By Brianne

February 12, 2008 5:37 AM | Link to this

I’m glad Hillary is coming here, but I have to admit I’m a little put off by the way she seems to be writing off the states that don’t go her way. Saw this on CNN today: “Hillary Clinton on Monday explained away Barack Obama’s clean sweep of the weekend’s caucuses and primaries as a product of a caucus system that favors ‘activists’ and, in the case of the Louisiana primary, an energized African-American community. …She told reporters who had gathered to watch her tour a General Motors plant here that ‘everybody knew, you all knew, what the likely outcome of these recent contests were.’ …’These are caucus states by and large, or in the case of Louisiana, you know, a very strong and very proud African-American electorate, which I totally respect and understand.’ …Noting that ‘my husband never did well in caucus states either,” Clinton argued that caucuses are “primarily dominated by activists’ and that ‘they don’t represent the electorate, we know that.’” It goes on to say that what she’s really looking forward to is Idaho. What’s bothering me is that I’ve never heard Obama say anything similar when he loses a state. Never anything like, “Well, Such-and-Such is made up of Latinos and centrists, so everybody knew what the outcome would be…” It’s always something closer to, “We’re trying to reach out…our numbers our getting higher…the more we get our message out there…” Etc. Whereas Hillary seems to be pretty flatly saying something like, “Those blacks and activists — what do you expect?” I guess what’s slowly changing my mind about this whole thing is that I’m not sure I want Hillary’s attention just because I fit her demographic. Just because I’m a woman and I happen to live in delegate-rich Ohio. I’m starting to feel a little played by the whole thing, and a little admiring of the other side.

By Karen Shaw

February 12, 2008 3:42 AM | Link to this

Obama isn’t a canadate, he’s a movement! YES WE CAN

By mark dibernardo

February 11, 2008 11:41 PM | Link to this

Attention all Ohioans, you have the power to change history with this primary. Its time to retire the Clintons permanently, Obama is this nations future! Edward Kennedy did the right thing with his endorsement you can too! Sincerely yours, an unhappy New Yorker (P.S. send this New York carpetbagger back to Arkansas with a strong message in your primary)