Reading the heated letters by chhabili in this thread which so strongly and self-righeously attack Senator Clinton for all sorts of sins, I was interested in her statement that she had been a Clinton supporter but gradually switched to Obama; interested enough to spend an hour reading dozens of chhabili's earlier posts. Wow.

I have a cousin who for half a lifetime belonged to the Catholic Church. Then over one week, having been exposed to a series of sermons and of tracts given him to read, he became the most fervent "born-again Christian" I've ever known. Nothing about Catholicism is now for him anything but anathema; the Church is the Whore of Babylon now.

Quite the epiphany.

Back to my recent reading. Thirty-eight days ago, chhabili wrote that Obama was "a flash in the pan" and told "a pack of lies." The next day we heard that he is "a modern-day charlatan." Next, that "he should let the press do his dirty work (against Clinton.) A title of a post was "Media Doing a Great Hit Job on Hillary For Obama." And, "it pains me to see how divisive Obama is."

We hear a lot from chhabili THEN, about how Obama is the fount for injecting racism into the campaign, not the Clintons, and the press is giving them a false characterization on all that SC stuff.

Thirty-five days ago, chhabili told us "Obama is not presidential material." Thirty-four days ago, we read that chhabili is "more than ever convinced that MSM has it in for the Clintons and will continue promoting the vacuous and lightweight candidacy of Barack Obama."

But. On Jan 30th, just 31 days ago, chhabili suddenly says "this article has givien me a lot of pause in regards to Hillary Clinton..." and links to the Robert Scheer Clinton rant from TruthDig and CommonDreams.com.

I guess chhabili had her/his weeklong revival tent experience then, because we hear nothing from that quarter until Feb 11th, 18 days ago. And what do we hear, after the Epiphany?

"Why is the media silent on Hillary's efforts to sponsor a bill to make flag-burning a criminal offense?"

And so, in the past two and half weeks, we have the "born-again Obamaite" with message after message directly contradicting all we'd read from chhabili for weeks and weeks up to the Epiphany. All the contempt once spewed out against Obama is now spewed in a new direction, to Hillary.

And we see the NEW chhabili winning red stars. I suppose that's as good a reward as any for the conversion, huh?

By the way, since others have flogged the flag-burning thing, let me point out what saner minds already know. First, the media is "silent" in Feb of 2008 because it was a bill offered in 2005. Second, it was arguably the sole reason the Senate failed to pass a Constituional amendment on the subject, in a vote that failed by only one vote and failed because senators from both sides said a later bill to deal with the issue would be offered instead. Third, it proffered to make flag-burning illegal in three specific cases: if it is a flag owned by someone else, if it is being burned on Federal property, or if it is being burned on someone else's property as a directly intimidating act comparable to cross-burning on someone's lawn.

That's it. That's the big horrendous flag-burning story. Of course, a lot of the other charges are even less valid, but that's another story.

Talk about drinking Kool-Aid. I invite anyone to read chhabili's interesting "diary" of conversion. Start anywhere you like, but Jan.22 to now will do it just fine. And if you're an Obama supporter, prepare to be incensed. Just as Clinton supporters might be by the more current posts, like those of today's.

Great job doc5467. Bravo.

You're my hero. Thanks for taking the time to scrutinize the chhabili diaries - it was worth it. And now back to installing the new home/car/PC alarm system...

The appalling thing is that after all these months of the campaign you didn't recognize that John King was playing the race card for Obama not the other way around. This stuff is so stupid, how many years do you think that Hillary has been called Hillary Rodham Clinton, and it was meant as a slam against her but no whinning. You and cecil beanie have swallowed the Michelle Kool-aid, disagree with Obama and open your mouth YOUR A RACIST.

this awkward metaphor: It's one of those 70's "airport" movies--the pilot and co-pilot have succumbed to some mysterious malady, and are dead; the jumbo jet is runaway and out of control. Who do the passangers pick to take the rudder? The woman who has experience and co-piloted jets before, or some guy who's coming on like Gene Hackman in "The Poseidon Adventure"?

In the runaway jet that is the United States, it's Gene Hackman every time.

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Who's in the trunk, you or your evil twin? Look, you've been outed and your credibility pretty much shot. Why not just give it up?

What Kate? Don't you have the courage to explore the possibility that you too could be duped? Just because I moved away from Hillary has not really shot any credibility. More people are crossing over to Obama than the other way around. Whatever makes you feel better about your choice. My vote for Obama is actually a vote against Hillary. She has exposed herself in the last few weeks as a person who will stop at nothing. 11 straight losses would have derailed any other candidate's campaign.

There is indeed something poignant about the subsumed Clinton campaign, when one considers the crucible in which Mrs. Clinton was formed.

How quickly we forget the Savonarola zeal of Kenneth Starr in pursuing President Clinton's private carnality; the relentless Whitewater persecutioin that yielded nothing, the fickleness of memory that overlooks years of fiscal solvency and unprecedented growth.

But for all that, there no is the inescapable feeling that her time has passed.

Mr. Obama rekindles the light extinguished by Dr. King's assassination.

For me, a child of colour who lived under American apartheid (Nashville, 1963-64) and whose political awakening came in the 1960s, Mr. Obama's ascent is a stirring and incandescent moment in history.

I cannot vote in your election -- I am a proud Canadian -- yet it moves me deeply to see how a capable and dedicated leader like Mrs. Clinton can come so close yet fall short. There ought to be no schadenfreude, nor any unseemly triumphalism.

Politics is a harsh oblivion, but surely there can be a dignified exist as the inevitability of Mr. Obama's nomination looms; and a full measure of honour for the remarkable service the Clintons gave America -- and would continue to, in the Senate.