I feel about Terry McAuliffe the same way that I used to feel about Deion Saunders. When he was playing for the Cowboys, he was a colossal jerk.

When he played for the Niners? He was an outstanding addition to the team.

whatever you want to say about terry mcauliffe, nobody can deny that the guy is hilarious, doesn't take himself too seriously, and is always laughing, even when he lies through his teeth.

Better to have him inside the big tent, pissing out,rather than outside the tent, pissing in.

So what happened to all the people who were shouting and moaning a month or two ago about Hillary's monstrous, selfish, irredeemably divisive campaign?

Anyone going to take their lumps and admit that they got a little hysterical in May?

I'd say that Hillary, and many of her main supporters, have shown a lot of class over the last month or two. I didn't like the campaign they ran -- but they deserve a bit of credit at this point. I'm glad that Greg is (implicitly) giving them some. I'd also like to assign a bit of homework to the people who were jumping up and down, posting three blogs a day about the Monstrous Woman Who Never Sleeps, and her World-Destroying Plan.

Go read Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Then re-read it in October. And read it again next February, when Obama actually starts to govern. It'll save us all a lot of time.

...And can I just take a moment to recognize the passing of Jessie Helms? He was a hell of a man and lets hope he makes it their!

Terry McAuliffe is looking out for his own self interest. He has shown irrational behavior during the primary. I don't understand why Sen Obama would want to associate with him and his style of slime politics.

Geez, y'all are grumpy. Why not have an effective advocate help out the Obama campaign? Sure, a lot of people here might thing Terry was just plain batty during the primaries, but I'd rather have him working for Obama than sitting on the sidelines.

If Terry weren't doing this, the Hillary supporters out there might be very disturbed by that.

Since I supported Edwards and nobody else, I can honestly say that I don't have those stupid and counterproductive prejudices you people seem to have against Hillary and her supporters. I do find it very churlish that you are still spouting them now. We need to all be together in November, or we will be seeing a President McCain continue with his march to destroy American democracy. Get real you people.

There's only one reason TMac and any other HRC advisors are on Team Obama . . .

It's campaign money paybacks from Obama to HRC, in one form or another . . .

And so far, their advice that Obama seems to be taking, to go centrist, is bad, real, real bad . . .

This shoulda been a cakewalk (notwithstanding what Rovian Machine will spin) with Obama and a good liberal VP.

The failed wars in both Afghan and Iraq are #1.
The economy is #2.

Private rights for citizens (FISA) and for women (Roe and SCOTUS) are #3.

That's enough to win in a landslide . . . and now, it's being squandared for triangulated appeasement to a voter base that don't much matter . . .

Obama had this country in the palm of his hands . . . and he let it drizzle thru. He deserted his base . . .

Foolish.

HRC musta had him and the DNCC by some leverage we'll never know . . . The DNC, and The Shilary Machine have denuded all that Obama had built up thru HARD WORK and COMMITMENT!

Still, if he wins, we don't REALLY know how he'll govern, or who he'll appoint for cabinet slots . . . . or SCOTUS.

We can only hope.

Terry McAuliffe did a tremendous job as a cheerleader for Hillary Clinton. He did what he was paid to do and earned his money. He may have been a true believer. As a diehard Obama supporter, I was often at odds with him, but he should not be condemned and in fact should be commended for his role in Hillary's campaign. He was loyal to her. But, in the end, he is a Democrat and he will fully embrace Obama and do whatever it takes to ensure that he is the next president of the United States. If you've never been involved in a hotly contested campaign, you can't imagine what an emotional roller coaster it is. I've been there. Sometimes on the losing side. But at some point, you have to come back to your core beliefs and support your party's winning candidate. It is far better than the alternative. Give Terry a break and welcome him aboard the Obama express.

Meanwhile, also back at Camp Hillary...
Wolfson has signed on with Fox.

Lanny didn't surprise me (cough HACK cough ) but this does a bit.
Now that I think of it, I guess it is good if Fox gets more dems on board as long as they don't become Faux News zombies. I think that Fox has read the writing on the wall - the Repub base is shrinking, people know Fox news is a Repub propaganda machine so their ratings will shrink along with the # of republicans. Rupert Murdoch will always be a biased sob but I suppose they need to appear to be more balanced.

Still yellow journalism but maybe a little lighter shade of yellow.

Why the hell are you getting yeppie in July? By the way, be on the lookout for ads in Sep/Oct, audio visuals of Hillary slamming Obama. If you don't think Hillary hasn't hurt democratic party or the party's candidate by her tactics in the primary you need to re-calibrate your intelligenc.

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What's hurt the democratic party is Obama. You guys better check out Bob Herbert's column in the Times. Decent guy mislead, like all of you (oh, except for the righties here) by this slickster. And Herbert may represent a crack in the fantastical unity of the AA constituency. That, of course, needs to happen, since it is based on a dream, certainly one worth having, but as Herbert points out, one from which reasonable people must awake.