This article is rubbish and illustrates perfectly how much better Obama is than Clinton and her supporters.

The Republicans have policies that favour the rich. The Democrats have policies that favour the poor. Therefore it is the Republicans that are the elitists. End of story.

For decades, the Republicans have been spewing this crap about "elitist" Democrats and getting working class people to vote for them on that basis. Instead of calling them out on this nonsense as Obama has done, the Hillarybots are just reinforcing the Republican myth making. It is just pathetic. With every passing day, it becomes clearer that the election of Clinton would be a tragic lost opportunity.

I haven't read all the letters here and so this point may have been make already. Joan Walsh describes herself as on the left. I am beginning to think just barely. She writes:

"He linked the killing of American civilians on 9/11 to Americans killing civilians from the Indians to Hiroshima to Bill Clinton's bombing of Sudan to retaliate against al-Qaida in 1998. I deplore all of those civilian killings as well, but 9/11 was indefensible."

And the killing of Native Americans was not indefensible?

I think Joan Walsh has been a journalist too long. She is obsessed with how things are going to play with the mainstream and seems to fully buy into the guilt by association nonsense that pollutes political debate.

Wright is entitled to his opinions and to express them. He is not running for office. Intellectual discourse would be completely crippled if everyone was forever worrying about what middle America would think of them.

So Wright has started a war on false pretenses that got hundreds of thousands killed, has sanctioned torture and has shredded the Constitution. I must have missed that. A little perspective please.

Yes, I know these are the opinion poll results about voter concerns, but we need to be promoting perspective, not just going along with the lack of it.

People get upset about the fact that Latinos are often portrayed in servant roles in films and that Blacks are disproportionately portrayed as criminals. This affects how we view these groups in real life, and how they view themselves, we are told.

What effect do you think it has on our image of women and of women's image of themselves when a game allows you to buy them and kill them?

The caucus voting system has exaggerated the value of that voting block. Blacks make up 20.1% of voters in the Democratic party. Obama automatically gets 90% of that.

Blacks make up roughly 13% of the total population according to the most recent census. That instantly cuts their clout by almost half. Even if 75% of the entire black population votes that lessens their clout again to under 50% of what it is in the Democratic party.

This appears to assume that 100% of non-Blacks will vote in the general election. For a more realistic calculation, begin with the figures quoted above. 75% of 13% gives 9.75%. Let's suppose that turnout is 60% for the remaining 87% of the electorate (which is about the highest it has been in the last forty years). 60% of 87% gives 52.2%. Adding 9.75% and 52.2% gives 61.95% of the electorate voting, of which Blacks make up 15.7%.

The above figures are very conservative. I wouldn't be surprised if Black turnout is at least 85% and I suspect that Republican turnout will be down from its levels in recent years. Thus Blacks are likely to be very influential in the general election.

Hillary Clinton has now joined the ranks of the politically undead. There is no life left in her campaign, but still she keeps on going.

In view of her narcissistic personality, her failure to call off her campaign is not a surprise. The rest of us should stop taking her seriously.

I don't think Clinton meant to suggest that Obama could be assassinated. On the other hand she has grabbed every opportunity to score cheap political points over Obama, however dishonestly (accusing him of agreeing with Reagan, playing up the association with Bill Ayres, misrepresenting his position on abortion...). Now she is getting some of her own medicine, with Obama only minimally involved in dishing it out. I won't be crying any tears for her.

The media and opposing politicians have chosen to play the game of guilt by association. That being the case, Obama has decided that the association is more trouble than it is worth.

Obama has in the past been willing to stay in a church where some views were expressed that he disagreed with. There is nothing unusual about that. Many people don't feel the need to run away from every environment in which there are people with views different from their own. However, when those views are attributed to Obama and cause ongoing difficulties with his Presidential campaign, the situation is different. So he left.