So is everyone quoting Malcolm X?

He has been bamboozled us.   I thought he was a unifier, but his action spoke differently.

But the problem is he didn't just "say" it, the media used the terms "ridicule" and "mocking." Hardly the elder statesman approach.

He means it.  So did JFK.

Whether you want to include it or not, an awful lot of people in Florida voted because they were all listed on the ballot and Obama was the only one who campaigned in the state.  That being the case, you need to check your math and quit using Karl Rove math.  ;-)

The number of caucuse states one has won also does not determine the winner.  In the end, the winner will have to have Super Delegates.  And the winner will have won Florida and MN.  

it were winner-take-all on a state-by-state basis.  Which it isn't.  But since you want to use the notion taht the delegation formats were to mimic the EC and provide a candidate more likely to win, let's consider which candidate has "won" the most electoral votes so far.

Leaving Florida IN because all candidates were on the ballot, but leaving Michigan OUT because Obama wasn't on the ballot - Clinton has 246 votes and Obama has 196.

Agreed. We democrats need to make it clear.

No.
More.
Clintons.

Or any of their DLC ilk.

Is the FreeRepublic closed tonight?

If that's the case, after this record breaking turn out in primary, Democrat party might have the lowest turn out in general election.

That really hurst coming from Miss Inevitability supporter.

Hillary supporters might not like it, but they need to recognize that he has 50% of the DEM voters who support him.  The opposite is true for Obama supporters.  

She didn't "offer" it. It was mentioned. Why are all the OBama fans getting their panties in a wad over this?  This faux outrage is Rove-worthy.

Oh yes, like everything else this is GOOD FOR HILLARY!!

Given that he will have a 100-150 delegate lead entering PA, despite the fact that he entered the race a massive underdog, I can only imagine how well he'd be doing if his campaign was "effective" would he have been declared President for life after bringing about World Peace, developing a clean, green fuel and curing AIDS? Man, if only Obama could have run with the mastery adn professionalism of Hillary Clinton?!

she just sounds ridiculous offering a VP spot to them men with current delegate and popular vote lead.

And he is perfectly willing to let her maker that statement.

I don't know about that. The Clinton campaign is throwing a lot at Obama these days-and not much is sticking. This week is the VP discussion, if that doesn't work I can assure you that next week she will go back to bashing Obama and trying to make herself experienced next to McCain. To be honest I think the Obama camp is taking it's time sorting through all of these ridiculous comments that Hill is spitting daily nowadays, and waiting to take it's shot.
Obama is in MS today. His latest stump talks about how Hillary doesn't think he can answer the phone, but wants him a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Meanwhile, Hillary has been in PA for the last two days. You want to know why Hill is going to lose by more than 20 points tomorrow? Because she doesn't campaign in all 50 states, and lets Obama do his thing uncontested. Meanwhile, she is going to spend $$ in PA and only win by 10 points max.

Then she is going to wonder why she can't bite into his delegate lead.

they are running a great campaign.

Wait, who is ahead in the delegate count?

That's right, the incompetent campaign - the one that hasn't fired their campaign manager.

What is bamboozling is saying on the one hand that he doesn't have the credentials to be president and then saying that maybe he should be vp.

No one would argue that you should pick a vp nominee who you think shouldn't be vp.

Thus if he's qualified to be vp, then he's passed "the test" to be president.

Wolson just made the whole contradictory mess worse today by saying that by the time of the convention Obama might be qualified to be vp. But that would mean that he's also qualified to be president -- according to the standard view of vp and the view put forth by Bill Clinton in 1992.

and he was right to reject it out of hand.

And there's nothing classy about that!

EXACTLY same thing about Clinton

At least recognize this: it will be harder still for Clinton to win over the 50% opposite her if she has to subvert the delegate process in order to put in herself in that position in the first place.

Because, and this may surprise you, most of the supporters of both candidates are Democrats.  We wrestle, cajole, hurl insults, etc. to try to get our primary candidate nominated but if we fail, we take it on the chin.

And here's a real shocker! Most of us have voted for Democrats in the past when neither Hillary nor Obama were running.  And we will vote for Democrats again in the future too.  

He is currently up by 156 pledged delegates.

In fact Obama treating people decently is part of the appeal.

I still vote for Clinton in GE if she gets it but with her recent attacks she is not getting my vote in the Primary

Are the supers going to choose Hillary knowing that much of the excitement and many of the Obama's voters sit out if they see a back room deal forcing Obama to accept VP? Or are they going to sit down and tell the Clinton's that the Democratic Party appreciates everything they've done for the country and the party, but that we must move on, and that there is a Senate Majority leadership or a governor's seat in NY available? The kind of excitement and increase in voter participation that we're seeing doesn't happen every 4 years - the supers are not crazy enough to miss this train.

Wow.

Now that's delusional.

If you think Obama, through 38 states, has managed to amass a 100-150 delegate lead by pumping out some sort of ABH vote -- then she SHOULD drop out.  

wild conjecture and wishful thinking.

mocking that offer because they wanted that offer.

But you're so right, the responsible leaders are going to have to push this in the right direction for the party.

On either side, can you imagine one not winning but getting roughly half the delegates-- and then telling the other one's delegates and voters that the VP is going to be somebody else?

We all have our hopes right now about the opposite person dropping out, and that's where we should be right now, but we need one eye on unity even as we fight this out to the end.

And it's going to take cool heads.  And having candidates keep from looking like they will never accept the idea.

women, seniors, latinos, white southerners... to name a few.

Experience, the amazing coalition mentioned above, big state wins, and change....please.  You'd have double the change.  

Millions of women, even Republican women, will certainly see it that way.  

And if their policies are so similar, why are you worried that Obama wouldn't be able to do something miraculous he would have done otherwise?

There's plenty of work to be done in this country.  Let's get these people to realize it's time to get our own party together if we want to see this country going back in the right direction.

So am I.  It frees up Clinton to pick a qualified running mate when she gets the nomination. :)

Once she is the nominee, she will no longer feel obligated to ask BO as he has already turned down the offer.

cite?

That's exactly what I've been wondering. She said that she believes that she should be at the top of the ticket, but that would be for voter to decide. I don't know if it was really an "offer."

reporting is my first guess too.  Except with a real backstory.

Everything I've seen was just reporters asking her (not him, you notice, and it's time someone asked him so I'll know if he's a jerk or not a jerk) if she would consider having him on the ticket.

And she's consistently been open to it.

One more note though, I have heard (not seen reporting) that Dean has been trying to get them to meet and work it out because he feels they're speding hundreds of millions of dollars, wasting all this money, and visibly tearing the party apart which he believes looks like the only way we'll lose.

Anyway, Hillary has shown signs of readiness to begin putting out feelers and that's what you do at this stage.  He could show some respect because to her voters, it sounds like he's saying he's too good for her.  He doesn't respect her coalition, or as he basically said "I can get her voters with or without her."  Of course, it's not true.

Oh, good choice, why not Lieberman while your at it, or hey if its the black thing and you want a winne rwith similar views to Ford, JC Watts.

This is a joke, right?

No thanks.  He supported TN's anti-gay constituional amendment.