Don't you ever get tired of blaming the Clintons? Obama determined he didn't need the Clintons and that he could win the race with his vast legions of newly registered voters.

Yeah him and old Donna Brazille - the genius that gave Al Gore such a smashing success. Nevermind that most of 'em were "Obama Republicans". In fact I believe the spamming barfbags on the thread used to BRAG about it and how these Republicans were just so wowed by Obama the unifier and his record of.....something. (he DOES have a record of something besides voting present in the Ill. state legislature I hope).

We tried to tell 'em this was a 2 year Republican effort to trick the ever braindead lefty-lefts, even offered proof - but you know, these smartest people in the world here on Salon wouldn't have it.

Yeah, they're still lurking here. Those who continue to blame Barack's slide on Hillary. How pathetic.

Lurking? Hell, it's the Koolaide crowd's mantra. Nobody what little self-destructive purely emotional implosion they insist on engaging in,it's always always somebody elses fault.

Well,Koolaide drinkers, you shat in your pants and your mommy

can't save you.

They whine that "Hillary used the race card",

If that's not the stinkpot calling the kettle not sure WHAT is.

"Hillary didn't get out of the race soon enough", "Hillary and Bill aren't working hard enough to help Barack"...yadda yadda yadda.

Mommy and Daddy save me.

Actually, Barack failed his first big test by not seriously considering Hillary as his running mate instead of the loquacious Senator Biden.

No, he failed his first big test by putting his own ego before the good of the party AND the people by insisting on running before he was qualified to and 2)knowing he had more baggage than an airport and 3. had no shot of winning.

Hell even New Jersey and New York are in play and McCain is leading by 5-8 points in every single battleground state.

Barack's seeming lack of combatitiveness and reticence to fight back against the SwiftBoat-type ads from the Republicans...until very recently...were his second mistake.

It's not him fighting back. It's what's left of the Democratic Party. He never expected to win ,understands the game is over and doesn't care.

The republicans are like the Liberal party here in Australia. They will say anything and do anyhting to get and keep power while shafting and robbing the taxpayer at every opportunity

That is true. But Americans feel they have no choice. Obama has no experience. He has NO record. His supporters are outright looney. And his history and associations reek of cheap opportunism.

Like Australia though America is a conservative country and becoming more and more so as it becomes more hispanic and as it grays and as evangelical Christianity continues to grow.

This is a fact the lefty-lefts refuse to accept and it's clear they'd rather be politically irrelevant than to compromise and at least have some fair-minded policy in the country. Ironically they are in many ways responsible for the solidly right of center government the nation has.

Yes, most Americans are fed up with the GOP. The only way though the Dems could have lost this November was to nominate a candidate that would have no chance of winning. The GOP knew this, (they're expert strategists), have long understood how easy it is to trick the left into splitting the vote and insisting on a candidate unacceptable to the rest of us. They were working on it a full two years before the primary even as a bucktoothed Obamabot crowd declared Rove "irrelevant".

Hillary holdouts -- is it race? It wasn't then and it isn't now.

It was the Koolaide Obama crowd and burntout race-baiting blacks that insisted on running against Hillary instead of the Republicans. They did this in the same way they turned on Joe Lieberman for not passing the koolaide litmus test- the GOP has had a field day with it and set the bozos up to do the same thing to the only two people who had consistently beat them no matter how hard they tried to smear 'em.

Turning on Hillary was the late act in the nut left's ever crazier self-implosion. And the final act whether they know it or not.

Incidentally nobody owes Obama or the Dems their vote. This was a lesson the leftyleft SHOULD have learned a long time ago, y'know at least the FIFTH time or so they insisted on having some candidate on the ticket everyone made clear they found entirely disgusting.

True.

The problem for Obama is he's got no record. None except running for the next big thing and voting 'present'.

What we DO know about him is all negative:

1) cheap opportunism: by all indicators the man would sell his own mother for a buck fifty.

2) using office to give his wife's company taxpayer money and her getting a 5000% pay increase.

3) associations with nutjobs and criminals: Ayers, Resko, Wright, etc.

4) divisive and willing to do or say anything to get in office.

Is the marriage costing you (and him) your self-esteem? If so you ARE doing the right thing IMO. It's not news that finances break up marriages more than anything else.

Here's a few suggestions; 1.find a weekend job with daycare or where you can take your kids. It should be low stress (motel check in clerk for example) and if it only pays for your monthly utility and phone that's still a big help, yes?

2. You're hardly the only single mom in financial straits. Situations abound all over where women are sharing homes and helping each others kids with homework,meals and babysitting while the other work.

Perhaps something like that is in order?