That is why impeachment, even at this late date, even if there is no trial possible, is a kind of "hygiene" and a statement of what is permitted in a democracy. The President is not to be a king or dictator but someone who uses his or her powers to further the American enterprise and protect its citizens from the over-reaching of power.

I understand that McCain advocates what Bush did. He has no sense of the world. He has shown, by his errors and absurdities (singing about killing millions of people), that he is not fit for the job. I find Hillary Clinton's comments about "obliterating" Iran similarly inapt.

So we are left with Obama who seems up to the job and, if people can get past prejudice, can do it well. I plan to campaign for him and I trust what he is saying, that he will accept a limited Presidency that protects the Constitution and doesn't use it as toilet paper.

I still think we need to vote for impeachment, though. We need to make a statement as a country that what Bush and Cheney have done is evil.

I would love to see a knd of teaming up between Barack Obama as President of the US and Hillary Clinton, who has shown a great talent for crossing lines to get things done, as Senate Majority Leader. I think the SML job is more powerful than a VP's job is. She would be magnificent. The job has seen giants -- LBJ comes to mind -- who were able to get things done.

The Rove-induced ugly partisanship has to stop so that we can start healing after the eight years of Bush-Cheney buggery of the Constitution. We need to get things repaired and Hillary could do it. I would love to see her in that job.

USA Today, which is not the best of media, has her playing the race card in a very ugly and transparent way. How is she going to sit down with a superdelegate after trashing the front runner by a racist appeal? How is any superdelegate, faced with a frantically ambitious woman saying that hardworking Americans and white Americans won't go for Obama, agree to back her in the face of mathematical reality showing that it's not necessarily the case? Not only saying that to the superdelegate but having said that to a newspaper. I'm a New Yorker and I can't vote for her in the next Senatorial campaign now because she has mortally embarrassed me.

It has been Bill Richardson no matter who won the top spot. Richardson has so many positives to him that he's almost a no brainer. Jim Webb, for all his dazzling qualifications, lacks the experience and Obama needs experience. Richardson has been a Cabinet member, an ambassador and a governor. He is considered so stable that even Kim Jong Il trusts him, which would make him a slam dunk for diplomatic missions as Obama's representative.

He's a class guy. He is also charisma challenged and is not likely to raise flak.

Barack Obama was not on the Michigan ballot. That is the bottom line. Nobody could vote for him even if they wanted to. That means that seating the delegation with all votes going to Hillary Clinton is a repeat of what happened to Al Gore at the Supreme Court -- total sabotage of the Democratic Party. She can't have Michigan. Seat Florida with half the votes going to Obama because he didn't campaign there -- which means he played by the rules. Of course, the rules don't apply to Hillary. She is the Red Queen in the current version of Alice in Wonderland. She can drop racist statements with blithe disregard of their long term effect on the party and the country. Off with his head!!! Actually, she's aiming for his nuts, not his head.

She has forfeited dignity long ago. She needs to leave even if she runs off clutching what is left of her clothes.

I was talking to my internist this morning and we are both eager for a woman to run for President. We are also agreed that Hillary Clilnton is not the woman to do the job. She has used race as a part of the campaign in a very nasty way. Granted that the Republicans are going to play ugly, too, but that does not give her the right to do so. Obama's race is an issue for some people. I agree with that. We still have festering wounds that need some heavy intellectual antibiotics to heal.

If Jesus returned as a black man, he'd be attacked by some people who absolutely reject blackness as an attribute in a leader. That said, Hillary "jumped the shark" when she and her super-surrogate, the former President, made comments about Obama's ethnicity. She lost her credibility as someone who could ameliorate the situation in our country. Instead of saying, at every campaign stop, that race should not and must not be an issue, she has exploited it. That is why I cannot vote for her and that is why, if she attempts to run for the Senate again, I will back her Democratic opponent in the primary.