that's a keeper! 

What a big win this was for Hillary last night.

On to PA, and with FL and MI possibly re-voting,........the nomination.

"The Right always knows who its enemy is" Lance Mannion

drop this comment in here, too. I loved it so! Anyway.....

I heard a sports commentator's humorous reaction to yesterday's primary results, this morning. It went something like this:

"Man, when it comes to a contest, don't ever count out a Clinton. They will fight you to the bitter end and then they'll wait for you at you car, afterwards."

Thanks for posting all those glowing excerpts, Carol.  Yes, today it feels good to be alive!  I'm sure Hillary would agree.  :)

"Obama inspires; Clinton delivers."

Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
Wes Clark -- Make America All It Can Be!

"It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and one to hear." - Henry David Thoreau

I do get upset that Gen. Clark is not up there running but I am happy that he is in Sen. Hillary's team.

In the beginning when Sen. Hillary started running, I wasn't sure. Now I see things will change someway or another and it will be great to enforce it by electing more veterans in the White House in the near future.

I wonder if it saddens Gen. Clark because he is not  running, I hope not. I mean, he is always good moving on and making the best of such situation...

I think if Sen. Hillary becomes the next President and things do change in the WH, it will be perfect for Gen. Clark to carry on the torch. He can then run for president and add or continue with good changes–even if he holds high position in the WH anytime soon. 

Anyway, it’s only random thoughts.

here's a great article about Hil's come back from Spiegel:

THE COMEBACK CANDIDATE
Hillary Bounces Off the Ropes and Back into the Fight
By Gregor Peter Schmitz in Columbus, Ohio

Hillary Clinton has accomplished the unexpected. With victories in Texas and Ohio, she's back in the running for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. And she's back in the ring with Obama -- in a fight which may continue until the nomination convention in August.

Is Hillary Clinton the new "Comeback Kid"?

Hillary Clinton's aides put a lot of thought and care into selecting the location for her victory celebration. Columbus' Athenaeum is a proud building with a mighty coffered ceiling. As befits its victory, the Clinton party is being held in the Olympian Ballroom.

But it's obvious that none of her advisers scouted out the opposite corner, where a job academy advertises its offerings. Hanging on a huge signboard, the advertisement runs: "If you're looking for a new career, you are in exactly the right place." That might not be the sentence that a woman trying to become president wants to read on the evening that might seal her political fate.

But once 10:44 p.m. rolls around, none of her aides needs to fear getting their ear chewed off, because that is the moment when Clinton's victory in Ohio is confirmed. Nearly 1,000 people gathered beneath the coffered ceiling begin their chants: "Hillary, Hillary" as well as "Yes, she will" -- a variant of the "Yes, we can" slogan that has been resounding at Barack Obama events for months. One young lady pulls her boyfriend close. They're both wearing matching "I love Hillary" T-shirts sporting little red hearts.

And then the star herself steps on stage in a bright red outfit. She knows exactly what these people -- many of whom have spent the last few days knocking on thousands of doors all over Ohio -- want to hear: that their hard-fought battles have paid off.

"For everyone here in Ohio and across America, who's ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out and...," Hillary said in celebratory tones interrupted by applause, "...for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up, and for everyone...who works hard and never gives up, this one is for you."

She sounds like Rocky just moments after he has defied all expectations by landing the knock-out punch. And she, too, announces a whole series of sequels: "We're going all the way," Clinton thunders. By that, she means at least until the end of April, when the next big Democratic vote will be held in Pennsylvania. And, if need be, even longer, until the last vote in Puerto Rico on June 7, or even until the Democratic National Convention where the nomination will be sealed at the end of August. That is, if they keep running neck and neck and the uncommitted superdelegates tip the scales.

In recent days, leading Democrats have been talking rather loudly about finding a way to gently show her to the door after what they presumed her performance Tuesday would be. But after the show she put on last night, it's going to be pretty tough to find volunteers to perform that task.

Back in the Fight

As she speaks, the vote in Texas -- the night's second big prize, which she will go on to win by only a slim majority -- has yet to be decided. Nor is it yet a sure thing that her victories will diminish Obama's clear advantage in delegates for the nomination day vote in the summer. According to the calculations of NBC's Chuck Todd, Clinton's victory in Ohio will ultimately only bring her seven more delegates than her rival, and he'll still be several delegates ahead. And he has still won more states, with 25 now compared to her 16.

