Clinton has also shown that she is able to win by quite respectable margins in swing states like Ohio and Florida. And you can't tell me that those states are not important in the general election.

It isn't that we non-Obama supporters are "fine" with the system, or the process, or whatever you want to call it. It's just that we've seen Obama's idea of what a changed system would look like... which apparently includes suppressing votes when it's convenient, race-baiting, voting "present," pretending that sexism doesn't exist while racism does, pandering to the homophobic branch of hyperreligious African-Americans, etc... and we'd rather stick with the devil we know, at least until something better comes along.

How is this significantly different/worse than when the entire goddamned MSM decided that one afternoon when Hillary was tired and her voice cracked, it was really the knell of impending doom for her campaign, evidence that she was a weak and pathetic woman, proof that she was a devious manipulator, etc etc?

Don't pretend that Obama has gotten more than his fair share of this nit-picking when it comes to the media's blood frenzy of irrelevancies. Obama supporters were quick enough to jump the bandwagon and claim that Hillary was just "faking it" to get votes when she was tired. Joan at least has the good grace not to read deeper, manipulative intent into Obama wanting to eat his waffle.

That is obviously not what I am saying.

When Hillary did something inane and irrelevant, the entire MSM were on her like white on rice. Not to mention most of Obama's supporters. When Obama does something inane and irrelevant, Joan calmly and collectedly advises that if he is the one pretending to be the magnanimous front-runner, he ought to at least try to appear magnanimous as much as possible, even when the race is getting rough.

I realize you are an Obama supporter and therefore it may not be in your best interest to actually comprehend what I'm saying, but let me try to make it a little more obvious in case you at least want to pretend.

Yes, Obama did something inane and irrelevant. Not by eating a waffle, but by appearing to be uncourteous to a reporter during a public appearance. It is inane and irrelevant, though. Obviously. However, not irrelevant is the fact that Obama, in episodes like these, appears to be ungracious and bogged-down by the fight that Hillary is putting up for the campaign. And yes, he is pretending to be the magnanimous front-runner, in the same way that Bush pretends to be a competent president. He is a president, yes, but not a competent one, the same way Obama is the front-runner, but has lately not been looking as magnanimous as he ought. And the only reason he 'ought' to look magnanimous is because, from what I can tell, he has been running on that as his sole issue. He is the one who is above the fray, above the old bickering politics, above the scandal and dirt. He is the one who is kind and gracious and intelligent and will unite the country, etc. So for him to get snappy at a reporter, which is merely a symptom of his recent political sloppiness, undermines the entire persona he has created for himself. Recently Obama has appeared strained and drained, he has made comments he shouldn't have, has mocked people he shouldn't have, and so on. These are not the acts of a candidate who is above the fray, and if Obama wants to keep hammering on the idea of how different he is as a politician, he would do best to keep that in mind. That's what Joan is saying: The strain of the campaign is causing Obama to lose sight of his entire campaign platform of 'hope.'

That Yale-New Haven doctor about sums up my opinion of the quality of this person's so-called art.

What part of you does not realize that extreme obesity is as much a product of an unhealthy relationship with food as the inane purgative, fad-dieting behavior that is employed to try and "fix" it? Or perhaps that question should be asked the other way around. In other words, your strange diatribes on how people who are trying to lose more weight even at a healthy weight already is somehow akin to educated people continuing to read (yet educated people will never reach a point where their body stops functioning properly if they keep on reading) seems quite off the mark here. Obviously America has major issues with food. But you seem to think that "being fat" is the result of making unhealthy choices whereas the desperate desire to be stick-thin is perfectly normal and healthy.

All this crap is just a product of a society that produces unhealthy food for cheap, turns healthy food into designer products, encourages women to "indulge themselves" and yet forsakes them if they don't have flat abs, a world in which someone who butchers their metabolism by eating two grapefruits a day is seen as having admirable self-control, and someone who is able to maintain a healthy weight without fad dieting or eating like a bird is derided as merely having lucked out genetically. People who are so obsessed with "health" that they feel the need to constantly point out how unhealthy obese people are, as if the obese people were not somehow already aware of this, are also a product of such a society. Take a good look in the mirror if you want to examine someone's health....

The answer to that question depends on whether Obama's hunting for votes in Kansas or South Carolina.