I am glad the Obama groupies are seeing that their messiah is not all he'd made himself out to be. You guys pivot better than you say the Clintons do. First, he was the only true progressive in the race. Now that he has to carry the mantle of the progressive Democrat, he is squirming under the spotlight. He can no longer cut important Senate votes like a 1L who is sick of going to Property. He has to take positions and stop droning on about change. He is moving to the right. So what do you Obamabots do? You scream that he HAD to do it or the right would "bludgeon" him with his vote against FISA, Iraq, or his condescending talk to black voters that rivaled Bill Clinton's shocking speech to a black church in St. Louis (to prove his social conservative bona fides), or his outrageous contention that he wanted to make sure that women who have late term abortions to have psychoanalysis. Maybe Obama and his fans have overtaken the political dictionary and rewritten the definition of progressive to include this.

I am expecting the deluge of responses saying "so what? You'd prefer McCain?" People are sick of being boxed in and told by Obama and his groupies that no matter how much we dislike him, dislike his politics, doubt his abilities (my main concern about him), or just do not want him, that we have to vote for him anyway. Obama groupies have polished the glow on the tarnished halo of Chappaquiddick Teddy (no one give me shit because my family's summer house is right by that bridge and in Edgartown and I have seen why there is no reason for that shit to go down the way it did except that the drunk arranged it that way)because he threw the Clinton's under the bus in order to "pass the torch" (booze soaked and Ambien laced though it may be) to Obama. But in 1980, he was not at all gracious when Jimmy Carter defeated him in the primary and did not encourage his followers to support Carter. In fact, his speech all but discouraged them to do so by saying that "their fight goes on." I will donate money to help squash the Clinton campaign debt, but that's it. He gets nothing from me and a lot of other voters who are not mad, but do not want him to be president.

By the way, Jesse Jackson had it right. Obama does talk down to black people. It is one of his many instances of talking down to people of color. Check out Slate if you want the list. Look, I have been called an elitist myself and maybe with good reason, but I am not running for office and claiming to be a man of the people.

Your phony outrage and faux pity for Obama. You haven't had a nice thing to say about him since he had the nerve to break some law you "she-fem male hater club" members made up when he ran against your girl. Too bad your narrative fails to take in account that his base is broader and more intelligent than you give us credit for. I believe that FISA's problems are due to the uniquely contemptible administation ruining this country. In the hands of sane, rational administration, this bill could be an effective weapon in the war on terrorism. Considering that it is the Bush administration, we are all consumed with the short term damage that this soon to be over administration can wreak on civil liberties. But I take heart that with a democratic administration and some serious house-cleaning of Congress and agencies, the FISA bill will be honed to balance properly the civil liberties and security concerns.Itis not written in stone.

In addition, a lot of us have more things to be concerned about regarding the economy, health-care, etc, to make this issue a deal breaker with Senator Obama. Unlike many politicians, he has tried to explain his decision and take his lumps. He gets my vote.

But if Hillary had prevailed

Tehran would have burned.

Clinton creeped me out

Her motto was if you can't change 'em

Just wipe 'em all out.

Of course Bush still has enough time left on his beat

To turn the nation of Iran

Into a pile of irradiated raw meat.

It's so ironic. For months I was bombarded with charges of misogyny because I wouldn't vote for Hillary. No matter how much I protested that I opposed her because she voted with the Republicans on key issues, her supporters insisted that I must be a gynophobic chauvinist pig.

And now many of them are supporting a man who's now voting like a Republican, and I'm voting for a woman: Cynthia McKinney.

There's been too much irony lately. We Democrats sneered at Republicans for betraying every principle of classic pre-1960s Republicanism in their fervent worship of George W. Bush; we Democrats revered our democratic principles, not our leaders and political power.

But now the vast majority of Democrats are eagerly making excuses for Obama's inexcusable decision to throw the 1st and 4th Amendments under a bus. And in many cases, they're using the exact same arguments as the Republicans did for all those years.

I would like to live in a less ironic world, please.

My, how blind were those that refused to see! There is nothing new here. obama has been a betrayer & double-talker from the beginning. It's all he knows, his adult life has been running for office primarily in Chicago. People might not like Rev Wright or his message, but he believes it. He is an honest man and he knows obama far better than most. He told the world obama would say anything to get elected. Guess what, obama is proving it, publicly. All those superdelegates that disregarded their responsibility & caved in to Uncle Teddy's arm twisting squad are having some buyer's remorse. Well, it's not too late. The convention is still a month away & obama will surely be fully exposed by then. I would love it if they all suddenly grew some balls & refused to sell us down the river. I know how unlikely it is, but I can hope. (That's real hope, not the fake kind.) obama thinks we have to vote for him, we don't & we won't. I am writing in the rightful candidate, my state counts write-ins. I know many others that are planning the same. Contact your Secretary of State's office & make sure write-ins will count. No one HAS to vote for a charlatan. We do have a choice. Write in!