Is this some kind of Quasi-Anti Question to trick me?

"who did Bill Clinton vote for?"

Same answer as well.

What's really impressive is how Delaware and Connecticut have so much Obamentum that they're levitating and expanding.

This whole thing is beginning to freak me the hell out .

"At some point in the evening, a light is going to shine down and you will have an epiphany and you'll say, 'I have to vote for Barack.'"

- Did he really say that ?

is that quote from Obama for real, or just a goof?

Guess none of those other states matter...does Obama take himself this seriously?  That worries me a little bit.

arrogance (n) 1. Barrack Obama's Personality

"....You have to vote for Barack.... You have to give all our money to Barack ....."

This was a joke by Obama poking fun at himself.

I sense a trick question.

I have seen him deliver this line several times..it is a humorous riff about converting undecided voters... Jerome..are you being intellectually honest here?

If I wanted to stare at Obama's site, I'd go there. Now I feel dirty.

Whomever is paying him the most this time around?

That or who his astrology is suggesting.

Or who's stocks he is being payed to tout.

Barack at his worst in still better than that schmaltzy "YOU ARE NOT INVISIBLE TO ME" line from HRC.

He stole my tagline.

Yea, though I walk through the shadow of Clinton, I will fear no evil...

Good God, does this guy think he's Jesus? Oh yes, we mustn't have schmaltzy, because everyone who votes is 25 years old and just can't handle an unhip candidate. Christ, some of you Obamabots are so pathetic.

Perhaps if you heard a personal story of how someone came to Obama you'd see the light?

is EXTENDED on my screen.

Progressive Blue

Add

Washington, Lousiana, Nebraska, Maine, Virgin Islands, Maryland, D.C, and Virginia to the list.

If so... Oh My God!

The whole god like quality of his website is beautiful and scary at the same time.

Progressive Blue

fucking up the front page of MyDD for me. I do not have a wide screen on this comp.

Progressive Blue

wow the anti-obama rhetoric is amazing on this site. Will you guys even support him if he is the nominee?

The new ads and updated info from Hillary Clinton?

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/blog/view/ ?id=40358

How about the Whoopi video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFtRo3RHp q8

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I really think we should stop demonizes either Barack or Hillary for one of them will be our candidate in the Fall and I suspect they will end up being a ticket of Clinton/Obama.

Jerome i would describe you as a Libertarian above any other political description so... yeah.

Besides that he isn't a democrat... i don't see any other reason why you wouldn't support him.

we're wallowing in the darkness... but that's just because the vote count isn't done yet here and we don't know who won.  They're still counting provisionals.

All part of living in the Land of Enchantment.

Did you notice Barack's little sunrise is a "Morning in America" logo?

Oh yes it is.  Reagan all over again.

Yes, you, the very ones on this blog who think  Obama is trying to create a Messiah myth. And you're so dense you don't even see it.

Barack is religion.

Hillary is science.

One is based on feeling. The other is based on facts.

Or, as the LA Times put it....Barack is a poem. Hillary is an essay.

Gag me. Just tell me who is gonna get us to universal health care and who isn't and I'll tell you who our best advocate in the white house will be.

I am sorry but this clinches it for me. I thought it was a joke when you had it  up on your website. And then I actually went to his site. This reeks of Christian fundamentalism and cultism- all that is missing is the halo on his head. Shining blue light out of only some states????

As a secular democrat how do I  vote for him now? I think this is almost as scary as Mitt the Mormon.

http://www.barackobama.com/index.php

Your comment about languishing in darkness is laughable.  And yet a bit sad....because the fate of our country hangs in the balance.  Senator Obama is very uplifting.  However, we don't need a Revival preacher who comes in, throws a out a few platitudes, takes money from the congregation and Moves On.  We need the preacher who builds the church, gets things done and successfully helps the entire church move forward through daily hard work.

America's future should be in the hands of Senator Hillary Clinton.  Everyone please give her your vote for President!

It is appalling that this shallow, silly, mean spirited post is on the front page. It reminds me of Fox and Shuster and Limbaugh. The content is different but the feeling is the same.

This blog should be called myhrc.  Maybe Jerome still pissed that Warner is not running.

I'm pretty sure Barack was joking about the epiphany comment.

But if you want to talk about arrogant, entitled bullshit, what about the Clintons?  

They're behaving a little better of late not because they've learned anything, but because the polls have told them it doesn't work.

