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Pratyush

Pratyush — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

@Prince - You change your ringback tone first and then do wait for the change in Hillary’s life. Change is the universal truth and everyone should respect the need of ’change’ applicable for me, you, Hillary Clinton and all.

Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The kind of respect Obama is getting in US politics is just because of his own merit not because of Hillary’s ‘wrongdoing’ in the past. Dont go this way because OBAMA is here today because he simply deserves it. AND dont give such examples of ringback tone while describing US politics.

Alissa

Alissa — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Who says Obama may become the first black president in US? Nobel prize winner Toni Morrison had called Bill Clinton as their first black president in 2002. For majority of African-Americans Clintons are still their icons.

Shira

Shira — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

that is a good point, about the Clintons opening the door for an African-American presidential candidate. And while it might come back to personally haunt her (as in, she might lose the election to him) - it is to her credit that we’ve come so far in so short a time!

Amith

Amith — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Are you trying to say that Clintons’ work for black Americans now going against her candidature?? You are on wrong way if yes. It might be a perception not truth.

Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

For black women in US it is tough to decide whom to vote Hillary is woman and Obama is black...

Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Obama’s sterling performance actually convinced a majority of Black Superdelegates in the Democratic party to move in favor of him. They were those people who had committed early to Hillary Clinton. Mind you, it is not happening due to any negative thinking for Hillary.

Brad

Brad — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

AND WHAT WOULD HILLARY SAY ABOUT THE REPUTED RACIST REMARKS MADE BY HER HUSBAND BILL CLINTON AGAINST OBAMA?

Amith

Amith — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

# I do agree with what elijabeth said, Black Americans usually cast their votes in unityt for one particular candidate and 90% of their votes had gone for Al Gore in 2000. Now, I suppose their votes will go in two parts because Clintons and Obama have their own mass base among this community.

Alissa

Alissa — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

@ elijabeth, black women are not natural supporters of Obama. you can’t take them for granted.

Brad

Brad — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The political scenario has been changed now in US politics. In September 2007 AP-Ipsos poll, 47% of black women had supported Hillary and 37% supported Obama. Now, it has been changed as AP exit polls published, by combining results from 20 competitive Democratic presidential primaries, that 81% of black women supported Obama and 17% backed Clinton. It happnned because Obama’s own merit.

Tiam

Tiam — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Everything including money, media, religion, community does matter in US politics but Race matters the most.

Prince Campbell

Prince Campbell — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

My point was to show the irony in the fact that the racial equality the Clintons taught is now the biggest obstacle to Hillary getting in the White House.

I wasn’t trying to offend anyone by using my ringback tone as an example, I was just trying to illustrate how problems can come from the simplest things.

Do you really think that when Bill and Hillary was choosing their cabinet and wooing black voters in the 1990s that it would come back to haunt them?

Subhasis Chattopadhyay

Subhasis Chattopadhyay — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Obama is the man of the hour, not because he is gonna change US Policy so that evevry1 has it hunky dory. But rather he is going to win for he is the better rhetorician and a talks the right talk. He is like Mark Antony to Hillary’s Caesar.In fact, he might just be another Sarkozy in the making with his nouveau realpolitik appeal.

Jayanta Bhattacharya

Jayanta Bhattacharya — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

@Prince:

We followed you in 2006 in the wake of the Katerina aftermath. I thought you had a point then. But your point ”My point was to show the irony in the fact that the racial equality the Clintons taught is now the biggest obstacle to Hillary getting in the White House” isn’t simply digestable.

I am at loss now what to infer of your piece here and more so your thoughts as you have articulated (or have not being able to so do).

Jayanta Bhattacharya

Jayanta Bhattacharya — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

By the way Prince, it is beyond any doubt that Hillary Clinton would make a far better president than Barak Obama. It is just that the dude appears younger, suaver, and with a smooth tongue that he is able to draw in more supporters. The blacks will go hammer and tongs voting for him, the whites too will be sucked in, at least the liberal whiles, and then who will win the presidency is anyone’s guess.

Remember Prince, when Bush was elected for the first time when Al Gore lost the election in Florida to become the ’King of Chad’ with a little help from the Supreme Court conservatives, he couldn’t even name who was the President of Pakistan except the fact he could murmur ’A General’. When asked about the leader of India, he didn’t know a thing. And, the reporter was asking him the names of two people who are perhaps the most important players in USA’s geopolitical gameplay.

