Hard to decide who gets the idiot of the day award. Edwards for bashing Hill's tears, or Hillary for the asinine MLK vs. LBJ comparison. Really? You want people to identify you with Johnson? Looks like a pretty good day for Obama to sit back and enjoy himself.

...this kind of crap makes me wonder if you're positioning yourself for a move to the MSM.

We'll miss ya, bro. But you sure got their rap down.

It will be all the same in the end.

The important thing is she won't be sitting in the White House. She never had a chance. She's Hillary Clinton, for crying out loud. She's irrationally demonized by the right and rationally despised by the left.

The sooner we move past Clinton and on to who's really going to be the nominee, the sooner we can get down to the reality of how we're going to restore this country.

Hillary, by all accounts, has done a good job being a senator -- maybe not satisfying to everyone in NY, but she gets high marks for how she conducts herself as a senator from her colleagues.

But we'd all be foolish to think that, no matter what happens, she won't have an important role to play in a Democratic administration. Secretary of State? National Security Advisor?

No matter what happens, this is not the end for Hillary. People are talking about Bill for Supreme Court. No way. I'd bet on Hillary, though, and I think she'd be a fantastic Supreme Court Justice.

She's a smart and talented woman. I personally think she's too big a target to be elected president, but I'll definitely vote for her if she's nominated. In any case, I'm rooting for her to have a major, important and constructive role in our country's future -- one that plays to her strengths and bypasses her weaknesses.

I agree thatHRC would make an interesting choice for SCOTUS. By why stop the parlor game there? Let's fill out his whole admin.

Bill for world bank or UN.

Richardson at state.

Gore obviously at interior.

clark at defense.

Clarke as NSA.

Krugman at treasury or the fed.

Fitzgerald as AG.

This more fun than fantasy football. Now we just have to hope that Clinton and theDNC don't seat the Michigan delegates and steal the nomination.

I really hate the whole idea that Clinton (or any candidate for that matter) should be eliminated after poor showings at the first two primaries/caucuses. I wouldn't let the primary voters from these states choose my pizza toppings, from what I've heard. The Iowa caucus seems to be a complete crock, and NH comes off like the cranky neighbor who complains about kids running on his lawn. For once, I have to agree with Giuliani -screw those states and lets concentrate on the big states that might actually be more representative of the whole population.

And go New Hampshire!

I've never been more excited about a Presidential race. I'm still finding it all a little hard to believe.

Have the Dems really rejected HRC? Are we really going to turn the page as a party -- to stop fighting for little piecemeal victories, and begin focusing on building a progressive movement strong enough to defeat the Limbaugh/Bush/O'Reilly hate machine?

Can something like this actually happen in spite of a completely concerted effort by the Democratic bureaucracy -- and the establishment media, aided even by sites like Salon -- to deliver the nomination back to the Clintons?

Next Tuesday, January 15, we will have a Michigan Dem. Primary when we can vote for Hillary, or for Uncommitted. It is impossible even to write in Obama or Edwards. They will not even count the write-ins.

So... If Hillary gets over a third of the vote, she can claim a big win in a big state. Even if the national Democrats do not accept Michigan's results, Hillary will have a big positive story, with the national convention nine months away.

Nobody, even in Michigan, will pay attention to the fact that this is a crooked or "disputed" primary. The story is too complicated and implausible, even though it is true.

Obama has big support among Democrats here, especially among African Americans. Hillary has big support too. I believe her Michigan supporters engineered our strange pro-Hillary primary. Please stay tuned, and take the Michigan results with a dump truck full of road salt.

All the Hillary bashing on Salon is truly making me reconsider my subscription.

The delight at which you report all things large and small that are negative about Hillary is astonishing. It's getting kind of creepy.

No one really wants to talk about the underlying issues that affect voter choice in this election.

There are worse candidates than Ms. Rodham, that is for sure and somehow the name Huckabee comes quickly to mind but:

1) When Bill was running, Hillary was quick with the "two for the price of one" schtick, but now we aren't hearing a lot about that, in spite of the fact that what we are looking at is inevitably another under-the-radar Bill presidency, because do we really think that Hill would kick Bill off the hill if there was a major policy disagreement in the kitchen cabinet? Bill is not going to be hanging round the White House kitchen baking cookies and arranging flowers for visiting dignitaries.

2) Hillary will never be able to carry Florida. Don't ask me why, but Southern folk just don't like her, probably unfairly. When the Supreme Court executed a coup d'etat in Bush vs Gore, my small rural county in Florida went by a few hundred votes to Bush. If it had gone to Gore, there might have been no coup, no war in Iraq, no Axis of Evil... Obama may not be Santa Claus either, but he is coming to town and he might be able to win my state. I can't swing it for him single handed, but I may be able to deliver about 20 votes to the polls, which could easily be within 1% of the margin of victory needed to carry my state AND the Electoral College. My Salon readership may be able to deliver some more votes too--in fact we Salon readers may well be able to capture the White House and prevent it being converted into the new Salt Lake Temple (East Wing).

3) I hate to go back to this, but think what you like about Hillary's equivocation over Iraq, it is not just about one vote, it is about her failure to provide the nation with leadership from her lofty perch as a leading opposition party figure in the Senate that really disqualifies her. I mean, what is worse, that a) she just didn't have Iraq figured out, or b)she kept her mouth shut for reasons of political tactics? I think it is a), but I know a lot of Salon readers will think it is b). To me b) is worse, because it demonstrates a lack of ability to provide leadership when unpopular truths need to be told.

4) President Obama will give the whole planet a message that the US is on the move again. JFK got the US moving again when it was falling behind because of the crippling effects of racial apartheid on the economy and the education system, moving the US into the modern age in technology, civil rights, education, and expanding the territory of the US to include the moon, from which no one has yet removed the American flag planted in 1969 in response to Francis Albert Sinatra's patriotic anthem Fly Me To The Moon

5) President Obama is a cigarette smoker, and while I loathe and detest cigarettes, cigarette smoke, and anyone who smells of cigarettes, the same is not true of the population at large (judging by the litter in my town) and cigarette smokers may well carry him to victory, or if not, at least he should b e able to nail North Carolina.

Todays challenges include dealing with a world in which the half that has grown out of religion is threatened by the half that has not (both inside the US and the world at large), by carbon emissions and pollution changing the climate (so they say), a rapidly diminishing world supply of oil faced with a rapidly increasing demand for oil, and a rapidly growing human population spreading over the planet like a swarm of locusts.

In the face of all this come the shocking new today, according to The Guardian that the average standard of living in Britain is, for the first time in a hundred years, higher than in the US. Of course such claims are open to dispute, but I suspect that we will be hearing more stories of this type rather than less if we don't pull up our economic socks. [The US has retaliated by sending Chris Rock on a British tour.]

President-elect Obama may not be the greatest Chief Executive the world has ever seen, but a lot of politics is symbolic. Bush has a Yale MBA and look at the mess he has made! The sight of Obama's face in the White House will give a huge moral boost to the whole world, especially Africa, and especially the majority of the world's population that is not Anglo-Saxon

and the goodwill that his election will bring will do a great deal to make Ugly America a lot prettier in the eyes of the world.

I'm feeling prettier already, and New Hampshire is still up for grabs.