Barack Obama

If their numbers hold true, then what excuse does Hillary have now? He has won the most states, the most popular vote, the most pledged delegates and now the most super delegates. Perhaps she should have looked at getting rid of Mark Penn earlier, like when he thought Democratic primaries were "winner take all".

Yet another nice pickup for Obama. Why is Clinton still in? Oh yeah - she is wanting the poor people to pay off her debt. Talk about an elitist stance.

It sounds more like Clinton is facing the fact she can't win, without screwing over the process. Even if Michigan and Florida get seated as is, Obama wins the popular vote, and she has no way to catch up with pledged delegates.

A lot of speculation has gone on that Clinton has been holding on, waiting for some big controversy to emerge about Obama. Well following Rev. Wright, Obama has shown he can muster through the controversies.

What happened last night was the exact opposite of what Clinton needed. For it to have been a good night for her, Indiana needed to be called early with a decisive lead and North Carolina needed to go on into the wee hours of the morning, and end up being a nail bitter. That didn't happen. All her arguments for winning are now moot.

It also looks like some of her supporters are starting to think the same way. I kind of expect to see more super delegates declare for Obama in the next couple of days. They may wait a couple of days, to see what Clinton does, but the party wants this thing over with so we can focus on John McCain. The DNC doesn't want to dump all it's money into ads against McCain, and having the Obama money machine will be of great benefit.

Finally, speaking of money, Clinton may not actually drop out. Instead she will probably do a suspension of her campaign so she can continue to try and raise money. She is in major debt, and this would give her a path to nibble away at that.

I am definitely no artist, but this should get the point across.

Barack and Michelle Obama said this today:

Democrat Barack Obama and his wife said Thursday the public is tired of hearing about incendiary remarks by their former pastor, as they sought to put the controversy that has rocked his presidential campaign to rest.

"We hear time and time again voters are tired of this," Michelle Obama said in an interview the couple gave to NBC's "Today" show.'

Again we are stuck suffering through some media created outrage. MSNBC has been particularly disgusting with this story. It has been the topic of conversation for the last several days. They want people to think it is the main issue facing Americans, and that we worry about nothing else. Forget Iraq, the economy, terrorism, health care, jobs, etc. - we want to hear about Wright! This just shows how out of touch they are with the American public.

So how much is America concerned about Wright? Markos digs that up for us:

How much bigger? 43 percent of respondents are concerned about the 71-year-old John McCain's close ties to George Bush.

36 percent have concerns about Clinton's political opportunism, and 27 percent are concerned about Bill Clinton being back in the White House.

34 percent have problems with Obama's "bitter" remarks and 32 percent give a damn about Jeremiah Wright.

The two biggest "outrages" the media has created, Wright and "bittergate", are the least of voters concerns. In that poll, it looks like John McCain has the most to worry about. I wonder if MSNBC will bring this up? I doubt it since it's just a poll - a poll ran by NBC!

And you have now been thrown under it:

Barack Obama angrily denounced his former pastor for "divisive and destructive" remarks on race, seeking to divorce himself from the incendiary speaker and a fury that threatens to engulf his front-running Democratic presidential campaign.

Actually it is more like Obama was driving the bus. I hope one strong message comes out of all this mess - religion and politics do not mix. I bet if we examined sermons given by preachers of any presidential candidate, we could find some really controversial stuff being said.

FOX figures their goons will go out an corner a Catholic Priest on the Rev. Wright stuff. The priest hit back hard and made O'Reilly's goons look like bumbling idiots.

Brad Blog has much more on this.

This is the biggest margin to date for Obama. I guess the pundits blew it again. It seems that the "bitter" comment isn't hurting Obama, like they all claimed it would. As matter of fact, the AP is finding out that there isn't much impact at all:

Yes, some Democrats in Pennsylvania's Rust Belt communities were upset by Barack Obama's suggestion that voters there "cling to guns or religion" because of bitterness about their economic lot. But many more seem to think it was no big deal - and if there's a problem it's with the political slapfest that has followed.

