AKA Smith: "She has not morphed into Lieberman. By all accounts, Obama is personally closer to Lieberman than Clinton is. Moreover, I am not talking about liberal judges, rather I am talking about Roe v. Wade specifically, which is a long time feminist issue."

Obama has supported pro-choice policies throughout his political career. Look at all his votes in Chicago. Look at all his statements on the matter. Both Obama and Clinton don't talk about this much, though, because they want to appeal to people in the middle or center-right. I searched the policy sections of both the Obama and the Clinton campaign web sites and they both noticeably avoid the matter. But Obama's pro-choice leanings are clear to anybody who looks. I imagine the subject WILL come up in the future, put forth by a McCain surrogate, and I expect that Obama will eventually give a really great speech summing up the positions of both sides and finding a common ground that makes most (but not all) people understand his position. I don't see Clinton doing that nearly as convincingly when the time comes.

AKA Smith: "I don't tend to dwell on past resentments."

Chuckle.

AKA Smith: "I did not say that that 4% was because Hillary is woman but because I am. In other words, I am a feminist who supports feminist causes."

So your support for Hillary is based on her being a FEMINIST, but not on her being a WOMAN? Then if Obama is a feminist, you'll support him? Because I have some exciting and revelatory news for you.....OBAMA IS A FEMINIST.

If I remember correctly, I think you and I might be the only two people to exchange details, no? It's mostly Candidate X is so much better than Y on FP, < gush >!

She hasn't exactly re-assured me on the Economy either. Placing the dude that helped cause the problem, Greenspan, back in charge of helping to clean it up is a red flag. Saying that you don't understand what he says, even more so. Granted, Greenspan is great at Sphinx like utterances, but it's becoming increasingly accepted as conventional wisdom that the Fed policies from 97-07 haven't served us well. Andrew Leonard here at Salon is doing a pretty good job peeling back the layers.

"@AKASmith and Uncle Fester

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"Oh yes they are the same. She as much as admitted it another thead. Little Lord Fauntleroy is a children's book. She simply split up the name."

Um, no. While I agree with many of Fauntleroy's points, we are not the same person. I live in Baltimore; I like the alliteration of the L sound in "Little Lord Baltimore" and I like(d) that it was somewhat gender neutral.

Sorry for the confusion, but there really are two women who are anti-sexism, pro-feminism and pro-Obama!" from LLB

Thanks for the link Uncle. Such are the distinguishing powers of AKASmith the propagandist non compare.

I respect your breakdowns as far as %'s aka.

Valid reasons, all the way around. I'm not foulting yoru choice.

I am faulting your tactics. I am faulting you blaming obama for all the worlds ills, when we are fighting to do something about them. Against YOUR and gop sabotage. That is my issue.

Valid reasons though. And I respect that.

Obama supporters won't get the same respect for our choice. We're cultist sexist gay idiots. We can't support him for valid reasons. There has to be a catch.

Sad day for america

Amazingly, Senator Clinton was able to learn the nuances of statecraft whilst dodging bullets in Bosnia; a testament to her adroit political gifts, no doubt. And when, on September 11, Saddam Hussein came knocking on the World Trade Center, she was able to correctly glean from what to an outside observer must have looked like scant or dubious evidence and make the Right and Serious choice in 2003 authorizing our Great Adventure in Iraq. Above all else, that is Proof Positive of her overwhelming level of experience over neophyte and un-worldly (fellow) Junior Senator Obama. But the story doesn't end there. Why, with her own toil, blood and sweat she was able to forever mend all hostilities between Protestant and Catholic factions in Ireland. Surely, one could not fathom a better choice to lead our great nation in this era of grave threat?

Hillary Clinton has exactly two extra years of national legislative experience than Obama, who has himself several years legislative experience in one of the nation's largest states.

The experience, foreign or otherwise, argument is a non-starter. Always was, always will be. What is clear is that her judgement is lacking. It was lacking in 2003, it was lacking when she selected her top-level campaign staff, and it is lacking in details large and small: who in this day and age comes up with an anecdote about duck hunting not knowing that it will be thoroughly ridiculed everywhere it is played? That goes beyond "tin-eared" and "disingenuous." It is outright stupid. Has she been paying attention to how the media gobbles up those gems?

Obama has executed the right strategy from the start: do not emulate the GOP swift-boat tactics, but do immediately respond to controversy with honesty and candor. Those seem to be qualities that Hillary is incapable of emulating -- and emulating it is, because based on the evidence I can only conclude that she is a shyster and the worst sort of cynic.

I will grant that it was a mistake of words or syntax, but it's also a only a mistake of nano proportions that has been blown into a mountain, mostly by Clinton but aided and abetted by the media including Salon.

Trying paint Obama as an elitist is the BIG LIE that the Republicans will expand upon come the general election. Please, let us not only not participate in it, but let us denounce the LIE right now at the outset and call it out each and every time it is discussed with any shred of credence.