Sen. Barack Obama will formally capture the Democratic presidential nomination after next week’s final primaries in Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota.
Obama’s campaign adviser, David Axelrod, said that after the June 3 primaries “Obama will ‘be at the number we need to claim the nomination’.”
According to CNN’s latest estimate, Obama is 52 delegates short of clinching the nomination while Sen. Hillary Clinton needs 246.
On Tuesday, Edward Lewis, chairman and founder of Essence Magazine and chairman of Latina Magazine, endorsed Obama, switching from Clinton and citing Obama’s vision for a better America.
Lewis said:
“As the founder of a woman’s magazine, I acknowledge that Senator Clinton has served as a role model for many women across America and I have great admiration for her.
However, as the campaign has unfolded, I have witnessed the strength of Senator Obama and both his passion and commitment for new possibilities for a better America. His conviction has led to my conviction that he is the hope for our country. I urge all Americans to support his candidacy for President of the United States.”
WHY HILLARY CONTINUES TO RUN
In a NY Daily article, Sen. Hillary Clinton offered several reasons why she should continue to run for president.
She also clarified Friday’s remarks:
“I was making the simple point that given our history, the length of this year’s primary contest is nothing unusual. Both the executive editor of the newspaper where I made the remarks, and Sen. Kennedy’s son, Bobby Kennedy Jr., put out statements confirming that this was the clear meaning of my remarks. Bobby stated, ‘I understand how highly charged the atmosphere is, but I think it is a mistake for people to take offense’.”
Clinton’s reasons for continuing to run include: she believes she can win on the merits, she can unite the Democratic Party, her parents didn’t raise her to be a quitter, she has a responsibility to finish the race as the first female candidate in this position and she’s the best candidate to stand toe-to-toe with Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee.
RON PAUL’S FAMILY BUSINESS
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has put family members in key positions within his campaign and paid them nearly $170,000.
A Paul campaign spokesman (and fiancé of one of his granddaughters, who’s been paid $54,573) said, “You always think about those kinds of things. But his family is very important to him. There is something important about having a family element involved in a campaign. Having people around you that you can unconditionally trust.”
Although he has garnered a dedicated following and over $30M in campaign donations, Ron Paul has received few votes and released a video in March that indicated he no longer expected to win the Republican nomination.
There are no laws prohibiting candidates from hiring relatives, but Melanie Sloan, Executive Director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said, “The reason this is troubling is that it’s not clear to donors whether their campaign donations are really going to support the candidacy or to support the family.” She also noted that the campaign spent only $470,862 in April, with over $4M remaining.
@57>>>JStreet, you are absolutely right. He knew it wasn’t going to be easy and that’s why I respect the man more and more because he continues to fight the good fight against the racists and the naysayers.
I guess we won’t know until November who is going to win, right? I’m not assuming McBush the winner.
45 delegates! REGISTER TO VOTE!!!
OBAMA WILL WIN IN NOVEMEBER IF EVERYONE GETS OUT AND VOTE!!!
DON’T LET’S THIS OPPORTNITY PASS BY, EVERY SINGLE VOTE COUNTS!!!
No, Hillary knows that she is dividing the party, and that is why she continues. She believes that if I can’t have the presidency, no one can. That is why I lost ALL respect for her. If Hillary had this sort of momentum in the beginning, I would say, go girl. Okay, she will win Puerto Rico next week, but she will loose both South Dakota and Montana because that’s Obama land. What further makes me angry is the fact that she agreed to not count the MI and FL ballots, but now she is giving th appearance that she wants their voices heard. She will make it difficult for any woman to run after this.
^^^I cosign and concur. She’s like a pit bull and she’ll do everything in her power to get her way.
Never trust anyone without an upper lip.
Ron Paul 08′!!!!!!!!!
You all never post anything about Ron Paul, all you talk about is Obama and Hillary but something about him paying his family and you jump right on it to make him look bad, I do not get it what was the point of that?
OBAMA 08′ FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whether she quits or not, makes no difference either way! So I say, let her waist her time trying to gain these super delegates, because once the fat lady sings, Barack Obama will be THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! And that’s wsup!
