A question as been asked. Do I have a daughter?

Answer: yes. And I have three grand-daughters including a real pistol aged two who was born in China and a 13 year old who played back-up guitar for a rock band at the Dalai Llama’s birthday party in India last summer.

It's quite simple. If anyone insulted my daughter and then apologized, I do not think I would buy a full page advertisement in the NY Times advertising the fact. And if I was running for public office (something I have done) I don't think I would seize on the insult and make it into a campaign issue. Then again, I not a winner like Hillary or Bill.

I wonder if Hillary ever apologized to the women she maligned when she lashed out at them because of their true claims that they had affairs with Bill? Of course, we all know it was their fault, and not Bill's [note irony]. Is there anything more sexists then a wife who “sands by her man,” while trashing the women he had affairs with?

I have been criticized by some for my post that, inter alia, compared Clinton-Obama to Lincoln-Douglas. Now I’ll get real harsh. Lincoln was the Great Emancipator, Hillary is the Great Enabler. Bill Clinton is an amoral slug in his personal life – so was Jack Kennedy. But I can think of no other president other than maybe FDR, that I would have wanted at the helm during the Cuban Missile Crisis than JFK. He saved us from nuclear holocaust.

By problem with the Clintons is their blatant hypocrisy in this. Shuster apologized. MSNBC apologized. Shuster has been suspended. That ought to have been enough. They are making cynical use of this to separate themselves from an obligation to deal with the toughest network.

It’s long story, and maybe some where else I’ll tell it, but I did play a significant role in getting a Sierra Club endorsement for HRC in 2000 when the national Sierra Club was enchanted with the idea of endorsing an allegedly environmental friendly Republican. I have no regrets about any of that although I went outside the box of usual Sierra Club practice. I think she has generally been a great, if a little conservative, in her records as a US Senator. I was disappointed in her vote on Iraq. But she does her homework and she actually gets along well with many Republicans. I wish her a long, successful career in the Senate.

But make no mistake about it. The Clinton’s are exploiting Shuster’s gaffe and thus exploiting Chelsea in an unwholesome way. Give it a rest.

The fact is that the Clintons want to use Chelsea to play the Super Delegate game, but she's refusing interviews. I think its great that Chelsea Clinton cares enough to be a part of her mother's campaign. But I’m not sure it's great that she can participate in the campaign and not be available for reasonable questions. If she wants to be a part of action, she should be a part of the action. She’s not baby. There are thousands of young Americans who will nicer live to her age because they have died in Iraq in the war her mother voted for. What’s her opinion about that?

By the way, I sometimes think that someone should get Dan Abrams some sedatives, but any body watch last night when a "Super Delegate" from Wisconsin whom has never even voted for President insisted on his right as Super Delegate ought to be disturbed. And what pitches Chelsea was using in her private breakfast with him ought to be a matter of public record.

Preliminary returns from Oversea Americans who lect 22 delegates ahd Obama up about 2-1. It's preliminary, but it fugures. Interested to see how the four, not tyhree contests turns out.

As an original Edwards supporter but someone whose been around for awhile, I can only recall the line from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid when tey realize that thet can't shake E. A. Harriman's posse: "Damn, these guys are good."

Hate Obama or love him, he has put together one incredible campaign machine. (Now I got to get downtown to my office and make a stab at making a living.)