with your opponent looking over their shoulder as you breath down there neck.

Do people really think she's going to take the advice of The Quitter's club and get out?

Check Out This Brave PA Talk Show Host, Steve Corbett...(Link to WILK-FM, Scranton, PA)

http://insightanalytical.wordpress.com/

Hat tip to Riverdaughter over at The Confluence for breaking this news and "Nana" who first reported it and also posted her report here a TM...

Seems there's one very brave talk show host in Scranton, PA who is firmly in Hillary Clinton's camp and has had it with being called a "racist."

Her enemies try to diminish her with pity. The rest of us, who aren't intimidated by her strength, admire her.

In November, we'll be hearing about Poor Obama....All that money, all that power, and nothing to show for it except a trek back to the Senate to rev up his PAC again for a challenge to President McCain in 2012.

A viral MSM and campaign have demonized one person and sanctified another.  

I was pretty ticked off when it became clear that Edwards - my original choice - was not going to be allowed to contend, that the media was deliberately freezing him out in order to set up the Clinton-Obama steel cage death-match.  Ticked off not just because he was cut out of the race, but because I knew it was going to force me to choose between Obama and Clinton.  Sure, there were people who said, "why choose - just vote for whoever is the last person standing and don't worry about it," but I like to know who and what I am voting for, so staying out of it was not an option for me.

What ended up happening for me is that I found myself defending her against the attacks of the pro-Obama forces; it forced me to do some research, to dig for the truth, and in the process, I found my candidate.  Oh, I did some checking on Obama as well, but that did not help his cause with me.  I cannot put my finger on it - other than to claim instinct and intuition - but I have never trusted Obama, and apparently, I have good reason to feel that way.

Hillary is the last person whose name should be prefaced with "poor, poor;" she doesn't see herself that way, and I do not believe she wastes valuable time and energy feeling sorry for herself, or looking for others to blame for wherever she is at this point.  Somehow, after almost 8 years of a president who never holds himself accountable, who whines about hard work, who thinks giving up golf is an appropriate measure of his solidarity with military families, I want someone in the Oval Office who gets what being president really means.  That it's not just about power - although there is plenty of it there - that it's not just about an agenda - although every president has one - it's about us, all of us.

I think Hillary gets that, and I have to think that she gets it more now than she did when she started this adventure - which I cannot say about Obama.  The longer this has gone, the more out of touch he seems with real people; he knows things in an abstract, academic way, but not in a real, eye-to-eye, heart-to-heart kind of way - and pardon me, but I want a president who gets it.

edwards is a nice guy; smart, attractive, nice family, etc. he's also shown, twice, the public isn't buying what he's selling. if they were, we'd be discussing his chances in the GE seriously. and yet, we aren't. he reached his level of incompetence in the senate. i'm sure sen. obama appreciates his endorsement, i'm equally certain it will have a negligable effect on the final outcome.

perhaps, Jlvngstn, you're correct; there are literally millions of obama supporters who just loves them some hillary! perhaps it's only those very few, who rabidly scream his name, while vilifying sen. clinton (the "man bites dog." theory of newspaper sales) that we see, read and hear about. perhaps.

Barack's campaign is primarily about 2 things:

Hope and Change!

On those 2 points, he is such a hypocrite.  Using the same tactics he campaigns against is the lowest form of low.  I'd rather a person be honest and attack me then never seem them attack me.  Hiding in the shadows and attacking is much more dangerous because no one will ever see it coming.

HOPE AND CHANGE!

Besides hope and change, Barack is just as bad a candidate as John Kerry was. In fact, he is much worse.  His grasp of the issues (the one's which I agree with him on) is thin at best.

First, a little background about myself, so that I establish my perspective and bias right up front.  I am a 39 yr old, African-American male, with a professional degree.  I am married with 4 kids (the latest 3 weeks ago), with a middle class economic upbringing.  I've always felt it my civic duty to vote but only have become intensely interested in politics over the last 4 years after becoming disgusted with how the Bush administration was destroying our Constitution and our country.  My leanings tend to be left on social issues and towards the middle/slight right on economic issues.  The sites I tend to visit daily are DailyKos, Politico, Politfact and HuffingtonPost (again, this is just to establish my bias and not to start an argument).  I also tend to listen to TalkLeft on Sirius radio and POTUS and AirAmerica on XM.

At the beginning of this campaign cycle, I was extremely excited about multiple candidates in the race.  I really liked Joe Bidens foreign policy expertise, John Edwards policies on poverty, Mike Gravel's candidness, and Dennis Kucinich's overall policy with regards to taxes and Iraq.  However, my 3 favorite candidates were Hilary Clinton, Bill Richardson, and Barack Obama.  All the candidates had similar positions on the big issues, but I truly wanted to see a minority as President (no offense to white men), because of the different perspective it would bring to the White House.  It would also provide inspiration to that group and all America to know that the highest office in the land is not off limits to anyone.  I can only speak from my own perspective with regards to being black, but I also grew up with two sisters and know the kind of gender discrimination they have faced.  So, I narrowed down my choices to Hillary (49%) and Obama (51%).  The diffence between the two really came down to reading his book and really plugging into how he made decisions.  It reminded me of how I think, in terms of trying my best to put myself in someone else's shoes to understand their position.  Also, in all honesty, the possibility of having a Black President (man or woman) in my lifetime, was a part of my decision making process.

