Ha! Yeah, I have never taken the "if this person wins I am moving to [pick your favorite border country] seriously. Even with GW II I have faith that the Republic will go on.

But since you mention the 2006 elections, is anyone else (besides Glen Greewald) disappointed on how ineffective the democratic congress has been? I totally agree that the country is still very anti-Bush, except for the wing nuts, but that the democrats may have lost all the momentum of 1996 by not being any different.

That is not to say I disagree with either Obama's or HRC's passage of the war funding. I was not about to trust that GW wouldn't make a political statement a bunch of soldiers as cannon fodder.

But it just seems like the democrats just took their win and turtled in the face of fear based politics. The latest FISA vote being a great example.

I live in Chicago and after reading both the Trib and the Sun-Times this morning, I am convinced that we have seen all we are going to see from the Obama / Rezko mess. In the end it looks like Obama (stupidly) got himself mixed up with one of the typical shady characters that dominates the Illinois political scene.

The real person who will be hurt by this is our idiot governor who was revealed today as 'Public Official A' who received campaign contributions from Rezko's stand-ins.

Obama also received contributions as did some Hillary supporters but has donated all of them to charity.

From a money for influence perspective its pretty much your standard story and the prosecutors now have lists of people that were supposed to get jobs and such. It looks like some of the people got jobs, some didn't and politicians helped the ones who did.

None of the people who got jobs apparently got them with help from Obama.

In the end, it's slimy and its wrong and Obama should stand up and say exactly what he did and didn't do.

As far as Hillary goes, I would say its pretty much the same thing she was accused of doing in the travelgate scandal.

Sigh.

I would like to know if situations were reversed, if Obama had lost 11 contests in a row and were seeing his leads disappear in Texas and Ohio, would there even be a question of his exit? Would he even still be in the race?

If she loses Texas and isn't out by the 5th, I think this is going to get ugly just for the fact that for her to win after that, there would have to be some serious shenanigans.

"We're not going to give up on the process, we're not going to bend to the process, we're not going to whine about the process,"

I would love to see the Clinton campaign stop spinning and put this out as their official strategy. everyone I know is terrified that they are going to pull something and cripple the democratic party for the next 20 years

"casting aside Senator Clinton's very real chance at success."

Ok two points . . .

1. Even if Hillary won every contest from here on out and got 100% percent of the votes, she would still need super delegate help to win.

2. If the shoe were on the other foot, if Barack Obama had lost 11 straight contests, had every double digit lead disappear on him after his opponent spent 2 weeks or less campaigning against him. do you think he would even still be in this race? Do you even think that he would even still be a candidate?

I am not saying she should get out before March 4th of course. But if she loses Texas and only wins Ohio by less than 20% than I really don't see any other argument supporting her candidacy other than some fast and loose maneuvering with super delegates (who seem unwilling to go along).

Right now, I think she's got a right to say, if I win Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania big, then it's on but if she loses any of those states or even fails to win a significant delegate advantage than she's going to look less and less like a committed candidate and more like someone who just can't face reality.

Until then, I don't trust her one little bit. She's not sad, she's definitely not a victim and her continued spin of reality scares the hell out of me.

Remember folks this is a high powered lawyer who once took apart a 12-year-old sex abuse victim on the stand so she could get her client off. I am not saying she wasn't doing her job but I'll be damned if I am going to go all weepy-eyed over her now.

And, if she's half the leader and woman she proclaims to be, she would agree with me.