See update III.

I'm happy for Hillary. Back in the 90s I bought her a T-shirt. It was a "one of a kind" made by the anarchists at the Anarchist Bookshop on Haight Street. It was black with white silkscreen of the corpulent, smirking, disembodied head of Newt Gingrich floating in space on the black cotton background. Underneath it read:

"Newt Hates Me"

I never sent it to her, however. I got too many compliments on it. I still have it. If she wins the WH, maybe I'll have it framed and send it to her.

I hope in my heart you are right about Obama. I am one white dude, anyway, who he has given some hope that finally some movement can be made against the terrible history our country has had, beginning with the native americans. I will never forget a course I taught with a colleague on Native American history and thought, and the absolute horror thinking and talking through what my country was founded on engendered in me, as careful as I was to be rational about it: indeed, rationality demanded I experience it as a horror. And then there is the history of slavery on top of it. Have you ever heard the Dave Matthews song: "Blood in the Water." don't drink the water, he sings, there's blood in the water . . . as he looks out at a lake in a national park. How do we make this up, his song wonders? How do I take in this landscape without tasting the horrors? Sometimes I wonder, if there is some kind of karmic justice in this universe, how this country could ever come to balance. And Obama has begun to seem to me a kind of powerful symbol of some kind of balancing. My academic specialty is the philosophy of the imagination: how imagination in a strong sense (like Coleride writes about, and Vico before him)--how our symbolic processes and world-making abilities--are as central to our being as our discursive rationality. So that a president is mainly a symbolic figure does not lessen his role but makes it even more central. And somehow the symbol of Bush I, Clinton I, Bush II, Clinton II, when such an alternative is represented, makes my hair stand on end. My greatest fear is that Chris Dowd with his kabuki theories is right and it is all a show put on by the powerful.

And bebop-o: remember I was a Captain! I stand with the good Colonel in his emphatic entreaties to see the doctor if you need to! Don't keep the Colonel waiting!

I predict that before it's over, this election cycle will provide enough roast crow for everyone to have a little piece.

I'm just thankful that I'm not a pundit.

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G'night everyone. I have some sleep to catch up on.

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Mine's better.

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I hope this just means you're happy to see me, as opposed to being delirious with fever...

The busy signal was driving me crazy. ;->

The voters in NH despite all that fluff about them being independent yeah that is probably true when they go to the grocery stores I would wager brand names do not fare well in NH..

The template is in from this point forward people should ignore the media and rely on folks like me to offer up the real deal, my real life capital has more currency they paying attention to bloggers, media and white pundits..

Glenn played it close to the vest as did Salon but that was to be expected. I do not have to live by there protocols...

I am right about NH being HRC last stand..

From Think Progress

Live New Hampshire Primary Updates

11:36 PM: Talking with Tom Brokaw, Chris Matthews lamented the fact that the pollsters and pundits got it all wrong. Brokaw suggested that the results today should cause the media to reevaluate its desire to “stampede the process,” and he cautioned the media to “wait for the voters to make their judgment”:

BROKAW: You know what I think we’re going to have to do?

MATTHEWS: Yes sir?

BROKAW: Wait for the voters to make their judgment.

MATTHEWS: Well what do we do then in the days before the ballot? We must stay home, I guess.

BROKAW: No, no we don’t stay home. There are reasons to analyze what they’re saying. We know from how the people voted today, what moved them to vote. You can take a look at that. There are a lot of issues that have not been fully explored during all this.

But we don’t have to get in the business of making judgments before the polls have closed. And trying to stampede in effect the process.

Look, I’m not just picking on us, it’s part of the culture in which we live these days. I think that the people out there are going to begin to make judgments about us if we don’t begin to temper that temptation to constantly try to get ahead of what the voters are deciding, in many cases, as we learned in New Hampshire when they went into the polling booth today or in the last three days. They were making decisions very late.

than HRC's. Like in 2000. McCain RIP in South Carolina. At least he got a big hug from GW.

Question to those more knowledgable - why did HRC get one more delegate than Edwards in Iowa when Edwards gor more votes?

You Seethed:

"I'm perimenopausal and this is just a bullshit statement."

I was unaware humor loss was part of the biological transformation. Put on Helen Reddy's "I am woman, hear me roar," fire up the international coffee of your choice, and reread Gloria Steinham's Op-Ed in the NYT. The old girl won.

It's best not to sip the coffee with the lemon in your mouth, however.