Hillary really gets nasty when things aren't going her way! (I don't believe for a minute that a cog in her political machine acted out of concert with the rest.) That's why this is really bad news for her. She's able to put on a "personable" air when she's on top. But, when she has to fight, she immediately fights dirty. People recognize this about her. And, the more people see of the "real her" - the more they don't like her.

Senator Clinton is out every day talking about the issues that matter to the American people. These comments were not authorized or condoned by the campaign in any way.

If there has been one constant through Hillary's campaign march, it has been discipline.

Billy Shaheen a loose cannon?  Riggggghhhhtt.........
He's not some campaign neophyte, by any means.

Surely this makes Karl Rove smile.  The Clinton campaign is emulating his style.  And Lee Atwater, wherever you think he might be tonight, has a new protege.  And his name is Billy Shaheen.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

And I don't think this is going to go over well with black voters in South Carolina.

This is what I said:

Let me say this.

I'm not an Obama supporter. His going for the middle all the time may hamper him at crucial moments.  The middle can be too safe when broad strokes and confident action is needed.  I also distrust his conservative background and how he had no trouble getting the support of the Daley machine.

That being said, I think that Hillary's ploy is going to backfire big.  And getting surrogates to pile on while she keeps her dainty hands clean?  This is getting into the politics of desperation.  She can't bring him down on issues?  Why go that low?  There's no evidence available that he was a drug dealer, only a user.  So black man = crackhead? Or that he was the second coming of say, Frank Lucas or Freeway Ricky Ross?  Come on, Hillary.  Don't even try it.

I predict this is going to backfire in the black community.  Da folx have had Hill's back, thinking that she's going to be like Bill or that Bill's going to be running the country like Lurleen Wallace ran 'Bama for George back in the day.  I don't think blacks are going to buy this defense, once they hear about it.  If the Oprah-Obama appearances changed some blacks' minds, then trying to smear Obama with some twenty-five year old BS is going to bury her.  Legitimate slams blacks can understand, but something that so far is baseless and hearsay they won't stomach.  They're going to see it as the tearing down of a black man, and they won't like it one bit.

Furthermore, trying to dog Oprah using the smear/whisper campaign/attack that she's supposedly non-union may backfire as well.  Oprah stuck her neck out; she didn't have to, but she did.

For the record, I lean either Edwards or Kucinich depending on what day it is. Even Edwards some days does not impress me.  So officially, I am on the fence.  I'm going to hold my nose and vote for whatever crab crawls to the top of the barrel, and I'm hoping that the crab won't stink into next Tuesday.

However, the Clintons and their minions had better watch their steps.  This may yet turn out to be another historic tussle about who oughta be the first first, this time in the White House.  

After the Civil War, white feminists got mad at Congress for enfranchising black men to vote over their own wives and daughters.  This caused some white feminists to even join their sisters in the South to support the enforcement of Jim Crow, de jure segregation, and suppression of the black vote. The racist rhetoric got pretty heated, with Stanton calling enfranchised black men, "Sambo." After a while, even Frederick Douglass couldn't hang his hat at feminist gatherings, while white feminists kept black feminists from joining national organizations.

What Hillary may be really saying to Obama is, not so fast brother.  That's my seat.  I earned it, as a woman and as the wife of a president.

To which all I can say is, here we go again.

he remains perplexed about why, at this fraught point in history, voters and the media are not giving more attention to experienced Democratic candidates such as Sens. Chris Dodd and Joe Biden and are instead elevating into the first tier alongside Clinton a pair of candidates with less experience in Washington, Barack Obama and John Edwards.

Here, I'll give him a subtle hint:

It's EXACTLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE LESS EXPERIENCE IN WASHINGTON AND WITH THE CORRUPT PEOPLE THERE!!!

Jeebus.

Right after firing up a big, phat spliff, because you'd have to be on drugs to make a move that dumb.

Good grief, it's a Democratic primary.  I bet more than 4/5 of potential voters 'experimented' when they were young.

Shaheen said Obama's candor on the subject would "open the door" to further questions. "It'll be, 'When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?'" Shaheen said. "There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks. It's hard to overcome."

It sounds like he's come up with the attacks the HRC campaign would like to make and thrown them out in hopes that the GOP will run with them.

This sort of sliminess is exactly why I hope Clinton doesn't get the nomination. Thanks, but I've spent almost eight years in the Rove universe, and I'd like to go home now.

---Cthulhu for President: Why vote for the lesser evil?

F%#K Her and her whole F#&KING CAMPAIGN.

I don't want to hear anymore about how evil Cheney, Rova and Bush are.

You are seeing pure evil right now.  And there are a few bloggers doing the exact same thing.

They slime Obama daily and just say, well, maybe it's not true, but that's what the Republicans will say.

HEY AHOLES.  Talkleft, Mydd, Bartcop.  You are the ones saying it, and your apology will be under the radar.

We are seeing the blogosphere can be as power hungry as the MSM.  Obama won't kiss their ass so they turn on him.

Obama doesn't need you.  So move on to something else.

Patriotism and religion, like whiskey, is best used in moderation. Mark Twain

can you hear the banjos playing in the background?

god help us

Edible panties taste like crap.