I don’t think Hill would want the VP slot, wants to be in the front row finally …. unless she keeps Dick Cheney’s rules. The Senate or the NYC governorship?

Citizen Wigwam:

Thanx for linkin’ to the Kos post…I have been reading Kos more than my usual mornin’ and evenin’ scan these last few weeks because I think en toto that blog has the best front page election writing on the blogosphere. I’m gettin real tired a MYDD and Talking Points Memo is good but not as prone to anaysis, I read it for news.

I hope we don’t lose sight of the real mission of this election in the euphoria of finally havin’ a nominee and all the huggin’ and kissin’ that goes with it. We hafta kill the fascist beast that has ahold of our democracy and to do that is to do more than beat back Crazy John McCain…we hafta redo the Democratic Party and isolate those elected leaders infected by the corporate virus. We have gotta give Obama the space and the electoral strength to make his own dicisions and create an administration responsive to a wider constituency than the existing oligarchy.

And that means there is no place for Mr. and Mrs. Bill anywhere close ta the White House. Let ‘em go back ta Hope and the library that Murdock built.

KEEP THE FAITH AND KEEP YER EYES ON THE PRIZE!!

g’nite and thanks for hanging with me tonight pups.

And if you’re looking for a few laughs (painful ones, though), find some video of the frenetic Mcauilffe appearance with Tweety from tonight. He was spectacularly bad.

Albert Einstein described belief in God as “childish superstition” and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in London this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday.

The father of relativity, whose previously known views on religion have been more ambivalent and fuelled much discussion, made the comments in response to a philosopher in 1954.

As a Jew himself, Einstein said he had a great affinity with Jewish people but said they “have no different quality for me than all other people”.

“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.

“No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this,” he wrote in the letter written on January 3, 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind, cited by The Guardian newspaper.

The German-language letter is being sold Thursday by Bloomsbury Auctions in Mayfair after being in a private collection for more than 50 years, said the auction house’s managing director Rupert Powell.

In it, the renowned scientist, who declined an invitation to become Israel’s second president, rejected the idea that the Jews are God’s chosen people.

“For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions,” he said.

“And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people.”

And he added: “As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything ‘chosen’ about them.”