I have been reading Salon for 10 years and paying since they started charging. I have never thought twice about re-upping every year because I always felt Salon was the best of the best in journalism.

But now I am losing that warm fuzzy feeling. This article is a perfect example of everything that is wrong with Salon right now. This article seems to have been written to raise doubts, not answer questions. "Democratic Unity" is a BOGUS ISSUE. Salon has been harping this tune ad nauseum and I am personally fucking sick of it. Salon is poisoning the water. Between Joan's passive aggressive anti-Obama drivel to the hordes of trolls patroling the comments, Salon is not the place it was even last year. About the only reason I read Salon these days is for Machinist and War Room, both of which also seem to be losing steam.

This is it. If I don't see a dramatic improvement, I will not be resubscribing.

Apparently, yes.

Why do you ask? Looking for trouble?

Well put. I've already switched my "automatically resubscribe" thing on my account. For me it was Joan Walsh's trashing of Obama over fake, republican "issues." Perhaps her leadership is dooming Salon to be just a bougie, apologist rag.

It seems as though Salon is looking for controversy. Finally the democrats are moving foward, looking good, uniting the party as we all hoped. What more can be done. Hillary is out there plugging for Obama, not being the sore looser that it seems you hoped she would be. Perhaps she will be the VP after all. To me that guarantees a victory for us all.

I am a Hillary supporter who just cannot fathom not voting for her in November.

I doubt anyone in the Powers That Be care if I vote or not. They have made it quite clear they can win without the support of women like me. Yes, I will sit it out before I vote for the wrong person to lead our country in this fairly desparate time.

Having said that, seeing Hillary and Obama together today DID inspire me to believe.

But he will not nominate her as his VP, no matter how good it would be for the party and the country.

Today was a tease for all who believe in Hillary as the best leader for this country, and I did not, and will not buy into it.

If Obama is elected, he will do it without my vote, and all who put him there will get exactly what they deserve.

The unity lovefest was so lacking in depth and breadth and color. There is now such an effort to "not offend" that really nothing was or is conveyed. Bland, colorless, stark, empty, barren, plastic, manufactured blah. I feel untethered and floating, searching for signs of life, yearning for sustenance. Perhaps it was all just a mirage. Oh, politics is so fickle. I guess I'll venture outdoors, into the sunshine, and recharge my batteries. Surely, this too shall pass.

do you find when you don't get your way do you find holding your breath and voting against your best interest works among your friends who actually aren't borderlines and bipolar?

Or are all Republicans posing as wacked out baby boomers all alike?

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Who cares, but the next five months are going to be downright painful if the media continues to disect every inconsequential moment of this campaign. The blogs, the print media, the cable news channels' talking heads spent the day dwelling on the "body language" of Obama and Clinton, or whether or not they purposefully color coordindated their outfits. Who gives a shit? I don't care if they like eachother, and neither should the rest of us. If Hillary supporters want to vote for McCain because they're angry she didn't win her annointed place as the Democratic nominee, then they're idiots. The minute by minute polling and scrutinizing is what sucks the life out of voters though. We need a quicker process-otherwise we forget the forest because we become too focused on the trees.

As though she and Hillary's tag along followers

Have been grievously wronged.

La dee da la dee da...

A marriage of convenience, just like her 'union' with Slick Willie.

The media is so in the bag for that smooth talking sonofabitch -- God forbid ye shall criticize, lest ye be labeled racist -- I would not be surprised if McCain gets trounced like Mondale.

Trying to say McCain is Bush 3 is absurd, and the cheapest of the cheap tactics I've seen. Fact is, McCain and Obama are both politicians that will do whatever it takes to win, and Hillary, like Bill, hates being ignored.

She posed on stage with a dude she was trashing not all that long ago.

So phony.

If the "Democrats Divided?" theme ever disappeared, hundreds of political writers would fly into a panic. Hillary as VP? Didn't this story mercifully die weeks ago? I know it must be hard to come up with stuff when the election is pretty much a foregone conclusion and you can't admit it, but there's GOT to be something else. Maybe, gee ... issues? Maybe something on the actual positions of Obama and the Sainted Maverick (he was a POW, you know!) Boring stuff, I know.

Not if Salon can help it.

I'm gone. I have jumped off the bandwagon.

I was never sold on the Obama mystique. I disagreed with many of his policies, yet, I had to admire his organization's triumph over the Clinton machine. At least I thought it was a triumph. Obama's major strength was that he wasn't a Clinton or a Bush. He did an end run around the power structure of the Democrat party and he drew in those people who so desperately want leadership and were willing to ascribe that quality to any new face that could reflect the triumphs of past great U.S. statesmen. I plead guilty. It isn't that I thought Obama was a Messiah, or a brilliant statesman, or a shrewd politician, or a man of such sculptured character that it would shine through the dismal gray abyss of today's comingled, mediocre, corrupt politic. It is that I wanted him to give it a shot. I am so weary of being embarrassed by the President, either because of his decisons and policies or because of his public buffoonery as a speaker, or even as a lousy father, husband, or public model for the kids of our country. I hated myself for being a 16 year cynic. It's easy to be a cynic. It's easy to pick apart a speech or a response, or a bill, or a mistake and ride that bumble like the Cyclone Coaster at Coney Island. You will have a lot of company. It's easy to be a cynic. I wanted to stand up and be for something. I liked hearing "we will lend you money for college, but we want your public service when your done"! Very 60's! Very Kennedy!! (John, not Ted). But, John Kennedy is gone. Mickey Mantle is gone. John Lennon is gone. Martin Luther King is gone.

Barack Obama won the Democrat's nomination as their party's candidate for the President of the U.S. Yet, he had to go crawling to Hillary Clinton's house and work out a party line of unity on 'her turf'. Today I watched as she took to his podium and cheers for her overwhelmed the Obama supporters. She was disgraceful as always in her condescending, damning with feint praise, nod to his triumph. His hug and kiss/miss to her cheek almost brought vomit to my mouth. But, it showed me that Obama has left the path less traveled. He has opted for the limo ride down Clinton Blvd, swatting away his now inconvenient scarved headed female supporters, and has set his sights unalterably on the Electoral College. You can almost here the cellos playing the theme from Jaws!!!

This is by no means an endorsement of John McCain, who I would have follwed into hell eight years ago. It is just a sad shouilder shrug, another cynical ticket punched to ride the Cyclone Coaster. Another public embarrassment for MY generation, who is forced, once again, to listen to younger people of today say, "You guys keep talking about the sixties because it was your childhood. That's why you think it was a better time". Yes, that's probably true, but; if it is merely winning that matters, and not "What we together can do for the Freedom of Man", than leave me alone in my cynicism. Let me remember that kids once took pride in joining the Peace Corps, that America once insisted on beating the Russians in Space Exploration rather than basketball, and that some Politicians did try to do what was right for their country. Yes, we look back on the Sixties as a better time and yes, it was the time of our childhood; but, that doesn't mean that we're wrong.