Harry is basically saying nothing here. 'After the primaries' is two freaking months from now, during which Saint McCain the Good will continue to get free media passes on his daily inane statements, and Hillary continues to assail Obama. Get her the hell out NOW.

I'm with Nick.

The key here is that he said, "Things are being done."

He did not say "Things will be done."

I have a feeling that they'll feel they can't get her out now if the remaining states might kick up the kind of fuss that Florida and Michigan did. She may be pumping sludge into the stream, but if people think he's not the legitimate candidate, then that doesn't help in the general election either. And most people don't (can't!) follow every little twist and turn in the campaign-- they just know they want their chance "to vote."

Plus, really: the Republicans don't need Hillary to come up with ways to attack Obama. The Democratic leadership needs to do whatever it can to burnish the Party brand, which probably means leaving it alone at this point and letting people get their chance to vote.

Then I think they would be wise to declare a victory and pull the plug.

It'd be nice if Goracle and Edwards could have a private sit-down with Hillary and tell her, privately, that if she doesn't get out now, politely and in a dignified manner, then they'll go all public with their support for Obama and strongly encourage other Super D's (and anyone else) to do the same. For the good of the party not to mention This Great Nation. While I'm asking, I would also like a pony.

I think this is all good. Let it play out. The Dem candidate doesn't need six months to bring McCain down. He's a fragile candidate. There's nothing Hillary can do to Obama that the GOP won't try themselves, so let him take slings and arrows now and toughen up. If McCain simply waddles along in the shadows, it doesn't matter. Both Hillary and Obama have a ton of ammunition to bury that guy.

Not to read too much into Reid's comments, but it sounds like the party elders are talking and have a sense of when they might be ready to step forward and pull the plug. It's only March. There is time. I bet drop-dead time is early June.

The superdelegates don't need to have a "sit-down" with Hillary. They just need to endorse Obama. They can even endorse him while heaping praise on the vigorous primary race and insisting that Hillary has a right to keep going.

If enough supers endorse Obama, the math will be impossible for Hillary and she will be forced to withdraw because Obama has officially won enough delegates. This type of exit is highly preferable to having it seem as though Hillary was forced out by behind-the-scenes pressure from party elders.

Obamaniacs are furious at Hillary for not stopping the primary, but the superdelegates also have the power to end it. All they have to do is come out for Obama. Be mad at them, not Hillary.

They should just nominate Gore and get it over with. Only he can end global warming and get Iran to the negotiating table, get Syria to the negotiating table and even Hamas and Hezbollah.

When those groups are pushed towards some kind of recognisation of Israel there can finally be peace in the Middle East. They are the current obstacles but Gore has the moxy, street cred and good will to get it done. Unfortunately, Obama and Hillary don't.

The "Tanya Harding" strategy from Sen. Clinton's corner (ABC blog):

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/03/dnc-official-cl.html

being done? by the time anything's done - neither of them will be worth a damn and they sure won't have the other side's support - I know I won't be voting for Hillary - if McCain wins against her - so be it - and I blame the DNC for letting this go on like this.

I have to say this. I want to know why Hillary has to step aside. Because she is a woman & he is A.A. man, that hasn't won yet?? Do you see how insane that is? He hasn't won. I am so tired of the sexism of people. Get a grip. She doesn't have to quit because he said so. Or conversely he doesn't have to quit because she said so!!! Howard Dean and the DNC have a very real agenda!!! You can see it as plain as the nose on any face!! You people sound so sexist, because you are!! HELLO people, Hillary supporters are not stupid, they will be furious if she is asked to leave. Oblahblah can't win in the G.E. accept it & move on, he is done!!! I wish Hillary would run Independent beat obamas @$$, while giving Howard Dean the finger. People pay attention. They are trying to squeeze her out so she isn't on the ballot for a new vote in Mi. & Fl. Hoping that they will jump on the oblahblah band wagon. They wont. They watch T.V & read the paper, they know what obama has said about them. "Doesn't matter, beauty contest, they don't count". He is avoiding running against her because he knows he will lose!! Hillary has been treated so badly by the media you dont see it because you are Hillary haters!! But know that they are going to try to blame it on illary when the real reason is Dean aint fit to lead. Women are waking up & getting pi$$ed. That is why her #'s keep going up. The DNC trys to shoot her down & it makes her #'s go up!!! Wake up people!!

Obama is irrelevant. He's a total loser, who ruthlessly plays the race card.

The corporate media, which goes out of it's way to demonize black men as criminals has known about Jeremiah Wright for over a year at least. They sat on it and pumped up, and pumped up, and pumped up Obama to the point where he snowballed and won caucus after caucus (and black dominated primaries after black dominated primaries).

Then when his lead is nearly insurmountable, they bring out Jeremiah Wright.

It's not about Obama, it's about hurting the Clintons which they hate and fear the most.

Obama is unelectable. More will come out about him. Much, much more. To believe otherwise is completely naive.

Prediction: they will not publicly tell her to bow out, rather they will arrange for her to fall on her sword by throwing some of the remaining primaries.

Mark my words: she will "lose" Pennsylvania, either outright or by making it look close. Only after that will the insiders start to pressure her more publicly.

This lets her hard-core supporters down easy, while stealing another month of free media from McBush and toughening up Obama's image by demonstrating that the race / patriotism attacks don't work.

