Obama's a nice man.

Classy... Unlike you know who

He plans on uniting the party in the fall unlike Mrs. Clinton.

I agree, Obama shows lots of class while Hillary manages to mock him in her victory speech--not the first time she has done it, either. Very unbecoming.

there was a 99 item LIAR!!!LIAR!!! list trolled here earlier.
I would put this as item 100.

Unlike you know who....hmmm...I could think of several people that fit that, including on this blog (present commentor not included). Well, being the Christain woman that I am I can't say.

***put the dog in the basket, Henry***

Notice that it was phrased in the past tense. I'm just saying...

B A R A C K O B A M A

damn that PA poll is now locked at 10%, its looking like Ohio

Christ, the Clinton campaign has goalposts mounted on flatbed trucks, so often do they need moving.

She can try to spin the "I only lost half my lead in PA which proves that only I can beat McCain" BS to the supers, but you gotta think at this point that no one who hasn't previously had a strong inclination to support her is gonna be switching over...and some of those who did have lost it.

He is raising his rhetoric again in a very compelling way. This is where he is at his best; get it out of the muck and into the higher vision of what our country can be. It is the sort of speech that winning candidates give.

BTW: Phili suburb Chester County is coming in now 55 to 45 for Obama -- only 10% reporting. If he hold that rate he'll cut back into this margin of victory. 8 is fine but 7 or 6 would be better...

Can someone please explain the Abercrombie and Fitch advertisement behind Obama? Is this ad space for MSNBC? What is happening here?

Petty comment warning....

Some advance person needs to be shown the exit for putting three AF frat boys behind him. This is either the worst placement ever OR the greatest Hillary stunt to date. You make the call.

What a boring long winded campaign speech. Is this what we have to look forward to? He is still going and he keeps repeating himself. There is no inspiration here. He is listening to himself talk. His new imitation of MLK's inflections is not helping him. The only thing that has stood out is his remark that he is an imperfect man who will make an imperfect president. Amen.

Russert just said that the NC Republican party will air an ad in NC tomorrow about BO that is racial in tone, i thought Russert was going to cry. Well its coming down to the end now, so its going to get more dicy.

The Beast needs to be beaten to death until she's just a bloody sack of organs, apparently.

Sore lose much?

Losing to a Democrat in Ohio, Pa, Ca, Tx primary only - does NOT mean he would lose during General election -- this is ridiculous. The same goes for Hillary losing in Illinois, MO, Virginia, etc....just because she lost to Obama, doesn't mean she would lose against McCain in those States.

This logic is Illogical!

Good lord, Chris Matthews is a blow-hard. Even Olberman is getting annoyed with him and you can tell by the look on his face that he thinks Matthews is an idiot.

'Obama is still in this race' - Chris Matthews
D'ya think? He is only still significantly ahead in all metrics that count...and is um, winning.

What's wrong with having three A&F frat boys in back of him? Maybe it'll show other white "dudes" -- and the girls who love 'em -- that he's the cool candidate. No harm in that.

But seriously, he doesn't know when to wind up a speech, he's still lousy in these "debates," and he's got to start winning somewhere again. Hope he does, and soon.

wait, the Times, says it best:

The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it.

Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election.

The winner of the stupid award for this evening, edging out the crowd favorite Matthews, is Pat Buchanan, who is breathlesly predicting the demise of Obama as a result of this crushing defeat.

Let us refer to this fine comment (not mine) that predicted all of this:
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/04/polls_show_possible_movement_t.php#comment-2738843

There is a lot of Obama vote still out there. If the remaining 7% of the vote comes in at 50-50 he'll be at an 8% deficit -- right in the middle of the "what in the heck does this mean?" zone.

This race is not a game-changer. She'll net something like 15 delegates and he'll win those back in two weeks in NC and Indiana.

I'm not sure who the bigger blow hard is; Matthews or Russert. You get the sense that they either are hedging their bets to get back in the good graces of the Clintons for fear of being iced out or they are just wanting to extend this campaign as long as possible for ratings purposes.

I don't think Obama needs Indiana to win the nomination but it'd help a lot. And, I think he will win that state. He has enough good will from being next door AND it doesn't have the historical Dem infrastructure that PA and OH had which gave Hillary the advantage in those states.

