National -- The latest Gallup tracking polls puts the race at Obama 47%, Clinton 45% and McCain 53%, Huckabee 28%.
Ohio (which holds primaries for both parties on 3/4 awarding 88 GOP and 161 Democratic delegates). -- Rasmussen Reports shows the Democrat race at Clinton 51%, Obama 37%. -- Quinnipac Poll shows the spread at Clinton 55%, Obama 34%. -- Survey USA puts the race at Clinton 56%, Obama 39%. Among Republicans McCain 50%, Huckabee 36%.
Texas (which holds primaries for both parities on 3/4 awarding 140 GOP and 228 Democratic delegates). -- American Research Group shows Democrat race at Obama 48%, Clinton 42%.
Wisconsin (which holds primaries for both parties on 2/19 awarding 40 GOP and 92 Democratic delegates). -- Rasmussen Reports shows the Democrat race at Obama 47%, Clinton 43%. -- American Research Group shows the race at Clinton 49%, Obama 43%.
-- More examples of political correctness on campus. -- The NYT notes the gap between rich and poor is less in spending. -- For political junkies, a new bio-pic on Lee Atwater:
-- Reforming the Electoral College gets some attention. -- Research shows Republicans are happier than Democrats. -- News Busted mocks the Clinton fundraising:
THOSE CANDIDATES & THEIR CAMPAIGNS...
Hillary Clinton Michael Baronedoes the best-case scenario math for Clinton. Camp Clinton is still bullish on its chances. Peggy Noonan tries to explain Clinton's challenge. A look inside Hillary's campaign; another one by The Atlantic. Frank Richunloads.
Democrat "Super Delegates" Time'sMark Halperin does the math on why they're important. The Boston Globeexplains how and why these uber-delegates came about. The NYT looks at the delegates "under pressure." Bill Richardson adds his take. The Congressional Black Caucus feels the heat. A list, by state, of nearly all of the "super delegates."
Barack Obama Obama and John Edwards get together; Time believes an endorsement is important. Obama gets some GOP boosting. Michelle Obama graces the cover of Newsweek; the NYT adds it focus. An end of the fad? Not according to Matthew Dowd, who predicts Obama will get the nomination.
John McCain The NYT takes a look at McCain's temper (the Associated Press already did its piece). The WSJ believes McCain may face an usual general election. Getting to 270.
PLEASE-PLEASE...I employ you to read this letter and keep a copy of it and think very carefully what I'm saying. This is the last hope that the people of our fine Country will see the light. Here goes:
In 2004 in the greatest Country in the world(at that time) a man named George Bush ran for President and promised the people "CHANGE"...he lied to them but the people believed him. It's true he did bring change...the country went into a War with no meaning(attacking the wrong enemy for self interest), the majority of the countries in the world who once admired us..now hate us, our economy is in a recession, our country is in debt, the corruption in his administration is beyond your mind, he is in contempt of Congress and tells those in his Administration not to testify when authorities investigate the corruption...this list goes on for badges. Lets end this part... The peopele of the Country are disgusted and will do anything for change...they are dying for change. The stage is now set...an election is coming up and the stage has been already set and one of the candidates(Barack Obama) has done his homework very, very well and is truly a dynamic speaker, has Charisma and is Black. He must cover all bases to assure victory so he sets the plan in motion. Super Tuesday comes and the other Candidate shows him up...now the wheels have to turn in his favor and fast. South Carolina comes up...here is his chance....mostly blacks in this state and he well knows how to capture their vote...for the first time he mentions Martin Luther King(you know what that stirs up...they remember slavery(long gone by etc)..but the hurt is deep..he likens himself to MLK for reasons that are not plausible...to get tthe black vote to overpower the white and it works(80-90% vote for him). He is a good speaker and he can convince people of anyhing....he has no substance to his political platform other than...1) CHANGE and 2) We can do it????. Oh wait...he needs the media now more than ever and deals are made which someday will become public...Super Tuesday is forgotten and FOX, CNN etc. push the South Carolina victory down everyone's throat and start making predictions which people start to buy into...he goes on to more :BLACK" states and wins them the same way...now the other Candidate's supporters who fail to look at the results very, very