If you castigate Barack as being "pussy-whipped" (based, as near as I can tell, on the damning evidence that he was raised by a mother and a grandmother and now has a wife), then are you saying that you would rather vote for a woman capable of pussy-whipping a man, aka Hillary? Help me out here.

I expressed sympathy for him, which is the direct opposite of "castigate". Engage brain before opening mouth or rushing to the keyboard. The facts about Barack and female influence are there - Ann, Madelyn, Michelle, Oprah. It's nicely racially balanced, isn't it, but the inescapable fact is that they're all women and opinionated women too. Some rumor-mongers have suggested that Ann Dunham was a Marxist (Karl Marx) when she was a student in Seattle. I don;t know whether this is true or not. Michelle is not the submissive type, for sure, and sounds even angry with her "stinky and snorey" remark.

I suppose you have facts about Hillary Clinton and you're not relying on rumors like those that claim Ann Dunham was a Communist. We've gotta get the facts and, for starters, you should learn the meaning of "castigate". As Barack says in that great speech (the recycled one) "Words are important".

Anon, I don't understand how this Oprah-Michelle-Ann thing you're spinning proves anything. I don't know what sort of observation you're trying to make, and neither do you. The Women's Studies department at Wellesley (Hillary's alma mater) couldn't make heads or tails of it either, I'm quite sure. Why don't you take the energy that you're expending in weighing the "sexual politics" of the presidential candidates' lives and redirect it into something that matters?

thank you for your CONCERN. How the hell can you post your "questions" about Ann Dunham's political leanings and then admit that you have no idea what the woman thought or believed? I guess doing actual RESEARCH would be too much work for you. I also would love to know just how the woman's political beliefs could possibly matter; she has passed away and Barack Obama has his own political beliefs, all of which are clearly available for you to read at his website. www.barackobama.com. There is lots of information there about his family too. But I suppose this would be more work than just sitting around on Salon posting lies.

Either post a link proving that Obama intends to use "Das Kapital" as the backbone of his economic plan, or else shut the fuck up.

Get up...Light up a spliff, snort a few lines...Roll over in bed and tell Michelle that she was talking in her sleep (something about hating America)...Michelle continues to talk in her sleep about being misunderstood...Obama then starts praying to the east...Goes down to the kitchen and calls good friend "Tony" and ask's if he has any mansions for sale that he can pick up at half price...Michelle gets up and asks Obama if he's seen her thesis cuz she wants to amend it(something about Whitey)...Tony calls back to tell Obama that he's turning of all the heat in his rental appartments and Obama approvingly nods...Tells Michelle he has to go has an important lunch with old buddy Bill Ayers...After lunch signs off on controversial nuclear deal that benefits good friend...Go into the office and say "Present" about 5 or 6 times then hightail it out of there...Listens to good friend Patrick's speech, writes down the best parts with footnote (to be used later)...Long day, jumps back into bed, kisses picture of Ted Kennedy on night stand...Dreams about rolling a big fattie in the morning...

On the subject of Health Care, I wholeheartedly support the Clinton plan, and the information I see supports exactly what Hillary Rodham Clinton is saying her plan offers. It would cover everybody, whereas that proposed by Barack Obama would leave approximately 15 million people uninsured. In other words, you may or may not have health insurance under the Obama plan, but you would under the Clinton Plan.

I've studied both plans, and the Clinton plan is simpler. I wholeheartedly support it. I think it is best.

The following references support the above:

Paul Krugman (Economics Professor, Princeton University): Clinton's plan 'would cover almost twice as many of those now uninsured as a plan resembling Mr. Obama's.' "Specifically, new estimates say that a plan resembling Mrs. Clinton's would cover almost twice as many of those now uninsured as a plan resembling Mr. Obama's… And both plans seek to make insurance affordable to lower-income Americans. The Clinton plan is, however, more explicit about affordability, promising to limit insurance costs as a percentage of family income. And it also seems to include more funds for subsidies. [New York Times, 2/4/08]

Concord Monitor: 'Jonathan Gruber estimated that 15 million people would remain uninsured under Obama's plan.' "Jonathan Gruber, a health economist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology who worked on the Massachusetts plan, said a mandate means "the difference between universal or near-universal coverage. Obama would have a large expansion, better than anything the Republicans have, but not universal coverage," Gruber said. "You can't get it without a mandate; it's just not possible." Gruber estimated that 15 million people would remain uninsured under Obama's plan." [Concord Monitor, 12/26/07]

Len Nichols, Jonathan Gruber and Mark Pauly: 'even with other cost saving measures and a child mandate, we think that it is very likely that a least 15 million American would remain uninsured.' "Recent estimates suggest that a plan with uniform generous subsidies but without a mandate would cover no more than one-half of the uninsured in the U.S. Even with other cost-saving measures and a child mandate, we think that it is very likely that at least 15 million Americans would remain uninsured." [New America Foundation Policy Brief, 12/06/07]

Jonathan Holohan of the Urban Institute: 'Obama would still leave about 22 million, 23 million, but he has a mandate for children, about 9 million uninsured kids, so assuming you get most of them, you get pretty close to 15 million.' [New Republic, 12/03/07]

Wall Street Journal: 'Mrs. Clinton charges that Mr. Obama's plan would leave 15 million people without insurance. Outside experts agree that number is in the ballpark.' [Wall Street Journal, 12/04/07]

Washington Post: 'The Obama plan could leave a third of those currently uninsured lacking coverage.' [Washington Post, 6/9/07]

I believe the above is all very clear, and in my opinion the Clinton plan is the preferred plan.