Post | 04/28/2008 7:46 pm

wOw's Views on the News: Is It Time for Clinton or Obama to Throw In the Towel?

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
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By staying in the race, are the Democratic candidates inadvertently sabotaging their party’s chances of winning the election? This weekend, Howard Dean called on Clinton or Obama to drop out of the race for the candidacy by June. "Either of these candidates, if it’s time for them to go, they’ll know it and they will go," Dean said, according to the Associated Press. But will they? Should they? And if so, should they wait until the Puerto Rico primary or should the move be made now?
Read more about: Barack Obama, Election, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Puerto Rico Primary

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Joan Ganz Cooney
They clearly are jeopardizing their chances of winning the general election by going round after round jabbing at each other like two tired boxers. While it’s not clear how she could win the nomination no matter what happens in the primaries, Hillary will hang in hoping for a miracle. So there is little chance that she will leave the race until Puerto Rico or until a majority of super delegates endorses Obama, which is unlikely before the last primary. I think we’re stuck with this nightmarish “Groundhog Day” experience.
By Joan Ganz Cooney on 04/29/2008 1:00 am
Frank Peterson
Joan; I’m with you on this. Unless Clinton and Obama reach a common ground they might just as well throw in the towel. All they are doing in tearing one another apart and polarizing the voters. I do wish the hell they’d get together, but I don’t see that happening very soon—more’s the pity.
By Frank Peterson on 04/29/2008 1:10 am
Michael Salling
Frank, you are making a mistake letting Joan lead you down the path on this. Those are the Beltway Boy’s favorite talking points. Ground Hog Day was a great movie. I’ve watched it many times and each time I like it better. See below.
By Michael Salling on 04/29/2008 7:00 am
Michael Salling
As much as I I’m attracted to her and admire her adversarial skill, I’ve never quite been able to bring myself to trust her 100%. She looks a little too much like … Scroll Down … Auralay ushbay.
By Michael Salling on 04/29/2008 8:09 am
Frank Peterson
Michael—when it comes to republicans I never ever make a mistake. Ditto the belway “boys’
By Frank Peterson on 04/29/2008 9:26 am
Star Lawrence
Even in that movie, each day is a little different.
By Star Lawrence on 04/29/2008 10:55 am
Michael Salling
that pix great, star, is it you? looks like a movie star I once saw on he silver screen long ago (it was a talkie)
By Michael Salling on 04/29/2008 6:39 pm
Dr. Mark Klein
This is nothing to get excited about. The White House is any Democratic candidate’s race to lose. My suspicion McCain has very early Altzheimers is now getting picked up by the mainstream press as they listen more carefully to him. http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/04/neoconserva… I’m a conservative Republican who prefers Obama but if I had to holding my nose I’d vote for Clinton.
By Dr. Mark Klein on 04/29/2008 10:59 am
Diana T
Gosh, I’d never had known you were a conservative Republican by the way you write. Actually, McCain’s facial melanoma gives me concern because of the rate of recurrence with these things.
By Diana T on 04/29/2008 12:46 pm
James Gemmell
Diana, I’m horrified by a post that “C A Rose” put up under Saturday’s wowOwow.com post, “Obama selects Biden for V.P” or whatever that I was alerted to. She accused me of posting something vulgar in a reply posted to her. She said in the post that the wow.com staff “omitted” it. I have absolutely, 100% no idea what she’s referring to, nor would I ever attempt to be vulgar or mean-spirited to anyone on this site. Cripe, everyone should know that by now; I’ve been on this site since early May. I’ve sent wowOwow.com two Emails asking them what in blazes CA Rose is talking about and what the allegedly offending post might’ve been. I wonder if she’d stoop so low as to try something underhanded, just because I’m a Democrat, to get me in trouble with the website? Whatever it could be, it’s ludicrous. Thanks to WoWmaster for omitting James’ attempt to be vulgar in more than one of the sentences in his actual post. James, please don’t even pretend to curse in your replies to me. Thank You, C A Rose By C A Rose on 08/25/2008 12:04 am
By James Gemmell on 08/25/2008 2:09 am
Diana T
Hi, James. It took me a moment to figure out where I was here, but I think you are in an obscure spot that no one will be in any time soon, right? Actually, I was horrified by the whole stream that about 3 people are writing, including the person you allude to. I don’t mind arguing and bickering; it’s normal when opposing views get together. Even you and I don’t agree 100%. But, this constant tearing down without cause, these awful things some of these women were saying went beyond anything I am used to in a forum of informed debate. Don’t let it bother you. As I said to DeBurca, no amount of arguing with or without facts is going to change their minds. I decided that when I start receiving hateful responses, I am not going to address those people directly, but instead, Iwill post by attaching to Frank or DeB’s name. And the reason is because even though those people are implacable, there are still plenty of interested and undecided people that are really appreciating our researched factual analyses. So, keep it up. I enjoy all of your posts. Maybe this was a full moon day or maybe everyone had PMS. Who knows? Or perhaps, they are unhappy for reasons we will never know. Hope this helps. Anyone who would accuse you of being mean spirited should go to a mirror and look at themselves.
By Diana T on 08/25/2008 4:37 am
James Gemmell
I figured out what it was, Diana. Sometimes, there are auto-generated stray marks when you get an Email Alert that look something like this: “James &^$89!2# has sent you an Email &*(#$!48 alert.” They’re just stray marks that are generated by the computer linguistics during transmission. Well, C A Rose went on a rant, saying I implied something vulgar in an Email Alert response and had WoW staff omit the alleged comment. Funny thing is, it wasn’t even in my actual post, but in wow’s computer alert. Yet, she felt compelled to write that, making me look vulgar online. It’s just really preposterous.
By James Gemmell on 08/25/2008 12:00 pm
Diana T
I think that is a bit below the belt, James. And silly, too. Technical question: When we make a post, any post, wow automatically defaults us back to page 1 instead of back to the spot on the string where we were. On a real long thread, it drives me nuts. Is there anyway their tech department could fix that? Or am I just too picky?
By Diana T on 08/25/2008 12:10 pm
James Gemmell
Diana, I agree her comment was below the belt. Regarding the technical question, it’s a complicated problem, and perhaps unsolvable. If you write your comments in the box at the bottom of the page, instead of hitting the Reply button, that will put your comments on the last page, not the first. The problem is, once multiple people start replying (clicking Reply) to each other, it shuffles the entire thread arrangement to the point where nobody is sure who’s talking to who. Hence, the necessity to type in people’s names each time, in order to avoid confusion. It still gets confusing, but by allowing people to Reply to alerts directly underneath someone else’s post, instant communication is possible, without having to research each time where somebody posted to you. I don’t think there is a solution, but I prefer this method as opposed to the original one, even though it’s not perfect.
By James Gemmell on 08/25/2008 12:27 pm
Diana T
James, so it’s when the thread gets very long that things get all mixed up?
By Diana T on 08/25/2008 4:21 pm
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