No...it's related to the kool aid comment. As if it's "presidential punch."

I know... it's hard when you have a whole thread making funny comments about each other.

I am not a bushie!!! (sorry if I confused you!)

thanks. i really appreciate that.

i realize the comments i've previously posted have been inappropriate, rude, and ignorant. i apologize to anyone who was offended, and especially to those i offended with intent.

you know, while i'm being open, i should explain this sudden change of heart. i'm reading senator clinton's autobiography. but i can't bring myself to finish it. every day i try, i just stop and think that present actions aren't matching what's being described in the book. idealism is being contrasted by real-life dirty politics.

how many times did senator obama discuss monica? whitewater? the impeachment? perjury? ZERO. thank you, senator obama. but i can't say the same for you, senator clinton.

i've realized senator clinton and president clinton have pretty much ruined their standing in many communities around the country. my head tells me but my heart refuses to accept. but it's right there, out in the open. i was proud of the clintons, and instead hillary has chosen to make a mockery of herself - an educated, powerful woman, and she's reduced herself to illogical math counts and knowingly breaking rules. suddenly she says the delegate count minimum should change from 2,025? that's when something really clicked in me. the rules are not to be changed. respect them. if we all agree on it, then we change the rules. but don't change them to suit you, senator clinton. you know better.

if she gets the nomination at this point, there will be nothing honest about it. a win is voters casting your name. a backroom deal is not a win. it's not, senator clinton. maybe that's how things worked in the past, but not anymore. there is too much at stake. i've supported you from day one, since the first day that you announced your exploratory committee, and let me tell you now: that is not a win. i could never celebrate something like that. i just couldn't.

i don't know why i've suddenly vented here. it's been a long time coming, maybe.

sorry for treating this like a blog. but possibly this is a first step for me, to move on to something bigger...

To paraphrase your reply:

If that were true, McCain would say it, but he can't afford to say it because it's nothing but a big lie.

I like that. It's a good, simple response to a wide range of smears, and best of all, it leaves nothing to argue about. Cool!

Most of the people over 65 will vote for him, but I expect him to at least split the 60-65 voters.

I doubt there's ever been a time in our history when the basic outlook of 60 year olds has ever been so different from that of 70 year olds.

Hers what I say to those who insult Obama.

I read most of these diatribes and I realize that you all sound like a bunch of hillbillies from West Virginia. I mean if your going to take an interest in this race, at least educate yourself beyond the 8th grade education you were probably passed through. Seriously I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but you jerkoffs are just plain stupid. Do you know why America is falling behind in the world? Too many of us are looking after your dumb butts. Don't take my gun because I need it to protect my shanty and my wife I mean sister. Don't vote for Obama he's a Muslim. You wouldn't know a Muslim if one blew up your k-5 high school. If I could break my vote in half I would give Obama his white half.The other half I would trade for a six pack. Goodness, I am amazed at how America is still standing with those of you here. America's IQ has dropped in the last forty years because of 50,000.00 and below white people. I am a white person making less than fifty grand a year because I choose to, but I am smart enough to realize that most of you bastards complaining are just pissed because the AA, the Jew, the Hispanic are doing as well as you or better than you. America is about to be taken from your stupid confederate asses and handed with pride to those who wish to live in a diverse multi cultural paradise. It will finally be achieved in full when white people over 60 are finally dead. Good riddance to the poison in this once great society and soon to be great again. As a white man I will proud to to be led by any great man or woman regardless of creed,religion, gender, or handicap. Piss off you ranting rednecks. Come play again 2016 when you will be a dying breed in elections.

"And, even though I know it will result in me being called in a racist, that black block voting will not win Obama the election. I don't like Obama. I don't like how the black community turned on the Clintons."

LNAB, I am not going to call you racist, but rather uninformed about the AA voting block. I think you maybe falling for the media's slice and dice of exit polls bias reporting. There is a reason why the African American vote is so essential to the nominating process, the community has been extremely loyal to the Democratic party and the Clintons. AA were original "working class" demographic claimed by Bill Clinton presidency.

The fact of the matter is Bill and Hillary are very much responsible for the loss of the African American base. At the start of the election the African American base favored Clinton at 82%. It was Bill's comments in SC and Hillary's comments on Martin Luther King, Jr. and LBJ that destroyed that loyalty and infuriated the AA base. The comments were a slap in the face of those who supported his candidacy in the wake of the Clinton's struggles with Ken Starr.

Their comments, as well as Obama's ability to win over white states with very low African American populations, angered the AA base and caused the shift of loyalties from 82% Hillary/ 8% Obama -- to 82% Obama /8% Hillary. You have to ask how could a candidate completely lose an entire voting block in the course of 7 months.

Below is a little history as to how the voting block supported Democratic presidential candidates. This was taken from another TPM using SurveyUSA data.

The vote percentages given to Democrats and Republicans in recent elections are as follows:

1984 Walter Mondale 90% Ronald Reagan 9%
1988 Michael Dukakis 90% George H.W. Bush 10%
1992 Bill Clinton 83% George H.W. Bush 10%
1996 Bill Clinton 84% Bob Dole 12%
2000 Al Gore 90% George W. Bush 9%

Your are so wrong. 16.7 million people have voted for Obama (actually more but I'll get into that later). At least 14 million of them are WHITE. There are not that many black people in the US. They are about 10% of total population. I am a white woman and I don't even know any black people because of where I live and everyone I know voted for Obama. Look at the states he won in HUGE blowouts: Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Alaska, Maine, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Vermont, etc. In addition, there were no exit polls done in the almost all white Caucus states nor do they "count" in the popular vote. You have to extrapolate the caucus states to get a popular vote count. Blacks are the most reliably and loyal Democratic voting block. They are not voting for Barack b/c he is half-black. In Barack's first US Congressional race in 2000 the only ward he won in the Chicago district was an all white Irish Catholic middle-class ward (see TIME cover story) that he won overwhelmingly. He didn't win any of the black vote. Remember HRC was leading him in the black vote until a few months ago- he wasn't black enough? NO! They didn't KNOW him! And it's kind of insulting for you to state that blacks are voting for him b/c he is half black. I guess whites are voting for hime b/c he is half white? Is that it? FYI, I approaced a large group of black men playing basketball in a park yesterday in a voter reg drive and quite a few of them asked me "What's wrong with Hillary?"- I am in NY. And I explained Obama's positions to them. They wanted to know what he stood for. Remember he didn't campaign in NY so folks aren't very familiar with him here. So, these black guys weren't just interested in voting for Barack b/c he is half black. You have it all WRONG.

http://www.eyesonobama.com/blog/content/id_15692/title_No-Advantage-for-Clinton-Among-White-Male-Voters/