...those boys have been getting tough...

Good Lord, now children are picking on Hillary?

Too bad Stephen Colbert is no longer running in South Carolina!!!

Good gravy! kleefeld is a joke. [not in a good way either]. But he fits right to what tpm has become:
SEN. OBAMA: ... So on Social Security, for example, she has maintained, it appears, that if we just get our fiscal house in order that we can solve the problem of Social Security. Now, we’ve got 78 million baby boomers that are going to be retiring, and every expert that looks at this problem says “There’s going to be a gap, and we’re going to have more money going out than we have coming in unless we make some adjustments now.”
...
But what I’m going to continue to insist on is that the reason we need to fix it now is precisely to protect our senior citizens and maintain not only Social Security as a social insurance program, but also make sure that the benefits are sufficient so that we don’t have seniors in need.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21738432/

Mentions of this on tpm: 0. Remember when tpm was ‘save social security from being saved’ central? All that time and effort marshall but in to the last SS scam. Well, that was then, this is obama. So it won’t be mentioned.

His comments were clear and don't mean much. He's making obvious observations.

Hillary will kick your ass.

hadenough:

You didn't see the Obama "Social Security" thread today?

I know everyone is using the phrase "gender card" but it doesn't seem like an apt description to me. The Hillary camp is obviously doing *something* with gender -- but it's decidedly NOT about using her gender as a white flag -- i.e., "don't pick on me, I'm a girl!" It's almost the opposite, really. They're highlighting her gender in a way that makes her seem strong, almost above the fray. This whole "boys are getting tough" thing seems designed to make the other candidates seem silly. I have mixed feelings about Hillary, but I have to say, I think the way they are playing this is pretty brilliant.

I am guessing that Bill is ticked at Hill cuz he hasta leave what he wants to be doing and bail her butt out . . . OR he read directly from the cue card the Clinton Campaign gave him rather than running it through the Bill Clinton charm.

Either way . . . I vote that this tid-bit gets added to the ever going 'ball fumbled' pile.

SIDENOTE: Is it bad of me that I, like Jack D., am sadden by the loss of Stephen Colbert in South Carolina.

SIDENOTE #2: Jakey-poo,

I find myself little bothered about Obama's draw-down answer. The Chimp-in-Charge still has a year to further farg-up the sitution. There are plenty varibles in the mix.

I am troubled by the lack of alarm you are showing about Obama's lack of support for human rights . . . If he gets elected he might handle human rights as well as your dream boy only with an eye towards you and your ilk . . . I would be coming unglued if I were you.

So its OK to call Senator Obama a "boy" if he's grouped with a bunch of white guys.

Bizarre.

Bill had a tendency to make things worse when he talked about his own scandals (e.g., "I didn't inhale" and "I did not have sex with that woman"). So to me it is unsurprising that he now keeps making things worse for Hillary.

Things do turn on Inevitability Campaigns! All over the 24 hour news nets.

Obama scores big weekend. Now we have a race

Who knows. The chattering class pfft!

Know one thing though.

Big Dog sure is howlin

Is it just me, but has the lyin' press found a way to get us to tell as many lies about Hillary as they did unassisted about Gore?

Bill Clinton is using the gender card and at the same time belittling her democratic rivals by calling them boys. It is disrespectful for an ex president to call Biden, Richardson, Obama, Dodd, Kucinich, Edwards and Gravel boys. These are very respectful men who have earned enough respect not to be called boys, and it also has some racist overtones in there with one of them being an african american. You know, I think Bill Clinton is playing the good ole boy crap in South Carolina which should be very offensive to african americans.

This is obviously a completely off hand comment. Obviously the college age beltway contingent on TPM isn't familiar enough with Clinton's southern dialect. I think he just said what he thinks, and seeing as Hillary's the only woman in the race it's safe to say the rest are all boys/men. What a waste of time.

Just picked up the item on Feinstein at HuffPo. I wonder how close she lives to Pelosi in The City called San Francisco.
Must be rather close, I imagine.

Good ol' Diane Lieberman Feinstein! Yes,
she done got herself 'illuminated' during her conversation with Shrub on Air Force One enroute west. Thence she votes to affirm a racist homophobe to the federal bench plus the new attorney general.

Dan White must have shoved some sort of capsule up her butt, set to dissolve in 30 years.

Dear Lord you people are over wrought.

What a stupid "issue" to get worked up over. Relax. Watch some TV. This is a non-event.

Also, this is an ex-parrot.