Republicans have crossed over and voted in Ohio and PA just for fun. There is little room for doubt.

You're clearly better than Koppelman.

Miss you already.

I would prefer that the State recognize NO marriages at all. Everybody's benefits and healthcare, etc. are derived from citizenship, not to whom you're married or not married. Everybody files separately. In other words, a complete secularization of the instituation, which is religious in nature.

Yes, Clinton cares only about herself and not the party. Given her tactics, I don't see any other conclusion. The sooner she leaves the race, the better for the party.

I really don't care how you think you've succeeded in a male-dominated profession (and it depends on how one defines "succeed").

I agree with an earlier post that you should just be honest. You can write anything you want on your blog: it's yours. Don't censor yourself and try to be "fair", just let it rip. You would still get tons of detractors (like me) but it would be more interesting.

OK, I see the slight, but I didn't think Olbermann's comment was that offensive. Let's just move on...I don't think that it is such a big deal. Besides, I don't watch TV, but isn't this type of theatrics pretty much standard fare? TV isn't called the "idiot box" for a good reason.

By the way, Joan, you didn't get all pissed and twisted when a major network criticized Obama's bowling, using thinly-veiled racist and sexist stereotypical language. It is what it is and most of us just thought "what poor fools."

At any rate, I second the posts that Hillary had it coming. My mother, who is 73, a feminist, and who was a front-line hell-raiser, who had to endure the most unbelievable sexual harassment in the '70's, is now a FORMER Hillary fan. She told me the other day that she couldn't stomach how Hillary was "acting like a man" just to get votes, just to prove she is as tough as a man. Mom said that women can be tough just who they are, and that she was turned off by all the theatrics. It's not that mom doesn't like mannish mannerisms in women, but she thinks Hillary is acting, putting on a show and making herself out to look like a fool. She said "that isn't feminism."

Mama is always right.

I say Obama v. McCain is 50/50.

If Hillary wins the nomination, for sure McSane will win. She'll have to bring in her false arguments about MI and FL. She's the primary reason the Dems will lose, because of the awful way she's conducted herself.

Goodbye, Joan.

You're not a progressive; you've had too many martinis in SF with your TV pundit pals with whom you've become so chummy. It's as if you've been bought, or you've sold-out. I can read the same mindless trash on CNN. It's not interesting at all, it's the same garbage on the networks, only with a slight veneer of the "I am a successful, educated, humorless feminist" who CLAIMS to be from the left.

Not renewing...ciao

Loved your post...I'm coming around the last several weeks that Obama is NOT a progressive (let alone Hillary, who is a complete corporate whore).

I think you hit it right on the head: Obama's discussions about bringing in Republicans is ludicrous. Why would they want to give up their power? How naive?

We literally need a revolution here, a left-wing one, to kick out corporate power. Traveling the country and bringing voters into the fold is a good thing, but Obama is not hitting hard enough from the left.

Needless to say, Clinton is a Republican wanna be; she'll lose for sure against McCain if she's the nominee because the red-meat crowd wants to vote for the true warmonger (Kerry v. Bush redux)/

Of course, this is all very depressing for me...

Is Joan editing him?

I refuse to read that idiot's blog anymore.

Koppelman is going the way of Joan...last login on Salon for me.

Ciao

Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Indiana...large numbers of rural bubbas are taking Rush's advice and voting for Clinton.

The metric you should be looking at is half of the self-identified "Democrats" voting in NC and IN would never vote for Obama or not vote at all. HALF!!!!!

Alex, you need to get your head out of where the sun don't shine, honey. Republicans don't have anything to do but play fun in the Dem primary. You simply cannot call yourself a Democrat and then vote Republican, for a guy like McCain. Good Lord, there is an enormous difference between Clinton and McCain.

But as I've written before, the American people don't read or study, at all. They go with their emotions, or which stupid news source has the salacious detail of the day.

Americans really do deserve the criminal government they have.

Won't vote for Barack. HALF!!!

They're REPUBLICANS.

Which doesn't sit well with me AT ALL.

I was an Obama fan early on, when Hillary was 20 points ahead. I voted for him against her based on her record in the Senate and also because of her husband's policies; I felt she is too conservative.

The two most disgusting aspects of Hillary's campaign are her insistence on seating delegates from two states that really didn't matter to her initially and her increasing reliance on white racist votes (many from cross-over Republicans) in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. Yuck. I'm really ready to have this bitch leave the kitchen. She stinks.

I don't know how else to sum it up. There are so many things wrong here...primary voting patterns don't hold up in the general election, the assumption that Obama doesn't offer whites anything more than McCain. It's just pathetic.

She is a sleazy, pandering, corporate whore.