Worst possible choice.

It occurs to me that, assuming Hillary's current polling numbers (OMG, out-polling Obama against McCain!!!!!!!!!!!) are not manufactured, which they undoubtedly are,

that The Hillary has spent several months comfortably out of the GOP crosshairs, while Obama has been the target of the Hillary-designed kitchen sink?

The Clintons have enough baggage to sink several campaigns. But Hillary has no intention of settling for second place. She's campaigning for 2012. Hell, she and Bill and their "supporters" are almost certainly still working for a roll call nomination, and damn the Democratic party, and, for that matter, the country.

If Obama loses this one the Clintons and their DLC will be three for three - they and the corporate establishment that owns them will have undermined the 2000, 2004, and 2008 campaigns.

When this is over, I hope the Clintons, merely by being themselves, will have achieved the irrelevance they deserve.

Posted at August 22, 2008 7:32 AM in response to Hillary To Headline Second Night Of Convention

Not what I would expect.

We're talking Hillary Clinton here. Class is, um, not her best thing.

See how nice I can be when I try? Did I say, class is utterly foreign to Hillary because she is from Planet Rove? Did I? Well, then.

Posted at June 2, 2008 5:16 PM in response to Hillary's Top Fundraiser Pooh-Poohs Idea That Tuesday Party Signals The End

It may be the honorable way, but we're talking about Hillary Clinton here.

People keep attributing normal thought processes to this woman. I ask you.

Posted at June 2, 2008 5:08 PM in response to Hillary's Top Fundraiser Pooh-Poohs Idea That Tuesday Party Signals The End

And she'll spend the Summer of Hillary doing exactly what she is doing now; campaigning for 2012.

And in August, she and her supporters will still be blackmailing the Democratic party by threatening to protest Michigan at the convention.

Posted at June 2, 2008 5:02 PM in response to Hillary's Top Fundraiser Pooh-Poohs Idea That Tuesday Party Signals The End

For anyone who doubts that Hillary genuinely wants to be VP, two words:

JFK. LBJ.

Instead of bribing Hillary to pretend to not undermine Obama's presidential campaign, I sincerely hope that the Obama campaign will hire the best private protection that is available in this country.

The Bush Administration's Secret Service is, and I am completely serious, the last organization that should be entrusted with Obama's safety.

Posted at May 10, 2008 12:14 PM in response to McAuliffe: Joint Ticket Would Be "A Great Idea"

How John Edwards can mention "substance" with a straight face is simply baffling. The "substance" of the Clinton campaign has been a disgraceful, dishonest, and destructive parade of every play in the Rove dirtbook.

Substance? Obama has tried gamely to bring sanity, truth-telling, and civility to a campaign that has degenerated into a savage media spectacle starring a team of conscienceless pit bulls, backed by the entire corporate establishment of this country, encircling and trying at all costs to destroy a candidacy that represents a once-in-a-lifetime challenge to corporate control of our government.

It is disingenuous at best to equate the two candidates and ignore, for one thing, the difference in their campaigns and what it says about how they would govern. At worst it is political posturing and/or positioning. What it says about you is something we are now left to wonder about.

I respect the causes espoused by John and Elizabeth Edwards. But above it all is not where the work is done. We could have used your help, John, and yours, Elizabeth, in the struggle with the Clintons and their corporate owners for the Democratic party and the fate of the two-party system in this country. It's implausible that you do not know what the Clintons and the DLC represent, how little their promises are worth, and what their corporate-backed effort to destroy the Democratic party will mean for this country.

At the very least, Obama is a leap of faith. The Clintons are a known. Their history of saying one thing and doing another, their service to some of the worst corporations in the world, their connections to the corrupt, the lawless, and the powerful, are a matter of record.

You are too intelligent to equate these campaigns. Whatever else is in play here, it remains beneath the surface; and for me it means that I can no longer afford to care what either of you think. This is no time to play games. You look opportunistic and cowardly, and you do yourselves, your causes, and your country, a disservice.

Posted at May 5, 2008 9:46 PM in response to It's Official: John And Elizabeth Edwards Will Not Endorse In Prez Race

If, as is now being reported, Rev. Wright's appearance at the National Press Club was arranged by a longtime friend of Rev. Wright who also happens to be an "ardent" Clinton ally; then Dr. Wright has been used in one of the most cynical and tragic dirty political tricks in our ugly political history.

To see Rev. Wright's career come down to this personal disaster, and the orchestrated betrayal of a man who deserved so much better from him, should sadden all of us.

The people who used this man's anger and his understandable resentment at seeing his life of service reduced to a caricature, should be exposed and condemned.

Rev. Wright embarrassed himself. But the people who used him to attack Obama betrayed him coldly and without conscience. My heart goes out to him. He is too intelligent to not realize now that he has been used by the Clintons from the beginning of this campaign. Obama tried to protect him until yesterday, and someday I hope Rev. Wright will understand and respect that. But I hope he has now learned that in a fight with the Clinton machine, there are no civilians.

Posted at April 30, 2008 11:57 AM in response to Obama in the Wilderness

Not only that - I haven't been a member - since the Clintons, the DLC, and their corporate bosses took over, corrupted, and marginalized the party formerly known as the Democratic party.

We're in a battle to the death between the the DLC and the Clintons, and the progressive insurgence that Dean started and Obama is building.

I'd like to live to see the Clintons and the DLC fade into deserved irrelevance. It would be fun to be part of a political party that worked for me and my children instead of Wal-Mart, Monsanto, and Blackwater.

The Bush crime family makes the Mafia look like Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. It's no accident that Murdoch, Limbaugh, Scaife, and a rogue's gallery of right-wing nutjobs are supporting Hillary. The Bush family and the Clintons are fighting not only for their political lives, but to hang onto the power to protect three administrations from prosecution for the crimes they have committed.

Posted at April 30, 2008 11:39 AM in response to Still feel like a proud member of the democratic party?

They always were. It's called the DLC, and this primary is a battle between the Clintons and their corporate bosses and what's left of the Democratic party they corrupted and took over.

Posted at April 25, 2008 3:12 AM in response to Clyburn: Bill Clinton's Behavior Has Been "Bizarre"

Absolutely. Mark Penn needs it.

Posted at April 24, 2008 5:39 AM in response to Hillary On Track To Raise $10 Million Since Polls Closed Yesterday