She could not apply to Yale for undergrad - they did not accept women. She wrote to NASA as a 14-year-old asking what it takes to work there - only to be told she had to be a boy.

Her mother was born before women had the right to vote.

If we wait, the first female president will not have experienced these things in her own lifetime.

many here, and elsewhere, have complained about the "never ending primary season", with respect to the democrats. i believe this has actually been the best thing that could have happened for the party, it's allowed the airing of issues now, instead of waiting for nov., when they could adversely impact the GE.

if a candidate can't handle the long grind of the primaries, how on earth could they legitimately expect anyone to believe they have any business being president?

the DNC is composed of politicians, politicians who want to continue enjoying their lofty status. don't think for a moment they aren't doing the calculations as we speak, looking at nov. and who has the best chance of defeating sen. mccain.

should they screw up royally, snatching defeat out of the hands of nearly certain victory, they'll be out on their asses in a heartbeat, if that long.

bear in mind, what you're seeing now is but a pale shadow of what the republican/right-wingnut smear machine will have in store for the actual dem. nominee, come the GE. if sen. obama can't even handle this poor imitation, how do you suppose he'll fare against some 527 "swift boat" group?

In the interest of fair air time--doesn't HRC have to go on all the shows now and get a full hour with Larry King?  

You can choose from so many sites -- and life is short.

Bank failure was shored up by fed for the first time since the depression.

People are losing their homes in record number ... leaving people homeless.

Energy prices are at all time high.

The stock market has been shored up so many times by cutting the interest rate... rather than letting it adjust.

Companies have ther money investined in bonds which are tied up in aursions that no one is buying.. the government had to step in and shore this up also.

NOW .... WHO will be the Dem nominee to get us out of this mess?

I have much more confidence in Hillary to get us out of the mess.

We may end up with Sen Obama as the nominee. How is he going to handle this? Does he have the experience to handle this?

The disclosure of inappropriate passport inquiries recalled an incident in 1992, when a Republican political appointee at the State Department was demoted over a search of presidential candidate Bill Clinton's passport records. At the time he was challenging President George H.W. Bush.

After a three-year, $2.2 million probe, a federal independent counsel exonerated officials in the incident, saying that while some of the actions investigated were "stupid, dumb and partisan," they were not criminal.

Can anyone confirm/deny this?

PS I'm having no luck linking here.  Here is the link to the chart.

As far as I'm concerned you are one of the best commenters here, and I've learned a lot from your comments.  I've never seen you cross any lines.

I'm leaving in protest, and to be quite honest I'm not sure I'll be back.  This blog is a shadow of it's former self these days anyway.  Petty politics and partisan bickering where once was sincere debate and discussion on the issues of the day, especially criminal justice.  A real shame I say.

I really am shocked.

Way to be on the ball, State Department!

"Is Hillary completely evil, or just a totally unprincipled opportunist?".

ok, do i have to pick one or the other, or can i pick both? as long as she's competent, and isn't sacrificing virgins in the oval office, i'm not sure it really matters to me.

i must say though, the petite horns coming out of the back of her head looked very stylish when combined with the red pansuit.

also, the whole "completely evil" thing is underrated. if you were the leader of a foreign country, would you really want to piss off someone who was completely evil, and had the ability, with the push of a button, to turn your entire country into a smoking, nuclear glass lined hole in the ground? something to think about!

ok, i've looked at that pic for some time now, and drawing on my expertise, gained from watching many, many, many hours of law & order/csi, i've come to a conclusion:

blunt force trauma is the cause of death, not a gunshot. insufficient blood spatter for it to have been a wound from a bullet traveling at high velocity.

as well, while on the surface, the 4 bunnies appear to have no direct relationship to each other, it turns out that the bunny on the far left met the dead bunny's spouse at a local coffee shop, where both stopped daily for their morning hit of caffeine. turned out they both wanted their respective spouses gone. they entered into an agreement to each do in the other's spouse, after getting huge life insurance policies on them.

they figured since there was no other direct connection between them, no one would ever figure it out. the left-over peppermint stick gave them away, as the csi team was able to lift paw prints from it, connecting it to bunny# 1.

Deconstructionist is in time out, he repeatedly violated the sites rules on the two threads I've read so far today. He's also chattering. If he's allowed back he'll be limited in the
number of comments he can make per day.

Unless there is more to the story than this, I thing that you should give the fainting couch a rest. Many of us have gotten this same warning, and lived through it. You are lucky that you have not been in 'time out' before this, considering that you have broken the rules many many times.