You know, I understand that a lot of people are asking, what does Hillary want? What does she want? Well, I want what I have always fought for in this whole campaign. I want to end the war in Iraq. I want to turn this economy around. I want health care for every American. I want every child to live up to his or her God-given potential, and I want the nearly 18 million Americans who voted for me to be respected, to be heard and no longer to be invisible.

Obama emphasized his message of change. Daschle was featured in some of Obama's campaign ads.

Hillary's supporters are much the same.  

I don't like the SD system, didn't like it when Clinton had more, really detest it now (I don't like the caucus system either, and I've been saying that since 04).

Unlike Obama supporters a few months back, I'm certainly not saying that SDs should vote with their district/state/whatever, but if they said they would, then they should.

One of the things I find the most amusing is people who used to say, after Gore won more votes, that the popular vote was the will of the people and that Bush was an illegitimate president as a result of not winning it, are now saying that, hey! it's the delegates that count and that of course Obama is legitimate, even though more people voted for his opponent.

Indeed truemajority.com emailed its members soliciting petition support.

I unsubscribed.

What many people on this site believe is that SDs should go with the better candidate.  I don't believe all that many people who are regulars on this site would want to coerce SDs as the Obama camp wanted.  We just want them to think more clearly when making their choice.

The SDs were created to stop a demogogue or when the people voted a sure BIG loser, like McGovern.

If the SDs go in the direction the media tells us they're going, they will have become the foolish ones who've supported an unqualified weaker candidate over a qualified sure winner.

I believe that Sds have been making their decisions so far for any one or more of three reasons:

Obama has spread a lot of PAC money to SDs, the last I heard a half million more than Clinton.

Democrats have a long standing fear of the media.  We've seen all too much of that in the past two decades. If the GOP attacks a Democrat and juices up the media, fellow Democrats pile on. Some Democrats piled on Bill Clinton and many others were silent.  Few came to his assistance. When Durbin got into the Nazi dustup, other Democrats piled on, including, indirectly, Barrack Obama. Almost no Democrat rallied to his side.  This phenomenon has been obvious and sickening for some years.  The press hates the Clintons, ergo cowardly Democratic SDs will gladly pile on.

Some Democrats want to change the constituency of the Democratic Party, foolishly believing that they can shed an old constituency in exchange for a new one. Some of these same Democrats want to abandon the party's standing as a force for activist government. These are the high level Dems who keep talking about a new future for the party.

SDs don't think like we do. They don't consider whether a candidate would make the best President. They're overriding consideration is their own hides.

First of all, as you note, his delivery was awful. After Hillary and Obama, both of whom delivered fantastic speeches, McCain literally looked and sounded like a bumbling old man.

But even from a content perspective, it was bad. Sure, he was reaching out to disaffected Hillary voters, but that's not a very smart move for man who hasn't even shored up his own base. Just about the last thing a Real Red Republican wants to hear is his nominee sucking up to Hillary Clinton. Hillary is loved by Democrats and hated by Republicans for a reason, after all...she's one hell of a progressive fighter. Republicans rightly loathe her for it. So to have McCain, who is already distrusted by much of the Republican base, go out and 'wink at her supporters' is a disaster in the making. Anyone other than McCain could probably get away with it, but McCain doesn't have the trust of the Republican base, and speeches like the one he gave last night sure as heck aren't going to get it for him.

And finally, McCain put himself forward as a 'change' candidate. That's a stunningly bad judgment call on the part of his campaign. There is simply no way he wins that fight against Obama (or Hillary, for that matter) in this of all years. If he tries to go forward on that theme, he'll be massacred. You don't fight the enemy on their home ground.