Perhaps if she had not lied repeatedly about her so called experience, not engaged in the politics of personal destruction, mud slingling, and yes, racism, and smearing her opponent with more lies she would have a chance to be elected President. Hillary Clinton, whom William Safire once called "a congenital liar" and Carl Bernstein, who along with Bob Woodward brought Watergate to the attention of the American people, stated that "Hillary Clinton has a had a long time problem with the truth" is the most polarizing, divisive, and mean spirited candidate to run for President since Richard Nixon. Like Nixon, Hillary Clinton is obsessed with secrecy, revenge against her enemies, and incessant, non-stop lying about her record and the record of her opponent. She is a female version of Richard Nixon. America deserves a lot better than Hillary Clinton. It amazes me how people believe all the many, many lies she and her husband are telling the American people. Are we that dumb that we want another Nixon in the White House???

that Hillary will win in PA by 14-20 percent. which is what i inferred, but perhaps i am wrong. you are never very definite about anything but it seems you favor hillary. other people at other times have said you were black and gay. is that correct? does that have anything to do with who you favor?

You are incorrect. You seem to be off on a tangent. Some fresh Flushing air might help.

incorrect in everything? white? straight? support obama? which?

My compliments on an excellent post.

You said:

"US Journalists have either become hopelessly incompetent or the conglomerate owned media has allowed the profit motive to dominate their policies to the point where they are willing to manufacture and maintain artificial controversy to keep the country locked in useless debates that keep us from addressing the very real and very serious issues."

I would point out these are not mutually exclusive. I think your second contention is unquestionably true, and your first largely so. I think, however, that there are true journalists still working. Some have been marginalized and work in media with less reach, others work for foreign services now (as in Greg Palast working for the BBC), and still others, I'm sure, endure the soul death of just toeing the corporate line while perhaps hoping to sow the odd seed of doubt here and there. But honestly, when the same people who make the guns also frame our debates over whether or not to go to war, how much objectivity can we expect? The media needs to be divorced from the huge vertically-integrated corporate giants that increasingly dominate our society. That's a down payment on your eventual return to honest dialogue in this country.

The bitterness is not really the issue that hangs on Obama. It is the presumption to say that bitterness is the reason people facing economic difficulties 'cling' to guns , religion, or anything else that seems less appealing to the economically more advantaged. It is the idea that he speaks about people living in a situation he does not come from as the 'them' and does so when speaking behind closed doors to his 'us'.

What they want is access to decent paying jobs. They don't blame the government for their low wages, but the large corporations who have cut their wages, passed on the cost of health insurance to them, and reduced their retirement benefits. The only thing they want from the government is to cut their taxes -- working people are taking it on the chin not only from the federal government, but from state taxes and local property taxes that are bleeding them dry. They don't hate illegal immigrants, but hate the fact that they are stealing their jobs -- particularly in the construction trades -- and driving down wages. Many of these immigrants are willing to live six to an apartment and send most of their earnings back to Mexico. American workers have families here to support and are angry they can’t earn a living wage. Small construction contractors are being put out of business because they can’t compete with the larger firms employing illegals.

Where is John Edwards when you need him, because he seems to be the only Democrat who understands the “bitter” people.

I predict Hillary will win PA by 5-8% at the most, because she hasn't won any big state by any big double digit margins. What makes you think it is going to be different in PA.

He meant they cling to them as an issue, not as a lifestyle decision. As was obvious to anyone who heard him and wasn't trying to take the most negative connotation.

Guns don't matter in this race. No one is going to take them away. Religion doesn't matter, unless you want your religion to become the state religion or to teach our kids pseudo science in public schools. But that's all anyone is talking about now, isn't it?

The most remarkable thing about all of this is how Obama pretty much refuses to attack Hillary - and there is more than enough there to attack. I think if she loses the primary or the general election, we are watching the end of HRC's political career. Thank God. Obama, on the other hand, will still have a party to back him if he doesn't get it done this time around.

Who created the policies and negotiated the deals that allowed all those jobs to leave?

The people of Pennsylvania aren't stupid enough to think the government had nothing to do with it.

"Who created the policies and negotiated the deals that allowed all those jobs }to leave?"

That's a good question and if you know the answer I'm certainly willing to listen. I don't know if you can lay the blame on any person or adminstration, but to forces in our economy that have made it convenient for employers to get away with paying lower wages and providing fewer benefits. I suppose part of it is that people are taking these jobs, despite the low wages and lack of benefits. Much of it is that big companies have came to look on employees as fungible and inherently replaceable. The culture has become that you fire workers whenever the spreadsheets demand it, without regard to the devastation it has on those people or their families. I was born and raised in this county, and I can only say there was once a greater sense of ethics and compassion.