...But if hating Hillary is more important to the loony left than winning the general election, keep piling on the scorn, misogyny and disrespect. Then you can be happy when your candidate joins the long line of Democratic presidential losers and we're fighting unnecessary wars till kingdom come courtesy of John McCain and the neocons.

What we have here is a Democratic Party that has been infiltrated by a lot of REPUBLICANS and Independents (who shift support on anything with the wind) united in their hatred of Hillary Clinton. And Barack Obama has easily and stealthily taken the Hillary hatred and used it very deftly in his "hope" campaign.

I think it is stunning that we have a Democratic canididate who is actively trying on Republican garb while he is stealthily accusing a moderate DEMOCRAT of being a "Republican-in-drag" all the while he and many in his campaign have effectively coopted the Democratic Party for an anti-Hillary Clinton agenda, using right-wing tactics and talking points.

Karl Rove would be proud...

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Funniest thing I've read tonight.

and bomb lobber.

It was only towards the end of her speech that Clinton acknowledged the dire situation in which she finds herself...

This has been a long campaign, and I will be making no decisions tonight...

Dire situation? DIRE? Surely you jest! By any stretch of the imagination, 17.5 million voters ain't dire...

In labor negotiations, 17.5 million voters (50% of the 35 million people who have voted) is a huge bargaining chip.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the sorry-a**ed state of our media - even the "new" and improved Internet media!

... It's interesting timing, of course, given the overwhelming trend in the opposite direction.

Counting the earlier endorsement from Jon Ausman, a DNC member from Florida, as of this post Clinton picked up 1.5 superdelegate votes on Tuesday. Because he's from Florida, Ausman has only half a vote at the Democratic convention.

Not everybody is "in the tank" or on the Obama Express. Koppelman, apparently, hasn't noticed and of course could care less. Like his MSNBC cohorts, Koppelman seems to want to drive the election, rather than cover it; and he doesn't care whether he pours gasoline on already-raw wounds in the Democratic Party.

I can assure him, though, that his ilk and their thumbing-the-nose behavior - exhibited by so many in the media this election season - will not serve him or the media well.

A tipping point has been reached: among many, many people who have seen the way media accuracy, fairness, and objectivity have been tossed out the window in favor of active electioneering and driving news coverage; that tipping point has also been reached among women, who have no more tolerance for the snide, hostile, sexist, demeaning and dismissive way(s) that he and other male "journalists" (a term I use very loosely) have stomped on Hillary Clinton, Clinton's supporters, and women like Wyoming's superdelegate.

Keep it up, Koppelman. You're burning your own future and the future of real journalism - something you have little respect for.

How anybody who reads the "rules" can believe this is a compromise is smoking something...or in denial.

What the DNC did was a travesty. It was an in-your-face 'dis to Clinton and her supporters; it broke one of its highest constitutional principles, and it seriously undermined any hope for "unity".

And as for Barack Obama's "outmaneuvering", yeah, he did that alright. Are you aware that his caucus delegates carry the weight of approximately 15 individual voters? Anybody who is concerned about how much weight each superdelegate has per voter ought to be damned concerned about the weight of caucus delegates in our democratic process. And have you read the back story of his "maneuvers" in Chicago to oust Alice Palmer?

And his new "hope" and "unity" messages? All one needs to do is take a look at David Axelrod's failed image branding of John Edwards and Dennis Kucinich, or his winning branding of Deval Patrick.

There is nothing new about Barack Obama. He is the "work" of a corporate branding campaign - that has been fueled by a complacent, sexist, lazy media, nothing more.

If his slash and burn, cut-n-paste, egotistical, sexist, race-baiting campaign gets any more hopeful I'm not sure how I'll stand it...