wow!!! lucky us. how gracious of her to be willing to be the VP! quite a sacrifice really.

AP calls it.

"""Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, becoming the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House.

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The AP tally was based on public commitments from delegates as well as more than a dozen private commitments. It also included a minimum number of delegates Obama was guaranteed even if he lost the final two primaries in South Dakota and Montana later in the day."""

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/06/ap_tally_obama_effectively_cli.php

Well I didn't want to do it but now after 42 years of voting Democrat I will have to go Republican and vote for McCain....
No Obama for me....

so if I'm not for Obama I can't post here right?
Goodbye......

Well i should say fo Obama to become the first Black
Presedent the higest office in the world Lets think
back He must be and will be the Best Presedent in
the world.To Come.

I Love Obama

WHAT A HISTORIC DAY WHAT A MILE STONE CONGRATULATIONS SEN BARACK OBAMA. SEN. CLINTON WE STILL LOVE YOU.

I’ve had it!

After 8 years of the one of the most exceedingly criminal, reckless, hapless presidential era in American history - and people like Shar - you'll choose to let everything continue that's been undone in our floundering shambles of a society - and for what now?

Have you forgotten that Bush was elected as president for the first time in history by a Republican-leaning supreme court – after receiving only half of the country's support? There were a myriad of REAL voter irregularities - voters TRULY disenfranchised; scare tactics, the works.

And YOU did nothing for your partisans; you allowed it to happen and you still do nothing. You think you did, but the party you propose to now cast your vote for castrated your rights and powers as a citizen, and now you feign this imagined political discontent. After 42 years of the worst this country has seen, THIS is your catalyst for defection. Please grow up!

You cry foul like a wounded puppy of your candidate after she sheds a tear, and cries sexism, while thousands of political injustices are committed every week in the name of our country and both parties, and real victims of sexism are insulted on top of the actual criminality. She’s made a political softball of one of the most pervasive injustices across the world. I know suffering women friends of mine who would love to punch her in the face for that one. So some stupid commentators made some predictably rude jokes. There were veteran politicians purposely calling him Osama…and Hussein. Calling him Muslim when he’s a Christian. Just absolute gutter trash. Did he push the sympathy buttons of voters, making THAT his campaign schema?

You regurgitate these ludicrous, memo/talking points of politician who has the nerve to refer to Obama as "elitist" while she reports 100 million for the 2007 tax year? You’re a pathetic, unthinking chromosome-depleted shell of a citizen. You’re going to vote for the party of Katrina. But hey, that wasn’t so bad really, it was only black folks.

I've been undecided this entire time, but it's foolish, robotic and ignorant gabberish like Shar's that make me want to cast these people into the political abyss forever. You’re a darling fit for the current muddling ways of the Republican party.

You’re going exchange the party of the civil rights movement, the women’s movement, every civil rights movement fought where people were slaughtered, beaten, mutilated, raped in fight for basic human rights. You’re right, Shar, voting for a senator with a history in community organizing and with ubiquitous plans for universal health care, energy sector restructuring and everything else is an obviously bad choice, when you have an 82-year old agenda-criss-crossing pseudo “maverick”(blech, yea, ok) who wants to repeal Roe Vs. Wade, fashion Iran as a new Iraq, and who thinks 70 soldiers/month dying, as opposed to 125 soldiers/month - over 5 years into an illegal war – is PROGRESS. That’s your man, Shar, makes logical sense to me.

This is exactly how feeble you are Shar – despite all your yelps of this wrongdoing and that wrongdoing having been done to your precious candidate and her philandering, condescending and haughty husband, you’re going to vote Democratic anyway. That’s how lame I think you and your kind really are. You cry afoul when you’re told to.

And if are voting for McCain, than better off.

Hillary would make a great ambassador to Bosnia because she's such a hard-working white person, as far as I know.

I do hope that Hillary does not accept a slot on Obama's ticket as I believe she is more principled than that. He is not fit to be president and even if she were on the ticket I could not vote for him. We are in a serious time for this nation and not ready for a president-in-training. I have been a lifelong Democrat but after watching first hand the underhanded DNC, I believe it is time for a real 3rd party. I would hate to have to go against Ms. Clinton, but I could not in good conscience vote for that incompetent person. I will be working to see that John McCain becomes president. I have sent an e-mail to Ms. Clinton urging her not to accept the VP spot.

Claude C Jr------You are so uninformed that you think McCain is 82. I was in DC this past weekend and saw first hand how the DNC committee works and how they will throw you under the bus if you do not conform. So much for freedom of speech. To them democracy has no meaning. It is democracy with a small d. They are self serving and smug. It took me all this time to see first hand that they are no better than any republican politician. Obama has won this primary with the help of the media and the delegates stolen by the DNC. Obama was complaining about the superdelegates when he thought they were going to support Hillary and he insisted that the popular vote was the most important. Now that the supers helped him steal the election, I do not see him complaining. He is a fake and a liar and you are naive. McCain can be contained so don't give me this crap about the Supreme Court. McCain will be the better president even tho he is a republican. NOOBAMA.

You can just feel the love between the Clintonites and the Obamajamas tonite.
Enter, President McCain.

Ok, I meant to type 72, but McCain is 71, he’ll be 72 on my birthday date actually, in August. Sorry about the typo and rounding off of his age. No offense meant for that or the other typos.

Firstly, I do not endorse anyone, period – I’m extremely hesitant about Obama. Secondly, the way I see it, any divisions or negative sentiment that’s been created by this process I think rests squarely on the shoulders of the Clintons, and everyone recognizes this. Mr. Clinton first, with his arrogant assumptions of Obama’s “fairytale” ; the writing off of his wins in various states; then the subsequent negative tone of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, which has demonized Obama as a person. The exit polls clearly shows that her supporters seem less likely to vote for him, then the other way around; her supporters are hissing at his name at the DNC meeting.

According to your opinion Lee, Obama’s candidacy was decided by the media and the “help” of two states’ worth of delegates – Michigan/Florida - and ignores the fact that he’s won:

Primaries –
Oregon, North Carolina, Mississippi, Vermont, Maryland, Illinois, Georgia, Alabama, Wisconsin, District of Columbia, Virginia, Louisiana, Utah, Missouri, Connecticut, Delaware and South Carolina

And the caucuses of:
Texas, Hawaii, Wyoming, Washington, Nebraska, Minnesota, Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, North Dakota, Colorado, Maine and Iowa.

Those are a lot of states that you are writing off, and a lot of votes that were cast that you conveniently summarize as democracy with “no meaning”, with “a small d”.

You’re pissed that your state(s) screwed up your vote, and the DNC regulated it such in a fashion that you don’t accept, and so you’re pointing the blame on Obama and the DNC. It’s quite adolescent. Why don’t you open the discussion of what failed, how your state failed you, why Clinton agreed to punish you to begin with.

You’re talking about “democracy having no meaning” when democracy did exactly as it should for 48 states. All but yours I suspect.

My apologies to the people whose votes where lost the dysfunction. I have family who all got screwed. But to say imply that this primary election was somehow a “steal” is just patently shortsighted.

Hi, i LOVED the comment from Claude C Jr. He just said what i was almost ready to post, but he did it better than i could - so i just wanted to express that i could not agree more!

If Obama chose anyone other than Clinton as his running mate, that might be his biggest mistake. He would be running the battle all over again; with 45% of Democrats not supporting him, his chance of winning is almost nil.

If Obama chose anyone other than Clinton as his running mate, that might be his biggest mistake. He would be running the battle all over again; with 45% of Democrats not supporting him, his chance of winning is almost nil.