Barack Obama scores well in new Pew poll

The controversy over various incendiary remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has for the most part "not hurt" Democrat Barack Obama's campaign for president, one of the nation's top pollsters says, based on his organization's latest survey.

"Obama’s lead over Hillary Clinton remains as wide as it was in late February,'' says Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center, and "both Obama and Clinton continue to run slightly ahead of (John) McCain in a general election matchup.''

In the battle for the Democratic presidential nod, Obama was backed by 49% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters surveyed and Clinton by 39% (the error margin for this part of the poll was plus or minus 5.5 percentage points).

Some caveats ...

Other recent polls, including this one for NBC News and the Wall Street Journal, have been less positive for Obama, especially in gauging the status of  his race with Clinton.  Also, the Pew poll was conducted from last Wednesday (3/19) through Saturday -- meaning many were questioned in the immediate afterglow of Obama's generally well-received speech on race relations.

Perhaps most importantly, all the surveys took place before the latest discovery of an intemperate phrase -- this one directed at Italians -- from Wright, Obama's longtime pastor.

As Newsday's Spin Cycle blog puts it, Wright expounds on "a two-millennium grudge against the sons and daughters of Rome" in an article he penned for a magazine for which he is listed as CEO and his daughter, Jeri Wright, serves as publisher.  Specifically, the preacher wrote:  Jesus' "enemies had their opinion about Him.... The Italians for the most part looked down their garlic noses at the Galileans."

Still, comments by Kohut ...

will be welcomed by Obama and his partisans.

"The new polling suggests that the Wright affair has not hurt Obama’s standing, in part because his response to the controversy has been viewed positively by voters who favor him over Clinton,'' Kohut said.

He added: "Obama’s handling of the Wright controversy also won a favorable response from a substantial proportion of Clinton supporters, and even a third of Republican voters.''

See the Pew poll here.

-- Mark Silva and Don Frederick

Mark Silva writes for the Swamp of the Chicago Tribune's Washington bureau.

Comments

[NickNas]

You people never hesitate to mention the Rev. WHAT ABOUT Bosnia? Was the poll before or AFTER That? Why don't you even say?? I am more interested in what comes out the CANDIDATES mouths not SUPPORTERS. Hillary lied 3 times on film and was caught red handed. Why the Pass for her?

[alee21]

Obama's world is a world of black and white (mind you, I am not talking about race).

Obamaites, get over it. Hillary did not "lie", she overstated the conditions of her arrival in Bosnia. That does not diminish her role in that visit which was stated as a diplomatic success by the Ambassador to Bosnia at the time.

By the way, where was Obama in 1996? In collusion with Rezko I imagine. I bet he was nowhere near Bosnia.

He still has not held a single oversight meeting of the foreign relations committee he is supposed to chair. Of course his playtime in the Virgin Islands supersede anything as mundane as duty and responsibility.

[Harry Grace]

All things being equal, if Wright was a white pastor, this would be a one day story, like Falwell, Robertson, or any of the loons supporting McCain. The media is obsessed with this because Wright is black, and they like the caricature of him as an 'angry black man".

[N.E. BodybutHillary]

Reporting on other old statements by an already renounced opinionated preacher is merely professing that you have nothing new to offer. It is like walking out to that country road poking the week old armadillo corpse lying in the road and announcing " Yep, It's still dead!". Beating a dead horse also comes to mind as does the term diversion.

[Clyde Nelson]

I'm so sick of all the remarks and comments of the Democrats that if I decide not to support McCain, I just won't vote. This race is sickening. Obama is deplorable.

[Fred]

Obama's teliprompter aided speeches sound like "Green eggs and ham" to me. Nothing of any substance. His off the cuff comments are worse. His book that I am hearing each evening is just more "Afro-centric" vapidness.

I know MANY more intelligent Black men, personally.

[Judy Kilgore]

This issue of the bigoted Wright and Senator Obama's long association with him is not going to go away. It is absolutely an outrage that the MSM didn't report on this until now. And even now, they have chosen to take Senator Obama's word for it that Wright did not often say the hateful and racist things we have so far heard. As for it being taken out of context, it should not have been said in any context. Besides, Wright openly espoused the writings of James Cone and these are as racist and radical as Wright's words. Senator Obama has some more explaining to do.

Those of us who are Senator Clinton supporters do not appreciate the MSM ramming Obama down our throats. Here is one who will not vote for him if he gets the nomination, nor do I think he will get many Independent votes. Against All-American McCain, even with his negatives, Obama cannot win.

