Still, it is not a boxing match, and no towel need be thrown. The primaries should march on, and whoever wins, wins.

My personal belief (and fervent wish) would be that we get a ‘do-over’ and get rid of all three of them. How this came to be is beyond me. The democrats have managed to give this election to the republicans……a miracle given what our current president has done to this country. Yet, we will have another Republic president and he will be McCain—-I for one am trying to find out how to do a write-in on the new computer voting machines…….Colin Powell would have made a great president.

I think she should after the next primaries suspend her campaign and let the GOP take him down

No! Why shouldn’t the rest of us let the people who are voting in the last primaries make their vote count. I remember a few years ago voting for a Presidential candidate and my vote didn’t count because it had already been decided. I congratulate both Hilary and Barack on their dignified, elevated campaigns. I think it’s time that we stop the “good old boys in the back room with cigars” from making the Presidential candidate decisions. It’s time everyone in the country can have their say in this process. Hilary and Barack are making this happen. Congratulations for keeping a level head, when the “press” wants to tell the rest of us how to conduct the primary process. The key word here is “process”.

I believe strongly that both Democratic candidates should run their campaigns to the end. That is our process. The “democratic” process that we currently export to other countries. I want my next president to be someone who wants to be in that office and is willing to go the distance for it. I am tired of Democratic candidates throwing in the towel for the “greater good”. Boo. I am happy that Hillary is trying so hard. I would be very disappointed if Obama was given the nomination for any reason. We need a president who has a fighting spirit and a tenacity to deal with the long road ahead. Given our standing in the world, the poor economy, the issues within congress etc. I expect the next president will gain their grey hairs earlier in their term than many before them. I support both and hope they don’t listen to the pundits, but run to the end.

Wrong question. The question is, how in the holy hell do we shorten this TWO YEAR election cycle to two months. Okay, that is not realistic, make it three. Have the New Hampshire primary in August and all of the rest before the end of September and then the conventions in the first week of October - both at the same time. Then the election in November - and get rid of the undemocratic electoral college and all e-votes and hand count ballot with prison terms for cheating. I know. It would be like having the IRS actually just tell us what we owe and we pay. An entire industry of unnecessary people, consultants, pollsters, advertisers, media pundits, etc., would out of high paying jobs. Good.

I hope we have Obama as the President. This would repair the damage done by Bush. Obama is the only one who might be able to convince the world that our country is sorry for the atrocities of past seven years on human rights. A Quiet US Confession:WeaponsWereNot Made In Iran After All (see below) ============================== For the sake of peace, PLEASE, spread far and wide. Let us break self-censorship of “Press” and “Media”. Shame on them that do not let people hear the real IMPORTYANT news pieces. Long Live Libert Down with tyrany, bullyism, and dictatorship of our country ============================== A Quiet US Confession Weapons Were Not Made In Iran After All By CASMII In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19908.htm ================================= “Bomb Syria” Woolsey Advises McCain Real News Video John McCain has recruited several members of “The Committee on the Present Danger” as foreign policy advisors, including former CIA head James Woolsey. Do Woolsey’s viewpoints represent McCain’s vision for America and the world? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19910.htm ==================================== Official: Iran not to accept any incentives violating rights of nation: Local analysts said Hosseini obviously referred that Tehran would never suspend it’s uranium enrichment work, a key process could produce fuel for powerplants but also can be used to make nuclear weapons. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-05/12/content_8147989.htm =============================== Dollar, not supply, causes record oil - Iran offical: The weak U.S. dollar is the main reason behind oil prices rising to record levels, not demand or supply factors, an Iranian Oil Ministry official was quoted as saying http://tinyurl.com/3l53go =============================== US warship heads back to Mediterranean amid Lebanon crisis: “The USS Cole has crossed the Suez Canal and is headed to the Mediterranean,” the official said, adding he did not know its exact destination. http://tinyurl.com/526fnl ============================= Questions Surround Homeland Security’s Presence in Waterloo: Many people in Waterloo believe the site is being transformed into a detention center. People in the Latino community fear it will be used in a mass immigration raid. http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8299524 ============================== Up to 700 arrests estimated in Postville raid: Four Homeland Security buses with U.S. Immigration and Customs tags on them have entered the Agriprocessors Inc. complex. http://tinyurl.com/3l4xpj ================================ “Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he’s in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this”: Lt Gen William Boykin, speaking of G. W. Bush, New York Times, 17 October 2003 ================================ “God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he was sent to us by God to save Germany.” Hermann Goering, speaking of Hitler ============================== “A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side”: Aristotle ================================== “If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier - just so long as I’m the dictator”. George W. Bush, 18 December 2000 ================================== “International law? I better call my lawyer; he didn’t bring that up to me” George W. Bush, 12 December 2003 ================================== Hamas Condemns the Holocaust By Bassem Naeem We are not engaged in a religious conflict with Jews; this is a political struggle to free ourselves from occupation and oppression. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19913.htm =============================== Iran-Politics ‘US, Israel spread insecurity in ME’ Iran FM: UK backs criminals, terrorists ‘No incentives outweigh Iran’s rights’ ================================ 1. Iran: U.S. and Britain to Be Sued New York Times - 2 hours, 25 minutes ago Iran?s judiciary said it would file lawsuits against the U.S. and Britain, accusing them of providing support to those behind a blast in a mosque that killed 14 people.

M Morgan, since the United Sates is so bad according to these awful (out of context-all of them) postings, can you go somewhere else? Maybe go to Tehran. You seem to side with the leaders there. I, for the life of me, can’t imagine why the liberals who hate the US so much can bear to stay here. If I hated something so much I would CHANGE my life for goodness sakes. MOVE!

Obama will be the candidate so let’s focus on throwing Bush out of the White House. Latest outrage: Bush suggesting Obama is an “appeaser,” this in the Knesset, in Israel, a nation borne out of the ashes of Auschwitz. For this, along with Bush’s war, he should be impeached before his term is ended. Patricia Burstein

Hillary has every right to run in all the primaries, and the pressure to ask her to stop because it’s “divisive” is another way of saying she has no right to run. i think we all should read or re-read Simone de Beauoir’s “The Second Sex” which is still as compelling as when written in 1949. de Beauvoir’s second chapter, “On The Master Slave Relation” is still revelatory in light of the current toxic barrage of sexist/racist screed that supports de Beauvoir’s position regarding man’s maintaining of masculine perogatives and women whose destiny has been determined by the mastery of men.