None of the current polls bear out the thesis of this article. Sure, you'll find some Clintonite dead-enders, and they'll tend to cluster around talkbacks like this one. But, the fact of the matter is the party is uniting behind Obama, and not a single poll says different.

In other words, this article's premise is false from Jump Street. Not that I'm surprised -- Traister is far and away the worst paid writer working in the online magazine biz these days, and one of the many reasons I'm letting my premium membership lapse this summer. If the mood strikes me, I can find incessant whining about mean, ogreish, mercurial men in the blogosphere for free.

Congrats on your first poll. Trolly McGee, you're the trolliest. The trolliest troll to ever troll the troll world, in fact.

Also, I know Khalidi too (I'm a history PhD at Columbia.) He's not a racist...so grow the fuck up.

That should be first POST, not first poll.

Congrats on your second post.

You're still a GOP troll. Get lost.

which has Obama up 12 (up 15 with Nader/Barr):

"[T]he great majority of Clinton voters have transferred their allegiance to Obama, the poll found. Only 11% of Clinton voters have defected to McCain."

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-poll25-2008jun25,0,5763707.story

So, again, the Traister article isn't only pointless shit-stirring. It's predicated on a falsehood.

If I remember correctly, there was only one candidate talking about "testicular fortitude" and painting the opposition as an effeminate girly-man, and it wasn't Barack Obama.

As for the sexism of the news media, go back and look at the coverage Rudy 9iu11iani received when his campaign went from designated front-runner to hopeless also-ran. It was withering, to say the least. Such is politics.

Sweet merciful Jesus, this site has become a one-trick pony.

Sticky R key.

The final scene? Are you sure? I watched La Dolce Vita a few months ago and the Trevi fountain sequence was in the first hour or so. The movie ends on a beach, doesn't it?

Zacharek: "'Iron Man' did well by the genre, and Guillermo del Toro's upcoming 'Hellboy II' may do the same."

You forgot to mention The Dark Knight, which is the Obama to Hellboy's Chris Dodd. I like Del Toro, I'm looking forward to Hellboy 2. But, c'mon now.

Davdob: "I have a running prop bet with my friends about whether Stephanie will like anything. She is making me rich."

Davdob, I'll take that bet -- You're a loon. Last year, while most critics were gushing over the wildly overrated There Will Be Blood, Zacharek went for the 1-2 punch of I'm Not There and Control -- both underappreciated gems.

And, if you think she's a hater of mainstream fanboy-type stuff, read her review of Fellowship of the Ring: http://archive.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2001/12/18/lord_of_the_rings/index.html -- As vudicarus already pointed out, you don't know what you're talking about.

"The party rejected our progressive warrior for this guy?

"The party rejected our progressive warrior for this guy?"

The rest of my post got eaten. Let's try again.

Are your referring to Dennis Kucinich? Russ Feingold? Chris Dodd? I'm confused.

Surely you don't mean Hillary Clinton, who's been an active opponent of campaign finance reform, ethics reform, and most other progressive issues, both as First Lady and my Senator from New York.

Perhaps before you start dictating who is and who isn't progressive, you should find out what the word means, and what the Progressives stood for. It's not just a convenient substitute for "liberal."

http://www.smallrrepublic.com

Shouldn't Salon of all places (re: Walsh, Traister) have an article up about the recently discovered origins of PUMA?

http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/pumas_are_swiftboats_darragh_murphy/

In a nutshell (and in the parlance of All the President's Men), it's a "ratfucking" operation set up by a McCain donor, and Traister seems to have gone along for the ride.

For what it's worth, I'm a straight white male, and I'm pleased as punch that right now the Hounds of Hell are feasting on that bastard's entrails.

It's the bestest 232nd birthday present ever.

And for anyone wrapped up in the notion that this is a terrible way to act after another human being has died, I refer you to Hunter S. Thompson's obit of Richard Nixon: http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/graffiti/crook.htm

Anything less than outright glee right now would dishonor the man. He was a racist, homophobic scumbag of the worst order. Let's never forget it.

Do we have any sense that Team of Rivals, influenced Obama, other than that he happened to mention it to assuage Clinton voters? Same goes for Niebuhr, Nietzsche, and most of the other authors listed here.

The case isn't made here that these books influenced him any more than others not mentioned. Frankly, with the exception of Alinsky, they seem picked out of a hat.

"Please tell me again why he's supposedly so much better than Hillary?"

Well, he could run a winning campaign, for one.

I'm dog tired of having the same conversation with the same deadenders. But, if you really meant your query this time, then try campaign finance reform (Obama's for it, Clinton's gutted it -- see Obama's work in Illinois v. Clinton's stance on McCain-Feingold) and ethics reform (Obama's for it, Clinton's gutted it -- see her vote on the Office of Public Integrity)

These, along with voting reform, are arguably the central issues of progressivism, which is NOT just a convenient synonym for liberalism, but its own historical ideology/movement. See http://www.smallrrepublic.com for more. In any case, Obama is in fact a progressive, while Clinton has never even come close.