The same party leaders who unilaterally took impeachment off the table thuse giving Bush carte blanche to do whatever the hell he wants in his last two years?  I don't see it happening.

Obama is a Patriot

But, again, that's only if he plays it right.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to you country.

"Nobody is thinking about you. And so people end up- they don't vote on economic issues because they don't expect anybody's going to help them. So people end up, you know, voting on issues like guns, and are they going to have the right to bear arms. They vote on issues like gay marriage."

For years many working class Americans have voted against their economic interests because Republicans were able to distract them and focus their anger and frustration--and yes bitterness--on social issues like guns, abortion, and gay marriage. They convinced them that "government is the problem" and therefore it is unable to rectify their economic woes. They also made sure government did not help its citizens when they were in power under Reagan and both Bushes.

  Free market economic theory has dominated our government policy for decades now--even under Clinton. If workers well-being suffers as the market "balances" itself that is just the way the system works as far as they have been concerned. In other words the well-being of workers has not been  a priority, the well-being of the market has.
Many Americans have felt helpless in the face of an system that worked against them

Obama wants to return to a more Keynesian view of economic policy that stresses a certain level of government regulation is essential for keeping the market more fair and balanced.  To him workers' well-being IS part of the equation.  If he can convince Americans that government can work for them that he will  promote THEIR interests and then as president reforms the government to do so, Obama will indeed improve the outlook for many American.

Those hearing him speak gave him a standing ovation for his "bitter" remarks because they see someone who is willing to acknowledge their pain and frustration and is offering to do something about it.

Hillary doesn't want this message out.

katjam

I suspect that when this is played out, Obama is going to come out fine.  He's parrying the attacks well.  He admitted he didn't phrase it well, apologized if he offended anyone and then stuck to his guns and said he was right.  Yeah it's going to haunt him in the general but that's not Hillary's fault.

The party leaders aren't going to stop this - first because there really aren't any party leaders and second because it's up to Obama to fix his own campaign missteps.  

And truthfully - Hillary thinks that she's going to benefit from this in the long run but I doubt it. It mostly just makes her look bad.  Maybe she'll eke out an extra point or two in PA.  But so what?

Help me raise money for Jay Nixon, the next Democratic governor of Missouri

 But J. Richard Gray, the mayor of Lancaster and an Obama supporter, said that this is not what Mr. Obama meant. In his view, Mr. Obama was trying to say that Republicans take emotional matters like guns and religion and try to use them to divide people.

"I don't think he's demeaning religion or guns," Mr. Gray said. "He's saying the use of those issues as wedge issues plays on the bitterness that people have and diverts attention from the real economic issues, like the disparity between the wage earner and the rich."

Mr. Gray also said Mr. Obama was right that voters are bitter, although he said he would have used the word angry. He pointed to a recent poll that found 81 percent of voters believe the country is on the wrong track. He said that Mrs. Clinton sounded like "a Pollyanna" in saying that workers were optimistic. "I don't know who she's been talking to," Mr. Gray said.

Ed Mitchell, a Democratic consultant in Wilkes-Barre who supports Mr. Obama, said that while he did not agree with the comments, he still supported Mr. Obama because of his vision.

"I'm a Pennsylvanian and an Obama supporter, but I don't share those sentiments," Mr. Mitchell said. "I think he's right that voters are frustrated, but I don't think they seek refuge in anything so much as they want leadership and change. That's why I support him. I think he offers that best."

Justin Taylor, 30, the mayor of Carbondale, Pa., has not declared a preference for president. But he said he was leaning toward Mr. Obama and his remarks about small-town voters would not dissuade him. "People are bitter and at the end of their rope," he said. Referring to Mr. Obama's comments, he said, "I don't believe it is a problem."

She has to be brought down in PA.

Knut

Using the very, very unlikely outcome that she wins all of the remaining primaries by an average 10%, which won't happen, she would have to get 70% of the the remaining superdelegates. But she's not going to win all the remaining primaries by an average ten percent. She'll probably break 50-50 if she can hold off Obama in PA. Maybe not that.

When figuring in the add-on delegates, which should break for Obama, even if you figure she gets 50-50 there, she would have to get 90% of the remainder of the undeclared superdelegates to pull off this caper.

Ain't gonna happen.

I don't know if the Clintons have a basement large enough to hold the number of hostages they'll need to get this done.

I think I pretty well represented the articles, but go find them and read them for yourselves, then do the math.

[My own interpretation: Long short, she can't win, she knows she can't win, and even if all of Clinton's followers still are high on the sweet smoke blown up their asses, Clinton's backers know she can't win. So the question is, what is the continued campaign all about? Is Hillary trying to destroy Obama for a run in 2012? I can't imagine a Democratic Party in 2012 that will back another Hillary run. The most logical explanation is that H. Clinton is destroying the Dems for the Republicans, that she is and always has been more of a Republican than a Democrat.]

The next couple of weeks will tell the story.

In the meantime, she must know she's handing the Republicans an unabridged dictionary on how to run against Obama.  The most charitable reason I can dredge up is she's still in denial that she'll lose.

Hopefully she reaches the "acceptance" stage of grief soon, because I can't believe even she wants to see McCain take the Oath!