But especially tough to think that someone who lived and breathed politics such as Mr. Russert did not get to see how this historic and fascinating election played out.

Life is unpredictable. That's why you should never say anything to someone that you wouldn't mind being your last words together.

It will disrupt operations and actually put people at risk that didn't need to be. I've been deployed when VIP's came over (once for a fishing trip) and I always considered them useless and wasteful.

But there's no question he needs to go just to take away the talking point, however bogus an issue it may be. He should make it brief, meet with a few key foriegn leaders, and get back before someone gets killed.

I initially felt let down to see him give in on the flag pin...but I don't hear about it anymore that the lack of one is "proof" of his hatred for America.

Thanks for your participation. I hope all was smoothed and settled at the end of the day so we could get down to business together.

I was at the initial texas caucuses. Once it became clear that HRC supporters had a slim margin in our precinct, they shut out the Obama supporters from any leadership positions, tried to bulldoze the uncommitteds, and sent the Obama people to the back of the cafeteria. I'm sure Obama folks were equally unpleasant in other precincts but it should not be assumed, as some of the salon posters do (you folks know who you are) that one of the candidates and their people have exclusive rights on rudeness.

I really hat to put on the tin foil hat..

But lately one would be a fool not to.

It was the same night she lost me. When she handed the republicans the "commander and chief threshold" line to use in their attack ads (and they are currently), Olberman's comment was "That's unbelievable!" and was uncharacteristically speechless otherwise. I said something like "She couldn't have actually said that!" until they rolled the tape. I was crushed and confused afterwards having previously defended her.

Yes, on countdown they said she should give it up because she wouldn't make it no matter how well she did from ohio/texas on. Don't slam them for being right.

And I echo some of the comments to Ms. Walsh. Go ahead and start writing your book about how all the awful misogynists sank the dream presidency. You should be able to sell at least 18 million copies I guess (minus operation chaos republicans). But the primary is over and now counts as "old news". Clinton has lost. We have a republican to defeat. Let's get to it.

Katetex? Jeb? Proudtexasgirl? The rest of you clinton folks? She said to do it....

"I am not an animal. I am a free man!"

So how does my suggesting that the most fervent Clinton supporters do what SHE SAID TO DO and contribute for a democratic victory make me an animal? I think I get it, the other 18 million people who voted against HRH are animals or something like that. And always will be. Until justice is done.

You guys need to tone down the rhetoric. We have a republican to beat.

Speaking "spreading the love,, these are all very rational and thoughtful:

"All you cheering, triumphant adolescents that think you've won something when Obama snuck through and appeared to win the primaries, have no idea how abysmally, frighteningly, unbelieveably stupid you are."

"It's funny how the very thing that Obama supporters insist of Clinton's supporters, graciousness and civility, etc., they cannot seem to do themselves."

"Paul Krugman and others got slapped down when they suggested that the Obama campaign was a cult of personality, but they were right. "

"Personally, I'll still be just as disenfranchised in 2016 as I was when it happened. Strapping on a pair of Obama ears ain't going to change that."

"Then, what kind of animals are the first half dozen posters on this very thread?"

Would you stop it already!!! The election is going to be between McCain and Obama (and Nader, the greens, libertarians and whoever else is at the table I guess). But it's not about Hillary anymore. That part is over. Obama/McCain. McCain/Obama. No Clinton. Write your books. Fill your personal blogs full of venom and frustration. Knock yourselves out; but the primary is over and HRC is not the candidate...anybody's. Stay on topic please.

is where does Hillary Clinton fit in here? Every single other article on Salon is full of aggrieved letters from diehard clinton fans, not matter what the topic really is. HRC is the sun around which we all revolve so jeb, sunflower, get hopping on why this article proves HRC won the primary.

Seriously though. The fact that the hall is rented and the NPC doesn't screen who gets to talk there is up to them. If the footage appears with this guy talking over an NPC logo on the podium, that's completely different as implies endorsement.

To republicans it is. Their tax returns contain dark and dirty things...

It's often been said the genius of rove was to attack the enemies strength (war record, bipartisanship, social conciousness). In this case the republican "strength" of being good for national security isn't even a real strength but only a perception, an illusion. Hit them with it. Hit them hard in a way that the average american can do the simple math. Who was president in 1991? Who was the mayor of new york in 1991? Whose administration was in charge for the first 5 years of the Iraq war? Who has not completely squashed Al queda after 7 years?

Still, I find it hard to believe that they would take the statement "fighting within the rules of the constitution" and try to make that bad. It's rovian, but deluded, twisted rovian.