Obama gains ground on Clinton in Ohio

[GaryC 7]

This is working out in the best way I could ever hope for!! If Clinton and Obama split the remaining states then Clinton will stay in the race and it will be a cat fight all the way to the convention. It just can't get any better! Go Clinton and Go Obama!!!

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama gained ground against rival Hillary Clinton in the battleground U.S. state of Ohio on Monday as their race took a negative turn.

With a week to go until a potentially pivotal vote in Ohio and Texas on March 4, a Quinnipiac University poll said Clinton leads Obama in Ohio by 51 percent to 40 percent among likely Democratic voters.

This was a narrowing from 55 percent to 34 percent lead she held less than two weeks ago, and was a sign that Obama's momentum was paying dividends in Ohio.

New York Sen. Clinton needs big victories in Ohio and Texas to salvage her campaign to be the Democratic nominee in the November election after losing 11 straight contests to Obama, a first-term Illinois senator.

She was to give a foreign policy speech in Washington on Monday.

Independent Ralph Nader, 74, defended his decision to make a late entry into the presidential race. Nader was blamed by many Democrats for taking votes away from Vice President Al Gore in Florida in 2000, helping Republican George W. Bush win the presidency.

"I think the two parties have spoiled our electoral and political system," he told CBS.

Clinton's aura of inevitability has been shattered in recent weeks by her string of losses, and the talk of Washington was whether she would be able to remain a viable candidate if she registers more losses on March 4.

Robert Novak, a conservative who is a syndicated columnist published in The Washington Post, wrote on Monday that Democratic Party elders were asking: "Who will tell her that it's over, that she cannot win the presidential nomination and that the sooner she leaves the race, the more it will improve the party's chances of defeating (Republican) Sen. John McCain in November?"

Clinton, after a fairly civil debate with Obama last Thursday in Texas during which she said she was honored to share the stage with him, has spent the last couple of days complaining about Obama's tendency to deliver speeches long on hope and short on substantive details.

"I could just stand up here and say 'Let's just get everybody together, let's get unified.' The sky will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect," she said at a rally on Sunday in Providence, Rhode Island, which also votes on March 4.

A photograph of Obama, dressed as a Somali elder with white headdress and matching robe, created a stir when it was posted on the popular Drudge Report web site on Monday and the accompanying article said it had been circulated by Clinton campaign staffers.

The Obama campaign was incensed.

The Drudge Report said the photo was taken in 2006 and shows the Democratic front-runner fitted as a Somali Elder, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya. Obama has fought a whispering campaign from fringe elements that say erroneously he is a Muslim.

"On the very day that Senator Clinton is giving a speech about restoring respect for America in the world, her campaign has engaged in the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering we've seen from either party in this election," said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe.

Clinton campaign manager Maggie Williams said in a statement: "Enough."

"If Barack Obama's campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed. Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited and had those photos published widely," Williams said.

She called the flap "nothing more than an obvious and transparent attempt to distract from the serious issues confronting our country today and to attempt to create the very divisions they claim to decry."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080225/ts_nm/usa_politics_dc

[Carlawarla 1]

I could do without a cat fight and drama Go Obama!

P.S. Always appreciate your postings Gary...didn't mean to hijack this!

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

With democrats being the emotional creatures they are. The implosion that will take place within the party is just fabulous. Check it out. Both Hillary and Barrack coming off with the love ,hope,and change rhetoric but yet there in a internal party fight. You ppl votin for either one of these ppl really should sit-up and take note. There is so so much meaning in the words: actions speak louder than words.

Change is no where in sight and the reality of it sends most of you to a place called denial. Keeping your eyes closed to this will only bring more dissappointment.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Change is no where in sight and the reality of it sends most of you to a place called denial.

Either an Obama or Clinton presidency will result in some drastic change in the way Americans pay for health care.

You can bet on it.

