I’ve heard the electability argument before. It’s not new to this campaign and anyone who thinks it is has the short memory disease that afflicts so much of the American body politic.

What’s different here is that line:

“Now the question is, could she get the people who voted for me?”

In a sense it seems that he’s giving permission to bolt.

Now I suppose that could be interpreted several ways, but, if you’ve ever played on any kind of team, that kind of talk is verboten. Try it and you’re on the bench or off the squad.

What must happen here is the team and the team and the team. PERIOD.

What’s beyond all good reason are some comments here which display increased fury over Clinton’s statement of unity:

“As soon as we have a nominee, we will be strongly united because the most important thing is to put a Democrat in the white house starting in January 2009.”

She’s saying, in effect, that she wants her supporters to back the eventual nominee whoever that may be.

If that increases your hatred of Hillary Clinton all the more I suggest that you have a real problem and no small part of that problem is your complete lack of any kind of decency or maturity.

The hard reality is that this nation cannot tolerate another Republican president at this time.

If you think it’s just Bush then you don’t really have a clue about the way anything works.

Beyond policy is the President’s power to appoint. Although nominating at least one new Supreme Court member will be on the agenda soon after inauguration day, the President makes many other far less sexy appointments. The people who will direct (below the cabinet secretary level) all the various federal agencies are also appointees.

If a Republican is elected he will appoint people from the same general pool that the Bush administration drew from. Basically hacks, incompetents and ideologues who have a negative view of the agenciies they’d be running. Indeed they will be charged with running agencies they don’t believe should even exist.

So for you spoiled brats who will bolt if your candidate isn’t nominated please do you country a favor and at least leave the Presidential slot on you ballot blank. Don’t kick your country in the teeth by voting for a Republican.

I’m an Edwards supporter but I will support and vote for whoever the Democratic Party nominates.

Another grin is Tom Delay’s shit eating grin face popping up on the screen, oblivious to the fact he’s going to jail for years, lengthening the procedure with the world’s longest interloculatory appeal in the brilliant state of Texas which produced Supreme Court Justice Gonzales, Supreme Court Justice John Cornyn, and the current Supreme Court Justice

For the record, that twit in the Whie House was put there by a 5-4 vote of your Supreme Court, includig Swinging O’Conner who has stated and written that she regrets her vote. A little too late a revelation for “Sandy Baby”, as a drunk John Riggins once called her in a restaurant.

President Bush signed NAFTA in December 1992, but sending it to the Senate for ratification would be up to the next president. Facing stiff questions from labor unions-a core Democratic Party constituency-candidate Bill Clinton declared that he would support NAFTA if it included side agreements on labor rights and the environment.

There are MANY more references. Just Google “Who signed the NAFTA agreement.

The Clinton woman is owned by large investment banks and Telco/Comcos. That’s why she isn’t fighting agains the most important assaults on the 4th Amendment by the most hypocritical people on earth. I hardly need to be lectured about what Republican government has done to this country. Check out my posts. I know how to read sources that keep me informed.

I’m aware of an administration that manipulates lies about security, only to risk your security for their cheap political ends. The Plame affair was a prime example. The hiding and destruction of emails that has gone on is another. The trashing of DOJ to win elections, which will not be repaired in two more generations is yet another.

The fact that windbags like Hatch and Chambliss can drone on trying to showcase their expertise in federal law when neither has actually done a nanosecond of federal litigation in a courtroom
isa prime example of Republican hypocrisy, not to mention their insulting mischaracterization of a bill I can read with far more legal understanding than Orin Hatch or Saxby Chambliss or the dried up old Republican white men in the U.S. Senate who lie about it.

It is further insulting to many of us to watch Jay Rockerfeller who never lifted a finger to work for a penny in his life whoring himself to ATT and other Telco/Comcos and then to insult the American public, many of whom can read these laws with far better understanding than Rockerfeller or Kit Bond.

