Hear! Hear! well said Johnny.

GET USED TO IT, MADAME COMMANDER IN CHIEF

REPUBLICANS THINK OBAMA IS THE WEAKEST LINK TO DEFEAT, TONIGHT SURPRISE, SURPRISE.

RIGHT NOW THERE IS AN IMPASSE, HILLARIANS WON'T VOTE FOR OBAMA, OBAMIANS WON'T VOTE FOR MAD COMMANDER IN CHIEF. AND REPUBLICANS LAUGHING ALL THE WAY.

WHO WILL HAVE THAT LAST LAUGH? NO, WRONG! BE STRONG, SUPPORT OBAMA AFTER BEING DEFEATED, THEY WANT TO 'GRILL HIM', THAT'S THE RUMOR.

IT IS SAD THAT IN THIS CENTURY,NEW MILLENIUM STILL THE VATICAN HAS POWER ON WHO GET THE VATICAN APPROVAL TO BE THE PRESIDENT. WHEN I SAY MADAME COMMANDER IN CHIEF, DID YOU SEE HER TODAY? GREETING THE POPE, BUT DID NOT KISS THE POWERFUL RING. A SIGN? AND THE POPE SENT THE MESSAGE 'GOD BLESS AMERICA' TO J. WRIGHT LOUD AND CLEAR.

TONIGHT, AND THE REST OF THE WEEK, I AM STARTING TO BELIEVE THAT THERE WILL BE BLOOD. THIS ELECTION IS NOT RATED PG, NOT RECOMMENDED FOR THOSE WITH HIGH PRESSURE, FANATICS.

AFTER ALL, DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY.

Well Said Mr. Kern

A Letter to Pennsylvania from a San Franciscan who used to reside in that beloved state
By John J. Kern

I can hear it now…the whispering…the comments, the angry shouting…

‘Did you hear what that black presidential candidate said…what did he say?...Barack Obama said that we, Pennsylvanian, working class stiffs, are frustrated because of declining wages, standards of living, loss of jobs, bad schools, soaring health care costs, rampant bankruptcy, and the loss of our homes due to the mortgage meltdown...We’re frustrated because it’s true, and because no damned politician will do anything about it! All we get from the Democrats is liberal, elite nostrums-whatever the hell those things are!

‘And where did he say it? He said it in San Francisco, where they call this land of ours Penn-Tucky! Yeah, that’s right! They think we’re just a bunch of dumb rubes stuck in the middle of Pittsburg and Philadelphia-a sea of red surrounded by blue. Yeah, he said it in the Home of the rich, Liberals and the Elites! Land of anything goes life styles, where the mayor has an extramarital affair, and its citizens just slap him on the wrist with a limp noodle and smirk at his quaint indulgences!

‘Obama said we Cling to our Guns and Christian religion out of frustration! And we are contemptuous of illegal or legal immigrants because they’re here to steal our jobs-at least the ones that haven’t been outsourced to foreign lands run by crackpot dictators or gangs of thug-who don’t allow Unions, have lax environmental regulations, and dump their cheap goods at the local Wal-Mart! Lord all mighty what do we have left? We have our bibles, our values, and if that ain’t enough, we got our guns! In the words of that deceased prophet, Charlton Heston, they’ll have to take that away from our dying arms!’

Here’s what I have to say to my beloved Pennsylvanians, who are pondering there sacred duty to vote in the upcoming primary. First off, Barack Obama is not just an African-American candidate; he is an American candidate! He is an American in every sense of the word. Instead of complaining about the chances denied him because of the color of his skin, his upbringing, his ethnic background, Obama fought the good fight for the American Dream and got a slice of it. I say only a slice of it because he wants what every young man in this country wants. He wants to become President of the United States, based on his ideals, his integrity, his desire to serve this great country and to sustain and make better its greatness, and not because his dad had money and connections. Now if that ain’t American, then I don’t what is.

Second, Obama has his faults like every American, but he admits to them, learns from them, and becomes a better man because of them. In contrast to the other candidates, I believe he has the ability to listen intently to the will of the voters, and not just give knee jerk reactions to win your votes. Sometimes the best candidate is the one who will tell you things you don’t want to hear. Things like the truth. In his statement, given privately at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Obama was merely telling the truth. While it is understandable that people cling to comfortable values like the right to bear arms and the values of Christianity, they are not solutions to the current troubles facing this dear land of ours and the world. Bear in mind that Obama isn’t the solution to our problems. But he is a candidate who has the intelligence, the spirit, and the charisma to begin a national dialogue to find solutions, and that’s what this country needs at this crucial moment in history.

