Let me be clear about two things:

1) If you claim that Bill Clinton was not trying to marginalize Obama by bringing up Jesse Jackson, you are lying, either to yourself or to everyone who hears you.

It would have been one thing if the question referenced or referred to Jackson in some way, and President Clinton was answering in kind, but that is not even close to what happened. To pull in and refer to a campaign from twenty years ago with no connection to anything today is a blatant attempt to pigeon hole Obama as 'just a black candidate', and imply he is inferior to his wife, a white candidate.

I'm sorry to say this, but the Clintons and their campaign is really coming off like passive racists recently with stuff like this. Whether they really are the 'we have a lot of black friends' kind of racists in real life or not is not the point. They are using that kind of language.

2) 24% of the white vote in a really diverse state is not a horrible showing for any candidate in a three way race, no matter what ethnicity the candidate is. I bet you can find plenty of white candidates that have gotten even less of the white vote and still won their elections.

And why is everyone seeming to assume that the whites who voted for Edwards or Clinton did so because Obama was black? Fine, a very small number of them probably did, but all of them? Really? That is assuming a helluva lot.

I bet if Edwards wasn't in the race, at least half of his white vote would have gone to Obama, if not more, which would have given him 45% of the white vote. And he won young white voters resoundingly even with the two other candidates existing.

So yeah, he won overwhelmingly the black vote. And that is a bad thing how? That on top of the white democrat vote will be huge in November. And it doesn't make him the 'black candidate', any more than the fact that the only two demographics that Hillary could win was whites over sixty and white women means she is just the 'old white woman candidate'.

Does anyone else think this makes Hillary look like a totally delusional jackass? Seriously, this whole thing feels like something straight out of a Joe Orton play.

For starters, I admit very freely that as progressive or liberal as I am politically, I have never fully liked the Clintons, and honestly can't say I've really believed a word out of Hillary's mouth in about ten years.

That being said, this Florida and Michigan buisness is truly the very lowest thing I think she has done that I am aware of. It is truly the height of arrogance for her to try to scam and scheme her way to the nomination with crap like this. What's even worse she doesn't even appreciate just how scummy this whole thing is. It's degrading for her to treat Florida voters as nothing more than a PR stunt, and its a shame that residents of Florida didn't realize this. She doesn't give a crap about Floridians, or people in Michigan. And what's even more degrading; she honestly thinks this weak spin she is putting on it actually makes sense and is fooling anyone.

It does suck that the Florida GOP screwed the Florida Dems, and the DNC's response was definitely far more draconian than it should have been. Same goes for Michigan. But if Clinton really had a problem with it, she shouldn't have agreed to the boycotts in the first place.

I know, you think that I'm being partial, because I don't like Clinton. But I guarantee you that if it was Edwards or Obama who did this sleazy tactic I would be just as disgusted. But the thing is, neither of them would do something like this, because they both have real character. Not only does Clinton not have any real character, but she doesn't even think appearing to have any matters. At least Bill Clinton, if he didn't actually have any, tried to appear to have some while President.

This is why John McCain will kill her in a general election. Because people like me will never under any circumstances vote for her. I will vote for McCain, and bank my hopes on the democratic congress to reign him in on the social issues.

I will vote for McCain happily over Clinton, even though my views are more in line with what Clinton supposedly believes. In my mind it doesn't matter what policies she claims to be for, I don't trust her to keep a single pledge. Against the other GOP candidates, okay, I likely would vote for her, because they're a bunch of crooks just like Clinton, and when the choice is between the sleazy conservative and the sleazy liberal, I'll hold my nose and vote for the liberal. But against McCain, I'd rather go with a conservative I believe than a liberal that I don't trust.

Maybe with some of that money he can buy an internet ad to come up before entering a news site asking for people to sign up to volunteer for his campaign...