I am one of those progressives whose was very happy at the idea of voting for Hillary in November. Now if Hillary gets the nomination, I don't know what I'll do.

Though I'll doubt she could win against McCain, if she did she would help create another conservative backlash that gave us Bush II.  

With Barack, progressives have an amazing opportunity to change the politics of this country.  If we can't seize this moment, it's our own damn fault.

Where is McCain on that list?

Were I a Democratic strategist, Obama's piss-poor showing in CA, where he was fully resourced, would be of great concern, because it would seem to put the state in play for McCain if O prevails.  Similarly in FLA, where there was a level playing field and O underperformed.

Are we going to let the fact that Michigan and Florida jumped the gun on primary dates determine that Obama will get the nod?

"I was introduced to Jesus in a way I had never been before. Part of my mission as a politician is to go out and do the Lord's work." (Barack Obama in Macon, Georgia)

I never saw anything like the Obama campaign. I don't believe all these second coming of christ references and visuals are working in the Democratic primary. It is like a cult. It doesn't seem American to me. Don't believe this is the party I belong to. I am glad that my Grandparents aren't here to see the the Party of Roosevelt to be taken over by a living God, a reincarnation of all the good parts of every religious and political leader who can heal the nation by force of his personality. He really is a charlatan. I am really scared of this cult leader and the obamamaniacs who follow him.

Anyone who doesn't see a problem with these obviously religious graphics  or the "joke" that he is telling is either being disingenuous or have drunk all the coolaid.

http://www.salon.com:80/opinion/greenwal d/2008/01/21/obama/

Barack Obama: "Committed Christian -- Called to Bring Change"

Mike Huckabee has been widely criticized for his overt religious appeals to win votes. One of the most criticized aspects of his campaign was a television ad he ran in Iowa and South Carolina pointedly describing himself as a "Christian leader":

Today, Greg Sargent posted a brochure which the Obama campaign is distributing in South Carolina which seem to include religious appeals at least as overt and explicit as anything Huckabee has done. The center page of the brochure proclaims -- in the largest letters on the page -- that Obama is a "COMMITTED CHRISTIAN," and includes three pictures of Obama, all of which show him praying or preaching in a Church, and also includes a fourth picture: of the interior of a Church with a large cross lurking in the background. The page also says that Obama is "guided by his Christian faith" and quotes Obama saying: "We do what we do because God is with us."

That same page prints Obama's views "on the power of prayer," and -- using the same language George Bush has frequently used as a signifier to evangelical voters -- says that Obama is "Called to Christ," "Called to Bring Change" and "Called to Serve"

I am afraid for the Democratic Party.

If this quote is for real - doesn't it suggest that Obama is laughing at his supporters - he knows he's duped them and it's quite a thing to behold?

But if it's not for real - it kind of hits the nail on the head of this messianic obsession with the candidate from Illinois who no one ever heard of until he ran for Senate.  

The always interesting James Wolcott writes that "perhaps it's my atheism at work but I found myself increasingly wary of and resistant to the salvational fervor of the Obama campaign, the idealistic zeal divorced from any particular policy or cause and chariot-driven by pure euphoria. I can picture President Hillary in the White House dealing with a recalcitrant Republican faction; I can't picture President Obama in the same role because his summons to history and call to hope seems to transcend legislative maneuvers and horse-trading; his charisma is on a more ethereal plane, and I don't look to politics for transcendence and self-certification."

Then there's MSNBC's Chris Matthews who tells Felix Gillette in the New York Observer, "I've been following politics since I was about 5. I've never seen anything like this. This is bigger than Kennedy. [Obama] comes along, and he seems to have the answers. This is the New Testament."

And behold, Obama met them and greeted them. And they came up and took hold of His feet and worshiped Him.

Its probably just the hyperboles stuck in the back of your throat.

Here is a link that I just got from corrente. It talks about having obama people talk about conversion  rather than policy. It is the kind of people stories that Gurumaya and Muktananda would have their cult members tell in south fallsburgh. (I was always too scared to speak.) This is going far beyond politics

http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/649427.h tml

What is wrong with some of you?  Barack Obama is running a clean consistent and inspiring campaign.  An honorable one at that.  

When he has made "attacks" they have been fair and above-board. The same cannot be said for all of HRC's and her surrogates.

