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I'm trying to think deeper about this notion that the longer they fight out each state, the better it is for the winner. I'm thinking about it with my tired brain.

Ok, two possible futures:

#1: In three days, Hillary steps down, giving a powerful speech of congratulations (for Barack) and thanks (for her supporters), a speech which makes clear she is more than ready to start helping get Barack in the oval office.

#2: Hillary fights it out in Kentucky and W. Virginia, telling as many people as possible in both states that Obama can't win against McCain, that he is out of touch with the people, suggesting he is naive and not ready to protect the country...all that.....

What is the rational that Obama is helped by #2? Look, I'm not making the ridiculously righteous argument that Clinton should step down. I'm just thinking about the practical reality of her continuing to go into states making commercials and giving speeches with all the implications and explicit criticisms of Obama. I know you are a big believer that the longer this goes, the better for Obama....but I want to really see the reasoning here. I'll admit that my blind-spot might be that I am hoping Obama wins in November...

so, which button would you push?

#1 or #2?

You're right: 4 years of watching a misty eyed dreamer fumbling for pens and pencils, sharing tea with tyrants and acting as if the poorest are upset at our country's glory. 4 years of listening to powerful speeches and then watching him hop off the stage like a little boy and stick is nose high in the air like a psychotic king. We now must look forward to either 4 years of Bush's third term or 4 years marked by letting the leader of the most glorious country on earth slowly learn his way into office, slowly realize that his new terrorist friends are using him and slowly learn that he has no hope of getting four more.

And all we had to do was put the person in office who used to live there, who obviously loves all Americans and who is certainly the greatest uniter-not-divider our country has ever produced.

so flee away, thestar, and send us word of your whereabouts, letting us escape- if only occasionally- from the muddied bed we've now made ourselves. Flee away, staryone, and find refuge from the gathering storm that only She-Who-Can-Not-Be-Named could have blown away with her day-one doggedness and her only-electible obviousness. Keep us in your thoughts as you live a life marked by your better judgment. And please keep a few pieces of hope for those of us still entranced by the millionaire of the misty mountains, the vagrant of vacant valleys...

How can anybody imagine Obama having a positive effect on this country? You've got to have brains to help. You've got to really care to help. You've got to have lived there to help. And you absolutely positively without a shadow of a doubt have to have collected more support than your opponant to even win!

Obama was such a long shot to defeat Clinton. He was such a long shot that I'm not convinced we can consider his victory a true one. He was not expected to be able to run an effective campaign to take down Clinton; in fact, maybe he didn't. Maybe he ran such a poor, unorganized, unintelligent campaign that his "victory" was more like the culling of the dazed masses.

Obama was not supposed to be this effective. Are we, as true democrats, really willing to slip into the trance he's pushing? He was suppose to get trounced by Her. Are we, as people who care about the future, really willing to support a man who is laughing his way to the bank? Barack Obama has NEVER been president. He has NEVER been a senator as long as Clinton and he has NEVER said he is ready on day one. Are we, the true hope for the future, going to support a man doesn't even have the press credentials as the Maverick McCain.

We must remind everybody we meet in these tired and tedious days that Barack can only sink the battered ship of America faster than it's already sinking. Vote for anybody but the man who wasn't suppose to have this success. Anybody.

I will eat an imaginary shoe if goes with Richardson...I can't hardly imagine it. I'm not even sure if I have an opinion on it yet. Don't make me start thinking this early in the morning.

There is a rumor that Barack is waiting to see how wins Dancing with the Stars before he announces his VP. I can't wait!

I know that some of you are looking forward to Joan's comments today because you want fresh opportunities to fight her courageously.

But I just want to see what she has to say on such a big day in the political world!!!!

What did Joan talk about on Hardball today?