Whatever. Clinton is going to win the general against McCain. Deal with it, trolls.

**Just thought I'd get this out of the way for gotalife and his three sock-puppets.**

One would expect the Obama speech to pretty much calm the waters as far as the Democratic side is concerned. First of all, many of those Democrats are Obama supporters, and would remain so regardless of Mr. Obama's speech, or whatever comes out about Pastor Wright. And as far as the remaining Democrats which includes Hillary supporters and the undecided, they are all part of an American culture in which white people do not have permission to speak up against black people in racial terms. Typically if a white person raises any kind of criticism against a black person in our society, that white person faces the very real possibility of being labeled a racist. That is very unfortunate, as it has completely stifled inter-racial dialog in this country.

However, do not expect Republicans to be constrained in the same way. It is to their advantage in this election to bring up the race issue. Obama has in effect given everyone permission to do so through his speech, though many have been reluctant to do so thus far. That will not continue if Obama is the nominee. With affirmative action issues going on the ballots in a number of States this fall, that issue alone will ensure Obama's views on race remain front and center.

And as to just how well Obama settled the Wright issue with his speech, I suspect that issue is more of a sleeping giant, and the nomination is a ticking alarm clock.

Ickes is just worried about what the Republicans will do.

Like Shaheen was worried about the Republicans, too, back in December.

They're just concerned, that's all. Don't know why Durbin is being so touchy.

We should thank the Clintons for their concern. They're just thinking of what's best for ....

OT, but since it seems TPM is determined not to announce this any time soon, I'm doing my best to spread this excellent news for Hillary:

The AP is reporting that Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal, a Dem superdelegate, is endorsing Obama.

On my orders:
Icky-poo is spreading Wright's doo-doo.

I will do anything to win.
I am a fighter and the American people owe me a living.

Bill and I did soooo much for you from 1992-2000.
Your lives are soooo much better because of us. You owe us.

And no...
We are not returning the White House furniture we stole in 2000.

Sure, ignore Obama praising God damn America and tossing Grandma under the bus but most folks see this as a sure loser.

But not here.

Guess what folks, the gop will never ignore this obvious negative.

I guess you forgot how the gop plays this game. They have no shame, will lie, cheat and steal votes. All KO's special comments will stop them.

They don't listen to anybody and will do anything to win. They are not going to hand over all their power to a lying, radical, liberal without a war.

Sure ignore this reality to lose three in a row.

I don't think Ickes is emphasizing anything about race (yes we realize Obama is African-American), that isn't relevant, the good Rev. is the problem it's his "words that matter".

Hillary needs to focus on McCain now. Obama, the limpwristed one will be dropping out soon. He might have lived thru the Wright controversy until the general, but now that he bowled a 37 he really should quit immediatly, don't you think?
I mean my 5 year old nephew gets in the 80's on a bad string, and regularly gets in the 100's.
You cannot be that wimpy and expect to be Commander in Chief.

I've yet to see an Obama supporter make a coherent argument for why the Clinton campaign shouldn't discuss Wright with the supers. The Obama campaign has been demonizing Hillary for months now, and talking about how unelectable she is. Wright is an issue for Obama, and pointing out that it might hurt him in the general is just politics. As much as the Obama folks may want to deny it, the Wright thing is about a lot more than race. But I know it gives you all great comfort to pretend that the only problem is Hillary's racism, despite the fact that the whole issue blew up without any help from the Clinton camp. Do you really think this thing would be all over if only Ickes would stop talking about it?

"but most folks see this as a sure loser."

Gotalife is now the voice of "most folks?"

As of late, I've been advising the very exclusive Dem Party 2008 Presidential Blog that we all need to stop trashing the "other side" in the Clinto/Obama contest, and it seems as if most of them know now how damaging the vitriole can be to the whole party, and they have all assuaged their partisan dialogue for the sake of the party.

And we had more tha one delusional poster who constantly referred to "most people" as if they were somehow representatives of them.

Gotalife, it is fine to post your own opinion, but you should stop representing yourself as anything other than a partisan, we all know how we feel, and we all know how many others feel, but NONE of us knows how "most folks" feel.

I realize that every time you use the term, you are actually projecting your own hopes, but you need to pose it differently, or the intelligent people reading this blog will just stop giving yu any sort ofcredibility, and from the looks of many other posts, it is way too late for that.