He was serious.  Anyone else would know she wants it now and if they pay attention and are willing to accept it (he's not) there's a possibility she can get it.

  But he'd rather believe she is 'harming' Obama (as if he doesn't do it on his own and will have been innoculated by what Hannity brought up early) in order to be able to run in 2012 after Obama loses this year.

He literally started using Edward R. Murrow's sign-off and seemed to get himself so worked up with his "special comments" that he seemed to be almost convulsing.

Then, finally, the Clinton-Obama campaign came along and he finally plunged off the deep end. Obsessivley ranting against Clinton each and every broadcast. Taking partial truths and trangressions and turning them into beyond-a- reasonable-doubt Class A felonies.

Clyburn is the next subject.  Then the polygamists, then um, sharks.  

Uh, Rachel, hello?  When do you do anything but whine and shill on behalf of Obama every single time you appear on tv?  I think you write his talking points every morning.  You, of ALL people, are in no place to complain about anyone else's biases (not that I give a rat's ass about defending Rove).

And Chuck Todd.  I can't wait for November to come just so I won't have to hear the other insufferable Obama shill, Todd.  He used to say, before Penn., Obama leads by every metric; pledged delegates, popular vote, number of states won, blah, blah , blah.  But now, oh now, he says the popular vote is something we shouldn't even be considering.  It is just about pledge votes now(even though Obama is not close to reaching the pledged delegate vote minimum threshold yet, but nevermind).  Oh, and supers can't exercise their independent judgement - even though that is what they are there for precisely - but nevermind.

Maddow's presentation is very familiar--familiar because it typifies the work of the mainstream press corps over these past many years. Maddow seems to know all the key moves: Mock a Big Dem. Then, Misstate your facts. In the process, Refute an argument nobody made. Garbage like this is pushed at young liberals night after night on this horrible show. Olbermann feeds on their gullibility like a thing which crawled out of a swamp.

KO, you sir, have turned into that which you have said you hate the most. It's time to stop. Stop this insult to journalism. Stop this hate mongering. Stop this race bating. Stop your own version of the red scare. You sir, have no integrity left. Do us all a favor, and resign now. If you have any shred of decency left. I'll await your response.

Those who watch this programme are likely not the ones who Obama and the Rev Wright need to reach in any regard but there is not any fodder for the news cycle apart perhaps from the already out there comment that Obama is "a politician."

There was one interesting photo of Obama as a community organizer standing in front of a poster that read "It'a Power Thing." That struck me.

I am Honored to Say I am With Hillary for the Long Run
by Dr. Maya Angelou
4/24/2008 2:39:10 PM

Dear Friend:

I am writing to tell you about my friend, Hillary Clinton, and why I am standing with her in her campaign for the presidency.  I know the kind of president Hillary Clinton will be because I know the person she is.

I am inspired by her courage and her honesty.  She is a reliable and trustworthy person.  She is someone I not only admire but one for whom I have profound affection.

Hillary does not waver in standing up for those who need a champion.  She has always been a passionate protector of families.  As a child, she was taught that all God's children are equal, and as a mother, she understood that her child wasn't safe unless all children were safe.  As I wrote about Hillary recently in a praise song: "She is the prayer of every woman, and every man who longs for fair play, healthy families, good schools and a balanced economy."

It may be easy to view Hillary Clinton through the narrow lens of those who would write her off or grind her down.  Hillary sees us as we are, black and brown and white and yellow and pink and relishes our differences knowing that fundamentally we are all more alike than we are unalike.  She is able to look through complexion and see community.

She has endured great scrutiny, and still she dares greatly.  Hillary Clinton will not give up on you, and all she asks is that you do not give up on her.  She is a long-distance runner.  I am honored to say I am with her for the long run.

I am supporting Hillary Clinton because I know that she will make the most positive difference in people's lives and she will help our country become what it can be.  Whether you are her supporter, leaning towards her, undecided, or supporting someone else, I believe Hillary Clinton will represent you - she will be a president for all Americans.  It is no small thing that along the way we will make history together.

Vote for Hillary Clinton and show your support at www.hillaryclinton.com. I know she will make us proud.

Your guy is in the lead but you're exhibiting bitterness over the thought of a possible loss caused by 'monsters' ... and will cling to that.  It's understood.