carefully start to think this man will actually change their life. They forget, thru his own admission, he will help primarily Africa and the Muslim world...but they don't see this because Bush has made them desperate and mad and you never make a decision when you're angry but they will do it and they have. Now he needs more support so he tells the people anything they want to hear. He also gets the present President's Father to endorse him...imagine that...republican for democrat.. smell a rat. Oh, let's not forget as part of a deal which will be seen someday...Bush and his wife go to,,,,you guessed it AFRICA to promise health to the people even though we don't have a dime. Then folks, the most disastrous thing that could have happened is happening...the people who supported the woman who would actually help the people started to believe this man and thought gee...if you don't know where the parade is..just follow the crowd...But don't blame them because when asked why they push towards him..their only response is "CHANGE"...oh there will be change alright. However, they will NOT benefit at all. OK let's try this...in Indiana a person is about to replace someone else and be a member of Congres.****Just one more thing...this man from Illinois knew he could capture the youth...why...well he was young, had used drugs(which they said...and I quote.."that was cool"),he knew the rhetoric was something they hadn't been a victim of before and believed him...see none of these people(kids) were ever victims of this before....now the wheels are turning and the media makes sure the wheels are well oiled. May God help America folks....Before it's too late...vote for Clinton...May God protect America...we're going to need it. I love you all but don't follow others ..make your own decision...By the way, notice some of the blacks(superdelagtes) in Congress have turned to Obama and openly said because he is black and will be our first black Pres....my good friends..if that's not prejudism I don't know what is.
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charles Monaghan
11:08PM Feb 17th 2008
Clinton is far ahead in the TEXAS poll....you reported it wrong...NO WAY texas will put "OBAMA" in !!!!!are you serious
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Wish Belkin
7:29AM Feb 18th 2008
Ron Paul for President !!
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charles Monaghan
9:39AM Feb 18th 2008
Hillary came up with at least a plausible 16 page economic plan to boost economy and adress a number of issues...it's on the web and will be distributed to attendees at her speeches...Obama's plan is very simple..it has two "substantial" suggestions: 1) "CHANGE" 2) WE CAN DO IT"....truly a mark of well thought out genius ????fuckin_ _ idiot. He has no plan. Then when Clinton said he gives speeches and no solutions...he showed his true ignorance in his response....he quoted famous lines from people in history and asked "ar those just words"...and he went on for 2 mins. What the hell is that suppose to mean????
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charles Monaghan
10:42AM Feb 18th 2008
The people today are starting to just realize that Obama is just Rhetoric...he is an excellent speaker and has BSed the people with the word change and we can do....that doesn't work in Washington...our country is in the worst shape it has ever been in in history..and Obama doesn't have the know how or ability to know the ins and outs of the washington playing field to start solving these problems...Hillary definitely does....if god forbid the people give the nomination to Obama...the people will then have to vote for mad dog John McCain and everyone knows what that means.Hillary will take Wisconsin because the people are smart and she will now take almost evry state...the Obama speeches full of just fancy words has now run its course.
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susan
12:24PM Feb 18th 2008
the "obamanation" is fading as more people figure out his spiel...he wont debate hillary because he simply is not in the same class with her...if the media would stop praising him and stop dogging hillary, it would be a whole different story. wake up people, please.
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Rame
1:09PM Feb 18th 2008
I would never vote for someone that is an admitted cocaine abuser(obama)! Texans for HILLARY!
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Independent
1:41PM Feb 18th 2008
To all die-hard dems and Hillary's supporters . . . be realistic and less emotional. Obama is your only chance to win the White House.
