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1. Martin,

   If Obama were gay and went to a predominately gay church would he then be a horrible gay person deserving of heterosexual fear?

   Are you nuts? A race oriented church? Why is it that a white person can go to a 99%-white populated church and it's just a church. If some minority goes to a predominately non-white church, it's a racial issue? Do you even know the difference between race and ethnicity?

   If Obama were Greek and attended a Greek Orthodox church that spoke about Greek heritage or if he attended a predominately Polish church that spoke about Polish culture would you have a problem with that?

   Dude, you are projecting your prejudices and fears onto Obama.

   Obama's campaign itself has a large white executive leadership. Have you bothered to look at his campaign staff? His chief strategist is David Axelrod, a white, Jewish man.

   Moreover, it's convenient of you to ignore the fact that Obama is BIRACIAL, raised by his mother and grandparents who were white. Did you bother to read his biography? Obviously not. If you had, you would understand that the man's key family role models were white.

   As for race in the campaign, it's terribly convenient of you to ignore the Clintons' repeated injection of race into the campaign. Prior to Bill Clinton shooting his mouth off and Clinton operatives issuing racially tinged comments, Hillary Clinton had a substantial lead amongst African-American voters over Obama.

   It's pretty clear that your racial issues are what bother you about Obama. Anyone who's followed the campaign knows that Obama has vigorously avoided bringing race into the discussion. Have you bothered to look at the crowds who attend Obama's campaign rallies? They are multiracial and multi-ethnic.

   It looks like the Clintons' use of racial fear tactics were affective in targeting a key demographic target that includes someone called Martin.

   Posted by: noah | Mar 6, 2008 10:35:52 AM

   
   

2. Here is a link reposted that 24play posted yesterday

   http://www.newsweek.com/id/118240/page/1

   Barring a huckabeeian miracle of obama getting snached up by a UFO...........the math is against hillary being at the top of the ticket.

   Jeremy, I am still waiting on you to provide a link to your claim

   Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Mar 6, 2008 10:41:22 AM

   
   

3. Also, why would Obama want to be Hillary's vice president? It would be a thankless job. Hillary has Bill to be her co-president.

   Also, the crap about Hillary's experience is a joke. She was a corporate lawyer, then wife of a governor and then wife of a president. Now she's a senator. How exactly is her experience that dramatically different from Nancy Reagan's or Laura Bush's?

   Scratch that, since we all know Ronnie had Alzheimer's and it's documented that Nancy served has his chief adviser with the aid of her astrologer, it's fair to say Nancy Reagan had more experience to qualify her to run as president.

   Unfortunately, with Clinton's willingness to use Rovian tactics to win, she has alienated a substantial number of progressives who will never vote for her. Add this to the number of Republicans and independent voters and she would be toast in a general election.

   Posted by: noah | Mar 6, 2008 10:55:29 AM

   
   

4. Noah - how come that the pastor of Obama's church said in an interview published over in Europe that Obama had to distance himself from the church???
   I don't have any racial issues - I have problems with for Blacks, with Blacks for for Blacks only. This is what his church says on their webpage... even you can not deny that!

   How come that 85 % of the Black community supports Obama - if not because of race?
   Works well for Obama!

   Posted by: Martin | Mar 6, 2008 11:01:10 AM

   
   

5. Obama/ Clinton 08

   That is what the math has declard. A simple fact

   http://www.newsweek.com/id/118240/page/1

   This isn't just for Hillary fans.

   Fellow Obama supporters have to accept this as well and get over their anger at Hillary.

   Her support is not enough to be at the top of the ticket , but her support is so large that Obama and the DNC can not dismiss her without putting her on the ticket as VP.

   Both sides need to calm down, take deep breaths, swallow some pride, and come tgether for the good of the party and the nation.

   8 yrs and Hillary will be President after 8 years as Obamas VP. Now lets go kick some McCain and repub ass!!!!!!!!!!! and fix what bushco has broken.

   Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Mar 6, 2008 11:03:56 AM

   
   

6. I find HRC insincere. If she was a person for the people and cared about medical care & livable wage then why didn't she make it happen on the Walmart board she was a member of. I think she, like McCain feel they deserve it and will do or say anything they have to in order to get into the white house.

   Posted by: Jus Sayin' | Mar 6, 2008 11:06:58 AM

   
   

7. I find HRC insincere. If she was a person for the people and cared about medical care & livable wage then why didn't she make it happen on the Walmart board she was a member of. I think she, like McCain feel they deserve it and will do or say anything they have to in order to get into the white house.

