I am a Hillary supporter who is leaning toward writing her name in during the general election. I feel so stongly about the sexism and disrespect shown to Hillary by the media and by Sen. Obama's supporters,I do not believe it should be rewarded and I believe a Hillary write-in would send a strong message to that effect. On the other hand I am a life long Democrat and I understand all the dangers of a McCain presidency.Yet,I get condecended to by Obama and his campaign. He is not reaching out for my vote and his supporters are pushing it away. His coolness leaves me cold. As for KO he has become a cartoon character and will never regain credibility. Just as Newt was the other side of Bill's coin, so KO is the other side of Bill..O's coin. He is often,"The worst person in the World", and his Murrow sign off is pure theft.If Hillary pulls off another big win I fully expect his head to explode but alas, I will miss it because I tuned him out a long time ago.

It kills me how all these people who are cancelling their subscription to Salon are here day after day to complain again.

If we want to read TPM or the Daily Kos we will.Stop using whole pages to print their bogus reasoning on Salon. Why anyone listens to Markos I will never know. Don't you know he is a faux progressive or neolib and he is just as destructive to the Dems as the neocons have been to the Republicans.He voted for Bush for Christsakes! He is just a Hillary hater.He didn't like Obama when this all started. Same for Arianna Huffington. Josh Marshall is another story, I think he is a true progressive but he has sold out to his demographic. He just wants to make money and be one of the big boyz, he wants in the club. He is a bigger disappointment than KO(who is just a shameless ego)I unsubscribed to him long ago.

I have enjoyed reading the posts on this thread. Some very thoughtful analysis. I am starting to sense a realism settling in about our prospects in the fall. I agree that Sen. Obama is talented and has a great future if he is willing to actually do the work of politics.So far he has skipped that part.It has been written that he has a restlessness to his personality and that is why he goes for a higher office every three years. Well, making actual change is a long hard slog and it takes the kind of tenaciousness that Hillary has in spades.

Hillary like Bill before her understands that the majority of the electorate is in the middle. They have been pulled to the right by the Republican years.Now, now they are starting to see that while conservatives are good in the opposition, they are lousy at governing. They hate government why would they be good at it? It is going to take someone who can articulate in depth,just like Hillary did with O'Reilly, that America is a better place when we are all in it together.

The charges of using hardball tactics against her campaign are over blown and hypocritical when Obama's campaign has been playing hardball just as much. In fact one could make a case that she is less hypocritical because she is up front about the fact that this is politics as played in the US. Sen. Obama talks about a new kind of politics but his campaign is doing just the opposite.

He is looking weak and tired right now. He even forgets where is is sometimes or what month it is, while Hillary is just hitting her stride. It is going to be along hard batttle to November and I think she shows everyday that she is up to it.

If the Supers stay with Sen. Obama rather than go with the one who can actually win, it will say more about them protecting their own winning constituncies and self interest than it does about their desire to win the Presidency.