Joan must know all about are crushes by now!

Morning schedule:

struggle out of bed

pour some coffee

sit down at the computer

yawn and rub eyes

write a bitter letter to Joan that implies she is an example of everything that is wrong with the world

take a piss

go to work

What a way to start the day!!!!!!!

First of all: I didn't know you responded to my post at all. I woke up, took a piss, and saw that Joan had answered my question about her time on the show. I guess that is the rough thing about this comment section; stuff can rather easily get lost behind the cracks....

It wasn't until I started hang out with you folks here that I even heard the word "troll"...I'm not certain I am clear about it, but I guess it has to do with presenting an opinion you really don't have so as to paint a particular person or issue in a negative way.......Is there something else about it.

I did not know Joan had addressed you on what you posted. I read comments about her using the word "creepy toll" but I was unclear what she was talking about. The one thing I remember is that when I read her use of those words, I didn't get the impression she was referring to a specific individual, but that was just my fly by...

to be clear with you: my little joke about people waking up to attack joan was not directed at you. Look, I have no problem that people jump into this blog in the morning and get serious and ask Joan and each other strong, clear questions. I obviously have had no problem sharing with Joan my frustrations and questions related to how she covers the primary. I try to make my frustration be clearly aimed at ideas, not personalities.

So I didn't read your morning post, but it sounds like you took issue with Joan and didn't call her bad names, and didn't pretend she is source of all evil and didn't make sure she knew that she was ruining your day...none of that. My liitle joke post was really poking at all of us, including Joan (to the degree that ever give way to much weight to each other's flaws) but mostly playing with those people who really do honestly start hating other writers who don't agree with them.

Sorry that it seemed like i was responding to or referring to you. And I really appreciate you responding to my question about the show. I'll check it out. Thanks.

For those of you who find my posts a bit grating, please skip to the end and help me locate the source of the interview clip. For those of you who can tolerate me, do the same without the skipping part, please.....

Not only does Joan make sure that I am never the first responder (not yet sure how she pulls that off), but now I see that she comes to the party whenever I go to sleep, denying me a chance to join in the robust interlocutions and swapings of research that goes on here. Not fair. Still considering unsubscribing. I hope that threat gets me what I want. Wouldn't it be great to see, first, the percentage of people who actually unsubscribe after threatening it to Joan and, second, the percentage of those threateners who are actually subscribed in the first place?

For the record, I don't think Obama is a snob at all and I don't think Clinton is racist. I think they each can get caught up in the tactics of the race and, therefore, will sometimes look slimy. But I'd put either of them in charge of my daughters elementary school in a heartbeat. My wish that Hillary had left the race already is not because I don't think she would be a massive improvement upon Bush (no brainer), but simply because it seemed clear Barack had gotten the numbers and I loved the idea of a democratic party that wasn't composed of too many people who "knew" what a greedy, immoral imposter Barack is...and, come on, there is no doubt that Hillary has been and still is hoping that more people see Barack in that light; to some degree that is understandable (she wants to win).

I recieved an email this morning with the following snip from an inteview transcipt with Clinton. Does anybody know where this came from? (kidding, of course)

Hillary Clinton: "My opponent seems to be weakening

in support among working class whites, white Americans

who work hard, or blue collar whites, or whites who

didn't finish college. They're white, and I'm white,

and they're supporting me. There was a story on the

AP, just posted, about this..."

Interviewer: "Are you saying that uneducated whites

won't vote for Senator Obama because he's black?"

HRC: "I'm not going to get into that."

Interviewer: "But that's what you seem to be

suggesting."

HRC: "I'll leave that to the voters."

Interviewers: "No, no. Wait a second. You're saying

that Barack Obama can't win the votes of low income or

blue collar white people, and that YOU can. You seem

to be implying that there is a racial, or racist,

angle behind their decision to support you and to

actively NOT support Senator Obama. Doesn't that

bother you, on some level?"

HRC: "What I'm saying-- and again, I think this is

borne out by the facts-- is that some of us are white,

and some of us are wrong. Wrong for America."

Interviewer: "Are you making a pun?"

HRC: "He's black."

Interviewer: "Okay, we're done here."

HRC: "BLACK!"