   Posted by: Jus Sayin' | Mar 6, 2008 11:07:49 AM

   
   

8. As a Canadian I can only marvel at the coverage of this primary. It appears that the media have selected who they would like to anoint as the Democratic candidate and anything done by the "other" candidate is labelled crass, below the belt, supportive of the GOP. I'm fascinated at the inability of the fourth and fifth estates to try and emulate even a studied disinterest -- but then this the same fourth and fifth estates which jumped on the bandwagon to support the war in Iraq at its start and would broach no oposition. Only later did they make some prefunctory apologies that they had been mislead, but they don't seem to have learned any lessons.

   Posted by: Archie | Mar 6, 2008 11:10:42 AM

   
   

9. I just don't understand why my fellow gays are so enthralled with Hillary. Is it the victim thing, the diva thing? Just what is it that you all find so appealing about her? Her track record as far as championing gay rights is very slim and her husbands is dismal. He signed DOMA, remember that, in the middle of the night; as if we wouldn't notice. Obama has come out and said he would work to repeal it, has she?

   The Clintons have demonstrated that they will destroy anyone for their own self interest. Do you really think they are going to fight for us? Don't you think that maybe, just maybe, a minority President should have a shot at it? He could have the perspective to understand what it's like to be marginalized because of who you are.

   Not to mention she voted to authorize war would not sign onto a bill banning land minds. She is not as progressive as you all think.

   Posted by: realitythink | Mar 6, 2008 11:10:59 AM

   
   

10. can someone PLEASE tell me what experience hilary has.

    obama has more elected experience than hilary.

    all hilary has is 8 years of hosting parties, is that the experience you are not talking?

    ok, there is that FAILED health care plan. i give her that.

    Posted by: johnosahon | Mar 6, 2008 11:17:02 AM

    
    

11. 1. Hillary wasn't so keen to talk about experience when Biden, Kucinich and Kerry were in the race for the Democratic nomination.

    2. Obama has more national experience than Hillary's husband Bill did when he ran against a MUCH, MUCH, MUCH more experienced George W. Bush in 1992. Is she now saying that her husband was not the best choice in that election due to his experience?

    3. If experience is the end all beat all in this election then she should just drop out now so that we can ALL vote for the much more experienced (in EVERY way) McCain.

    MARTIN, I don't suspect that every person who doesn't like Obama is a racist (the way Hillary supporters always seem to claim that anyone who doesn't love Hillary is a misogynist) but I suspect that YOU in fact ARE a racist if your obsession with race demonstrated here is any indication. If you want to find out about Obama's (and MY church) you should check out the UCC's NATIONAL website at ucc.org. Yes, Obama's particular congregation is African-centric but so frickin what! How many of us go to or grew up in a congregation that wasn't for the most part Afro or Euro-centric? Why are Afro-centric churches scandalous but Euro-centric churches aren't?

    Posted by: Zeke | Mar 6, 2008 11:18:08 AM

    
    

12. To those people who criticize Obama for saying he would put Republicans in his cabinet, so did Bill Clinton. His defense secretary from 1996 to 2000, William Cohen, was a former Republican Senator from the state of Maine.
    Churchill also reached across party lines when he created his War Cabinet - including many Labour Party members.
    Why do people think that reaching out to the other 50% of the country is a bad thing as long as those individuals are experienced and knowledgable?

    Posted by: Kevin | Mar 6, 2008 11:18:20 AM

    
    

13. THIS IS A STUPID TITLE.

    Of course she did not "endorse" McCain, she just pointed the obvious! Imagine the novice Obama standing next to the war hero with decades of experience..lol sad.....

    Posted by: ReasonBased | Mar 6, 2008 11:25:40 AM

    
    

14. Andy,

    Still searching the Obama hub for the wealth of times you've criticized Senator Obama.

    You deemed the McClurkin incident a "misstep." VERY critical. Meanwhile you headline a post about Hillary stating that John McCain has experience to make it out like she's sent a check to his campaign.

    Thank you for your fair and balanced coverage.
    

    Posted by: Chris | Mar 6, 2008 11:26:48 AM

    
    

15. MARTIN, as NOAH pointed out, many of those 85% you're talking about made up our minds after Bill Clinton made racially insulting remarks before the South Carolina Primary "Jesse Jackson won S. Carolina twice--so what?". I was one who didn't go to Obama until after her husband's remarks. It was an ungrateful of him as politician who recieved over 90% of black votes TWICE, and showed contempt for black people.

    But blacks have been far more willing to vote for whites than the other way around. Just last year, here in Pennsylvania, Lynn Swann (the black Republican ) received 13% of of black vote, Ed Rendell (white Democrat) got 87%. That has happened in elections all over this country where Republicans ran blacks for office because they thought blacks were stupid enough to vote for black for black's sake. It doesn't work unless black folks believe in the candidate as well as take pride in his skin color. You don't think Irish Americans took pride in voting for John Kennedy? Why did southern states go back to the Democratic Party when Georgia's Jimmy Carter ran in 1980?

