If you can't take the heat, put the sink down, and get out of the kitchen. :)

Schultz doesn't air here until the afternoon. I hope I get to hear that!

Larry needs some cajones. we are at the stage that even her victories are meaningless. She wins WV and he comes out with NARAL and Edwards and more and more, it's starting to pile up....Davis should blame the MSM for not really covering her victory, not Obama for being smarter and better and having more support. She could have followed up WV with endorsements from NARAL and Edwards and that might have given her some momentum, but wait? They don't support her.

Lanny Davis.

Another thought: you have to earn decent treatment. Even Paul Begala, who I always believed was a decent guy, came out today in defense of Obama and vehemently against Bush's outrageous comments at the Knesset. It reminded me of what decent political discourse was. Of course you want to win, but there are time you support or defend your party's ideals against outrageous attacks. Hillary should have done that after the speech on race. Anyone vying for Leader of the Free World would have recognized the importance of standing up for basic decency, and in defense of basic Democratic party ideals. But she did not.

Paul Begala did today. Hillary and Bill Clinton are still silent. They have no moral authority to run a local coffee shop, much less the United States.

Thanks, Paul. Obama would have done it for you and your candidate, in a heartbeat.

It was petty, and proved that he's using "old Washington tactics" - 3 cheers for the candidate of change!!!

Hey, beard. Don't I know you? ;-)

The guy who is attached to you is performing in my city tonight. Are you going to be there too?

The Obama campaign's tactical move was indeed tough, but this kind of campaign hardball doesn't bother me. What nauseates me is when candidates use innuendo or lies to dirty each other up. Feh.

I scored a layup, and while I was celebrating, Obama dunked over me! Then the buzzer went off, and the game was over! No fair!

PS. Don't listen to Ed Schultz. He's a hick.

857,000 people showed up on January 29 to vote for Hillary, another 818,000 showed up to vote for Edwards and Obama. The national press simply decided to ignore it, to completely disregard the action of almost 1.7 million voters. Which of course was a huge gift to Obama going into Super Tuesday, not having to defend his 33% showing. It's not often that the press ignores 1.7 million people voting, especially if you consider the glee they have in posting polls with tiny samplings that are a much poorer guide than 1.7 million people physically going to the polls to choose.

Two days before the Wisconsin primary, Michelle made her "first time proud of America" gaffe - well, not really a "gaffe", it was a repeated part of her stump speech that day, so part of the blame goes to her staff/writers. A large number of news outlets decided to ignore it, outlets that had no problem carrying "Jesse" and "Fairy Tale" analysis, who carried Hillary's welling up, who have no problem discussing whether Bill would be controllable in the White House, and so on. But fortunately for Obama, the issue got tamped down quite a bit and he went on to do well in Wisconsin.

So now Obama got a quarter of the vote in West Virginia, Hillary got 2/3, and Edwards even got 7% (must be his week). That's the biggest blowout of any primary, but the press was already prepared to dismiss it as just being white people voting. (Funny, I remember all the praise about how well Obama did in some rural areas in Iowa and Nevada, and now it seems it like it doesn't matter again). The choice of 239K Hillary supporters and 92K Obama supporters and 26K Edwards supporters doesn't matter, because the press has decided that the contest is over, that the Democrats still offering these quaint elections is just a fraud. Edwards giving his endorsement to Obama the same day as these results is especially insulting to those 26,000 West Virginians who voted for him, but it's an insult to the process itself. If West Virginia didn't matter, why didn't he endorse before it? Maybe Edwards thought it would be embarrassing to show how little effect his endorsement would have on West Virginia - a demographic that might be quite similar to his support in North Carolina. Or after playing Hamlet for so long he thought this was the best bang he could get for his buck, a convenient bump for his new BFF. What does this mean for the Democrats who are always praising the "50 state strategy", now that we're down to 47? What's Dean going to say to West Virginia and Kentucky when they say they want a January primary in 2008? "Sorry, we weren't talking about *those* kind of voters"?

