And let's not forget - Daley was Bill Clinton's Commerce secretary.

Still, I'm seriously doubtful that HRC will drop out. Maybe I'm nuts, but's she's too far down the road. I DO hope I'm wrong.

They ARE smart people, but they are also power hungry, and which do you really think is going to win? She won't drop out until she has no other choice..

Besides, Bill got lots of money from people expecting favors...they don't want to deal with angry "donors" wanting their cash back.

THE PUNDITS
There is a loud and growing chorus of voices asking Hillary Clinton to withdraw from the race
THE REALITY
Precisely the same number of voters (22%) think Barack Obama should drop out of the race as Hillary Clinton

THE PUNDITS
Hillary Clinton is the candidate running a negative, divisive campaign; she is throwing the "kitchen sink" at Barack Obama
THE REALITY
Barack Obama has been throwing the sink, the stove, the plates and the garbage can at Hillary Clinton, attacking her integrity and character every day

THE PUNDITS
For Hillary to win the nomination, super delegates will have to "overturn the will of the people"
THE REALITY
The will of the people is split and both candidates need - and are making their case to - super delegates

THE PUNDITS
Hillary Clinton is threatening to poach pledged delegates from Barack Obama
THE REALITY
Barack Obama is reportedly already trying to poach pledged delegates from Hillary Clinton

THE PUNDITS
Florida and Michigan's voters won't be heard and their delegates won't be seated all because of complicated procedural roadblocks
THE REALITY
Barack Obama is intentionally disenfranchising voters in two critical states for purely political reasons, namely, that he'll lose his small advantage if they count

THE PUNDITS
Every single word or action from Hillary Clinton, her campaign, her surrogates and her supporters is part of a calculated and cynical political strategy
THE REALITY
Hillary Clinton is a loyal Democrat, a lifelong public servant, a tireless and tenacious candidate, and is fighting hard - and fair - to win with the help of millions of dedicated supporters

So Obama says that his supporters should stop calling on Hillary to drop out because Clinton is smart enough to see that for herself. And he adds that the game is over. But somehow this is not the same as Obama saying that Hillary should drop out? Let's get real.

the chant for hillary to drop out is a call to arms for hillary's supporters... we've been down this road before. i think it's a bad strategy for obama's campaign.

This is excellent strategy by the Obama campaign. All indications are that she's got money troubles. If they can bankrupt her over the next couple of races, the superdelegate talk and all the rest of it will be moot. No matter what happens, she's already out of it. She's just too bullheaded and arrogant to deal with reality.

I agree. The Obama campaign should not be seen as urging Clinton to drop out of the race. It would be much better if Obama won the primary race; then there would be no questions.

But from what I am seeing, Obama is the more substantive candidate. We see this by his forthright approach to dealing with the Wright controversy, and also by his lucid speech on Economics at Cooper Union the other day. Clearly Obama understands the complicated dynamics of our economic system.

Hillary Clinton does not understand the economic issues. Her call for a committee headed by Alan Greenspan and Robert Rubin shows she has no clue about what is going on with our economy. These two characters are part of the problem: Greenspan is responsible for two bubbles; and rather than let the stock market sink and the economy go into a needed recession in 2001, he floated it out on easy credit and lax regulations.

The country is now in its worst economic crisis since the Depression, and it is in part due to the pro-growth, easy money, lax regulations of the period 1995-2007. Part of the problem was the untimely repeal of the Glass-Steagall act, and Rubin and Bill Clinton were instrumental in this action.

The country needs to move forward to the twenty first century, not repeat the mistakes of Bill Clinton and George Bush. Obama's speech makes that clear. It is his vision and his ability to articulate what we must do that will win him the primary and the general election.

John McCain and Hillary Clinton want badly to be the next President, but neither of them have the substance to lead the country forward. As the primary season goes on, this will become ever more clearer. The Obama campaign only needs to tend to its knitting, and let the voters make a clear and careful decision.

is that from delegatehub.com or something?

Senator Obama knew that he was participating in an Election Campaign.

Senator Clinton assumed that she was attending her Coronation Ceremony.

Hubris tied Hillary's shoe laces together.

Daley is correct. It is not the place of one candidate to call for the other to drop out. Nothing to see here, move on now.

Re: "Barack Obama is intentionally disenfranchising voters in two critical states for purely political reasons, namely, that he'll lose his small advantage if they count."

Not true. It was the Democratic party officials in those States who disenfranchised the voters, by leap frogging their elections.

The rules, denying seats at the convention, were put in place in 2004, by Terry McAuliffe, good buddy of Hill and Bill. Delicious irony, that.

