I think John Lennon had it right:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5lMxWWK218

Think about it...

Obama won't win...Obama won't win...Obama won't win...

I'm old. I'm 55 years old. I have to enlarge the print on my laptop to see it clearly. I get most of my information from the internet. I watch very little television. I have a 4 year college degree. I was the first person in my family to get a college degree. I was 28 years old when I went to college and 32 years old when I graduated. I was married, raising 2 children, taking care of a home and family and working part-time while I was going to college full-time. I graduated with a 3.48 GPA. I am smart, I am computer literate and I love the internet!

I was young once. Back in the 60's. Way back then, young people like myself were saying, "Don't trust anyone over 30". We marched for civil rights, we protested an unpopular Viet Nam war, we witnessed the assassination of a president, a civil rights leader and a presidential candidate (the candidate of choice for young and idealistic people). We had our consciousness raised in so many different ways. It was a heady time, full of young people's energy. a social revolution. I loved being a part of it! Lots of things changed...and lots of things didn't.

In 1968, we idealists supported a candidate named George McGovern. He was going to end the war and champion the people. Hubert Humphrey eventually became the democratic nominee and he was defeated in the general election by Richard Nixon. The rest is history. So, I understand how exciting it is to be able to get behind a candidate who seems to stand for a change from the status quo and more representative of your own generation. I am happy and encouraged by the younger generation's spirited participation in this presidential campaign. It bodes well for our future. Because it takes an involved electorate to keep politicians from succumbing completely to the powerful few. So keep it up! Keep going! Keep supporting and fighting for the candidate of your choice! The more of us involved the better!

I became a feminist way back then and I am still fighting the good fight.

So, I am supporting Hillary Clinton to become the FIRST woman president of the United States!

You keep fighting the good fight for the candidate of your choice too!!

I can appreciate your arguments for why Sen. Clinton finds herself in this current predicament. However, I don't know if she could have done much about the "perceived viability" of Sen. Obama that was, to a great degree, imparted to him by the media. Sen. Clinton has had to overcome formidable obstacles, including: media bias, anti-Clintonism, sexism and elitism, and she is still standing. I don't know many people could have endured what she has for the past 25 years in her public life and still have the enthusiastic energy she has for serving the people.

For many reasons, in the past, the Democratic party has paid little attention to caucus states during their nominating campaigns. Sen. Obama's campaign managers took advantage of this oversight and built an impressive series of wins that jump started his campaign. When the DNC decided to not accept the primary date changes of Michigan and Florida, even though they accepted Nevada's and New Hampshire's, and thus, did not count their votes or their delegates in any way, it helped Sen. Obama and hurt Sen. Clinton in the numbers game that is being touted, to this day, as the justification for choosing the Democratic nominee. I think this is when the democratic presidential campaign became fractured. Now we are left to infighting over perceived injustices and inequities. This did not have to be, but it is what it is, and now we have to make sure that in the end, we have the most electable candidate representing the Democratic party in November.

I happen to believe that person is Sen. Clinton.

That will be the headline on Nov. 9, 2008 if Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee.

How ironic the use of that word has become! "Thank you" Joan for continuing to fight the good fight! Goodness knows it been extremely difficult in the face of the "heavy handed" tactics of Clinton nay-sayers. I wouldn't be reading Salon if it wasn't for your editorials. Keep up the good work! Also, you did great on "Hardball" (such an appropriate name). You gave as good as you got!

Why is it that any time anyone says out loud what is obviously true about Obama, his "friends" and his connections to questionable people, that they are immediately shot down? I, for one, am getting very nervous about Obama's relationships. We have the right to know more about the people our presidential candidates are associating with. I am not going to bury my head in the sand and "see no, hear no, speak no evil" just because other people have decided to forfeit critical judgement of him. The position of President of the United States is not to be trifled with, and neither is the future direction of our country. Choosing a president is serious business and those applying for the job deserve to be examined thoroughly.