He has NO excuses: he had money, establishment, machine in MA, organization ability, everything.

Obama  gambled  that   Kennedy's  endorsement  and  the  Camelot mystique   would   ride  him  into  the    nomination on  a  "magic  cloud."

But  what  it  has  done  with the  general public  is    IDENTIFY   Obama  with the ultra-liberal    left    of  Kennedy   and  Oprah.  

You  can bet  your  bottom dollar  that  the  rightwing  hate  machine  has  already  put  videos  together  for  the  general public  showing   Obama  as  Uncle  Teddy's  "liberal  protege."  

In  the long  run,  in a  general  election,  it  HARMS  Obama.  

Bottom line:  the  Kennedy  ultra left liberal  crowd   doesn't  win  general  elections.  

Clinton's  speech  was positive   and  HOPEFUL.  

But again, this is the big leagues.  How can someone be the nominee without winning any of MI, FL, NY, MA, CA, NJ,... in other words the biggest states? You'd think with fawning news coverage (worth tens and perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars; you can't buy that kind of coverage!) he have a great chance in big states.  But he doesn't.  

Classy. I guess they're trying to piss off Bill so that the media can write about how mean and angry he is again.

Up until yesterday, they've been running Obama as the Unstoppable Force, building the campaign into a bandwagon. The Unstoppable Force thing only works if you can keep it building on itself. What most people I was around last night saw -- and they're not junkies like me, just committed democrats -- was Obama losing every big state except IL by a large margin. Nobody had told them that was the likely outcome -- this was supposed to be the guy with the big mo', the Unstoppable Force, the tidal wave of change.

Massachusetts   was  a  HUGE  win  for  Hillary.  

You'll have  to run over  to  DKos  to find  someone   to  agree  with you   about that.  

Obama  calculated  badly  when he  hooked his  wagon  to the  ultra-left  liberal  Kennedy  mystique.  

And  last  night,   it  SHOWED.  

Just imagine  that  you're  a moderate  Republican in  a  red  state,  ANGRY at  Bush, looking  for change.  

You  watch  the  newscasts,  you  read.  

You  find  a  candidate  endorsed  by the  ultra-left  Teddy  Kennedy,  Oprah (Hollywood),  AND  MoveOn.org  (who  condemned  Gen. Petraus).  And  then you find out   he's  FOR   driver's licenses  for illegal  aliens.    

But that was my point too about MA.  He had Kerry, Deval Patrick, and Kennedy's endorsement in the bag, and with impressive media coverage (no Rezko, wall to wall Kennedy, oddly I don't think Ted got as much love in his own runs!), he COULDN'T deliver MA.  

THAT's  what  p*ssed him off.    

He  wanted  JFK  to get  all the  credit, not  LBJ.  

Truth is,  JFK  was  not  an  enthusiastic  supporter  of  MLK  at  first.  His brother  Bobby  had  to   push  him to get  him there.

Pro-immigration groups and many Democrats also oppose such a plan, warning that it would create a "permanent revolving underclass" of low-wage workers with no incentive to assimilate and lead to a new illegal immigration problem if people do not return home. They want a path to permanent residence for temporary workers, but Kyl has been adamant for months that "temporary means temporary."
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Leading immigrant groups oppose the point system because it would reduce extended family migration. Although some have held their fire, hoping to amend the legislation as it goes forward, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the League of United Latin American Citizens and many grassroots immigrant groups have urged the bill's defeat.

Clinton  won  resoundingly  in both states,  and  actually  TOOK  the   18-24  year-olds  in  huge  numbers,  in both California  and  Massachusetts.  

She   took  those   young  people  right out  of   Barak  Obama's    "expectations."  

And  Massachusetts?   The Obama  campaign   won every media  cycle  in the  days  before  Super  Tuesday, largely  based on  those   "Kennedy endorsements,"   and  despite  this,  Obama  took   a    14 point  drubbing  in  Kennedy's  home  state.  

I  hear  Obama  started   going  negative  even  in his  speech last  night.    Must  be  feeling  desperate, eh?