I agree with Desidero. I'm sorry you think Clinton "needs to be held to account" for running against Barack Obama in a contested presidential primary. That's exactly the opposite of both Obama and Clinton's calls for party unity. If you want to "hold her supporters accountable," you will lose this election in November through your divisiveness. It's funny that you are so ignorant that you embrace the same kind of divisiveness you allege Clinton has propogated.

Posted at May 11, 2008 7:47 PM in response to Obama - Clinton ticket. Why it isn't nuts.

Go ahead and try to say Bill or Hillary Clinton is no better than George Bush. Would Roe v. Wade still be legal precedent if Clinton hadn't been elected and appointed two sane Supreme Court justices? You have no common sense or sense of history.

I am a Clinton supporter who will wholeheartedly support Obama in the general. Calling the Clintons racists is simply outrageous.

Posted at May 11, 2008 7:41 PM in response to Obama - Clinton ticket. Why it isn't nuts.

Carl Bernstein is still trying to peddle his bomb of a Hillary Clinton memoir that's languished on book shelves unsold since last year. I hate it when CNN brings this bloated, mysoginist toad on to give his "insights" on anything.

Posted at May 11, 2008 7:36 PM in response to Carl Bernstein: Hillary to fight to get on Obama ticket

Why would Goldwater spin in his grave? I'm pretty darn sure he lost North Carolina (one of the more moderate Southern states) in his 1964 campaign.

Posted at May 11, 2008 7:32 PM in response to Rasmussen: GOP Sen. Dole In Dead Heat Against Democratic Nominee

Yeah, what you said is a surefire way to heal the Democratic Party and win the general election. I'm shocked David Axelrod hasn't called to offer you his job.

Posted at May 11, 2008 5:05 AM in response to If Hillary Makes Threats On Her Way Out The Door ... This Is What Obama Should Say

Sorry to rain on your parade, but Barack Obama does need some kind of reconciliation with Hillary Clinton's supporters to win this election. Saying that her supporters can just be dismissed with a few compliments and not adjustments to his platform (i.e. - real universal health care) or, at the most, Sen. Clinton on the ticket, is offensive.

He won't win this election on the coalition he has built so far. That's just the truth. You aren't going to win elderly women and a lot of working class Democrats by having college kids put up Shepard Fairey posters in the neighborhood.

This has to be some kind of healing in the Democratic Party.

Posted at May 10, 2008 12:30 AM in response to McAuliffe: Joint Ticket Would Be "A Great Idea"

Why should they be forced to do anything? You acting like these representative have some kind of an obligation to feel the same way about these comments that you do because of the color of their skin or their ethnic background is far more racist than anything Howard Wolfson said. You must be racist. I'll be calling on all readers of TPM to denounce and reject your racist comments.

Posted at May 8, 2008 5:26 PM in response to Hillary's 3/5 Strategy

I guess you just don't want to win this election. Whatever you want to say about Hillary Clinton whether it's maligning her personally, saying her campaign is ugly and regressive, calling her husband an unabashed racist, saying she's calculating and poll-driven, the fact of the matter is that Obama is not going to be able to win the general election without her supporters.

Paul Begala was right and not being divise when he said we had to expand our coaltion to include working class white voters and Reagan Democrats. We're not going to win this election on the strength of liberal college kids and the African-American vote alone. That's not being divisive, that's telling the truth. The men and women who voted for her matter to the Democratic Party.

There has to be party unity and the only way that happens is if Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama negotiate a dignified end to this primary season. If the netroots wants to turn this into another cause celebre, then go right ahead, but it's only going to make it that much harder to unify the party.

Posted at May 8, 2008 5:20 PM in response to Obama, Don't Turn My Financial Contribution To Your Campaign Into A Reward For Hillary's Ugly Campaign

While I am open to the possibility that this is another example of the GOP trying to scare Southern whites with the prospect of black people in power, I think this might have more to do with painting Travis Childers as a radical liberal, obviously a dirty word in the Deep South, by characterizing Obama as such. Obviously, Childers is as ideologically far apart from Obama (and most Democratic politicans) in most respects as can be.

I don't think it's inherently racist for somebody to be offended by some of the things Jeremiah Wright said in his sermons.

Posted at April 27, 2008 11:47 PM in response to GOP Candidate In Mississippi House Race Uses Obama In Attack Ad

As a party, we can't afford to assume McCain is going to run a cleaner, more civil campaign than Bush-Cheney '04. Of course, they'll run a dirty campaign that insinuates the nominee is a "liberal", defeatist who has sympathy for terrorists. The same people behind Bush-Cheney are running McCain '08.

There's a reason only two Democrats have been elected to the presidency since 1964. We can't just cry about how these tactics are dirty and abhorrent. Of course, they are. What we have to do is vigorously fight this kind of smear. John Kerry didn't respond to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth or try to refute the image of him being a wavesurfing, Boston elitist. When we automatically cede the so-called "patriotism" argument to the Republicans we lose everytime. It's absolutely a false construction, but stating the obvious never wins elections.

Posted at April 26, 2008 12:54 AM in response to McCain Campaign: Associating Obama With Terrorists Is Fair Game