Talking about New Hampshire, no? Firstly, not a tear was shed. Secondly, she wasn't under fire, but responding to an empathetic question. Thirdly, my girlfriend has a bit of a cry every now and then, and she's tough.

I wish Obama had said, "You know who really displays contempt for the American people? The mainstream media--who seem to think the American people want to pick their president based on his willingness to wear a flag pin and similar inanities; and so you, in the media, endlessly obsess about these topics "on behalf" of the American people you so clearly despise.

But the Clinton campaign would respond by insisting that America is a bunch of gossiping idiots which is why it's so very important to vet candidates in this way.

Clinton understands that the only thing left for her campaign to do is to mouth GOP talking points and hope that they destroy Obama. Her supporters seem completely on board this strategy.

The saddest thing from the point of view of the Democratic Party is that this has absolutely zero chance of getting Clinton the nomination...but it just might get McCain the presidency.

The saddest thing from the point of view of our nation is that we have to rely on this sorry excuse for an opposition party to repair the damage of the last seven years.

You did if you were paying attention, Obama said:
"I believe that the Constitution confers an individual right to bear arms. But just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right,"
Does that apply only to the 2nd? What about freedom of the press? Free association? Speech? Religion? Voter rights? Religion? Redress grievances?...

Well, I seem to remember some stuff about ABC polling to find out what was on the minds of Pennsylvania voters. So maybe -- just maybe -- they were asking questions based on those polls. But what the hell, we all know those small town Pennsylvanians are morons.

So, let me get this straight. ABC -- and apparently Billy Glad -- think that:

-- the minds of Pennsylvania voters, particularly small-town Pennsylvania voters, are focused far more on a perceived slight (which, if read in context, was a hell of a lot more sympathetic than the Hillbots, the Republicans, and the corporate media -- all of whom are on the same side -- make it out to be),

-- rather than:

o The banking crisis brought about through 30 years of Republican and Clintonian rule
o The collapse of housing values
o Afghanistan
o Health care
o Torture
o The free-fall of the US Dollar
o Education
o Trade
o Pakistan
o Energy
o Immigration
o The decline of American manufacturing and the shipping of our manufacturing capacity (and jobs) overseas, to be sold to the lowest bidder
o The Supreme Court
o The exploding world food crisis
o Global warming
o China
o The attacks on organized labor and the working class
o Terrorism and al Qaeda
o Civil liberties and constraints on government surveillance
o The expansion of the imperial presidency and the President's assertions that he is above the law.

(h/t Daily Kos and afferent input)

I guess for ABC and for Billy Glad, such concerns are off the radar of those simple small-town Pennsylvania folk. ABC, and Billy glad, think that they would much rather talk about a perceived slight from one of the candidates. ABC and Billy Glad think those simple folk don't care about all those wonky policy issues (are they too stupid, perhaps? Or lacking in education?), the ones that will define our lives for the next hundred years or so. No, according to ABC and Billy Glad, it's a comment at a fundraiser, and 30 seconds of words from a pastor, that really matter to the voters of Pennsylvania.

But Billy Glad, of course, is no elitist. No sirree. And neither is Charlie Gibson, or ABC.

Riiiiiiight.

And... hmmm... I remember the days when our friend Billy Glad preached to the world that he had "got beyond cann and response when I was a teen", and how he therefore found the Obama campaign "incredibly entertaining."

Not that that was elitist, or anything like that, mind you.

Or when Billy derided Obama's emphasis on faith and religion in his campaign as "building a campaign on the ignorance of the electorate."

Funny, Billy didn't seem to like it when Obama said:

But over the long haul, I think we make a mistake when we fail to acknowledge the power of faith in people's lives -- in the lives of the American people -- and I think it's time that we join a serious debate about how to reconcile faith with our modern, pluralistic democracy.

And if we're going to do that then we first need to understand that Americans are a religious people. 90 percent of us believe in God, 70 percent affiliate themselves with an organized religion, 38 percent call themselves committed Christians, and substantially more people in America believe in angels than they do in evolution.

This religious tendency is not simply the result of successful marketing by skilled preachers or the draw of popular mega-churches. In fact, it speaks to a hunger that's deeper than that - a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause.

Each day, it seems, thousands of Americans are going about their daily rounds - dropping off the kids at school, driving to the office, flying to a business meeting, shopping at the mall, trying to stay on their diets - and they're coming to the realization that something is missing. They are deciding that their work, their possessions, their diversions, their sheer busyness, is not enough.

They want a sense of purpose, a narrative arc to their lives. They're looking to relieve a chronic loneliness, a feeling supported by a recent study that shows Americans have fewer close friends and confidants than ever before. And so they need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them - that they are not just destined to travel down that long highway towards nothingness.

Billy quoted that speech, in the same thread I linked to above, and then dismissed it all with "I guess we can't say he didn't warn us. In a world where more people believe in angels than in evolution, what can we expect?"

My, my, Billy. How times do change, eh?

Not that Billy is elitist about religion, or anything like that.

It's pretty clear that for Billy Glad, Obama is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.