Now at the beginning, I really didn't think he had a shot at winning, but I followed the campaign and determined I would vote for him in the Md primary (if he made it that far).  However, I was fully prepared and excited to see Hillary become our eventual President.  I just wanted to see Obama do well for his future.

After Iowa, I became emboldened about Obama's chances, but was still anticipating and excited about the prospects of a 2nd Clinton White House (big Bill fan, at the time).  My feelings started to change right after South Carolina.  When Bill made his comments about Jesse Jackson also winning South Carolina, I was sincerely disappointed.  I saw the newscast that evening and upon hearing the comments immediately perceived what I felt he was trying to do.  Again, I am only giving my perception and opinion from my background, but my understanding of his comments was that this was code to narrowly identify Barack as the Black candidate to potential future White voters.  You see, I know how brilliant of a man and astute politician Bill Clinton is.  To me, he doesn't do anything by accident.  He could have compared Barack to any other previous winner of the South Carolina primary, but seem to me to pick Jesse Jackson because of what that name means to White America.  I am not saying that this is a correct assessment, only Bill Clinton and God knows his motivation, but just trying to explain how I perceived it.  But at this point, I didn't want to hold this against Hillary because this was a surrogate and not her.  What really made me start losing respect for Hillary was when she started propping up McCain (Commander in Chief test, etc.) in her attempts to demean Obama.  I just felt this was hitting below the belt because it would tremendously hurt the party's general election bid should he become the candidate.  I looked pass the Bosnia stuff as just politics (the Republicans have done much worse).  I also didn't like what perceived to me to be her campaigns constantly trying to change the goal posts on securing the nomination.  First it was big states vs small states, primaries vs caucuses, swing states vs. non-swing states, electoral votes vs delegates, counting MI & FL, and now whether 2025 should be the amount of delegates for the nomination.  Don't get me wrong, I don't want to see any voter disenfranchised, but in fairness there has to be some kind of penalty in breaking the rules.  I truly believe that we have to come up with something to make sure FL and MI delegates are seated, but it should be something fair to both candidates.  I honestly just can't understand the Clinton campaign's contention that seating MI as is (knowing Obama wasn't on the ballot) is fair.  I ask everyone here to pretend for a second that you didn't know any of the people involved (say the names were Smith and Baker) and look again at the Michigan scenario.  Would it really be a fair contention that the results be counted as is if one of the parties wasn't on the ballot?  I could honestly say that even if the positions were reversed (Obama was on the ballot and not Hillary), I would not support Obama saying it should count as is.  But these are my main reasons why I became seriously disenchanted with Hillary.  It was specifically because of my reactions to the actions of her and her campaign.  It wasn't because of what other people thought of her or my dislike of her supporters.  I never held that against her.  That's why it seriously confuses me why many Hillary supporters say they won't support Obama if he is the candidate.  Many say it's because of his supporters or the perception that he some how took the nomination from Hillary.  I just don't get this.  At this point, if Hillary were to win the nomination, it would be because the Super delegates deemed she had the best chance to win the general election.  I don't dispute that this is legitimately within the rules, but to many it would give the perception that the nomination was taken from Obama because he is leading in every metric.    Yet still, there are many more Obama voters who would still vote for Hillary than the other way around.  Why do some feel that if Obama wins the nomination, he somehow stole it away from Clinton or are basing their vote on Obama's supporters attitudes versus anything Obama actually did.  Do they think McCain/Republican supporters are some how nicer or less insulting?  If so, you should listen to Sean Hannity's, Bill O'Reilly's or Rush Limbaughs call in show for an afternoon.  And I'm not talking about during the recent love fest they have had for Clinton to try to devide the Democratic party.  I am talking about the comments they made before Obama became the front runner or they would make later if Hillary secured the nomination.

I am no longer a Hillary fan.  I can honestly say that I dislike her based on the explanation I laid out above.  However, I have not lost sight of the big picture.  If Hillary wins the nomination (even if done by superdelegate proxy), I would bite my tongue and still vote for her.  I cannot do another 4 years with a Republican White House and George Bush policies.  I also cringe at the thought of seeing more right wingers put on the Court and potentially have civil rights policies and Roe v Wade being overturned.

I am not here to try to convert anyone or tell them how to vote.  I just sincerely want to understand where you all are coming from in terms of voting Republican and the dare I say hatred towards Obama.  If I have offended anyone in any way, I sincerely apologize in advance.  I truly appreciate everyone's patience with regards to my long post and hope it spawns a healthy discusssion.