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Barack Obama has taken his charity further than simply asking his supporters to donate to Hillary’s debt, he has chipped in the maximum amount allowed from his own pocket, $2,300. That has to be an insult. Kicking a dog when it’s down.

I wonder if Barack called Hillary and said, “I can’t pay it off, but I can put something on it.”

Hillary has started campaigning with Barack and they have a number of events scheduled together over the next several days. That should help his already strong lead in the polls.

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It definitely will not stay this way, but will all of the thoughts of Hillary’s supporters not supporting Obama, and how the general election would be different, early polls are looking good for Barack. With just over four months to go until voters weigh in at the polls, a new survey suggests Sen. Barack Obama is holding a double-digit lead over Sen. John McCain among registered voters.

According to a new a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg Poll, Obama holds a 12 point lead over McCain in a head-to-head match up, 49 percent to 37 percent. But when third party candidates Ralph Nader and Bob Barr are added to the list, Obama’s lead over McCain extends to 15 points, 48 percent to 33 percent.

The survey is the second in a matter of days to indicate McCain may face a sizable deficit as the general election campaign kicks off. A Newsweek poll released four days ago showed the Illinois senator with a 15 point lead.

Obama has even been nice enough to do some charity work yesterday when he asks his contributors to help Clinton with her debt. Yeah right, the check is in the mail.

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One of my favorite movies is the American President. In it, Michael Douglas plays a fictitious Democratic President. He is a widower and single father. He meets and starts to date a Washington lobbyist played by Annette Bening. They begin dating and a Republican Senator wanting to be President—played artfully by Richard Dryfus—seizes on their growing love affair as fodder for his attacks on “value” issues. For a long time Douglas’ character won’t respond to the attacks; but finally he does. In doing so the writers put together what I think to be one of the best explanations about Democracy that I have ever heard. In a spur-of- the-moment press conference Douglas’ character talks about our living in a country in which one who truly believes in the idea of democracy must rise to defend the right of free speech for someone who is making statements at the top of their lungs that which the defender would shout at the top of his lungs to oppose. He goes on to say that we live in an advanced democracy, and to live here one has to want the ideals of democracy… badly. Wow.

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Keith Olbermann Speaks on Hillary Clinton.

If you are not familiar with Keith Olbermann, he is a tv personality on MSNBC that usually has pretty well thought out opinions on a variety of topics that are usually on point. I remember him from his days on Sportscenter.

Olbermann makes some really good points in his passionate speech about his thought regarding Hillary Clinton and her response, or lack thereof, to the comments made by Geraldine Ferraro. What I find most interesting in this video is the pure statement of facts. If you have been reading this blog,you know that I am a supporter of Barack Obama, but a lot of the coverage of these campaigns from all angles is much more opinion than facts. Olbermann did a very good job of backing up his thoughts with examples of actual events that have occurred. This is the type of coverage we need from all news outlets.

The Democratic party should just tell Hillary to quit and stop spending money. Barack Obama easily won the Mississippi primary last night with 61% of the vote. There were 33 delegates at stake in last night’s primary which will be divided proportionally. So if Barack were counting, he would say “1 for you” and “2 for ME!”

CNN also is reporting that Obama won the Texas Caucus last week and by doing so, his number of delegates in Texas from the primary and caucus is more delegates than Hillary won in the state. I guess Hillary and Bill can keep lobbying for the Vice President’s job as they realize this race is over.

Since the news broke yesterday about New York Governor, Elliot Spitzer’s, involvement in a prostitution ring, it is most likely that he will have to step down from his post and hand it over to the Lt. Governor, David A. Paterson.

David Paterson would be the first African-American Governor for the State of New York.  Paterson, who is legally blind was born with no sight in his left eye and severely limited vision in his right. Paterson comes from a family of politicians as his father, Basil Paterson, was the first African American NYC Deputy Mayor and the first to run for statewide office in New York.

Not the ideal way he wanted to get the Governors job, but I am sure he would happily accept it. Unfortunately, Paterson is a super-delegate and supports Hilary Clinton. The current govenor is also a super-delegate and a Hilary supporter, but once he resigns, he will lose his super-delegate vote and it will not be replaced. So subtract one super-delegate from the Clinton camp.