NOW has really wedged itself out of relevance. Taking a discredited story and trying to manipulate it on behalf of Clinton...it loses credibility.

Then again, this was their NY NOW response to Kennedy's endorsement:

Women have just experienced the ultimate betrayal. Senator Kennedy’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton’s opponent in the Democratic presidential primary campaign has really hit women hard. Women have forgiven Kennedy, stuck up for him, stood by him, hushed the fact that he was late in his support of Title IX, the ERA, and the Family and Medical Leave Act to name a few. Women have buried their anger that his support for the compromises in No Child Left Behind and the Medicare bogus drug benefit brought us the passage of these flawed bills. We have thanked him for his ardent support of many civil rights bills, BUT women are always waiting in the wings.

And now the greatest betrayal! We are repaid with his abandonment! He’s picked the new guy over us. He’s joined the list of progressive white men who can’t or won’t handle the prospect of a woman president who is Hillary Clinton (they will of course say they support a woman president, just not “this” one). “They” are Howard Dean and Jim Dean (Yup! That’s Howard’s brother) who run DFA (that’s the group and list from the Dean campaign that we women helped start and grow). "They" are Alternet, Progressive Democrats of America, democrats.com, Kucinich lovers and all the other groups that take women's money, say they’ll do feminist and women’s rights issues one of these days, and conveniently forget to mention women and children when they talk about poverty or human needs or America’s future.

This latest move by Kennedy, is so telling about the status of and respect for women’s rights, women’s voices, women’s equality, women’s authority and our ability – indeed, our obligation- to promote and earn and deserve and elect, unabashedly, a President that is the first woman after centuries of men who “know what’s best for us.

http://www.nownys.com/pr_2008/pr_012808.html

Three rules to live by that, alas, far too many people in this country simply cannot get through their heads.

1. Everything in any email that includes the words "forward this to everybody you know," or any variation thereof, is complete bullshit.

2. The closer the mail drop to election day, the more Hillary does not want you to check out what she says in the mailer.

3. Any inflammatory statement in a robocall from an "independent" group made within 24 hours of an election is a lie.

Btw, folks, I may have cracked the code on at least one problem with the commenting system.

Even if TPMEC says it knows who you are, your comments will go to the comment roach motel unless you have first logged in at TPM.

Or, on the other hand, I may just be confusing a coincidence with causation because I think I've seen it happen more than once.

The only thing more pathetic about CT NOW's shilling for Clinton in pushing this fraudulent smear against Obama, is the timing, in that they waited until the day of the election when it will have next to zero impact on the voting in their state.

Which begs the question does CT NOW's incompetency negate their mendacity?

Man what's with all the NOW hater-aid?

Seems to me like TPM voices are out of touch with real world people.

If anything Obama has been trying to bogart away some of the NOW vote, effectively undermining the organization- That's evil.

When you don't get the endorsement you should respect the organization.

So the defense here is that he just did what the lobbyists asked of him, err I mean choice advocates.

why should anyone be surprised? this is what the Clintons do..

Hillary senses doom.

She "cried" yesterday like she did in NH, but people aint buying it this time. Seeing that even the media isnt giving it much play, they now turn to what they know and do best, SMEAR...

The only way HRC comes out tomorrow looking like the front runner is if she smashes BO in Cal, NJ, and CT, but the polls, for what they are worth, are showing this race to be close...If its close, its a still a loss for her...

I dont think i have ever seen a 20 point lead evaporate so quickly...

Their goal coming out of this is to win as many states as possible, and spin that as momentum going forward, with a call to unit behind a single candidate against McCain. Which is why losing California would be disastrous for Clinton.

Basically, their argument becomes, how can we nominate someone who can't actually win states, while conveniently ignoring the fact that Clinton lost build in leads of 15 to 25 points all across the board. It'll be a tough argument for them to make successfully, especially since the rest of the month seems to be friendly to Obama, while he's clearly in a better position than Clinton fundraising wise to survive the long haul.

If Obama can win 7 or 8 states today, expect that argument to go absolutely nowhere.

what a bunch of shameless liars. between that frothing, rabid attack on Ted Kennedy, based on the most childish, specious arguments I've heard in a long time, and this repeated now, false, lying attack on Obama, I have lost all respect for NOW as an organization. what a shame, this group has done great work for years and years, and they're willing to throw that credibility away for this particular candidate just because she's a woman. it's their right, I guess, but it's pathetic to watch. and the saddest thing is that attacks like this will frighten low-info female voters especially into voting for Clitnon on false grounds. and we inch closer and closer to President John McCain. how does Hillary expect to win people like me back after her lying, race-baiting, and just generally running a terrible campaign? it's quite clear she doesn't care. me me me, now now now, that's her campaign slogan.

I don't think you can call yourself a progressive Democrat and be in the Hillary camp, but that's an entirely different debate. You bring up two points, one --that we'd rather McCain if we support Obama. Look at the polls. If Democrats want to beat McCain, we MUST elect Obama. He trumps Hillary in the polls, but Obama beats McCain. She's too divisive. You bring up that we're not addressing the candidate's record, by showing the Chicago NOW director supports Obama. In the video she switches from Clinton to Obama, because Clinton distorted Obama's record. So while, yes--she slams Clinton, she is using Obama's record to do so.