If you think Obama is a product of the Daley machine - you really have no clue what you're talking about.

Obama was not the Daley choice for the 2006 Senate race. (That was Dan Hynes, son of an alderman and the state comptroller at age 30 thanks to his Daley connections.) When Obama won, he defied Daley by refusing to nominate a new US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois at the end of Patrick Fitzgerald's term. Words can not express how badly Daley - and the Bush administration - wanted that to happen.

Machine pols don't teach law at UC. They're not black, either. (There are some AA aldermen the Daley's have to play ball with but they're not in the machine.) Chicago machine pols come up though the neighborhoods through patronage jobs or are born into families that have been in the game for generations. When you know about all the crime that happens, you understand why its run like a Mafia family. (Do a Google search for Quarters Boyle - you'll thank me.) The idea that a black kid would move into town in his late twenties, fresh from Columbia U and Harvard Law, and be taken into the Daley racket is laughable.

Let Clinton write the health care plank of the party platform. No problem. Give her a prime-time speaking slot the night before Obama accepts the nomination, too - as long as she concedes to script approval like everyone else.

But the other two? No way in hell. For. Get. It.

The Clinton's are not Doug Wilder when it comes to their financial situation at the end of this race. Obama supporters are supposed to pay off the debt from their horribly managed campaign so Bill and Hillary don't have to tap into their nine-figure personal fortune? Kiss my ass.

They deserve to pick his VP? The Clinton's can tie Obama's hands? What - she'll go public and throw a fit if he says he wants to pick his own running mate? Exactly what leverage do you think Clinton really has in this matter?

The Kennedy/Johnson analogy is fatally flawed. Kennedy needed Johnson because of the south and because he had more juice in Congress than any modern politician could dream of. Clinton offers neither, or nothing else that I can think of either as a running mate or a gatekeeper. Obama should consult her as a courtesy, but the decision - and the campaign and the administration if he wins - is his alone.

Here's another story that is maybe a little more relevant. Almost 30 years ago there was a popular senator with a famous name who challenged an incumbent president all the way to a floor fight at the convention. The senator lost, and so did the president who came out of the convention seriously wounded.

Ted Kennedy's national political career came to a screeching halt on that day 28 years ago. His seat was his for as long as he wanted it, and he had one marquee committee. But he was dead for any positions in the leadership or real power in Washington.

Hillary Clinton has a choice to make. She can either do everything make sure a Democrat is elected president this November without conditions, or she can continue to try gaming the system for her personal benefit at the expense of the nominee and the party. If she chooses the latter she will be held responsible.

I bailed on the stupid quiz when I read the question about hair parting, but this is the answer.

She's smart, has executive experience, is an up-and-comer in the Democratic party and yes - she would be a good step to mending relations with Hillary Clinton's more fanatical supporters.

I think you made a mistake by totally ignoring this part of her money problem. Clinton reported over $10 million in debt at the end of March, and that wasn't counting the $5 million she had previously loaned her campaign. What is that number now? If she's writing checks to pay for ad time, I don't think its an unfair conclusion to wonder if she's using credit to pay for daily operations.

I'd like to see someone ask what is she going to do with the money from these online donors now that her campaign has reached the last month of the race? Is she going to use it to pay down the debt and run a skeletal campaign for the last four weeks? Or is she going to what she did in the last two weeks and spend millions in Oregon, Montana, Puerto Rico and South Dakota trying to regain a lead in the popular vote?

Once you leave Da Region, Indiana is America's quintessential small-town state. Its residents are scattered among dozens of county seats whose proudest landmarks are a limestone courthouse and a banner commemorating a state basketball championship.

More than 2/3rds of Indiana's people (4.6 mil out of 6.2 mil) live in one of fourteen metropolitan areas. Indianapolis/Marion County alone (which is quite a distance from Da Region) accounts for 25% of the state's population alone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_in_Indiana

What about Olbermann's comment was sexist or misogynistic?

Simple question, it shouldn't be hard to answer.

Please explain.