Hillary Clinton's speech was great. For Salon posters, I think it will divide by three: (1) those who still think that she is evil and will try to destroy Obama; (2) those who still think that she is great because she will try to destroy Obama; and (3) those who are not completely blinded by their prejudices and/or getting paid by Republicans to create friction among Democrats.

Obama/Biden '08!

All this talk of whether a neo nazi meth head could kill Obama at 750 yards or whether they posed an imminent threat or not since Obama isn't even in town yet is really odd. To be guilty of a criminal conspiracy, one does not have to have a good plan. "Reasonable likelihood of success" is not an element of the crime. You could have the most lame brained plan to rob Fort Knox and you could get busted on Monday when you weren't even planning to rob Fort Knox until early Thursday morning and still be convicted of conspiracy to rob Fort Knox.

Conspiracy is just a fancy word for 'made plans with other people and did something to make it happen.' Basically, the elements in most jx are (1) an agreement between two or more parties; (2) to commit a crime; (3) with knowledge and actual participatation (i.e., the guy at the WalMart who sells you the gun is probably NOT a co-conspirator); and (4) an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. What do we have here? Apparently an agreement between at least two people to commit murder with knowledge of the plan and active participation who have brought together weapons to commit the murder. That's not looking good. I guess in their meth addled neo nazi way they could just be drug smugglers looking for some street cred, but taking the rap for some firearms and drugs seems much better than spending the better part of your miserable life in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass penitentiary for conspiracy to commit murder.

I mean, of course these asshats have a stupid plan. THEY ARE NAZI METH HEADS! If they really thought they could hit Obama by anything but accident at 750 yards they are high. Well, that is a possible answer as to the role of meth in their lives. They were high and thought that driving around in a crappy car with a broken tail light (or whatever), firearms and illegal drugs was a good idea. Does that mean we shouldn't be worried about meth head white supremacists with rifles planning to shoot black men in suits at or near the Pepsi Center? Um, no. Just because they would only have hit Obama by blind luck doesn't mean they were harmless. Yeah, instead of being convicted for the murder of Obama, they would only have been convicted of the attempted murder of Obama and, depending on the breaks, possibly the murder of some bystander.

Reggeaton and republicans seem like a good match, as both are painful to listen to for any length of time. One of the best things about leaving Miami to come back to L.A. was getting away from reggeaton. I'll take Mexican ranchero music anyday.

Are you sure? What kind of entity is a political campaign? If it is a corporation or limited liability company, then I don't see how its insolvency would forever cripple Clinton's ability to run for president. In other words, just because "HRC '08 for President, LLC" goes bankrupt, doesn't mean that the assets of the llc's members can be attached in bk. Most likely, the campaign will do its best to pay off first those who actually expect to get paid regardless of the campaign's success, then people like Penn, who probably expect that some campaigns will fail and go into bk. Those "losses" then could get used to offset profits made shilling for other campaigns, foreign countries and whatnot. I mean, I could be wrong, but that seems reasonable.

He is good, but not as much as if her name was "Poon". "Pun" would also work, but only for people in the know. I'm guessing there would be a lot of comments about underage Pun.

Nobody is saying that Lolo Jones deserves an Olympic medal. She lost, fair and square. That said, some of us don't feel the need to shit all over her because she tripped on a hurdle. I'm disappointed in her defeat and still proud that she represented my country. Is that so hard for you to understand?

Whatevs.

Signed,

Dumb, deluded NBA fan

The Democratic nomination fight is over. Obama won and Clinton lost. Yet here in War Room, it never ends, especially when Schaller is at the helm. This time Schaller's back with a classic dog bites man story: former upper eschelon Clinton campaign worker blames something other than his/her own work for the campaign's failure. Awesome! Now Obama's supporters and Clinton's supporters can come back out for another round. "Obama sucks!" "No way! It's Clinton who sucks!" It's still as fresh as it was way-back-when, really. Who an forget Schaller's classic anti-Bill Clinton post "Bill Clinton Denies Being Racist" and the resulting fight between Obama and Clinton supporters? I'm still seething! Who can forget where they were when some PUMA group you never heard of said something horribly terrible about . . . something or other . . . maybe about how sucky they think Obama is . . . or maybe how they still like Clinton. Scandalous!

Salon, please, enough is enough. I'm happy Obama won. Apparently some Clinton people still like Clinton better and/or are still bitter. I guess some people like Schaller are still bitter that some Clinton people are still bitter. Whatever. Can War Room please move on now?

For all the hysterics and strum and drang and teeth-gnashing on all sides of this mess, 5 1/2 years for ObL's driver and bodyguard seems kind of reasonable. Maybe next time, our government can get this result without all the torture and human rights violations. That would be an improvement.