Obama Ready to Declare Victory Tuesday?
After more than a year of campaigning and five months of contests, as it stands now, the Obama camp is finally ready to declare victory after the nation’s final contests June 3rd.
According to the campaign’s count, they are just 44 delegates away from the “magic number” - 2026, the amount of delegates needed to secure the Democratic nomination. Of course the DNC rules and bylaws committee is meeting Saturday to determine how to seat the Michigan and Florida delegations, which the Obama camp says will benefit team Clinton and likely increase the number of delegates needed for victory.
On a conference call yesterday, campaign manager David Plouffe admitted that would mean Obama will have to win more superdelegates, but later in the day, Obama had the following exchange with reporters on his campaign plane.
Reporter: Does the general election begin then after Tuesday?
Barack Obama: Yes.
Reporter: And you will be the winner at that point?
Obama: I believe so.
Reporter: We’ll have a nominee?
Obama: I hope so.
Obama hedged later in the conversation when he was asked about his endgame strategy. “I am sure we will have discussions with Senator Clinton and her team. Unless we have, you know it’s technically not over until we have the number of delegates needed to secure the nomination. Once we have that number, we will focus on the general election,” he said.
55 pledged delegates are up for grabs in Puerto Rico this Sunday, while Montana and South Dakota have a combined 31.
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i’m just wondering obama is going to pick as a VP…it will hard to find someone with less experience
ExT
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NDZiMjkwMDczZWI5ODdjOWYxZTIzZGIyNzEyMjE0ODI=
Mr. Community Organizer HUH ?
Ready to declare what?
If the American people believe he is not involved with this church weather it be a priest or rev wright They are completely stupid. Any body remember Brear Rabbit and the fox when thee rabbit said please don’t throw me into that bryerpatch knowing full well he lived there and was laughing all the way into it.He is doing the same thing here and leaving his self in the clear.And he thinks he is the front runner Ha.
Breaking news: Obama has perpetuated the greatest fraud in political history, presenting himself as the black candidate. He’s not black. Obama is only 6.25% black on his father’s side, 42.75% Arab Muslim on his father’s side according to Kenya, Africa records., and 50% white on his mother’s side.
Obama is in fact, an Arab-American. Wow.
Where is Obama’s birth certificate?????
Check it out ABC.
Now, THIS IS breaking news. Obama has deceived the black community garnering their support of up to 90% while PRETENDING to be one of them. Wow, Obama is such a fraud. Call him out, NOW.
I JUST READ AN ARTICLE ABOUT BARACK OBAMA’S ITRO INTO POLITICS. IT IS A VERY INTERESTING READ, I THINK YOR READERS AND VIEWERS SHOULD KNOW. JUST TO PUT THIS WHOLE PRIMARY SEASON IN PERSPECTIVE. IF WHAT I READ IS TRUE, IT JUST CONFIRMS WHAT I THOUGHT ALL ALONG, OBAMA IS NOT WHO HE SAYS HE IS.
IMPOSSIBLE- SUPERDELEGATES DID NOT VOTE YET!!!!!!!!!! UNTIL THE CONVENTION
Unless, I am wrong. On Tuesday Sen Obama or Sen Clinton, will not have the magic number.
Please do as a favor , the SUPERDELEGATES will vote only at the convention, therefore
Sen Obama will declare VICTORY based on what?
More Obama Pastor/Church problems?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/05/priest-and-obam.html
Should Senator Obama reach the 2026 required on June 3rd; regardless of the goalpost being moved to seat the Florida and Michigan delegates (which I believe on the merits is the right thing to do for the party and for no other reason); then I believe that Sen. Obama will have earned the right to declare “Victory”; and thereafter be referred to as “the Presumptive Nominee” of the Democratic Party.
noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/28/vote-obama-or-else-guess-again/
NOT SO FAST OBAMA, Obama is so not going to win the general. I hope Larry Sinclair gets his message out soon. DEMOCRATS FOR McCAIN IF OBAMA IS THE NOMINEE.
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch —-even if you get the nomination you won’t win, you don’t have the experience or the white American vote. Bye Bye BO.
Why on Earth does Puerto Rico get more delegates than many states?
