We watched her on "60 Minutes" tonight (Your RORSCHACH piece) and thought that the way she parsed her words leaving an inkling of doubt about Obama's faith was typical Hillary and typically distasteful. It was a reminder of what we liked least about Bill. When he was cornered, he would weasel out with the smallest of white lies. We hope Obama can win a big one on Tuesday to put an end to this kind of campaigning among our own. At the onset of the campaign, we liked Clinton, Edwards and Obama. We still like Edwards and Obama. Clinton, not so much. She and her surrogates have been their own worst enemy.

The more that Hillary and Barack beat each other up, the more ammunition the Goopers will have to use against the eventual nominee.
McCain doesn't have a Gooper rival to give the Dems any ammunition against him.

The rules are the rules. She's trailing by a ratio of 13-12, with hundreds and hundreds of delegates to be elected, not to mention nearly 800 superdelegates who can do what they want. Calls by a leading Obama supporter like Durbin for Clinton's withdrawal are hardly news. The democratic party is not going to be hurt by a race to the convention, where the delegates will choose the winner. Fair is fair; let the voters decide.

The fusion of the pro-Obama biased media and the cult money machine of cult leader Obama makes the Democratic nomination process similar to a stuffed ballot box in a banana republic.

American democracy calls for the Democratic nomination process to continue for all the remaining states to have their say and then add the numbers at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.

The superdelegates should decide on the most qualified, experienced candidate for the presidency and that would be Hillary Clinton. That's American democracy.

Gov. Richardson should continue to sit on the sidelines and keep his silence.

With the fusion of the pro-Obama biased media and the cult money machine, rational Democrats must support Hillary with frequent contributions for her to make a powerful stand against that fusion.

Hillary Clinton is fighting for future of America; she is the qualified, experienced, visionary leader America needs to make change real and restore America to prosperous times and restore our good standing in the world.

According to today's Zogby 3/3/08 poll, Obama leads Hillary by 3 points in Texas and 2 points in Ohio, this is the first poll that has Obama leading in Ohio. I still bet my money for Obama's win in Texas, and for Hillary winning by a very small margin in Ohio. Hillary wont get the nomination....

I think the point is Mute. I really believe the super delegates will break after Tuesday. I think it is all they are waiting for is to see whether she still has a realistic chance. If she does not, and she tries to continue I think we may see a flood of SD support to Obama. If she stands a reasonable chance they will continue to wait it out.

I thought Bill Clinton, Wolfson and others made this point over the course of the last two weeks. If Tuesday doesn't go well, then she should get out of the race.

Many Barack Obama supporters tout his ability to beat Republican John McCain. Looking at Rasmussen’s comparative polls, however, it looks like Obama’s losing ground.

McCain, however, continues to beat Hillary Clinton, who the Republicans hate more than they hate gay marriage, abortion and Iran. That’s a lot.

If Mrs. Bill Clinton wanted to stay in the raise to debate issues, it could be constructive. But her campaign is dishonest, mean-spirited, and self-centered. She and her attack machine, in their everyone but us is the enemy mode, are trying to do real damage to Obama. She is sowing seeds of distrust and resentment among Democrats that will not heal easily.

Hillary has tried her best, with multiple personas, to win the nomination. The majority of Americans are saying "no thanks." It's not because of evil men, gender bias, media bias, or Bill. It's because voters have looked and listened and don't want Hillary to lead the nation and the world.

If she loves her country and has an ounce of class, or even if she weighs her future in public life, she will bow out soon and graciously.

I suggest it might be best for Obama if Hillary stays in the running and keeps slinging mud.

People might want to take a gander at "progressive" sites like MyDD where mudballs against Obama fill the air. Some posters vow they will vote for McCain if Obama is nominated.

Fancy that. Clintonistas will choose the man who would offer another hundred-year war and bends his knee to kiss the rings of the religious fanatics if a reluctant liberal waging a populist campaign wins.

