It looks to me like a replay of 2004 with the MSM following the dictates of Karl Rove.

They just play into his hands. That New Yorker cover speaks volumes about his strategy and it will work. Millbank was surprisingly negative yesterday.

Regrettably, the USA is very racist and I feel the republican tactics will win them the presidency.

It's sad!

I do have some hope in that Obama and his campaign appear to be politically smart but it's hard to overcome visceral hatred. You can't do it with reasoning.

"But it is true. Obama is basically a typical cowardly Dem and will not raise a finger."

This statement from a prior post is largely true, in my opinion. Just look at the congress that resulted from the 2006 elections.

An absolute disgrace, and Obama, re his FISA vote is part of the problem.

Therefore, I don't think Obama will do much in the way of prosecuting the Bush administration for all their evilness. Also, nobody has any recourse for the misery caused by their ineptness and megalomania.

All I am hoping for is a cessation of the evilness.

But I really believe McCain will win, so it's a moot point.

Since shifting to Steve Schmidt's tactics and to a much more harshly negative motif, McCain has gained ground on Obama in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. This according to recent Quinnipiac swing-state polls. He is going to continue to gain and will overtake him.

Why? Because the McCain campaign is going after the 17.8 million racists that voted for HRC and it will get them. They are doing this using the Rovian "swift-boating" scheme or tactic that was so successful in 2000 and 2004 and now have it down to a science. Regrettably, Obama, as HRC predicted, will become mince-meat.

This once was a "great country' that is just disintegrating before our eyes. Behold!

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Yano

There isn't any doubt in my mind that racism is the reason McCain is close to Obama in the polls. Comparisons to prior presidential contests are meaningless!

The difference in the general election will be the 18 million who voted against Obama, and not for Clinton, in the democratic primary.

I live in a white working-class neighborhood and you just have to go into the local diner where everyone is adorned in the red, white and blue; there is no doubt about who they are going to vote for and they are very vocal about it. That is putting it nicely. The N' word resounds throughout the diner!

Obama has everything working against him and he will not win. The republicans will swift-boat him as they did Kerry only this time it will be a cake walk for them.

I feel this country has gone so far down it can only continue its descent. Someday, Obama will be happy he didn't win.

"It would have been better to put this language in the platform: 'A woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters.'”

The 18 million supporters she claims support her are mostly only racists that couldn't bring themselves to vote for an outstanding African-American.

Maureen Dowd got it exactly right and Clinton and her very few supporters along with Bill, have gotten their revenge. But only temporarily. She'll get nailed for being the liar and poor loser she really is in 2012.

Long live Maureen Dowd!

I just can't imagine anyone voting for HRC. You must have been influenced by Joan Walsh, who as a fanatical feminist, propagandized Clinton and ignored all of her lies, mismanagement, destructive campaign tactics plus her immutably self-absorbed husband's narcissism.

Especially being an African-American. I don't get it. Obama is everything the country needs in a president but he won't get it and HRC is playing a big part in denying him a chance to reverse the nose-dive into an abyss that the United States is currently plunging into.

I'll give you a million feminists actually voting for HRC because they are feminists. The other 17 million are racists who voted against Obama.

"I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002," she says in the ad, referring to Obama's stand against the Iraq war, which Bill Clinton once dismissed as a "fairy tale."

From HRC's ad being constantly played by republicans and they will relentlessly replay it ad infinitum.

Obama conceded the election to McCain when he gave in to HRC on the convention program.

HRC will do to Obama what Corsi did to Kerry in 2004. Then she will move on to 2012. It is truly a sad day for the United States of America.

"She has no chance in 2012 or ever, Salon's endless fawning notwithstanding."

I completely agree with your analysis. However, HRC is delusional, along with being immensely incompetent. She can't comprehend what is obvious.

She only knows how to be vindictive against Obama because he beat her, despite the feminists and racists who supported her; not because of any policies she put forth, only because she is a woman and not Afro-American.

Obama ran a gentlemanly campaign compared to her gutter-slime-spewing operation.

But again, you are correct! Yet she will destroy Obama, thinking she can have an opportunity in 2012 because McCain will bring on more of the Bush trash and the country will be in more trouble than today. And she figures that she isn't black and she'll get the racist vote, along with the feminists. Maybe she'll hire Joan Walsh to team up with Howard Wolfson.