Gas tax holiday? Really? People are still taking this seriously?

1. The tax isn't there to punish people, it's there to pay for highways and bridges, something that we're barely capable of doing. Remove it and our infrastructure gets even worse, as hard as that is to imagine. So everyone except McCain agrees we can't actually get rid of the source of revenue.

2. So Clinton wants to apply the tax to the oil companies, not the consumers. That doesn't mean gas prices will go down. In fact, what will almost assuredly happen is that gas prices will go up .18 a gallon. Or more, because that's how they do - and not even because they're evil oil companies. When you sell something, you incorporate the taxes and the cost of manufacture into the price you sell it for.

So there won't be a benefit. Which you should know, Ms Walsh, even if it wasn't included in any of Sid's emails.

So promising people that they'll get back $30 a month - "It's not much, but I know that every bit counts for hard-working Americans" - even when it won't happen is a sign of ... fortitude? What happens when it doesn't actually work out that way? Can we call it stupidity then?

It's pandering. In the past you've expressed an admiration for pandering, Ms Walsh. Please see "Looking Past Pennsylvania", in which you say that even though she won't do anything about it, the fact that she's claiming she'll get rid of FAFSA matters more to you than being honest about it. Because you hate FAFSA! Yeah!

Standing up for stupid things because they're appealing is generally a bad thing in my book. Saying things to get elected is as well. I'd much rather she give out free ice cream or something.

I'd like to think that you're making arguments like this because in your heart of hearts you believe them. Maybe you sincerely believe that what America needs now is to be told that everything's going to be easy to fix and we'll all get a lollipop. But I doubt it. You're arguing to win, not to be right, and in this I think you're aligned with the approach Clinton has taken to campaigning. It's politics, and I think there's some room for that, but I would appreciate it if you stopped pretending to be a neutral party in all of this.

"essay based" indeed.

to go on that faux news network and help them to sell themselves as legit.

She lost, the Democratic party lost, the United States of America lost.

She reminds me of that little weasel Stephanopoulos...

Some things are more important than her ego. People are not going to forget about the damage she is doing to us all just to get a few more Repug votes in the primaries. Her political career is OVER.

if hillary clinton had balls she would have swallowed some pride awhile ago and dropped out of the race for the good of not only the democratic party but for the good of the united states of america. this extended primary with all it's false attacks of guilt by association, all these shameless whisper campaigns and all this unethical innuendo has not been good for anyone.

I have enjoyed reading the posts on this thread. Some very thoughtful analysis. I am starting to sense a realism settling in about our prospects in the fall. I agree that Sen. Obama is talented and has a great future if he is willing to actually do the work of politics.So far he has skipped that part.It has been written that he has a restlessness to his personality and that is why he goes for a higher office every three years. Well, making actual change is a long hard slog and it takes the kind of tenaciousness that Hillary has in spades.

Hillary like Bill before her understands that the majority of the electorate is in the middle. They have been pulled to the right by the Republican years.Now, now they are starting to see that while conservatives are good in the opposition, they are lousy at governing. They hate government why would they be good at it? It is going to take someone who can articulate in depth,just like Hillary did with O'Reilly, that America is a better place when we are all in it together.

The charges of using hardball tactics against her campaign are over blown and hypocritical when Obama's campaign has been playing hardball just as much. In fact one could make a case that she is less hypocritical because she is up front about the fact that this is politics as played in the US. Sen. Obama talks about a new kind of politics but his campaign is doing just the opposite.

He is looking weak and tired right now. He even forgets where is is sometimes or what month it is, while Hillary is just hitting her stride. It is going to be along hard batttle to November and I think she shows everyday that she is up to it.

If the Supers stay with Sen. Obama rather than go with the one who can actually win, it will say more about them protecting their own winning constituncies and self interest than it does about their desire to win the Presidency.

Kudos to both Billary and Barack for going on FNC and being seriously interviewed with some hardball questions for a - dare I say it? - change. Both did well in the sense that they were appealing and more than held their own. But I'll never vote for either of them.

Billary's refusal to enforce federal immigration law against so-called "sanctuary cities" confirms she's still the railing old '60s radical who palled around with Bill Lan Lee and worked on behalf of Black Panthers accused of murder while she attended Yale Law. She's made a few cosmetic shifts to the center, but abandoning her permissive law and order stance is not one of them. Sorry, Billary; it'll take more than a village chorus mouthing your praises for me to ever support you and your erstwhile husband, who are really one in the same.

Barack's interview with Chris Wallace was a pleasant enough affair, but he's still too untried to get my vote. He, too, refuses to shake off his '60s garb, even though those clothes were hand-me-downs by the time he put them on. No, Barack, you've still got some growing up to do in the good judgment department before I can support you - although I've come close to doing so. Let's see how you handle yourself over the next eight years of the McCain presidency and a Republican Senate.