@lolcait, and others of your ilk...you are obviously political schizophrenics. You can't possibly be Democrats, or patriots, or liberals -- rather, you must be narcissists whose overriding interest is in seeing your "horse" win the race.

The fact that you would vote for Hillary, or McCain -- and find John McCain more qualified than Barack Obama makes me feel as perplexed as I did watching people I thought -- mistakenly, it seems -- had some common sense or intelligence vote for George Bush in 2004. It was as if I'd gone down the rabbit hole into some alternate reality.

You want to know what is simple? Here it is: In this election, party affiliation is everything.

Because if you vote Republican, you are voting for:

More war

More deficit

More hatred of America abroad

More dissolution of our civil liberties

More elimination of our constitutional rights

More conservative judges and decisions

More conservative Supreme Court

More economic problems

If you vote for McCain, what you will learn in November is that an old, war-mongering conservative can and will run America into the ground even further than it already has under 8 horrible years of George Bush.

And you'll be longing for fairy tales.

It's unsourced political gossip.

I think John Edwards is smart and capable enough to speak for himself. And if he had anything he really wants us to know, I have faith he is capable of making it known, clearly, and publicly.

If this is the best thinking that New York magazine -- and Joan Walsh -- can come up with, it's not of particular concern.

who are delusional...

Because any way you cut it, parse it, or try to explain it to yourself...

• John McCain is a Republican.
• John McCain is NOT a liberal.
• John McCain is not even a moderate.
• John McCain is a conservative Republican. He rarely departs from conservative dogma. And even then, he has backpedaled away from any principled stands he FORMERLY had. Operative word: FORMERLY, folks.
• John McCain has little grasp of economic policy, so you can expect continued economic failure, increased deficit, and continued deficit war spending.
• John McCain is a hawk, and so you can expect continued war in Iraq, and very possibly expansion of the war theater, and confrontations with Iran, Syria, and other nations.
• John McCain has abandoned his human rights/civil rights stance, and so you can expect Guantanamo to remain open, and to continue to torture people. You can also expect rendition to continue, and torture of detainees around the world to continue at American hands.
• John McCain has little understanding of or knowledge of Islam, and instead, lumps all Muslim countries together, viewing them quite ignorantly as an "Islamofascist" boogeyman.
• John McCain will appoint Republicans and conservatives to cabinet posts, judgeships, and any Supreme Court openings...

It's called cognitive dissonance, and apparently, it's the mental state of those Hillary supporters whose political support for Clinton has, fueled by the cance rof the Clinton campaign, now metastasized into full-blown mental illness, as manifested by the "Hillary or McCain" statements.

Nora Ephron seems to be in the same boat as Joan Walsh, except Nora's far more rooted in reality -- and she's figured out the truth...

"I am particularly sensitive to this because I'm a woman of a certain age, and this means that part of the pie that passes for my brain contains a large slice called Hillary. I've been thinking about her in a fairly pathological way ever since 1992 and dreaming about her as well. She is me, and then again she's not. I used to love her and I no longer do, but unlike what usually happens when love dies, I still think about her far too much. When she tells a big lie, like her recent Bosnia episode, I can lose hours trying to figure out why. I mean, why? Was it one of those things that she'd said so often that she'd come to believe it? Was it a story that had worked in the past so she thought she'd gotten away with it? Did she honestly think that no one would rat her out? Does she not understand that if you're famous, there's almost nothing you do that someone doesn't have a picture of? I have no idea what the answer is to any of this because I'm not a liar and she is....But the point is that it doesn't matter why Hillary lied; what matters is that I'm hooked on Hillary and on the Rorschach process that defines my relationship with her: she does something, I spend far too much time thinking about it..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nora-ephron/hooked-on-hillary_b_94115.html

Alex writes: "Obama picks up new superdelegate support"

And of course, Joan's take will be...

"Superdelegates Dragged Kicking and Screaming to Obama"

OR

"Obama Bamboozles Superdelegate Into Supporting His Flagging Campaign"

OR

"Why Haven't ALL the Remaining Superdelegates Come Out for Obama Yet? What Does This Tell Us About His Failing Candidacy and Hillary's Strength?"

That's all. Just someone tell all the loons who say they'll vote McCain if they don't get Hillary to read Glenn's piece.

Because those people are the worst kind of hypocrites of all.

THANKS for the tip. I'm an Abfab-aholic, love Vicar of Dibley even, and think French, Saunders and Lumley are GENIUS!

If you are coming to Salon, how can you avoid it?

Koppelman, I lost whatever tiny bit of respect I had left for you, as you clearly are Joan's flying monkey on this anti-Obama crusade.

Feh.