little baby super tuesday thread — Page 3

YouWantitWhen, that's true of any presidential candidate. Hillary can't do everything alone.

Jerb, the front runner is the person with the most delegates. Still gonna be Obama after tonight. As for Penn, who can say.

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I know no one can tell what will happen in November.

By the same token though YWIW, are you concerned that Clinton has less experience than McCain? Was that at issue in 92 when B. Clinton with 0 federal experience beat Bush 41 who had at least 20 years of Federal experience.
I don't think that those questions have to be answered though, it is perfectly understandable to decide not to support Obama because you think he is not experienced enough.

But it really is late now, the numbers are really unlikely to break for Clinton. Should questions about experience be enough to reverse the decision of the majority of voters?
That is what I can't get over.

Jerby- What does that mean though, practically? I concede that there is argument there, but if Obama has more votes overall I just can't imagine a Clinton reversal based on convincing superdelegates to switch doing anything but hurting the party in the long run.

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Updated On: 3/5/08 at 12:36 AM

73% reporting - 51-48 Clinton

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Big night for Hillary.
I agree with many of the points that Clinton supporters keep making, but I just don't see how it translates to a win for her at this point.

The continuation of the nastiness is what concerns me, not the race itself. If it were civil, I think it might be a good thing.
But this has been nasty.

I now believe that neither Obama nor Clinton will even come close in November.

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Updated On: 3/5/08 at 12:56 AM

Nasty schmasty. This is NOTHING.

Just wait till the Republican 527s get their hands on the Democratic candidate.

THEN you'll see nasty that will make you cry. Nasty that will make you throw up. Nasty that will make you ashamed to be an American.

Grow up, Obama supporters, get tough and stop whining.

The REAL work has yet to begin.

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Both candidates are going to be slimed hard core everyday until the election.

I think there is a chance for McCain to go down because the economy is awful, but for the exact same "experience" reasons I really think the fear card will drive people to McCain. He can just play Clinton's commercial with his name on it, against either Clinton or Obama.

I hope you are right, but I have lost every last bit of optimism.

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You've lost every bit of optimism? Welcome to America.

I lost every bit of optimism time and time again since I first lost it when I was a little kid, when the civil rights movement turned into urban violence. I lost every bit of optimism when the antiwar movement turned to 4 dead at Kent State at O-hi-o when I was a teenager

And I lost every bit of optimism again when the joy and freedom of gay liberation turned into a nightmare of a disease that killed so many of my beautiful and talented friends, a disease no one cared about--not the media, not the politicians, not the tsk-tsk'ing straight people around me.

I'm sorry you lost every bit of your optimism, but I can tell you something, because I'm old and still optimistic, it grows back, stronger--if you allow it to.

I honor the optimism Obama engendered--and he may still be the nominee and even the president--but I never trusted it, because it was a bubble, built on hope and hype.

Politics isn't decided by polls and trends and media pundits. It's decided by millions of individuals in the privacy of voting booths.

And that's something that grows back my optimism, election after election after election, even when everyone seems to be voting the wrong way.

There's always the next election...

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Updated On: 3/5/08 at 01:20 AM

If that's condescension and sniping, it's time for me to go to bed.

Goodnight.

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