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch, even if you get the nomination BO you won’t win the election - you won’t carry the white vote. You will loose our Democratic presidency for us. NO OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT
get to work
Obama quit and go back to Trinity with your hater mongers. We know what kind of man you are after your twenty year association with Rev. Wright and the radicals. We love Hillary!
Just think, no more clinton’s running around the country doing things only clintons can do. It is so liberating!!!! come on tuesday
44 away? Why are they counting superdelegates? They are NOT OFFICIALLY PLEDGE UNTIL THE AUGUST CONVENTION. SUPERDELEGATES HAVEN”T CAST THEIR VOTES, YET. So therefore NO superdelegates count are official. SDs are flipping to Obama because Obama has been giving (bribing) them more money.
Obama and DNC (including Dean and Pelosi) are making their own rules and their 2026.
Count should be:
Obama 1661
Clinton 1499
I absolute hate obama. I will NOT vote for him. It’s Clinton-McCain. It’s not that I’m racist. Obama is so left wing, so liberal that it sickens me. I don’t like him and I’m ready to work for McCain. I am also ashamed of the Dem party and I have just become an independent for McCain.
There is a movement of millions of women who have pledge not to vote for Obama. We are sending a message. You made us mad a little tooo often. The Dem party just stood by and accepted this garbage. The Dem party does not represent women and I have felt it is actually anti-women and elitist. So be it, Let the Republicans’ rule.
Montreal - Canada
Don’t count your eggs before they are layed, Obama!
Matters may get very sticky at the convention.
Hillary should finish the primary race and run as an Independant in the General Election.
http://cache.search.yahoo-ht2.akadns.net/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=Pfleger++obama&fr=slv8-yme&SpellState=n-1369488631_q-BloFbX1BAitX1TPH50vocAAAAA%40%40&u=faith.barackobama.com/page/content/faithtestimonials&w=pfleger+obama&d=VlZRq5zfQ23h&icp=1&.intl=us
KEEP FIGHTING HILLARY - MILLIONS VOTE FOR YOU - otherwise obama would of won by now - BUT - he has NOT!!!
The DNC is a disgrace the way this has all been “fixed” - by the rules. Don’t count these states - these states can go first - get out Hillary - you might WIN - you have the popular vote!
Sadly IF obama should STEAL the nomination - with the help of the DNC - the Dems will lose again. Oama is a WEAK candidate with a Radical Questionable background!
Forget it Obama!
You are just Bush 3. Obama with Axelrod’s brain is equal to Bush with Rove’s brain. Both extremes are useless!
Yet another video clip showing Rev. Pfleger as a guest speaker in TUCC (Obama’s church) making nasty comments about Hillary and all white people. There is a clear pattern of white hatred being spewed from this church.
People all over this country should vote accordingly.
Enjoy it while it lasts. It won’t be this happy party come November!!
Speaking about Iraq at a townhall event on Thursday evening in Greensdale, Wisconsin, Sen. John McCain declared, “I can tell you that it is succeeding. I can look you in the eye and tell you it’s succeeding. We have drawn down to pre-surge levels. Basra, Mosul and now Sadr city are quiet and it’s long and it’s hard and it’s tough and there will be setbacks…” (Video is below.)
McCain was wrong on two points. First, U.S. forces have not returned to pre-surge levels. Before the surge, there were 130,000 troops in Iraq; even if the scheduled troop reductions are carried out as planned, there will still be 140,000 troops in Iraq in August.
Moreover, McCain’s claim that Mosul is “quiet” was disproved earlier today in grim fashion. Three suicide bombings — two in Mosul and another in a surrounding town — left 30 Iraqis dead and more than two dozen injured, according to press reports.
Clearly, McCain’s various congressional trips to Iraq haven’t made him infallible on the issue.
WHAT WIN?? OBAMA is a loser.
MACAIN 08!
Unless there is major DNC cheating favoring Clinton, respecting MI and FL, Obama sure has to win the nomination. Even if Obama recahes the “magic number” of delegates, Clinton will continue “running”, complaining and trying to cheat her way through the nomination. She and all her loser feminist followers are like a plague that it simply seems impossible to get rid of, and of course, that is solely to the benefit of republicans, since Clinton, a born divider, has done what many feared; torn the democratic party apart and weakened it greatly, for the coming presidential elections.
