I'm reposting this from the thread on the original article, which I just read today.

Okay. We have a situation in the Democratic primaries where around 90% of African Americans are casting votes for Barack Obama and, what, 55%, 60% of women are casting votes for Hillary Clinton, and it's only womengetting called for practicing identity politics?

This is absurd.

Okay. We have a situation in the Democratic primaries where around 90% of African Americans are casting votes for Barack Obama and, what, 55%, 60% of women are casting votes for Hillary Clinton, and it's only womengetting called for practicing identity politics?

This is absurd.

Some of you folks posting here are completely out of your minds.

How long have you been involved in politics? Is this your "first time"? Because the level of naivete and unjustified anger here is just staggering.

If Hillary Clinton manages to win this thing in spite of her hugely negative press and the positive coverage that Obama has gotten until about this last week, then we all ought to be saluting her for her resilience and political chops.

Those of you who think the Clinton campaign has engaged in some sort of Rovian character assassination against pure, noble Obama are kidding yourselves. Clinton is not that evil, and Obama is not that pure. Both sides have thrown a lot of sharp elbows.

Nothing that's been thrown around in these primaries compares to the mudslinging and outright character assassination that will take place in the fall.

Wow.

I have never been so ashamed to be a Democrat.

Obama might get my vote, but I'm really going to have to force myself to do it.

Am positive however that he's a freakin' idiot.

Not cool. And neither was his remark that HRC's health insurance mandates were "like solving homelessness by making people buy houses."

I'm really tired of hearing how Obama is the "progressive" choice when, aside from one really great anti-war speech before he was a US Senator, his policy positions are the same as or somewhat to the right of HRC's.

I'm an Edwards supporter who voted for Clinton today.

Sheesh.

What you said. Thanks.

People like you, Elephantman, whose party has engaged in a pattern of selling out this country to a narrow range of economic interests. You think you're a patriot? That's a laugh. The economic policies of your masters are designed to funnel money out of the middle class and the poor and into the hands of a handful of super-rich whose loyalties are only to themselves.

You don't care about this country. You don't care about the welfare of the majority of its citizens. All you do is lie and exploit.

Coward.

an erosion of support for the Republican party in general.

So I wouldn't be too surprised if you see a lot of these folks voting Democratic in '08.

Their favored candidates, IIRC, are Clinton and Obama.

I cringe every time I hit the Salon homepage and see that image.

It brings home in such a visceral way how destructive our current global petro-economy is.

and the average income of $62,000 - please understand that with housing costs in Los Angeles, that money does not go nearly as far as it would in other parts of the country.

And here's a video that lays out the WGA position nicely:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ55Ir2jCxk&eurl

But if she's nominated, you'd better believe I'm voting for her. I realize she is a candidate funded by corporate interests, and you know what, I'll take it. I will take "not a bat-shit crazy warmonger," and happily.

ANY Democrat running would be a vast improvement over what we have now.

This country is going off a cliff. First thing that needs to happen is we back away from the edge of the precipice.

After my stuffed animals it was my absolute favorite toy - a turquoise pickup truck.

I still have it.

I wish they'd release it on DVD.

And I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiments expressed re: Tomreedtoon. Salon seems to have a troll for nearly every department. Multiple ones in the case of Broadsheet.

Lindsey Wagner singing "Feelings" (Jaime must go undercover at a beauty pageant emceed by bad guy Bert Parks). Oscar Goldman. Fembots. Sigh...

I can accept that.

But I do! I want to quit my corporate job, go freelance and know that I will be able to find health-care at a reasonable cost, that I will be able to afford.

We claim to be an entrepreneurial nation that encourages innovation and free-thinking. Yet we have created a system that binds people to jobs they might hate, that don't make best use of their creative energies, because of what our health care system has become.

All you free-thinking Libertarians out there, which would you prefer? A system that allows people the freedom to pursue their dreams? Or what we have now, in which ever increasing numbers of people are corporate wage slaves.

How does it feel to ignore science?

How does it feel to be on the wrong side of history?

You people are pathetic.

must really scare you trolls. You all can't stay away from articles about him.

Zephmarie and others who pointed out that Clark has been talking about this stuff for years.

I was not even a die-hard Clark supporter (though I liked a lot of what he had to say) and I was aware that he'd been discussing these topics. If you're on his mailing list now, he has been one of the clearest voices warning against an Adminstration attack on Iran.

"Most women are skanks and ho's" sez Mr. Brightstar.

And he wonders why he can't get a date?

Um, yeah, I'd be all over a guy who assumes I'm a skank.