What a (small) bunch of crybabies. OMG, these hysterical women have set back feminism 30 years. An absolute disgrace. What is the message they are sending? That if they don't get their way, they will vote for a pro-life, right-wing Republican out of spite? They underscore every stereotype of the emotional, unstrung harridan that women have been trying to get past for decades.

What they don't realize is that they are playing a very dangerous game with Hillary's career. If Obama loses, much of the blame will be placed squarely on the shoulders of these sore losers. This will disenfranchise millions of African American voters and young people who will desert the political process for a VERY long time. You can kiss any chance of Hillary being elected in the future goodbye because the very demographics that she needs to win a general election in 2012 will remember 2008 and -- however unfairly -- boycott her in the end. Bitterness works BOTH ways.

Hillary Clinton is smart enough to know that she has as much to fear from the PUMA crowd as Obama does and that is why she so forcefully denounced them today. But her little cat and mouse game with her supporters may have ultimately backfired on her -- and she knows it.

Then, PUMA person, why exactly did you support Hillary in the first place? Did you agree with her policies or just see her as a gender symbol? What are your priorities -- or are you just into the propaganda game?

It seems completely RATIONAL to question a group of supposedly politically progressive women on why they would vote for John McCain because Obama won the nomination.

Are you core beliefs so flimsy as to risk not only a Republican administration but Mrs. Clinton's future in Presidential politics as well?

It seems, tragically enough, that is the case.

Your argument is fatuous and misleading.

The vast majority of PUMA has expressly stated that they are voting for John McCain in the general -- and the McCain campaign at this very moment is using their stance in an advertising blitz.

The difference between my views and PUMA's are quite clear: I would have voted for Hillary Clinton (even though I have major issues with her and believe she is unelectable in a general election) because her overall political philosophy and goals mirror my own beliefs far more than the sexist, racist and prehistoric mindset of the Republican party today. I'm not demonizing Hillary. What good does that do when the spectre of John McCain looms into view?

It is incredibly naive to think that PUMA doesn't help the McCain campaign -- whether a small number opt to sit it out or not. This isn't about THEM -- it is about how they are being used as pathetic propaganda tools by a Machiavellian Republican spin machine. Do you really think Republicans care about PUMA? Please, you must be dreaming.

The PUMA crowd needs to look beyond the ego-gratifying headlines of today and take into account the grave damage they are doing to the progressive movement of tomorrow.

By summarily rejecting any criticism of Republicans and delivering a deeply personal, poetic and positive speech that resonated with truth , Michelle Obama took the high road last night -- and she was magnificent.

I think she is a huge plus for the campaign and America will come to truly admire her for the person she is -- and will be as First Lady.

May the everlasting bounce begin.

As someone who has never liked HRC, I have to hand it to her -- tonight was a triumph not only for her but for the Democratic party as a whole. If she was faking it, she's truly on an acting par with Helen Mirren, but I don't think she was. I heard the emotion in her voice. She believed what she was saying. She has laid down the challenge to her supporters -- now we will see if they can rise above the disappointments of the past and move on. It seems to me that Hillary certainly has.

Now, of course, we cut to Bill. Perhaps we shouldn't. His strange comments yesterday about candidates promising the world and then not delivering coupled with the news that he's skipping Obama's speech seems so childish and petulant compared to Hillary's attitude. If he spends the majority of his speech tonight trumpeting his own administration, it will be a mistake. If he is truly concerned about the accusations of racism that have been leveled at him, he would be wise to heap a little praise on Obama before basking in his own spotlight.

Well, of course it's tokenism -- of the most egregious kind. What's worse, it shows a bottomless well of flat-out stupidity on

McCain's part.

Picked soley to shore up the right-wing base, how could the moldy "Maverick" possibly imagine this pro-life, anti-environment, pro-creationism, anti-gay lightweight as someone the Hillary camp would support? Is this what he thinks of women? That they purely vote for gender, irrespective of their policies? I'm surprised he didn't pick OJ as VP with that kind of thinking.

If John McCain wins in November, America gets what it richly deserves -- that is, nothing.

I felt like I was watching "The Twilight Zone."

The 50's time-warp feel was so banal that I turned it off after Fred Thompson made a fool of himself pretending to be Ronald Reagan.

Poor Laura Bush. She looked like she had been lobotomized.

If this is the party of the "mavericks," count me out. These people are utterly clueless and complete embarrassments to the nation at large.