I am so happy to find intelligent and involved people here.  Thank you for putting your energies into something I think is timely and so worthwhile.

I have been so frustrated with my local papers and media that I just want to scream!  I always knew that the media was run by special interest groups, but my goodness, it is out of hand now. $$ really does rule the world.  

I appreciate your honest opinions here.  I am not an Obama supporter, and several posts here do seem to favor Hillary, however, I do see that you allow commentary from all groups.  True patriotism at work!  

I think you have set a good tone here, as many of the Obama supporters that post comments to this blog are usually more reasonable in the way they argue for their candidate than they are in posts elsewhere.

Anyway, I am introducing myself here as a Hillary supporter and look forward to be able to join in discussion of the posts.  Leisa is my real first name.

I will also add that I am the most typical Hillary supporter. No I am not a racist alas, I am a white woman in her 40's!  That is such a scornful position to be in, which is all the more reason that people should be concerned about Obama as the so-called uniter.  

I am also a Texan, and Democracy was butchered in my precinct caucus.  As a person who believes in Democracy, I would NEVER want my candidate to win under the conditions that Obama won the caucus in my precinct.

I hope to make friends here and share ideas with those who may disagree with mine.  I am always willing to learn.  Old female dogs can learn new things...  I am here, I found this blog spot, for starters.

Thank you,

Sir Elton John was the main attraction on Wednesday night at Radio City Music Hall in New York, but the spotlight was really on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was lavished with donations to her presidential campaign.

The event brought in more than $2.5 million, according to the campaign, from the sale of more than 5,000 tickets.

The concert was announced in March with a mass e-mail message to Mrs. Clinton's supporters, signed by Elton John. "There is nothing I like better than throwing a party for a good friend," the message said in part.

Uh, I thought the point of the protests was to shame  them and to point out that they need to clean the basics up if they want to be part of the "enlightened world".  

Then Camille Paglia's pseudo macho rant about us being

her clique of tired, aging courtiers who couldn't adjust to changing political realities.

Anyway, she was the only one who I really felt connected with the kids during the visit to...was it Africa?  The others were trying their best, but I didn't "feel them," you know(as Randy would say). Their hearts were in the right place, I know.  But Carrie was really sweet, genuininely kind, and really acted like she was in her element.  I suddenly liked her.

They aren't kicking anyone off this week, are they?  Good, if so.  I liked them all yesterday and want to hear them all sing again.

I'm on the West coast and it's too early for Idol here.

Meanwhile, both national tracking polls have Obama outside the margin of error.  MyDD speculates it could be primary fatigue.

And secondly -- this is a fun article if you haven't seen it. O! spent the other day soaking up more "people powered" contributions from California billionaires. He banned the media from any attendance at this series of billionaire fundraisers, but this woman made her way and covered it as best she could. With pix! Kind of smashes his whole "small donors" meme.... change you can believe in!

OBAMA FUNDRAISERS at Billionaires Row SF Bay area-

I know they're creepy and spell badly... but it's important that we know what they're up to and what the ground is thinking as they rig our Dem primaries. They are still hoping for ... and getting ready for -- Obama as the Nom. They are probably going to swift him heavily with the Muslim stuff.

If you think the Rev Wright episode erased all the Muslim accusations of Barack Obama- think again...

The link below is two pages of what the Freeps are readying for the Muslim smears- esp focused on his cousin the new PM of Kenya and the riots his supporters incurred (killing over 1000 Kenyans) to assure he "won" that election. The Kenyan family tie is is going to be difficult for Obama to dance around now as he did Rezko and Wright- because it was O himself who already dragged CNN and the other "news" outlets to film his colorful Kenyan family (while he had his old white granny in Hawaii locked in a closet!)

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OK NOW WASH UP!!

Well, it looks like Senator "Follow the Leader" Obama has finally joined the chorus asking for Bush's boycott of the Olympic opening games.     You know,  a few days after Senator Clinton did.  

Could Sen Obama be a little less obvious in following Clinton's lead on nearly every issue?  

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Sure enough, via Susie Madrak, Dee Dee Myers has confirmed that Penn's fee is capped at, Meyers believes, $250,000 and the huge numbers going to his firm is because his firm doles out money to certain vendors.  

And, when I googled, I was able to find a reprint of an article from 2007 in the International Herald Tribune confirming that Clinton's entire top-tier team is capped at a combined fee of $5 million.    

And then Elixabeth said something about McCain/Rice beating the 'Dream Ticket' in NYS, so I googled it.

The other column describes B Ometoo as being "a mile wide and an inch deep", like the Potomac.  How about some specifics, he says.

(South Carolina does have a rep to uphold: being the place were the first shots are fired. I suspect they will not be the last.)