Are there really that many mean spirited Ferraro clones out there to make a difference in the Obama/McCain match up?

At some point I just have to think that those folks won't vote for Obama anyway, no matter how well he coddles their hurt feelings about him "stealing" what they think was rightfully Clinton's.

This could all be so very easily straightened out. It works like this: Hillary concedes and throws her delegates and support to him. Primary over.

Why is she being so selfish and self-involved at this point?

Smart move. He's won it, everybody knows it, people who pretend otherwise look delusional, so there's no need to rub it in. As long as he's going after McSame and Hillary isn't attacking him, everything's copasetic.

Clinton Quiet About Own Radical Ties
Faulting of Obama Called Hypocritical

By James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, May 19, 2008; A04

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/18/AR2008051802101_pf.html

Excerpt:

When Hillary Rodham Clinton questioned rival Barack Obama's ties to 1960s radicals, her comments baffled two retired Bay Area lawyers who knew Clinton in the summer of 1971 when she worked as an intern at a left-wing law firm in Oakland, Calif., that defended communists and Black Panthers.

"She's a hypocrite," Doris B. Walker, 89, who was a member of the American Communist Party, said in an interview last week. "She had to know who we were and what kinds of cases we were handling. We had a very left-wing reputation, including civil rights, constitutional law, racist problems."

Malcolm Burnstein, 74, a partner at the firm who worked closely with Clinton during her internship, said he was traveling in Pennsylvania in April when Clinton attacked Obama for his past interactions with William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, members of Students for a Democratic Society who went on to found the bomb-making Weather Underground.

"Given her background, it was quite hypocritical," Burnstein said. "I almost called the Philadelphia Inquirer. I saw what she and her campaign were saying about Ayers and I thought, 'Well, if you're going to talk about that totally bit of irrelevant nonsense, I'll talk about your career with us.' "

The decision as to how to handle the MI/FL situation has to be determined by the DNC. I expect that will be announced after they meet on the 31st. It's appropriate for Obama step back and let those who have the power to make that decision do so. In the meantime, I expect that we will be seeing more SuperDels and more endorsements coming out for Obama between now and the end of the month, which will render the MI/FL outcomes less determinant in the overall scheme of things.

REAL CLEAR POLITICS ELECTION 2008
Democrats Obama-Clinton Spread
Total Delegates 1900 - 1718 Obama + 182
Super Delegates 298 - 275 Obama + 23
Pledged Delegates 1602 - 1443 Obama + 159

Can this country really stand all this high road politics?

What has disunified the party is not the length of the battle but rather the unfair and underhanded means by which Obama chose to campaign.

On D-Day plus around 60 or so delegates, Clinton could win 100% of the votes in all remaining contests and take all the remaining superdelegates...

... and she'd still lose.

But heavens forfend one should call Obama the presumptive nominee...

If He's So Confident, Why The Desperate Behavior?

May 18, 2008 (LPAC)--Two recent incidents suggest that, despite the lying media hype that Senator Barack Obama has already secured the Democratic nomination, nothing could be further from the truth, and the Obama backers and some Howard ``Scream'' Dean people are now resorting to desperate tactics, including heavy-handed pressure and outright bribery, to try to stop Senator Hillary Clinton's building momentum, going into the final series of primary elections.

Sources close to the Obama camp have reported that the May 14 endorsement by former Senator and Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards, came at a heavy price. According to one source, Edwards was put under tremendous pressure to endorse Obama now, or face total isolation by the Obama camp. A second source added that ``private donors'' very close to Obama made major contributions to an Edwards anti-poverty project, to buy the Senator's endorsement. Just days before Hillary Clinton's landslide victory in the West Virginia primary on May 13, Edwards had announced his intentions to remain neutral until the nomination had been finalized. Then, on May 14, he made his about-face and endorsed Obama. The day before the endorsement, on May 13, Edwards had been in Philadelphia to launch a new anti-poverty campaign, called ``Half-in-Ten,'' whose avowed goal is to cut poverty in America in half in the next decade. Two of the groups participating in the coalition, the Center for American Progress Action Fund and ACORN, are both almost exclusively funded by none other than George Soros, and his Democracy Alliance of billionaires. Soros launched the Democracy Alliance in April 2005, in an effort to assure Anglo-Dutch financier domination over the Democratic Party, through the pooling of the wealth of 70 multi-millionaires and billionaires, into a targeted list of Democratic Party organizations and think tanks. Among the members of the Soros group is Fred Baron, a wealthy Dallas, Texas attorney who was finance chairman for John Edwards' failed 2004 presidential campaign.

In another move that clearly showed more signs of desperation than confidence, Obama backers induced Prince George, Maryland County Executive Jack Johnson, a Hillary Clinton delegate, to announce, on May 14, that he was switching his convention vote to Obama--despite the fact that, under Democratic Party rules, elected delegates are bound to the candidate they were elected to represent in the primary--at least on the first ballot. Both the Maryland Democratic Party and Howard Scream's DNC made no effort to shoot down Johnson's defection. The increasing thug tactics being used by Obama backers in recent days is a reflection of growing concern that, coming out of Senator Clinton's landslide victory in West Virginia, and the overwhelming support that she is winning among blue collar voters, and other constituents in the lower 80 percent income bracket, it may be impossible to settle the nomination battle before the August nominating convention in Denver. Lyndon LaRouche has emphasized that, if Senator Clinton continues her active candidacy into the August convention, she will win the nomination, and then go on to soundly defeat John McCain in the general election in November. LaRouche has warned for months that Obama is not electable, and that leading City of London financial circles had backed Obama, only to knock Clinton out of the race. Ultimately, they intend to assure that he is never elected President. Increasingly, Obama backers in many states around the country, are coming to see that LaRouche's warnings were correct.