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Name: HarrisThomas

Comment: oh, well, we'll just have to wait to read the article so that we can determine whether the term "cynic" may be code speak for is BHO electable . . . . . if Barack was in Hillary's position, before now, the superdelegates would have already decided the presumptive nominee; the superdelegates have huge responsibility for dragging out this primary season

Name: McNasty

Comment: That's why we don't need them HarrisThomas! The voting process would be hella better if they would remove them and the electoral college - but that would make the process more easily understood. I hope this article is more correct than not - we don't need any more controversy and Obama doesn't need anything else to have to answer to.

Name: TGen

Comment: I don't think there's anything to worry about with this article, doubt they'll cite anything less than savory about Obama, just a hunch. That said, I'm really not feeling that cover! Ugh. It looks too bravado-ish, it's not how Obama comes off (at least to me), or not how I would think he'd want to come off. People like confidence, not arrogance. So I hope the article makes up for the cover. Jmo...

Name: Renetta

Comment: Get over it little dickk white man. Get USED to it. We do EVERYTHING better – golf, tennis, basketball and now the presidency. Obama will be fine. His thinking and judgment is a hell of a lot better than hothead hot-tempered mccain.

Name: HarrisThomas

Comment: TGen, when Rolling Stone mag endorsed BHO, they had a great cover

Name: HarrisThomas

Comment: meanwhile, on the campaign trail, Hillary is making racist appeals: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/08/clinton-obama -not-winning_n_100763.html#postComment

Name: Renetta

Comment: Thanks HarrisThomas - you always come up with them. hillarys true colors are really showing now - WHITE ONLY.

Name: HarrisThomas

Comment: from Toni Morrison on BHO and WJC at Time.com: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1738303,0 0.html . . . . . Do you regret referring to Bill Clinton as the first black President? —Justin Dews, Cambridge, Mass. People misunderstood that phrase. I was deploring the way in which President Clinton was being treated, vis-à-vis the sex scandal that was surrounding him. I said he was being treated like a black on the street, already guilty, already a perp. I have no idea what his real instincts are, in terms of race . . . . . Why did you endorse Barack Obama for the presidency? —Chris Francis Lightbourne, Long Island, N.Y. I thought about voting for Hillary at the beginning. I don't care that she is a woman. I need more than that. Neither his race, his gender, her race or her gender was enough. I needed something else, and the something else was his wisdom.

Name: Exmun

Comment: This is a portion of the article where the quote "the first Black President" it taken from. It was a New Yorker acticle where she was discussing the scandal of the Lewinsky affair. She was decrying how the Rethugs were treating Bill. She was taken waaay out of context with that comment. "But revulsion against what? What is being violated, ruptured, defiled? The bedroom? The Oval Office? The voting booth? The fourth grade? Marriage vows? The flag? Whatever answer is given, underneath the national embarrassment churns a disquiet turned to dread and now anger. African-American men seemed to understand it right away. Years ago, in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald’s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas. And when virtually all the African-American Clinton appointees began, one by one, to disappear, when the President’s body, his privacy, his unpoliced sexuality became the focus of the persecution, when he was metaphorically seized and body-searched, who could gainsay these black men who knew whereof they spoke? The message was clear: “No matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how much coin you earn for us, we will put you in your place or put you out of the place you have somehow, albeit with our permission, achieved. You will be fired from your job, sent away in disgrace, and—who knows?—maybe sentenced and jailed to boot. In short, unless you do as we say (i.e., assimilate at once), your expletives belong to us.” For a large segment of the population who are not African-Americans or members of other minorities, the elusive story left visible tracks: from target sighted to attack, to criminalization, to lynching, and now, in some quarters, to crucifixion. The always and already guilty “perp” is being hunted down not by a prosecutor’s obsessive application of law but by a different kind of pursuer, one who makes new laws out of the shards of those he breaks."

Name: HarrisThomas

Comment: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/ . . . . . May 8, 2008 Clinton touts support from 'white Americans' Posted: 12:03 PM ET Clinton campaigned in Washington Thursday. (CNN) — In what appear to be the New York senator's most blunt comments to date regarding a racial division in the Democratic presidential race, Hillary Clinton suggested Wednesday that "White Americans" are increasingly turning away from Barack Obama’s candidacy. "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," Clinton said in an interview with USA TODAY. Clinton cited an Associated Press poll "that found how Senator Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me." "There's a pattern emerging here," she said. Exit polls from Tuesday's primaries in Indiana and North Carolina show Clinton won about 60 percent of the white vote in both states. That percentage is down from the Ohio primary on March 4, in which Clinton won upwards of 65 percent of the white vote. Meanwhile, Clinton garnered 63 percent of the white vote in Pennsylvania on April 22. Speaking with the paper, Clinton rejected the notion her comments were racially divisive in any way. "These are the people you have to win if you're a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election," she said. "Everybody knows that." Obama spokesman Bill Burton called Clinton's statements "not true and frankly disappointing."

