "standing above the fray" -- well then, get prepared for humiliation. It's going to be extremely difficult for Obama to recover anything like the "shine" he enjoyed going into Ohio and Texas, and if he doesn't start giving like for like, he will not get the nomination. Ah, but then Mr. Nice Guy will be transformed into Mr. Politics-as-Usual. In other words, by the time Denver rolls around Hillary will have won her losing battle. Then the question will be how this increasingly hateful contest can possibly be redeemed.

Dark horse, anyone?

elonepb- that's in fact the one way that he can actually square the circle. Painting Clinton as a tool of the old, corrupt politics as usual actually reinforces his positive message of change rather than undercutting it. I'm encouraged to hear this.

Wow, talk about the most disingenuous thing I've ever heard -- Hillary might actually come back and win this thing, so we need to END THE PRIMARY NOW!!! The more Obama supporters whine that Hillary needs to drop out because the "math" is against her, the more people start to realize that the math is bogus. Obama's "superdelegates are undemocratic" argument is pretty much already out the window.

I am afraid that what Donna Brazile said sounds like a call to race rioting..... Sancho

Are the Clintonites already shamelessly race baiting?
Are these people really tryinhg to make it impossible for me to show up next November?

I think its time to break out the 527 to go on the attack against the clintons. Obama can disavow the 527 all day long and decry such politics and then reap the benefits. Back up the dump truck and dump it on the clintons.

By the way clinton cultists, congrats on your candidate winning yesterday. She'll never win the presidency and will bring down the democratic party in the process. Congrats.

Did I miss something, or did the Clintons fail to cut Obama's delegate lead to 25 as they predicted? How many net delegates did she pick up with her 3 victories?

It's about the math folks. Ignore the spin. Look at the numbers.

3 of 4.
3 of 15.
14 of 41.

As some have said recently, if it was Hillary Clinton that had won 25 (possibly 26) elections out of a total of 40, that had the lead in delegate counts which include super delegates and she had won the popular vote so far – the media and the Democrat establishment would have asked Barack Obama to drop out of the race for the ‘good’ of the Party long ago.

The establishment and media are not only allowing Hillary to stay in the race, they are now talking about ‘saving her’ by having Do-Overs in Florida (population of mostly seniors – Hillary’s strength) and in Michigan even though the DNC denied them delegate counts if they went ahead and voted early against the DNC rules. We all know she won those States previously. How dare they!

"If these attacks are contrasts based on policy differences, there is no need to stop the race or halt the debate," Brazile said. "But, if this is more division, more diversion from the issues and more of the same politics of personal destruction, chairman Dean and other should be on standby."

I don't always agree with her, but she's right on the money here.

Up until now, Obama has criticized Clinton on issue grounds -- her vote for the Iraq war, the health insurance mandate, flip-flopping on NAFTA -- while Clinton has attacked Obama on personal grounds -- not ready to be commander in chief, all he's done is give a speech, etc.

Yes, we know Republicans will also engage in the politics of personal destruction, but why should Hillary do the job for them?

I do think if she continues this approach -- and there's little doubt she will as the campaign will attribute her victories to their getting down and dirty -- then turnabout would be more than fair play. And her vulnerabilities on these fronts are greater than Obama's -- the Norman Hsus and sleazy fundraising, the various Clinton administration scandals from Travelgate to the Marc Rich pardon, the tax returns, Bill Clinton's Kazakh dealings, the hidden White House records. All the things to remind us that their record on veracity and integrity is questionable at best, and that Clinton fatigue is what awaits us if she gets the nomination.

I hope it doesn't come to this, but it may have to. And while Howard Dean and the party elders may well decide to intervene to keep things from getting uglier, I can't imagine the Clinton campaign responding in any way other than giving him their middle finger. Because they still have a sense of entitlement and it's still all about them, not the larger good.

Q: Who decides who gets the democratic nomination?
A: Delegates.

Q: Who has the most Delegates?
A: Obama.

Q: How many Net delegates did Hillary gain on Obama last night.
A: Less than 10.

Q: What would that leave Obama's delegate lead at?
A: Between 149 to 140.

She can't beat him. The math is not there. Sorry to rain on your parade.

Now this is what I am talking about:

``We have not hesitated to draw distinctions between the candidates and we'll continue to do that," said Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod. "If Sen. Clinton wants to take the debate to various places, we'll join that debate. We'll do it on our terms and in our own way but if she wants to make issues like ethics and disclosure and law firms and real estate deals and all that stuff issues, as I've said before I don't know why they'd want to go there, but I guess that's where they'll take the race.''

Break out the dump truck.

In reference to David Kurtz's post "Enough Already."
Yes, Obama's supporters are whining. Remember, Obama brought new voters into the process based on changing the status quo in partisan politics. And they can take their votes and walk away from the process just as easily as the came in.

Hillary has learned through out her turbulent career to never give up regardless of the fly-back for those around her. She has learned to never say never, this time she is risking the hopes, and aspirations of the Democratic Party and the women who have placed their hopes and aspirations in her. She is willing play brinksmanship and to fight to the very end, regardless of the cost to the Party.

- Just a few weeks ago Bill Clinton said a race between Hillary and McCain would be the most civil in recent history.

