It's not blaming him for what's happened the last seven years. It's giving him the responsibility for what he did back during his time.

I was writing op-eds for my union paper back in 1992 about what those trade agreements would do. And they did, thanks to Clinton. They weakened that American working class. A lot of good-paying union jobs were lost and the remainder of blue-collar jobs have been devalued. Organized labor has been further broken.

I concur with "Florida Resident" above, on the likelihood of right-wing "moles" raiding, not just the Democratic Primaries, but also Progressive blogs. Does that come under the definition of TROLLING here at Talk Left?

I am a faithful reader of Talk Left's editorial writing and it is superative.

I just started reading the COMMENTS section  a few days ago and, on the whole, that too, is a breath of fresh, bright air.

On the other hand, it does appear that there are a few people who aren't debating in good faith.

It gets tricky, but I'm sure most of us can intuitively sense the difference between honest dissent and ill-intent. Hell, even a dog knows the difference between being tripped over and being kicked.

I may be off base but, certain commentators look like they're playing both ends against the middle: under the pretext of being 'even-handed' they are stealthily undermining both Obama and Clinton. Some seem to be arguing relentlessly with the intention of wearing down other people who are self-evidently sincere in their comments. In the latter case, disengagement can be a life-saving strategy.

But a lot of the state also trends older and working class, it's true.

That could have an impact.  Like Nebraska, we like our candidates to come here, suck a brewski, and bowl a lane or two in our Dem Valhalla, Serb Hall.  (You may remember when Bush I tried it and fell on his face on the bowling lane, a howler for us.)

Obama will do well in Madison; they're Easterners on the faculty and in the hospitals, two of the three major constituencies in the town (the other is the leggies), and it has fewer Wisconsinites among the students than the other large campuses in the state.  Lots of Minnesotans among Madison students, with the tuition reciprocity, and lots of Illinoisans, Obama's base in Iowa, too.  And of course, same-day registration favors students.

So GOP crossover vote will confound our primary here, as usual.  There will be interesting counties to watch, as the JS says -- and as I had on an earlier thread, re the GOP crossover vote that the neocon JS called for on its front page yesterday.  But with a bit of a rise for Huckabee yesterday, too, I may have to revise a bit to note that large red county I wrote about is filled with white-flighters who will fear Obama, yes -- but they're also fundies, so they could come out big for their evangelical hero, the Rev. Huck.

But the JS does not necessarily say Milwaukee will go for Obama.  I'm in Milwaukee, and in the district with the first AA member of Congress here, but it is the only majority-minority city in lily-white Wisconsin.  AAs are still a minority in Milwaukee, as there also are Latinos/as, Asians, etc.  And it is one of the most segregated cities in the country for AAs (see today's JS for Eugene Kane's column, too) -- so AAs actually are dominant in only two neighborhoods.

The article is a good analysis overall, though, with good historical understanding of Wisconsin's wacky primaries, too.  So thanks for linking it here -- I planned to do so, if no one else did.  

No?

And, yes, you are missing something about Florida. Florida violated Party rules and the election was null and void. Nobody won Florida because it wasn't counted. Remember?

1.  Deval Patrick's competitors lacked charsima and new ideas (unlike Clinton); and

2.  Deval actually had plenty of experience under his belt.  He had been Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights under Bill Clinton, and had been General Counsel for CocaCola...thus, years of experience in running large, complex agencies (unlike Obama, who has essentially no experience running anything).