    Speaking of Republicans' stupid attempts to get blacks to support black Republicans: "black Republican" was a phrase white Southerners used for all Republicans (& Yankees) from Reconstruction to Richard Nixon. Isn't that ironic.

    Posted by: Derrick from Philly | Mar 6, 2008 11:29:05 AM

    
    

16. Ya see, Andy, you make think you have been nonpartisan in what you’ve chosen to post about each one, and how much, but becoming an Obama Zombie is like “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”—it often happens without one realizing it, while one sleeps. Then there’s that little Obama Truism about the importance of words and your rerunning this story choosing to claim that she’s “endorsing “ McCain "again and again and again." Several posters get the truth that she's not but speaking to how much better she could run against McCain in the GENERAL election while you keep driving in the nails. If you said Reichen was a "great, great, great actor" that wouldn't make it true either.

    But, unlike the poster above, Michael Crawford, I doubt you’ve become an OFFICIAL advisor to the Obama campaign—a fact that he keeps refusing to disclose wherever he posts. Someday, Mr. Crawford, you might need a sense of shame and honesty again but it will be too late. Stop with the lies. Leave that to your employer.

    And y’all remember that thing about “the Devil can quote Scripture for his own use.” The so-called “fear” quote from President Clinton is a square peg the brainwashed are trying to fit into a round hole. I can just image Polly Obama’s approach to our safety:

    “Mr. Bin Laden, you should stop blowing up Americans and start embracing them. I hope you’ll start doing that.”

    And, Derrick, Derrick, mon amour! Obama’s campaign “gentlemanly”???? Perhaps you meant EXCEPT FOR WHEN THEY’VE SWIFT BOATED SEN. CLINTON AS A RACIST. And YOU bought it! You're smarter than that.

    Civil rights icon John Lewis: “I knew Martin Luther King, Jr. I marched with him. I worked with him. He played a major role in inspiring people, giving people hope. I also knew Lyndon Johnson. I was there with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on March 15, 1965, when we watched Lyndon Johnson deliver his speech in response to what was happening in Selma, when he said, "And we shall overcome." I looked at Dr. King. He looked at me, and tears came down his eyes. And he said, "We will get the civil rights bill, the voting rights bill passed. We will march from Selma to Montgomery." Dr. King gave some great speeches. He took to the street, and there was action, but he needed a president to pass the legislation. I think there's been a deliberate, systematic attempt on the part of some people in the Obama camp to really fan the flame of race and really try to distort what Senator Clinton said. … The Obama camp is … sending out memos to members of the media, trying to suggest that the Clintons are playing the race card. President Clinton and Senator Clinton have a long record of working to bring people together. Long before President Clinton ever dreamed of running for president, long before Senator Clinton ever dreamed of running for president, they have a history, a very, very long history [of supporting civil rights].”

    As for the childish myth and premeditated propaganda that there would be a stalemate in Washington if Sen. Clinton were elected President, try these FACTS on for size from a 2006 “New York Times” article.

    From Senator Clinton, a Lesson in Tactical Bipartisanship

    WASHINGTON, April 29 — Only eight years have passed since Lindsey Graham, then an ambitious Republican member of the House, paraded over to the Senate each day to argue the impeachment case against President Bill Clinton.

    How things have changed. Mr. Graham, of South Carolina, is now a senator. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the wife of his adversary, is now a colleague with ambitions of her own.

    And the two are — to the amusement of their peers and the distress of liberal activists — increasingly close allies and friends, working together on high-profile issues from military benefits to manufacturing, traveling together on extended trips overseas, even publicly praising each other.

    Mr. Graham recently wrote a glowing tribute to Mrs. Clinton for Time magazine's coming 100 Most Influential People issue, in which he calls her a "smart, prepared, serious senator" who "has managed to build unusual political alliances on a variety of issues with Republicans."

    "I don't want her to be president," Mr. Graham said in an interview. "We're polar opposites on many issues. But we have been able to find common ground."

    The pairing may be odd, but it is not unique or, from Mrs. Clinton's perspective, accidental.

    One by one over the last five years, to team up on specific projects, she has sought out the most conservative of Republicans — many of whom tried to remove her husband from office just two years before she won her seat and derided her candidacy when she stepped into electoral politics. They, in turn, have sought her out.

    
    With Senator Trent Lott, she worked on improving the Federal Emergency Management Agency. With Representative Tom DeLay it was foster children. Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, jumped in with her on a health care initiative, and the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, was a partner on legislation concerning computerized medical records.

    The list goes on: Senator Robert Bennett ; Senator Rick Santorum; Senator John Sununu; Senator Mike DeWine on asthma.
    And virtually every Republican member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, whose Republican chairman, John Warner, speaks admiringly of Mrs. Clinton's "remarkable core of inner strength."

    Her advisers say the cooperation can also bolster the argument that she is above the political fray, and interested merely in trying to "get things done" in a divided Senate. "She went to the Senate saying, 'O.K., what do I need to do to get things done? How can I be effective?' " said Ann Lewis,. "And that is how you get things done."

