I hope you're right. As an Obama supporter, I hope his responses resonate in the general election. I doubt there will ever be a way to completely quiet the attack dogs or to extinguish the doubts or rumors they raise. I do believe, however, that his background will continue to attract attacks and that he must continue to counterattack forcefully and more viscerally.

They are not going to go away and they are not going to stop questioning his patriotism. It's going to get even dirtier. It is far too premature to pat ourselves on our backs.

@Kitt

Nice rant.

"Don't attribute your gibberish (it's gibberish, not jibberish, people) to being the views of 'most Americans'. That is no better than the 'Some people say...' construction that Fox News loves to use and that GG has time and again documented and condemned."

I didn't say MOST Americans: I said "many" Americans. God and Country are potent issues. Never underestimate it or the right's ability to manipulate it for political gain. There are many Democratic candidates who learned this the hard way. Don't give them openings.

This ain't over folks, not by a long shot.

How about pulling a fast one by legitimizing a "me first" political philosophy?

Hillary Clinton is not going anywhere.

That is a great letter! Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

To be able to respond this quickly and effectively to this and other attacks suggests to me that Obama has a very talented team who are able to identify vulnerabilities ahead of time and come up with effective responses before his opponents hit him. This bodes well for his chances in the Fall.

I don't think I've ever heard someone say that the Civil War in Iraq is over. WOW.

As much as the Clinton supporters hate hearing this, she cannot win. She has lost. It is encouraging to see several party leaders begin to call her on it.

about party leaders asking a candidate, who has close to no chance of winning the nomination, to step aside so the Party can ensure that the actual nominee can have the time and resources needed to win in November. Yes, it must surely be sexism when the big, bad, party leaders dare to do such a thing. And being demoted back to the U.S. Senate, no less. Poor, oppressed Hillary.

was too busy dodging bullets on a Bosnian runway to pay attention to the truth.

It was a similar name-calling incident, where she commented that Dick Cheney "looks like a wife-beater." That was the first and last time I listened to her.

Now I haven't been known as someone who routinely sticks up for Cheney, but I found it offensive that she would say something like that about the VP of the United States. It's gutter talk, similar to what the Michael Savage hatemongers on the right routinely say. So, I'm not surprised at all that she would say something like that about HRC.

We have 2 wars, a looming recession, a lending crisis, worsening global warming, etc., etc., etc., and we're forced to fixate on THIS kind of crap?

Pathetic!

Thanks for calling 'em out on it Glenn.

THIS is why the Dems need to finish this primary: so proper attention can be paid to McCain's record and character instead of the never ending Hillary and Obama death match.

supporting both candidates, who feel compelled to rant/fling insults about every little perceived slight to their favored candidates supposedly perpetrated by Joan Walsh, the rest of Salon or anyone else, crawl back under their rocks or bridges.

The letters' sections have become unreadable.

You guys SUCK!

Clinton leads 59-41, according to CNN.

Seriously!

The Bush foreign policy is, to put it mildly, unpopular. And the more his campaign can link McCain with Bush's failed foreign policy, the more appealing he will be.

Obama is trailing 51-46. If these results are more or less consistent through the night, then it won't be the West Virginia-sized rout that some had expected.

Then the Democratic Party will have enough votes to ditch this turncoat for good.

If there is a graceful exit strategy to be had, it is on her shoulders to do it: not Obama's. Some of the demands that she is making are way over the top coming from someone who has lost the race. I would love to see this race come to a conclusion soon, and for the party to be unified, but not at the expense of seeing Obama's campaign constrained by making some overly generous concessions to one of the race's losers. She can make the exit as graceful as she chooses--it's up to her, not Obama. If she goes down kicking and screaming, then it will her fault alone.

Reminder, she has lost the goddamned race: this is not a difficult concept.

And as tough as it may be for some HRC supporters to accept, most people (not all) did not vote for her because they did not like her or her ideas, not because of some latent sexism.

She has joined 5 other male Dem candidates who also lost. So what's their reason for losing?

Maleism?

McClellan wants to have it both ways: do nothing while the transgressions of the Administration are occuring then rake in the dough later by writing a book later about Bush and describing how rotten things were. If he truly felt it was so bad, he should have left earlier instead of being complicit in bolstering the lies of the Bush Administration. He didn't have the guts to do that.