Seriously, a freak does something weird and a little uncomfortable, and it becomes news worthy? Really? Thank god cable news wasn't around during the traveling circus era.

We've got a war in Iraq, a messed up election, an economy headed towards outright depression, a banking system that is teetering near collapse , and cable news is wasting our time with a freak acting like a freak?

To me that -- the complete and meaningless distraction of it all -- is what Salon and every one should be outraged about. Not about how tenderly or not tenderly this Dude with Child is handled.

And if Hillary Clinton manages to seize the nomination, blow up the party, and loses to McCain by a wider margin than Obama (according to current polls) that would prove?

The reason why McCain is leading, marginally against Barack Obama and not so marginally against Hillary Clinton, is because the Democratic Party has no nominee. A problem exacerbated by Hillary Clinton herself. Again, it has nothing to do with the primary process and everything to do with one of the Candidates

Clinton supporters are a wee bit delusional in think that if Barack Obama loses against John McCain the Democratic Party will see the error of its ways and parade "Hill-Dog" on its shoulders to victory in 2012.

If Barack Obama loses in the general Hillary Clinton will be blamed and the name Clinton will be poison for 100 years. The Russians will have to come in and build a lead tomb around Hillary Clinton's Senate career. A good Presidency and a decent Junior Senator from New York will sit next to Hubert Humphrey in the Democratic Party Hall of Shame.

The fact is we will never know.

The fact also is that the Democratic Primary process isn't completely to blame either. Does anyone -- including the Good Princeton Professor with a Wayback Machine -- believe that if Barack Obama was running against John Kerry, or John Edwards, or even Al Gore, or anyone not named Clinton this primary process would still be going on?

I doubt it. Anyone else would've had the good sense and political decency to drop out, or would've been pressured out by the Party Establishment well before Texas and Ohio.

The fact is this Primary "mess" is largely manufactured by Hillary Clinton and her entourage of advisers who simply cannot believe anyone else "deserves" the Presidency more than her.

Unfortunately there is no one in the Democratic Party that can stand up to the Clinton Machine and yell, Stop the Madness!

Even when people do say, STOP! the Clintons refuse to listen. Even when the math shows that winning the nomination is virtually impossible the Clintons refuse to listen. Even when basic logic says that super-delegates overturning the will of some of the most loyal Democratic voters will never happen the Clintons refuse to listen.

I would submit that the problem isn't the primary system. The problem is a well-funded candidate who refuses to listen to former supporters, basic math, or logic and is essentially operating beyond the control of the Party system for her own gain.

Barack Obama makes a ground breaking speech on race, Joan bashes him. Barack Obama makes another speech about ending the war Hillary helped start and instead Joan chooses to apologize for Hillary.

ENOUGH!

Hillary voted for a war that has killed 4,000 Americans and god knows how many Iraqis. By proxy she has much a murderer as George Bush is. So she feels bad about being complicit in murder and destroying a nation. Many murderers do when they get caught.

I stopped subscribing to Salon when it got lame, and now that it has gone from Lame to being an orifice of the Clinton campaign I don't even have to bother with reading it. Call me Salon, when Joan Walsh gets her pink slip.

... For everyone else, yes.

Where is the hue and cry from Salon.com for John McCain to make a speech about his religion and freedom of religion that decries the worst of what Rod Parsley and John Hagee have said? Where is the hue and cry from Salon.com for Hillary Clinton to make a "Make or Break" Speech about sexism in America because of remarks made by Geraldine Ferraro?

The bias is plain, Joan, and it is old and stale. Much like the continued support of Hillary Clinton. Salon used to be edgy, and fun, and irreverent along with being a source of news and views for a new kind of Leftism. Even when the fire burned out, and the prudishness of Broadsheet and features about sex after pregnancy replaced the irreverent edge and youth of the early years, Salon was still a bastion of Progressive Politics.

Not anymore obviously. Gone in favor of a bunch of leathery, old spinsters crowing for the return of Hillary and Clintonian power politics.

Here lies, Salon, they used to be cool, they used to be relevant, they used to be with us and now they are against us. More old, tired roadblocks, relics of the past, standing in the way of real change.

Council on Foreign Relations... Or COuntry Fried Rock.

We want to know anything mainly because Politicians are just another substrate of Celebrity that we can build up and tear down over perceived "misdeeds". Misdeeds we secretly wish we had the bank account or the sheer kinkiness of will to indulge in.

How much do we need to know? Near zero. I assume politicians have sex just like I assume fat people, grandparents, and people into Nintendo CosPlay have sex. But, like the aforementioned groups, I don't need to know what kind of sex they have.

If double teaming the First Lady of New Jersey is what gets you, and her, and the other dude off that's ... good. But I don't need to know about it. As long as Friday Night's Orgy doesn't make you late for Monday's budget session.