[GaryC 7]

Change is no where in sight and the reality of it sends most of you to a place called denial.

Either an Obama or Clinton presidency will result in some drastic change in the way Americans pay for health care.

You can bet on it.

Not a chance. We already had 8 years of a Clinton and it didn't happen, why do you think it will be different now?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Not a chance. We already had 8 years of a Clinton and it didn't happen, why do you think it will be different now?

16 years.

[mawilson 2,133]

Change is no where in sight and the reality of it sends most of you to a place called denial.

Either an Obama or Clinton presidency will result in some drastic change in the way Americans pay for health care.

You can bet on it.

Not a chance. We already had 8 years of a Clinton and it didn't happen, why do you think it will be different now?

More people want it now.

[Pinocchio Liberal 268]

Change is no where in sight and the reality of it sends most of you to a place called denial.

Either an Obama or Clinton presidency will result in some drastic change in the way Americans pay for health care.

You can bet on it.

Troll, go to your local clinic and go to the check-in desk. Now that your there, check out all the medical coupons being used,AKA heathcare being paid by you and I. The ppl that dont have healthcare "choose not to have it" Barracks words not mine. The poor are takin care of via welfare. Next up! mortgage welfare for the idiots that got themselves into it. Its coming to the point where the benefits of not working outway the reasons to work.

[GaryC 7]

Change is no where in sight and the reality of it sends most of you to a place called denial.

Either an Obama or Clinton presidency will result in some drastic change in the way Americans pay for health care.

You can bet on it.

Not a chance. We already had 8 years of a Clinton and it didn't happen, why do you think it will be different now?

More people want it now.

There are still a lot that don't. Just watch, it will all be lip service. In the end it will not happen.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

The ppl that dont have healthcare "choose not to have it" Barracks words not mine.

Nice out of context lie. Do you work for Hillary by any chance?

He said, in his plan - which does not have a mandate for adults to purchase healthcare - the only adults that wouldn't have it would be those that opt out.

He didn't say that is the case today.

Edited February 25, 2008 by VJ Troll

[mawilson 2,133]

Change is no where in sight and the reality of it sends most of you to a place called denial.

Either an Obama or Clinton presidency will result in some drastic change in the way Americans pay for health care.

You can bet on it.

Not a chance. We already had 8 years of a Clinton and it didn't happen, why do you think it will be different now?

More people want it now.

There are still a lot that don't. Just watch, it will all be lip service. In the end it will not happen.

I don't disagree, but I hope you're wrong. Not because I want to pay more taxes (I pay

enough already!) but because some reforms are badly needed today - for example, only

the government can make sure that the insurance companies do not exclude people with

"pre-existing conditions" (what a ridiculous concept!)

[GaryC 7]

The ppl that dont have healthcare "choose not to have it" Barracks words not mine.

Nice out of context lie. Do you work for Hillary by any chance?

He said, in his plan - which does not have a mandate for adults to purchase healthcare - the only adults that wouldn't have it would be those that opt out.

He didn't say that is the case today.

That line may have been taken out of context but it is true to some extent. A lot of the uninsured are young people that have it available to them but choose to take the risk because they still feel "immortal". Another big chunk of the uninsured are the illegals. Take those two groups of people out of the mix and the uninsured group shrinks rather dramatically. I know that you can buy catastrophic health care for just a few hundred a month. It may not cover everything but it will protect a family from losing everything if the worst happens. There is no need for the government to take over the whole show.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

There is no need for the government to take over the whole show.

Another ad hominem.

Neither the Obama nor the Clinton plan are 'single-payer'. That is, neither amounts to government taking over the whole show.

I encourage you to visit their websites and actually read their plans.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Change is no where in sight and the reality of it sends most of you to a place called denial.

Either an Obama or Clinton presidency will result in some drastic change in the way Americans pay for health care.

You can bet on it.

Not a chance. We already had 8 years of a Clinton and it didn't happen, why do you think it will be different now?

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