Now that is great news.

Obama has too many negatives with more to come out.

Too many to win the general.

You know what would be awsome?

I wish Obama showed up there to respond in person. It's hard for these 100 mayors to do ad hominem attacks when the target is in front of you. It would focus the discussion like a laser beam on economic issues.

Peace

Why is it that when politicians, pundits or ordinary people say that "this country is not ready for a black president" people don't object at all, but when Obama says something about clinging to guns or religion, people are furious. Isn't it a lot worse to assume people wouldn't vote for someone based solely on the color of their skin? Every time I hear someone say this, the only rebuttal is that those people wouldn't vote democrat anyways, not that those statements are wrong to say.

Yes, I do love that some of these had already endorsed, big deal.

Tracy Flick rides again!

This always happens when a candidate refuses to pay up his street money.

Well, on the one hand there is a chorus of mayors. On the other, Mr. Rooney who owns the Steelers and is universally loved, as I understand it.

Hmmm: Mayors vs. Rooney. Mayors, Rooney, Mayors, Rooney -

Obama still has seven different levels til she makes it to his.

It's about time that Americans speak up to the sentiments that clearly make up Obama and define him as a person.

Promises and political situations can change, but what makes a person and who he is are durable and would ooze out as actions and behaviors of that person given the power to act on his sentiments.

A President being out of touch and acting out on those is dangerous for the working men and women who are suffering from the uncertainty of the economy.

After Wright, his lies on Nafta and his bios, his wife's expressed sentiments, etc., do we need to know more to open our eyes. Thank God we have other choices.

Hillary can not beat McCain.

She has alienated the African American voters. The young voters will not come out to vote for her. Independents will never vote for her. Regan Democrats will not vote for her.

She would get slaughtered in November.

I really can't wait for this debate. I'm guessing Hillary's going to show up indignant again and have another "Xerox"/"Maybe he needs another pillow" moment.

Hillary can not beat McCain.

She has alienated the African American voters. The young voters will not come out to vote for her. Independents will never vote for her. Regan Democrats will not vote for her.

She would get slaughtered in November.

Amen. Can I get a witness? Yes I can. Those 4000 people who turned up in one precinct in Dallas co. to vote and caucus for Obama will go right back to doing it the way they usually do - ignoring the election. And I'd do it too if I were them. You spend you whole life voting between two choices, neither of whom are going to do one damn thing for you - why keep voting?

I'm about at the end of my rope. I've been a political activist to one extent or another most of my adult life, for the Democrats. I'm hanging by a thread here -

And the sniper-ducking, shot-drinking, straight-talking, regular gal from a modest working class family... who knows how to "fight" for you and me and can relate to Joe and Jane Sixpack...she has absolutely no negatives at all, right?

If anyone in the party hierarchy is out there listening - I started calling people on behalf of a Democratic candidate when I was in high school and too young to vote. I called for Sissy Farenthold, who I am so proud to say just won the first annual Molly Ivins Award.

But if y'all keep messing with me I'm through. I'm cleaning out the house while you're at work and you're coming home to 4 walls and divorce petition.

Greg Sargent, as Marc Ambinder said it looks like a good number of these have already endorsed. It would be interesting to find out how many and how many mayors actually come. It seems that this is elaborate theater designed to make it look like small town mayors are infuriated and a tide is turning against Obama and he is therefore unelectable and WHO WHO WILL SAVE US? But probably effective, as the media loves them some street theater--it's so much easier than....research.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The billionaire founder of Black Entertainment Television says Barack Obama would not be a leading presidential candidate if he were white and that the Illinois senator’s campaign has “a hair-trigger on anything racial.”

The Charlotte Observer reported on its Web site Monday that Bob Johnson, one of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s top black supporters, was commenting on remarks previously made by Geraldine Ferraro, another Clinton supporter.

“What I believe Geraldine Ferraro meant is that if you take a freshman senator from Illinois called ‘Jerry Smith’ and he says I’m going to run for president, would he start off with 90 percent of the black vote?” Johnson said. “And the answer is, probably not.”

“Geraldine Ferraro said it right,” Johnson added. “The problem is, Geraldine Ferraro is white. This campaign has such a hair-trigger on anything racial it is almost impossible for anybody to say anything.”

How can Hillary's supporters still raise the debunked, half-time, unpaid, Obama staffer NAFTA story when Hillary has personally benefited from the windfall her husband collected for his NAFTA support?

Do the Hillary supporters also really think Penn was not selling Hillary's support for NAFTA to the Colombians?

Never mind outrage, do they even see the irony?

These mayors preside over these bombed-out shitholes in PA, where the folks are either hurting, struggling or dead.

TELL ME: what have these 100 mayors done, to alleviate that?

Oh that's right. The towns the mayors preside over are still shitholes. It rather behooves them, I should think, to stand up with Hillary, and declare, "Everything is beautiful..!"

Someone should point this out to the citizenry... like Obama, I'm thinking. I'll say again: Obama must NOT run away from this ambush. He should EMBRACE it, and move it to the next level.

And for Christ's sake, stop apologizing about his "choice of words"... that's the surest way to allow one's opponents to stifle you, when you're no longer free to speak for fear of being attacked.

Me these and tags. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit.

I didn't even post a legible bitch about my poor tags.

AAAAAAaaargh!

I didn't even post a good bitch about my poor tags!

good lord.

"Extemporaneous Bill is EXCELLENT NEWS!! for HILLARY!!!"

--idiotic, March 2008

100 out of 2,567 PA municipalities

THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS FOR HILLARY!!!!