The numbers still speak against her. But she's unworried. Instead, Clinton celebrates her triumph.

She certain knows that, when it comes to US primaries, numbers aren't everything. The primaries are also about expectations, about feelings -- and about comebacks. Ohio Governor Ted Strickland spoke before Clinton, and he introduced her as "the Comeback Kid." That title has close associations for the Clintons. Bill Clinton used the term in 1992 after he found himself trailing in the campaign following rumors of affairs. Bill, who had even damaged his wife's campaign in previous weeks with his argumentative appearances, was no where to be seen in Columbus. With tight lips, one Clinton aide announced that: "The former president is in Texas." The "comeback kid" of the family is now Hillary.

If Ever, then Tonight

Even her closest associates might not have figured things would happen quite this way. But Clinton campaign manager Terry McAuliffe strode into the hall early in the evening, gave the first guests a thumbs-up and announced: "We're going to win in Ohio and Texas." Then, after a moment, he added "tonight," as if he feared that otherwise the journalist might think that he was speaking about a possible run four years down the road.

After the results start pouring in, McAuliffe climbs onto the press stage and reels off the 12 remaining states in which the battle is yet to be fought. A few meters away, Clinton's cheerful young spokeswoman is throwing her arms around a journalist's neck. Another beaming adviser is holding a little symposium about how similar the electorate for the next primary on April 22 is to the one here in Ohio in terms of the number of women, age groups and lower-income voters.

The coalition of Clinton supporters threatened to break apart in the last few weeks. Has the crisis now been averted? The Clinton people have stationed primarily young people on the platform behind the podium -- for the TV cameras. But in the line at the entrance, it's mostly elderly people -- one after the other -- and mostly women, too. And their hands look like those of workers. They wear simple shoes and jackets. They take their wet shoes off in the anteroom.

Among them are a lot of people who have by now come to terms with the fact that many of the well-paid jobs in the car manufacturing and production factories and the assembly lines are gone for good. And that's because those jobs are now in other parts of the world or cheaper now if done by the arm of a robot.

These are people who have seen a lot. These are people who like a fighting spirit.

They seem to have liked that Clinton assumed the demeanor of a boxing champion at her appearances in recent days and has whispered to them -- like a fighter to a fighter: "Sometimes in life you get knocked out." They like the fact that at her election events over the last few days she always pledged to roll up her sleeves, and she asked them who they would prefer to appoint as president, if they had a chance to decide who got the job. Wouldn't they prefer the candidate with more experience?

Fightin' Words

But Ohio is also one of these so-called "swing states" that decide US presidential elections. The last two times that the Democrats have lost the election, they've lost Ohio, too. This is why victory here is so important for Clinton. And with this victory, Clinton can fashion a powerful argument -- and she already does so in her speech. She lists off all the states she has already won, including the big states, such as California and New York. And now, of course, Ohio. "No candidate in recent history -- Democratic or Republican -- has won the White House without winning the Ohio primary," she says. And the message behind the words is: Who cares about Obama's string of victories in the smaller states, when I'm winning the ones that count?

That is one of her speech's messages. The other one is: So, what's left of all of Obama's talk that has made the whole world swoon?

Behind Clinton hangs a huge, blue signboard bearing the words: "Solutions for America." "Americans don't need more promises," she says. "They've heard plenty of speeches. They deserve solutions, and they deserve them now." And then she makes a comment reminiscent of her controversial TV spot about the question of who should answer an emergency phone: "When there's a crisis and that phone rings at 3 a.m. in the White House, there's no time for speeches or on-the-job training."

It sounds like the bell being rung for a new, hard round of attacks on Obama in the coming weeks. This Tuesday has shown how much they appear to have started working.

And, so, Clinton doesn't waste a moment as the victor. While she stands on the stage waving as her daughter Chelsea stands at her side and the confetti falls around them, her advisers are already talking up the journalists. They're saying that Clinton will already be giving extensive TV interviews early Wednesday morning.

Not one. Not two. But Six.

"The mark of leadership is not to standup when everybody is standing, but rather to actually stand up when no one else is standing" - Pulitzer Prize winning author Samantha Power, introducing Gen Clark