Originally Posted by timeforchange

I have been banned/suspended more than once for disagreeing on this board so censorship is alive and well.

Originally Posted by timeforchange

It has been posted already. I am just amazed that the nasty few on here get a pass when they have been banned everywhere else.

Originally Posted by jdanton

I'm not sure what any of this post means.

I've received extremely angry responses over the past months by simply asking questions that I believe are quite relevant to this campaign.

It's easy for a politician to form a consensus when the subject at hand has general agreement. The challenge is in uniting people who hold severely different opinions, like on abortion. I ask how Obama plans to unite those people, and his supporters get nasty.

I ask how mandates can be good if we're mandating parents to buy healthcare for their children, but mandates are bad if they mandate people to buy healthcare for themselves. I ask why it matters if it's affordable enough so everyone will voluntarily buy it. I get angry responses.

My view has, all along, been consistant. The stated goals of Obama and Clinton that fall within the province of the federal government are virtually identical. In that either of them, if elected, will have the same congressional make-up, there chances of success are quite similar.

When Obama starts making promises that God himself can't keep, I have a problem. Those who expect him to keep this promises will have a bigger problem.

All of this is out of our hands now, unless the state we live in hasn't voted. We don't know what other "shoes" will drop over the next couple of months.

Everyone on these boards will, I suspect, prefer supreme court nominees presented by Obama or Clinton over those presented by McCain.

I sincerely believe Clinton or Obama will address getting us out of Iraq, fixing our economy, improving our healthcare, moving us off oil, etc.....

I simply find it arrogant at this time for anyone to be asking either candidate to pull out. Let the people vote. Let the super delegates do their job if/when they are needed, then let's try to put a democrat in the White House next year.

The people who've supported Hillary and the people who've supported Obama ought not be enemies to one another.

Obama today made an interesting, and honest, remark, but it didn't go far enough. The candidates can't do anything, as candidates, about gas prices.

I wonder what the president CAN do about gas prices. Record profits and record high prices at the pump.

If the government cuts subsidies, prices will go up. If more oil fields are open for drilling, cost of drilling will drive prices up.

Why isn't that a topic here?

Originally Posted by timeforchange

I have been banned/suspended more than once for disagreeing on this board so censorship is alive and well.

Originally Posted by Kana

Your posts haven't been censored here. People may disagree with you vehemently, and they may be extremely rude, but unless I'm mistaken, your freedom of speech here has never been in question.

Originally Posted by timeforchange

I have been banned/suspended more than once for disagreeing on this board so censorship is alive and well.

Originally Posted by jdanton

Harold Ford, last evening, seemed to have no problem with this campaign continuing until after the remaining states have voted. Why do so many others?

How will the democratic party look in the general election if it "forced" one candidate out before all the votes were cast.

Neither candidate has a clear shot at sufficient delegates.

Let's let the voters finish their job, then let the superdelegates, if needed, do their job.

Aren't those the rules? The same people, it seems, who have been so concerned about playing by the rules insofar as Florida and Michigan are concerned, seem to want to by-pass the rules insofar as the superdelegates are concerned.

It's unlikely that they would steal this from Obama if he's ahead significantly in pledged delegates (via voting) and popular vote.

However, if super delegates vote the way their STATE voted, Kennedy, Kerry, and a number of others would have to switch their support, and the math may look differently.

I make no predictions, other than at some point in the near future we will have a nominee, and some of us will support that nominee whomever it is.

I hold no grudges or antaganism toward anyone for holding opinions different than mine. It's disappointing that in a land where freedom of speech is held in such high regard, that so little regard for it survives on these boards.

It is time to put our egoes behind our country and support the candidate that is not mcCain.

Originally Posted by RK77

JD---Just curious..........

Are you at all aware of the fact that for the last 30 years NO primary campaign went the full course? Not republican or democrat.

Thus any asshole boo hooing about voter disenfranchisement of any state or by not completing all primaries without a Nominee for the general is either mental retarded or a lying piece of shit who KNOWS this and is trying to create feigned outrage over nothing---JUST LIKE HILLARY IS!