[Honeymoon in Teheran]

This poll is music to the ears of the naive and credulous.
Obama fanatics are not easily dissuaded . But the most
casual observer knows that PEW are famous for their
unreliable polling. At one point they had governor Judas
ahead of Clinton who was trailing Mike Gravel.

[Ryan]

I agree with NickNas. Why not talk more about the disgusting, lying witch? Words of the candidates themselves are more important than the words of supporters.

[Loyal Democrat]

Clinton: "Look over there! He's a bad man!"
Obama: "Look over here! We've got work to do!"
McCain: "Where are those damn glasses of mine!?"

[kweku Hagan]

i really don't know what's wrong with some people with what obama's pastor said and what, what really matters now is how obama will fix our worsening economy and soo forth, it looks sook stupid to waist time on such trivial issues rather than tackling health and economic probles

[Fanos]

Obama gave an outstanding speech on the economy. Obama would do a great job as president. But, it has come down to voters in PA, NC and IN. If they decide to vote for the candidate best positioned to side-step Washington politics and get things done for us, then their choice has to be Obama.

America will start winning again.

And, on Florida and Michigan, the Obama camp has always said they will abide by any decision the DNC and the state reps work out. Let me repeat it… Obama said he will abide by ANY decision! On the other hand, the Clinton camp said they want the delegated to be seated. In Michigan, Obama’s name wasn’t even on the ballot.

These crocodile tears are so apparent, it is shameful. When she really needed New Hampshire to rescue her flagging campaign, Hillary herself had said, “Michigan and Florida votes will not count” since they had moved up their dates to compete with Iowa and New Hampshire. She has done a complete 360 on this, and now argues it does not make sense not to count their votes.

How opportunistic?

The Hillary camp offers Americans nothing but cheap political calculations and maneuvers. Simply put, Hillary will say and do anything to get elected. Look at her Bosnia, Ireland accord and NAFTA lies….fudging her resume to boost a non-existent “experience”.

I have no problem with Hillary continuing to fight for her party’s nomination. What I have a problem with, however, is this effort to lie, cheat and deceive her way in to the White House.

People, wake up and smell the coffee!

[dan]

who cares?

this is about more than winning an election. we should focus on john mccain. we're doing the work for him!

[dwilks]

I feel sorry for some of you. Clinton lied to pad her resume. In the business world, you get fired for that. Ironic that she kept saying to think of the campaign as a job interview. If so, she just fired herself. Meanwhile, Obama keeps to the high ground. He's intelligent, honest, and a nice guy. The Clinton dynasty is, thank God, over!

[rhodap]

HILLARY WHO?

[fritz]

Hilary's a liar .. she's deceiving America.

[MsBuger]

Obama lied more than Clinton did and his lies were pretty serious.
(1) lying to texans and Ohioans about his position on NAFTA. (Canada)
(2) lying about his position on withdrawal from IRAQ (Samantha Powers)
(3) Lying on how his parents met
(4) Lying about African American on Life Magazine
(5) Lying about not having heard about Rev. Wright's hate issues for 20 years
(6) Lying aout his deep and serious relationship with Rezko
(7) etc,

These are serious issues against OBAMA, the GREAT.

Bosnia is just exaggeration. and this issue is nothing. Hillary remained quiet on Wright issue until Obama blast her about the Bosnia.

[Andrew Austin]

Hillary misremembers details of an hour that occurred 12 years ago.

Obama denies 20 years in the pews at Trinity United.

[tabac blond]

It appears to me that the general public has moved on with th/e Rev. Wright's statements and Sen. Obama's explanation, It is more than alarming to me on how the media can't/won't let it go. McCain stumbles and blows off anyone who doesn't agree with him; it is obvious Hilliary will do or say anything---she is so not in integrity. I am a middle aged white woman who assumed we'd moved much further along re: racial lines from the days of my youth. So I find it astonishing to observe the media---for the almighty buck or sheer evil. participate in race baiting. Shame on you all for all this negativity and divisiveness.

[Darrell]

Everyone Please read this: Obama is in trouble again concerningsimliar statement's his Pastor has made.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3636128.ece.

[Mike]

Wright's "God damn America," while offensive, doesn't come close to the outrage that occurs in both Black and White churches all across America that effectively proclaim, "God damn the World" with their narrow theology that only Christian fundamentalists will go to heaven. The trash that comes forth every Sunday from the pulpits across America puts Wright's puny comments to shame. Fundamentalists blaspheme God by identifying God with the American Empire, and so, when a Black pastor has the temerity to challenge this idea and state that God might not actually be Rush Limbaugh dittohead, this will not do! The whole thing reeks of nativism and racism.

