It's telling that Hillary hasn't struck up an agreement like this with the DNC. Is she really about the Democratic Party in 2008?

I'm loving me some of this alright.

:)

Go back to Arkansas, Hillary. Take a nice rest with some Crown Royal, some valium, and send Bill to Tahiti. He'll be gone awhile.

Ahhhhhhhhhh.

I think I hear Bill Clinton's head exploding.

This even as the Obama Campaign is within spitting distance of its goal of 1.5 million donors by 5/6

1,443,014

Greg fails to mention that this comes hot on the heels of the threat by Clinton donors to withhold cash from the DNC

That and similar public threats against the DCCC and Pelosi were evidently part of the Clintons' scheme to scare/freeze SuperDelegates ie the real audience was local and state parties

Of course, now Clinton gets the same deal and the trolls can stop with the broke lie.

Freakin trolls.

the 1992 campaign was structured COMPLETELY differently than this one, and you know it.

this needs to start happening.

one image that keeps popping up in my mind is that this summer and fall, in communities all over america, is the contrast between a mccain rally and an obama rally. the sheer difference in excitement and energy between mccain's campaign and obama's could well be the overall narrative we see this fall, (that, and a whole lot of republican boogie-man shit storms that mean little).

imagine what the contrast would be between hillary and mccain? about the same level of passion, imo.

let's just wrap this up, huh? if hillary had ran a better campaign, she would deserve it.

he ran better, it's his, it's time for him to grab it, for the good of us all.

the 1992 campaign was structured COMPLETELY differently than this one, and you know it.

this needs to start happening.

one image that keeps popping up in my mind is that this summer and fall, in communities all over america, is the contrast between a mccain rally and an obama rally. the sheer difference in excitement and energy between mccain's campaign and obama's could well be the overall narrative we see this fall, (that, and a whole lot of republican boogie-man shit storms that mean little).

imagine what the contrast would be between hillary and mccain? about the same level of passion between those two., imo. sorry, but one is pasty and old and one is shrill. 'xcuse me while i change the channel.

let's just wrap this up, huh? if hillary had ran a better campaign, she would deserve it.

he ran better, it's his, it's time for him to grab it, for the good of us all.

Wright is the lead story today.

Pay attention trolls.

They say he is destroying Obama's career.

Of course, Obama is to blame thinking he can win with his past.

He should drop out.

Again relax everyone, we have a LONG way to go until Denver. Bill Clinton was in 3rd place at this time in 1992.

Link please? Brown may have been threatening to overtake his lead, but the idea that Clinton was ever at the bottom of the pile after Super Tuesday is revisionist.

This raises the issue of the opportunity cost in real cash of this prolonged primary, money that could be spent building 50 state support against the Republicans.

Just heard her major fundraiser has LEFT her campaign to JOIN Barak's !! WOW !

has anyone every wondered why, ya know, a mouthy preacher, (comments out of context), and knowing people involved in chicago politics, (not the cleanest of places), is the ABSOLUTE WORST DIRT anyone has dug up on obama?

has it occurred to anyone that he's a pretty clean guy?

and that hillary is less so?

and mccain even less?

everyone shitting on obama, remember something: how long have democrats wanted a ethical, inspirational, game-changing politician to run a top notch campaign for the presidency, and bring congress along for the win? a long time. (bill couldn't stop tripping his wang over his baggage to turn any tide, politically).

and any fair assessment of the situation must concede that hillary is not that "game changing" politician. obama may not be, either, but he's got a much better chance.

'ats all i'm sayin.

Welcome, Chile! Please join my state of VA in not mattering!

Right on. Just because Hillary is going to be delusional for the next few months doesn't mean that the rest of the Dems have to keep acting like they don't know the score.

Honestly, the Clintons have got to go.

These seems like the type of big news that will be largely ignored by the MSM.

THIS IS GREAT NEWS! FOR HILLARY!!

Jesus, I guess everyone is wondering whether it is to late to cancel the check to the DNC.

Kind of arrogant for messiah Obama to tell the voters of Indiana and North Carolina they VOTES DON'T COUNT!! But its in keeping with a messiah complex just like messiah Bush has. Two peas in a pod. If this is true I'll take McNastyMcSameMcCain over messiah Obama any day.

Brand new to national politics, Kanne?

I grew up in New Jersey with early June primaries.

My kids are growing up in Kentucky with late May primaries.

We get to vote. Our votes determine our delegates, and our delegates speak our thoughts at the convention.

But we rarely get to pretend that our first-choice candidates can win the nomination. That's because candidates usually leave the race once the numbers show them unable to win.

Senator Clinton chooses to stay in, but everyone who does the math knows she can't win the nomination. She will not get 292 of the last 409 pledged delegates. She will not get 200 of the last remaining 291 super-delegates. She will not be the nominee.

If you prefer dreaming about the one who's lost to working for the one who can win, that's your privilege.

Your fantasy, though, is bad for the country and the party. In less than two months, Senator Clinton will be asking you to cut it out. I hope you will consider the reasoned, patriotic, responsible reasons she offers you.

The $28,500 total is incorrect. $28,500 is the contribution limit for individuals to national party committees. With joint fundraising committees, the maximum amount that may be contributed is the total amount that may be contributed to all participants without exceeding any limits. In this case, that'd make it $28,500 DNC + $2,300 Obama.

Here, I'm assuming the joint fundraising committee would only be raising for Obama's general election, since the national parties (generally) remain neutral in primaries.

http://www.fec.gov/info/PartyGuide/AppendixB.htm

while Hillary is working her pantsuited tail off to defeat the Democratic candidate, the Democratic candidate is working his tail off to defeat the Republicans by registering voters and raising funds for the Party.

That about sums up the race since she Super Tuesday,

In fairness to Hillary her campaign has offered to set up a joint Debt-raising committee with the DNC.

If Clinton offers anything, make sure it's a cashiers check.

I found it very interesting that he brought up his past Sister Souljah'ing of a group on Daily Kos in 2005 (Tone, Truth, and the Democratic Party
by Barack Obama) as a bonafide that he doesn't always agree with "the left":

OBAMA: No, look, I think this is fair. I would point out, though, for example, that when I voted for a tort reform measure that was fiercely opposed by the trial lawyers, I got attacked pretty hard from the left. During the Roberts...

WALLACE: John Roberts, the Supreme Court.

OBAMA: ... the John Roberts nomination, although I voted against him, I strongly defended some of my colleagues who had voted for him on the Daily Kos and was fiercely attacked as somebody who is, you know, caving in to Republicans on these fights.

In fact, there are a lot of liberal commentators who think I'm too accommodating.

So here's my philosophy. I want to do what works for the American people. And both at the state legislative level and at the federal legislative level, I have always been able to work together with Republicans to find compromise and to find common ground.

That's how I was able to provide health care for people who needed it in Illinois. That's how I passed ethics reform both at the state and the federal level.

That's how, you know, I've worked with people like Dick Lugar from here in Indiana on critical issues like nuclear proliferation....

Are we going to see more of this in the general, the rejection of lefties in the liberal blogosphere as a selling point?

I'm sort of afraid to go over to Daily Kos and check for a reaction. :-)