It's time for the Clinton supporters to put their knives away. It's time for them, like many of us, to acknowledge that no matter who the Democratic contender is in November, they'll support that individual.

I'll vote for Clinton if she wins the nomination, even though I've often thought she's a lesser candidate.

Why can't you say the same about Obama?

Why can't you close ranks, now, that the race is almost over?

Are you Democrats? Do you care if the war in Iraq continues, and innocents continue to die, for a hundred years?

Put aside your rancor. Senator Clinton has done her best, as has Senator Obama. Let's pledge, here and now, to support whoever wins.

>You and Obama keep attacking Clinton, and yet you want us to support you.

And you and Clinton keep attacking Obama. I've made the pledge: I'll support the Democratic.

If you don't support the Democrat--and it could well still be Clinton--you're simply voting for more war, more death, more women and children gunned down for corporate power.

Is that what you want?

I'll support Clinton, if she's the nominee. Why won't you support Obama, in similar circumstances? Are you eager for four more years of war and botched Republican policies? I don't think so.

Obama made a mistake--he got the name of the camp wrong.

Hillary lied about an event, repeatedly--it never happened in any way, shape or form.

Doesn't everybody see how those two things are exactly alike?

If you don't, it's just because you must hate Hillary.

>It's simply not possible to be a progressive and express this much ugliness towards others.

For once, Katex and I agree.

Too bad she doesn't see where most of the ugliness actually lies.

I'm to the point now where my paranoia is *stoked.* I don't think one-tenth of these so-called "Clinton supporters" are that. I mean, who would be so foolish? Who would be so deliberately alienating?

I think this is Operation Chaos on another level--the Right dividing the Center and the Left.

I think we're looking at the holdout position of the Republican Party--see if they can pretend that the Democrats are eating their own.

We have about a week left. Then all Democrats will close ranks behind the nominee.

Those who choose to vote Republican or stay home must acknowledge, at that point, the blood on their hands in voting for continued war and the destruction of life on this planet.

I'll vote for the Democrat.

Will you?

I'm not going to trudge through 500 letters, so let me ask those of you who have: has Joan appeared again in these letters? Has she complained that her "inegrity" has been attacked?

Ms. Walsh has as much "integrity" left as Hillary's press secretary. I wouldn't mind if she wouldn't insult our intelligence with cries of her supposed neutrality. She's repeating the same HRC talking points we see in 90% of the HRC supporter letters here (the other 10% are pretty much incoherent rants).

Joan Walsh is no more a journalist than the folks at Fox News. Salon, which once spoke truth to power, now speaks with the voice of the Clinton campaign (save, of course, for Glenn Greenwald).

I don't even trust Salon to list the AP stories correctly.

I'm voting for the Democrat this fall.

The youth vote will turn out. I'll turn out.

I'm only 55.

These kinds of GOP ads are, and always have been, way beyond the pale--but that's the kind of guys the Grand Old Potty are.

Can you imagine what would happen if somebody ran a "Manchurian Candidate" ad on McCain? No more than the truth, of course...."Captured by Communists in the hey-day of their regime, held by the same kind of brain-washing mass murderers who turned some of our Korean POWs against America, we know that John McCain was tortured daily by the Vietnamese Communists and their Chinese masters...who knows what else was done to him? It's the questions we can't answer that worry us. The Chinese remain Communist; what do we need to know about John McCain and his time in a Chinese-controlled Vietnamese prison before he puts his finger on the button?"

Luckily for McCain, nobody in the Democratic Party would do such a thing. Or would they?

I've posted repeatedly about Joan's lack of integrity in her job as editor and about how I'm leaving Salon when my sub is up.

I'm waiting to hear back from them.

Keating Keating

Repeat it five times, and make people remember what it means.

Yeah, I'm thinkin' that this is nonsense, something in the vein of an April Fool's joke (do the kids call that "being punked" now? Or is that 'pimping'? Does your ride get punked, or pimped? I'm an old man...I can't keep up with all this newfangled intertubes junk). Anyway, if we're not being punked, then it might be nice for the author to give us some sense of how seriously we're supposed to take this. More "Treble Madness?"

O's campaign needs to focus on only two things (and at that, I worry: can the typical American voter keep two things in their heads at once?):

1) McCain/Palin=More of the Same

2) The Economy

Any other issues are distractions.

I'm shocked, Rick, shocked, that the Republicans are lying in their ads.

Will somebody in the mass media please, please, please do an article on McCain's scandal-ridden past? How about his wife's drug addiction?

KEATING FIVE KEATING FIVE KEATING FIVE

It's the same scandal as today, just with 80's hair.

Child molesters have rights not to have their computers examined--if they're members of the Congress.

Who knew? Presages a whole new class of candidates, don't it?