Shame for Hilliary, i had a lot of respect for her when she tried to Natrionalise your health service and felt sorry for the deplourable way your media reacted, however this time around she deserves no sympathy.

Perhaps the treatment of her in the past has made her this bitter, she certainly comes across that way.

It really comes down to how she (Hillary Clinton) talks about the issue.  Race is still an issue that divides far too many people in this country and coming off sounding as if you are the 'white people's candidate' for the Democratic nomination is not wise at all.  Pointing out that you have a broad range of support isn't bad, but can she really claim to have that if she doesn't have the support of what has traditionally been a large voting block for the Democrats (Blacks)?

Both sides have issues pulling in votes outside their own core constituencies.  Obama is pulling in the vast majority of Black voters and thus far hasn't been able to pull that much of the older white voters.  He appeals (if you believe the polls) to younger voters, more educated voters, and minority voters.  She (Hillary Clinton) appeals to older voters in the party, and especially to older white voters.  She has gotten very little support from the Black voters in this election because they see one of their own in the race and have decided that (a) it's their time and ( that he is electible.

Despite Hillary's best attempts to sway Superdelegates with claims of being the more electible candidate, she hasn't been getting those delegates and he has, at least thus far.  Even those sitting on the sidelines having been coming to her, and now thanks to what was called (by Sabato in the quoted materials above) a 'poorly worded' statement she may yet again be sending a message that may have been intended to pressure delegates she needed to support but instead does just the opposite because now people that would have supporter her will be fearful of being called racists if they don't support the other guy.

Face it, in a lot of ways what she said was code words for 'I'm the white man's candidate' and that statement is going to inflame and antagonize voters the Democratic party needs on their side.  Not a smart thing to do.  Perhaps she should have spent more time reviewing the code word book to come up with a better comment to make, but then again I suspect that the words she used were more in line with her own beliefs and that says a lot about her that points out what kind of hypocrite she has likely been throughout her life.  (Given her husband's poor choice of words throughout this campaign, I think a few people have figured out what a hypocrite he has been as well.  He's gone from being 'the first Black President' to someone that has made statements that clearly imply racial insensitivity.)

Define attend a church for 20 years please.

Not trying to defend Obama, but I know people that claim to be church goers and parishioners who show up so infrequently that they should be struck down for telling such lies.

I don't know how regularly Obama attended church, and certainly after hearing even a few words of Rev. Wrong, uh, Wright's words on some of those topics Obama should have been headed for the exits and disassociating himself with him (Wright) long before he did, but not being directly involved and not having been there it's hard to know what the truth really is, especially considering there may be ulterior motives to Wright's words and actions now.

On whether or not Obama is an idiot for continuing to support and/or defend Rev. Wright after the word first came out about things Wright had said, I'd say guilty as charged there.  He should have blasted those words immediately and put as much distance as he could between himself and Wright.  Very poorly handled and definitely made him look like a fool.

I don't think that's a fair statement to make.  He's doing what every other candidate, well, namely Hillary, since McCain's candidacy all wrapped up, he's running the race to win it.  They both will do and say anything they believe to win.  The point is what you believe, and who you will vote for.  It is good that there are two candidates who haven't run for President in while, because there have been other blacks, and other women in previous years (the entire country is behaving as if it's the first time).  However, the way Hillary is playing it, she's the working class answer to the country because she has been there, down and out and struggling and knows where they are coming from, yea, right...!  Now she's pitting the one thing she knows will get her votes, race, she's the likely candidate to go up against another likely candidate.  Makes me sick every time I hear her and her husband and everyone else who thinks and talk the same talk!

What is it about us that makes us look at race first, then gender, then everything else comes after?  It's how we have been for many generations and the media is there to make us not forget (not to mention all the other die hards who have been around since the dark ages)!  

The wonderful thing is, there are more progressive people who are willing to listen to the candidate of their choice and make the decision for themselves, regardless of what others think.  Whether people want to call them duffusses because they can't rattle off what they think Obama can or will do for them, and to add insult to injury the only reason why most blacks will vote for Obama is because he's black...yeah....we are all automatoms with no minds of our own and that goes for all the women who will vote for that woman too....uh uh...robots...just sit home and someone will go do the voting for you!