Politics is about perception.  So, unfortunately, it doesn't matter so much if he gave the lines to BO, b/c b/w this and the "stealing" of HRC's economic plan, I can see the GOP will try to establish a pattern.

Time passing by Clinton generation by Susan Lampert Smith

...Out on the sidewalk was someone else who remembered.

It was another graying Madison icon, marijuana activist Ben Masel, who was sandwiched by Secret Service guys in their sharp suits. Masel was holding up a sign that said, "Where 's Jacki 's medicine? "

The way Masel tells it, Jacki Rickert, who suffers from a painful connective tissue disorder, met Clinton on his 1992 bus trip through Wisconsin, and asked him to legalize marijuana for medical use. Clinton told her, in his husky drawl, I feel your pain.

But when he got into office, the president who didn 't inhale didn 't legalize medical marijuana. Jacki didn 't get her medicine. The rest of us who voted for him didn 't get our health-care reform.

How will the future play out for today 's Obama girls?

I do know this: After two hours on the cold concrete steps of the Stock Pavilion, I felt my own pain.

Where 's my medicine?

There are two conclusion's that do not bode well for BO: The fact that Axelrod is/was involved with both, And that the governor is now pretty unpopular for not materializing on his words (hence HRC's big win in MA).

A pro-choice Democrat doesn't become anti-choice because he or she isn't absolutely convinced that a twelve-year-old girl should be able to get an operation without a parent being notified.  A pro-civil rights Democrat doesn't become complicit in an anti-civil rights agenda because he or she questions the efficacy of certain affirmative action programs. And a pro-union Democrat doesn't become anti-union if he or she makes a determination that on balance, CAFTA will help American workers more than it will harm them.

Or to make the point differently: How can we ask Republican senators to resist pressure from their right wing and vote against flawed appointees like John Bolton, if we engage in similar rhetoric against Democrats who dissent from our own party line?  How can we expect Republican moderates who are concerned about the nation's fiscal meltdown to ignore Grover Norquist's threats if we make similar threats to those who buck our party orthodoxy?  

Pretty interesting, especially considering that they both have/had Axelrod running their camp?  

It's on Politico and Taylor Marsh.

I don't buy that argument, and I do think that primaries should be closed.

However, I also dislike two party systems.

So here's my question: if all a party member is doing is selecting a candidate for that party, and since parties aren't mentioned in the Constitution, why are primary elections taxpayer funded?

Let the parties choose: taxpayer funded open primary, or party funded closed primary.

Clinton: 978,     delegates

That's 124 delegate lead for Obama, and that's huge, perhaps insurmountable for the Clinton campaign in a race where delegates are proportionate.

Obama: 1,262 w/supers

Clinton: 1,213 w/supers

Here's the count with the superdelegates, but of course superdelegates can change at any time, and we've already seen some jumping ship from the Clinton campaign throwing their votes behind Obama, that's a trend that will likely be repeated as Obama picks up more net delegates.  

It seems that the Clinton campaign is displaying the level of incompetence after having miscalculated in Texas, where it's possible they will come up with fewer delegates even if they win the popular vote by a wide margin in some of the strongest Hispanic districts.

System Worries Clinton Backers: Delegates Won May Not Reflect Popular Vote

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His  "Yes  we  can" comes  from  the  1972   United  Farm  Workers  movement  with  Cesar  Chavez.  

His  "okie-dokie,"  "bamboozled,"  and  "hoodwinked" after SCarolina  come directly  from  Malcom  X.  

His  "We   are  the ones  we've  been waiting  for"  is  the title  of  a new  book  about  self-esteem,  much  like  Oprah's   The  Secret.  

Other states polled Feb. 17-18:

Rasmussen in
Minnesota: McCain 47, Clinton 42; McCain 38, Obama 53. = Hillary (Red) v. Obama (Blue)

Wisconsin: McCain 49, Clinton 42; McCain 42, Obama 52. = Red v. Blue

Pennsylvania: McCain 44, Clinton 42; McCain 39, Obama 49. = Red v. Blue

Oregon: McCain 45, Clinton 42; McCain 40, Obama 49. = Red v. Blue