Hillary should have stayed away from this one. She has just cut her last ties to the black community by (a lot will perceive) criticizing the black church. I doubt there will be any reconcilliation behind this one. Black folks will either not vote or vote for McCain. We are not unfamiliar with being screwed anyway. Why would she think she can insult a hispanic governor and inject negative and ignorant(by the way) comments about the black church and expect support if she steals the nomination. It won't happen. It will be Obama or McCain, unless she can win without those two voting blocks (which make up a significant portion of the democratic base.)

As of this date, I've not seen any statement by her or her campaign that Hillary has watched the Obama speech.   It seems a bit careless to be commenting on the speech or the controversy when she admits that she is so out of the loop.  

The problem is that he doesn't agree with Obamabots and that is a big no-no here.

He may have come out with more detailed plans earlier, but his record in the senate doesn't match his plans.  Obama has had more legislative experience and damn good bills past than Edwards during his time in the senate.

I get really annoyed with Edwards supporters continually compare Obama with Edwards PLANS, but not his records.

and eloquent as well. So surely that can't be all of Obama's appeal.  

Edwards and Biden as president, and Obama bests them in overall substance. He is the best all around president.
Plus he's eager, he wants to learn and be better at what he does. You can see that from his campaign's learning curve over the past year.

also, he will have the awesome responsibility of being the first American president, If his presidency does not prove itself he may also be the last American president. That is a responsibility unmatched in its historic percussiveness and will provide a powerful incentive to do the right thing.

qualities.  In more indirect ways, that is what both Obama and Clinton are trying to say they have greater than the other.

The others in the field of Dem candidates were in many ways more qualified - but they could not inspire or motivate the bulk of the people to follow them. (I have always puzzled about why Edwards did not reach more people this way and have no satisfactory answer.)

It does no good to have a map if no one will follow you to a better place.

It is in this substantive quality that transformative leaders rise above the rest.

It is this quality, so clear (if undefined)to the masses of ordinary folk and mostly unmentioned by the media, that Obama has like no other politician in recent memory.

It is close to popularity, but not quite the same.

Because leadership, at least good leadership, does not involve pandering or telling the people what they want want to hear in the American Idol way, but rather in telling the people what they need to hear.  

Good leadership does not pit us against one another to achieve some tactical end, but calls us together towards a more strategic approach to identifying and achieving our common goals.

Here again, this approach to leadership is clear in how Obama is running his campaign - and how they run is how they'll govern.

I believe them when they say they are better for it an no regrets, but I was so ashamed at the way they were treated. Seeing those bulldozers smashing cds and people cheering. And the threats. It is not so hard to imagine how Hitler whipped up such righteous hate toward "other people" that justifies....just about anything. It was such a low point.