Some of the underground sewage - Obama as a Manchurian candidate or alternatively as an anarchist Weatherman complete with bombs - has more time to be disinfected being bathed in sunlight rather than growing in the dark and dankness that is the wingers' retreat.

Hillary's mud volcanoes have long been reduced to spitballs. She will be gone soon enough.

What a wonderful year this promises to be.

Let the circus continue.

Best, Terry

Maybe she should've rejected *AND* denounced the accusations? ;-)

The longer the race goes on, the more mud will be flung, and that doesn't bode well for the general. For that reason, if Hillary doesn't have significant wins in both TX and OH, she should drop out.

It seems her team is lowering the bar so she can continue, and that is detrimental to the party.

Come on, Hillary, care more about November than you do about the Clinton legacy!

The most common blindside I have witnessed amongst my fellow Democrats is this assumption that "All we need to do is win 1 more state!" The assumption is Obama will automatically win all of the states that Kerry won, so he just needs to pick off Kansas or Ohio, etc.

Of course, this assumes that John McCain won't pick off any "blue" states. Check out that Rasmussen poll in the upper-right corner of this page. What would McCain winning New Jersey in the fall do to the Democratic calculus? George W. Bush came within a few thousand votes of winning Wisconsin in both 2000 and 2004, so isn't it reasonable to think McCain would have a shot there too?

I get worried when I read Obamamaniacs talking themselves into the notion that he has such strong crossover appeal that he can/will win Georgia in November.

So, to paraphrase a late President, enjoy it while you can, folks.....pretty soon, you won't have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore. :-)

Oh, and on that note....the GOP created the market on "Blaming Clinton". Pretty much everything bad that has happened in Dubya's years as president gets blamed on Bill Clinton. If Obama loses to John McCain, it'll be because John McCain beat him, not because Hillary Clinton "weakened" him in the primaries.

Obama supporters who talk like that now are only bracing themselves for a loss in November, which is not exactly the way to mentally prepare for victory. This is the biggest prize in all of competition, people. This is the Super Bowl times a thousand. If Obama can't take shots from here until Election Day, he deserves to lose.

HRC should withdraw from the race when Obama has won the number of delegates necessary to attain the nomination on a first vote at the convention.
Until he has won the race by the rules then it seems churlish to ask his opponent to drop out. Until he has won the race by the rules it is stupidity to suggest that the will of the Pennsylvania voters, as just one example, doesn't matter.
Why do Obama fans have such a problem with democracy?
If Obama fans want the race over before the convention then all they need do is convince the super delegates to pledge to their guy.
So get busy Obabots!
And meanwhile stop trying to short circuit our democracy! I should have thought that we all agree there has been much too much of that under Bush.

CNN broadcast a Hillary speech yesterday, where she was trying to be inspirational/charismatic and whip the crowd into a frenzy. It was comic,but her message was not. "What we need in the White House is a FIGHTER," she yelled.

Sorry, Hillary. No we don't The nation wants the Bush-Clinton era of attack and destroy politics to end. We need a LEADER in the White House who can unite the nation again.

It is clear that Hillary cannot do this. She and her supporters are addicted to partisan warfare. The Clintons get attacked because they attack.

If Karl Rove isn't getting paid as an adivisor to Hillary's campaign, he should sue for plagairism, copyright infringement, or patent violation.

Enough of the Bushes and the Clintons. They are the same except of the detail of party registration. Bow out Hillary, and let the nation move into the future.

BREAKING: Obama Leads in Final Zogby Poll in OH
On C-SPAN just now.

Leads in OH by just over a point, but rounded to 47/45.

Obama leads in TX by 3.

Actually, there are two candidates, one "president" and one former president attacking Sen. Obama. I continue to be impressed with how he handles himself.

I am glad that the primary has lasted this long, because people have longed to feel like they have a say in the primary beyond Iowa and New Hampshire. Seeing record-breaking turnout in the primaries is so heartening, since I'm both a "small-d" democrat and a Democrat.

