... once Obama gets into office first. Has watching the Republican completely neuter the Democrats even when the Dems have the majority shown us nothing? Obama critics can't have it both ways: you can't say that he's too soft to stand up to the Republicans and then say he's being mean when he shows exactly how he will get things done.

RE: Wow, it's a good thing that Obama is the warm and fuzzy candidate of hope and yes we can and change we can believe in and not the leader of some typically cynical, cutthroat, business-as-usual political movement.

Well, Obama didn't say let's bury her. I said it. Kerry sat by and took the high road of not responding to the swiftboat ads and it screwed him and the country. I say Obama does mark a change and one of the first changes Democrats should try is to stop bring knives to gun fights.

Finally, when I say "bury her" I don't mean spread lies or distortions. I meant -- and said -- let's get behind the one person who may beat McCain and stop this madness. I meant let's not talk about change, but affect change by donating money even if it is a little bit to get the word out. I meant let's democratize the process as much as we can by banding together and making our voices heard over the corporate noise machine and donors who have $2300 lying around.

Come on folks. She's vulnerable. Take out your credit cards and send Obama some money. $100. $50. $10. Anything. If millions of us do it, it will continue to take back the process from the big donors and corporate candidates.

"we are the people we've been waiting for."

Let's say Obama raises another $30 million in February. This is still a small drop in the bucket compared to 15 years of free press / exposure/ name recognition which Hillary has gotten. We need to even the playing field.

https://donate.barackobama.com/page/contribute/main

Great column King and good riddance Bobby Knight. I played under coaches who did their best to channel Knight or what they thought was Lombardi or Billy Martin throughout high school. Some were successful in terms of wins and losses and others weren't but what was sad was that it wasn't until I was an adult that I realized that these people were -- almost to a man -- bullies, emotionally damaged, control freaks stuck in mindset of early adolescence. The reason they "worked well with kids" was that they were at the same maturity level. I'm 37 now and mostly feel bad for those guys now, but there's one or two who are lucky I never ran into them in my 20s when I was old enough to know that there was no reason for a coach to ever hit or humiliate a high school athlete but young enough to want to settle scores.

It was not until I moved to New Zealand and began playing rugby that I understood that sports could be inherently joyous. And Mr Tough Guy Apocalypse, we kept score and worked hard and ended every game battered, bruised and bloodied, so I hope that's not namby-pamby, but we did it without having to be "motivated" by ritual humiliation of the weak and constant tirades challenging our masculinity.

I would have hoped that after the Great Santini no self-respecting man would keep following that model of discredited, patently absurd, hypermachismo, but some people never learn. Good bye Bobby. Do let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

Is it not news? That's a big deal, no? Should it not have been reported?

I don't know what is wrong with the Dem Party causing them to see that HRC is a non-starter. She will LOSE to McCain.

News that the people are asserting themselves is great news. Go Obama!

"Attorney General Giuliani"

Although "Supreme Court Justice Giuliani" may be worse in the long run.

How's this for a nightmare scenario:

President McCain

VP Huckabee to appease the base

AG Giuliani

Sec Def Lieberman (part of a "unity" government, which will allow Republican governor appoint a republican to that seat)

Sec State Wolfowitz

Sec of Treasury Phil Gramm

Oh the nightmare goes on. More reason to unite behind Obama as our only legitimate hope.