to urge her to step forward and be a leader and announce her support for Senator Obama.

It is time to end Hillary's destructive madness.  

Hillary is playing the ultimate race card in an attempt to tout her own electability.  The sad result is that she is creating painful divisions that the Civil Rights movement sought to bridge. This is not what the Democratic Party is about!  Since she has only a Huckabee-esque route to the Democratic nomination, her end game must be to destroy Senator Obama's chances in order to enhance her chances in 2012.  This will lead to George Bush's third term in 2008 and will hurt down ballot candidates.

Americans have a right to be bitter about the War in Iraq and the loss of America's best young men and women and our national treasure, the crumbling U.S. economy, the loss of jobs because of NAFTA and outsourcing, corporate greed and the fact that our politicians don't take responsibility for what they have done.  

Americans just might be bitter because Hillary Clinton failed the American people in the single most important decision she has had in her entire political life.  On August 11, 2002 she voted in favor of the "Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002," the law which took effect in October 2002 and effectively authorized the Iraq War.   In so doing, Hillary Clinton, along with a minority of congressional Democrats and the Republican majority, gave President Bush the authority he sought to launch a war in Iraq.  

Today’s endorsement of Obama by former candidate, Senator Chris Dodd, is important because it lends Dodd’s experienced voice to the concept that Obama is "ready on Day One" and that he will have "the right judgment on Day One." However, even more important than today’s coveted endorsement are Senator Dodd’s comments in the October 30 Drexel Debate that created the first cracks in the concept of Senator Clinton's inevitability.

If anyone thought that the voters, not the lawyers, were going to decide the Democratic nomination. Think again.  In today's New York Times:  "Your Conscience or Your Constituency?", Ron Klain posits how the nearly 800 unpledged "party leader and elected official" delegates — the so-called superdelegates — will vote, concluding that the matter is extremely complex.   He suggests two frames of reference:

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 16, 2008
Filed at 4:04 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Harold Ickes, a top adviser to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign who voted to strip Michigan and Florida of their delegates last year, now is arguing against the very penalty he helped pass.

In a conference call Saturday, the longtime Democratic Party member contended the DNC should reconsider its tough sanctions on the two states, which held early contests in violation of party rules. He said millions of voters in Michigan and Florida would be otherwise disenfranchised -- before acknowledging moments later that he had favored the sanctions.

Ickes explained that his different position essentially is due to the different hats he wears as both a DNC member and a Clinton adviser in charge of delegate counting. Clinton won the primary vote in Michigan and Florida, and now she wants those votes to count.

''There's been no change,'' Ickes said. ''I wasn't acting as an agent for Mrs. Clinton. We stripped them of all their delegates in order to prevent campaigns to campaign in those states. ...Those were the rules, and we thought we had an obligation to enforce them.''

11 a.m. EST:  My friend, Margaret, has just called me from the floor of the Comcast Center on the Campus of the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland where Obama is scheduled to appear at 12:30.  Margaret attended her first political rally at Notre Dame in 1968 for Robert Kennedy.