Hi-
Can someone at TPM look into the role and interests of the 3 men who stood out prominently behind Obama throughout his concession speech, each wearing an Abercrombie and Fitch shirt? I don't think this was purchased "product placement" but I do wonder if this was kind of a cute joke by the Secret Service on the candidate. I don't think they were serious Obama fans.

Because they were muscular, short-haired, and young, and at least one of them was continuously scanning the audience, I judged that they were likely Secret Service. They clapped and lifted signs on key applause lines but otherwise looked completely disconnected from the candidate, with a trace of a smirk on the face of the man situated to the right. Throughout Obama's speech, 2 of them appeared to be working surreptitiously on objects (cell phones?) held behind their Obama signs. When Obama tried to shake hands with them, two stood back and held up their phones to take pictures, which I think was a discrete method of avoiding getting into a potentially distracting social interaction with the candidate.

If these 3 men were Secret Service, who made the call to make them so prominent (they were a distraction), and to put them in archetypical "rich white boy" clothes? Was this a sign of the Service members' own covertly held sympathies?

Hey this means my State is the biggest state to go. /whoop Can Clinton win the big state of NC? (Hint: the answer is no)

I'm from overseas, so I keep it simple.
It doesn't matter what happened in Pennsylvania tonight, Hillary doesn't have a clear shot to the nomination. The only way is the dirty way and that will give McCain the presidency. It's true that Obama has problems with blue collar voters, but it doesn't mean that he can make inroads later. The way the campaign was held just damaged everybody, not just Obama. Hillary is damaged goods now. This race must end sooner than later.

Barack Obama: Now more than ever, choose change.

Hillary is broke, and that's a fact. She blew it all in Pennsylvania, the state with the second-most ancient population in America. Yet she didn't get the big win the Clintonistas were hoping for. There will be no waterfall of new money. She has next to no resources to campaign on in Indiana. N.C. is a wash for Obama. Oregon, too. Hillary has become Huckabee for these final few weeks.

I watched and realized I was hearing the same speech he was using 8 months ago. What an empty suit. He also had the hots for the guy that announced him's wife. Could stop talking about how hot she was. He sounded like a complete sexist jerk. Total lackluster speech in front of a listless crowd.

I watched and realized I was hearing the same speech he was using 8 months ago. What an empty suit. He also had the hots for the guy that announced him's wife. Could stop talking about how hot she was. He sounded like a complete sexist jerk. Total lackluster speech in front of a listless crowd.

Looks like single digit victory and net 11 delegates for Hillary. Big deal! No game changer here!

From Daily Kos:

Single digits Hotlist
by kos
Tue Apr 22, 2008 at 10:07:17 PM PDT

98.91% precincts reporting.
Vote% Dels

Clinton 54.3 52
Obama 45.7 46

That's an 8.6 percent margin, which we can round up to 9 percent. If it drops a few points lower, then it can be rounded down to 8 percent which was the consensus results.

Not that it really changes much, but the semantics are clearly important. It's less impressive to brag about her 8-point victory than "double-digit" lead. And, given her Ohio results, it proves that Clinton is losing ground to Obama among her core constituencies while he holds on to his own.

Update: On the delegate front, Clinton has picked up just 11 delegates so far, not that anyone is counting anymore. Rieux called it a night before district 7 was updated, but that's coming in 50-50. Noting yet from district 6, which will probably break even or, best case for Clinton, net her a single delegate. So the delegate haul was marginal for Clinton.

From "Head of State"
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/04/best-way-for-obama-to-go-negative-go.html

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The Best Way For Obama To Go Negative: Go Positive

The WP, via CNN, reports that there is now a discussion in the Obama camp as to whether he should go negative in Indiana.

Simply going negative would be a critical error, opening Obama to charges that he would be contradicting the very messages that have inspired his efforts and undergirded his campaign. This is a gap that the Clinton team would surely leap through. He would be further drawn into the swirling chaos that the old politics has created--as the Clinton camp would sure wish-- further enveloping and distracting voters from the fundamental messages of his campaign.

The best way for Obama to go negative is to go positive--clearly, strongly, and powerfully contrasting the method of "kitchen sink" politics, where any statement or position--even statements that are diametrically opposed; any claim, no matter how false; and any trivial distraction can be used simply in the effort to win at any cost, with the genuine effort to move the nation into a more substantive and honest politics--and into an Administration that will be grounded in these principles, rather than the very same methods and distortions that we can so easily see having been employed over the past seven years.

