OK, this will be short!  I love TPM!  It is better than any other site!  I have been with you for more than 2 years, but I don't have hours and hours and hours and hours to go over and over and over and over posts that I have already read.

The old site colored  new posts differently than those I had already clicked on and (theoretically read), so I know it is possible.  I know that there are bugs, but this is a topic I have not heard mentioned.  Are you working on it?

When I click on a topic that has more than 30 responses (indicating a topic that is generating  s lot of interest from many of our posters) I happily scroll down that list.  If I come back in an hour or a day and find that there are now 50, or 130 responses, and I can't tell which ones I have already read, I waste whole bunches of time!!!!!!!!!!!!  Also,  if I am trying to have a conversation with another poster,  the delay makes that moot.  (That is something that I have heard you're working on.  Please address the subject of new postings!  and don't get distracted by the other argument)

Surely you KNOW this, or it wouldn't have worked so well at the old site!

oh, and by the way --- I got kicked off, but fortunately I saved this post and am posting it again!  HOPEFULLY

I just saw this over at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/13/bill-clinton-flashback-al_n_96433.html

This is what Bill was saying in 1991 when he was running for President:

"You know, he [Bush] wants to divide us over race. I'm from the South. I understand this. This quota deal they're gonna pull in the next election is the same old scam they've been pulling on us for decade after decade after decade. When their economic policies fail, when the country's coming apart rather than coming together, what do they do? They find the most economically insecure white men and scare the living daylights out of them. They know if they can keep us looking at each other across a racial divide, if I can look at Bobby Rush and think, Bobby wants my job, my promotion, then neither of us can look at George Bush and say, 'What happened to everybody's job? What happened to everybody's income? What ... have ... you ... done ... to ... our ... country?'"

Compare these remarks to Obama's statement, reported by Mayhill Fowler for Huffington Post's OffTheBus:

Here's how it is: in a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long, and they feel so betrayed by government, and when they hear a pitch that is premised on not being cynical about government, then a part of them just doesn't buy it. And when it's delivered by -- it's true that when it's delivered by a 46-year-old black man named Barack Obama (laugher), then that adds another layer of skepticism (laughter). [...]

But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

I wonder if Hillary thought he was being condescending, but kept it to herself like she did her misgivings about NAFTA?