Barack Obama Elected President!

[Roman]

"Here's Pat Buchanan's analysis of Obama any time he's asked: "Obama is in trouble. (Rev. Wright) Hard working white people won't vote for him (Rev. Wright). Hispanics won't vote for him (Rev. Wright)." He says this all the time and instead of asking him they should just say and Pat is going to say...........(Rev. Wright).

THAT is PB's response. BO could bleach his skin and he would still be too dark for him.

[Roman]

Senior advisers to Senator Hillary Clinton have prepared the ground for her to abandon her presidential ambitions within days rather than disputing the Democratic nomination all the way to the party convention in August.

Clinton won a lopsided, but largely symbolic victory in Puerto Rico's presidential primary, the final act in a weekend of tumult that pushed Senator Barack Obama tantalizingly close to the Democratic presidential nomination.

Obama is expected to be able to declare himself the party's candidate against Senator John McCain as early as tomorrow, when South Dakota and Montana become the final states to hold their primaries.

Just after the polls close, Mr Obama, who could be accompanied by senior Democratic Party figures, is to hold a huge rally in St Paul, Minnesota, at the venue where Mr McCain is due to accept the Republican nomination in September.

His aides were working furiously yesterday to amass the two dozen or so "super-delegates" – party officials whose convention votes are not tied to the primaries – he would need to ensure that the South Dakota and Montana results give him a majority.

Terry McAuliffe, Mrs Clinton's campaign chairman, told ABC News: "We'll see where we are when we finish up Tuesday. Then super-delegates will begin to move. But we're going to make our argument right up until someone has that number."

Howard Dean, the Democratic National Committee chairman, said the nomination would be decided this week: "We don't want to go to the convention, have a big fight at the convention, and lose the presidency."

A dispute over whether and how to seat delegates from Michigan and Florida was resolved on Saturday by giving each delegate only half a vote as a penalty for those states defying the party by holding early primaries.

The Clinton camp was unhappy with the decision, which raised the number of delegates needed for victory from 2,025 to 2,118, but showed little appetite to challenge.

According to the non-aligned RealClearPolitics website, Mr Obama has 2,051 delegates to Mrs Clinton's 1,876. There were 55 delegates at stake in Puerto Rico, which voted yesterday and 31 will be at stake in South Dakota and Montana.

Mrs Clinton was expected to win in Puerto Rico while Mr Obama appears to have clear leads in the last two states. If the two candidates split the delegates, that would leave Mr Obama needing just 24 of the remaining 178 undecided super-delegates for outright victory.

Even Harold Ickes, Mrs Clinton's fearsomely combative senior adviser, appeared to be close to conceding defeat.

When asked on NBC television whether the former First Lady would congratulate Mr Obama on Tuesday, he responded: "We expect to get the nomination and we're making the case."

Last week, Mrs Clinton said she expected undecided super-delegates to make up their mind quickly after Tuesday. Her rapidly fading hopes rested on her being able to persuade 90 per cent of them to overturn Mr Obama's delegate lead because of her contention that she would be the stronger candidate against Mr McCain.

Mr Obama indicated on Saturday night that he thought Mrs Clinton, in consultation with her husband Bill, would concede this week so that the party could unite against Mr McCain.

"I think that Senator Clinton and former President Clinton love this country," he said.

"They love the Democratic Party. I think they deeply believe that Democrats need to win in November. And so I trust that they're going to do the right thing."

[Jess]

Whoa Obama is sending a little hint to the Clintons there isn't he? :lol:

[Roman]

Jess......

Please. Where did you get that banner?

[Dr. Jay S.W.]

Damn Obama's quote in that banner sounds similar.......

[DevotedToAMC]

If Jess does not mind, I can answer...it is at his website

[Roman]

In the nicest way possible.

