I think it's obvious that Hillary Clinton is running straight into the sexist glass ceiling, and a lot of people in the media don't like that. My contention was never with the claim that Hillary Clinton had been attacked on sexist grounds, but rather on the notion that Clinton had been attacked more for her gender than Obama had been for his race. I don't think such a matter can be so easily stated, and it certainly cannot be proven by a video showing only anti-Clinton clips.

Not even if you use Wagner in the background.

the so-called "ethics" of people who claim to oppose torture yet happily stand by wars of aggression. Duh! Invading a country with no good reason in a manner that leads to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people is much worse than torture. People watch so many war movies that they have lost all conception of the notion that a baseless war is abhorrently evil.

The fact that it has been so incompetently run is no surprise, given the general level of mendacity of the people behind the enterprise. In the movies, all-knowing leaders are lying in the public interest. In reality, liars are only interested in themselves, and liars of this magnitude are only skilled at lying and not at actually accomplishing anything.

Laffer curve! Reaanomics! Cutting taxes increases revenue!

Conservative fiscal "economics" has become a doctrine of wishful thinking. It would be funny if it were not so disastrous for so many peopel.

Good to see the home-schooled idiots chiming in.

Do you really think that defense spending today is 14% higher than during the Korean war without accounting for inflation???

My goodness, what an idiotic criticism to make!

Keep drinking the Kool-Aid, morons.

for playing an excellent tournament.

That's all I've got.

(Except the Nappy-Headed Ho's comment was not funny in the least.)

The White House has been defying subpoenas for nearly a year now on the issue of the US attorney firings. There has been little practical downside to this, as we've yet to see contempt chargers seriously pursued. The same thing will happen with the torture issue.

Racist guilt-by-association nonsense isn't terribly imressive. Try to address the substance of the article next time. Do you or do you not think the US government should be in the business of torture? If you think so, do you think it's currently legal? If you admit it's not legal, do you think that that it should be investigated if the people in power broke the law?

I'm sorry that Rev. Wright hurt your feelings by expressing his disgust for the current regime. But really, on which side of this issue do you want to be on? Pro-torture, like Bush, Cheney and company? Or anti-torture, like the rest of us?

Make your position clear, please.

Seems to me that Obama has a much better understanding of the people he's talking about than Bill Kristol, or Steve Benen for that matter.

There is a common notion among the so-called elite that it is condescending to call people "bitter". But the deeper question is whether people are actually bitter or not. If you want to answer that question, it is irrelevant to simply dismiss the notion as impolitic. If it is not only true that a wide number of people are bitter, and that they are willing to acknowledge it, then the Beltway critique of Kristol and Clinton is not going to convince anybody.

The widespread disgust among Americans for their ruling class is palpable these days. Dismissing this sentiment as elitist, as Kristol tries to do, is pathetic. By now, it's pretty clear who the real elitists are - it's the people who put all their efforts into serving rich people.

W.E.S. says:

Right. Obama has gone from doing better against McCain than Hillary to the same or even worse in some polls and in some states.

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One more time very s..l..o..w..l..y.....How come you are only looking at polling of democrats to determine whether Obama has been hurt?

So you admit that Clinton's negative campaigning is not helping her one bit in the pursuit of her stated goal of winning the Democratic nomination, but it is working towards what many claim is her real goal: to ensure that if she does not win, Obama cannot win either.

Do you wonder why people dislike Clinton's campaign so much? All of her mudslinging is hurting her image as well as Obama's, but McCain is escaping any scrutiny for the time being. Small wonder that he is faring relatively well in the GE polls.

(And it's worth noting that Al Gore was 17 points behind George W. Bush in the Summer of 2000. He managed to capture the popular vote that November.)

BTW, some advice for your method of debate. Calling people "dummies" only serves to make you look like an ass, esp. when your arguments themselves are not terribly sophisticated.