Even I might have answered "No" to the last question, until I heard what Mike Huckabee had to say on the issue.

Granted Huckabee doesn't speak for the dittoheads, but there is no question that when Obama offered the olive branch he reached out and took it.

I agree that uniting the entire country is impossible, but I'll happily settle for uniting the rest of it against Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.

Teflon has a new name: Obama

(that's a compliment - on the internet, it is hard to know sometimes)

The endorsement of Bill Richardson, combined with these polls, are swinging the door shut. I admire the fighting spirit of Clinton supporters, and in another year we could afford the fight on principle.

But not this time.

These polls affirm what we've known since the 2006 election: the People are ready to move on. To continue the fight now belies any possible Clintonian future. The goalposts had too many wheels.

A Clinton shift in support to Obama this spring would devastate McCain. Was anyone else reminded of Nancy prompting Ronnie? (shiver me timbers...)

We have such big fish to fry. Time to end this primary season, and before PA. It's her crack now. She must set it down.

Pax,
M.

It is impossible for Obama's integrity, sensitivity and intelligence to NOT shine through.

If the Wright nonsense (are we really voting on peoples' clergymen, now? Puleeze..), and his eloquent, reasoned and honest response to it *hadn't* risen to the top for all to see its merit, I'd have been surprised.

The whole thing was handled like a superb leader.

THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!

gotalife,

You watch too much Fox News, man. You need to turn off the TV and get some air.

I've got more good news for Obama. Looks like Hillary just got caught fabricating a harrowing story to impress army folk.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/how-will-hillarys-bosnia_b_92844.html

Sad to see Hillary supporters like gotalife embracing the methods of Karl Rove, when those methods have finally stopped working.
~

Wow, if this is correct, I have new found respect for the country. Maybe they are smarter than the pundits say they are. (Scarborough etc)

It's amazing how the MSM expects people to make snap decisions. Give it a bit of time to sink in. More and more will come around.

Gotalife was an anti-Obama troll on Daily Kos. For some reason it has now moved over here. Gotalife used to write dozens of comments - mostly short and insulting attacks on Obama's character - every day. But it apparently decided to leave there on Feb. 24 (so, gotalife is not "on strike" or anything...http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2008/2/24/0145/58344/402#c402

I guess we can infer from the avatar that gotalife is male. That avatar - Scalia telling you to screw yourself - is pretty revealing. Gotalife might not even be a Hillary troll. It might be a Republican.

Gotalife concentrates on lots of short comments. Maybe it gets paid by the posted comment. Who cares, really.

Maybe it gets paid by the response.

So don't feed it.

As ever, Billary are to be sunk by their own cynicism, hoisted upon their own petard, (whatever a petard is). And not for the first time this season, either.

Exhibit A: January: Obama tells America "we can do better." Hillary tells America, "don't believe in Santa Claus." Obama wins; NH exception that proves the rule. Super Tues a draw.

Exhibit B: February: Given the choice between going positive or negative in OH and TX, they went negative, natch, and while it gave them a short-term boost (well timed, too) it rolled back on top of them in the end.

Exhibit C: March: "somebody" pushes the Rev. Wright video. Hillary, faced with choice between high road - standing up in outrage at the toxic tactics used in this wholly made-up fake scandal - and low road -- egging them on, trying to ignore most important speech in more than a generation - chooses low road. She and her brain(dead)trust pounce on the opportunity to try to throw O'bama under teh bus. Works for a couple days until - surprise! - The Speech sinks in, turns out Americans aren't as dumb as they're supposed to be. Goddamn not-sufficienty-stupid Americans!

By the time the Rev. Wright tempest was floated, youda thunk that Hill & Co. would have figured out that, this time, the high road was the short cut to the nomination. That the pendulum had swung.

But no. Turns out that Hillary's personal hell involves learning the same lesson over, and over, and over. And still not learning it.

Surprising? You betcha, if you were basing your wager on recent (7+ year) history. But on the other hand, after seven-plus years of getting beat over the head by a blunt republican object, is it really that surprising that we've learned not to fall for that shit anymore?

Obama will never be president...you people are so stupid and insulated in your own world. If you ever peaked outside of it you would see how angry everyone is at your candidate. For all of you self hating "typical whites"...good luck to you!!! I really really want a democrat to be president...but am smart enought to know that Obama won't get elected....get real!!

This site requires a great deal of suspension from reality...most of the responses are so off the wall you would think the computers in the psycy ward are working overtime....

Your good news for the lying, racist, and troubled Obama is just a flash in th sky....Please don't any of you delude yourself...none of us long time Dems will ever vote for Olama...

Enjoy...four more years of a Repulican, Bush annoited, presidency...don't delude yourself that any Hillary supporter will EVER vote for Hillary.

All the best!!

"They elected w twice."

No, they didn't.

Peace,
Paul

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

They'll lie, cheat, steal, destroy, and trash anyone in their way to get what they want. Now I know why Obama denounced the words but not the man. Wright is a great American.