Obama is not even a real black. He has got Mongol blood in him. I fail to understand why the blacks in America were sleeping when there was a prospect that Colin Powell had a real chance of winning the presidency.

This shows the despondency of the blacks in America and also their lack of political wit. Mind you, this is no guarantee that blacks are gonna have a president who wears the same uniform as them.

Prince Campbell

Prince Campbell — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

A couple of things.

Hillary Clinton has spent the last few years preparing to run for President. She has courted different ”niches” for years preparing for the run she is making now.

The fact that her campaign has been a failure so far proves how bad her planning has been. The way she has run her campaign just proves she should not be President.

Obama has shown just the opposite.

This post, which is all about the irony of change, is pretty self explanatory. Sorry, Jonty that you didn’t get it.

Ken

Ken — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hillary’s planning may not have been bad as its execution was.

Alex

Alex — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

@ Author

Hey you can keep the useless political rhetoric but thanks for posting the Killers Video...the song never fails to amaze me.

Alex

Alex — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It just got more interesting after Ohio and Rhode Island.

Scores now:

Hillary - 1438

Obama - 1403

Hillary still got a good chance of winning the Democrat nomination. Don’t count her out just yet.

Naveen

Naveen — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This is what American presidential dialog has come to…a killer song? Jeez... If only there were a candidate that focused on issues and fixing America... there would have been some change.

Amith

Amith — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Its nice to see the revival of Hillary in two states. Now, the fight is open for both.

Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Now you would hear - Hail Hillary - noise all over media. I am sure Obama can bounce back anytime.

Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hillary is going on, going strong and going all the way. The US is waiting for the Fist woman US president now.

Chad

Chad — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Let me congratulate McCain on his triumph in the Republican race to give tough fight to democrats.

Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The thin margin in Texas doesn’t mean she would put a major dent in Sen. Barack Obama’s lead. She will be a loser for sure. It will be McCain vs Obama fight.

Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

If we believe on some calculations, Hillaty will have to win more than 60% of the vote in as many as 12 contests remaining between march and June 7 to catch Obama in pledged delegates. Its a tough challenge in fact.

Scott

Scott — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

victory in Texas and Ohio will give Hillary a chance to accept defeat in respected manner. She shouldn’t lose the chance.

Marcia

Marcia — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

yes, it is sweet victory to her. Now, if she win in Pennsylvania too, Obama would have to win all the remaining states to match Hillary. What a great battle it is.

Vivan

Vivan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Clinton’s victory in Texas and Ohio clearly shows that she is going to be the first woman president in US. History says - No one has won the presidency without winning Ohio in the general election for the past 50 years in US politics.

Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I read it somewhere in washingtonpost.com urging women voters not to vote just because of her gender. It was written as - ‘Hillary ran such a nasty lying campaign in US. She was the person who voted for the war, twice voted for the patriot act, voted for the no child left behind, voted for the bankruptcy bill, voted to declare Iranian guards as the terrorist organization (may give Bush/Macain a chance to attack Iran) and even defended a rapist against a 13-year old girl. Let’s compare Obama with Hillary honestly...

Greg

Greg — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hillary can’t win in November, the Republicans would steal the show once again.

Sean

Sean — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

If superdelegates venture to Clinton after her victory by ignoring people’s vote, the Democrats would definitely hand over the victory to the Republicans in November.

Greg

Greg — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Let’s delegate count once again - Obama 1451, Hillary 1365. It is Obama +84, so don’t worry friends.

Greg

Greg — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Obama has the numbers in his pocket. Hillary has the wild desire in brain to get back into the white house. Its an interesting battle in deed. I would definitely prefer Obama.

Vivan

Vivan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

It would go in either way. Either Hillary and Bill get back the presidency or Bush policy continues on in US. We will get what we deserve actually.

Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Clinton couple does not know what is defeat, humility, decency, and shame. The couple is just filled with selfish ambition to get back in to white house.

Yash

Yash — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I must say, the process of presidential election in US is very much flawed. Till today, Hillary has won the three big states and eight of the thirteen most populated states in US. It accounts for more than 60% of US. Obama may ride the horse after getting nominated in states like Illinois, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. It is not democracy I think.

Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

@ Yash, you Indians just keep your mouth shut and lay off. You take care of your own democracy first. Your MPs waste time in shouting while attending sessions of Parliament and the whole world does watch them fighting like animals. SHUT UP.

