Care to provide details of your stunning expose to the class Matlock? It took hours of makeup to go to the TPM-Aholics Obama fundraiser to keep up the facade of being an African American woman.

And while you're at it, find any comment that was denigrating Obama as a black man or black people in general. My criticisms are towards race-baiting folks like you who think the only way to understand being black in America is to read the Autobiography of Malcolm X and any black Hillary supporter must be self loathing and not know who Kanye West is. Funny how that thread where you threw those insults my way has been "disappeared" as is your M.O. whenever you get spanked and have no retort except insults.

Wrong. She's participated in person at a New York City fundraiser for Obama organized by some of the main supporters of Obama on this website:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/07/july-19-online-qa-and-fundrais.php

There were a multitude of posts on this very site about their little get together after the fact, talking about meeting others, including dijamo. (And another member here that you like to think of as a Hillary supporter, bslev, was there, too, donating to the Obama cause. His union lawyer group, BTW, also held a fundraiser for Obama a month or so ago, one that raised $100K.)

Your reaction to your commenters doesn't reflect too well on the credibility of most of your research. Shows a tendency to like conspiracy theories and to pre-judge people you don't know. The kind of predilection that are not too helpful in the diplomatic field, I hear, especially, I would think Israeli/Palestininan relations. Not so helpful in Congress or as a lobbyist, either.

What's clear from your more frequent comments like this is that you like to label people based on a very few words, don't really try to understand what they are saying, put them in boxes, and don't listen anymore. You decide based on very flimsy background that you have others all figured out. Pretty bad reflection on you, as bad as Krauthammer or any of your other bete noires. Certainly not the qualities of someone supposed to be in the communications or peace-promoting business.

You can't even listen or keep peace on a piddling little blog thread; you show incredible irrational prejudices towards some commenters and not to others, based on the flimsiest of reasons. (You like JohnW114 simply because he fought in the Euro theatre in WWII, apparently.) You respond to legitmate criticism with nasty or flippant insults.

How the hell do you expect anyone trust what you say about the Mideast? From what I've seen of your behavior here for a couple years, looks to me like you might be someone who would blow it to kingdom come simply by opening your mouth.

First, everything artappraiser said. Eloquent and true.

Calling a black woman a self-hater over what she thinks, or a hater of black people (and the provocation was minor, dude) is gross, racist, and illiberal in the extreme. It's not an argument.

Ahhh, there was that one day hell froze over:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/28/obamas_speech_showed_exactly_h/

Or a few actually – there was another post about Obama speaking to AIPAC that I can’t find. And one on Hillary's concession speech too. So sorry, I am not a groupie who just comes into his thread to hurl insults. I have been critical of his unbalanced right wing smear style attacks ont he Clintons and Clinton supporters. And when I do criticize, I tend to go for substance and he goes straight for personal attacks. That's generally a sign that someone is unable to defend their argument.

That said I rarely comment on the Café featured Contributor pages, but since MJ’s been such a sweetheart to me calling me PUMA and throwing racial insults for having the temerity to be critical of him, I pop in every now and then to see just how awful his piece is. And when it's a really crappy post I'll let him know. And will continue to do so in the future unless he is demanding a GWBish criticism free zone in his threads and demonizing those who differ in opinions (another right wing tactic). He of course is welcome to continue the personal attacks and I will continue to remind him what an absolute bigoted ignorant ass he is.

For what it’s worth I gave Theda Skocpol more hell for that white feminists speaking up for Obama piece than I ever did to MJ and for her campaign finance piece, and she never once responded with personal attacks in the vein of MJ. I think they call that professionalism (and disagreeing without being disagreeable.)

And in regard to your comment above for artappraiser, I think they refer to that as poetic justice. It sucks to be pigeonholed into someone’s little box because of one characteristic, no matter how important that one charateristic is to your identity. Perhaps in the future you can learn to think for yourself instead of blindly defending MJ at every criticism and refrain from stereotyping and trying to define other people.