Most of these Senators have not been allowed to even see papers that were to shed light on the law breaking by the Telco/Comcos and Leahy wrote a letter to DNI McConnell requesting that they be informed nearly two months ago.

And I want to be clear. Whatever Orin Hatch/Saxby Chambliss think or don’t think, I’d be ashamed to have such legally ignorant, vocabulary challenged individuals speak for me.

McConnell’s intention to wiretap every one of us legally was made quite clear in the Jan. 21, 2008 New Yorker. Get a copy and read it. Had it been on line, or when I can find it on line (the magazine has not put it on line) I’ll link it.

I have never seen a candidate more owned byinvestment banks than Clinton. I have never seen a more hypocritical, nasty campaigner, and Clinton has spawned a new generation of fire puppies who continue to repeat the same old Raegan slum lord crap that is cheating them out of their ability to vote for a candidate not tied to the Clinton machine, who rewards large contributors on the model of a brothel.

I noticed that the pantsuit of Senator Clinton is absent from the debate on the floor of the Senate, and it is far from Washington as it slings mud for another day. Senor Bill Uber Megaphone is absent from Washington and is either clueless or intentionally silent on S. 2248 because his wife is owned by ATT, Verizon, Sprint, Comcast and her other large Telco contributors.

I won’t support Hillary. She is the farthest to the right of all the Dem canidates. She’s a flat-out liar which can be seen from he attacks over the past few weeks. I’m not going to replace the worst president of my life with one who uses the same tactics. And then there’s the whole subversion of the 22 amendment.

Electing or supporting Clinton is to throw the Rethuglicans a life vest in a storm.

I choose my candidate based upon how I perceive their sincerity the issues and how each candidate will achieve their goals.

If Obama (or Edwards) is not the nominee for the Democratic party I cannot in good conscience support Hillary. I will either not vote, go indy, or possibly (ugh) cross-over depending on the nominee.

“You cannot blame Black folks for refusing to accept Billshit (not a typo). Sliming Obama is one thing. But you keep disrespecting Black folks and you’ll find the Democratic Party can die, just as the Republican Party can. I will muster every quantum of energy I can to make it so. We got four years after this one to find or construct an alternative.”

No, Obama isn’t saying he won’t back Hillary if she wins the nomination. He’s saying that a lot of his supporters won’t vote for her even if he does endorse her.

Which brings me to the second point – An Obama victory in South Carolina doesn’t REALLY count as a win because of the sizeable Black population in South Carolina.

So, let me get this straight – Hillary Clinton wins White women in New Hampshire, and it’s this great victory, but if Barack Obama wins South Carolina, after ten months of campaigning, because of sizeable Black support, it doesn’t REALLY count?

What is this – are we back to being Three-Fifths once again?

The Black vote doesn’t count as much as the White vote?

I’m going to say this as obviously as I can:

YOU DO NOT WANT TO GO DOWN THIS ROAD.

You simply don’t.

There is this underlying condescention that has been creeping into the “Progressive” blogs that, ‘ oh, well , THEY – meaning Blacks- have nowhere else to go. So, the Clintons and their proxies, who are actually race-baiting, but we’ll say that they aren’t, and tell those Blacks who are informing us as to what they see that it’s in their IMAGINATION – well, they’ll shut up, go SIT IN THEIR PLACE and turn up in November like they’re SUPPOSED TO. ‘

That’s not a bet you want to take.

Black folk don’t have to vote for McCain or any GOPer. They can just STAY HOME in several critical states, and the GOP wins. Thinking that you can scare folk with the GOP Bogeyman after you’ve been disrespecting Black folk, is both offensive and disrespectful.

James Brown said it:
We’d rather die on our feet
Than be livin’ on our knees

I am part of the Hip-Hop generation, and those of us who are Post Civil-Rights have learned our lessons well. We learned to hear the Dogwhistle of Racial Politics; our parents taught us that for SURVIVAL, but what they afforded us that they didn’t have, was the option of getting off of our knees.