Kathlene

Kathlene — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

We can see Michelle always with Barack Obama, cindy always with John McCain during vitory address. Where was Mr BILL CLINTON when Hillary was giving winning address after victory in pivotal states of Texas and Ohio. Is it a new strategy?

Steve

Steve — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Republicans will be very happy to see growing division among democrat superdelegates.

Sukhbahar

Sukhbahar — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hillary ne ka hila diya.

Prince Campbell

Prince Campbell — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Good point Kathlene!

Caroline

Caroline — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Kathlene:

Billy boy actually doesn’t want Hillary to be the prez. I have a suspicion that he actually hates her. There is a good joke about the two of them that goes like this -

Once Hillary and Bill were driving through an Arkansas highway when they stopped to fill gas at a gas station. The attendant surprised Hillary for he was her former lover. She confessed to Bill that she was indeed her boyfriend whom she seriously thought of getting married one day. On this the then President said; “I am glad you didn’t because if you had married him, you would have ended up not being the First Lady but the wife of a lowly gas station guy”. Hearing this, Hillary seethed with anger and disabused Clinton by saying, “No darling! If I had married the poor chap then, he would have been the President of United States. Pity that I didn’t!”

Robyn

Robyn — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

@Kathlene

Cometh the woman goeth the man.........

Eunice

Eunice — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

She won Ohio and Texas! Incredible and unimaginable! The vixen is far from being laid and buried!

Kristina

Kristina — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The Democrat machinery is finally at work and now pointing out two distinct voices:

Obama: Yes, we can

Hillary: Yes, we will

Now who would you vote for?

The choice is simple. She is made of steel while he is a flash in the pan.

Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

the author’s loyalty is apparent. the point i am tryin to make is that obama camp made very good use of the net. check digg for example.

Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I have not seen a woman president since 1789. it has been 219 years :(

Kathlene

Kathlene — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Prince:

Yeah I know! Any answers? No speculations yet :)

Ibrahim

Ibrahim — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

whoever wins, we are going to celebrate by firing our Kalashnikovs in the air. George Bush is gone

Erdem

Erdem — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Where is Chelsea these days? I miss her.

Richard

Richard — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Ohio has a history and it repeated it again. What a shame!

Yash

Yash — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Chuck, you may go and flog yourself. How old are you? Have you ever voted in your life? Bloody asshole.

Yash

Yash — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

And I think you are an cumguzzling illiterate ripe for lobotomy. Chuck this chuck outta HERE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

Rikki

Rikki — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Who is going to be the president?

Hillary = Woman

Obama = Black

McCain = White + Man

White + Man has always been the President of the United States. So there must be a mighty good reason for that. So McCain it will be.

Any doubts?

Ikram

Ikram — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I can imagine what lincoln is thinking of this race.

Prince Campbell

Prince Campbell — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

kathlene: I think they are purposely hiding him! For some reason they think keeping him away from the cameras is a good move.

They are probably right. :)

John

John — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

People who vote for Obama are screwing USA. He is just too shallow to be our President.

Shari

Shari — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The British Rikki is a bitch. I want to see Obama to be the president of US.

Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning assholes. Seems you are still not over with this. My advice for the day to you all here - STONE THE CROWS AND GET ON WITH LIFE.

Spencer

Spencer — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Good morning Ryan. Hope you had your second coffee by now. Did you watch the Nine replay at 10 last night? If you haven’t I am sure you haven’t missed out the fact that the bloke on the left Richard is a Top Dog! HA HA HA!!!!!!

Kathy

Kathy — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Kathlene and Prince —-

Al Gore made the same mistake of ignoring Bill Clinton and paid the price. Hillary is perhaps making the same mistake now. It is high time she brings out the Democrat trump card. Don’t you agree? The Bill Clinton charm has still not waned.

Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hi Spencer,

Sorry I missed out on that. What was it all about? Cairns beard has grayed and he looks sexier than ever before. Good to see the roos get the stick from the Indians. It was long due. The pommies gave them the same last time. LOL

By the way, there are rumours that Bill Clinton is bed-ridden and suffering from a terminal disease. Is that true?

Spencer

Spencer — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Nothing really mate, just was wondering if you enjoyed the CBS highlights. I enjoyed seeing the streaker being tackled down by Symonds. That was the only thing that I enjoyed. Poor skinny bloke having some being brought down.

How about putting Andrew Symonds for the next prime minister of Australia? He is a black and not exactly a monkey... and Aussies are not really racists!

lol.....