Jacques,

We have a sharp politically young man going up against a very well known and in many cases not so well liked figure. The Democratic party here may be losing their opportunity to take back the White House from a President who was in a bad situation most of his years in office and doesn't have the highest of popularity ratings. Hillary has every reason not to step down because the democrats accross the country have not asked her to by voting for Obama in greater numbers to unite the party. Hillary is used to being hated, joked about and dissed to use a modern term. The problem is the party ran a guy who is 8 to 12 years away from being presidential. Obama while more respected and liked by the broader population has very little experience and nearly no foreign policy experience. Can that resume actually win a popular election when the voters are not just registered democrats? Hillary can't win the popular election either as she is truly disliked by most of America as soon as you leave the party primaries. The fact of the matter is this, the democrats had an opportunity to take back the White House because people wanted change. They lost that chance because they went for too much change, too fast, too over the top, your choices are a.)inexperienced or b.) unpleasant? They can fight to the end within their party but in a year when a Kerry or a Gore in their prime would have won in a landslide the Democrats missed a 6" putt on the 72nd hole and it will cost them the tournament. That is just fine with me by the way, a registered Republican.

Your writing has nothing to do with "Faith"/belief.

Did anyone else notice Tuesday night Hillary's placement of supporters behind and next to her?

Bill looked like he was standing on a washtub - a virtual giant among the shorter minorities. A black man with boxing gloves behind Hillary appeared much shorter and a poor Mexican fellow pupped up again and again waist high to Hillary's left. What was that all about?

I have been a voting Democrat for 55 years, and to my knowledge, we Democrats always come through even if it seems we never will get our act together.

Hillary quitting now would be nice for both Barack and those of us who feel deep distress watching a good woman struggle publicly while sinking both in the polls and in public opinion.

I have noticed these "human bouquets" gracing the podiums along with the candidate. And have thought to myself that some attention was given by someone in arranging them. With one exception -- John McCain's always are composed of crabby looking older men. Along with now and then some equally crabby looking older women they seem to be staples -- perhaps they travel on his bus with him?

Hillary's bouquet for her acceptance speech was
marred by that toddler the father had to keep
jostling about. And you didn't mention Bill Clinton red faced and gloomy. Only Chelsea was
keeping a cheery face for the family honor.

Obama's bouquet is usually quite fresh and not wilting being composed of the young. But now he is under pressure to focus on older women and also to run for king of the blue collar prom. Pity.

The entire election process is disgusting, mainly because people like Jacques Berlinerblau and the rest of the mainstream media demand that the candidates dance to some stupid, tinny, totally irrelevant tune instead of the symphonies the public really wants to hear. The media focuses on the irrelevant and meaningless vocal slipups each candidate makes during the "debates" and speeches, rather than each candidate's records, their platforms, their ideas, their plans for our future, and their solutions for our current problems, both long and short term.

The media never gets around to asking these questions, mainly because their reporters, like Jacques Berlinerblau, are required by their corporate owners to focus on the circus-like aspects of the campaigns, not on the meat and potatoes. Berlinerblau never asks the questions that will determine how well we are governed and who controls government, the corporations or the people.

Clever. What's to do with 'religion'? Angry young man?

Umm..., clever like a candidate in this writing. Angry young man?

Simply amazing!!! Not one article on Iwrack today in the WP. Looks like I am wrong and the despicably evil "w"/DICKY regime is correct. Everything is "hunky-dory" in that part of the planet. I apologize. Ken

"I guess, but can't be sure, that he is referring to Old Glory, here"

It would be kind of weird if it were Old Glory, since his father was a Kenyan civil servant.

How can the democrats claim to be able to run the country when the evidence is otherwise. They can not, or will not, come together in the congress and their version of a primary is a series of keystone kops comedy skits. This is supposed to make me feel they are capable? So far I have come to realize they are masters of spin and nothing else.

How can the democrats claim to be able to run the country when the evidence is otherwise. They can not, or will not, come together in the congress and their version of a primary is a series of keystone kops comedy skits. This is supposed to make me feel they are capable? So far I have come to realize they are masters of spin and nothing else.

It does not matter which Democrat is elected President. The time to consolidate Democratic forces is at the Democratic National Convention, not before. All of the rhetoric about "bickering" is nonsense. Keep the heat on!

President Ahmadinejad has been rebuked by Iranian clerics for claiming that the Hidden Iman directs the Iranian government. That is much like Bush implying that Jesus is watching over his government. These crazy Christians are as crazy as Shiites. Why? Because messianic belief among the early Christians went out of style among the Hellenistic gentiles but continued among the Jewish Christians and Monophysite Christians whose beliefs found their way into Islam over several centuries.

Monstrous belief never dies; it just gets transmogrified.

It is absolutely vital to the future credibility of the Democratic Party that Clinton not quit now. After McCain kicks Barak Hussein's butt from Bangor to San Diego, it will be important for somebody to be visible proof in 2012 that the Democratic Party is still interested in being a national party; somebody who can show that there are still Democrats who don't just want to be the party of black self-pity and spoiled, narcissistic college brats; somebody who can show that the Democrats still want to get people health insurance, secure their pensions and improve the public schools, not just cozy up to terrorists and ape Nicolas Sarkozy.

Clinton had a chance last night in her "victory" speech to heal the party and save the Clinton's legacy.

I am very disappointed in Clinton and I think the American people are disappointed.

What we witnessed last night was the death of the old politics of pander, deception and divisiveness in the Democratic party. A sad spectacle of the end of the hypocritical politics that has controlled the Democratic party for decades.

Next stop McCain and the Republican party.