For Hillary, AND her supporters, about Obama to be unfair or to be operating in bad form, because he's showing his strength as her campaign is waning - and THEN for her to clearly be hanging in there and count on pulling out a win by trying to grab delegates from MI and FL (after agreeing to rules that would not permit her to do so) is patently ridiculous.

In the end, Obama will have sufficient support from pledged delegates and Super Delegates, such that no machinations that Hillary tries to dream up with MI and FL will undo that. Hillary is the one who is and has been demonstrating extremely bad form and it's past time for this to stop.

I urge her supporters to give some thought to what's best for our country at this point and what they can do to support that.

Reality Check:

Senator Obama has not been outspending Hillary Clinton.

She has had Bill Clinton making several appearances a day in all the States. If he were not doing that, he would be earning up to a million dollars a day in appearance fees. That means that Bill and Hillary are actually spending up to a million more per day, in addition to the amount that they have had to report.

Lanny Davis gave us 8 years of GWB... had Bill resigned in 1998 as he should have, a President
Gore would have defeated GWB decisively... Furthermore, what Monica-gate demonstrated is the HRC is too damn stupid to be president... Bill had cheated on her over and over and she "forgave" me over and over... damn, girl, when are you going to wise up? And then she pretends to be surprised that her philandering husband is getting is dick sucked by a adolescent intern. Please...

When this all started I was planning to vote for Hillary, as an Independent. She did in fact have this nomination by default. She had it big. It was hers to lose. And she lost it. She lost it big. From the complacent assumption that she'd win fast w/no plan for a drawn-out campaign to the flailing attempts every step after that, she lost it. She threw it away. And she threw away my vote. Obama started out as a no-name and has apparently beaten the presumptive nominee, the one who was already wearing the crown and striding down the red carpet. He walked right up and plucked it from her head while she was waving at the crowd, and she let him do it. She had what should have been an unbeatable machine coupled with huge name recognition. She has proven that she is not a tenacious fighter, that she will not be ready on day one, and that she does not have what it takes. The only thing she has proven that she is a colossal failure. It has been a painful thing to watch.

When Obama started to be a real threat early-on she could have easily trounced him. Easily. All she needed to do was pick up his grass-roots "change" message and run with it. But she didn't. Instead, she chose to do all those things that have caused so much grief & division within the Democratic Party. How can you go from being known for many years as a fighter for minorities & being married to the "first black President" to losing virtually the *entire* black vote in this country? How? Obama didn't do this to her. She did it to herself.

She insists on staying in this race. It isn't over, so why should Obama shrink from making the tactical moves necessary to put the final nails in the coffin? To appease her supporters? Are you kidding? She herself said, "if you can't stand the heat then get out of the kitchen". And her supporters cheered. She then gets slammed with a tactical hammer, one that in my view was brutal yet well within the bounds of "civil" politics. He didn't tell any lies or make misleading insinuations, as far as I know. Nope. But, now her supporters are mad after cheering for toughness? C'mon.

IMO she has shown herself to be nothing more than a pandering, dishonest politician who really isn't interested in anything but power. I don't want 4-8 more years of another one of those and so far Obama looks a lot less like one than anyone else. A LOT less. Am I wrong about Obama? Maybe. But I know I'm not wrong about Hillary. Just like I wasn't wrong about GW. And about Bill Clinton. And now I've get some schadenfreude with Hillary. It is a guilty pleasure - sometimes I feel genuinely bad about it because none of this was necessary. But I keep looking at what she has done these last few months, looked at them through the lens of the previous 8 years of Bush & Co, and the 8 years before that, and I've decided that she does NOT have what it takes to be a good president. In fact, she has many qualities similar to GW but with a relatively sharp mind. That's a bad combination. Bad.

If Hillary somehow takes the nomination then I've got a tough decision to make: to sit out the election or to hopefully protect the supreme court by voting for a person that has lost my respect and earned my ire.