Here’s what you get with the other two candidates: Indecisive wobbling over a war that has cost us dearly in terms of the lives of our sons and daughters, plummeting world prestige, a wastage of national treasure, a continuation of bad, ill considered trade, economic, and fiscal policies that has enfeebled our productive nation, and an environmental meltdown that will plague our children’s children.

But you say Obama is part of the problem because he is a member of the elite. First, I would remind everybody that all of the candidates are elites, despite whatever homespun platitudes they may utter. What’s interesting is that Obama, while being a member of the elite, had the audacity to bring what has been said by politicians of all stripes behind closed doors out in the open. If Obama represents change, then I’m for Obama because I believe the change he’s talking about has to do with bringing this country back to the point of cherishing and realizing our true American Dream, which is having a government for the people and by the people-instead of being run by artificial people called corporations.

I conclude this letter by reminding Pennsylvanians of their national greatness. The liberal idea of Liberty was nurtured and sustained in Philadelphia, as was our nation’s Constitution. The movement for the abolishment of slavery was strong in Pennsylvania, and the birth of the concept and realization of religious freedom and the separation of church and state began there. Pennsylvania is also the Home of famous Americans like Ben Franklin, a founding father, and Matthias Baldwin, the railroad innovator, and birthplace of such notables as Rachel Carson, Robert Fulton, General George C. Marshall, Bill Cosby, and Joe Montana.

When I look at the Golden Gate Bridge, my heart is stirred not only because of its engineering and architectural beauty, but also because its steel was forged in the crucible of Pennsylvanian steel mills by immigrant laborers, who were yearning for a slice of the American Dream.

I ask, then, that my former fellow Pennsylvanians realize their greatness and potential. Go out to the voting booth in the upcoming primary and vote. Make your frustrations heard, for they will be heard in, perhaps, this most important of primaries. But please remember that only one candidate will intently and honestly listen to your frustrations and judiciously act upon them, and that candidate is Senator Barack Obama.

Sincerely,

John J. Kern
San Francisco
4/15/2008

I always believed in America that nothing was over till the "Fat Lady Sings" or better still the nomination is secured at the convention.

If any of you have read the Constitution lately it will be quite obvious quickly that whatever Mr. Barack Obama learned at Princeton and Harvard it was to distrust, dislike and not believe in anything that cam out of the mouth of Anglo's, Europeans, Russian, Jews, Polish, Serbs, French, British, Chinese, Koreans and Japanese mouths. The man is a racist as is his wife.

By the way has anyone ever seen his birth certificate? Has anyone verified he was really born in a hospiital somewhere's in Hawaii? and if he was what is the actual year? And who has verified that the child who returned from Indonesia is the same child that left after being educated in the Madras School. Even his maternal grandmother who is purportedly still alive and is not allowed to show her white face with her grandon and great grandchild would not know.

So please tell me how we are to know when where and if he was born in America? Because he speaks English????

And I almost forgot everyone related to him has mysteriously and magically died. Why doesn't he compare his DNA with his maternal grandmother's midochondrial dna?

Finally, everyone is correct about one thing I do not like nor trust, nor believe in this individual and my ancestors who fought in the revolution would turn in their graves.

Come on down Hillary and take your prize........

Respectfully an American Voter born in the "Good Olde USA"

I was indeed a Clinton supporter, but alas, no more. I'm totally turned off by her campaign tactics and now believe in giving the other guy a chance. It CAN'T be any worse under an Obama Presidency then we've had to endure for the last almost eight years. I urge my fellow PA dems, to come on board, and let's end this nightmare of a primary.

I also heard about Rush Limbaugh on the news the other night. And then in my newspaper an article was written: See voter fraud in small PA town. People I have talked to are supporting Obama regardless of all the back biting that has been going on. In Ohio 16,000 people are being investigated for voter fraud , because in Ohio it's a felony. Texas also had voter fraud. Are the Republicians so worried about their candiate that they have to resort to these kind of tatics?

My husband is a steel worker and he feels the American people need a (for the people grassroots person) such as Obama to get us out of the mess we're in. Hopefully the Steel Workers Union will decide to endorse Obama before the PA primary election. I completely agree with you, that the Democratic party needs to come together. And if Hillary loves and cares for the American people as much as she says she does, she will help Obama get nominated instead of mud slinging every chance she gets.

Obama for President