Labels such as "real Democrat" also don't make sense.  Hillary now commandingly leads with "real" registered Democrats, 75% to his 63%.  Obviously, she is the favorite of the "real" Democratic party.  Now, you may wish to change the "real" Democratic party to be more along the lines of the new wave of Obama supporters on the internet blogs or in organizations such as Moveon.org....but that is one group within the "real" Democratic party.

We're all tired at this stage.  However, we have two highly viable candidates.  In a Democracy, we don't tell one person to quit when it's so obviously this close.

As for negative attacks, those have been coming steadily from Obama since Texas.  He's attacked her character constantly.  She has not done the same.  He has used fear tactics to scare people about her health plan.  He has sent his surrogates out to bully her out of the race.  He has implied that she lies about her experience without valid proof.  She did none of that to him.

She didn't bring up Ayers.  The moderators did.  She merely clarified that he was minimizing his relationship with Ayers.  If he caught flack, it's because he joined up with Ayers years ago.  He got by with minimizing Rezko in one debate.  Remember?  4 or 5 hours legal work?  Then it hit the news that they were tight for 17 years.  She merely didn't let him do the same again.

The notion that Hillary is not suppose to campaign so that Obama can just win is ridiculous, given 75%, repeat, 75% of the registered Democrats have already voted for her.

Man talk about a whitewash.  Bill Moyers is one of the greats in his field.  But it seems like the interview is more like an infomercial.

I don't remember the ambassador's name, but he was on a tear against the Bush administration - just ripping them up one side and down the other.  I especially enjoyed his comment to the media not to be gullible, not to just write down what the government told them, not to make the same mistake the NYT and the WaPo made in the run-up to the Iraq war...seriously, he said that.

I haven't done enough reading about the incident, other than that the Congress is once again furious with Bush for not telling them about this until now.  The Syrian ambassador says that he is hearing from people inside the State Department and the CIA that they are very uncomfortable with the administration's claims on this.

I drove home with my jaw gaping, listening to this guy talk about administration's fondness for manufacturing evidence and the lip service it pays to efforts to broker peace in the Middle East.  He promised that the whole story would fall apart in the coming days, so I guess we will have to stay tuned.

There was some HRC hate in the comments, but most of them are thoughtful and very on point with what Obama should do to jazz his campaign up for this last big push. I'm actually relieved and hope this spreads. I don't support him right now, but if he's our nominee, he needs more constructive criticism like this and much less rah-rah cheerleading.

 He lost many counties by 75-25, 65-35.

The only thing keeping him from drowning completely was the heavy black vote in Philadelphia.  He got Harrisburg, one Philly suburban county, and a couple of counties with big college populations.  But it was Philly, mainly.

How many states that are swing states, have a Philly?  

How about Fox News?  How about Reverend Wright?  How about Obama for attending such a church? Oh, he shouldn't be blamed for any of his behavior.

The right wing brought out Wright.  It wasn't Hillary.  And you don't think that the right wing wouldn't have brought him out for November?  You'd be fooling yourself.

I know exactly how you feel though, because although there are quite a few folks like you on the Obama side, there are about 20-30% more like you on the Hillary side.  You have to ask yourself why would that be?  Could it be because any unfairness that has been thrown Obama's way, has been at least doubly thrown Hillary's way?

Clinton comment: Threat or prank?

The fact is, there are influencable crazies watching Olbermann's show (just as there are watching his counterpart O'Reilly/Rush Limbaugh's show).  Any of them would take his, uh, hyperboly, to heart.  

The story goes that Alice Palmer was a mentor of sorts to Barack, and when she was called to run in a currently Republican district as a 'good democrat' she gave it her best shot, and suggested Obama be the placeholder of her current seat.  Unfortunately she lost.  When she came back to claim her original seat that Barack was holding, he literally sued to keep her name off the ballot so ho wouldn't have to run against her and surely lose.

This story that is quite old, and was one of the first things that early on made me very wary of Obama - I mean if your about a different kind of politics - this isn't it.  It started my belief that he is a charlatan.

I believe that Hillary having Alice Palmer working with her campaign has the potential to bring this narrative back up in regards to Barack Obama (another skeleton out of the closet), and how he really supports those who have supported him, and his bar-knuckles approach to politics... he really is no different from anyone else.

I'm not sure the article I'm attaching - which links you to the original ChiTrib story - follows the details as they had been told to me...

But for those of you who didn't know the story at all... here you go: