While there is no question the press has been overwhelmingly favorable to Obama, I do think there were 2 key moments when they responded favorably to her and could have killed her campaign.

One they ignored the Clintons' scandals (past and present).

And two, they ignored the Potomac Primaries through Wisconsin. Obama won 11 straight contests. During those he won any number of large swing states including Virginia, Maryland and Wisconsin. And he also showed how he was going to re-draw the map, turn red states blue and win the election. The press largely ignored it. They under-reported the size of these wins, the demographics he was winning (white-working class voters in all of these states, and white women in most of them including Wisconsin.) Had they done so Hillary Clinton would have been in the same position as Mitt Romeny and had to quit. They underplayed it instead and the contest win on.

Finally you're right. Hillary Clinton's worst nightmare isn't Barack Obama: it's Kathleen Sebelius. Sebelius, who has real executive experience and is increasingly being floated for Vice President (even on Hardball and we know some of Chris Matthew's questionable tendencies) completely destorys every claim Clinton makes. She's a woman, she's been a real executive, she was a great governor, and she got Republicans to cross the isle. Next to her Hillary's claims ring false.

Plus there's always something about that person who's right behind you with the same claim. IMHO Harold Ford Jr. is the same thing to Barack Obama. The two were close friends, and I've long thought Ford planned on running for the presidency under a similar claim to Obama. Since Obama's announced his candidacy the two have drifted apart and Ford has become decidely less pro-Obama (especially during his appearances on MSNBC where he constantly questions Obama's weaknesses).

It's only natural to fear that which threatens to replace you, even if you're trying to be fair and supportive.

I still don't see how being in a presidential race is so tough.

People who are trying to pay their bills they're tough. People who got laid off and can't afford healthcare they're tough. Soldiers stuck in the Middle East, they're tough.

But Hillary Clinton, who along with her husband is worth $109 million, went to all of the best Ivy League schools, was First Lady of the United States for 8 years and then Senator, is so "tough."

Honestly I just don't get it.

Are these the same people who told me George W. Bush was tough despite his draft-doding? And who called his father, who actually flew combat missions in World War II had to bail out of his plane and tread water for four hours until he was rescued, soft? Do the actual single mothers who are working minimum wage jobs complain? No they all just suck it up and go on with their lives. Hillary, however, doesn't even generally have the guts to whine for herself. She hires high-priced surrogates to go out there to do it for her 75% of the time, and then, when she feels like it, complains herself the other 25% of the time.

I'm honestly confused at Americans inability to differentiate real strength v.s. clearly staged toughness. Anytime someone puffs their chest out, they're all of a sudden magically "tough."

It seems like anytime someone in this country puffs their chest out, declares themselves a fighter and grabs a shot they're suddenly magically "tough." Dwight Eisenhower was mild-mannered by almost all accounts. So was George Washington. Have you ever met any real veterans? The last thing they do is brag, male or female. It just astounds me that (certain) Americans always fall for the same hackneyed, put-on, clearly fake tough act every four years from people who inevitably haven't served (Dubya) and lived some of the most comfortable lives you can imagine (Hillary.)

Compound this with her constant complaining about how everything's so unfair to her, and I just have to ask seriously? You could say the same thing about Obama but, to his credit, he's never tried to pretend he's so "tough." When asked the question he looks at the press like they're crazy. Hillary, on the other hand, shamelessly tries to pander to some odd victim "woe is me" routine. It's sad if anyone's seriously falling for this.

Easy they probably left. A bunch of subscribers kept warning Joan and anyone who would listen they were so sick of this place and their blatantly anti-Obama, pro-Clinton stance that when their subscriptions expired they were not going to renew them.

Everyone kept telling them they were just bluffing and wait, they'd renew. As a matter of fact why hadn't they left yet?

Well it appears many of them weren't bluffing. They got sick of the "we love Hillary all the time" bias here at Salon and walked off exactly as they said they would. Oh well.

Furthermore no one watched it. Literally no one other than me, you, maybe a poster or two here and the people involved families. Unless there was some phenomenon going on no one told me about. Anyone I asked about it had no idea what it was. They had some lame guy dressed up in a bug suit run around spraying the contestants with huge fake cans of bug spray when they got eliminated.

MC Serch was a mediocre rapper who's head has apparently grown too big for him.

No one's watching this either. Don't worry. (And I agree with you Persia was the best part of White Rapper. Some guy named Shamrock won. He was terrible, had a grill and was clearly posing as something he wasn't.)