[Vera (truth]

Hillary should tell America where she went (or goes) to CHURCH, and if Mr. Hillary went with her? ? Does she have any friends there? Did Carl Rove go to the same church? Has she gained EXPERIENCE in reverse psychology? Hass she LEARNED (from her pastor) how to turn away from her own FAULTS OF "MISSPEAKING" and FOCUS her attention on destroying another HUMAN BEING (like she calls HERSELF)?

What is she doing to the Democratic Party ... you know, the party that Sen. Barack Obama has worked so hard to SAVE?

[pana]

Well said Ms buger, it looks like you have done extensive homework to come up with your calling of Obama a lier. You score 101% except your real unashamed lier will loose badly you won't know what hit you. Please be real, no-one in the bloggs are children nor are they not reading the news and watching on tv what is going on.

Obama is NOT in trouble for someone else's remarks,its only common sense and everyone knows that.

[ed]

Over the course of the past few weeks, several themes have developed;

1) Obama is being scrutinized and judged by the words of his pastor.

2) Hillary is being scrutinized and judged for HER WORDS of what "really" didn't happen in Bosnia.

.....which is the worse of the two Demon-crats....

3) McCain is smoking cigars and realistically beginning to decide which suit to wear to his inauguration.

4) Bill Clinton recommends to those bible-thumping-ultra-conservative-Republicans that it is okay to smoke cigars because it doesn't require one to inhale.

5) Chelsea is defending her mother's bullet scars from Bosnia by stating it's "none of our business".

6) Oprah is secretly being groomed to become Obama's running mate. On one of her shows, she will reveal that her ultimate goal is to donate the White House and remodel it into living quarters as a shelter for the homeless.

Aaah, politics and freedom of speech. America is one unique country. It's all good!

[elizabeth]

The Hillary Clinton campaign employees need to stop posting their words of hate in forums of the people...the real people, not those paid to stir up negative controversy.

[democrat from pa]

I don't think the race for presidency should be about black or white, man or woman, this is 2008! I think Barack Obama would be a great president, i think he's for middle class Americans of all colors, I also think this is the first person to come along in a long time and run for president because he actually wants to make a difference! When Barack Obama actually raised money for his campaign, the American people donated him their money, which I might add, was more then either Hillary or McCain, and he did it with out big companies or lobbyist help. That alone should say a lot about his character! Just because of what one man says does not reflect the opinion of another!!

[Surane Fonseka]

Bill Clinton over stated and mis-spoke when he said those famous words " I never had sexual relations with that woman".

He did not lie.

It is very dangerous to elect a person who is a congenital and pathological liar. If I was shot by sniper fire or by any type of fire for that matter, I will most certainly remember it for the rest of my life. It will not be a figment of my imagination or that of my spin doctors.

Anyone who utters such a blatant lie does not have any respect for the intelligence of the American voters. By openly lying Hillary has insutled the intelligence of the American voters and taken them as fools and idiots. Looking at the literacy rate and numeracy rate of America you do get a lot of idiots who believe her.

[Andre]

Obama supporters are a nasty bunch of zealots. Blowing this silly Bosnia thing out of proportion. Also, the poll mentioned in this article means squat. You can manipulate polls easily and only the ignorant think otherwise.
I, too, am troubled over the inequity of the media in favoring Obama. It's so bloody obvious. They've gone out of their way to protect Obama over the Wright issue, even giving faulty headlines like "Obama Not Hurt over Wright", etc.. BALONEY. Obama CANNOT win the general election. Conversely they are all over Clinton over the silly Bosnia thing. PUH-lease. In the beginning I was for Obama but now I'm 100% for Hillary. This whole Bosnia crap is the final straw. The media is trying to destroy her now and it will backfire with Clinton supporters big time.

[UrbanHillbilly]

When Clinton's campaign started talking about the fact pledged delegates are not legally bound, they displayed a break with reality. I am not saying that Clinton herself is delusional, but campaigns and cabinates are susceptable to group-think. This is where perfectly sane people reinforce a crazy idea, so that everyone in that group believes in something that is insane. I don't think many people understand the danger.

[vote4thebest]

The reason why the poll is better for Obama because the poll asks the wrong question - they tend to ask about the speech, and not the real questions. Plus, only Fox carried the Wright's story while all network carried Clinton's mispeaking.

