You need a vacation (at least a day or 2 off from political news).

So now Obama's a statesman? What about Obama trashing the legacy of the only living two-term Democratic president to heighten his political standing and disparaging the achievements of the Clinton Administration for political gain? What about the 15 million people that voted for Hillary, the first, truly viable female candidate for president this country has ever seen? Because they voted for her, all the sudden they're ethically or morally corrupt and are trying to wreck the Democratic Party?

The fact is, many of the voters Hillary has united, save for black voters, are the most reliable wing of the Democratic Party. This is our party supporting the candidate we think is best suited to deliver on what's important to us. Many of the lefty, schmefty wing are the ones who are responsible for Bush getting elected by voting for Nader. Many of those who voted for Hillary think that Obama and his supporters have hijacked their party to go on some quest searching for some undefined "hope." Many of those who voted for Hillary don't need to sit around and discuss the tough issues facing the American people in the abstract because they are all too real for them. They are Democrats and have been loyal to our party.

What Obama is doing is a great thing by bringing in new voters (though I refuse to concede that Hillary isn't bring in new voters, too), but don't go off on her and her supporters as if they're not true Democrats. It's insulting.

"We all got it comin' kid..."

William Munny, The Unforgiven

The Clintons will lead the Dem party when they win the general.

I will not vote for Hillary. Until a few months ago, I would have proudly voted for her as the Democratic nominee.
Then she became a Republican. As a Republican, I see no difference between her and McCain.

I will stay home and joyfully watch her lose the election, and I will immediately change my registration from Democrat to Independent.

I will cease donating time and money to the Democrats.

There are millions who are thinking just like me.

Go ahead Supers, make your choice.

You certainly sound independent to me, JohnDoe, et al.

Chill out. Wait for early June. Hell, just wait a week. Reid, Dean, and Pelosi have not been playing shuffleboard. They've been keeping their powder dry, but the warnings are pretty clear. Sometime in the next five weeks, this thing is going to wrap up. If Obama can carry IN, I think the heavy guns will come out then. Otherwise, it's probably early June.

This is one of the finest examples of narcissistic, self-pitying sanctimony that has become ever more prevalent on this site. I am so sorry, Mr. Cohen, that your sensitivities have been offended. Need I remind you that two candidates are competing for the Democratic nomination, not for the title of moral exemplar for Gary Cohen. While Hillary has certainly played rougher, neither side has a monopoly on virtue. Destroying the "unity that was sweeping across the country?" What unity are you talking about? The unity achieved in the Wyoming caucus? Last I checked, the two candidates have been running an extraordinarily close race. And how exactly did the Clintons destroy your chimerical unity? By trying to get more people to vote for her? How did the Clintons "divide the party?" Couldn't the same be said of Obama who, after all, has premised his campaign on the theme that Hillary Clinton represents the "failed" politics of the past? Is that a unifying sentiment? If anyone has destroyed the unity of which you speak, it is people like you who see any criticism of Obama as heresy and character assassination. Yet you are so keen on wallowing in your "moral and ethical values" - read, narcissism - to see any reality beyond your misguided crusade. And most depressing is your utterly specious claim that the Clintons have "fracture[d] the progress and civility that took decades to make between blacks and whites." Could someone please tell me how they have done this? Bill Clinton, for all his faults, has done much to advance race relations in this country. Do you mean to suggest that this pales in comparison to his misguided attempt to downplay Obama's South Carolina win (after praising his excellent campaign) by correctly pointing out that Jessie Jackson also carried the state?

Do you want to see unity? I'll give you some. I'm not sure who would make the better candidate or better President. Both Clinton and Obama have strengths and flaws. But both are a sea change from Bush and vastly superior to McCain. I will vote for whichever candidate is the Democratic nominee because I would like to see an end to the Iraq debacle, the protection of the tattered social safety net, the preservation of a woman's right to choose, universal health care and a more progressive tax code. You are welcome to nurse your wounds, vote for Nader and see what happens. Sure worked out great the last time.

You sound so very disillusioned. And yet you think it is because of Hillary. Could it not possibly have something to do with this:

"I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who... on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe. These people are part of me."
3/19/08 - Philadelphia

racist much, Ludmila?

Your comment is as topical as it is useful. As in not.

This is a silly post which serves no purpose but for Clinton-haters to vent their rage and frustration. To Gary Cohen and anyone who recommended this post: You have contracted Hillaria. I advise you to turn off your computer and seek immediate medical assistance.

I'm registered as a Democrat because being non-affiliated merely ensures I lose half of my ability to vote. Plus, in Hudson County, the Democratic primary IS the election.

