Ms. Walsh, you seem like a nice lady and as the Editor in Chief at Salon you deserve my kudos, because for about two and a half years now I have made Salon my primary daily source for news and information. I've had some bones to pick, for sure, but on the whole, I think y'all do a great job.

Couple of things, however.

I echo what Gordon had to say; I like to read.

So far, Salon's efforts at vlogging have been amateurish and uninspiring. In the case of this particular installment, even a greenhorn camera person should understand that shooting you in front of a window in broad daylight makes for a problematic lighting situation. If you don't have the crew and equipment to compensate for backlighting, set up a different shot. It's not that hard. I'm currently unemployed and would be glad to help if you have a position for me.

On a more substantive note, do not believe that Obama has a corner on the "building a coalition" market. Each of the primary candidates in the Democratic field understands the healing required in the aftermath of the Bush administration will only be possible with a politics of inclusion. I would not hang my hat on Obama's understanding of that necessity when I get into the polling booth.

Mr. Shapiro, Joe Klein and Michael Scherer need you to make a three-way. Questions? See Glenn Greenwald and he'll fill you in.

Dang, I walk away from the computer for a few hours and the whole world goes wacky. The Obama campaign ought to find a way to keep Jesse Jr.s mouth closed because what he's out with today can only hurt the Magic Man. If they are going to play the race card with each and every close or lost primary election, ain't no way they gon' make it to the promised land. Junior ought to remember one of his daddy's most famous lines: "keep your eyes on the prize."

In the interest of fairness, it should be pointed out that Terry McAuliffe seems to have little of substance to say as well. His announcement that it's now a "one-on-one race" is not only demonstrably inaccurate, it will have karmic repercussions he cannot begin to comprehend.

Now that this is getting interesting, I think we'll finally see how the candidates respond to and act under pressure, and thereby finally have something real upon which to base a vote for one of them over another.

I wonder what Jonah Goldberg thinks of Howard Zinn as a revisionist historian.

Mr. Shapiro is a buffoon and an embarrassment to political journalism.

Why not write off John Edwards' campaign for the Democratic nomination because it's already suffering for under-exposure?

OF COURSE, his having received roughly one-fifth as much media coverage as Obama and Clinton in the past week invariably reduces the Democratic race to a tightly fought contest between Clinton and Obama.

Yes, of course it does!

Why bother to caucus or vote when ABCMSNBCFOX, Inc. can do it for us?

It's a sad commentary on our political process that a man whose ideas and policy positions so closely align with the expressed opinions and desires of such a large percentage of the population can suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune with which Dennis Kucinich had to contend.

to you, Tim. I echo many comment makers in tabbing you one of Salon's most valuable assets. I hope Alex will keep to your high standards, keen insight, and acerbic humor.

And I hope you'll get a chance to raise Politico's game; they can certainly use you.

Peace.

It's going to be a long eight years, and possibly more.

Obama's got Michelle, Oprah, and Caroline out there because he knows if he can get some thinking women who are leaning to HRC mostly because she is the best shot women have ever had to be really represented (with no imputation whatsoever as to the quality of that representation) to move into his camp, he's got this thing in the bag. If the Secret Service does its job, he'll get 60% or more of the vote in November.

I think Ms. Obama would do well to rid herself of the "you know" tic. I also think the relentless assault of the 24 hour news-cycle needs to be re-thought.

Maybe tomorrow Huckabee will get his own cartoon avatar.

Clinton and Obama should both go on Fox to shine a light on the biased coverage the network has been churning out since its inception. They should expose Rupert Murdoch as the Republican party's waterboy and let Fox's viewers know that come January 2009 there will be a new sheriff in town.

They won't do that, of course. The light shining or exposing or giving notice, but hey, we're supposed to be in a season of hope, aren't we?

As long as we accept the proposition that parsing the racial texture of a candidate's support among the people says something about either the candidate or the likely outcome of the race, support for Clinton among older Latinos and "Asian" voters makes total sense.

On balance, both groups traditionally lean conservative, and some voters could get the heeebie-jeebies if they thought too much about what change supported by Blacks might mean for them.

Many Latinos and Asians are genuinely interested in and supportive of a new direction after the disastrous, careening, mash up of the Bush administration, but they aren't in a hurry to make too many adjustments to the status quo.

The Clinton campaign's attempt to sketch Obama as "the Establishment candidate" today is shameless, and should tell anyone about 85% of all they need to know to make an informed choice.

Um, suspends his campaign? In case McCain keels over, or what?

It would be more accurate to say something like "Romney decides to quit throwing good money after bad, quits quixotic quest for Presidency."