Children.  

Sorry, I love Bill & Hill-they are smart, articulate, passionate, competent and truly committed to making things happen. UGGH, have to stop thinking about this.

This is the change I've been waiting for - a politician prepared to fight the good fight for the poor, the disadvantaged, for the causes that used to make America a beacon for "those huddled masses yearning to be free" from all over the world.

I don't like Barack Obama, I don't like his tone, or his lack of substance. I don't like his VP, or most of his advisors. I don't like the way he ran his campaign. I don't like his supporters, who feel the need to lecture me, as if I'm an idiot.  But, in spite of all that, I'm on board, and it has everything to do with the broad in Orange Pantsuit.

I can't believe that much of the inside-
Washington establishment of the Democratic party decided to put their personal interest in diminishing the political power of the Clintons -- and increasing their own control over the party -- over the best interest of the country. I can't believe that they chose THIS election to conduct intra-party warfare and used as their instrument a politician with great promise but so little experience and accomplishment that his nomination puts a Democratic win in November, even in these favorable-for-Democrats times, in jeopardy.

Those people that Clinton talked about last night and in whose interest she asked her supporters to cast their votes -- the single mother with cancer and no health insurance, the young Marine, the boy whose mother works for minimum wage -- were nowhere on the minds of ambitions losers like Kerry and Daschle and their associates, staffers, and big money men (whose support help Obama kick off his campaign with more money than any other primary candidate in history -- long before he had his online fundraising effort off the ground or had received even one penny from the "grassroots") when they encouraged Obama to challenge Clinton. They were nowhere on the mind of Dean, Brazile, Pelosi and the legacy-jealous Kennedys who put their support behind the effort to gain or re-gain power by destroying the Clinton legacy and fiddling with the levers of power to make the way easier for their chosen candidate. They were thinking about themselves and seeking to serve their own interest with a candidate who lacked the right qualifications for victory in November but possessed qualities that offered strategic advantages against Clinton in a Democratic primary -- qualities that more conventional inside-Washington candidates, like Biden and Dodd, did not. Their only thought beyond the primaries was the arrogant assumption that any Democratic was likely to win this time around, and the questionable assumption that affluent young, anti-war liberals and libertarian/Independent and moderate Republican voters will turn out for the Democrats in such historic and unprecedented numbers that they will make the votes of traditional working class Democratic constituencies unnecessary.

This is the thinking of people in a bubble. People so estranged from what is actually happening to the country and from the economic realities and experience of ordinary Americans that they genuinely believe the most important issues in this elections are the trivial and/or abstract issues of political "tone," bi-partisanship and generational "change." Things that affluent voters have the luxury of concerning themselves with -- and that are most important to economically protected inside-the-beltway players like themselves and the media pundits they chose to court over voter constituencies like working class Americans.