Hey Todd! Hi Matt! Hi Jerome! Thanks so much for the feed.

Has Mark Warner come out and endorsed anyone? Certainly he's still got to be in the running for the Clinton V-P slot, and as a fellow DLC honcho, I'd be surprised if he weren't standing up for Mrs. Clinton.

What's the order of speakers tonight?

How does Clinton keep letting Obama get the final slot at these things? It only allows him to upstage her IMO...

She seems really tired and has a lack of energy, at least that's how it sounds on tv. There is just no passion in this speech.

What class the mayor has. Not.

Seriously, Jerome, how much longer is she scheduled to speak? This is painful.

"It's not me you're working for, it's you..."

Hmmm...sounds familiar?:)

Somehow, Hillary Clinton has become our last chance for universal health care this cycle, and likely for another 10+ years. How did this happen?

I don't know about y'all, but I can never hear this Tom Petty song without thinking of that girl about to get jacked up in "Silence of the Lambs."

She has been using that line for a very, very long time.

Lastr time I checked "change" has been a theme in almost every presidential election I can remember. In fact...it was Bush's big thing too. He was for change and he was a uniter not a diverder. Gee..Does THAT sound familiar?!?

She's not going to win Virginia after that speech.

And I'm tired of her stealing lines from Edwards and Obama. She uses all of Edwards' lines.

Did she really just deliver a line lifted directly from Edwards? Did she credit him?

happens to be Douglas Wilder. First African-American ever to be elected Governor in the US.

He's the first man ever to be elected Mayor of Richmond too because in the past it was simply a member of the city council. They recently changed that.

just fyi

The Hillary soundtrack began to smack of desperation there with that last Lenny Kravitz diddy. "Are You Gonna Go My Way?" Really? Why not just strap on an electric guitar and start cranking out "I Want You to Want Me?"

Technical question - how can I forward through this stream?  Or can I?

Will Moran hurry up and endorse Hillary already? This is awful.

Thanks Jerome.

If anybody finds a YouTube clip of that bluegrass band song about Mark Warner, please post a link. That was the worst thing I've ever heard, and I have to put it on my Ipod.

By the way, even though I am not a huge U2 fan, Obama has the best theme song ever.

From the front page post, it sounds like Kaine is suggesting that Clinton won't bring change? Is that a fair reading of it?

Both candidates have U2 theme songs? When will Bono end this madness and endorse a candidate?

"Senator Clinton was my friend before this campaign and we will be friends after this campaign..."

message of unity and getting behind the mule in November no matter who it is.

WELL played.

Gotta love it how Obama says "not change as a slogan," then proceeds to repeat his slogan.

Wow, a powerful speech by Obama. He's going to run up the numbers in Virginia.

He seems flat compared to some of his earlier speeches.

I don't think VA is a foregone conclusion for anyone yet.

Wow, Obama is seriously engaging in some rhetorical jujitsu here: he's the unity candidate, and she gave  generally a unity speech (a good one)--and he's giving an almost entirely PARTISAN speech. Totally his strongest stump speech appeal to his faithful. Perhaps a smart deicision 3 days before the VA primary.

Another barnburner of a speech from Obama.

Never a gracious note from Obama, but rather a creeping arrogance that is going to backfire.  Each speech gets worse. More like this and a backlash will erupt.

Way to misconstrue what Hillary Clinton meant. Way to engage in the same divisive attitudes that Barack Obama is preaching against.

Which official declared this? What ruling came down, and from whom?

After reading all the comments, it seems like mydd.com posters are more on Clinton's side than dailykos.com posters.  That's weird.

Every time he repeats the lie that Hillary subscribes to the Bush/Cheney policy of not talking to leaders we don't like, he undercuts his message of representing a different kind of politics.  And he does it again and again and again.

Whaaa? Are you smoking something tonight?

Obama's speech was on a different plane, different tangent. sorry but Hillary will never be a better speaker than Barack. not gonna happen.

I think the statement by Obama is not technically true. But two things should be noted:

1) Clinton's Iran policy does not inspire confidence that these "preconditions" would be anything other than a pretext for a refusal to negotiate.

2) And more importantly, Obama's commitment to dialogue challenges the Bush/Cheney idea that America can have meaningful dialogue thinking they can set the terms with states due to American indispensability.

It is the neocon furtherance of the notion that the US can simply set the terms of the international scene.

3) Obama challenges that kind of foreign policy mentality with a commitment to liberal internationalism. It is a rejection of the "America First" mentality. And calling that view "irresponsible" is simply a furtherance of the conservative foreign policy talking point.

So, the statement might not be technically true, but the exchange did and does a distinct difference in foreign policy outlooks. One accept Republican and neocon framing, the other rejects. Clinton accepts the status quo framing on foreign policy issues while Obama attacks it.

Wow a Hillary supporter thought she gave a better speech... I'm just shocked, shocked to find gambling here.