Bashing Barack, I assume is a sign of insecurity or fear, and I can't blame you.  HRC has $$ problems, and should have had this wrapped up long ago.

But that is NO reason to lambast or villify Barack or his supporters.

I am a reasonable dude, but this dude will not abide.

Unfortunately he wasn't speaking to the thousands/millions of folks that weren't in the room when he said that.  Otherwise your snark would be spot on.

I've been joking with some of my friends that if we are the one's we've been waiting for, we should all be running against him.

I thought that screen shot was a joke but after a visit to the BO website I see it's not.  and that article about how his volunteers are told not to talk about policy but to give conversion stories, well it made my flesh crawl so badly I'm still chasing it around the room.  please, reasonable obama supporters, is this really about personality over policy?  I might entertain voting for Barak if he got up in front of his legions of young supporters and told them why mandates on health insurance are important and why they shouldn't buy ipods and shoud pay for coverage because they're not immortal, society benefits and all our costs are shared.  or if he got up in front of his legions of young supporters and told them that social security is not in crisis and it will be there for them and there's nothing wrong with the system that fiscal discipline won't resolve and that raising social security taxes is just paying off smirk's tax cuts without raising income taxes on the rich.  or if he wouldn't pretend (or worse yet believe) the rethugs are going to drop their long held objections to any progressive policy proposals and skip off into the sunset behind his great leadership.  face it, he's a doesn't speak truth to power, seems to thrive on his cult of personality and is anything but a brave progressive.  by the way, these caucuses are so unfair to hillary supporters.  you tell me how a working person, a nurse or service sector employee is supposed to get two hours away from their job at a given time?  or where they're supposed to park their kids on a Saturday afternoon?  and as far as money, richie rich obama liberals have it coming out of the pieholes.  the rest of us, not so much.  so when we send our ten or twenty to Hillary, we're digging deep.

Let's get rid of the nutty third option first.  To not choose one of these two in the most exciting and historic primary contest in American history and the de facto next President, would be cowardly.  In 30 years, what are you going to tell people, your grand kids?  I chose neither?

I'll let others make a closing argument for HRC.  There is a case to be made.  

The simple reason that you should vote for Obama is that the campaign he has built is the better representative of this:  Crashing the Gate.  

They have pushed the outside of the envelope on structures that you and Moulitsas pioneered.  Although the campaign centers around Obama himself and not the Democratic brand (for the 1,000th time, whatever that is), it is our argument that he had to do this to consolidate different and highly varied interests to be in a position to topple the Clinton grip on the party machinery and people's awareness and then get elected in the Fall.  But the money and energy in this campaign is from the bottom up, from us.  His message and talent is the inspiration for this.  He has asked for our vote and our money and more important, our activism.  We have given it to him.  That's a beautiful thing.

I appreciate that you're disappointed that they didn't allow the netroots deeper into the campaign.  But the netroots have not yet proven to be a reliable partner because it is not controllable.  This is the netroots greatest asset and its biggest curse. The netroots has proven itself as a platform and in agitation but will it ever have a role in governance?  

Obama is farther left than Clinton overall (if only a bit) and will at least give the netroots a seat at the table.  You have to figure out how to take it from there.  The growing large majority of your own MyDD readers (per the last straw poll), Move-on, Moulitsas and even the nettlesome Stoller have settled on Obama.  Not to mention and most likely: Howard Dean, Joe Trippi, Al Gore and John Edwards.  How do you explain that?

From a practical and business point of view, you don't have to tell us how you voted.  Al Gore and Jimmy Carter haven't told us.  It was a smart business move to allow MyDD to evolve into a more balanced blog and to provide some outlet for Clinton supporters that isn't an echo chamber.  Not only that, the Clinton camp can make a powerful argument for their candidate (and one that isn't solely based on attacking Obama) and this should be respected.

Finally, which candidate do you think about the most?  You can ankle bite Obama from the left for the next nine years.  Krugman at The New York Times and you from the netroots.  I'd be willing to bet anyone a dollar that Krugman voted for Obama.  There is uncertainty about whether Obama's methods will work.  But an Obama administration won't be boring, tiresome or repetitive.  It will be new and that's exciting.  The bottom line is that Clinton is a good and historic choice, a safe choice.  Obama is a potentially great and historic choice, an audacious choice.  

Look at what Obama has created in one short year.  He has earned your vote.        

Grand kids = grandkids..... Christ! Can we just learn to use the English language.