I find it hard to understand why open-minded and open-hearted Americans wouldn't all unite behind Mr. Obama's vision of what America can and should be. The hatreds and divisions the Bush administration have fostered should have left an disgusting taste in the mouths of all Americans. Our country is significantly worse off than it was when Bush moved into the White House. It will take a unified effort and the cooperation of all Americans to undo the damage of Bush's eight years of cronyism and incompetence.

And now, because the Clinton's could not have predicted Mr. Obama's success, they see their dream will not be realized and they are trying to divide and conquer the Democratic Party in desparate and misguided attempts to ignore the math, steal the presidency and or win it by default in the pathetic hope that Mr. Obama will do something wrong. Meanwhile, Democrats are fighting one another rather than building and strengthening their coalition. The chances of the Clintons winning the popular vote, winning more delegates and getting a signicantly high number of superdelegates to overrule the voters and delegates of their home states isn't just hanging tough, it's hoping for a fracture in the Democratic Party and the defeat of its presidential candidate. The absoulte best case scenario for the "Clintons" is the absoulutely worse case scenario for a "Democrat" winning the White House. While, the argument has been made that Mr. Obama can't win the majority of delegates and lock-up the nomination, that argument ignores that he will still win the popular vote and have the higher number of delegates. Why would a superdelegate overrule the will of the people and power brokers in his/her state and commit career suicide to vote for Hillary Clinton? Anyone who thinks that the superdelegates aren't all died in the wool politicians needs to stop eating the brownies their teenaged children bake for their friends and keep hidden under their mattresses. If the people and power brokers in the Democratic Party continue to allow the Clinton's to pursue their unattainable and highly destructive dream, John Sidney McCain, III will be the next president. If that happens, Americans will continue to suffer the agonies and inequities and failures of a oppressive corporate facsist regime.

This piece by Steve Chapman in the Chicago Tribune ( http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0323chapmanmar23,1,2651579.column )seems to hit the proverbial nail on the head, and I pass it along for the general good. The impulse I've had at first was to, frankly, try to deny the visceral impact of Wright's views. But as the process has played out I've learned a few things. Maybe we all have.

What is funadamental here, and what is not being explained in the news accounts, is an understanding of the Christian dynamics at play here between Obama and his pastor. Wright has plenty of bitterness, no doubt based on experience. Another man might have drawn different conclusions.

Obama is that other man, and his rejection, with love, of the old man's harshest conclusions about white people and our government, while not rejecting the man himself, is part and parcel of the underlying philosophy of the redemptive power of forgiveness that both aspire to. It is a core part of the Christian mesasge. Obama sees it as his duty to attempt to save his friend from himself, and in the process has found a way to use this as a teachable moment for the rest of us on a very bitter and emotional issue.

It's hard to see this in a secular world, but it's as much a dialogue between the two men, old and young, as it is between Obama and the rest of us. He's done a masterful job of seeing the big picture, but not losing sight of the humanity of his friend and pastor and the rest of us. Again, he bet on us and our better angels, and if the polls are to be believed, we're actually better people as a whole than I believed we were. It is a healing moment.

"...Wright apparently sees this nation as defective and divided beyond repair. Obama thinks the defects are only a part of the story, and that a unity transcending ancient racial distrusts is achievable.

What has fueled his candidacy is neither black anger nor white guilt, but a desire by people of different complexions to minimize the role of race in our society. In his book, "A Bound Man," Hoover Institution scholar Shelby Steele writes that Obama is "a living rebuke to both racism and racialism, to both segregation and identity politics. . . . [H]e also embodies a great and noble human aspiration: to smother racial power in a democracy of individuals."

If the pastor truly believed his more vitriolic comments, he would have no choice but to treat Obama as a fool for aspiring to the presidency. Instead, Wright has been forced to entertain the notion that white people would choose a black male for the most powerful office on Earth...."

"If Hillary were winning, the same trolls (er, concerned voters?) would be spewing anti-Clinton garbage.

Hillary's main demographic is older women and I find it unlikely they would exhibit such trollish behavior on the intertubes.

As an older woman whose friends are older women (although Obama supporters), I speak from experience."

That's an interesting argument. I have heard some gracious comments from Hillary supporters as well. But perhaps some older women are meaner than you assume. And there are still plenty of male and younger Hillary supporters. But yeah, hard to tell who is who on the net.

"Dream on. The constant Clinton bashing by Obama, Rev Wright, the biased media, and Obama supporters on blogs, has eliminated any chance of most Clinton suppoters to vote for Obama and his band of jerks. I will vote for Ralph Nader if Obama is the nominee."

I for one would vote for *any* Dem just to avoid McCain appointing the next SC judge and overturning Roe. Also 8000 dead in Iraq doesn't look good either.

But oh well, if you want to be childish so be it.

I want to congratulate Obama, his wife, the Rev Wright, MSNBC, and all you Obama bloggers. Your hatred of the Clintons and your willingness to slime them more than the Republicans ever did, has made me feel that I cannot ever support Obama and would not vote for him if hell freezed over.
The thought of Rev Wright staying in the Lincoln bedroom as Obama's guest makes my skin crawl.
Congratulations, you have guarenteed McCain the nomination with your vile hatred! Way to go!!!

Hey Singfom, be careful who you call stupid when you don't even know how to spell "peeked" - not "peaked".