They both have friends who bombed the Pentagon.

As Sen Clinton's fans (and neutral observers elsewhere) have noted, Obama-mentum has been greatly assisted at the outset, and more lately, entirely reliant on being carred by forces outside his own magnetism (for resources, power and coverage) besides Charisma(TM).

Obama has been carried forward, is becoming exponentially "heavier", and by the time the Dems have to carry him on their own-some, he'll be an outright millstone in the GE.

I'm not being a scaredy-cat fear-mongering evil monster white lady to say so. I've got plenty of good reasons provided by Obama himself for believing he'll be toast in the general election.

Tell tale sign: they'll always be at the top of the swarming pile-on, when it's safest to avoid being a target themselves, and make sure to act like they generated the scene, as any good little fascists would.

Remember, some are Useful Tools.

My views are horribly out of step with most of you, I recognize that. But I honestly think it's going to be nearly impossible to lose in the fall (although I think the outside Democratic groups need to start working on McCain's favorables sooner rather than later) so I'm just not feeling the panic about the primary. I like it when the voting process plays itself out rather than having the campaign spin and the media narratives telling the people what they are supposed to do. I've always felt that way. I still don't see this campaign as being particularly harsh by historical standards and I remain where I was at the beginning, believing that either candidate would be a good president and having no qualms about supporting either one of them. I just don't feel particularly emotional about it (except to the extent that I'm personally attacked for failing to feel properly emotional....) In fact, I hardly ever feel emotional about primaries. It's the conservatives (and chickensh[*]t Dems, which neither of these candidates are) who really get my blood boiling.

The root problem as I see it is too many damn human beings on planet earth...and frankly I don't think there is anything that mankind can do about it...it's up to Mother Nature to thin the herd.  Some of us are gonna have to starve or we need another Black Plague...very very sorry to say.  Planet Earth is both glorious and cruel.

One of the trickiest parts of dealing with the extremist right is figuring out whether a given group is just harmless garden-variety crazy -- or harboring the special kind of insanity that will lead to acts of local violence or outright domestic terror.

it's a question worth asking in the wake of the state of Texas' intervention in the Eldorado colony of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints. As the country is thrust into a fresh debate over individual religious freedom versus our collective interest in protecting people's civil rights, we're struggling once again with the deeper question: When should we leave people alone? And when does the state have a public duty to intervene?

As it turns out, enlightened governments have been pondering this same question for the past two decades. In the post-mortems on Waco and Ruby Ridge and the Aum Shinrikyo attacks in Tokyo; in preparations made a decade ago for possible millennialist terror; and especially in sussing out which Islamic radical groups are dangerous and which are likely benign; government agencies throughout North America and Europe have been forced to think clearly about what constitutes a real threat, what's just a bogeyman, and how to respond to both. Over time, they've worked out a solid consensus on what the danger signs look like when a religious or political group's passions are beginning to spin toward violence, and worked up policy documents to help them move more wisely in the future.  

• HRC's 'enh' (to them) PA win of 10pts -- in a strong area for him -- must be exceeded by TeamObama now for him to "seriously" win in a stronghold. Yes, media have been coddling him, but their "Are We There Yet" whine is taking over and he must explain why he can't close.

• Indiana is a tie-breaker

• "his" delegates must all be on the record by now and/or he must explain why his silent ones remain so.
  

• if he hasn't / can't close, he needs to show the work/math he's been using to claim insurmountability to date (cause lord knows the bobbleheads don't know why he hasn't dropped the balloons)

• what was that about MI again?

You're not breaking anything to me that I didn't already know.  Lighten up a bit.