They simply won't. They're out their voting for change.

Thinking that they would somehow support a Clinton/Obama ticket, particularly one where the Hillary supporters keep denigrating them and saying "what a great chance for Obama to win" thereby patronizing them even more, is insane.

You are doing yourselves no favors with this. All you're doing is losing the new, young voters.

And any way you cut it you need them to win.

You might think you can do it another way, but ask Gore and Kerry how that worked out. Too many mainstream previous voters are conservative. Sorry but they are.

You need an influx of new voters to win. Obama brings them as a presidential candidate. He won't as a V.P. nominee. They're not going to vote for Clinton at the top of any ticket. Period.

Not going into the Iran thing, but some of you here really need to wake up and examine her record. She's clearly advocating a war with Iran. I had a previous post about this, and others have commented here. You're blind if you don't see it.

She's going to attack Iran. So don't come crying to the rest of us when more of our buddies and young people are dead because you chose to ignore the fact she was greenlighting yet another war just so you could have the first female president.

And definitely don't complain when many of those dead in that war, just as in this one, are young women. Examine Hillary's record. She's clearly a neo-con and trying to start a war with Iran.

We already had 35,000 people marching down the streets of Philadelphia and shutting it down on a Friday night chanting, "We want change."

And that's for one primary.

I guess we're supposed to be being polite here but "flop" is putting it mildly. You'd be lucky if all you get is marching if this thing goes to Denver.

I talked to my dad, who was in Chicago in 1968, and he said it was the same thing. No one believed the demonstraters were serious, and the Democratic Party underestimated just how angry they were. Daly and the police knew, and were looking for an excuse, but the Party itself seriously underestimated the student protestors and thought their successful attempt to bribe off the Blackstone Rangers would be enough to stave off what happened. They were wrong.

One kind of gets the same feeling this year. Everyone can sense it'll probably be bad, but they're just kind of choosing to ignore it.

Option 1:

You could try to upstage him. This is probably the worst option, as he seems to essentially live for the limelight and will compete mercilessly with him.

Option 2:

You could simply ignore it, secure in the fact that it's clear to everyone here and obviously the people around you (since they are asking you not him the questions) that you're the one with the ideas. It's not a bad option for the short-term, but can lead to frustration over the long term. This seems to be the case with you.

Option 3:

Confront, him nicely but VERY directly on it, and tell him to stop. Most people who feel the need to be the center of attention oftentimes don't like being confronted or contradicted. Hence I think this is probably your best option. Get on him and stay at him until he either admits he's wrong or agrees to stop. Even if he walks away chances are he has gotten the message and will stop doing so. He sounds (like many men and women with other great qualities) extremely self-involved and will, most likely, stop the offending behavior as opposed to having to take more blows to his ego.

It's a new category: pre-Madonna as defined by people who are clearly egomaniacs, and we all know it, but are somehow managing to hold it back long enough to get what they want.

Prime example: Madonna and Whitney Houston in the 1980s, Jennifer Lopez in the early 1990s, Bill Clinton during his first term, Ben Affleck when he could still act.

George Clooney's on the verge of this. To me these are people who have somehow managed to fool just enough people into thinking they're not totally egomaniacs, but rather just extremely self-involved, until they get on top and then reveal total diva/divo-like behavior proving they were, after all, complete egomaniacs.

This guy sounds like one of those to me. But, in the case of the letter writer, she'd probably do best to follow the advice of those who have actual experience dating a jerk. I just have to deal with guys like this at work and when I go out. I don't have to live with them.