So Scarborough, Buchanan, O'Reilly, and all you other broadcasters out there, stop telling middle America how they feel. You are elitists in your own sense and have no idea what we "feel". It's an insult to try and tell us that. Here's something middle America. Why don't one of you guys walk into a local bar and start telling all the people that they need to "feel" this way? Watch how fast you get called outside.

Talking about Obama's speech about Middle America, Pat Buchanan said "This is what he thinks of us?" As Cesca points out, Pat is not Middle America at all. He is a D.C. insider. To sit there and try to claim he is Middle America is an insult to Middle America.

Obama said that Middle America is bitter for losing their jobs and turn to God and guns in that time. I live in Middle America, where flags fly on Sunday for race car drivers and abandoned factories litter the landscape. What Obama said was right on. I can point to numerous people I know that lost their nice paid job of years to outsourcing. They are facing foreclosure and can barely afford food, yet come Sunday they are at church giving what money they don't have to the collection plate. Come hunting season, they are the first ones out there with their guns killing anything that moves.

Hillary and McCain's response has been about that same, that this makes Americans stronger. Starving and being out of home makes us stronger? Talk about an elitist comment, that is a blatant one right there. I think there should be a challenge to all the Presidential candidates. You have 2 weeks to live on unemployment, or a common Middle America salary, and see how it goes. I bet they would fold within a few days.

Shockingly, one network seems to be standing up for Obama. That network is CNN. Watch this panel slam Clinton and McCain over this:

(h/t AmericaBLOG)

I believe what Obama said does resemble us in Middle America. McCain and Clinton are out playing the elitists on this and voters won't buy it.

Also Cesca reminds us of when Clinton surrogate, and Pennsylvania Governor, Ed Rendell basically said Middle America was nothing but racists.

Another great month for Obama, and it looks like it might be more than double what Clinton did. Guess the whole momentum thing is moot now.

April Fool's:

Senator Hillary Clinton's lead in the Pennsylvania Primary is shrinking.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Pennsylvania shows Clinton leading Barack Obama by just five percentage points, 47% to 42%. For Clinton, that five-point edge is down from a ten-point lead a week ago, a thirteen-point lead in mid-March and a fifteen-point advantage in early March.

Her lead is down to only 5 points now. This has been typical this entire cycle. Clinton leads in a state for months and then once their primary date gets closer, and Obama gets out there and starts campaigning he ends up eating away at that lead, or even beating her. I want to hear the pundits talk it away if Obama ends up winning Pa.

Obama picks up another super delegate, with Pa. Senator Bob Casey set to endorse him. Also on the election front, John McCain is rolling out his first general election ad. McCain will have a big jump start on the dems with his general election campaigning. It's ashame the person losing in the Democratic race isn't devoted enough to the party to drop out and let the party start healing and worry about actually winning the White House, instead of winning the nomination only.

Bob Cesca put this together and it is unbelievable. He couldn't have picked a better song either.

When Bill Richardson decided to endorse Obama, he said one of the reasons was because of the advisers the Clinton campaign has been using. Now you got Carville out there running his mouth and insulting Richardson. Doesn't that basically prove what Richardson said?

But we are talking about James Carville. This is the guy who goes on news networks and tries to sell himself as some "independent pundit" while emails are going out by him urging people to give to Hillary. Carville betrays the public every time he gets on the air.

Perhaps it is time for us to start equating Carville to Rove. He is a dirty trickster that will stop at nothing to try and get his person elected. He is also the epitemy of what is wrong with the Democratic Party today.

Apparently the employees at FOX aren't drinking the kool-aide that Murdoch and Co. want to serve up:

Fox News' very own anchors are speaking out - and walking off - over what they perceive to be "Obama-bashing" on their network.

This morning on "Fox and Friends," Brian Kilmeade walked off the set after a dispute with his co-hosts Gretchen Carlson (she who celebrates deadly floods) and Steve Doocy over Obama's comment that his grandmother is a "typical white person." Kilmeade argued that the remark needed to be taken in context and eventually got so fed up with his co-hosts that he walked off set.

Later, "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace came on the show and railed against "Fox and Friends" for what he called "Obama-bashing."

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