Thank you Eric, big news!

And may the better man win.

Screw July!

They should decide by July 4th.

No reason not to by that point.

Translation: get out of the race, Hillary, you awful, awful human being.

Very good call by Mr. Dean.
She can't win. She can only destroy.
Time to drown her in the bathtub.

Dean is playing Burgess Meredith to Obama's "Baracky."

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

About time!

Great, now the Stealing of the Nomination for Obama with the help of Howard Dean. This will be the doom of the party!

It's about time. I'm sick of the leadership cowering down from the Clintons. There is no way the superdelegates can overturn an election that millions of people have participated in. They need to stand up and support the candidate once and for all. This election was over in February.

Louisville1975:

Great, now the Stealing of the Nomination for Obama with the help of Howard Dean. This will be the doom of the party!

After his North Carolina rout this idiot argument will no longer be saleable to a majority of democrats. A threshold will be passed after N.Carolina. She won't be able to argue anymore these two completely asinine points:

1) Everyone's voice should be heard.
2) All the pledged delegates should ignore their pledges and vote for me.

Her house of cards will collapse.
She is a dead in the water now of course...
But North Carolina... will deep six her for all to see.

What was up with HRC saying she would attack any nation that went after Israel? Isn't that a Bush/McCain tone? She is starting to scare me with the war mongering.

In the "picture's worth a 1000 words" arena:

http://www.pollster.com/08-US-Dem-Pres-Primary.php

So much for bittergate.

Dean should chill out. After abdicating his leadership to resolve FL and MI, he's at it again trying to disenfranchise voters in State yet to hold their primaries.
The debate last night was revealing. Some of the information about the candidates that came out were new to me or I only had sketchy picture. Voters need to have clear and complete information on the candidates they're making a choice on. This is after all for the Presidency of the USA.
Dean just ought to follow the democratic process in place for the part and not short circuit the process.

Never mind that Obama can't and won't win in the fall. Maybe the superdelegates will see this writing on the wall and instead tell Dean, fine, we support Clinton.

Weaver and gottalie (among others) say it's clear that Obama can't win in the fall if nominated.

If they really think it's that clear, then they should be glad for Dean to call for the supers to make their decisions now. Hillary is losing ground in PA, with the gap closing from 25% to 10% or less in the last several weeks. Hillary is losing ground in the national polls. She's still lagging him badly in fundraising. Her approval numbers are nearly as low as they've ever been since Bill left office. The corroborations are piling up for the "screw'em" quote (which somehow got overlooked when she was "already vetted") and how's that going to work out for her if the story starts getting traction in the last few days before the PA primaries?

Sure, Obama could stumble again. He could have his own "Tuzla", with embarrassing video. But after pinning so much hope on Wright and then again on "bitter," and watching it not turn out the way they so desperately hoped it would, why should they take that gamble?

If it's as obvious as Hillary supporters say that Obama simply cannot win the general, then the supers have an easy decision, and the sooner they make it the better it is for Hillary.

Then again, Weaver and gottalie (and the others) might simply be lying.

Ha ha! Whine on trolls!

That to me speaks of a vastly weak Candidate that can't even marshall a win in Democratic states.

And how would you describe a candidate who is doing even worse than this "vastly weak candidate" in pledged delegates, AND doing even worse than this "vastly weak candidate" in the popular vote, AND doing even worse than this "vastly weak candidate" in fundraising, AND doing even worse than this "vastly weak candidate" in the national polls?

Here's the real funny part - a good, substantive debate without all the "gotcha" crap would've helped CLINTON. She is admittedly very sharp - if not also pandering - in describing her policy positions, and a healthy debate would've helped the supers say, "Hey, a good hashing out of the issues helps our eventual nominee and the party in the end".

But when you have crap like last night transpire, what motivation is there for the supers to keep this race going? Nothing new was discussed, except for attack-dog nonsense that has no real traction. Please. They have to see that this is not productive for the country, or the party.

Pick Obama or Clinton. But do it now. How much more do they really need to see at this point? Or are they waiting to be promised something in return?

