LA + 83,707
VA +278,054
MD +218,454
WI +192,897

As a current Obama supporter I think I can say quite honestly that if the shoe were on the other foot and and Obama was looking at the same math Clinton is now that I'd be supporting Hillary in the interest of putting a democrat in the white house because as much as I dislike the DLC people supporting her they are still better than any republican by a large measure.

However she isn't it's that simple. At this point Obama is going to be the nominee unless the Super Delegates decide anoint her in defiance of the will of the electorate. In which case the party will split.

That isn't a threat it's a prediction. Because there is no way in which Clinton can win the nomination at this point that will look legitimate. I think the math I've seen says she'd have to blow Obama out at like 70 to 30% that just isn't going to happen.

For all the fanning of the flames that the MSM is engaging in this issue really isn't going to amount to much by November. With the direction the economy is going coupled with the billion dollars or so a day going into the black hole we call Iraq people will be going Reverend what?

Lets get real here. Issue wise you could split hairs with the difference between these two candidates.

But I'm a believer in the 50 state strategy and that means I'm on Obama's side. The Big state strategy just means we loose out in the house and senate. Because there are very few red states hell  there ain't that many blue ones. They tend to be purple and as 2006 showed quite conclusively democrats can win those Red states.

The 50 state strategy means that we pick up more house and senate seats simple as that even if we don't get the presidential electors more seats means more can be accomplished. As more is accomplished more support is gained and that's how you change a red state into a blue one.

Remember it wasn't all that long ago that Texas elected a Woman Democrat as governor.

I do reiterate my prediction, If Clinton gains the nomination in a way that does not appear legitimate (I don't care if the rules say the supers aren't bound by the pledged count it still won't appear legitimate) then all hell is going to break loose, As all the people supporting him all those millions of people who made their small donations all those people who worked on his campaign and especially the African Americans who will see the first black presidential contender robbed.

You can rationalize until the cows come home you can equivocate and bellyache but that's the way it's going to look to millions of Americans if Hillary is given the nomination by the party insiders.  

That's the reality check people over here need. That's the reality check Hillary and McAuliff and that whole DLC gang needs to get through their heads. That's why many of us on the 50 state side of the debate are getting so angry.

I understand that it's hard to watch your candidate loose hell I think I've mentioned I'm a Texas Liberal it's like a way of life for us down here in the Lone Star State.

But there comes a time when you gotta open your eyes and face reality. This match is over it's time to move on to the next fight.

Clinton lost this round simple as that. She was out campaigned plain and simple. She made a solid showing no one can reasonably say she got clock cleaned.

But at least on my side of the fight it's less about the candidates and more about the direction of the party.

You see the McAuliff/Clinton/DLC thing isn't working for us. That way of doing things gave 8 years of George Bush. It gave us 8 years of Republican control of the house and senate.

But most of all it's undermined the Progressive message of the Democratic party. It has taken us away from our populist roots it's changed us from being the party of the little guy into a slightly gentler version of the GOP.

I often joke that the difference between a Democrat and a Republican is that the Democrat will give you lube and a reach around.

Well I for one am tired of that. I want a democratic party that works for the people not the corporations. I want a democratic party that is beholden to us not Haliburton. I want a Democratic party that doesn't take campaign advise from the opposition.

Yes I'm passionate about this and so are many others on my side of the divide. I don't doubt your commitment I don't doubt your sincerity but I do doubt your judgment and there is a tendency when dealing with people who appear to be immune to facts to get frustrated and lash out with some less than gentle language.

Also people get caught up in the moment and we all can say things that are less than polite when angered.

Well that's where the Obama people are coming from. The vitriol comes from there. It's isn't that we think Obama is the second coming. He's just a man he's not a saint, hell he's a politician we know he ain't perfect. For many of us he wasn't ever our first choice.

But for good or ill he's going to be the nominee yet here we have the people who should be the ones getting behind him doing the republican's jobs for him.

We as progressives should not be out condemning Wrights words and feigning shock and ignorance. We should be out providing that context to the story. Explaining what he meant, explaining why what he said is actually pretty damned accurate.

Empathy is something I consider to be the core of liberal philosophy. the ability to put oneself in the shoes of another to be able to understand why someone else feels pain to be able to grasp how ones actions affect others.

In the case of Reverend Wright I can understand the knee jerk reaction attack since he attacked your candidate.

But put yourself in his shoes for a moment. Here he is a black man in America who put up with all the racism who lived through the days when calling someone a nigger was socially acceptable.

Then he's got a member of his congregation a man who he's know for years a man who he officiated over his wedding who's children he baptized, A man who is first serious black candidate for the highest office in this land.

Then here come Ferraro who he probably supported in her vice presidential bid who he probably had some level respect for up until that moment. He watched her come out and spew one of the most vile attacks possible.

In one sentence she evoked all that anger all that oppression all that gentile polite racism that seethes under the civilized veneer of our society.

This idea that a black man could not measure up to societies standards save as a token, the implication being that Obama's success is do to some sort of Affirmative action.

This attack not from some righting bigot blow hard but from a fellow democrat another supposed liberal another minority with whom one should have common cause.

So yeah he lashed out and used some language that was was rough and made some points in a less than gentle way. But you know in your hearts if you actually take a moment to really think to really consider the lot of Black men in America that every word he said is true and that's why your so mad about it.