Are you feeling the Unity yet? Here's my suggestion - consider which of the remaining candidates best represents your views. Don't let the vitriol and hatred from the supporters or the blogs decide who YOU want to vote for. To me, if you are a Democrat, believe in ending the war in Iraq, in providing fairness to our tax system, in improving our health care system, in providing a fairer society, then the choice is clear - Barack Obama is clearly superior to John McCain. [More...]

Do you have things on your mind other than what we are writing about today? Here's a place to vent them.

Earlier, Big Tent Democrat wrote "What Now?" describing what he will blog about here on out. He also posted (more) perspectives on sexism.

I'm glad to see TChris is back with his informative posts on continuing injustices.

The message if there is one: We will all survive. I plan to use Obama's promise of change to make specific requests on how to bring it about. I'm not a party activist. I'm an advocate for causes I believe in. I am going to support Barack Obama, but I'll be nudging him along every step of the way to do more. No free passes for anyone.

I'll be back tonight.

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In an act of supreme self absorption, I will and, for myself only, not for Talk Left, answer the following question:

Here's an open thread for you.

We got a new script implemented today that automatically closes threads at 200 comments.

Our servers cannot handle more than that, particularly when we have 10,000 page views an hour and everyone is refreshing the thread to see the latest ones.

All topics are welcome, with the exception we posted the other night. If you want to smear a candidate with anticipated right-wing attacks, you will have to do it elsewhere.

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Unlike Big Tent Democrat, I don't care about a joint ticket with Obama and Hillary. As I said this morning, if Hillary wants it, I think he should offer it to her. If she doesn't, she certainly should not feel obligated to take it just so she brings him more votes.

That said, here are three reasons I think Obama will not offer it to her regardless of what she wants. I don't agree with a single one but I'lll raise them for your reactions:

1. Both racism and sexism are very much alive in this country. He fears there are too many voters who who would never vote for a woman and another set who wouldn't vote for an African-American candidate. He wants time to conduct polling and if the polling shows his campaign would suffer by giving both groups a reason to leave the Democratic party, he won't choose Hillary. [More...]

Here's a place to continue the discussion.

Please stop commenting when the comments reach 200. Our servers cannot handle more than that.

Don't be a blogclogger, be civil and remember we are not discussing anticipated smears on any candidates or their family members.

This space is for your comments, not for reprinting articles from elsewhere, press releases etc. Don't try to use TalkLeft as an organizing ground for your pet causes or movements. It's a site for news, discussion, commentary and analysis. Don't put email addresses and phone numbers and long lists of contacts in the contacts. We don't have the bandwidth and no one is interested in scrolling through them.

I'll be cleaning the threads as I have time, don't bother responding to the violators, just point them out.

Comments now closed. As for those of you who disregarded my repeated warnings the past three days not to comment about anticipated smears on any candidates or their family members, your comments have been deleted and you are probably now banned from the site.

Tina Turner Above, Lenny Kravitz below

Hillary asked for you thoughts as to what she should do? Let's hear them, I'll send them to her campaign.

Our other threads are full (and I still haven't made it to the jail but I'm trying) so here's another one.

Blogcloggers don't bother, your comments will be erased when I return.

• South Dakota thread here

• Montana Thread here

Suddenly the pressures fallin, fallin
Skies have all turned grey
Suddenly the storm is heading straight your way

Its like a full force gale
Atop a mountain of cold
You tell your story again and again
And it never gets old
Its like a wall of mirrors
You charge em at full speed
You cover up - you hear the shattering glass
But you never bleed

Storms pass. I'm off to the jail for several hours. This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

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Courtesy of TL reader Cream City, we have a new name for the recent influx of visitors who are clogging up the threads with multiple comments in an attempt to dominate, hijack or otherwise disrupt the conversation: Blogcloggers.

Blogcloggers are not welcome here. New users are limited to 10 comments in 24 hours and they must abide by our comment rules. More below, but if you don't like the policy, as the song says, Get Over It.

R.I.P. Bo Diddley who has died at age 79. Video of Mona with Tom Petty here and with Ron Wood from the Stones here.

This is an open thread.

Yves Saint Laurent has died at 71. He is credited with, among other things, introducing the pantsuit to American women. Above is one of his jackets I loved to wear.

Since Geraldo was on tv tonight saying Hillary got "screwed" yesterday by the DNC, that she has won the popular vote and is the better candidate, I thought I'd share this photo of Geraldo and me from 1998 in which I'm wearing the pictured YSL jacket.

R.I.P. Mr. Saint Laurent. I really did love your clothes. This is a late night open thead, but see the caveat below [More...]: