As some of you will have noticed, I've been posting shrill messages all over this site deriding Hillary, critiquing Salon's Time-Magazine-esque coverage of her campaign, and -- this I regret -- crowing about the change that the progressive youth vote was going to bring to American politics.

Well, I know when I'm licked. The entrenched DC establishment is just too hard to overcome.

However, I've also just sent an email to premiumhelp@salon.com requesting that my Salon subscription be cancelled immediately. This will be my last comment -- welcome news, I'm sure, to those few who have paid any attention to my posts -- and I will no longer be checking the site -- even the Glenn Greenwald blog, which has lately been the only thing worth maintaining a subscription for.

Salon has played a small role -- very small, but, still, a role -- in suppressing (and, perhaps, snuffing out) the encouraging, democratic (small-d), deeply American movement represented by the Obama candidacy. Over time, Salon has evolved into the very thing I came to the site to get away from.

I hope you guys will continue to break important stories about scandals like the Walter Reed disgrace, and I look forward to reading about them as they are reported in places like the Washington Post.

For others who have been unhappy with the way Salon has covered this race: the only way to make an impact is by denying Salon your readership and your financial support.

unalloYed, not unallotted.

I respect the way you fight for coherent principles instead of candidates -- and you're correct that the media's gleeful forecasting and schadenfreude aren't doing much good for anyone.

But I can't get exerted about that kind of stuff right now.

Just let America -- and the Democratic Party -- enjoy this special moment: this rejection of cynicism and dynasty, and this historic influx of young progressive voters.

In the past 12 years, progressives have had so few unalloted triumphs. What's happening in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina is an unalloyed triumph.

I can't remember when an election cycle has made me feel increasingly energized, rather than depleted. America is turning the page.

The only way things could be better is if HRC dropped out and made way for an Edwards/Obama two-way race; Edwards brings so much great stuff to the discussion, and it's a shame that he's been crowded out by the moribund, backwards-looking HRC candidacy.

THIS, not January 1st, is the occasion to say: thanks, Glenn, for your terrific work -- and happy new year to everyone else!

What political organization are you affiliated with? I'd like to quote you on my blog, but I don't know how to attribute your letters.

This new "Obama is George W. Bush" talking-point is pretty interesting.

Ali Abbas has retained the use of his legs. That was my error.

"No, I'm not ready to move on. I remember the 90s, I remember the vitriol, fake scandals, the impeachment. The Clintons were greatly wronged, and the media went right along with it. This in a time of peace and prosperity . . . Also, although Americans do not seem to care about this, the Clintons are loved and respected by other countries."

Sligo, that has to be one of the dreariest candidate-pitches I've ever heard.

Torture, a disastrous war, a coming recession (or possibly depression), the mortgage crisis, skyrocketing gas prices . . . With all we've got on our plates, going back to the 1990s to right the wrongs that were committed against the wealthy and powerful Clinton family is just nowhere on my list of priorities. Not in the top 10,000.

It may be that the Clintons got a raw deal back in the day. But: sligo? We've got much, much bigger fish to fry.

But as long as we're talking about paying penance:

What about the apology that Clinton -- and milquetoast Democrats who continue to enable and defend her -- owe this kid? http://www.aliabbas.net/

What about the penance Hillary Clinton and her defenders owe to this guy? http://images.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/03/10/berman_photo/cover.jpg

Next to this kind of suffering -- cruelly and indifferently inflicted not just by Bush, but by the politicians, like Clinton, who thought more highly of their own careers than of the human lives at stake -- the "unfair scandals" of the 1990s seem like pretty small potatoes.

Sligo, do you have the courage to follow those links, and then to consider -- soberly consider -- the gravity of what Hillary Clinton's leadership and "experience" have accomplished?

People on this board will say I'm being shrill. But before you call me shrill, look at those pictures.

Ty Ziegel will be like that FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. When your 3-year-old kid is graduating high school, Ty Ziegel will still have toes where his thumbs should be.

Ali Abbas will be like that FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE. When you retire to your beach house in Ft. Lauderdale 30 years from now, Ali Abbas will still be without arms or legs, or relatives; thanks in part to the leadership of Democrats like Hillary Clinton, his whole family was blown to bits, his body chopped to mash.

Please -- don't try to make us cry for Hillary Clinton.

Finally: are you implying that the world community will be less than thrilled by a Barack Obama presidency? Sorry -- but that dog won't hunt.

Or is it the same person posting comment after comment under the same name?

I'm just having trouble reckoning with this side of the Salon readership?

You truly can't imagine why someone who didn't hate women -- who would love for a woman to become president -- would be fighting this awful candidate with every ounce of his or her strength?

Where was this weirdo angle during the run of Liddy Dole -- or Carol Moesley Braun?

Sorry -- reflex.

Nice piece, Gary.