- And just this week Hillary brought out the Kitchen sink against her Democratic Opponent to redefine the lows in "dirty tactics" - (Praising McCain on National Security over Obama, employing Foreign Powers in negative campaign strategy, broadcasting fake Breaking News Items, feeding the flames of racism with the release of the turban photos)

I believe she deserves to be opposed by Democrats with as much voracity as she has shown towards Democrats and her Democratic Opponent.

She wants a fight. LETS FIGHT!

A VERY DANGEROUS PROPOSITION FOR ALL THOSE INVOLVED.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/03/breaking-news-h.html

The continual flame wars between Hillbots and Obamatons is going to do nothing but send undecided voters and disillusioned voters to John McCain, who despite being a NeoCon in moderate clothing, is sitting back and waiting until he gets a firm opponent, lobbing label-bombs at our party.

Hillary is right. We need to get these two on the same ticket. We need to convince both of them to stop attacking one another and just let the rest of the primaries (including new FL and MI) be on the issues. Whoever is ahead at the end of a POSITIVE ONLY process is at the top of the ticket, whoever loses gets VP.

The key factor is that we can't hamstring either candidate anymore. If the people decide Hillary is who they want, than we Obama supporters must respect that and support her 100%. Of course, the converse is absolutely true too.

I will admit that Hillary's attacks of the last week have been effective; however, at this point on they serve to do nothing but further hurt the party if Obama happens to win the most delegates and Super-delegates.

A super ticket would solve all of our collective problems. He brings youth and inspiration and an ability to put swing states in play, she brings ability to appeal to bread and butter democrats and industrial states. Rather than being happy with winning the same 10 states, this team could win in KS, FL, NC, IA, CO, MO, OH, IN, GA, maybe even TX.

Obviously I'm going to support an Obama/Clinton ticket, but as of this moment (currently 7:01 am PST) I ain't saying another bad thing about Hillary because she *might* be our party's nominee.

I hope that Ms. Clinton (congratulations on last night, by the way) is serious about a super ticket and that they can find a positive and uniting way to bring it about without tearing the party apart. Their ideas are 95% identical, they bring very different strengths to the table. Together they motivate the Democratic base like nobody else can in this time of need.

I think the only thing Dean and elected officials who actually care about the Democratic Party can and should do is try to convince the Clintons to stop trying to poison the well for Obama. If she beats him on the merits, fine. But if they continue with this crap about him not being qualified to be Commander in Chief (as if ANYONE has ever been qualified before they took on the job), then I suggest Dean, Gore, Edwards and others confront her with the idea that THEY will hold a press conference demanding that she release her tax returns and her White House records. Somebody's got to play hardball other than the spittle spewing Matthews maniac!

"I think he can do it and not come off as negative. The argument is that if Hillary is the nominee the voters need to know what is in those tax documents and White House records becuse if their is some skeletons hidden within, then she will torpedo the chances of the Democrats to win in November. In essence, he can make an argument that the voters have a right to know. Which isn't a negative argument, but a realistic argument."

I agree, he has been good at counterpunching when he chooses to do it. He's not as tone-deaf as Hillary, who often hits the wrong note and looks ugly when going negative ("The fun part" as she once put it with a creepy smile)

Well, now that Clinton has demonstrated that she can win Ohio, New York, New Jersey, California, Massachusettes, Florida and Michigan, I think Barak Obama should consider dropping out of the race in the name of party unity. Obviously, he cannot win amongst Democrats in Blue States let alone beat a Republican.

This was the Democrats' election to lose, since there was no way the Republicans could win it, not after eight years of George W. Bush. But that just might be what happens.

First, the Republicans nominated their strongest candidate. McCain is a guy few Republicans really liked, a man who was almost completely written off last summer. But due to infighting - and the fact that the other candidates were so bad that even Republicans couldn't stand them - McCain got the nomination after all. He's still not popular with their base, but he can pull in the independents if there's not an equally-popular Democratic candidate.

And now, the Democrats are eating their own. Clinton's negatives are so high that she can't win against McCain. And she can't win the Democratic nomination without the dirty trick of seating Michigan and Florida AND persuading the super-delegates to ignore the primary and caucus voters. Do you think Obama supporters will just shrug that off? My vote counted this year, and I don't want anyone taking that away. So what does she really think she's doing?

Furthermore, if she can't get the nomination through dirty tricks, her negative campaigning will really hurt Barack Obama in November. That's not because she's saying anything the Republicans won't, but because they can now point to her and say, "See, even the Democrats admit this." After all, she came right out and said that McCain had the experience to be commander-in-chief, but Obama didn't. If she was conducting a positive campaign (as Obama is), this extended nomination process wouldn't be a problem. But she's not. And since this 'kitchen sink' plan seems to have worked, we'll see a lot more of it from now on.

This was the Democrats' election to lose,... and I'm wondering if we're doing just that.

Donna Brazile and Howard Dean calling the shots? Get real.

Blame the DNC for the mess the Dems are in. Who was the genius at the DNC that declared that the most appropriate punishment for a REPUBLICAN scheduling decision in Florida was to disenfranchise DEMOCRATS at their convention?
The DNC could have found some other, more proportionate remedy (like bad seats at the Convention).