As long as the media continues to refuse to vet Obama, then more people will vote for McCain because Obama remains a 'unknown candidate' with questionable character and judgment based on the Rezko and Wright scandals.

[monique alponte]

Obama can kiss the Italian and Roman Catholic vote arrivederci !

I have no problem about the Italian "garlic nose" slam by Rev. Wright, we do eat garlic (it sure kept us alive during the plague); fair enough. But the problem I have is his claim that Italians “were whites that hated the Jews and that’s why they killed Jesus.” The FACT is that Italians did not exist as a people until at least 500 years AFTER Jesus.* The "Romans" in Jesus' day were actually of Greek origin. And Obama calls his pastor a “scholar?”
And not to mention most Italians do not have "white" skin. Italy is just like America, there are brown, white, and yes, black Italians. Italians and Jews have never separated from each other over color of skin. Actually Hasidic Jews, Arabs, and Mediterranean people in general look very similar. For example, members of my Italian family are constantly mistaken for “middle eastern,” and sometimes Mexican.

MY TYPICAL RICH WHITE ITALIAN FAMILY?
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=371252&id=835185274

The fact that Obama calls his pastor a “scholar,” disqualifies Obama. PERIOD.

Rev. Wright's own words slamming Italians, he says “they were white and hated Jews and that's why they killed Jesus”:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAYe7MT5BxM

Yah, Wright some scholar; yah, Obama some uniter.

n't

[MarkieBee]

WOW, Hillary's sock puppets are out in force tonight. Hillary's visit to Bosnia was a first lady photo-op and nothing more. It wasn't a diplomatic mission. That's a bunch of crap. And she did lie. She did not misremember. Apparently she forgot she had her then 15-year-old daughter with her. Hillary wins mother of the year award in 1996 for taking Chelsea into a "war zone." The sock puppets just can't let the Rev. Wright thing go. It's all they have left. They're still getting their butts kicked in pledged delegates, popular votes, number of states won, money donated and they've lost three more supers in the last 36 hours, Pennsylvania will be tighter than they think and Hillary's donors have done more to damage her than she knows with their ransom note to Pelosi. The stars are aligned against Hillary. Call it karma doing it's thing. A lovely sight. Couldn't happen to a nicer couple. But by all means play that 10-minute clip of Rev. Wright and keep thinking he speaks that way every Sunday. If that helps you sleep at night then who am I to deny you that life-saving chew toy of an issue. Sleep tight sock puppets...see ya in November.

[BluSage]

He would have been better served saying the garlic nosed Romans of the time if not by leaving the nose out of it all together. This goes to show that even highly educated people have things to learn. In the reverend's case it might simply be that the frayed sensibilties of the struggling are easily irritated and therefore subject to manipulation by the ambitious people who are motivated by greed and not telling the truth.

[rob johnston]

Thank you MarkieBee, you've hit the nail on the head.

I was confused from the beginning about Hillary playing the experience card against Obama. I'm curious how many other international-diplomatic-missions-gone-shootout she's got under her belt to confuse with this Bosnia photo-op?

We could argue all day about Bosnia vs. Wright, but I think even Clinton's "sock puppets" know that she's got no more cards left after this one. What they don't know is that Barack winning the election will be the best thing that's happened to American politics this century, and potentially ever.

[ALL FOR OBAMA]

It is obvious that Hillary will do ANYTHING to get elected.. Basically she is a power-hungry bitch. For example, the Michigan voting, everyone agreed not to vote, hence, Obama withdrew his name from the ballot, and Hillary wants to re-count the votes. COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT..she will do and suggest ANYTHING.. COMPLETELY UNBELIEVABLE.. I think America has developed itself. Please show to the world that America can think beyond the boundaries of race!

[sean o]

Alee says Hillary "overstated" the conditions of her arrival in Bosnia. This is even more euphimisitic, if possible, than her description as "misspeaking". According to lexicographer, :
Choosing this word is a terrible mistake, says lexicographer Tony Thorne.

"She's in danger of doing what Bill Clinton did in redefining sexual relations.

"She's redefining telling the truth because 'misspeaking' is a euphemism for not telling the truth. It's the language of bamboozling, which US politicians and the US military love and get away with."
"She's chosen a short, sharp soundbite word but like 'known unknown' it will probably only be used ironically or mockingly."

