As Hillary Clinton braces for a predicted presidential primary sweep by Barack Obama along the banks of the Potomac Tuesday night, her campaign reportedly is scrambling to comfort anxious donors and superdelegates who fear her campaign may be slipping out of her hands.

The Clinton campaign held a phone conference Monday aimed at rallying the troops, but some of those on the call said afterward that there is unease among Clinton’s supporters over what could become a big losing streak once Tuesday’s results in Virginia, Maryland and Washington D.C. are final, the New York Times reported.

If Obama sweeps the Potomac Primary, he will have won eight consecutive contests since Super Tuesday.

“She has to win both Ohio and Texas comfortably, or she’s out,” an anonymous superdelegate who currently supports Clinton told the Times.

Those two states, as well as Rhode Island and Vermont, hold primaries on March 4.

Others said they’re now rethinking whether to support Clinton, saying they might “go with the flow” and support Barack Obama, if he continues to beat Clinton in the coming primaries.

Both the Clinton and Obama campaigns prepared to launch television ads in Ohio and Texas on Tuesday, and they added another debate to their schedule — Feb. 21 in Austin, Texas.

Meanwhile, Obama’s wave of momentum appears to be swelling — at least according to the polls.

New American Research Group surveys of 600 likely Democratic voters put Obama well ahead of Clinton in Maryland, where he leads 55 percent to 37 percent, and Virginia, where he leads 56 percent to 38 percent. Both leads are well beyond the polls’ 4-percent margin of error.

In the delegate race, 168 Democratic delegates are up for grabs in Tuesday’s primaries.

Obama stopped by a Dunkin’ Donuts in Washington, D.C., Tuesday morning with Mayor Adrian Fenty to pick up donuts and coffee to distribute to people holding campaign signs across the street.

Fenty, who’s supporting Obama, occasionally asked the crowd “Is D.C. for Obama?” and the crowd cheered in response.

Asked if he thought he’d win Tuesday, Obama said he never expects to win until he wins.

Obama was traveling late Tuesday to Wisconsin, which votes next week, along with Hawaii, where the Illinois senator grew up.

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Campaigning for his wife yesterday, former President Bill Clinton threatened to remain in the state of Virginia indefinitely if its voters did not choose Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s Democratic presidential primary.

"OK, now here’s the deal. If ya’ll don’t vote for Hillary, I ain’t leavin’," the former president said as he loudly downed a pulled pork barbeque sandwich, hush puppies, slaw and a jumbo iced tea in under 45 seconds.

"I’m not kidding," he said. "I love this place; I can stay here a long, long time. LOTS to do here. Golf. Fish. Sit beside your wives at church. Buddy, I would LOVE it. I live in New York now, man, you know how long it’s been since I hung my underwear out on the clothesline to dry? Oh, yeah, I hang ‘em high, too, so the whole neighborhood can get a good look."

Clinton made his comments the day after Sen. Barack Obama swept Sen. Hillary Clinton in primaries in Louisiana, Nebraska, Washington, and the Virgin Islands. Sen. Clinton replaced her campaign manager after the losses, which came shortly after she loaned her campaign $5 million when it became clear that she had been unable to raise as much money as Sen. Obama in the fourth quarter of 2007.

"It’s clearly a desperate strategy," University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabbatical said of Bill Clinton’s threat. "But they’ve tried just about everything to beat Obama, and nothing’s worked. At this point, what else have they got? The prospect of a white trash ex-president sitting in his boxers on a lawn chair in his front yard sipping cheap beer and hooting at your daughters before scores of national and international media representatives, that’s a pretty powerful incentive, I think."

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The Hillary Clinton Accountability Project will shortly launch its fundraising drive to raise $500,000 to support the most important citizen’s legal initiative of 2008. The landmark civil fraud suit of Paul v Clinton et al which the California Supreme Court ordered to proceed against the Clintons, Grammys Producer Gary Smith and Clinton agent Jim Levin, will be set for trial and a discovery schedule at a special conference to be held in Los Angeles Superior Court on February 21, 2008.

The first law suit in American history to bring a President and a Senator to court for defrauding the Senator’s largest campaign donor and his public company will be set for trial and discovery at the Case Management Conference before Judge Munoz.  Discovery and depositions of key witnesses, including the Clinton family, Al Gore, Ed Rendell, Terry McAuliffe, Harold Ickes, Howard Wolfson, Kelly Craighead, Barbara Streisand, Brad Pitt, Larry King, Mike Wallace among an array of political and entertainment leaders, will present an inside look at a culture of corruption that will shock the public.

The history and significance of this lawsuit is featured in the internet phenomenon - documentary Hillary! Uncensored and in the court filings posted on the Hillary Clinton Accountability Project web site.

Because the expenses of discovery and trial preparation will be extraordinary as the efforts to expose wrongdoing by the Clinton hierarchy of the Democratic is fought desperately by the Clinton Washington pit bull legal team, they require the continued support of the tens of thousands of concerned citizens around the nation that have supported it since 2001 and all those Americans who are newly introduced to the biggest political scandal since Watergate.

Paul v Clinton has become and will be the first civil lawsuit to produce sworn testimony and evidence of the systemic corruption that the Clintons have infused into the Democratic Party and all branches of the federal government. Given the necessary resources and legal talent to use the legal tools now available, the illegalities directed by Hillary Clinton to win and keep her Senate seat will be irrefutable!

Contributions to support this case are being accepted online by the Hillary Clinton Accountability Project and questions or feedback may be directed by email to admin@ejaf.us.

Source: PeterPaul.com

Anyone know anything more about this doll?

Gong Show - now that brings back memories!

This ought to help with the whole quiet backing away from the race issue that the race-baiting Clinton campaign has failed so spectacularly to exploit in recent weeks.

As the Obama campaign basks in the Kennedy glow, chief rival Sen. Hillary Clinton picked up an endorsement today from a larger-than-life southern entertainer known for his sideburns and white rhinestone-studded jumpsuit.

The name isn’t Elvis Presley, it’s Dwayne Turner, known locally as “Belvis, the Black Elvis.”

Prepare to shift in your seat uncomfortably.

Clinton, who jokes about having two left feet, shook her hips and did a little shimmy. She then gave Belvis a big high five, sparking applause from the crowd of mostly African-American long-time Clinton supporters.
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“Bill Clinton was inducted into the black hall of fame. Like Elvis, he transcended race,” Turner said.

Still, as charmingly impromptu as this well-scripted bit of meticulous spontaneity may have been, Clinton may regret her decision to high-five… a *racist*.

He says he has liked the Clintons since 1982 when he was 12-years-old and Bill Clinton was in the early days of his governorship.

Turner says he was playing hide-and-go-seek at the state capital and snuck into a press conference with the then-governor. He says he raised his hand and asked Clinton why white kids got bused to their schools but black kids had to walk over a mile every morning. A week later, Turner says, his school got buses. “I walked right into the state Capitol with my nappy headed self, and I raised my hand and he called on me and he fixed it,” Turner says.

Source: Suitably Flip