"No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party that ignores her self." - Susan B. Anthony, 1872

Fox: Rasmussen is no longer polling Clinton.  FL/MI disenfranchised-no way around it, Dean finagled it so Clinton was not the nominee (my argument that the Repubs will go after Clinton supporters by pointing out how she was treated by Obama, the party and the media), congrats to the Dems for picking such a flawed candidate.  Won't miss BC because they now have Michelle Obama.

OK, that's all I can do tonight.

Moyers' Journal covered Philippe Sands and his new book on BushCo torture, plus the hearings this week.

Now, nurses' ad campaign about need for better healthcare insurance in this nation.

Do try to catch on the web or rebroadcasts in your area.

"Personally I don't think the Clintons owe this country or the Democratic party jack after what I've seen. Barack Obama is a Tony Blair or Reagan like cipher-

Personally the day his nomination gets rammed through is the day I remove the D from my voter registration. There is no way in hell I'll be a part of this when Hillary Clinton handed this student his ass on policy in 20 debates.

Never seen anything like it, hope to never see it again.

Who is this guy? He's black, he's white. He's young, he's old. He's experienced, he's fresh. He's a kid who had to eat a free lunch, he's a millionare. He's rightwing, he's leftwing. He's above all that. He's down in the dirt. He's religious. But he's a scientist. He's an international man of mystery, or was, when he was 8. He's a community organizer who drives a V8. He is everything. He is nothing. He is the Alpha. He is the Omega. He is the Messiah. He hangs around with ex-terrorists, colorful characters & Kennedys all in the same week. He's in the know. He's the man. He's uptown, he's downtown. Shelby Steele's got this one exactly right, I'm afraid. He admires Reagan & GHWB fp, but is endorsed by McGovern. His bff is Oprah and he sweeps academics off their feet.

I swear to god, barring Karl Rove strapping an accent & cowboy boots onto George W. Bush, I have never encountered another public figure more contrived than this. Particularly that last refusal to debate.

A dangerous game at a critical time. This temptation to forcibly birth a myth at the cost of pragmatism is sincerely frightening. The worst of it is the continued mass hallucination of the media, where a 50/50 split is reported as 99/1.

Many of the pundits to include Hilary say they will be united for the GE if Obama is the nominee regardless of what Obama does or chooses as VP.  I honestly feel that this year is very different than any past nomination.  The divisions are so great and so entrenched that that division will continue very strongly in the GE and the party will not unite.  

I think Obama got the majority of the AA for only one reason and that is  because he is AA and not because of any hope or change that Obama preached in his campaign.   Not that J Jackson or Sharpton did not get a good deal of the  AA but compared to  Obama he got it almost 100 percent. The main reason for this was that the AA saw that Obama was the strongest AA candidate ever since AA starting running for the presidency. The desire on the AA votes  to not let this one go down the drain is extremely high and the word was out to vote for this AA if you ever one to see an AA as president.

Please take the time to watch it.  Even if you don't support Hillary, you can say she has done a wonderful job raising a wonderful daughter.

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/feature/mothersday/?sc=1846&utm_source=1846&utm_medium=e

That's just crazy talk...

These folks have been active in trying to get legislation through that will help the vets...that includes Webb's GI Bill.

Davis said he told a producer several times before getting on-air that he wanted to offer a counterpoint to CNN's panel, which he thinks is too pro-Obama.

Regarding the panel's make-up, Davis said that he believes Gloria Borger, David Gergen, Donna Brazile and Carl Bernstein are all tougher on Clinton than on her rival. And he maintains that Roland Martin is definitely a "partisan for Obama." (Martin has not official endorsed Obama and is not labeled as such on the network,)

"I have seen the stacked deck on the so-called panels, which always struck me as imbalanced against Hillary on Election Night," Davis said, adding that a producer assured him there would be "equal time."

Also, Brazile, who had already sparred earlier with Begala, said to Davis: "Now, if you want to keep fighting, let's fight. But let's you and I go in the green room and fight, and not keep this fight up."

"I'm not fighting with you, Donna," he responded.

Here's the new definition of "racism", with examples:

Racial attitudes have changed dramatically in the United States over the past several decades, of course, and overtly racist beliefs are much less prevalent among white Americans of all classes today. But a more subtle form of prejudice, which social scientists sometimes call symbolic racism, is still out there -- especially among working-class whites.

Symbolic racism means believing that African American poverty and other problems are largely the result of lack of ambition and effort, rather than white racism and discrimination. Who holds symbolically racist beliefs? A relatively large portion of white voters in general and white working-class voters in particular, according to the 2004 American National Election Study, the best data available on this topic. A few answers underscore how widespread these attitudes are:

· Almost 60 percent of white voters agreed with the statement that "blacks should try harder to succeed." A startling 43 percent of white college graduates nodded at this one, along with 71 percent of whites with no college education.

· Fully 49 percent of white voters disagreed with the statement that "history makes it more difficult for blacks to succeed." Forty percent of white college graduates disagreed with it, along with 58 percent of whites with no college education.

Look at the examples of the new "racism": believing that "blacks should try harder to succeed", and disagreeing that "history makes it more difficult for blacks to succeed."

Now I happen to agree that "history makes it more difficult for blacks to succeed", but it would be repulsive for me to declare that anyone who disagrees is, necessarily, a racist of any kind. Some people simply genuinely believe that in present day America, an individual of any race is not really going to be held back if they perform in their jobs. (Again, I think that's a bit naive -- but hardly racist.) And should blacks try harder to succeed? I guess I had thought that that's what even Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan believed and advocated. Is it really implausible that the culture of poverty, in which many blacks find themselves, is not one that discourages the belief that effort pays off, and can engender a state of learned helplessness?