I think its fair to say she has gotten fairly glowing treatment. She's been treated like the "star." Its ALL about her. the debates. How will the others deal with her, how ddid she do? Obama surges ahead, but its really about her. MCCain focuses on Obama...but, but, what about Hillary. There's that old saying, "There's no such thing as bad publicity."

She's the STAR. Well she turned out to be Norma Desmond.

What does Cokie have to say about John McCain embrassing the endorsement from an evangelical "pastor" who call the Catholic church the "Great Whore", wants all muslims eradicated and says God punished New Orleans because of gays? If that aint attempting to pander to the wackiest most radical element of the party's base, nothing is.

By the way Cokie appeared on NPR. If anyone noticed, NPR ran a week-long series last week on conservatives. It was basically a week long infomercial given over to the usual suspects with no challenge or no opposing veiw point. I wondered if NPR would run a week long series this week on liberal or progressive movements. Notthing...but Cokie dropping her pearls of wisdom.

Barack Hussein Obama, the flag pin, his wife, the African picture, Rezko...to my surprise the only only reaction all of those things got was an eye roll. She thought it was all rediculous, and she's at the point where she's "had it with conservatives." I nearly hit the floor.

I really don't think the usual suspects will get much traction from any of it. It reeks of desperation this time.

In the end, though, Hillary Clinton, herself, is responsible. She's running to be President of the United States. That she has shown such bad judgement in the direction of, the management of and the staffing of her campaign doesn't speak well for her as an effective President.

But I would have really loved it if it had ended with a manicured hand picking up the phone then Obama in Hillary drag saying into the phone, "I'm Barack Obama and I approved this ad."

I think the real problem is her core message which is "this is owed to me."

so why don't they scream from the roof tops over this one. This is the perfect chance to break the Catholic vote away from the GOP where its been moving towards. McCain won't back down on this one, he can't. He desperately needs to court the evangelicals.

,,,more form Obama on the 3AM ad.

"It plays on people's fears to scare up votes... We've had a red phone moment. It was the decision to invade Iraq. And Sen. Clinton gave the wrong answer."

and making phone calls.

When she finally drops out I hope she does the clown sweeping up the spotlight thing after she finishes her speech.

We know she's not a vampire. Vampires look like Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie. I say she was up at 3am fully drressed because she was waiting to catch Bill sneaking back into the White House reeking of John McCain's blond lobbyist's perfume.

I can't wait untill he wanders away from the Straight Talk Express bus and someone at a store or diner has to call the campaign and say, "Don't worry, he's fine. We'll keep him here until you come."

"We've seen these ads before," the Illinois senator said while campaigning in Texas. "They're the kind that play on peoples' fears to scare up votes. Well, it won't work this time. Because the question is not about picking up the phone. The question is: What kind of judgment will you make when you answer?"

Its quickly getting to the point where you see her name in a headline you simply roll your eyes and move on.

She's not offering anything but nutty entertainment at this point, and she's quickly passing that point of no return where she's just a bore. Unfortunately, she's got enough cash so she can stick around for a while. Just like Madonna, Michael Jackson and Tom Cruise, we're stuck with her because she can afford to basically buy attention.

I wish they had used the red light up phone from the old Batman tv series.

And it would have been perfect if it had ended with Hillary Clinton riding a bomb like Slim Pickins in Dr. Strangelove.

When this doesn't work for either, Obama will just be further toughened to future Republican attacks.

I know one place she's gone is from the front page. It seems like she's disappearing from the news. Obama butting heads with McCain with George Bush. Since the debate I've noticed a decrease in Clinton talk. Its as though everyone has already moved on. the real story is now McCain/Obama.

Because he needs to fill the vp spot with a strong foreign policy background.

If McCain shose Bloomberg the evangelicals would take to the streets and go on a holy rampage.

He's painting the Republicans into a corner. McCain is arleady playing games with public financing and you know the Republicans are waiting to unleash their surrogates.

Obama's original responce and this letter make it clear he's not about to be duped.

I'll guess neither campaign will be publicly financed. Obama's playing chicken, and McCain will blink.

My grandfather didn't. He did just fine.

Do I have any explaining to do? Would I be questioned if I ever ran for public office.

The entire issue of his name is rediculous. Unfortunately, there are enough ignorant people for whom it will matter...and enough people very willing to play them.

I don't think it will have any effect, though. It really doesn't seem to be gaining any traction, and using his name as a weapon hasn't gotten a very welcome responce.

It will be very cool when he's sworn in as Barack Hussein Obama. Imagine the look of Bush's face.