I love him, can't get enough of him. I'd have done him and wouldn't have told. He's brilliant, sexy, charismatic, and oh so charming. Rowr!

I also adore Hillary. I think she rocks! I think she is brilliant and I love her for her take no shit and no prisoners campaign style. I cannot WAIT to vote for her and I know she will be a fantastic president.

So no jealousy here....but...does this mean I secretly lust for a three-some...?

What a ridiculous article. Some people like to train and exercise for a challenge. Ever try running for 4 hours? Good for them and Oprah. So it’s better to stay out of these “races” for the “real” or “serious” runners? I trained my ass off to run the Marine Corps Marathon, and I was fulfilled to finish the race at my “Oprah Line”!

What a bunch of self-righteous nonsense you jackhole!

Actually, Mr Spud did make an attempt at a substantive analysis of the two strategies - and BTW, I think he is spot on. National Security will be a major issue and Dems can't run away from it. They DO need to reframe the issue and there is receptivity among the American people that Republicans are tough but stupid, and that Dems would still be tough but smart about it.

Someone else wrote that Rove is most likely laying out exactly what the R strategy will be, and since he has done that at the beginning of every campaign year since '02, I'd bet that is a spot on observation as well. The R candidate may not want to publicly embrace Rove, but they will not shy away from using his strategies and tactics, and probably will even have Rove advising on the side, or running a 501c4 campaign, like the Swift Boaters. This will be uglier than '04.

PS The strategist on the Dem side who would slice and dice Rove, and even do it in a fairly high-minded way, is Paul Begala. There is no smarter political strategist working in politics today [besides of course Bill Clinton]

Didn't realize I was responding to Mr Spud himself! My bad.

Anyway, Mr Spud, I've got 17 years of political operative experience behind me - 17 years more than Kos or anyone on this thread, I'd wager - and I agree with your assessment.

The Mitchell Report was really bogus. As noted by others here, all the players named in the report have absolutely no ability to defend themselves and none of the report would be admissable evidence in a court of law. Yet here we have jackass Bud Selig saying he is going to use the report to selectively punish players named in it. What kind of crap is that?

Bud was a prime pusher in his own way in his effort to "save" baseball after the strike. The HR battles have driven interest in the game sky high - all of it juiced. Selig knew it was happening - he is MORE culpable than anyone because it was his job to stop it - IF that's what he wanted. He didn't. Now he gets to blame the players and the players union. What a load of crap.

Gary Bettman is the worst commissioner in the history of sport, but Selig is right there nipping at his butt.

The Clinton camp tries to disenfranchise an entire group of people - people who are natural Democrats who the Clintons should be standing up for - and this Obama's fault? And that group of people - a Union, actually, not a minority group -decides to stand up for themselves by issuing a radio ad calling the Clintons on their disenfranchisement and Obama is playing the race card? Your logic fails me.

Furthermore, Bill Clinton's rational for disenfranchising those voters is the SAME rational used by Republicans in Bush v Gore, thus had they won they would have been giving credence to further Republican disenfranchisement efforts. Having fought those battles on the ground in FL in 2000 and ever since, hearing those words come out of Bill Clinton's mouth disgusts me. The Clinton's would have set us back decades if they won.

And you know damn well, if UNITE had endorsed Hillary there would have been no lawsuit. As Obama's spokesperson said, the Clinton's made the unfortunate decision to disenfranchise Democratic voters and they have to live with that.

As for Bill's "fairy tale" remark, he's the greatest communicator in our lifetime. I adore the man, but I have no doubt he knew what he was saying would cut many ways beyond just Iraq. And whether you like it or not, another entire group of people took offense to it, understanding that he was communicating about more than just Iraq.

And Obama just keeps keeping on. Yep, I'm liking him more and more.

The fact is that Ted Kennedy's support made a huge difference for Obama - had he endorsed sooner Obama would have won MA - here are the exit poll results "voters who decided before a week ago [ie BEFORE Kennedy's endorsement] broke for Clinton by 56 to 41, but those who decided in the last week [ie AFTER Kennedy's endorsement] went for Obama by 56 to 44 percent.

BTW, it's all about delegates not wins and Obama will probably win delegates tonight, with deep pockets to go deep into the primaries.

If Bloomberg really cared about the NYC voting system he would have fixed it already, since as an earlier poster noted, NYC has had these problems for a long time.

Clearly it benefits him to claim fraud because then it couldn't possibly be his incompetence. As he is threatening to run as a third-party independent based on his competence, running an incompetent election just wouldn't jibe well with that meme.

And oh by the way, it behooves him to blame Hillary for cheating since he may want to run against her for the Senate some day. What a hack.