I’ve read a few posts here postulating that this is a pro-Obama article. I beg to differ. While it is not the absurd slanted tripe we’ve been subjected to for the past two days, it is not really quite yet what I would call really Obama leaning. At best… it’s neutral. But I think there are several sly slants that still tip the scales toward HRC while posturing as candidate neutral.

“Folks agree with Barack Obama in at least one Pennsylvania trailer park. But will angry voters help or hurt Democrats in swing states this fall?”

Trailer park? Now that seems an elitist descriptive. Also the headline calls into question weather Obama getting the ‘angry voters’ all riled up will help Democrats. Not exactly pro is it?

“he'd be happy to go for Obama in November. (Or Hillary Clinton, for that matter.)”

Ah he’d go for Hillary too… nice to know that.

“If Clinton holds on to a big share of the blue-collar Democratic vote, as she did in Ohio last month, she'll win, as polls show she's on track to do.”

Ah good to know HRC is still winning… just like Ohio folks.

“So while Obama and Clinton fight on…”

Oh haven’t you heard? It’s over. She can’t win. The contest is finished.

“McCain's campaign is already planning to remind people, again and again, of this week's controversy. McCain also sent out a fundraising e-mail about Obama's remarks -- as did Obama, defending himself against attacks from his rivals. Clinton, for her part, has an ad about it on Pennsylvania TV stations.”

Well… there you go again…calling it a controversy. What controversy. HRC and McCain played politics and twisted what Obama said to hurt him. When Obama clarifies his point and voters nod in agreement the McClinton’s are the ones who look out of touch and elitist.

“he voted for Bush in 2000 but supports Clinton this time”

What… they couldn’t find ONE angry voter that supports Obama? They’ve been all over these threads the past few days.

“A lifelong Democrat, White says she'll vote for Obama next week. "It's a bad time in the world," she said. "People are bitter."”

Whew… finally in the last sentence an unabashedly pro-Obama supporter. Was that so hard?

Now what doesn’t this article say? It doesn’t say that HRC aligned herself with Republican talking points and methods to try to hurt Obama. It doesn’t say that his honest response is resonating with voters yet again (see latest national poll after this silly dust up), and it seems the whole falsely created controversy has backfired once more.

So Salon… nice try… I do give you a few points for this article not being in league with the bizzaro- world screeds of the past few days. Yet… try harder.

McClinton... McWalsh... McGarbage.

there once was a mag named Salon

who's editor's rants would drone on

her view was quite slanted

the readers; disenchanted

refused to put up with the con

twas sad that a site once so liberal

spouted nonsense with logic quite illiteral

cried the posters beware!

the increasing despair

of the thought of McCain's inaugural

so Joan please come to your senses

your objectivity! what a pretense is!

the Fat Lady's sung

the Bell's toll has rung

it's time to start mending fences!

And the Democrats loose. I also thought for a long time this contest was good for the party and the candidates... I no longer believe that this is so. If the Clinton campaign continues to blindly swing like a punch drunk loosing fighter, even to the point of self immolation, all we do is throw away what should have been a given victory in November. Let's all remember just a few weeks ago Obama was down by 25 points... he wiped away 15. I think he would have done even better, but the slash and burn negativity of the Clinton campaign, along with the ambush of Obama by ABC and former Clinton insider Stephonopolis, stopped his momentum in Penn. Now... how much worse do things have to get to overthrow what is going to be an Obama victory? I really don't want to have to see that.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/opinion/23wed1.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin

This editorial from a paper that has endorsed Clinton. I suppose they are just young and naive...

Right... and right on cue the new Shapiro lead on Salon is "Obama can't close the deal".

Where is the "Clinton can't Win" article? Penn has not changed the facts at all.

This is the last moment that Clinton will look relevant. It is over. She lost. All of this hang wringing is just silly.

I am sad that my opinion of both Clinton's has gone into the toilet. I was a fan of Bill. When he was impeached I was very vocal in my opposition. I thought that the Right Wing gave him a raw deal. The Clintons have become what they once despised. By playing the same games against Obama they have damaged the Democratic Party and altered the prism that History will use to view Bill's presidency.

I am boycotting Joan. No more posts there. Her pretend blog today was an insult to our intelligence. Joan... just come out of the closet for Hillary and have done with it. It's ok... we won't hate you if you do. What we hate is all of this crazy twisting tortured pretense prose posing as... as what exactly? Certainly not writing truth from the heart. That's why Clinton lost... it just doesn't ring true to those who listen. Phony is as Phony does.