He should relentlessly tie the former method to the politics of the past--and to indicate the consequences for the nation that these politics have wrought--in the loss of national stature, Constitutional and moral authority, economic stability, and our most important treasure, the lives of our sons and daughters to a cause borne of such distortions.

I.e.:

"We have had enough of the negative campaigning of the past. We have seen what it has done to us over the past years--the "kitchen sink" politics of distortion and falsehood, of being willing to make any claim--no matter how true, false, inconsistent or contradictory--to put forward one's personal agenda, has threatened to take this great nation down the drain--financially, in terms of our standing in the world; in terms of our most important and basic treasure--the lives of our sons and daughters--the very future of this nation.

Do we want the same result? The same candidates, using the same old tactics, leading to the same outcomes of the all-too-recent past? Those who will do or say anything to be elected--and then will do or say anything afterward to justify their mistakes?

I say: We need a change from the politics of the past. We need someone who will say enough of the politics of the kitchen sink, of trivia and distortion. It's time to drain the sink. It's time for someone who , instead of fighting to divide the nation in pursuit of victory, will fight for you by saying: We will not play the same old games. That's the old politics. That's the politics that led us into Iraq, that left Osama Bin Ladin free, that led to violations of the Constitution that we solemnly pledge to uphold for this nation, and that has led us to be faced each day with the loss of promise that each new American life represents.

We can be seduced by politics of tactics, of fear. We've seen it before. And we've seen what happens after.

Will you join me in putting this era of old politics behind us, into a new future where you, your country, and the needs of your family and your future come first? Where we step beyond the tactics, distortion, and trivia of the moment, that too often have led to a long and difficult future for our nation, into to a time when the genuine needs of our nation and our country matter most?

Change is never easy. But when it is difficult, it is what we most often need. Will you join me in saying "No" to the kitchen sink politics of the past, to putting the era of old politics, of trivia and tactics, sniping and distortion, behind us? In saying "Yes" to a new and honest future, dedicated to the real needs of the American people, and not to the trivial battles that have divided and distracted this country for so long? To the real changes that this country has needed for the past 7 years, rather than to a continuation of the politics of the past? Will you join me? Can you join me? Let me hear it:

Yes we can (etc.)"

This should help to lead voters away from the churning pool of chaos and incitement, the distracting, impulsive song of the Clinton camp that, in its vague insinuations, pulls people to the seeming attraction and safety of the old--and will to help lead them towards an era where we can leave this ill-thought trivia behind for a considered, honest and principled statesmanship.

Cite:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/04/best-way-for-obama-to-go-negative-go.html

That's not the kind of stuff Obama has been saying about Hillary lately.

well, I finally watched the phil.i.am Obama video. But I didn't come in my pants. Nothin'. Nada. Zilch. Not even a stirring of an erection, not even a little squirt : (

Hillary netted 14 delegates from PA. 14!? And now she's ~$2 million in the red because. Good for her.

More nastiness and vitriole from the Obama team. The people of change. America is all wrong and only complete change will do. We had some other people who thought that too and they made a special effort to fly over here and pay us a visit back in September of 2001. They thought everything about America was wrong too and they had all the answers. What you are proposing is almost as radical. No thanks.

And "class" is the poorest excuse I have ever heard for voting for someone for president.
To paraphrase an old comedy routine I once heard , We won the Revolutionary War because we wore whatever we wanted to wear and we shot from wherever we wanted to shoot; from behind rocks, up in trees, from the roofs of buildings. And we used whatever we wanted; shotguns, rifles, rakes, axe handles. And the British wore red jackets and marched in a straight line. That’s where class will get you.

This is America folks. Land of the free, home of the brave. I am soooooo proud!

Listen All Obama Supporters;
HRC now claims that she knew nothing about her husband's pardon of The Weatherwoman Radical! This from the SAME woman who is claiming all those years as First Lady on her experience resume'.
Let's undress this prevarication! It is simply unbelievable that she did not know about this. Since she has coma after Obama with her damn kitchen sink again-let's all do diligent searches for the proof that will expose this if it is untrue.
We must stop her by Indiana-if Obama takes In & NC this thing is over!

There must be an Obama supporter on Schumer's staff!

Let's get to work!