As far as I know, all, or nearly all US citizens who were convicted of spying against the US or convicted of treason, were US born. I would like to add one more act of treason by a US born citizen. His name is George W Bush, a native of Connecticut. On 9/12/2001, the only aircraft he allowed to take off was a charted plane carrying members the Bin laden family, destination Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. FBI agents who wanted to question the Bin Laden family members in the aftermath of the worst terrorist attack on US soil were told by Bush surrogates to lay off.

Despite the deep rooted racism, Obama will beat McBush by a landslide. Even the American public understand what 4 more years of this would mean. McBush , beside having no sane vision, accept maybe fighting the whole world and invading Sweden,is a terrible candidate, angry, combustive, inarticulate, clueless on economic and social issues and not very bright. It's understandable why he would run evenly with Obama while Obama is still fighting for his party's nomination and his opponent slamming him day after day and praising McBush. All this is going to change once Obama has secured the nomination in a few days.

It must feel so nice for you to live in a fantasy world in which any connection to reality is purely coincidental.

indicates that Obama now has the private support of 120 of the 260 superdelegates who haven't committed yet publically. This means that he has comfortably locked up even if he loses all remaining primaries, and he'll win 3 of them. It is over. It's nice that the Obama campaign isn't rubbing it in Clinton's face, but there are many delusional characters among Clinton's voters who don't know that denial isn't a river in Africa.

it seems like KateTex, ProudTexasGirl and ShawnWM, all the same GOP troll, decided to get a fresh start and change her/his troll handle to lauriehester.

Rural voters have been screwed so badly because they have provided the victory margins for Republicans since 1980. Think of it as the teenager who insisted on abandoning his decent, although sometime boring friends to hang out with criminals and ended up on skid row. The factors that cause them to vote against their own interests have to do with isolation, ignorance, racism and the need to vote for the person whom they feel is most like them, even if he represents the interests of those who have been screwing them all along. A parallel example can be found in Israel, where the Sephardic Jews, the least educated, most down trodden Jewish demographics, have voted consistently for Likud, against their own interests, because of anti-intellectual, emotional reasons.

Because when you listen to her senior people, the indication is that she will never admit that Obama has won. What I see is a fierce convention battle followed by legal action based on "FL and MI were robbed", I actually won". If she doesn't get the nomination via the courts, she will announce that since the Democratic party has betrayed her and her voters, she is running as an independent. I wouldn't bet one rusty penny that she would ever accept Obama as the nominee.

Francis Gregory Neubeck, Republican, Florida. Failed run for U.S. House of Representatives in Florida in 1986, retired from Air Force to pursue politics. Apparently suckled at the Lee Atwater / Carl Rove teat for dirty politics. Has practically redifine the definition of "the politics of personal destruction". Hate-filled, misogynistic, racist, fact-free castigations of Democrats. An angry little man. An amazingly prolific spewer of despicable rhetoric and outright lies. It's amazing that Salon allows such racist hate mongering trolls to spread their manure here.

is that if Hillary is the nominee, would win the uneducated white vote in November, the one Obama has been having such a hard time with. The reality of course is that those yobos would vote for McBush at roughly the same numbers no matter who the Democratic nominee is. The uneducated white racist vote is fools gold, and it always ends up going to the Republican in November. It's hard to imagine that educated women would vote for McBush just because Hillary lost the nomination-what are they, crazy? The popular vote is also bunk. As long as the primary and general electoral systems are not based on the basic democratic principle where the winner is the candidate who got the most votes, popular vote is a non-factor- just ask President Gore. So when you look at the map, Hillary is staying in the race for psychological reasons-she is as incapable of admitting defeat as my dog is of turning down a juicy bone.

Increasingly, Clinton is operating in a virtual reality programmed by her pollster Mark Penn during his downtime from working for the butchers of Colombia. Adhering to Penn’s fatal calculus, Clinton has endeavored to re-segregate the Democratic Party electorate into demographic segments and then pitted them against each other. The Clinton campaign has intentionally inflamed these simmering antagonisms: black versus Hispanic, black versus white, black versus older women, white collar versus blue collar, young versus old, under-educated versus college grad.

Back in the 1980s, Lee Atwater constructed an illusory Big Tent for Republicans, welcoming inside the Reagan Democrats—if only to soon betray their core interests. This was called the politics of expansion. In contrast, Clinton and Penn are cynically attempting to contract the Democratic base by provoking an internal Hobbesian free-for-all—total warfare of the factions.

What was once coded is now explicit. Clinton openly talks about her appeal among “working, hard working, white voters.” The implication here is that blacks are lazy, shiftless and on the welfare dole and that perhaps only half of their votes should count. But shouldn’t someone remind her that her husband dismantled welfare? Perhaps her former mentor Marian Wright Edelman should make the call.