We have no "the leader". We're Democrats, damnit! Everyone is a leader!

Not only that - I haven't been a member - since the Clintons, the DLC, and their corporate bosses took over, corrupted, and marginalized the party formerly known as the Democratic party.

We're in a battle to the death between the the DLC and the Clintons, and the progressive insurgence that Dean started and Obama is building.

I'd like to live to see the Clintons and the DLC fade into deserved irrelevance. It would be fun to be part of a political party that worked for me and my children instead of Wal-Mart, Monsanto, and Blackwater.

The Bush crime family makes the Mafia look like Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. It's no accident that Murdoch, Limbaugh, Scaife, and a rogue's gallery of right-wing nutjobs are supporting Hillary. The Bush family and the Clintons are fighting not only for their political lives, but to hang onto the power to protect three administrations from prosecution for the crimes they have committed.

Thank you for the blog - it's very carthartic for me, you articulated my inner frustrations and anger with the Clintons and their entourage.

I ditto Querty's thank-you. And luckily I live in Texas, where we can (for now) vote in any danged primary we want, as Operation Chaos well illustrated.

*I* am one of the people who voted for Nader, sorry to say (luckily, Texas wouldn't have made a difference, but still). I turned Democrat to get the Republicans out of office, and turned enthusiastic Democrat when Barack Obama ran for POTUS. I want the Republicans out of office so badly that, were it to come to that, I would probably vote for Hillary. If I have nothing else pressing that day. But I would definitely do so as an Independent.

That's as far as I want to go in being part of her warmongering madness.

I need to say here that I am a 62 year old white woman retired and I live in Florida. I would have loved to be on the Hillary bandwagon. I started out that way. I am now one of those radical Obama supporters. I will stay home or write in Obama's name if Hillary steals the election. Yes yes yes I know the Supreme Court and all of that. Well for me I can be selfish. At my age I am allowed to make ONE vote that I really believe in before I die. It is a vote for Obama. I may live to see another woman nominateed that I would gladly vote for but it is not her. I stood by the Clinton's through all that garbage and even made excuses for Bill because I never really like Hillary anyway. Not this time. No more Clintons!!!

Yes, I am a proud member of the Democratic Party. My party has fielded 10 viable and strong candidates for president and my party will nominate either a woman or a black man as its candidate for president - making history no mater who wins the nomination.

I come from a liberal family with a long history of political activism. My grandmother faced arrest in Sweden for the crime of atheism. My father was investigated by HUAC for his activities in the Farmers Union. I am a professional political activist who works on health care and progressive economic reform and on building the civic leadership skills of ex-felons.

For me, both Clinton and Obama are more conservative than I would wish. Seriously, I would vote for Bernie Sanders for President if I could, but given the two alternatives, by far the more progressive and liberal candidate is Clinton.

I am so tired of the canard that Clinton is no different than a Republican. It betrays a political ignorance that offends me. You have no idea what her proposals are, clearly, and you have no idea what the Republicans propose or Obama proposes.

Anyone who says Clinton is just like a Republican is just plain ignorant and has no credibility at all. You are as big a fool as the Nader supporters who said there was no difference between Gore and Bush.

I suggest that before anyone says that Clinton is just like McCain and prove their absolute stupidity that just once you actually look at her proposals - just once you try to know what the hell you are talking about.

So, when the Democratic party of Bill Clinton that you hate so much ran Gore against Bush, who did you vote for? Or when the Democratic party ran Kerry against Bush, who did you vote for?

In your mind they are equally corrupt? Do you really think Gore would have started this Iraq war? Would he have run the economy into the ground? Are you really saying that traditional democratic party values are the same as republican party values?

But now, all of a sudden you want to join us? But only if we nominate your idol? Otherwise you're going to take the football and go home to momma?

I am damn proud to be a member fo the Democratic party. I am most proud of the fact that the party does not march in lock step. I am proud of the fact that a democratic congress would not abdicate its oversight duties like the GOP has. Conformity is the GOP's greatest weakness. It forces members to compromise their values to the party line. I will never be a member of an organized political party because I am a democrat who values dissent.

"I am proud of the fact that a democratic congress would not abdicate its oversight duties like the GOP has"

But it's okay that they abdicate all of their other responsibilities to do anything of worth for the people that voted for them? To sit around and profit off of a war that they got elected on and promised to end? To be silent and obey the wishes of the minority that says no harm shall come to torturers and neo-fascists that would destroy the constitution (Impeachment is OFF the table rings a bell...)? I don't know what democratic party you're talking about but it's not the one I've seen lately.