Obama's big mistake is that he never scored that big knockout blow -- California, New York or Ohio would have done it. ...

Well, see there are realist and adults in these states. Hispanics, elderly, working class folks who understand what's at stake.

Whereas when Obama runs in Idaho and the only Democrats are college students he wins hands down. When he runs in South Carolina where 85% of the Democrats are black finally happy to be able to vote for "da man", he wins hands down. When he runs in Texas and Pennsylvania where Rush Limbaugh and the radical right have been encouraging Republicans to vote for him than he at least comes close.

But in states that are any measure of what would come in November, such as New Jersey and CAlifornia and Florida - really really bad news for the Obamateur and for the Dems if he's shoved down our throats by the loser leftwingers.

Yes, Virginia, up to now the press really was protecting Obama after all so that they could get Hillary out of the way for the Republicans, knowing all the while getting Obama out of the way would be easier than pie.

This, of course, obvious to those of us who survived the 90's and watched the Clinton's win against everything the GOP could throw at them (and no crybabies, Hillary really hasn't thrown sh*t at the obamateur the way the right will that doesn't have to worry about offending the liberal sensitivities of the leftwing).

Now the snot-nosed, obnoxious, vile, vulgar, unhinged, despicable Obamateer fools are just starting to get Republican and electoral reality brass-kunckled into their idiotic "YES WE CAN!!!!" starry-eyed foolish brains.

And you can already hear the big communal wail. What a hoot. Wait until the GOP wipes Obama's posterior with 47 states.

After that anyone who ever lets the obnoxious, unhinged, loser left pick their Democratic candidate again needs a lobotomy.

Of course the adults tried to tell you that.

Well said indeed. I can remember over on Salon tabletalk for years to profess being even loosely Christian was to invoke hte wrath of verbal abuse unforseen up to this point. Still is'; ever couple months or so Salon now that it's a pile of garbage instead of the solid investigative reporting it used to be, can be counted upon to throw some red meat to it rile up the left in the form of some article/book review about something pertaining to Christianity. And then just watch the vitriolic letters fly!

Somehow though those post-Christian superlibs poohpoohing those of us foolish enough to practice such "nonsense" as Christiantiy, have elected to overlook that Obama's "Christian" support comes near exclusively from pandering to the patently anti-homosexual evangelical blacks. And I do mean wholesale pandering.

They are just such hypocrites its nauseating.

Re: Obama As always, he presumes he is right and knows it all...which is arrogant and an elitist mind set.

And that's not even touching on his shrillest supporters!

Hey damn, it's their RIGHT to shove a half-black candidate down our throats, whatever shady history aside, whatever questionable experience aside and to project his rightwing style campaign onto his opponent.

least unionized airline save for JetBlue which I believe is the only major carrier lacking an airline pilots union.

Which is why I don't fly them. Sorry there, but I WANT to know the pilot can refuse to fly the plane if s/he doesn't think it's safe to and not be worried for his/her job and so forth. Those minor details. If it costs me five bucks more, I'll gladly pay it - although so far I haven't noticed the savings being passed on to me after union busting just about anywhere.

Thank God for Keillor.

One sorry note though, if you liked the union-busting execs of Northwestern, you'd love the guys from Delta. Being a southern airline, it was the least unionized airline there was.

It looks like AlPA is going to fight this one though hard. But with Bush's court and justice appointments it just doesn't look too hopeful to me.

It always mystifies me when people equate losing to the entrenched democratic machine in democratic states with having anything at all to do with what happens in the general election

Well, Virginia, leaving aside the way the Obamaites have alienated Mrs. Clintons supporters, I think you can safely assume NY is gone. Given how much hispanics don't go for Obama (lost them by over 75% in California and higher in New Jersey), and given how McCain was NOT among the Republicans who went on anti-immigration rants, I think you can safely assume hispanic support for Mrs. Clinton will go to McCain, not Obama. There goes the southwest, you know Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona where McCain comes from.

Considering we lost Iowa and almost Minnesota and Wisconsin with an experienced statesmen, decorated war hero and comparative centrist of John Kerry, I'm guessing that an inexperienced black liberal with a LOT of social baggage ain't gonna win them over there.

Given that working class women and the elderly and Catholics overwhelmingly support Mrs. Clinton and dislike Obama, you can safely assume that Florida and Mass. and Penn are gone to him as neither of these states has a heavy enough black population to even make a dent back.

End of the day: Obama takes Vermont and Illinois - and those are the only states I'd give him comfortably.

I know these facts are inconvenient, and go on now, impress me with vulgar slurs and infantile distortions of Mrs. Clinton's name and record.

Won't change anything though.