Uh oh! Closing tag failure! Maybe this will help:

this is why i don't think it was smart to wait to hit back against the Clinton crap.

So will it hurt Clinton - because Spitzer is a high profile supporter? And/or, by reminding folks of Bill's shenanigans?

Or will it help her - by making people even more suspicious of supposedly progressive men who can't keep their pants zipped up?

Or does it all just vanish into the ether if he guts it out. Like David Vitter.

A major Hillary supporter turns out to so mindbogglingly hypocritical that it borders on pathology? Wow. Whodathunkit.

Help me out here... is he a Democrat or Republican?

Had he endorsed anyone in the Presidential race?

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This is fine news for Obama:

1) Definitely ends the week of bad news for him.

2) The VP thing will still get covered. Then Obama will win Mississippi and that'll be the news Wednesday.

I am one of those who panicked over last week, and I feel fine about things now.

This can't be good news of Clinton (optically). And while it may push Obama off the lede, I suspect he'll be making this argument quite a bit over the next few days. And frankly, anything that reminds the folks of the degrees of scandal that seems to plague the Clintons and their supporters, can't hurt either.

we are war-rooming this in real time. unbelievable day.

Greg, thank you for your note of empathy. I guess it's just time to sit back and ride the roller-coaster.

Josh seemed to agree a few minutes ago over on TPM with my guess that Spitzer will resign. So, not only will he not be a super-delegate, he will probably fuck up the NY state Senate elections which were on the brink of taking back the state Senate for the Dems.

The polls are going back to the pre-March 4 status quo already. Then comes Tuesday's big win. Obama's remarks will still get covered locally in MS, and it's certainly something Obama can repeat once Spitzer-gate dies down.

I assume that NY has a Dem LG - is he/she a strong politician that can right the Democratic ship there?

What an idiot. It doesn't bother me about the prostitution thing. What bothers me is that he is so stupid that he would (1) do it and (2) get caught. For pete's sake, he was a gd federal prosecutor. What a buffoon.

Maybe the plan is that the clintons gracefully bail out and she takes over as governor of NY. I'm sure mr. bill has alot of numbers so that he won't get caught.

What a gd idiot!!!!!!

AND...Hillary loses another superdelegate when Spitzer resigns. The Lt. Gov (Paterson) had already endorsed as a DNC superdelegate. So his ascendancy doesn't impact the numbers.

Another thing on the plus side is that this is a net swing of 3 supers for Obama, he gained 2 (1 from MS and 1 from NC) and now Hillary lost 1 - unless Spitzer keeps his delegate status.

It's okay for Obama, he can keep hitting her over the VP crap, and at the same time she probably loses a superdelegate and is in the position of "denouncing and rejecting" one of her supporters. I'm loving it.

Will Hillary reject, denounce, or take the 3AM call?

The Feds intercepted instant messages of a prominent politician in this age of spying on citizens does reek to high heaven. There is absolutely zero e-privacy in this country under the Bushies.

A man like Spitzer must have scads of powerful and vindictive enemies. So far we have a rumor of an admission of being involved. What does that mean? Is he a client or did he decline to prosecute someone? I'd really like to hear something definitive before we write Spitzer's obituary.

Bad news for Obama? That's a joke, right?

This is bad news for Hillary. Governor of her state, supporter of hers, one of her superdelegates going down in a dirty sex scandal. In the past seven days, Hillary's headlines will have included the word "monster," a sex scandal, and essential contradictions in her own campaign messaging (Obama not ready on day one but good choice for VP). This is like a trip down memory lane with the Clintons in the 90s!

I think Obama's bad run has just officially ended.

Can you still vote as a superdelegate if you've been indicted? Does this mean that Hillary loses a vote?

He doesn't resign?

I think a coverage stop helps Obama more then Clinton. Hillary had been playing the Media like a Fiddle, and now her instrument is on hiatus. Meanwhile Obama can connected with local people and local media. Hillary has nowhere to broadcast her negative attacks.

Hopefully Obama can still get the message out about not wanting to be Hillary's VP.

I thinks the choice here is to either reject or denounce Spitzer. To do both will usually cost you extra.

I wonder if we'll hear about some OTHER names of polititians living in New York, mainly HC or BC?

One good sign (in respect to internet news mavens like myself, that is) is that the Obama story is still listed as "Top Story" on the Google News page, right behind the stories on Spitzer and the deaths in Baghdad.

One more thing, newscycles are quick.

Spitzer will be forgotten in a few days. Just like Vicki Iseman.

Remember her? Say, where did she go anyway?

Maybe he can use this as a "corrupt NY establishment" thing.

NY pols are all lemming lapdogs for the Clintons.

Paint them all as corrupt.

Tie them to Hillary.

Hmm...illicit sex outside one's marriage. Something the Clintons know a thing or twenty about. If Obama had Hillary's classlessness, he'd be holding a conference call right now using this as a reminder of all of Bill's philandering ways in the 1990s and trying to nail Hillary with the behavior of one of her supporters.

See, America? Do you really want four more years of this kind of drama? Sex scandals? Semen stained dresses? Independent investigators? Impeachment? Vote Hillary and that's exactly what you'll get.

Ugh. Horrible.

I feel cheated.

In fact I feel the same way I felt when Bill admitted that he had lied about Monica.

Deja vu.

Will Hillary reject Spitzer, denounce him, or both?

More importantly, will she give back the money he's raised on her behalf?

On a conference call to reporters, Mark Penn says that this is bad news for Obama because he has yet to denounce and repudiate Elliot Spitzer and that this delay raises suspicions about his committment to a new kind of politics.

DENOUNCE AND REJECT ELIOT SPITZER

And while she's at it who's to say that Bill didn't accompany Eliot on his visits to the Bada Bing

I'd demand that the Clintons produce their tax returns; ALL documents demonstrating ANY foreign policy experience during the WH years, and medical records demonstrating that Bill was successfully castrated

Don't Let the Clintons Bamboozle You

From the desk of:

Mark Poison Penn

Re: Spitzer Sex Scandal:

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton wants the voters to know that she has the most experience to deal with such a unexpected emergency. Senator Clinton has past the threshold of being qualified to deal with Bimbo Eruptions, from day one. Experience counts. At 3.00am who do you want answering those phone calls from the Red Light Zone.

Hillary Clinton has 35 years of experience dealing with Bimbo Eruptions, and Senator Obama has never even made a speech about them.

Who do you want taking that 3.00AM Red Light call!

Hey Hillary, what about your supporter, fundraiser and member of your financial committee who recently said Obama was only winning because he was a black man? She must resign, and you must denounce and reject!!

http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/post/28491876

Geraldine Ferraro Must Resign Immediately!!