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esther trozzo
3:29PM Feb 18th 2008
people, if you love your country, please do your homework, do not follow a cult leader like Obama. Hitler did the same years ago and people followed him to hell. Obama tells us what this country needs but he NEVER tells us how to do it. Just good speaches and no substance. If you are in the states coming up do you want a president who's name is BURROCK HUSSAIN OBAMA a great speaker but no experiance helping the middle class in this country. please vote HIllery in, we need a hard worker that never gives up. thankyou
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Theresa
4:00PM Feb 18th 2008
Read the Obama Prophecy on whatdoesitmean.com SCARY!!!!!
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chaleria
5:07PM Feb 19th 2008
Obama uncovered is a socialst and an avid listner of the pastor of his church who is a dyed in the wool hater of some religions. When it comes out if the media who is covering up presents it the truth will be known that obuma is the worst president that we could have next to carter who sold out our country.
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Katherine
4:35PM Feb 18th 2008
Obama supporters don't know or care about the issues, because if they did, they would look critically at the issues and resign themselves to the fact that Hillary's outline for solving America's problems is extremely efficient, detailed, specific, and far superior to that of Obama's WEAK, generic, unacceptable and vague offering.
He's a copycat....how can the second-rate copy compare to the original mind who was innovative enough to form the original solution?
Obama lists problems that America has, and then says "I'll change all of that," HOW you freakin' BS ARTIST??
Obama is the pied-piper. Stop being brainwashed by Obama's dangerous and creepy cult of personality campaign. Rub the stars out of your eyes--it's blinding you. Stop swimming in this media tsunami called Obamanation, and clear out your ears. Just stop...and pay attention, and do what is right for the country.
HILLARY 08!!!
Obama is the pied piper.
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Katherine
6:58PM Feb 18th 2008
Wolf Blitzer asks Senator Clinton:
"What experience as a First Lady qualifies you to be President of the United States?"
(youtube---Key Words: "Hillary on 35 years of experience")
Everyone should go to www.HillaryClinton.com and view her new detailed blueprint for America.
I just contributed money to her campaign again. Every little bit helps to make history.
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Ann
10:05PM Feb 18th 2008
I am so tired of hearing about Hillary's experience. It is the main reason why I changed my mind about voting for her. Which candidate has had the EXPERIENCE of being the president? Not one of them. How can they have the experience of being a president when they have never held that office before. Hillary has no more experience that Obama or McCain
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Gary
2:20PM Feb 19th 2008
Michelle Obama today said that “for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.”
Really proud of her country for the first time? Michelle Obama is 44 years old. She has been an adult since 1982. Can it really be there has not been a moment during that time when she felt proud of her country? Forget matters like the victory in the Cold War; how about only things that have made liberals proud — all the accomplishments of inclusion? How about the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1991? Or Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s elevation to the Supreme Court? Or Carol Moseley Braun’s election to the Senate in 1998? How about the merely humanitarian, like this country’s startling generosity to the victims of the tsunami? I’m sure commenters can think of hundreds more landmarks of this sort. Didn’t she even get a twinge from, say, the Olympics?
Mrs. Obama was speaking at a campaign rally, so it is easy to assume she was merely indulging in hyperbole. Even so, it is very revealing.
It suggests, first, that the pseudo-messianic nature of the Obama candidacy is very much a part of the way the Obamas themselves are feeling about it these days. If they don’t get a hold of themselves, the family vanity is going to swell up to the size of Phileas Fogg’s hot-air balloon and send the two of them soaring to heights of self-congratulatory solipsism that we’ve never seen before.
Second, it suggests the Obama campaign really does have its roots in New Class leftism, according to which patriotism is not only the last refuge of a scoundrel, but the first refuge as well — that America is not fundamentally good but flawed, but rather fundamentally flawed and only occasionally good. There’s something for John McCain to work with here.
And third, that Michelle Obama — from the middle-class South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, Princeton 85, Harvard Law 88, associate at Sidley and Austin, and eventually a high-ranking official at the University of Chicago — may not be proud of her country, but her life, like her husband’s, gives me every reason to be even prouder of the United States.
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Florence
5:00PM Feb 19th 2008
The A to Z Guide of Clinton Scandals
Whitewatergate, Travelgate, Cattlegate and now Indonesiagate . . . there seems to be more gates in the Clinton White House than on the barns of America.