    Mrs. Clinton's alliances with Republicans appear to be more tactical than evidence of any fundamental ideological shift.
    She has voted with Democrats more than 95 percent of the time since taking office, according to Congressional Quarterly.

    If the alliances are strange coming from Mrs. Clinton, they are perhaps stranger for some Republicans whose constituents are considered to be among the "anti-Hillary" base.

    When Mrs. Clinton first won office, Mr. Lott, the Mississippi Republican, welcomed her to town by warning: "I'll tell you one thing: when this Hillary gets to the Senate, if she does — maybe lightning will strike and she won't — she will be one of 100, and we won't let her forget it."
    Now, he is an occasional Clinton ally. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, when his state was devastated by the storm, Mr. Lott teamed up with Mrs. Clinton (and other Democrats) in arguing that FEMA should be taken out of the Department of Homeland Security and restored as an independent agency. He conceded that the alliance was unexpected.

    "This is a weird place," said a laughing Mr. Lott, who was the Republican majority leader in the Senate during the impeachment trial.

    No less weird is Mrs. Clinton's alliance with Mr. Gingrich, who a decade ago made undermining the Clintons a chief priority.

    Appearing at the National Press Club with Mr. Gingrich last summer on one of their joint projects, Mrs. Clinton acknowledged that it might come as "a little bit of a shock" to some witnesses who remembered their history.

    Her pairing with Mr. Graham was also awkward at first. It began three years ago when Mr. Graham invited a large group of senators, including Mrs. Clinton, to join him at a news conference to demand broader health benefits for National Guard members and reservists.

    "She was the only one to show up," Mr. Graham recalled. "I felt weird, and I think she did too. The history is what it is. So I felt uncomfortable. But once we got into the news conference it flowed well, and I think we complemented each other, and we chose at that moment not to let history define us."

    Isn't that EXACTLY what the Dali Obama has been preaching? The difference? Sen. Obama has the EXPERIENCE actually DOING it!

    Posted by: Michael Bedwell | Mar 6, 2008 11:32:29 AM

    
    

17. This entry is likely the most slanted I've seen Andy post, hence the uproar. I happen to disagree with the assertion, but, you know – it's his blog...

    Posted by: Scott B. | Mar 6, 2008 11:32:58 AM

    
    

18. Jimmy Carter won southern states in 1976. He lost them back to the Republicans in 1980. Sorry. But we blacks sure didn't mind giving him over 85% of our vote--even with that strong (but beautiful) Central Georgia accent.

    Posted by: Derrick from Philly | Mar 6, 2008 11:34:18 AM

    
    

19. Michael

    "but becoming an Obama Zombie is like “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”—it often happens without one realizing it, while one sleeps."

    LOL

    :-) Maybe tonight while you sleep.

    Posted by: jimmyboyo | Mar 6, 2008 11:44:00 AM

    
    

20. Dear Michael B, mi amigo simpatico & fellow Eartha Kitt lover:

    I didn't listen to a thing the Obama Campaign said about Bill Clinton, I was too busy being angry at Jesse Jackson Jr for telling blacks to "vote black". I saw and heard Bill Clinton on the evening news. I was stunned and hurt, and then, angry.

    Posted by: Derrick from Philly | Mar 6, 2008 11:44:29 AM

    
    

21. Face The Facts People: Hillary WILL BE President whether you like it or not, it has been in the making for YEARS and YEARS. Obama NEEDS to step down, get over his ego and look at what is best for the party. He should also pray that she puts him on the ticket with her, that will be the closest he will ever get to the White House. Hillary '08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Posted by: davey | Mar 6, 2008 11:47:21 AM

    
    

22. Yes, Davey. I'm sure the candidate with the insurmountable delegate lead will be the one to suspend his campaign and settle for the VP slot.

    Now, who exactly are the Kool-Aid drinkers around here?

    Posted by: 24play | Mar 6, 2008 11:55:59 AM

    
    

23. Davey

    Great passion there for your candidate. kudos to you

    BUT

    http://www.newsweek.com/id/118240/page/1

    The math just isn't there

    OBAMA/ Clinton 08

    Posted by: Jimmyboyo | Mar 6, 2008 11:56:59 AM

    
    

24. I have a dream that one day, those who are down with Obamaa, with their vicious sexists, with their blog comments dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Towleroad, little Obama fanboys and Obama girls will be able to join hands with little Hillary fellas and Hillary gals as sisters and brothers.

    Be nice, y'all.

    Posted by: Alleen | Mar 6, 2008 12:01:43 PM

    
    

25. Oh shit. Andy's become one of the Obama-Pod People.

    Posted by: JeffNYC | Mar 6, 2008 12:04:03 PM

    
    
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