As it's said over and over, Obama will probably win.  Then (as it has been said here) why doesn't he act like a frontrunner?  Why does he go negative?  There are a ton of ways for the Obama camp to handle the fact that Hillary is heavily favored in PA.  I think there must be a way they can both respect the voters of PA and the inevitable continuance of this race (let's face it, it will continue, Hillary isn't going anywhere, so deal) while picking off votes and still competing with her.  The attitude from the Obamacans at this point is pure petulance, as if they need a head start, all the space in the world, and added amenities to take on McCain.  Just freaking do it (and the comments I've heard Obama make recently on McCain have been good - and they make me like him).  But you can attack McCain without ignoring/invalidating the Dem primary voters to come; you can attack him and campaign for votes (showing future voters respect) instead of attacking him and having surrogates invalidate the race and prematurely declare that it's over.

As a woman, I'm deeply disappointed at Obama's failure to treat sexism as seriously as he's treated racism. And now I almost want to pound my head against a wall when I see that anti-choice Casey is campaigning for Obama. That and Obama's post-partisanship horrify me. Some are even touting an Obama-Bloomberg ticket. Well, that'd mark the first time the Democratic ticket would feature 2 people who aren't too familiar with the Democratic party's tenets.

The Obama supporters should not be allowed to post on this blog.

Do you want this to be a fan club? Before all the HRC refugees came over here we used to have GOPers provide us with the latest swill. As awful as it was sometimes it did spice things up and provide for some good discussion.

Since I'm on the topic, I believe this arrogance on the part of Obama supporters is because Obama has shown no leadership in calming down his own constituency.  The Obama/Axelrod brain trust is surely keeping quiet with the bloggers and online voices because they want to have this negativity.

Look, all it would take is for Obama to make one of historical speeches, directed to his constituency, to say "be gracious, be kind, do not smear and vilify Senator Clinton, because we need her constituencies support to win the Presidency."  But, he doesn't say this, although he often refers to walking the "high road" in this campaign.

If anyone can show me that Obama is trying to manage his constituency or show him equally supporting a unified Dem. party (a la Clinton many, many times), I'll shut up.

After months of Clinton-bashing, at this point my reaction is, "You hate my candidate? Well, fine! I hate yours, too, and I won't vote for him in the GE!"  

Infantile?  Perhaps.  There is more to my reluctance to vote for Obama than sheer spite, but I've gotta admit, that's a factor.  I resent the way he's taken the Dem base for granted and assumed that Hillary supporters will just fall in line.

Furthermore, it makes little sense to talk about races being done and over, and lamenting the disenfranchisement of FL and MI until the last state primary is over; otherwise you're effectively disenfranchising those states whose primaries haven't happened yet. The fact that they've been effectively disenfranchised under the modern primary system in the past but may not be this year is all to the good, I believe.

I believe the FL and MI delegates will be seated. I don't believe there will be a floor fight, and I believe that in the current state of the campaign Obama is going to be the nominee. I can hypothesize a number of quite reasonable scenarios under which this would happen. I would be equally happy were Hillary the nominee, however.

The important thing is to field a viable progressive against a war-mongerer who believes in voodoo economics. That's the ultimate goal, and one noone should be losing sight of. It's mystifying to me why people are talking of sitting the election out in the face of "bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran".

I also has a real problem with Obama dissing my generation (I'm 56) and talking as though all of the battles many of us had fought so hard in for years were just a bunch of people who didhn't know how to get along. I also think that if his oratory doesn't move or inspire you, there's not a lot else there to get behind. I guess you either get him or you don't.

To my mind, the poisonous atmosphere of the last 10 years or so has been largely the fault of the Repoublicans, starting with impeachment. I really don't care if Obama can make us all get along, and I have yet to hear exactly how he's going to do that. Reagan got a lot of Dems to vote for him, but I would hardly say he unified the nation. I think Hillary will be much better at using the White House to advance the Demopcratic agenda, and if the Republicans don't want to go along, too bad for them.

The reason Hillary has so much blue collar support is because Obama's supporters (speaking in general terms) are genrally well off enough that they can worry about the "tone" in Washington. Hillary's supporters are focused more on questions like "where's my health care?"

There's no question Hillary has done stuff to disappoint me. The threshold remark was unecessary, and the Bosnia thing is just embarrassing. But I don't support or not support a candidate based on one incident, or one vote, or one speech in a park. And I must say I wrack my brain to think of a single thing I have ever heard an Obama supporter take him to task for, other than not hitting back at Hillary hard enough. The willingness to excuse and forgive literally everything he does is mind blowing.

I'll still vote for Obama in the GE, both because I'm a loyal Dem and because I'm not fooled at all as to who McCain is what agenda he will advance. But I must admit that when I think about Obama getting the nomination, the prospect of seeing the crowing and breast beating from many of his supporters makes my skin crawl.

Also, he was content to drag his feet and try to stall when it came to re-votes in Michigan and Florida.  A real leader would have allowed the chips to fall where they may, and do what is right.

Count me with the "it's too late" folks.

The Obama movement was never sincere any way.  The people who used to be skeptical of post-partsanship and rip Obama cause of his snake oil are now suddenly believers??

Stop by my post which gives some of the history of Bataan and how New Mexico was affected.

You can bet this won't be going over real big here in NM!

Shame on Obama! Is he as good at saying stupid, insensitive things as George Bush is??  Perhaps...

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8762.html

Obama was the first to come out and say that he could get Hillary supporters but doubted she could get his.

They keep reporting that Obama has won Texas and yet i am getting ready to go to my county convention to officially cast my delegate vote for Hillary. Texas stopped counting caucus votes 3 weeks ago because it was too cumbersome. So how has he won? the delegates have not been counted yet.

This race ain't over. Pledged as well as Supers can change and the more that comes out about Obama, the more likely that could happen. better now than in the general.

Go ahead.. delete me. I don't care.  There are a few extremists on board.

Yes, we should rise above all of that.....but you know what?

Neither Obama nor Clinton are prizes (all the prizes dropped out already or never started);

The DNC has screwed things royally;

But this is the very nature of American politics. It is organized like this on purpose: all the fractions fighting with each other in a winner take all free-for-all. It is unavoidable that many, if not most people will get angry and be upset.

It is designed so you will never be able to vote for someone you are really comfortable with and enthusiastic about - if you think you found that candidate then you don't really know your candidate. It is required to be sleazy in order to advance and to get anything done.

It will always be that you have to pick the least worst. If you don't like it and can't participate under those rules you might as well leave the country. You certainly have no business having a hissy fit that things are so rotten, because it is the system.

To not vote for whichever Democrat wins the nomination by hook or by crook would be ridiculous. Either one, as disgusting as their supporters or even they get, they are light years better than mccain. NOTHING COULD BE WORSE than another republican in the White House. To let anger at one of the candidate's or their obnoxious supporters distract you from the one important objective is truly unforgivable and irresponsible.

Then he waded into the Obamarama smearfestival against HRC.

Now that he was instrumental in creating the mess he thinks people should listen to him and chill out.