1. Divided, We Fall! If Democrats can't select a clear leader and form a viable ticket, then we need to select someone who can. The choices offered were great choices in a year we controlled the White House. Both would be great successors to a Democratic White House. Neither is a clear selection following a Republican. Divided, we could fall. Pick someone who can get the best out of both of them and unite the party.

Cecil Jones at 4:32AM on Feb 18th 2008

2. For the good of the Country they should use the superdelegates. I have been to a caucus and I saw how naives are the Obama supporters. Those are the same persons who make rich an oil snake salesman, who send money to con artists. Obama has magnificent catching words, but not substance. He uses the words that leave a sublimal message in the simple brains. So did Hitler and Mussolini, to name two, they offered a change to unhappy masses.
Obama is not evil by any mean, he is just using the same psicological tecniques to get where he want.
He makes $400,000 a year with his wife (a lawyer), send his kids to private schools. He repaid the college loans only when decided to run for President. A little late I think. Everything is calculated and orchestrated.
How in hell he pretends to be one of us?

Finnegan at 4:46AM on Feb 18th 2008

3. CENK

MoveOn has already started working on getting the Super Delegates to commit themselves to Obama. Obama has the backing of MoveOn based on a vote of it's membership. All members of MoveOn were notified to contact the Super Delgates about getting the those Delegates to commit themselves, this way MoveOn knows who to pressure into changing there vote from Hillary to Obama. Remember. MoveOn made a public announcement that they now own the Democrat Party. Will Soros and his funded organization MoveOn control who wins this Democrat Nomination?

Source-MoveOn e mail

robert okane at 6:24AM on Feb 18th 2008

4. If Hillary Clinton becomes the democratic nominee, she will be almost a shoe in for another 4 years of republicans. The dems won't win with her as the nominee. That truth definitely hurts.

LorMarie at 8:40AM on Feb 18th 2008

5. An indicted businessman,a SYRIAN,friend of Obama for 17 years, poured thousands of dollars into the campaigns of Barack Obama and other politicians was jailed Monday after prosecutors disclosed he received $3.5 million from an IRAQI billionaire while claiming to be broke." Have you noticed that all Obama's friends are either muslims or connected with other muslims? Yes, I do hope the superdelegates do vote- that is why we have elders to put the right person in the whitehouse. It doesn't set well with me when Obama is connected with too many of our enemies.

Jaki Baez at 9:29AM on Feb 18th 2008

6. Cenk --

HELLO ! This is the way the system is set up. Do you look for legal loopholes when you do your taxes?

Personally, I think our whole system of voting -- electoral college, the parties with their "super delegates" -- it's all a confusing mess.

I'm not for Hillary, I don't think she's electable by the popular vote. But she's trying to win an election, working with a system that can allow her to do what she's doing.

So in my book, they're not doing anything bad. Just being smart.

Get over it.

wowza at 9:32AM on Feb 18th 2008

7. Barack is an intelligent, caring, Christian, who had foresight to oppose the Iraq war for all the right reasons in 2002. We continue to hear lies from those who have no issues to stand up for. Barack supports negotiating with the nations of the world to bring peace and stability in the war on terror. He oppose giving tax breaks to the wealthiest while running up the largest debt of all time. He is for a health care plan that will cost less than we now spend on health care and provide it to all. He has an energy policy that will not be indebted to big oil. He will bring greater transparency to the White House. Restoring the checks and balances and Constitution to their rightful places. Barack for President. Barack for change!

Robert Alexander at 9:39AM on Feb 18th 2008

8. #5
"It doesn't set well with me when Obama is connected with too many of our enemies."

Let's see, they already started playing the race card, i.e. black vs. white, now religious card , i.e. Muslim vs. non-Muslim.
Yup, team Clinton is starting to worry.
Super-delegates voting, Michigan delegates seated, Florida delegates seated, whatever it takes, this is all or nothing time for the couple from Arkansas. Even if it were to mean possibly losing the WH, it is a case of "I'm all in" as the say in no-limit holdem. To bad, since like it was stated on another blog, the outcome of this election could change the political landscape for a generation to come. The country can go in a new direction or go along with the same crowd, but different party logo. Something different or an attempt to vindicate a prior administration and resurrect a tarnished image.