Ward Connerly, who has been very successful in pushing anti-affirmative action initiatives into law in various states is now attempting to get initiatives onto the November ballots in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma. The ballot measures would prohibit public institutions from considering race, sex or ethnicity in areas such as hiring and college admissions. Obama opposed Connerly's Proposition 209 in California which amended the state Constitution in 1996 to prohibit affirmative action in the public sphere. The proposition passed.

Affirmative action is going to be an issue in November. The public has a right to know where Obama stands on affirmative action. So far he has steered clear of committing, though last year he tried to equivocate by suggesting that affirmative action should address economic status more than race. This could easily be seen as a way of trying to preserve affirmative action for blacks without openly mentioning race. But his opinion on racial quotas and affirmative action based on race will be an issue. And don't expect the GOP to let him get by without taking a stand.

THE REALITY
Barack Obama has been throwing the sink, the stove, the plates and the garbage can at Hillary Clinton, attacking her integrity and character every day

If you have some verifiable facts to back this up, let's see them.

As I recall, gotalife has spent days telling us Obama was doing nothing, on the beach in the Caribbean - ie "lazy" (pssssst: you know, "lazy")

So which is it? He's been busy throwing the crockery at Hillary, in which event you will show me some specific instances of that, or he's been doing nothing on the beach.

The rules, denying seats at the convention, were put in place in 2004, by Terry McAuliffe, good buddy of Hill and Bill. Delicious irony, that.

Quite true and both Clinton and Obama agreed to the rules going in - they agreed on this situation.

She wants to treat it like a mulligan - but in fact, it's more like pleading out in a criminal case. You plead guilty, you can't come back on appeal and claim you weren't.

This is just an analogy, not any kind of indictment, Clinton supporters.

The shameless hypocrisy of the Obama campaign. Barack Obama, I was for Mail In Voting Before I Was Against It, and his campaign screamed that mail in voting is unacceptable.
The SAME Barack Obama who is co-sponsor of the Senate version of this bill, "The Universal Right To Vote By Mail Act", which declares that NOT ALLOWING mail in voting in every state (28 do through absentee balloting) disenfranchises voters, now opposes a mail in revote. I have heard of chutzpah, but this one takes the cake.

Bwack,Bwack,Bwack, chicken Bwack Obama and his Uamerican campaign rolls on trying to dienfranchise as many Americans as possible.
I am sure Bwack's great spiritual Mentor and
Racist American hating Rev Wright is very proud of his protege.

I don't mind Hillary Clinton remaining in the race, what I mind is she trying to destroy Barack with lies and innuendos, in her quest to do so.

I agree with a blogger, who said he believes she can suspend her race, and should damaging information come out about Barack, as she's expecting or manufacturing as we speak, then she can come back and "save" us from ourselves.

Calls for Clinton to drop out are counter-productive; it's not just about Hillary, but about her supporters - especially women who see these repeated calls as a demand she throw the game and let the guy have it. If the roles were reversed, no one would dare lean on Obama to drop out the way they've been leaning on Clinton since almost Iowa.

Well, for what little my own two cents are worth, I think that Obama is right to say that we should not join the pile-on to get Clinton to withdraw. We will need her supporters in November, so there is nothing to be gained in antagonizing them now.

The most hilarious post EVER. But probably not in the way you meant it.

campaign finances in the red

disapproval climbing and climbing

no way to win without destroying the apparent winner

I'm calling for her to drop out.

Calls for Hillary to drop out are not productive (at least for us), for all the reasons repeated ad nauseum. For guys like Leahy and Dodd, well at least they contribute to the drumbeat since the media has to at least mention it as news.

The only thing that will bring this thing to an end sooner than later will be a flood of supers to Obama. That's where we come in. Instead of waisting time on flame wars with unhinged Hillbots, our time would be better spent writing to supers and urging them to grow some stones and endorse, already. Here's a decent list of supers categorized by committed and uncommtted to get you started. (it's at politico, in case the link doesn't work).
http://www.politico.com/superdelegates/

Forgive me for being obvious, but you have to click on the "plus" sign to drop down each state's delegates.

PS: You may wish to do a little research to find out who's leaning which way, lest you waist your time.

PPS: On the other hand, I never would have believed that Casey would go public for Obama, so take the PS with a grain of salt.

A SUPER A DAY. . . !

I don't see HRC dropping out for 2 reasons:

1. She has envisioned herself as President for too long; and

2. She is a 5x Scorpio (5 planets in Scorpio), for God's sake! That's a snake with 5 heads & 5 stingers - which explains so many dark character flaws, and the fact that she'll fight to the death - of all.

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