A couple thoughts:

I agree that "Nominating Hillary = President John McCain".

Real Clear Politics aggregate has McCain over Clinton 2.3% and it is trending towards a bigger gap. They have McCain over Obama by 1.0% but trending towards even. The SC and NH shows have clearly demonstrated that if Hillary wins, we're stuck in the same old, politics of destruction. Were the Republicans unfair to the Clintons? Often, yes. The Clintons are also despicable people who are transparently thrilled by their own greatness and love of power. Pure hubris from start to finish. No Thanks.

Hillary has refused to stand up and say that I have a right to burn a piece of cloth with red and white stripes and white stars on a blue field. In fact, while opposing an amendment, she has advocated simply outlawing flag burning. Good god, if she can't pass the flag burning litmus test, how can we trust her with anything complex? She will continue the renditions which Bill allowed the US to conduct. She'll allow torture-- but for the 'right' reasons, I'm sure. She supported the Patriot Act and has refused to renounce that vote either.

I don't need Vince Foster to be murdered to believe she's dangerous. She showed with 'file gate' that she has no respect whatsoever for civil liberties. We need to end the imperial presidency. It makes no difference if the empire pretends to care about children (like Hillary) or pretends to care about God (like W.). The very constitution is on the brink of being meaningless.

Hillary may be smart. She may know the issues. She may even have good ideas about how to proceed. I don't care. The Hill is crawling with staffers and the think tanks of DC are bursting with fellows who are smart, know the issues and have good ideas. Are they all qualified to be President? No. Of course they didn't marry a President, so their experiences don't count. If half (at least) the population HATES the president, disbelieves every word that comes out of her mouth, we are NOT going to fix our problems.

Obama may be a gamble. So is every president. It is a job for which one literally cannot be adequately prepared. If he's a gamble, fine. I'm all in. PLEASE Hilllary supporters. She will not win and if she manages to steal the election somehow (wouldn't put it past her), she will not govern effectively.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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