So just in case you've lost track of the scandals that have hit this current White House, The Post's Deborah Orin and Thomas Galvin have pieced together your cut-out-and-keep A to Z guide of Clinton scandals . . from Arkansas to Zippers.
A is for Arkansas, where Bill Clinton got his political start, where Hillary Rodham Clinton worked at Rose Law Firm, and where Whitewater began as a land deal between the Clintons and Jim and Susan McDougal.
B is for Billing-gate, Hillary Clinton's missing law-billing records. Those records -- which raised questions about Mrs. Clinton's role in the Castle Grande deal -- were subpoenaed in 1994. They were missing until early 1996, when they turned up in a White House room next to her office. She says she doesn't know how they got there.
C is for Cattlegate, Hillary Clinton's mysterious ability to turn a $1,000 investment into a $100,000 profit on cattle futures, a feat experts say was virtually impossible in normal trading.
C is also for Castle Grande, a real-estate scheme that federal regulators say was a sham. A federal inspector general's report found Hillary Clinton drew up the legal papers that were used to improperly funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to Seth Ward, father-in-law of her ex-law partner Webster Hubbell.
D is for Billy Dale, the career head of the White House Travel Office, who was fired along with six other career staffers, to make way for Clinton cronies in Travelgate. The White House then brought in the FBI to justify the firing, and Dale was hit with criminal charges that wrecked his life for two years. A jury cleared him in just two hours.
E is for Mike Espy, the former agriculture secretary who was forced out over charges that he got gifts and favors from Arkansas-based Tyson foods, whose owners were longtime Clinton backers. A special counsel has brought several indictments, though not against Espy.
F is for Filegate, the improper White House rummaging through 900 FBI files on Republican officials in the Bush and Reagan administration. The White House says it was an innocent snafu. Republicans suspect an enemies list. Whitewater independent counsel Ken Starr and several congressional committees are probing.
G is for Golfgate, ex-White House aide David Watkins' improper use of presidential helicopters for a personal golf outing. He was forced to resign. In the 1992 presidential campaign, Clinton aides tried to use taxpayer funds to help settle a sexual harassment case filed by a fellow campaign worker against Watkins.
H is for Hillary Clinton, whose role has been questioned in Filegate, Travelgate, Billing-gate, Whitewater and Castle Grande. She denies any wrongdoing.
H is also for Hubbell, in jail after pleading guilty to bilking law clients on charges brought by Whitewater independent counsel Starr. Hubbell was previously the associate attorney general, the No. 3 Justice Department office.
I is for Indonesiagate, featuring the Lippo group, a firm with long-standing ties to Bill Clinton, Clinton cronies and Arkansas. Republicans want to know why an Indonesian couple -- of apparently modest means -- with ties to Lippo gave $452,000 to the Democratic National Committee and what the firm may have gotten in return. Lippo also hired Hubbell, at a reported fee of $250,000, for the five months when he left the White House and went to jail.
J is for Paula Jones, who accuses President Clinton of sexual harassment, saying he dropped his pants and asked for oral sex in an Arkansas hotel room while he was governor and she was a state employee. The U.S. Supreme Court will rule this fall on whether her case must wait until after Clinton leaves office, as he demands.
K is for William Kennedy, another ex-Hillary Clinton law partner who became a White House lawyer and was forced to resign after concealing his failure to pay nanny taxes. He was reprimanded for his role in Travelgate.
L is for Craig Livingstone, the ex-bar bouncer with a history of drug use who was the head of White House security. Two FBI agents say it was Hillary Clinton who demanded his hiring, which she denies. Disgraced Clinton political guru Dick Morris's hooker pal, Sherry Rowlands, claims Morris told her a "paranoid" Hillary Clinton was behind Filegate. He says he only told her that's what polls show.