Perhaps she has started already. How else to explain the incompetence of being caught at the Bosnia lies and then immediately giving herself a Swirlie in the Rev. Wright toilet.

Just my little fantasy / conspiracy theory.

I third, or fourth Nick too!

She is going to destroy the Democratic Party if they let her continue!

www.urbanstump.typepad.com

Funny that the race card is brought up by a guy named AsianGuy4Hillary. pretty weak, brother.

Lol,

Obama-Axelrod, the corporate media and the GOP played the race card when Hillary said whites played a key role in the Civil Rights movement, a statement which was historically and factually correct.

Obama-Axelrod, the corporate media and the GOP played the race card Bill Clinton said both Jesse Jackson and Obama won S. Carolina because of the black vote, a statement which is both factually and historically correct.

Obama-Axelrod, the corporate media and the GOP played the race card when Geraldine Ferraro said that Obama was getting favorable treatment by the corporate media (who want him, the weak & unelectable candidate to win the nomination but not the general election). Ferraro is right, any and all media analyses shows the media is far tougher on Clinton. And these analyses don't take into account the INTENSITY of negativity, but rather they merely count negative vs positive stories.

The corporate media/GOP has much more dirt on Obama, but are sitting on it.

Hillary's opposition research does too, but they are sitting on it.

The corporate media has a sinister obsession with black crime & white victimization, an obsession that has almost no connection to reality. (Study the crime and victimization data at the FBI/DOJ's websites.) The GOP is the party of the Confederate flag. Obama is an ambitious guy running for president. There's no objectivity in any of these camps, much less the moral authority to play the race card. Even more suspect is that they are all saying the same thing. I always expect the corporate media and the GOP to say the same thing, but never agree with a Dem running for office.

Aren't you the least bit suspicious at the fact that prior to Jeremiah Wright, the GOP pundits only attacked Hillary and John Edwards?!? Moreover, the corporate media itself never went after Obama prior to Jeremiah Wright, but for a brief blip of negativity over Michelle Obama's "for the first time in my adult life time..." freudian slip.

As for the "asian guy bringin up A.A." cheapshot... I'm actually for Affirmative Action even though it is Asians who bare the brunt of AA slots at elite schools, like Harvard and Berkley--contrary to the myth that whites are adversely affected by AA. Whites are affected in the work place, but not in elite schools.

As far as I can remember, I've always believed that America needs to make a formal apology for slavery.

I supported the firing of Don Imus and the tar and feathering of Michael Richards (Kramer from Seinfeld). Naturally, I must condemn Jeremiah Wright and the many other preachers associated to Obama who's names have yet to surface.

Blacks love to have it both ways: They go out of their way to condemn Imus and Kramer on the one hand and then go out of their way to defend the indefensable, namely Jeramiah Wrong.

Blacks abandoned Hillary and went for Obama not because he's "brilliant" as Oprah claims, but merely because he is black.

Blacks did not support OJ (and Michael Jackson, etc.) not becaue he is a 2000 yard rusher, but because he is black.

Whites (and blacks too!) saw Joran Vandersloot as guilty, they saw Phil Spectre as guilty, Scott Peterson as guilty, Robert Blake as guilty, etc...

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[b]When Barry Became Barack[/b]
NEWSWEEK

Keith Kakugawa was a close friend of Obama's at the Punahou School. (He appears in "Dreams" as a revised character named "Ray" who may be a composite of more than one Obama friend.) He says that Obama, being a dark-skinned kid growing up in a white household, sensed that something was amiss. "He felt that he was not getting a part of who he was, the history," says Kakugawa, who is also of mixed race.

Back in Hawaii in the 1970s, it could seem that everyone was some kind of a minority. [b]The fact that Obama was half-black and half-white didn't matter much to anyone but Obama, Kakugawa says: "He made everything out like it was all racial." On one occasion, Obama thought he'd gotten a bad break on the school basketball team because he was black. But Kakugawa recalls his father's telling the teenager, "No, Barry, it's not because you're black. It's because you missed two shots in a row." (Here, Kakugawa's memory is different from Obama's. The Ray character in the book is the one obsessed with being discriminated against.)[/b]

Source: http://www.newsweek.com/id/128633/page/3
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It appears that our friend Barry is quite the paranoid jerk who simply cannot help but play the race card at the drop of a hat.

Keith Kakugawa is half-Japanese and half-black. He and many others remember the racial situation in Hawaii quite differently than our friend Barry.

Barry's two autobiographical books (Dreams of my Father, Tha Audacity of Hope) are full of half-truths, embellishments, and dramatically contrived situations and even made-up characters.

In short, Barry is a brazen race-monger and not to mention a world-class BS artist.

First the Democrats blindly follow Obama ... now, they are willing to blindly follow Reid, Bush and Paulson ... in a decision which could dramatically affect every American for decades. Well, thank God, Senator John McCain, Senator Shelby, and hundreds of economists don't just want to take a few people's word for it. Already, Reid has tried to tack additional pork, like Acorn, to this bailout. I didn't think I could dislike inept Harry Reid, with his 15% approval rating, any more than I already did, but this isn't about Reid being left alone to decide America's future. It will be interesting to look back at this in retrospect, to see if we really did have to RUSH this 750 Billion dollar decision ... and, who really benefitted from pushing it through so quickly.