Name: write2live32

Comment: Well Democrats also need the black vote to win and Mrs. Clinton will never get mine. Obama08!

Name: Winn30344

Comment: So now the Black vote doesn't even count? Yesterday she was saying "what she needed to do to bring in the Black vote" and today it's "fluck us"..this woman is absolutely amazing! If the DNC has any balls they will stop her right now before she tears the Democratic party further apart. Someone sent me the article and the comments are 90% negative against her remarks!!

Name: Winn30344

Comment: Billary..on her way to West Virginia and Kentucky where her racist rhetoric will pick up some votes..shameful!!

Name: telthepe

Comment: Hillary Clinton suggested Wednesday that "White Americans" are increasingly turning away from Barack Obama’s candidacy. "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," Clinton cited an Associated Press poll "that found how Senator Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me." "There's a pattern emerging here," she said. yeah that pattern has been emerging ever since obama won iowa, and idaho, and other parts of the country where there are great numbers of yt people. but the pattern has more to do with the fact hillary, as many other yt people can't stand to lose to a brotha like mr obama. how come no yt men dared run against barack? i know about edwards, but where is he today? his political career may be over, but it would have definitely been over if he would have lost to a black man. and as for those ignorant azz, indoctrinated w/ amerikkkan education azz, yt folks; some of who have never left their immediate surroundings, still calling black folk colored, of course they are going to support hillary or mccain. is anyone surprised? kick her azz barack,(not suggesting physical violence; well let michelle do that) please!!!

Name: HarrisThomas

Comment: a salon.com blogger said: It just occurred to me that Hillary 's candidacy is like the politics version of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going."

Name: Jacque

Comment: On a day when it appears that the Michigan controversy may be resolved in a way that's fair to all parties -- but not in a way that gives Hillary Clinton all that state's delegates and Barack Obama none, as her campaign insists -- Clinton has just upped the ante by issuing what seems a hastily penned open letter to Obama, pretending that he is the sole obstacle to a fair resolution of the Michigan and Florida brouhaha and that she has always supported revotes (neither of which is accurate). There's lots to discuss, but the letter itself is more than adequate fodder: May 8, 2008 Senator Barack Obama Obama for America P.O. Box 8102 Chicago, IL 60680 Dear Senator Obama, This has been an historic and exciting campaign. Millions of new voters have been brought into the process and their enthusiasm for the Democratic Party and the principles for which you and I have fought and continue to fight is unprecedented. One of the foremost principles of our party is that citizens be allowed to vote and that those votes be counted. That principle is not currently being applied to the nearly 2.5 million people who voted in primaries in Florida and Michigan. Whoever emerges as the Democratic nominee will be hamstrung in the general election if a fair and quick resolution is not reached that ensures that the voices of these voters are heard. Our commitment now to this goal could be the difference between winning and losing in November.

Name: Jacque

Comment: I have consistently said that the votes cast in Florida and Michigan in January should be counted. We cannot ignore the fact that the people in those states took the time to be a part of this process and to make their preferences known. When efforts were untaken [sic] by leaders in those states to hold revotes to ensure that they had a voice in selecting our nominee, I supported those efforts. In Michigan, I supported a legislative effort to hold a revote that the Democratic National Committee said was in complete compliance with the party's rules. You did not support those efforts and your supporters in Michigan publically [sic] opposed them. In Florida a number of revote options were proposed. I am not aware of any that you supported. In 2000, the Republicans won an election by successfully opposing a fair counting of votes in Florida. As Democrats, we must reject any proposals that would do the same. Your commitment to the voters of these states must be clearly stated and your support for a fair and quick resolution must be clearly demonstrated. I am asking you to join me in working with representatives from Florida and Michigan and the Democratic National Committee to arrive at a solution that honors the votes of the millions of people who went to the polls in Florida and Michigan. It is not enough to simply seat their representatives at the convention in Denver. The people of these great states, like the people who have voted and are to vote in other states, must have a voice in selecting our party's nominee. Sincerely, Hillary Rodham Clinton

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