Obama said, rightly, that our party (nor any party) has no monopoly on wisdom.

So the logical conclusion drawn by BTD was.... Obama doesn't believe we need a Democratic congress?

This is just entirely inflammatory. And, frankly, if something like that was posted in a comment, that comment would probably be removed.

And.. ya know.. I'm really disheartened by the way so many Clinton supporters frame the opposition we have with the GOP.

So many of you believe that the only choice we have is to destroy them and steamroll over them and take what we want.

But tell me: How well has that worked for us in the past, oh, 30 years? What major problems have we solved? What great advances have we made?

Obama has made it clear in his record that he has no problem taking the fight to the GOP. He's shown he has a prowess at gaining an advantage in negotiations, but still leaving something on the table for the opposition.

Look at the VERY contentious disputes Obama has already had in the Senate with John McCain.

I'm reminded of a line in the West Wing that went something like this: I want to win; You want to beat them; which is a problem for me because I WANT TO WIN.

And that's what I see here. It doesn't matter to you that Obama is a strong advocate of our progressive agenda. It doesn't matter that Obama has empowered our parties Net Roots and Grass Roots as perhaps no other modern candidacy has. It doesn't matter at all, because it seems that you care about our agenda so long as the number one point in our agenda is to first DESTROY the GOP.

Obama wants to win; Hillary wants to beat the GOP.

What's ironic about all of this is that Bill Clinton was ANYTHING but a man who sought to destroy the GOP. He didn't advance a progressive agenda, he won by co-opting the Conservative Agenda and passing it in the best possible way causing as little damage as possible to the people of our nation and to our progressive causes.

Welfare reform, NAFTA, "Era of Big Gov't is Over," School Uniforms, V-Chips, etc.

All I'm saying is that Clinton supporters jump up and down on Obama anytime he suggests that the GOP is not, in fact, the scourge of the Earth.

This time, copying Bush's winnng campaign strategy, Obama promises to work with Republicans. This time, I fear, the promise is not a joke--except yet another one that will be perpetrated on "Democrats."

Obama will work with Republicans. Frankly, I can see him accidentally giving Roe away just to get some Repub. street cred.

He is a Lieberman uniter come to exalt himself at the expense of the democratic party.

For starters:

One represents getting out of Iraq, the other represents staying in for 100 years.

One represents the same tired old economic solution for everything: "cut taxes, no matter what the problem is cutting taxes will solve it."  The other does not.

One represents a health care plan (even if it not universal, it's 100 light years ahead of where we are now), one doesn't want government involvement at all and that the private sector should figure it out.

It is ironic to the extreme that people who criticize Obama followers for thinking he's the messiah, and now they are acting like the Democratic party is the messiah.

Nobody's perfect.  Not Obama, not Clinton, not me, not the Dem party.  A little acknowledgment of that can go a long way.

On what planet will Republican roll over and play dead and play with Obama - just because he thinks that will happen

That is it in a nutshell -- it will not happen - which is why we need more Democrats in Congress - enough to cut through any filibusters.

Obama's happy talk is not going to get Universal Healthcare passed