It's so hard to tell with the bullets flying all over the place.

I started out the primary as unsure of whether I would support Edwards or Clinton.  While I agreed with neither on the Iraq war, I certainly understood their thinking when the vote was taken.  In my mind, their vote made neither the war mongers some tried to frame around Hillary.  On all other topics I agreed pretty much with all the dems.  Kucinich was best on health care but living in a divided state, I know there is no way in h*ll that one can force single payer on the other half....they must be cajoled and persuaded.  THIS is democracy, NOT a dictatorship.

But when the media and then the candidates started  using misogyny and/or sexism against Senator Clinton, I got angry.  Every button was pushed for me, a woman of Hillary's age who has been talked down to, insulted, overlooked by the men in charge.  

Too many young people, and sadly too many young women are simply ignorant when it comes to sexism and misogyny.  They seem to think if it does not affect them it must not exist. Older women like me were both hurt and shocked by their attitude.

Anyway, it is all moot now.  The damage is done. If Hillary manages to come back at the convention because of Obama's mistakes, the Obama supporters will go off the wall angry. Hillary's supporters have not yet gotten past our anger and resentment.
I thought I would get over it.  But I haven't and honestly, the MSM and some of  the blogging community continue to feed the fires of my resentment.  

Bill Clinton said, a McCain-Hillary matchup will be about the country and the issues.  I think he implied that a McCain-Obama matchup will be full of distractions, will be personality driven.... etc.

Ready and competent to step in as POTUS should something happen to Obama should always be the most important litmus test for VP.

Don't care one bit who he puts on the ticket with him, if he actually gets the nomination at the convention, that is.

So, is the Obama campaign strategy going to continue on as: Deny everything until the story dies down, but people have set their opinions in stone, and THEN (but only then) admit the accusations and first impressions were actually the truth.

This has been going on so long I am convinced the polls are as rigged as the primary was and the real numbers are Obama behind by double digits.

Gee, less than one month's oil bill--and, iirc, oil is primarily used in rural areas and the Northeast part of the country.

Now I know natural gas is going up, but heating oil tends to follow diesel fuel costs. Diesel has been running ahead of gasoline for quite awhile. If the industry decides to make a bit more diesel, that price may come down a tad, but then heating oil usually rises commensurately.

Cold rooms coming, gang.

(Welcome aboard the excess profits tax, Senator.)

I've been curious about his relationship with his stepfather, and Soetero seems to have been disappeared from the narrative. Altho, I gather, Obama wrote some things about him in his first book.

Just curious.

I don't think I've ever known a candidate who's background is so mysterious. I have never found a date for his mother's second marriage--sometime in 1965-66 is the closest I've seen. Nor a date for the divorce. Either divorce.

How is that cheap again?

Anyway it does seem, after reading the article again, that apart from all writing including "pocket trash", DNA samples can be retained from a hairbrush, let's say, without any warrant or even suspicion of wrongdoing.

Ben Masel recently commented that his bag was lost on a flight, and when it was returned the only thing missing was his hairbrush and that was a domestic flight.

Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.

nothing new, we heard all about this before.

but this is news to me:

The policies cover "any device capable of storing information in digital or analog form," including hard drives, flash drives, cellphones, iPods, pagers, beepers, and video and audio tapes. They also cover "all papers and other written documentation," including books, pamphlets and "written materials commonly referred to as 'pocket trash' or 'pocket litter.' "

Reasonable measures must be taken to protect business information and attorney-client privileged material, the policies say, but there is no specific mention of the handling of personal data such as medical and financial records.

When a review is completed and no probable cause exists to keep the information, any copies of the data must be destroyed. Copies sent to non-federal entities must be returned to DHS. But the documents specify that there is no limitation on authorities keeping written notes or reports about the materials.

WaPo

I am torn, but I think this is probably for the best.

Picking Wes Clark = almost as good.

Any other qualified, progressive man = lukewarm support.

Kathleen Sibelius = insulted, very sulky on election day, considering options, but probably will vote for Obama.

If Hillary was willing, it would be the stupidest thing on earth for him to reject her.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the Democrats adjourned the House and turned off the lights and killed the microphones, but Republicans are still on the floor talking gas prices.

Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other GOP leaders opposed the motion to adjourn the House, arguing that Pelosi's refusal to schedule a vote allowing offshore drilling is hurting the American economy. They have refused to leave the floor after the adjournment motion passed at 11:23 a.m. and are busy bashing Pelosi and her fellow Democrats for leaving town for the August recess.