A woman president would be fine with me, just not this one, not anymore. Clinton lost me for good with the "CINC threshold" nonsense.

Pelosi? Feinstein? There are plenty of good choices, women who really have devoted their professional lives to service to country. Women who really have accomplished things in the bad times and helped bring on better times. Women who made their mark with their own work and their own names.

I'll still vote for clinton if she is the nominee but it will ONLY be for the sake of the Supreme Court nominations 2008-2012 which are critically important. And any Clinton supporter who will not vote for Obama and hand SCOTUS decisions to a republican for another 4 years doesn't deserve to be called a democrat.

Shawn, you do realize that a comment like this makes it obvious you are a republican troll?

Or the most stupid democrat in the country...who supports Clinton?

I know at least two hardcore, john wayne republicans here in Texas who were quite proud of their hillary votes and their contribution to Operation Chaos. (One even went to the caucus)

And I don't hang around with that many republicans...

But the "decent interval" would not have been with a few weeks of his gracious, supportive testimony to congress. I reckon the decider is trying to make as many mischief decisions as possible in his blessedly short time.

I agree with electrorobot completely (for once).

We should strip superdelegates of all their votes and nominate whoever has the most pledged delegates and/or popular vote! What? That isn't what you meant?

It is in my homestate of texas but that doesn't stop you all from continuing to make a big deal about the "win"

If a pit bull has attached itself to your leg, responding to the event is more a necessity than an "irresistible temptation"

I was pleased with his speech last night but, to be honest, while mcCain was the only name mentioned, you could have inserted "and hillary" several times and it would have flowed just fine.

People are used to seeing african american and mixed race people in a variety of positions (2 different presidents on 24 in fact! How subversive is that!)

I'm more worried about the manchurian candidate theme that somehow Obama is his own one man islamic sleeper cell. Sometimes I really wish he had a different middle name...

Right up to the point he's elected. Can you imagine anyone who instantly improve our standing in middle east negotiations than a darker skinned man with Hussein as a middle name? It certainly wouldn't be another white guy already on record as willing to blow the crap out of everything and, unfortunately, it isn't a woman who isn't even allowed to shake hands with most of the key players there because it would be haram.

This is a really stressful day for him. After all, his candidate needs to make something like a 15-20% margin on this one, even "counting" Florida and Michigan.

We needed to crank up the gas tax so that it cost at least $4 a gallon and plough the revenue into a national health plan. I never envisioned that it would make a run for $4 without any significant increase in the tax. Yes the companies are making obscene profits and should have their own tax breaks rescinded. But oil is more than twice the cost that it was 5 years ago (wonder what's been going on over there) and consumption is up so there you go.

Maybe $5 a gallon now and put the money into infrastructure improvement...

I can't say the others are worse than Bush. People like Yoo and Rumsfeld are only able to inflict damage on the world while serving their masters. Lieberman may yet have an opportunity to do some real evil depending upon how his new BFF McCain does this year.

Cheney is not just the architect of some of this administration's worst but personally profited from it once it becomes clear how his "blind investments" did. Thinking of this administration makes me wonder about how Dante would have structured hell with all these sins unimaginable in earlier times.

OK, you got me convinced. I hear the job of presidency is "hard work". In fact I hear it over and over again.

And lilybean, you kind of wandered a bit in the effort to squeeze in all the talking points. You should keep it simple like WES "Obama sucks and is a loser" or Cythera;s "Empty suit! Empty suit!"

In fact, while I was still in the Air Force and the Abu Gharaib scandal broke, in my mortification at what our country had become, I wrote that McCain should lead a coup to remove this embarassment from office (Repub majority at the time). I don't write fan letters anymore and I will vote for the democratic nominee whoever that may be.

He'll be bad as president, but not as bad as Bush. No one is as bad as Bush (except perhaps Cheney).

is not based on popular vote. Wish it was. Talk to President Gore about that.

I would have thought the winner was the one with the most delegates. But that's just me.

How about Illinois...or did he "lose" that, too?

You mean like Texas?

You insult Klingons, always a dangerous move by the way.

True, they tend to take more direct action that politics would suggest and negotiations are, ultimately, for Terrans. But they fight their own battles and would feel personal and family dishonor to have others go to war on their behalf.

I think it is her way of being "presidential" by declaring reality is what she and her people say it is. I mean, it's worked the last 7 years, hasn't it?