"Arrogant", "presumptuous", etc. code words. They're code words for "uppity Negro." If it doesn't stop, what the Obama campaign should do is cull the news archives for footage of race baiting and racists statements from white supremacists during the Civil Rights years, edit them together interspersed with recent footage of McCain surrogates and journalists using the same language.

Joan, "she pummeled him"? Hardly! I don't watch TV but if this is what passes for pummeling on TV then meek and mild would makes fall out of our chair. He lead the way. She was not in control of the interview. She's the one who apologized.

This will all be made okay and everything forgiven between the brides and the bridesmaids when they figure out how to blame it all on the grooms and the best men.

Guernican has it right. It isn't that "journalists" may be, or are, biased. In the U.S. it's the pretense and fakery of "objectivity" that is misleading and galling. Journalism is not a profession, not like doctoring or lawyering or teaching or accounting or even truck driving. You have to earn a license to do any of those things. That's what makes them a profession. Anybody can be a "journalist."

Here's what to make of it. Stop talking about it.

You'd have to be one cold heartless fish not to understand what a triumph the U.S. men's gymnastics team had the other day. After injuries suffered by their teammates, they weren't expected to win a medal. I could not have been happier for them, nor prouder of them, even if they'd won the gold.

While there were certainly some sexist things said about Hillary Clinton and her supporters, it is also true that there were some racist things said about Obama and his supporters. One doesn't cancel out the other. Insult and pain are insult and pain no matter who the target. Ultimately neither sexism or racism decided the primaries. Everyone was hip to what was going down and for the most part, most people avoided outright sexism and racism. Everyone knew the rules of the game in all the states. What decided the race was organization and strategy. Obama was just better at it than Clinton. The voters made their choices. That's what matters. Obama is and will be the Party's nominee. He will win in November. Now, that is what matters, not fighting yesterday's battles. Conason's piece seems written simply to stir up bad feeling, and has it ever.

The left seems to have this idea that “Truth” will somehow win hearts and minds. That all we have to do is show people facts and their eyes will open. Doesn’t happen. Hasn’t happened in the past, won’t happen in the future for the next 500 years or so. - Al Bania

At 55 I've lived through enough of these things that it is a near constant struggle not to be equally as cynical. Most of the time I fail. Despite insisting that they want the truth, which amounts to little more than self-aggrandizing moral flattery, most people will just as quickly and unquestionably believe a lie if it aligns with their prejudices and reinforces their ignorance. I learned a long time ago as a corporate minion in a Great Big American Corporation that in the real world it is important to tell the truth if it serves one's purposes. But if it doesn't, a lie will do just as well so long as it sounds convincing.

The truth may set you free, but first it will make you feel like crap, which is why many of us try to avoid it as much as possible. We have to assume that telling the truth will eventually matter, and that hopefully it won't matter too late to matter.

Home run! Out of the park! She did what she needed to do. She accomplished it with passion, smarts, style and class. Like Michelle Obama's, it was an excellent speech. The women are out speechin' the men here. I didn't vote for Clinton in the primary.

Neither Bill nor Hillary Clinton are racists. That's not only insulting to them as Democratic leaders but as people. It's absurd and it's totally wrongheaded. What they are are brilliant politicians. Bill is also a Southerner. He knows racial politics like the back of his hand. He grew up with it. I believe that an honest assessment of his and her tactics during the primary campaign would acknowledge that they exploited racial perceptions in the most clever ways. So did Barack Obama. Contrast Clinton's subtle and clever use of racial perceptions with the brain dead, clanking, dim-witted ignorance of Geraldine Ferraro, whom I believe is as unconsciously racist as it gets. But Obama, being as smart and savvy as any Clinton knew, and knows, he won't get elected without the Clintons' help.

But for the love God, all that's behind us now. We've all kissed and made up, at least as many of us as will ever matter, and we're moving on.

Did you hear John Kerry? What a crying shame that he listened to all the stupid Democratic handlers in 2004 and never used all that fire power. If he'd been let loose to do what he did tonight, we might not have had to endure four more years of the worst Administration in American history.