Love life is none of our business. We're not helping her make her decision by speculating on what is going on with her. Give her space and peace--she does not deserve this.

Will somebody just get up and say that Clinton's surrogates are running up to the line of race-baiting to stir up working-class white resentment in order to "prove" to the superdelegates that Obama can't win because of his race?

"America wither?' was the question, with headache and heartache in several million homes as coming events were yet to unlock a box of secrets. In the hair-trigger suspense, Pat Buchanan was saying to an aide, 'A dog fight now might cause the gutters to run with blood.'

The high-priced lawyer, Rufus Choate, listening to foreign language operas in New York had told his daughter 'Interpret for me the libretto lest I dialate with the wrong emotion.' In the changing chaos of the American scene, people were dialating with a thousand different interpretations.
Only tall stacks of documents recording the steel of fact and the fog of dream could tell the intracate tale of the shaping of a national fate; of Countrywide Financial investigated for billions in bad loans and the fear going chiefly to the money controllers of New York City; of the exhausted Army of the Republic exhausted encamped on the banks of the Tigris in fabled Baghdad; of the oil scion in the White House lost and wandering after blundering the nation into rivers of blood; of the money men of the PACS delivering dollars in exchange for unwritten promises; of the manufactured embodiment of the Massage Age dreaming in her jet plane to Philly of years next to the phone commanding millions; of her plans to thwart the will of the people via the institutionalized votes of her minions and cowed enemies. Thus might run a jagged skech of the Divided House over which Obama was to be Chief Magistrate.

I find it very difficult to believe that the Times would have put their chin so far out on this story if they didn't know a lot more than they felt they could put in the article, at least on the first go.

Could McCain have gotten this far without vetting?

Looks like it.

This hurts Hillary if it drags out for more than two days. She wants scrutiny on Obama, not McCain.

Wow. Bush at 19%.

Democrats opinion of Bush? 1% approve of his job as president, 99% disapprove. That's the numbers these guys got.

One would be wise not to underestimate the Maximum General.

Hillary Clinton will take the Democratic nomination even if she does not win the popular vote, but persuades enough superdelegates to vote for her at the convention, her campaign advisers say. 

Not good. This type of behavior will play right into Obama's message of change. People are going to be turned off by the idea of an unfair fight. We're Americans, after all.

Lobbyist and special interest influence has killed health care reform, “riddled” the tax code with loopholes and “rigged our bankruptcy laws to make it harder to climb out of debt,” Obama said.

The United States is empowering a new group of Sunni leaders, including onetime members of former president Saddam Hussein's Baath Party, intelligence services and army, who are challenging established Sunni politicians for their community's leadership. The phenomenon marks a sharp turnaround in U.S. policy and the fortunes of Iraq's Sunni minority.

Actors without seats at the table means no solutions. Hence, the change.

You can bet one man is behind it. Gates.

He's in charge of Iraq policy. I occasionally get face time with a guy who works directly with him and for him only. He's the one who is getting Iraq right slowly. Currently we are there. I wish we were not. But I want to see successes while we are there. I think we need to get out of Iraq in a military sense far sooner than later. These were the guys we should have been working with from the beginning. Because their world view, although what many would call evil, is something that we can relate to. These are materialists that we knocked out of power in exchange for foriegn-dominated members of the long-supressed majority.That was a mistake.

Nacchio unsuccessfully attempted to defend himself by arguing that he actually expected Qwest's 2001 earnings to be higher because of secret NSA contracts, which, he contends, were denied by the NSA after he declined in a February 27, 2001 meeting to give the NSA customer calling records, court documents released this week show.

Gore advisers all but ruled out a presidential bid for the former Vice-President, saying that

"he definitely has the ambition to use the peace prize as a springboard to run for president.

But he will not run, because he won't take on the political machine assembled by Sen. Hillary Clinton, said the source. If the senator from New York had faltered at all, Gore would take a serious look at entering the race, the source said. But Gore has calculated that Clinton is unstoppable, according to the source."

And why is Hillary unstoppable? Josh Marshall said it best earlier in the week:

Obama isn't so much running for the nomination in the sense of reaching out and taking it. He's trying to show us how marvelous he is (and this isn't snark, he's really pretty marvelous) so that Democratic voters will recognize it and give him the nomination.

But that's not how it works in this country. I don't know if it really works otherwise anywhere else. But you have to really want it, come out and say it, take it.

If this were a different race, Gore would step right in. Its not. I expect him to stay out.

Lawyering up.