I believe he is saying what a lot of people feel...end this farce of a Primary so the Democrats can win the election.

The only way Hillary can become the nominee is to win every remaining state with a minimum of 65%...which won't happen. Or steal it. And given her idea of campaigning, she has resorted to be an embarassment to herself and the party, not to mention a tremendous ally of the Republicans.

And if she steals the nomination via chits and PAU, Dems will lose in the fall.

Hillary Clinton has made it abundantly clear that she does not care about anything other than winning at all costs. She lies, misleads, uses incredibly dirty tactics, misrepresents her own strengths and then acts as though anyone who doesn't support her doesn't count.

She is already a foreign diplomacy disaster and it's just the Primary. She alienated Putin...who is in bed with Iran..smart Hillary, really smart. Those who were involved in Irish peace talks call her claims silly...I mean, it wasn't her who won a Nobel Prize for her effort. Kenyan elders are demanding an apology and she couldn't just comment on the recent Ecuador-Colombia skirmish, no...she had to personally attack Chavez as well.

And of course, she has accepted more money from special interests than even any of the Republican candidates ever did, the Clinton's history of fund-raising is probably in a dictionary somewhere by now under the definition of special interests. No wonder she won't release her tax returns!

She sided with a Republican over her own party with her McCain more fit than Obama and before that was partisan with McCain in attacks against Obama. YES THERE SHOULD BE A NEW CLINTON RULE after this, ala Zell Miller.

She epitomizes ugly politics. I am sick to death of hearing her go on about how the voice of the American public is irrelevant. I thought her statement about 'MLK's inspiration vs LBJ lawmaking skills' summed up just how little she respects the voice of the American people. If the American people weren't clamoring for change, LBJ would never have signed a civil rights bill. Tail wags dog is something this country is, but doesn't have to be.

Obama is a breath of fresh air behind all of his substance. Better judgment, more years in elected office, smart plans and a kinder, gentler approach that some rednecks are now confusing with weak. What? Have we gotten so used to being the bully of the world that no other way makes any sense to us any more?

I am a middle aged, white southern woman who thought in January that whomever won would be great. Fast forward and now, I'm something I could never have imagined...a Hillary hater.

I want to see Clinton exit this race ASAP. I think she's tearing the party apart with every day she says in the race.

But, I think that the superdels coming together now to throw this thing to Obama will do more damage than good. For some ungodly reason people still support Hillary. This I cannot explain. Unfortunately, Obama does need a good portion of these folks if he hopes to win in the general. Now, if, at this point, the superdels make a Hillary comeback actually impossible rather than almost impossible (as it currently is), many Hillary supporters will feel like they were robbed (probably the same way many of us would feel if Hillary tried to take this thing with a superdelegate coup). Some of these Hillary folks would vote for Obama in November for the same reason that some of us would vote for Hillary if she were to win via theft, i.e. the Supreme Court and lowed federal courts. But, in the end, I fear that more alienation than good would be accomplished .... and that is highly unfortunate because I for one think the Ferraro thing is a deliberate ploy by the Clintons to fracture the remaining primary voters by race. Diabolical stuff.

Tough catch-22 we're in. Thanks Hillary.

this isn't a football game.

this also isn't the general election - it's the primary.

hil doesn't have a path to the nomination. mi and fl may be "seated", but they won't affect the outcome. they'll be split. so stop hoping for them to save her.

we need to start running against the republican nominee mcbush.

hilary's campaign has frankly sucked.

but she'll somehow persevere against the republican hate machine?

i call that the audacity of hope.

Pro Obama comments... or utter disgust with the way one of the candidates seems willing to savage the whole party just so she can have her way?

Florida voters - 118 - 0 in your house and 37 - 2 in your Senate doesn't sound like a whole lot of you were up in arms pressing them to protest the power grab. Sorry about your luck - guess you'll just have to be more involved in your state politics and make sure you get more intelligent people elected NEXT time. In the meantime - quit telling the other 48 states that followed the rules that they have to eat your dung. Who the heck are you?

It's a representative government system here in the US - a REPUBLIC - so you change things by changing your representatives - not by changing the rules mid-stream.

I agree. This was a ploy. Hillary was able to give cover to these beliefs.

However, now they're out there, in public. It was going to happen. You just don't think it's going to be done by another Democrat. They have appealed to the darkest parts of the American psyche. Thanks, Hillary. How in the world can we believe that you will do anything good for any of us, when you have this contempt for the people of your own party?

Thanks to to Elizabeth for this contact information. I was going to try to dig it up today.

I believe Hillary is going to cost us the election in November, one way or another.

The longer this goes on, the worst it is for everyone.

destor23 - do you really think if Hillary somehow wins the nomination at this point, she'll be able to win the general?

Add your own represenatives to the list. I emailed mine (all Hillary supers) and put them on notice. I advocated two things (didn't write it like this): 1) reign Hillary in over the divisive, negative attacks and 2) don't you dare override the will of the people at the convention.

I did not request that they change their vote right now. If Hillary can cool her jets with the negative stuff, the race continuing is not so bad. I'm trying to be reasonable here. There will be a lot of disappointed and angry people if this gets decided prematurely. I'm OK with the race proceeding all the way to PR and MT. But the Cllinton campaign cannot proceed as it has been.

I should also note that I have been preparing my self mentally to get my butt to Denver should the need arise.

I submit that a formal demand be made of the uncommitted Super Delegates to come out NOW and endorse the candidate of their choice. The only exception are those whose states have not yet voted.

My county in California voted for Obama, yet my rep endorsed Hillary because she was promised help on her personal concern for her ethnic issues. (Note she is not black or latino)

They need to speak out before the Pennsylvania vote on Apr 22

No brokered convention.

They need to be made out as either COWARDS OR WORSE... BACK ROOM DEALERS if they don't endorse NOW. Hasn't anyone noticed the Super Delegates are essentially frozen in time, WTF is going on if it is not back room dealing. Hillary hosted a dinner last night with the uncommitted Super Delegates. Or should I say "front room" dealing in the Clinton household?

This is essential to make the real vote count. After they come out then the final ten contests will be more meaningful.

Excellent post, Elizabeth. It mirrors my own thoughts and experience. I also was an Edwards supporter (no way that I could be termed an "Obamaniac") and also voted for Ferraro as VP in the '80s. I'm now ashamed of that vote.

I'll be contacting those on the list you provided, but also wanted to offer this link for others who may be pressed for time: http://www.congress.org
You can find the email addresses of all members of Congress on the site, and you're own members (for those who are represented by Dems) by typing in your zip code. The site allows one to write one letter which can be sent to all one's reps. Since our elected Dem representatives are all superdelegates, it's a place to start.

To bad the Democratic party doesn't offer an excommunication option... At this point both Ferraro and Clinton, who is "innocently" benefiting from Ferraro's race-baiting comments, would qualify for excommunication in my book, as they are betraying the values of the Democratic party.

Hillary Clinton's conduct is shameful. She has knowingly promoted race hatred and minority prejudice to achieve her own narrow ends. She has continually demeaned and denigrated African-Americans - a socioeconomically and sociopolitically disadvantaged population - in the vain hope of appealing to BIGOTS. And neither she - nor her increasingly desperate supporters have ANY misgivings about it. If African-Americans are oppressed further, so be it. They simply don't care.