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scrivener is an idiot who thinks Obama can win this election with no body like Napolitano or Sibelius.
Even with all the national and international problems, why is it that Obama is only slightly (or if any) better than McCain on national polls.
Any “generic” Democratic Party candidate would be ahead of John McCain by at least 12 points on national polls.
Let’s face it, Obama is the weakest candidate Democratic Party has to offer since George McCovern. You know what happened to Senator McCovern. At least, Senator McGovern was better war hero than Senator McCain. Now, Senator Obama is what? Obama is Bush Lite at best.
You post a lot of good stuff, but c’mon — Gore’s not going to be the nominee. I’ve posted the reasons before, I won’t do it yet again.
Obama will be elected this November. The economy is way too bad, the war’s too unpopular, and McCain’s on the wrong side of both. For him to win would require misdirection Houdini couldn’t have pulled off.
“DON’T BE SURPRISED IF HILLARY’S “ENDORSEMENT” OF OBAMA COMES OFF AS BEGRUDGING, REPLETE WITH POLITICAL DOUBLE-SPEAK, OBFUSCATION AND BARELY DISGUISED EQUIVOCATION.
THE REASON: SHE STILL BELIEVES THAT OBAMA CAN’T WIN AND RISKS BEING NEUTRALIZED BY FORCES DETERMINED TO KEEP AN INEXPERIENCED LIBERAL ELITIST FROM WINNING THE WHITE HOUSE.”
DID I CALL THIS ONE OR WHAT?
Oh yeah, she says six minutes into another “but let’s talk about me” speech, I’m endorsing Obama — after I engage in a repititous recitation of self-congratulatory platitudes and vow repeatedly to fight on.
Her “endorsement” of Obama seemed as though it was begrudgingly bookended into the same old Hillary self-valedictory. It was last Tuesday deja vu time, but finally with some rather tepid head-bobs toward Obama.
“Splendid.” gushed Chris Matthews, whose scolding by the Clintons obviously has had a palliative effect on the softballer who claims to play “Hardball.”

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Many signs of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s exit from the presidential race are in place. She is spending the last primary election night tomorrow not in South Dakota or Montana, but in New York City, at Baruch College, a classic setting for an elegiac yet forward-looking speech. It will be well worth watching.
“New York is where she started, New York is where she ends,” said top Clinton delegate hunter Harold Ickes, even while making her case to super delegates. Major donors have been invited.
Husband Bill Clinton let loose that today might be the last time he’s “involved in a campaign of this kind.” A new Vanity Fair piece sums up his fall from Democratic icon to albatross, not just the first of many histories to be written about his astonishing role in this campaign, but a possible indicator of whether Obama would risk putting Hillary on his ticket.
The emails are still going out from Clinton’s campaign, which insists she has not decided to quit. She even collected two uncommitted super delegates today.
If she decides to leave — and we won’t know until she says it — she will probably suspend her campaign, as Republican candidates Romney and Huckabee did, to leave options open. Her backers continue to make a case for her being on the vice presidential ticket as a way to unify the party.
Obama may need her, despite the baggage. He will be limping across the finish line, losing half of the primaries since February. Had some of these, like Ohio and Pennsylvania, occured earlier, she would be in a different position today. The popular vote is all but tied, and she claims she has more votes. She’s got a lock on key Democratic constituencies Obama desperately needs: women, Latinos and blue-collar voters. She won 17 million votes, raised record-breaking sums and made history. A year ago she was the presumptive nominee. Anyone who gets this close to the presidency has a hard time letting go. How she does could shape the rest of this race.

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DALLAS — Hillary Rodham Clinton’s only campaign swing through North Texas was cut short Friday after a police officer in her motorcade died in a crash on the way to a rally.
The Democratic presidential candidate spoke to supporters for less than 20 minutes in near-freezing temperatures about three miles from the crash site before delivering a somber statement to reporters after the event.
“We are just heartsick at this loss of life in the line of duty,” Clinton said.
Dallas police said 49-year-old Sr. Cpl. Victor Lozada-Tirado was thrown from his motorcycle when it clipped a curb on a viaduct near downtown. He was in the rear of the motorcade, police said, following it as it took a turn not far from Dealey Plaza, where John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963.
Clinton canceled an appearance in neighboring Fort Worth, telling about 2,000 people gathered outside the Tarrant County courthouse that it would be inappropriate to campaign in the wake of the accident. Instead, the New York senator visited Lozada-Tirado’s family at the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
“It is important that we respect and appreciate their service,” Clinton said after her rally. “I certainly am grateful for all they do for me.”
The Dallas-Fort Worth swing, one day after a debate with Sen. Barack Obama in Austin, came after Clinton spent most of the week on the Texas-Mexico border. She was headed to Ohio later Friday.
Clinton didn’t mention the crash to about 1,000 supporters and appeared upbeat at the first stop in Dallas. She struck familiar themes of universal health care, ending the war in Iraq and bringing relief to homeowners facing foreclosure.
During a pause, one supporter got her attention long enough to point out that he has a $3,000 copay for prescription drugs, which Clinton announced to the crowd.
“It is morally wrong and it’s economically dumb for us not to cover everybody,” she said. “And we are going to do that.”
Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle, accompanied by Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert at the hospital, said the motorcades involve intricate driving.
“The motorcycle escorts we do are very dangerous,” Kunkle said. “They require officers to speed up and ride ahead of the motorcade and set up, and do that over and over again. So there’s always an element of danger to these motorcades, but the accident is still under investigation.”
Asked if police had enough lead time to plan a safe route, spokesman Lt. Vernon Hale said, “It doesn’t matter with our guys. Of course, we’ve already had one tragedy in Dallas, so we’ve been doing this a long time. The know exactly how to do it.”
Obama asked for a moment of silence in memory of Lozada-Tirado at a rally in Corpus Christi later Friday. He said the officer had been in his own detail two days ago in Dallas. The wreck happened right next to Reunion Arena, where Obama drew about 17,000 for a rally.
“It’s a reminder of the outstanding work that law enforcement does for us each and every day,” Obama said.
In August, an Albuquerque, N.M., police officer in President Bush’s motorcade died in a motorcycle crash. Germaine Casey, 40, died on Aug. 27 when he crashed as Bush returned to the airport after a fundraiser for Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M.
In November 2006, a Honolulu officer died when he and two other motorcycle officers crashed while part of a presidential motorcade.
Associated Press Writers Anabelle Garay and Terry Wallace contributed to this report.

chron.com