M is for Jim and Susan McDougal, the Clintons' Whitewater partners, both of whom have been convicted of fraud. Jim McDougal is said to be helping Whitewater independent counsel Starr. Susan McDougal is in jail for refusing to say whether President Clinton lied when he denied knowing about an illegal $300,000 loan to bail out Whitewater. The loan wasn't repaid, and taxpayers were left holding the bag.
M is also for disgraced political guru Dick Morris.
N is for Bernard Nussbaum, the former White House lawyer who barred federal investigators from searching Vince Foster's office after Foster's death. Nussbaum also withheld Foster's diary on Travelgate problems from federal probers for more than a year. Nussbaum was forced to resign for botching damage-control efforts.
O is for Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary, the frequent flier who drew up an enemies list of reporters, hired an image consultant at taxpayer expense, and has run up huge tabs on overseas trips.
P is for Pardons, which President Clinton has refused to rule out for individuals like Susan McDougal who potentially could provide evidence against him.
P is also for White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, expected to leave in a second Clinton term -- with the prospect that his deputy, Harold Ickes, could replaces him. Senate Republicans want perjury charges brought against Ickes for his answers on Whitewater damage control.
Q is for all the questions -- unanswered -- on Whitewater, Filegate, Travelgate, Cattlegate and Billgate.
R is for Sherry Rowlands, the $200-an-hour hooker who revealed her ongoing affair with Clinton political guru Dick Morris, the author of Clinton's family-values strategy, forcing Morris to resign.
R is also for the Rose Law Firm, where Hillary Clinton, Vince Foster, Webster Hubbell and William Kennedy were partners, as was Joseph Giroir, a key figure in the Lippo group.
S is for Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater independent counsel probing Filegate, Travelgate and Vince Foster's death. He has won 15 convictions or guilty pleas, including both McDougals and former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, who was forced to resign. Starr says his probes are active and ongoing, and there is widespread speculation he will have more indictments after the election, possibly including one of Hillary Clinton.
T is for Travelgate, the Clintons' firing of career travel staffers like Billy Dale to make way for Clinton cronies. White House memos say Hillary Clinton was behind the firings -- she denies it -- and that she was spurred on by Clinton Hollywood pal Harry Thomason, who was seeking a piece of the lucrative White House charter business.
U is for undue influence and the question of whether that is what Lippo was seeking though megabucks contributions to Democrats. Lippo has close ties to Indonesia's brutal dictatorship, responsible for near-genocide in East Timor, which it occupied two decades ago.
V is for Vince Foster, the former Hillary Clinton law partner who became a White House lawyer and was found dead, an apparent suicide with a gunshot wound to the head. He apparently was a central figure in Travelgate and Filegate and handled Whitewater matters for the Clintons. Starr is examining his death and has yet to confirm former prober Bob Fiske's conclusion that it was a suicide in the park where Foster was found.
W is for Whitewater, the Arkansas land deal that started it all, with questions about whether the Clintons improperly benefitted from funds Jim McDougal's Madison Guarantee savings-and-loan, which went belly up, costing taxpayers an estimated $60 million.
X is for the Xeroxed copy of Hillary Clinton's law billing records that were found in the white House book room, two years after they were first sought. The pages had Mrs. Clinton's fingerprints around the section on Castle Grande - there were red ink notations in the late Vince Foster's handwriting.
Y is for the the young White House aides who were hired by the Clinton administration despite FBI background checks that found "recent" use of hard drugs like cocaine, crack and hallucinogens.
Z is for zippers -- the one Paula Jones claims that the then-Arkansas governor undid (see J) and the one Gennifer Flowers claims Clinton undid during what she insists was a long-running affair. He denies the claims.
[Source: The New York Post, Wednesday October 16, 1996]
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Manny
8:03PM Feb 20th 2008
Hillary Clinton is a White House looting, FALN terrorist Bomber Pardoner, Fake, phony, fraud. This year's candidates are all bad. McCain is a Bush clone. She would drive this country in the ground like her husband (don't give me the economy crap - it was Alan Greenspan and Technology that fueled the 90's not Clinton), and Obama would be a major disaster. we're in big trouble, that's all I know.