[John Martin]

It is so in our face it's not funny , Obama could not have won one of those midwest ( solid republican ) areas now that his church is on the front page . And more then a few people are feeling doped . They won't be there for him because he is no longer cool . Now he is a con man and all the Hillary bashing isn't going to turn back this new information . And by the way, John is only being nice now , when the time comes for the debates he is going to say it right to his face in solid HD , and he isn't any John Kennedy or King , not even close. Plus all the stuff we have not heard will be out of the closet , Like where did you do drugs Obama , with who did you do them , when is the last date , was it at the palms hotel for the opening of the playboy club that you went too???
Lots more to come out just before the election . They are going to make him look like only black people are supporting him , because he is black - and they would be right in most cases , since very few have any idea of any accomplishments he has done. They will make sure that all us typical white people know we are voting for a very radical term in office and all the other remodeling changes that will have to be done to the White house like getting rid of all those pictures off the walls of those slave owning ex presidents.

Lots more money for the media to make destroying these canadites until we just can not stand anyone of them and everyone turns there back on each other again for another 4 more years .

Good luck all

[AngryDemocrat]

This infighting between the two Democratic Candidates needs to stop. There is only one winner in this, Senator McCain... I can not live with him as commander and chief. Senator Obama, you are in the lead, maintain a positive, honest campaign and show your strengths against McCain. Hillary, continue fighting, but fight McCain not Obama. The voters will decide and if somehow you gain the nomination, gain it without splitting up the party. It pains me to see Obama or Clinton supporters vow not to vote democrat if the other gains the nomination. You surely can't want another war monger in office, do you?

[Mike D]

Hear that? It's the sound of Hillary's presidential dreams crashing. Hillary Rodham Clinton will NEVER be president. Too many people hate her. It's a fact. How can someone argue electability when your negative ratings are consistently higher than your positive?

[ROBERT WILLIAMS]

Hay! people,what someone says,and not your words,is dome to spend a hold lot of time talking about,seams as doe the media,is low on news stores,so they have to keep the wright store going any way they can.Now they'er looking in the trash can for stores,shred your papers. A lie,is a lie,no matter how you tell it,and that lie was told several times,so how did she miss spoke.

[Hillary]

Hillary: "It depends on what the meaning of the word "lie" is."

[verycold]

We should call a spade a spade. Hillary lied about the Bosnia episode, or lack thereof. Barack lied about never knowing his pastor gave hate speeches. Barack equally lied when he said he was conceived after the Selma Al march . He was already 4 years old. He embellished when he said President Kennedy made it possible for his father to come to the US with a scholarship program. His father came in 1959 and as we all know Kennedy was NOT president at this time. However Kennedy was a senator but it doesn't sound as good as making him a president. If you subscribe to the fact that Barack is a very intelligent man which I do, these "gaffs" were intentionally put into his speeches. Why these two feel they need to change history is beyond me and it is equally beyond me that they somehow forget they are being videotaped. Maybe they are just plain dumb.

[Patricia]

Ms Clinton needs a pair of good glasses - to see the writing on the wall. Talk about a polarizing figure - with almost equal negatives and positives!

[Darrell]

To All Strong Hillary Supporters:

Please Write Hillary a letter on her Campaign and Senator Websites to encourage her not to ever never give-up and quit this race until all voter's voices have been heard in every State, she needs your support in every way, and she needs to know all the people who are still standing strong with her unitl the last nomination vote is counted. I sent a letter to her already giving her my full support until the last day of the voting process. You know their is power and strength in numbers. I don't want McCain or Obama to be my President, and if you're in agreement with me, write Hillary that "Don't Quit Letter" today!!

Darrell

[rick ozz]

Hillaryous definition: When someone describes a situation in a way that benefits their selfish goals, despite all of evidence to the contrary (reality).

1. Obama leads Hillary Clinton in delegates by 121, popular vote by almost 750,000, he also leads in the number of states won. However, Senator Bayh of Indiana, who backs Clinton for president, proposed a new Hillaryous gauge by which superdelegates might judge whether to support Clinton or Obama. He suggested that they consider the electoral votes of the states that each of them has won. What a hillaryously undemocratic method to override the will of the majority of the voters in the Democratic party.

2. Governor Bill Richardson’s endorsement was eagerly sought by the Clinton camp. However, since Richardson endorsed Obama, Clinton strategist Mark Penn Hillaryously told reporters that he didn't think it was a "significant endorsement."

3. James Carville Hillarously told the New York Times that Richardson, a former member of Bill Clinton's Cabinet, had committed "an act of betrayal," adding that it "came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out [Jesus] for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic."

