Letters to the Editor
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Wishful thinking?
That will backfire on the campaign; it may already have begun to.
There's likewise reason to believe the pundit class's love for Obama might be hurting their chosen candidate.
Oh, Ms. Walsh. Look, we all know who you're pulling for in this campaign. The pundit class is a fickle lot -- I seem to remember them putting Clinton forth as the inevitable Democratic front-runner before votes were actually tallied. Who cares what they think, besides Clintonites eager for any bad news for Obama?
As for the Salonista flap about Asian v. Black racism, it's a mirror image to the ongoing "anybody who doesn't like Hillary Clinton is a sexist" nonsense -- just paranoiac identity politics ugliness. With all of the Anonymouseketeers scurrying about in Salon, I can only wonder who is saying what -- could be GOP provocateurs busy fanning internecine feuds between Democrats, or cynical pro-Clintonites trying to defame Obamaniacs, or Obama zealots out for rhetorical blood -- or all of the above.
I feel like Democrats want a good race in theory, until they actually get one. Then they get uncomfortable when the knives come out -- but this is the best race we've seen in a long time, and the face (and fate) of the Democratic Party as we know it hinges on its outcome. Politics-as-usual it's not, so who knows how it's going to end up. Enjoy the ride, before it's history! :)