If he declares then he is also declaring that the democrats will be defeated in November.
Hillary has a better chance against McCain.
Just a general comment. Why is everyone using the word “Democratic” to describe Obama and Clinton? We are a Democratic nation, right? The word should be “democrat” to describe the democrats right? …. am I wrong?
I hope the remaining primaries wake up fast because Obama is NOT presidential material. Let’s not forget his response by giving the finger to Hillary, this recent incident with his church, and all his shady connections. You deserve what you get. Stop letting the Democratic Party leaders “decide” for you. They stopped pushing Hillary out because they were angering her supporters, but it’s too late.
Take a real look at Obama’s lack of legislative record and the whole picture. Words spoken off a teleprompter written by a speech writer does not make a good POTUS. He has no clue what he is talking about. Just a slick marketing campaign backed by some very powerful and rich people.
For fair results, the Superdelegates should have voted by private ballot for obvious reasons.
Obama my get the nomination but he will never win the general. Too much baggage and they just coming.
Democrats for McCain08
go ahead a celabrate , he will not be cealabrating in the fall.mccain all the way.
no matter what - Obama will be the nominee
And that’s good so! - and by the way: I’m white 
Obama can declare victory and be the nominee but Clinton is correct. Obama with his racist church, criminal friends and anti-Semitic friends will never get my vote and thousands of democrats out there feel the same way. Obama may get the nomination but will never have the presidency.
Democrats for McCain08
How in the world can a man like Obama think he is going to be our next president when he has such a large baggage of trouble following him.He doesn’t play the race card but his people behind him and his church did and all of it’s followers and his close friend Father Pfleger Does. and all of it is done in Obama’s name and then they run out onto the stage and apologize for what they didn’t intend to say in the first place and you know it has already been said and the public has heard it.Take a good look around you and take a few minutes to watch and listen. Islam teaches it’s people to destroy from within and what is happening our infstructher is collapsing right in front of us.
After Saturday, the DNC will have to change the magic number of what is needed to WIN. BO will not have that number and he would be a fool to declaire himself the winner prematurely. He will also get sanctioned by the Credentials committee two days before the convention, when they rule on his CLEAR violation of the Rules, refering to the TV ad he ran in Florida. The rules CLEARLY state that a candidate will be stripped of all awarded delegates from that state for this type of violation. So if he is awarded any delegates at all from Florida, they really won’t be his…THIS IS SO CLOSE. he is completely arrogant if he thiks that voters who supported Hillary will ever vote for him. I for one will vote for John McCain or Rick and Bubba before I will cast a vote for BO.
I think that this nomination process has been designed for Senator Obama. Since the beginning, I think that the DNC has already chosen their nominee. I believe that the processess have been flawed. Also without including the votes of Florida and Michigan that favors Senator Clinton, I think it will be a travesty for the democratic party. Througout the history of the political processess, the 2008 election has a lot of CHAOS. Senator Obama professes to be a Uniter, but it is just the opposite. May I know if affirmative action has been in place this presidential election 2008?
Fox News, you have prevented me from stating my comments. Could you please tell me the reasons why? Thank you.
It’s not over till the convention. The people have a say in this TOO.
Hillary 08
Fox is fair and balanced
HILLARY, THE BEST CANIDATE.
Fox is fair and balanced
Come on voters, wake up and smell the BS this guy is spewing. If Obama is elected this is what we can expect:
1] higher taxes
2] more dependence on foreign oil since the Dems will not let us build new refineries and drill in our own territories
3] the continuation of the ultimate crime against children ABORTION
4] the lack of defined borders language and culture and continued selective law enforcement known as illegal immagration
5] the transfer of wealth from upper middle class and wealthy to the middle and lower class based on the tax structure
6] a foreign policy of appeasement as opposed to doing whats right for our nation, we dont need to do what other countries suggest if its not in our best interest[kyoto treaty for example]
7]the United Nations dictating resolutions on foreign policy that are spineless in nature with no recourse of action for violators
8] unethical and angry people in this administration that has already been demonstrated from Obama’s wife, 2 preachers at trinity, Ayers, Rezko, we have already paid a lot of reparations in the form of EOE and affirmative action, lets put this idea of reparations to rest
9] a weakened military
These are just a few of the unfortunate stances in which Obama has demonstrated are his covictions and ultimately a step toward eroding more of our freedoms. Please check this guys voting record before you vote for him, he has been ranked one of the most liberal in the senate. HE IS NOT GOOD FOR OUR NATION NOW OR EVER!!!!!!
