I have backed away from my more sharp, ad hominem invective previously used to describe Clinton, but that does not change the fact that time and time again she has proved herself to be: (1) antithetical to progressive ideals, (2) opposed to curtailing the abuses of corporations-as-individuals over the rights of individual citizens, (3) unable to come out against the abuses of our surveillance state, its juntas, its secret prisons and its suspension of habeas corpus, which is a silly little right that the right wing considers to "faggy" and "lilly livered" to grant equally to all human beings.

She is opposed to freedom of speech (by supporting anti-flag burning amendments and restrictions of video game producers), she is anti-Arab and pro-Empire (by supporting the AUMF), anti-Farsi/Persian (by granting war powers to Bush in a legislative fiat proclaiming the Iranian Republican Guard a "terrorist organization"), anti-privacy, anti-fourth amendment, etc by supporting and continuing to support various reauthorizations of the Patriot Act, and until Senator Dodd, emboldened by a netroots movement to stop telecom immunity gained traction, was in favor of the Protect America Act, not only granting extra-constitutional rights to the President and his agents, but forgiving felonies committed by companies acting as agents of the government to spy on Americans without the authority of anhy sort of due process whatsoever.

When I do it, its called wire tapping, and I go to jail. When AT&T does it, they get a pat on the head and lucrative government contracts.

When are you planning on endorsing McCain officially, and how long have you been against the reproductive rights of women?

I'm just wondering because YOU STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN BEHIND OBAMA OR LAUNCHED AN ATTACK AGAINST MCCAIN.

Get with the program.

Tom, sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.

Finally..

(it's a joke)

Joan Walsh -- I expect nothing less that a full on, turned up to 11, land, sea and air assault on John McCain starting...

..now.

Please tell me there is a 10,000 word, in depth, investigative piece about Rapture Death Cults in the works, for starters.. And a dry but thorough look at McCain's finances.

Actually, true story:

I was in Phoenix, Arizona last week working and it just so happened that the Arizona Convention Center, across the street from my hotel, was supposed to be where a low-key, big ticket fund raiser for McCain was going to happen, but at the last minute it was switched to a private residence.

On Wednesday Night, sitting at Steve's Grill across the street from the Hyatt Regency Phoenix, I overhear a man and a women, over drinks, lamenting the fact that the secret service had to remove everyone's stemware once "He" (the hushed tones, it turned out later, was in fact a sign of deference to none other than the President) had arrived.

As if some well-heeled tycoon would have a moment of clarity, shatter his Spiegelau and head for the President's jugular in a fit of guilt and conscience.

Anyway, the fact that there was even a fund raiser in PHX at the same time as my business trip, that I had to breath the same hot air as those pricks, was all news to me.

Do you know why it was news to me? Because Salon.com isn't covering the Republican nominee.

Well, now when I say that the nomination of Barack Obama is a fete accomplis I really mean it. Please, work with us to ensure that he is installed in the White House come January.

Well, if a lay person understands something to be Constitutionally appropriate, then what do we need expert opinions from Constitutional lawyers for? Obviously, a fiercely partisan and obtuse executive wouldn't dream of abusing power.

I think that the VP nod should go to a Democrat.

Don't overextend yourself in sounding enthusiastic:

June 4, 2008 | NEW YORK CITY -- All that was missing were the confetti cannons, the balloon drop and the TV screens flashing 2,118, the magic number for a Democratic convention majority. Barack Obama declared victory in idiosyncratic fashion, with a tough general-election speech at the site of this September's Republican Convention, and on a night when he lost a primary (South Dakota's) most had expected him to win. (He won Montana's contest.) The first-term Illinois senator was propelled to the nomination by Tuesday's rush of support from superdelegates, those members of Congress and party insiders who once were purported to be an undemocratic cabal out to rescue Hillary Clinton.

No, Wally, Barack Obama won fair and square. Squarely. Stop splitting hairs. The Clinton campaign is over.

With us or against us..

Congratulations!

The fine folks over at SalonParody have deigned to give you an award. How magnanimous of them. Personally, I think you are a lunatic and its time to just give up, but, I must at least give you credit for pluck.

Link in sig.

Is it Kstone? Spacecaboobie? Sagcat? Susan Sunflower?

Or, is it Alex Koppelman. Salon reports, you decide!