This is disgusting. There is a bleeding rhinoceros head in the room: PA has been in trouble for at least 25 years. I used to go there on weekends, up from Maryland, to Western PA, to a town so small that if you blink you would miss the only traffic light. They had no jobs, the fellows I met there said they had to leave to find a job. No one has shown me how things might have actually changed.

Hillary Clinton is an opportunistic liar. Look at the other articles quoted over on Huffington Post from TPM: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/188673.php where there is reliable testimony that Hillary and Bill have discussed the same things in cold and clinical terms without batting an eyelash:

"Theda Skocpol writes in ...

I have been in meetings with the Clintons and their advisors where very clinical things were said in a very-detached tone about unwillingness of working class voters to trust government -- and Bill Clinton -- and about their unfortunate (from a Clinton perspective) proclivity to vote on life-style rather than economic issues. To see Hillary going absolutely over the top to smash Obama for making clearly more humanly sympathetic observations in this vein, is just amazing. Even more so to see her pretending to be a gun-toting non-elite. Give us a break!

I wonder if she realizes that gaining a few days of lurid publicity that might reach a slice of voters is going to cost her a great deal in the regard of many Democrats, whose strong support she will need if she somehow claws her way to the nomination -- and even more so if she does not clinch the nomination. The distribution of "we're not bitter" stickers to her campaign rallies is the height of over-the-top crudity, and the reports are that very few audience members seem to have much enthusiasm for this nonsense. Not surprisingly, people cannot see the reasons for so much fuss.

Yes, she wants a big break, she desperately wants the nomination she and Bill believe is hers by right. We all know that. But where is her authenticity and her dignity and her sense of any proportion?

This has to be one of the few times in U.S. political history when a multi-millionaire has accused a much less wealthy fellow public servant, a person of the same party and views who made much less lucrative career choices, of "elitism"! (I won't say the only time, because U.S. political history is full of absurdities of this sort.) In a way, it is funny -- and it may not be long before the jokes start."

Theda Skocpol is an American sociologist and political scientist at Harvard University.

I spent more time and good intention on cleaning my house and preparing food for the people who came over to watch the debate with us.

ABC NEWS convinced my husband and I tonight that we would never watch ABC NEWS, George Stephanapoulos or Charles Gibson again. What a shameful waste of an opportunity and of millions of Americans time. We are a nation at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Can't these news bozos drink some coffee, burn the late night oil and come up with some questions steeped in integrity, policy interest, political acumen and actually expand what we know rather than humiliate and embarrass us before the world? I'm pretty sure some Seniors at any of our public universities in Politics and Government could hook up with the Communications students and put on a better debate.

If I was anywhere within breathing distance I would personally give both moderators the stink eye on the skeletal remains of their horrifying failed formula for televising a national debate. I don't think candidates should accept any further invitations from ABC for debates. They certainly didn't demonstrate that they have the sense or responsibility for informing the public necessary for such a significant public function, and in no way did they honor the historic nature of the occasion. There are not enough words to express my disgust. When it's time to debate McCain, I hope our Democratic candidate takes a page from the Nancy Reagan lexicon and just says "NO!"

Every time I hear this stuff about educated, leftist, left coast liberal voters, I think that these were not the only people I saw at our caucuses.

I think Obama's populism is reaching much further into the fabric of our culture than you pundits living in the great cities of our country realize. Ordinary people in plaid shirts and jeans are voting for Obama. People are seeing the consequences of the political legacy of the Bushes, Clintons and those who love them so much and they are sick and tired of it.

We heard what he said and while it might have been clumsy, there was a truth in the middle of it.