What award does HRC get for pulling out Obama's kindergarten essays? What award does she get for letting her staff call Obama a drug dealer? Or is racism beyond the purview of Broadsheet?

“slago” writes:

“I have been watching the Clintons for many years , since he was Gov of my state. Hillary has grown by her experience , she is a tireless advocate for womens and childrens issues”

Perhaps you missed the part where she was on the board of WalMart from 1986-1992, where she aided and abetted Wal-Mart’s ongoing union crackdowns, gender biased labor practices, not to mention their trade in foreign manufactured products made, in large part, by children locked in sweatshops halfway across the planet.

Here is a link that sums things up nicely:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-tasini/hillary-and-walmart-a-l_b_15235.html

Since you never posted on Salon before, I’ll assume you are a paid flack for the HRC campaign. If not, and you sincerely mean it when you write, “She goes up against special interests , she is more liberal than Bill…” then you are simply an ill informed fool.

While this could constitute a tactical error if the Obama camp had authorized it (which it didn’t), the story itself is a nonissue. The actions of an obscure precinct captain is only being ramped up by the Hillary trolls to obscure the fact that they are once again calling Obama a cokehead in public (via their endorsement of Bob Johnson’s recent comments and subsequent lies about his meaning).

Furthermore, nothing that the man said appears to be incorrect. HRC DID vote to authorize the war, HRC IS polarizing (look at the effect she is having on Dems; now imagine that in a general election), HRC DOES gladly take money from lobbyists and the most ruthless corporate interests (including a Hillary Clinton fundraiser thrown by Rupert Murdoch http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12762092/)

The precinct captain is also correct that Obama is far more popular among independent voters than HRC, as the recent primaries in Iowa and NH demonstrated.

If the man wanted, he could have added a few other facts, like HRC voted in favor of Bush’s recent Iran resolution, she sat on the board of WalMart from 1986-1992, she favors a constitutional amendment to ban flag burning and she has long and strong ties to right wing fundamentalist organizations inside the beltway (http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/hillarys-prayer.html)

Count on this, if Hillary Clinton is the Democratic Candidate in 2008, we will have squandered our opportunity to run a REAL Democrat and can look forward to four years of President McCain before we will get another shot.

Seems the bass playing, Chuck Norris goofing, goodfeller veneer is starting to crack and the crazy, CRAZY things this guy actually believes are starting to shine through.

While 1/3 of the American electorate is ostensibly fundamentalist, that still means 2/3 of us are not. That's not a glass half full, that's a glass 2/3 full, and it skews toward people who have more education and/or are younger. In other words, those with more immediate influence and those with more future influence.

The right wing Xian crazies are a powerful, well funded, and shout-y minority, but they are only a minority, and one who is and has been on the Wrong Side of History (GLBT segregation is only an extention of their prior support for racial segregation). As the "greatest" generation goes to the grave and the more progressive baby boomers become the elders, we will see this outdated world view begin to fade more and more into history. They know it intuitively, and THAT is why they have begun to shout so loudly. It is the first death cries of the dying paradigm.

This comic is the best thing that has happened to me all week (it's been a rough week).

BTW, the food thing isn't a joke. Years ago I worked as a waiter at a very nice restaurant and we would recycle bread all the time. Also, if they serve appetizer bread and also have homemade bread pudding on the menu, you can bet that your bread pudding is in its second or third incarnation.

Still, working in a restaurant doesn't turn you off to restaurants, it just gives you a more nuanced view of "dirty".

I agree that Edwards is the most electable in a general election, but he isn't looking good in the primary. If he fails to gain traction in his home territory of South Carolina, I really hope he will do the tactically correct thing and bow out before Super Tuesday. Right now he and Obama are splitting the "Change" vote and pushing HRC toward victory in the primary.

I, for one, agree with The Vicar.

Regarding electablility, unlike HRC, it is not only weak anecdotal evidence that demonstrates the crossover appeal of Obama, but hard and consistent polls among the general population of independent voters.

Obama still has a strong chance, however. It looks like he is going to win pretty strongly in South Carolina. If Edwards takes the hint and then drops out, Obama may benefit from the Edwards runoff on Super Tueday. If Edwards stays in through Super Tuesday, HRC is likely to be the nominee. In that scenario--Bloomberg, of course is the wildcard--John McCain will be the next president.