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To: Land Shark who wrote (122628)	5/10/2008 12:04:48 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 173976

"We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election." Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to the Prime Minister of HAMAS I know liberals consider this a positive for Obama.

To: Land Shark who wrote (122628)	5/10/2008 2:47:33 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

White Americans? Hard-working white Americans? "Even Richard Nixon didn't say white," an Obama supporter said, "even with the Southern strategy." If John McCain said, "I got the white vote, baby!" his candidacy would be over. And rising in highest indignation against him would be the old Democratic Party. To play the race card as Mrs. Clinton has, to highlight and encourage a sense that we are crudely divided as a nation, to make your argument a brute and cynical "the black guy can't win but the white girl can" is -- well, so vulgar, so cynical, so cold, that once again a Clinton is making us turn off the television in case the children walk by. "She has unleashed the gates of hell," a longtime party leader told me. "She's saying, 'He's not one of us.'" She is trying to take Obama down in a new way, but also within a new context. In the past he was just the competitor. She could say, "All's fair." But now he's the competitor who is going to be the nominee of his party. And she is still trying to do him in. And the party is watching. Again: amazing. Who can save the situation? The superdelegates. You know them. They're the ones hiding under the rock, behind the boulder, and at the bar. They are terrified, most of them. They want the problem to go away. They want it handled, but they don't want to do it. They don't want to tell Hillary to stop, because they would likely pay a price for it, and not just with her. They are afraid of looking as if they're jumping on a train that's speeding down the tracks and is about to roll over the damsel in distress. Which is how Hillary -- and her supporters -- will paint it. Even though she's no damsel, and she causes distress. Some insight from a superdelegate I spoke to Thursday: It's not math anymore, it's psychodrama. If she can't have it, no one can have it. If she has to tear the party apart, she will. Nancy Pelosi can't make her drop out. The Clintons think the speaker is for Obama anyway, her San Francisco district went for him 70% to 30%; they'll dismiss her. Chuck Schumer can't do it, he'd offend women in New York. Harry Reid can't do it, he'll offend women, period. If black political figures go to the Clintons and make a plea, they'll be dismissed as Obama partisans. So who, I asked, can do it?