But at this point, it needs to end. It would be one thing if she could win more delegates, but there aren't many states left to contest. And when Clinton gets out there and "echoes" attacks from John McCain--that's just unacceptable.

I'd love to see Sen. Clinton as Senate Majority Leader, actually committed to helping a President Obama get legislation passed. Perhaps she could also help whip the Democratic leadership in the House into shape. Given this morning's news re the FISA/telecom immunity issue, it seems they could use a spine transplant.

Twelve points in Ohio seems like a bit of an outlier. But even if it's accurate, I'll take that trade -- Clinton wins Ohio, Obama takes Texas. He'll wind up with significantly more delegates, particularly after the caucuses there.

I'm an Obama supporter, but I had no special dislike for Clinton when this campaign started. That has changed now, and it's because of the way she has campaigned. Both candidates have criticized their opponents' positions, which is legitimate. But she's the one who consistently has PERSONALLY attacked him. She's the one whoi has said he is not fit to be commander in chief; he's never said anything similar about her. She's the one who has offered the nudge-nudge-wink-wink innunendos. She's the one who has always found an excuse for losing: caucuses are unfair, there are too many black people in the state, he's spending too much money, I'm picked on because I'm a woman, and on and on.

And let's be honest. If the situation were reversed, if Obama hadn't won an election in a month, if he had never ever held a delegate lead during the whole campaign, everyone -- the Democratic Party, the media, everyone -- would be saying the race is over and pushing Obama to step aside to The Inevitable Nominee. She gets a huge benefit of the doubt because her name is Clinton.

I am a strong Obama supporter and, yes, want to see him win the presidency, the focused goal of all this campaigning hoopla in the primary and upcoming general election.

But, there is something going on with Obama's candidancy that has equal or greater weight in my mind. How to describe it? For many years there has been an undercurrent not usually directly focused upon beyond rhetoric...... which situation is relevant and important to me beyond the focused goal of winning the presidency. That unfocused undercurrent is the actuality of decades of 'the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer' or 'the powerful maintain power, and the powerless eke by and never win', which the political games always have sustained. The politics of divisiveness, and divisiveness' unquestioned memes and slogans, divisiveness benefits the status quo of the established power centers of both major parties.
Obama is breaking patterns. He is gathering and consolidating the power of the masses to countervail against the entrenched powers, and the establishment's game. He is doing that by being an educator and an effective hope mongerer. He is fueling that movement by being publically financed by the masses, too, which is absolutely a gamechanger.
What he says is very simple: let's bring sunshine into the back room dealing in Washington. Let's work together. Let's change the game, for all our sakes.
Obama is lifting awareness of ordinary citizens and giving them a mechanism through which to practice their new level of awareness and savvy.
It is Obama's ability to be such an educator and organizer of the masses which is the achievement. Obama is offering such a gift, a new way of politics and an awakeness which will endure, whether or not he 'wins' office.
So, from my perspective, when I hear the question about what is best for the party, or what an extended primary might mean, or whether Hillary should drop out, or whether the Republicans will use democratic in-fighting as an advantage, I sort of shrug and consider all those questions less important than the fact that his continuing to be on the stage is, in fact, a continuing upgrade of citizens awareness.

Anyone else notice that Obama uses whatever comes at him as teachable moments? I feel very heartened to notice that Americans are, slowly but surely, again learning how to take stewardship of a process called democracy.

I believe that the best move the party elders can make at this point is not to ask Clinton to drop out of the race, but rather to make it clear that the party and its superdelegates will support whichever candidate comes to the convention with the most elected delegates.

Clinton can do the math and stay in the race as long as she believes she has a chance to win a majority of these elected delegates. It's not right to ask her to drop out before that point.

She shouldn't, however, continue hoping to win through an insider move at the convention that would surely split the party terribly.

I think the situation would resolve itself very quickly if this were made clear.