meanwhile, back in rural NC...

I - or rather my trusty answering machine - just got a 6:30 pm robo call from NC for Hillary, inviting me to join Bill tomorrow for a Solutions for America day at St Andrews College in Laurinburg, which is thirty miles from me. Trying to drum up a few hundred registered Dems, I suppose...

Research 2000
400 Likely Voters -- MoE 5%
3/31-4/2

49% -- Hillary Clinton
46% -- Barack Obama
5% -- Undecided

SurveyUSA
530 Likely Voters -- MoE 4.3%
3/29-3/31

52% -- Hillary Clinton
43% -- Barack Obama
5% -- Other/Undecided

Indiana knows Clinton does not do drugs, does not lie about everything including smoking, has better policies, more experience and strong on national security.

Why do you support Obama again? I mean, he is outspending her 5 to 1 and still loses the big States. He lies about everything and can't unite the dem party let alone the country.

Do tell.

Is Richardson stumping hard in Hispanic communities in PA?

O yes, ObamaX HUSSEIN smokes. I suppose that will be the next Big Thing.

wake me up when she drops out.

I guess the TPM is going to give this Obama supporter a free ride here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/03/air-america-host-randi-rh_n_94863.html

Geez.

The little girl's your daughter, right?

I wonder who is paying Sinclair and how much.

Obama will win the primary and the general election. (That was a period at the end.)

I support Obama because I believe we're at a truly desperate time in our country's history. I think the country became, among so many other things, crueler under George W. Bush, and I think Obama is actually the exact right person for this moment in time. We need someone with the potential to elevate the political discourse, who speaks to the best in us, who has the tremendous cojones to get in front of a jillion flags and speak to the American people like adults about race, the great political taboo. I believe he has a real vision for America, of taking better care of its people, of using its position in the world for good. I believe under him we can get people insured, fix some of the terrible problems of the poor, pursue more compassionate policies. I also think he asks people to be accountable to themselves, to their families, to their fellow citizens in a very interesting way that we haven't seen in decades. He thinks differently than most politicians (which does get him in trouble sometimes). I believe he has the potential to be a truly great president. At least I'm willing to roll the dice.

Why do you support Hillary? And I mean that seriously, no Obama bashing. I was puzzled when I saw your comments in another thread about the ACLU and voting against incumbents about your understandable anger toward the spineless Dems as it juxtaposed with your passion for Hillary. I'm curious why she is exempt from that, what you've seen her do that makes you feel so very strongly about her candidacy.

Re: why I support Obama.

Among other things, he has the best foreign policy ideas of any serious politician I can think of.

http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_obama_doctrine

I started out this campaign season dating Edwards. I'd flirted with Obama for awhile, and then decided to let Edwards put his class ring around my neck.

Then he dropped out - and I think was for the best in this race. So I looked again at Obama. I saw a man who motivates people in ways I haven't seen someone do in a long time - that is leadership. I saw a man with the most amazing amount of cool - the grace under pressure he has exhibited totally convinced me that that's who I want in charge. His positions are progressive - I don't think all of them are necessarily better than all of hers, but I also am realistic and I know very well no one's plans for anything will get through Congress unscathed.

I see a man that the rest of the world can look at and think: maybe they aren't so bad after all over there. We've lost so much ground. We once had at least enough credibility with the rest of the world that despite lots of crappy things we've done, they respected us and looked to us as a moral authority in some instances. I want that to be the way it is again.

I see a man who consistently speaks to what is best in us. For 10 years at least, and certainly the last 7, the Repugs have pitched their case to us by always appealing to what is worst in us and I'm sick of it. I'm sick of hate. I'm sick of the ugliness and I think it will finally start to die out.

Oh man.. That is one painfully vapid ad, ham-handedly aimed at the "daytime drama" set. Where did they get the narrator?

It looks like the Obama campaign is still working out the kinks in its Spanish-language outreach. At least he's making progress.

I support Obama because I'm looking forward to living in the United States of SHAFT!!!!

Seriously, that's only part of it. One thing I like the most is something hardly anyone ever mentions - he was a community organizer. He was out working with people at the ground level to try to fix problems both big and little. And it was not so long ago that he doesn't remember those people and the kind of barriers they face in life. He is incredibly nimble-minded; I haven't seen him flustered or caught out without a reasonable response to anything. He's has an authoritative presence, if you will, which I cannot really define for you but recognize as important in successful leaders. I also like the fact that he's only a couple years older than me, which means we won't spend the next four or eight years fighting over stuff that happened in the 60s. He was a little kid then, like I was. We're sick of watching everyone older than us fight over what happened in the 60s for the past 40 years now. Time to move on. In fact, I predict this election will break along generational lines more than racial or gender ones.

gotalife: Get a another life. If you are so against Obama, why not use your time and energy promoting Clinton or McCain's candidacies on the basis of her or his merits, rather than challenging the well-informed Obama supporters on this site who know exactly why they support him?

Or, spend your time reading the many past blog posts on TPM that detail the reasons Obama has the support of some TPM readers. And while you're at it, read the newspaper editorials, superdelegate statements, and Obama's own website which regularly features why individual voters support him.

Your antagonism is getting you nowhere here.

Or do you already know this, and just feel like lashing out?

Clinton is on Leno tonight.

She said she almost did not make it.

She was pinned down by sniper fire.

Your description was the Clinton Presidency,

Dude, Bill isn't running.

and I didn't really know Bill then like I do now. I loved him. I don't love him anymore.

Sorry.

She never was Bill, anyway. She never will be.

So the aspects of the candidate which you are so obsessed about are past drug use and perceived current cigarette use, and yet you call yourself GotaLife?

I like the irony.

I'm sure Focus on the Family has a few message boards where you would feel more at home.

Seriously, you go around calling people pothead (what is this middle school?) while you hang around message boards attempting to be provocative, and call yourself GotaLife? Keep it up, these are not usually so entertaining.

Meanwhile we will be talking about real issues