"Are they waiting to be promised something in return?"

I'd say a bunch of them are waiting to be reassured that it's fair for them to state their positions now. Chairman Dean's call can probably help with that. If a few other big names will either do as he asked or agree with him that it's time, that will add to the confidence.

I'd also guess that more than a few are waiting to be sure that the Clinton machine can't do them big harm, and that's what's been holding them back. It's time for those folks to take a very small risk for the sake of the party and the country and announce that they want Obama.

Thirty of them--just thirty of over 300 who haven't committed--could end Clinton's superdelegate lead. And that, if it happens quickly, will tell everyone the game is over.

Fuck yeah!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rq2_YKQGE_U

I'll tell you why Howard Dean is saying this: DNC fundraising is WAY down. He's figured out that until we have a nominee, there won't be any cash coming into the coffers. So here's what you do: go to democrats.org, click Contact, and tell Dean that the day we have a nominee, you'll make a donation, but not a dime until that day. And then, make good on your pledge. The day we have a nominee, we should all donate a few bucks. It will let them know that this whole superdelegate idea is unpopular and destructive to the party.

The Polls matter not at this point and we all know it.

Wait until Obama starts competing head to head with McAlzheimers I mean McCain.

I think we are going to have the most important role ever in a Presidential campaign. Assuming the Democrats are their usual lame selves it will be up to us to counter and attack the Swift Boaters.

I have an idea that I think we should get ready right now.

We know that they will use Hussein against Obama.
A TPM post recently highlighted: http://www.juancole.com/2008/02/barack-hussein-obama-omar-bradley.html
wherein several American heroes with Arabic and Semitic names were shown. This video is simple-it pans across the most notable, and right before Obama you show Benjamin Franklin, then Omar Bradley, then finally Obama. After that add runs a few thousand times it will negate Obama's middle name.

And we all know that in the end EVEN Obama’s name will help heal the world.

Imagine the response from the rest of the world when we elect an African American named Barack Hussein Obama.

Go Obama 2008!!!

Howard Dean is a tool!

Check out the article “Barack’s “Underground” Friends” http://savagepolitics.com/?p=291

http://www.savagepolitics.com
brilliant writing plus it offers a great community in which to discuss. The editor actually takes time to answer and the political humor section is awesome!!!

I guess this is a different set of Obama supporters than the ones who were bitterly complaining about the Superdelagates in February and early March.

Back then the mantra was "the super delagates should not overturn the popular vote".

Currently the popular vote breaks down 48.5/47.1% with a 1.4% lead for Obama (not including MI).

Many Obama supporters are hypocrities, which makes them just like any other political group. They are silent when the opponent gets beat up, but cry foul when their candidate gets some tough questions.

Back when it looked like the super delegates would go towards Clinton, the Obama supporters put out petitions and lamated "smoke filled room" politics.

But today they say "yes, decide now, let's get it over with!"

Sure they do, because now it doesn't look so rosy for Obama. Every couple of weeks brings some new controversy, people are learning more about him and asking questions. Based on his performance Wednesday night, it looks like he can't handle it.

To use a football analogy; the Obama folks are looking at the scoreboard of a game in which they have a slim lead, with the other team about to score and they want to call it done at the end of the 3rd quarter. "But our QB might get hurt in the 4th quarter and won't be able to play in the big game!"

This election will be over when the people say it is. Obama supporters try, but should not discount that only slightly more folks have voted for him than her.

There are ten more contests to go representing 566 pledged delegates. Obama leads by 164 in pledged delegates, a lead which will likely tighten by the end of the primaries.

There are 795 super delegates. 256 have publically come out for Clinton, 232 have publically come out for Obama. That leaves 307 so far to decide.

Assuming the race ended today, you'd have Obama with a lead of 164 pledged delegates, Clinton with a lead of 24 declared super delegates.

There are still 566 pledged delegates left to be decided, and 307 undeclared super delegates.

This race is wide open, and the calls to end it sooner rather than later are hypocrtical on the part of Obama supporters.

Sources for votes and delagates come from
Real Clear Politics

Go Obama!