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April 22, 2008 9:13 PM

Enough of Pennsylvania!

Six weeks of campaigning produced not much for the Barack Obama campaign. As a Pittsburgh native, and an Obama enthusiast, I understand the vote in Pennsylvania in favor of Sen. Hillary Clinton. It has much to do with admiring those who tough it out, pay their dues and take the lumps.
Life can be very difficult in some of the depressed, de-populating steels towns outside Pittsburgh. My mom and dad come from two of them, Braddock and McKeesport. Hard-working, fair-minded residents of these places have watched once-vibrant communities erode and crumble. They may relate better to Clinton, because of the camraderie that comes from having been through the ringer.

For Obama, the next step is to stop running so hard against Clinton and start swinging at Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain. Obama did that in tonight's concession speech. He spoke of McCain and four more years of war and Republican tax policies. For Democrats fearing an endless primary battle, the high road out of the Keystone State is to focus more on McCain and less on the other Democrat in the race..

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Posted by Methow Ken

12:04 AM, Apr 24, 2008

Gee, Ms. Joni:
Are you REALLY that seamless with the moonbat-left ? ?. . . If you would read your own David Postman's blog and / or soundpolitics.com a little, maybe you could get a clue:

The collective impact of Reverend Wright, bittergate in ultra-liberal San Fran, and holding a campaign event in the living room of confessed and unrepentant terrorist bomber William Ayers is NOT just a minor and transitory bump in the road for Obama. He is a hard-left liberal across the board, and that is finally starting to come out.