[DevotedToAMC]

Well one of them has to end the race and the odds are it will be Hillary...but you never know

[Roman]

Todd S. Purdum, former New York Times staffer and current Vanity Fair national editor, lets loose in the July issue of the magazine with a lengthy profile of Bill Clinton after leaving the White House. It's getting reduced to sex in some places -- friends worried that he was spending suspicion-raising time with attractive women on the road -- but there's no smoking gun (to stick with political metaphors), and focusing on speculation about a return to form for the former wanderer-in-chief does the article a disservice.

Purdum, who covered portions of the Clinton administration, offers up a deeply reported look at a primal force in politics facing his own dissipation. Scandal, big-bucks speaking fees, big-bucks pals like Ron Burkle with private planes, but also heart surgery and a clear physical deterioration. Bill Clinton is no longer the man he once was, though he is still a force -- Purdum describes Clinton as "the smiling, snowy-haired man who is the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral he attends."

Purdum, who is married to Clinton's former press secretary, Dee Dee Myers, writes:

"To know Clinton is, sooner or later, to be exasperated by his indiscipline and disappointed by his shortcomings. But through it all, it has been easy enough to retain an enduring admiration — even affection — for a president whose sins against decorum and the dignity of his office seemed venial in contrast to the systemic indifference, incompetence, corruption, and constitutional predations of his successor’s administration. That is, easy enough until now.

"This winter, as Clinton moved with seeming abandon to stain his wife’s presidential campaign in the name of saving it, as disclosures about his dubious associates piled up, as his refusal to disclose the names of donors to his presidential library and foundation and his and his wife’s reluctance to release their income tax returns created crippling and completely avoidable distractions for Hillary Clinton’s own long-suffering ambition, I found myself asking again and again, What’s the matter with him?"

What's the matter, indeed.

-- Scott Martelle

[DevotedToAMC]

LOL that is the biggest low blow of this campaign season

[Roman]

No. It isn't.

[Roman]

And this is what some of the same conservatives who she was trying to court feel about her:

by John Lillpop

Sit Down and Shut Up, Hillary Clinton!

June 01, 2008 03:00 AM EST

For damn near 17 years, the American people have stood by helplessly while being forced to witness non-stop exaggerations, deception, distortion, and scandals perpetrated by one Hillary Rodham Clinton.Over that time, this arrogant, self-serving, lying b**** has been in our faces and on our television screens and radios, in our newspapers and magazines, in our books, and on the Internet. She has haunted America with her gall and crudeness as either First Lady, junior Senator from New York, or, most recently, candidate for the presidency.

Year after year, we have endured outrageous and criminal behavior from this sawed-off feminist hoodlum who, all things considered, probably deserves to be married to the equally repulsive creep known as Bill Clinton.Whether it was her fascist formula to fix health care and ram it down the throats of an unwilling American public, or the mysterious disappearance and reappearance of her Rose Law firm records, or the nepotism scandal called Travel Gate, Hillary has always been front and center when it comes to malfeasance and corruption.Just how did Hillary Rodham Clinton manage to convert a $12,000 cattle futures investment into a $100,000 profit in only 10 months? What really happened to Vince Foster? How close was she to being indicted by Ken Starr for her Whitewater shenanigans?

The answers to these and other questions will probably never be revealed fully, which means that Hillary Clinton will escape real justice.

Still, there is one bit of good news to celebrate: As early as June 3, Hillary Clinton's wretched campaign for the White House will die an ugly and humiliating death.

The American people will finally be empowered to silence this evil creature. Thank God!

Let the word go forth, from coast to coast and village to village:

Sit Down and Shut Up, Hillary Clinton!

[Jess]

Jay was correct. I got it off of his campaign web site.

If you go over there, you can download codes to banners and other markings for web pages. I do like the quote.

[DevotedToAMC]

I like that banner...looks very presidential

[EricaKane70]

I still think hillary will be in this race until after june 3 unless obama gives her a good offer. Something tells me offering her a role in a cabinet just isn't gonna cut it.