(c)idiotic All Rights Reserved

I wasn't old enough to vote yet, in '72.

... should have added that I graduated high school a year younger than everyone else.

What would be great if Obama got private citizens to defend him.

yesterday Paul Begala was on the Ed Schultz and he said that people liked 'community organizer' Obama but they don't like 'the Harvard Law review' Obama.
ok. go ahead keep hitting my head with "bitter=bad=Obama" nonsense, see if I change my mind.

What is increasingly obvious to me is the state of mind in the Clinton camp, waiting with baited breath for that one thing that Obama will do that will bring down his campaign like the Hindenburg. The thought seems to be that he will utter one line or phrase an idea so poorly that the Clinton campaign can come out and say, "See? I told you so. He's wrong for America, an inexperienced and blinkered neophyte who had no business even running."
Meanwhile, back at Clinton headquarters, they continue to furiously turn knobs and pull levers to create the next, "See, Hillary really IS presidential material!" routine. (Can we get her on a tractor with a gun and a bottle of whiskey whilst petting a puppy? Surely that'll do it)
The two sides of Clinton's approach look shamelessly opportunistic, purely phenomenological in nature and do little to fill the void of articulating a strong case for the presidency.

I am a plain spoken old man. Here are some of my plain thoughts on why Hillary is bad for our party.

The Republicans are the ones who have shipped all those small town jobs overseas, with the help of Bill and Hillary.

The Republicans are the ones who have eradicated the American manufacturing base that provided jobs for those who were not capable of getting a college degree.
Here is some plain truth for you: College is not for everyone. We all know that, but yet we keep letting politicians get away with claiming that a college education, for all, is the solution to all our economic woes. That is complete bullshit. If some one is not smart enough to earn a degree then why the hell should we pretend that they are.

We can not afford to educate all of the best and the brightest now, so where is all the money supposed to come from to send all the rest to college.

Some people are born with the capacity to be great scientists or doctors or teachers. Many are not.

Many of them need to earn a decent middle class income using their hands. Manufacturing and textiles plants used to provide them with good jobs.

The Republicans and The Clintons have send all those jobs overseas.

While they were doing so, they conned the communities that were bitter about watching their jobs, pensions, health coverage, and standards of living being eradicated, with scare tactics about how Liberals are going to take away the only things that you have left.

The Republicans scared the hell out of people, who were all ready traumatized from having their economic security stolen, by brain washing with horse shit warnings that The Democrats were coming to take away their Religion and their Sporting and Hunting guns.

For good measure, the Republicans scared the vulnerable people into accepting that The Democrats were going to "give them gay" in the words of Homer Simpson.

We all know this is the truth. That is what Senator Obama was talking about.

The Republicans stole all the good blue collar jobs, and shipped them overseas to near slave labor nations, while all the while distracting those they were ripping off with an avalanche of God, Guns, and Gays, Fear Mongering.

Hillary knows that is what happened. If she had a single drop of moral courage and honest leadership in her body, she would have stood up and declared that Senator Obama is telling you the truth.

She did not do that. She is not capable of taking such a principled stand with a fellow Democrat. She is unworthy of our support, and she is unworthy to lead our party.

We can do better. We must.

THanks for the update, Greg.

81 mayors obviously took Gov. Rendell's cue and began to back slowly away from the crazy lady and her trainwreck of a campaign.

And have these 100 mayors actually endorsed? What's "roughly" 100?

BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

I guess taylor marsh and Jeralyn the hack will have to spin this one....maybe those two pomm wheei's will say Obmam supporters blocked the roads so they couldn't get there

BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

Liam is right. I mean the Republicans run on "abortion" but you really think the would actually ever do anything about abortion? No, they just run on it. It is sad to use people's faith into manipulating them to vote for you and that is what many of the Republicans have done, do. All these Evangelicals who got Bush elected, yet he didn't do anything he promised.

Obama is calling it out, he actually cares about people in PA. He knows that people got hood-winked, their jobs were stolen, their livelihoods and they were/are forgotten about. But they aren't alone. Katrina victims were forgotten about and the list goes on. As far as the BET guy goes, well duh, he is the CORPORATE MEDIA, it does not suit him to support Obama. I was in China and yes, people work 7 days a week straight for about $200. And they need those jobs, but you know what, Americans needed them too.

I was at the Democratic Party caucus this Sunday and the Clinton people were done in like 1 hour, hardly anyone showed up, the Obama caucus had 400 people, tons of delegates running etc. Obama is the people's choice, and this is in a conservative district mind you. We were there for HOURS! It was amazing.

I am so glad Obama made those comments because it is true, people are bitter. Maybe they were worded wrong, but it is obvious that he said it cause he CARES. Not about his career, but about the PEOPLE of this COUNTRY!

He said those comments in a worried way, in a concerned way, I see that. He knows that as Americans we have to grow and come to terms with the big white elephant in the room. The fact that these people vote for politicians who don't care about them. Yes, people voted on faith in 2002, isn't that why Bush was elected? It isn't a big secret. The Clinton's know this.

America must come together and defeat corporate intersts, govt inaction, etc.

Well, Hillary did post a list of 100 Pennsylvania 'small town' mayors endorsing her. [which is 3-4% of all PA small town mayors].

Trouble is, included in her list are the mayors of some not-small towns......., Philadelphia [1,500,000+ pop.], Allentown [j106,000+ pop], Pittsburgh [340,000+ pop.], even Scranton [76,000+ pop] and so forth.