Let me ask you the question that I always ask Obama supporters who are making your argument.Who stood to benefit if the Clintons were demonized as racists? Certainly not the Clintons who have always had very good relationship with the AA community in the past and who would need it in the future. Bill Clinton was that rare Southern Democrat who refused to trade on racial fear.Hillary has from the beginning worked on causes (that actually accomplished things) in close association with her AA peers. That is why in the beginning she had strong support from them.

If you want to know when it started it was after New Hampshire when the Obama campaign memmo went to the press listing all of the supposed racial slights from the Clintons. The press was eager to pick up the meme because they hated Hillary for their own reasons. Could that have been any more obvious with their behavior toward her when they thought she was going to lose New Hampshire?

They started with the so called ,"Bradly effect", which they had to drop when exit polls showed that Obama did not lose votes he was getting in the early polls but rather Hillary gained the votes of women disgusted with the press.They made a perfect segway into the campaign memmo.

You make my point when you refer to the AA vote as being the most secure and least bothered about in the past. You are correct I think, but suddenly that changed when the AA vote went so overwhelmingly to Obama.

If you are truely interested in why I say least accomplished, you will need to do some of your own research, because any reporting of his accomplishments has been overlooked by the press. I would start with the archives of the Chicago Tribune. Hardly a paper you could say was anti Obama. Let's start with the fact that he was not a contitutional law professor he was a part time lecturer.Then go on to read stories of the opinions of the people whose lives he brushed along the way. Including the community organizing group who never heard from him again and never saw him champion any of their causes while in the ILL. Legislature.

I did not mean that Obama's campaign was more destructive than the Bush Administration's on the country, I was talking about the Democratic Party.

I am really tired of being called immature because my favored candidate is not winning and I have a long history of voting for the Democrat who wins the primary despite who I favored in the beginning. This time it is different. I am talking about what the party stands for and what it stands against.

Well, I guess we can agree on one thing. We both have broken hearts on what is happening now.

Yes,you convinced me. Thanks for the information. I have never said that Obama was not brillant.

Joan~ I just had to write a short note and thank you for your appearance on Hardball. I know you have leaned over backwards to be fair to both candidates and I appreciate your effort . It is what all journalists worthy of the title should be doing. However, your evenhandness has been rare.

You expressed a truth tonight. The Obama campaign and it's passive agressive tactics have split the party. I for one have now officially had it. I'm leaving the party. I decided a while ago that I will write in Hillary in November, but things have gone way too far and the Democratic leadership has done nothing to stop the demonization. Obama is a dangerous guy and should be stopped.I have learned enough about him and his Rove/Axelrod. I learned enough about how the DNC has aided and abetted in this miscarriage of the people's will, and laid the path for their chosen guy.This is a power grab within the party. The party deserves what it ends up with when this is all over. I haven't talked to one person in the last month who intends to vote for Obama. He will turn Missouri red.

I haven't bothered to read any of the comments because I have had it with that too.I would venture to guess however that they reveal that there are many more nutjobs out there that are dangerous to Hillary's safety than to Barry's.

Thanks again Joan, you expressed tonight what thousands and maybe millions are thinking.

I was looking forward to what you would write about this deal.

Seems to me that the immunity sought by the Democrats in congress is their own.Bush and his band of criminals have manipulated them since 9/11 and they have signed on to some horrific things.

Didn't anyone find it odd that the establishment in Washington turned their back on the so called establishment candidate and supportered the 'new guy'?

Like Columbo something small keeps niggling in my mind. Ed Rendell laughly recalled on 'Morning Joe', that before the primary got started in Pennslyvania he got a call from Obama reminding him that he 'will' be the nominee in the end, so not to do him any damage.

At the time it struck me as earily similar to Bush calmly telling us not to worry he would win Florida way early in the evening of election 2000.

The "fix" was in early. This is their reward.

We won't come back. We are gone.

Oh great! The Democratic party is now held hostage to a shapeshifter! This is just wonderful. What makes you think Glen that it will not continue. Who knows what his Supreme Court picks will be like? How can anyone have any confidence in this guy? I never did but that's just me.