4. CBS News reports: Sixty-nine percent of voters who have heard or read about Obama’s speech say he did a good job addressing the issue of race relations, and 63 percent of voters following the events say they agree with Obama's views on race relations. Seventy-one percent say he did a good job explaining his relationship with Wright.

5. Clinton had significantly higher debts -- she owed $8.7 million, not including the $5 million she herself lent to her campaign. Obama only had about $625,000 in debt to be paid.Clinton had some $10.9 million in cash left at the end of February. Obama had over $30 million in cash left at the end of February. Today Sen. Clinton hillaryously laid out an economic plan for the country although she can’t manage her own campaign finances.

6. • Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)
• Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)
• She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)
• She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn't cover the market back then.)
Whoppers She Won't Admit
• She didn't know about the FALN pardons.
• She didn't know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.
• Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.
• She didn't know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.
• She didn't know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.
• She opposed NAFTA at the time.
• She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.
• She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.
• She played a role in the '90s economic recovery.
• The billing records showed up on their own.
• She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.
• She was always a Yankees fan.

[rick ozz]

Some say that I, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, should have spent Easter weekend in Chappaqua, writing my withdrawal speech and preparing for my return to the Senate. They ask why I stay in the ’08 race when Obama has an insurmountable lead in states, delegates, and popular vote. My strategy is for victory in the 2012 presidential election. I will continue to pursue several lines of attack on Obama including denouncing his experience, blaming him for the fiascos in Michigan & Florida, and even praising our Republican rival Senator John McCain as more patriotic and experienced than Obama. My goal is to do extensive damage to Obama to ensure that he looses the general election in ’08 and pave the way for my eventual election in 2012! It’s a HILLARYOUS strategy, but I will be president by any means necessary.

[Lanny R. North, Honolulu Hawaii]

I am as non-religious as you can get, but, in an effort to satisfy myself about the flim-flam created about Reverend Wright, I have taken the time to actually view the whole of the sermons from which those loops were extracted. And I found those sermons enthralling! As a non-believer I would listen to the wisdom of Reverend Wright any day.
I find the extractions to be appalling in their distortion. I invite everyone to do likewise and listen to the whole of his sermons so that we may understand both him and why Barack Obama did not and should not cast aside what I see as a treasured experience. I only wish I lived in Chicago.

[Ron]

There are so many idiots in this country, that it is unbelievable. A sure testament that we have to desperately improve our educational system . The Wright controversy is being fueled by scumbags the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. If we eliminated everyone who has sat in a Church while their priests were molesting children or damming America or spewing hatred for jews, we would have to establish a pristine school only open to future presidential candidates taught by ( I haven't figured that one out yet,) but it would have to teachers who are not susceptible to corruption. It is written that Hillary supporters will vote for McCain if she is she is not the nominee. Well...... she is not going to be the nominee. So if you want McCain to appoint conservative judges to the Supreme Court, which will destroy the Democratic party for at least the next 20 years, you go ahead and do that. Or you might try reading a book

[EJLima]

Hilliary, What are you doing? Are you a political suicide bomb? Do you know the definitions of "TRUTH" "EVIL"
"REALITY"? Have you talked to a doctor about your problem? Have you considered remedial training? Who is more to blame?
YOU, or BILL? You have my deepest concern, but my vote will depend on your answers. "Straight Answers", no less.
Headlines state your precious young daughter likes you better than Bill. Do you even have a clue about this stuff
or are you in complete denial of everything?

[kevin]

you might forget, or "misspeak" about something that happened years ago... but you would never (never!) forget being with your child and being in a hail of bullets.

Is it important?

I don't know.... but I know, that if it never happened, and you said that it did, then you are lying.

So HIllary lied.

Is it important?

I don't know, you decide. But I think her excuse of being "sleep deprived" is curious, given her 3am. telephone ads.

Makes you wonder what would happen if you woke this woman up at 3am.

[bill haymes]

Jack Smith is definitely right that Obama will be slaughtered as Republicans exploit the property deal and Jeremiah Wright for all they are worth, as well as massively withdrawing support.......Hilary has exaggerated certainly but her memory of events may to her be psychologically honest..He is also right that the dream ticket would be unbeatable.
As a benefactor of a free health service he would be showing great character if he became running mate with a strong remit ....and i would change my mind as to the sincerity of his purpose which the head of racial equality, a black male calls here " deeply cynical"....Jack Smiths analysis is the clearest and most objective i have read on all the blogs and his warning of a Republican plot ought to be seriously considered by the superdelegates