Im for Obama or Hilary. Why vote Obama just becuase he is black??? And how do you know that once Obama gets into office, he won’t take the lube and bend over sending us into many more years of war? He has to have cabinet members and you know they always have their own agenda. Face it, stuffy old white men will continue to run America. Either move to another country like me or wait til Jesus comes. Obama aint gonna change shit. McCain is gonna steal the election.
OBAMA’S CHUCH: GUEST FATHER MOCKS HILLARY FOR BEING WHITE:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_H11x6bMu4Y
HILLARY SUPPORTERS A MARCH FOR THE SEATING OF MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA IS ON SATURDAY! VA AND MD SUPPORTERS SHOULD COME!
If Hilary feels so cheated by the Democratic party and the media, why doesn’t she just run as an independent like the republican, I mean the used to be democrat and now independent Joe Lieberman. I think it is utter nonsense that she agreed to the rules at the beginning of the campaign that FL and MI would not count. How noble of her to wants to change the rules to benefit her. Her criticism of the media is baseless, the media has tip toed around her and her mountain of falsehoods. She should do the DNC a favor and run as a republican candidate in 2012. The media constantly talks about Barack and his lack of appeal to white voters, does Hilary really think the black voters will support her after her treachery? Let’s face it the democrats might as well give John Mcain the crown , because it is obvious the party needs to heal itself from racism and sexism.
Sparky, IN
All i gotta say is anyone who thinks Hillary Clinton was referring that Obama was going to get assassinated in her remarks is clearly retarded. Sorry but thats the truth. It means you eat up whatever bullshit story the MEDIA spins out of control, which they happen to do on occasion. Brainless idiots…
She has a right to stay in the race. Fuck the idea that she’s making the Democratic party divisive. As if you people actually care or seriously identify yourself as a Democrat. Its not gonna hurt anyone if she runs a bit longer. Like someone said, it aint over till the fat lady sings and I don’t hear no fat bitch singing yet.
Americans are so sad…the only country with so much freedom yet so many of its people dont know how to apply it to their perceptions
http://www.houstonpress.c...rack-obama-screamed-at-me
It’s not quite eight in the morning and Barack Obama is on the phone screaming at me. He liked the story I wrote about him a couple weeks ago, but not this garbage.
Months earlier, a reporter friend told me she overheard Obama call me an asshole at a political fund-raiser. Now here he is blasting me from hundreds of miles away for a story that just went online but hasn’t yet hit local newsstands.
It’s the first time I ever heard him yell, and I’m trembling as I set down the phone. I sit frozen at my desk for several minutes, stunned.
This is before Obama Girl, before the secret service detail, before he becomes a best-selling author. His book Dreams From My Father has been out of print for years.
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Obama has spent his entire political career trying to win the next step up. Every three years, he has aspired to a more powerful political position.
He was just 35 when in 1996 he won his first bid for political office. Even many of his staunchest supporters, such as Black, still resent the strong-arm tactics Obama employed to win his seat in the Illinois Legislature.
Obama hired fellow Harvard Law alum and election law expert Thomas Johnson to challenge the nominating petitions of four other candidates, including the popular incumbent, Alice Palmer, a liberal activist who had held the seat for several years, according to an April 2007 Chicago Tribune report.
Obama found enough flaws in the petition sheets — to appear on the ballot, candidates needed 757 signatures from registered voters living within the district — to knock off all the other Democratic contenders. He won the seat unopposed.
its not over
stay tuned…
A little poem for Barack Obama
Black people didn’t have rights,
Lack of people, but know we fight,
Back with life, Back with words that cut like knives,
We hit a sore, sharp and sensetive spot,
Us youths are getting reduced to smoking pot,
But the black people are stronger than the rest,
We are all linked somehow,
No matter where you are,
In JAPAN, china, UK, America, or FAR
If you are black lift your hand up and say,
“FIGHT THE POWER!”
Thanks to Barack Obama
By Ty and ROXAnne, and MEGAnne
TY&&MEGAnne Blogging soon….
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