Caputo laughed and said, "I can't believe you are asking me this question." Tweety said, "Are you telling me there is no plan for restoration?"  Caputo said, "The Clinton's only plan is to get Barack Obama and Joe Biden elected."  Tweety was not satisfied with this answer.

He's bent on making Hillary look bad, the sore loser, the renegade who will destroy Obama's chances.  And yet, in the lovefest for Ted Kennedy last night, there was no mention of the fact that he NEVER endorsed Jimmy Carter in 1980, and in fact made Carter run after him on stage in order to grab Kennedy's hand and raise it in the air for the most awkward "unity" salute ever.

Even Olbermann is embarrassed by Tweety insistent desire to provoke someone into saying that Hillary is bitter and is out to sabotage Obama. He's stuck to the "previews of the speech show she will strongly back Obama." And if Olbermann is embarrassed and defending Hillary, you know things are bad.

Look, at a minimum there was just as many people supporting Obama as Clinton.  And based on the way the system was set up, Obama ended with considerably more delegates than Clinton.

It's time to give up on this narrative.  It works only if you are seeing things through Clinton-supporters eyes.

One scene from Ratatouille comes to mind:

"Tell your chef that I want whatever he dares to serve me!"  [Anton Ego, food critic feared by chefs everwhere]

I fear the Dems simply see it as the place we can have a "good war," and thus they can look macho and all security conscious and such like.

As soon as Donna B replaced Carville, I changed the channel.

Gergen's statement was so poorly thought out. How many minutes does she have, and just why does she have to say anything other than to thank her supporters, give her vision of hope, and tell everyone to make sure the democratic ticket wins.

The locals dailies seem to have more in-depth coverage than the TV outlets, so I'd check the Post or the Rocky Mountain News.  

You bet there are protests.  But she knows well and teaches social movements, so she has some adroit commentary about how much better we were at this in the '60s.  Especially good analysis of differences from '68 -- as she was there then, too.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism and sexism -- Oprah Winfrey

A week or so ago I noticed that was missing and I asked her why.  She said because it was a bunch of bs.  She then said "If a man with no experience, but a nice smile and the ability to give a good speech can pole vault over the woman with experience and intelligence and who's been working her entire adult life for others, what does that say?"

It may be nice for the boy in the ghetto, as you say, but who cares?  If the hard working woman who studies 'till all hours and works 12 hour days six days a week gets shafted and stabbed in the back in order for that boy -- who may or may not have earned or be ready for the position he's being given -- to succeed, are you saying it's somehow worth it?  Somehow okay?

Because of this, my niece is more of a cynic than she was six months ago.  

Don't you think the job of president is a little too important to merely symbolize itself?  

After all, when I was hired for my job, it wasn't because I symbolized anything -- but because I could get the job done.

As for what Obama will symbolize to future generations, I think we'll be finding out in the next few years what they will remember him for.  

but with the rest I can agree: most people are not going to know the dirty tricks Obama played to reach his place, or how empty his rhetoric is... they'll just know that America chose a black man with a foreign-sounding name to lead their nation. To think of what that means to a young boy in the ghetto with bigger dreams, or of any race, I think it might just be worth it.

Rangel, Conyers, and so many more have risen to their heights in government because they worked really hard to get there, and they have proven time and again they have the well being of all the people at heart. I don't think Obama's resume teaches anyone anything about working hard to achieve the highest office in the country.

what I disagree with is that is Obama runs the country like he's run this campaign, all the gains made on 'image' will be wiped out once people realize that the "image" has no relationship to the "substance."  And the long term consequences of that will set us back even further than we are now.

I went from being an Edwards supporter to being a Hillary supporter; in defending her all the time from the usual cr@p we've come to hear about her, I ended up doing enough research that I came to see that she was the best candidate.

No one was more surprised than I was...I had been fearing and even dreading a Clinton presidency, thinking about all the baggage, knowing the media would never let her be the president but would insinuate that all her decisions were really coming from Bill.  As I saw her strength in the face of a relentless onslaught of the worst treatment out there, I realized this woman would be her own woman, and would not cave in, kowtow or cede her authority to anyone - not even her former-president husband.

Can I tell you that I have tried - over and over - to see what the true believers see in Obama?  I just can't.  I don't.  The reasons have all been expressed here for months, and nothing I have seen has convinced me that everything will be okay if he is elected.

On top of the reasons why I do not support Obama is the matter of the party hierarchy; if I thought for one minute that the party bosses were going to take Obama in hand and guide him to better places on policy and issues, I might be able to cast a vote for him - but the party poo-bahs seem to be embracing this new brand that is watering down to the point of being meaningless so many of the issues that matter to me that can't bring myself to go along, to get on board.

And then, there's Congress...a body full of weak, spineless creatures who seem to have Joe Lieberman disease, and it's getting worse, not better.  Make no mistake - the Blue Dogs are going to be the Top Dogs if Obama is elected, and together with their Republican pals, are not going to be giving us the agenda we need.

1. I don't see why not.
   
2. I doubt that those people will be needed to squash dissent because I doubt that dissent will take place.