You will find they match up exactly.

But for an Obama MaMa, blind worship is required or you can not say that you prefer that candidate to the other.

My record on this blog is clear. I have written many things that displeased Clinton supporters. Ask them.

But you demand blind cult like fealty in order to be able to say the truth - I do not much like either candidate, but think there is not a dime's worth of difference on the issues between them and I think Obama is more electable.

Hence, I prefer Obama to Clinton.

That is my honest view. I write what I think. I always have and I always will. I have never been afraid to buck the blogosphere CW.

Anyone who knows my blogging for the past 5 years knows that what you write is ludicrous.

If someone doesn't like the posts, or the comments, there is nothing forcing them to read or participate - there are plenty of other blogs to sample.

There's very little garbage here, a lot of thoughtful and thought-provoking comments - it is a pleasure to have conversations with people who take the time to construct an argument rather than resort to flinging mud; call me crazy, but that helps me out here in the "real" world, as I encounter people whose arguments are the bumper-sticker, talking-point variety, and who cannot explain why they spout the nonsense they do.

I am ever so sorry that you will not find blind adoration here - of any candidate.  There may be a majority of Clinton supporters here, but trust me when I say that we know all about her flaws and her weaknesses - but when there is non-stop criticism and smearing and blatant bias being directed at Clinton from all sides of the media spectrum, sometimes just trying to be heard above all that noise can sound over-the-top, but someone needs to speak for us - so who better than us?

It seems like not that long ago that on these same blogs, people would rail against Republicans who would never question the actions of Bush no matter what he did. People talked about the lock-step mentality as a negative thing. And here are Democrats doing the exact same thing. You're with us or you're against us.

In this new Dem world, if you support a candidate you must never question them. And any other candidate must be pure evil. And anyone who deviates from this is obviously being deceitful about who they really support.

Now he hates Clinton.

Well, I'm sure Tweety wouldn't feel comfortable calling out for mashup attack videos; he knows even his meager fig leaf of journalistic integrity and objectivity wouldn't allow it.

And so our A-list bloggers become lower and more despicable than the MSM they purport to criticize.

I have no problem with what Josh, or Markos, or Jeralyn or Jerome are doing.  There are playing the role of advocate.  There is absolutely wrong with that.  

However, JMM and his staff are completely trashing their reputation.  I am not saying this as a partisan.  By any objective analysis, TPM has morphed into an anti-Hillary/pro-Obama website.

[1] The access argument you mentioned.

[2] They've bought into this idea that Clinton is somehow more vulnerable to attacks from the Republicans and will be much harder to elect.

(Note that I completely reject [2] as a valid concern.  If anything, I think Clinton is the safer bet simply because the Republicans have run her through the wringer so many times, while Obama has so much more downside potential, so to speak.)

Whatever is driving them, the result is highly unprofessional.  Journalists of every stripe should be above such overt bias.  KO really drives me nuts, and I can no longer watch his nightly spin sessions laced with endless snippy one-liners about Clinton.

Do not forget the Reagan praise by Obama demands for context by Josh Marshall.

You do realize she writes her post and I write mine?

That's how TPM gained cred, with their outstanding reporting on the U.S. Attorney story, for which they won a Polk award--the first won by a freakin' blog.

But now TPM has gone over (again IMHO) to the dark side, by abandoning journalistic cred and trashing a Democratic candidate with a mashup vid.

I would condemn TPM just as strongly if they did it to Obama.

The irony is of course that Clinton said nothing but the truth about Jeremiah Wright and Josh Marshall was up in arms about her statement.

So was I BTW.

Can you point to one post where I "shill?" Perhaps the one where I criticized Clinton for discussing Wright.

That calling the woman a "pig", "idiot", "wrinkled old bag" and various other nouns I cannot repeat her..is fightin for your candidate?

You know I am right about Josh Marshall. Everybody knows.

It's almost as if Obama surrogates have become mini-Bushes.  We used to wonder which Bush we would get every live blogged presser.  Obama's surrogates remind me of the petty, vindictive Bush with just a hint of the petulant Bush thrown in.  

Hillary won't step down?  Then we'll punish her!

Howard Dean calls for sanity and uniting.

Now we have this attack video from TPM.

Of course, what did he do with this fact? Use it as evidence that Hillary supporters were so demoralized that they wouldn't respond anymore, rather than as evidence that far fewer Hillary supporters read his junk than had in the past.

...Trashing each other's Democratic favorite is counterproductive.

I also thought that the TPM video in question was not unfair...

Translation:  But Clinton had it coming.

Get with it, guys: it's not a mis-speak when you tout the same, exaggerated scenario over and over.  It's a confabulation.

Translation: Because she's a liar, you fools.

And to this viewer, at least, the video just matched up the statements made by HRC with contrary eye-witness accounts.

Translation:  Liar, liar, liar!

First of all let me make clear that I am NOT a TPM troll,

Please allow me to make two points:

First, This event is shocking because Hillary needs a better campaign staff. Hillary allowed one of her strengths, 80 overseas missions,   to be turned against her by her own words.

Her staff knew that Hillary wrote differently of this event in her book and knew that Sinbad, who accompanied her, was saying that the Bosnia trip was good and meaningful, but not dangerous. Where was her staff?

I am no longer a Hillary supporter, but the 20 hour days will lead to problems and the sheer number of times she brought this up really indicts her staff.

Second, why didn't her staff think of what this narrative said about our Armed Forces and President Clinton? All she has to do is say, "We flew into a War Zone but thanks to our military, we were all safe. No only do they protect us by risking our lives, they protect us when we go to thank them."

I wish Hillary had hired me. I think all along she has had the winning hand and her paid professionals allowed her campaign to shoot itself often and severely.