M2D5 at 9:51AM on Feb 18th 2008

9. Hey Big Guy,

I'm not so sure about this super delegate stuff. The fact that these super delegates make up 40 percent of the Democrats total delegate count seems a bit much. Lets be honest, 40 percent of the total far exceeds any tie breaker scheme.

There is a rumor that my state governor is a super delegate. And I'll tell ya something boss, if that knucklehead is and votes opposite of the state....then hopefully he will be flushed out of the swamp Nancy Pelosi wants to drain.

So here's my 2 cents. Since they hold a considerable amount of influence over who the Democrats presidential nominee will be, after the general election, post these people names and how they voted. If it's contrary to the rank and file of the state...let the draining begin.

Willet at 10:11AM on Feb 18th 2008

10. Why don't we just save money, cancel Texas, Ohio, and others and simply have the "superdelegates" vote now so we can move on. If the country can't make up their mind for Hillary, then by all means call out the dogs. As a Repub and a moderate, Barack doesn't scare me, but Hillary does. You think the Dems went crazy in 1992 when they controled everything, and you think the Repubs showed their true colors when they controlled everything 2000-2006, you ain't seen nothing when the Clinton's take over again. Bill only balanced the budget because the Repubs came in 1994. The repubs only became conscience of the budget in 2006 after they lost power. Another Clinton term will give us 2 years of the most out of controlled spending this country has ever seen. They want to make up for what they lost. Then in 2010, the Repubs will make a comeback in Congress and we will "do nothing" for 2 years until the next election. Trust me, as an old fart, doing nothing ain't all bad.

Dave at 10:19AM on Feb 18th 2008

11. Those are the same persons who make rich an oil snake salesman, who send money to con artists. Obama has magnificent catching words, but not substance.
xxxx

Oh. some people are more equal than others.

Clif Kuplen at 10:26AM on Feb 18th 2008

12. Why would ANYONE "buck" the system, especially if it might be in their favor? That you should even make an issue of this and malign Sen. Clinton is ridiculous - she is only stating that she would work within the rules & laws (what a refreshing change from “if I don’t like a law, veto it or change it!”) and by the rule of the people and the Democratic party.

As for the Dem candidates, I agree with the comment posted before that Obama supporters are naive. Yes, he is the most charismatic person we've seen run in years and yes, he is saying everything we sad, frustrated, helpless & downtrodden Americans WANT TO HEAR. While I like his persona myself, I think that the problems created by this past administration require absolute genius and experience to even begin to fix (if that’s even possible at this point!).

If we have learned absolutely nothing else over these long hard 8 years of fascist, incompetent rule, logic dictates that we MUST elect and/or appoint leaders based on EXPERIENCE and who can do the job best from Day One. PLEASE think about the absolute mess created by Bush (who HAD no real, qualified experience, but was elected based on "who I'd most like to have a beer with") and his appointees (I only need to mention "BROWNIE" as one of many Bush appointees who make us silently scream at the thought of what they did - or didn’t - do). The state of America is too far gone to base cleaning it up on mere hopes, dreams and fluffy words. We need to elect our next President based on experience and qualifications, NOT who we'd most like to socialize with. Besides…and I don’t mean to sound sexist but….who’s most qualified to clean up a dirty, filthy house – a woman!

Karen Martinkovic at 10:33AM on Feb 18th 2008

13. I only hope that Sen. Clinton is our next President.
I believe that, because everyone already knows what she has done.
As much as Obama seems to inspire, I still fear him.
I miss Kucinich.

Judith at 10:41AM on Feb 18th 2008

14. if you cant take the time to look up what a canidate stands for or how they vote in the senate,do the rest of us a favor and stay home instead of voting, barack obama chose to vote present 138 times in the illinois senate,so he didnt have to take a stand on certain issues, if that doesnt tell you he is a terrible leader you better leave the voting up to more inteligent people.

jennifer at 11:08AM on Feb 18th 2008

15. To M2D5

We have disagreed on everything blog after blog. I must say, that today we are on the same side of this argument (is it an argument?). We may not agree on the following. I have always been a Clinton supporter, and I have always said that if Hillary ever ran for president, I would support her or even work for her.

Things have changed, times have changed. I am an Obama supporter. I voted for him on 2/5 and I truly hope he becomes the Democratic Candidate in November.

I am extremely dissapointed and angry at how the Hillary people have handled this campaign!

Patty at 11:27AM on Feb 18th 2008