Screw Rahm and Hillary and the rest of the DLC. You are the past. We are the future.

Seems like good news to me. Even the DLC is waving the white flag.

Yes we can? Yes we did!

Roy Orbison song for Clinton.

I know. I posted this elsewhere. I just like the song.

Why is everyone so afraid of stating the obvious? Are they afraid of political retribution? When are they going to wake up and finally realize that this is Obama's party.

Screw this, the Democratic party needs an F'n exorcist, nothing less will get rid of Hillary. She'll keep playing the race card and do everything she can to make Obama unelectable in November.

Disapointing.

it will be all his when the disenfranchised Clinton supporters exit the party.

Well, certainly all the Operation Chaos Limbaugh dittoheads will leave the party again, that's for sure. No one is being disenfranchised, Present. That's a ridiculous and intellectually dishonest statement and you know it.

Obama is the 'frontrunner', but Hillary 'can't win'. Hmmm, what is the implication then?

I know - the race is finally down to Obama and Gravel!

Wow...Bill's a little unglued here. I know the transcript was posted on an earlier thread, but seeing Bill in action is another thing. He really needs to be put in a room somewhere and not allowed to speak.

http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=1017

To say that Hillary can't win hardly seems like news on TPM, considering how many times it has been said.

Interesting news today from the Daily Gallup. Shows Hillary's strength. Meanwhile Stephanopoulos has been talking Obama/Clinton ticket. Sounds like a good idea to me, considering how many Democrats say they won't vote for Obama. He'll have time to soften them up by November, barring more revelations. But certainly some percentage of them still won't vote for him. Having her on the ticket seems a very good idea.

I agree with the unifying sentiment but don't think it will succeed. Better a break with the past. No joint ticket.

I understand the need for Clinton supporters to vent and share their disappointment with their candidate's inability to secure the nomination. It wasn't wrested from her hands, rather, many errors on her team's part doomed her back in January. It's been over for some time.

Her latest racist arguments for electibility over Obama astonish me. Senator Clinton has too little faith in the American people she wanted to serve.

It's time for all Americans, no matter what one's affiliation, to pat ourselves on the back: we are going to elect the first African American to the Presidency in November. Lucky for us,he happens to be a member of the Democratic Party. But does anyone doubt, I don't, that if Colin Powell had ran in 2000 he would be president now? Or if Bush's policies hadn't been such a disaster that Condi Rice would have had a chance this year?

I live in rural America, in Texas. Even in my small town people are excited that a black man will be the nominee even if they don't agree with his policies, even if they're a Republican and will vote for John McCain. On the days I wear my Obama button, at least one person will approach me and say he or she is a "recovering" Republican and plans to vote for Obama. Bob Dylan's song, The Times They Are A-Changing" was some forty years too early.

I am also a woman of middle age and before my death, I do hope to vote for a woman for President. It just wasn't meant to be this woman.

I hope the superdelegates end this quickly, like ripping a bandaid off a wound, or Sen. Clinton will self-destruct. I'm sure many times in her life, people discounted her because she was a woman, but this is not one of those times. She does her gender and her supporters no good by playing the shrill shrew who jumps up and down and says, "it's not fair. I was supposed to win!"

ted kennedy just put the kibosh on a obama/clinton ticket. check it out at politico---i don't have a link unfortunately.

between kennedy & pelosi both shooting the "unity" ticket idea, i don't think it has a snowball chance in hell of happening. and besides i don't think obama wants her on the ticket reports indicate that his wife is strongly against it as well.

In re: PRESUMPTION

It's a little like how Princess Elizabeth was George VI's "heir presumptive" rather than "heir apparent" because it was *possible* that her middle-aged mother might yet give birth to a boy.

But nobody was thinking up boys' names for the next King of England. And nobody's designing Hillary's inaugural-ball gown.

Sen Graham is a very interesting option - one I haven't heard before. Gravitas, intelligence commitee, opposed to Iraq war, FL. Hmmmm.

Graham is a loon. Not a chance in hell. Plus, he's a tired old white man.

Granholm would be a GREAT choice - if she hadn't been born a Canadian, thereby making it impossible for her to succeed Obama in the event of a catastrophe.

Richardson is a nice nod to the Hispanic vote.

Sibelius is another (more remote) possibility.

Michelle Obama’s Writings Display Disturbing Racism

Americans must ask: ‘Do we really want this woman in the White House’?

By Pat Shannan

Just what kind of “change” is Barack Obama offering and just how much influence has his wife, Michelle had over him in their married life the past two decades? It appears that Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama does not look into a crowd of Obama supporters and see Americans. She sees black people and white people, eternally conflicted with one another.

In her senior thesis at Princeton University, Michelle LaVaughn, the future wife of the Democratic presidential candidate, stated that America was a nation founded on “crime and hatred.” Moreover, she stated that whites in America were “ineradicably racist.”

The 1985 thesis, entitled Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community, was written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn. Michelle Obama writes that the path she chose by attending Princeton would likely lead to her “further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society, never becoming a full participant.”

Not only does she see separate black and white societies in America, but emphatically elevates black over white in her world. As first lady, would she insist the White House be painted black? That’s been a standard joke in this venue since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, but this next ominous quote from her thesis suggests that she would in fact urge her husband toward just such an extreme position.

“There was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black community, I am obligated to this community and will utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit the black community first and foremost.”

She seems to justify those feelings with what she claims to see on the other side of the issue: “Predominantly white universities like Princeton are socially and academically designed to cater to the needs of the white students, comprising the bulk of their enrollments.”

Michelle added in her thesis that to “whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, [I] will always be black first.” However, it was reported by a fellow black classmate, “if those ‘whites at Princeton ‘ really saw Michelle as one who always would ‘be black first,’ it seems that she gave them that impression.”

Michelle Obama’s poll of black alumni concludes that other black former students at Princeton do not share her obsession with blackness. But rather than celebrate, she is horrified that black alumni identify with our common American culture more than they value the color of their skins.

“I hoped that these findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational path that black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a certain level of identification with the black community. However, these findings do not support this possibility,” she wrote.

Most black alumni ignored her racist questionnaire. Only 89 students responded, out of 400 who were asked for input.

The thesis provides a trove of Mrs. Obama’s thoughts and world view seen through a race-based prism. For a potential first lady, this is a very divisive view that would do untold damage to race relations in this country in a Barack Hussein Obama administration.

During this presidential election year in which the term “transparency” has been frequently bandied about, candidates have buried a number of potentially revealing documents and papers. In Hillary Rodham Clinton’s case, there’s been a clamoring for tax records, White House memos and other material the candidate’s team has chosen to keep from release.

The 96-page, 1985 Princeton thesis, restricted from release by the school’s Mudd Library, has also been the subject of recent scrutiny. Commentator Jonah Goldberg remarked on National Review Online, “A
reader in the know informs me that Michelle Obama’s thesis is unavailable until Nov. 5, 2008, at the Princeton library. I wonder why.”

“Why a restricted thesis?” asked Pastor Louis Lapides on his website,
Thinking Outside the Blog. “Is the concern based on what’s in the thesis? Will Michelle Obama appear to be too black for white America or not black enough for black America?”

Will an Obama administration really offer constructive “change” or just an intellectually refined racism?