He may win Tuesday but he’ll lose the white vote between now and Nov.
People will start to see what a anti-American racist bigot he really is.
They will wish they still had Hillary to vote for but will be tooo late .
Thank you for listening.
The Bitter white working class guy
What has he won? More distrust from the white people ? He has some shady mentors in his past. I do miss rev. wright. That mo fo is funny!
How Obama Got His Money!
How Soros Financed Obama’s Campaign
May 30, 2008
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In late 2006, George Soros, the British empire/Wall Street gatekeeper of the Left, vetted Senator Barack Obama’s potential Presidential candidacy on behalf of financier oligarchs. Soros then introduced Obama to a selected financier group, and Obama soon afterwards announced he would seek the White House.
Soros’s involvement with Obama’s brief national political career had begun two years earlier with Soros fundraising for Obama’s campaign for U.S. senate, and continued through the 2007 Presidential campaign launch with huge fundraising operations by Soros and his circle.
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SOROS AND OBAMA - A Preliminary chronology
2004: The London-Wall Street axis singled out Obama, then an Illinois state senator, as their “Rising Star” in U.S. politics. The Rockefellers’ family political agency known as the League of Conservation Voters endorsed Obama in the Democratic U.S. senate primary, ran TV ads on the Rising Star theme, and directly funded Obama’s national career manager, consultant David Axelrod.
Obama’s opponent in the Democratic primary, Blair Hull, was a self-financed millionaire, so Obama used the “millionaires’ exception” to the campaign finance law to take $12,000 each from donor, six times the ordinary limit at that time. Thus nearly half of his $5 million primary funding came from 300 donors.
George Soros raised $60,000 of this Obama funding, with his own donations and those he procured from his family.
Quote:
December 4, 2006: Obama met with George Soros in Soros’ mid-town Manhattan office. After an hour interview, Soros took Obama into a conference room where a dozen plutocrats waited to talk with Obama. Key among them were UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland/Swiss Bank) U.S. chief Robert Wolf, and hedge fund manager Orin Kramer.
December, 2006, a week later, Robert Wolf had dinner in Washington D.C. with Barack Obama to map out campaign strategy.
Early January, 2007: Obama announced his Presidential candidacy. The New York Times announced that candidate Obama had nailed the support of two highest-level Democratic fundraisers: George Soros and Robert Wolf. By mid-April, 2007, Wolf had raised $500,000 for Obama.
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April 9, 2007: An Obama fundraising party for the New York elite was held at the home of financier Steven Gluckstern, the former chairman of George Soros’ Democracy Alliance.
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May 18, 2007: George Soros hosted an Obama party at the Greenwich, Connecticut palatial mansion of Paul Tudor Jones, who runs the giant hedge fund Tudor Investment Corporation. They collected $2,300 from each of the approximately 300 attendees, the local newspaper Greenwich Time reported.
300 x $2300 = $690,000
http://www.larouchepac.com/news/2008…-campaign.html
obama needs to let every one vote first.
Hillary Dems Unite…………………….Down with Obama.
I will be found on politico. Good luck everyone!
God Bless America!!
McCain 08!!
He has been waiting for this day after the Iowa Caucus.
http://www.andwearenotsaved.blogspot.com
i PRAY YOU DO NOT MAKE IT OBAMA–I AM A DEMOCRATIC, BUT WILL VOTE REPUBLICAN—YOU ARE A ARROGANT PERSON WHO THINKS THAT A WOMAN COULD NOT WIN AND AS FAR AS I AM CONCERN YOU DON’T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT OUR WORLD, AND THE CHURCH YOU WENT TOO AND NOW DISOWN –YOU LIED AND ARE A WHITE HATER AS YOUR WIFE IS–GO MCCAIN I VOTE FOR YOU