We're too busy having an internecine war to go after him, so he's had a free ride.

Either Democrat will bury him come November.

So much for the "people trust Obama more than they trust Clinton" narrative.

"Given a choice between McCain and Clinton, 47% trust McCain more while 42% prefer the former First Lady. Given a choice between McCain and Obama on the economy, 46% trust the GOP nominee while 39% opt for the Democratic frontrunner."

That must chap McCain that Obama is winning so handily in the "government ethics and corruption" category considering that he has spent his post-Keating 5 career trying to establish his image as a purist.

The blogosphere seems to underestimate McCain.  The guy's brand is incredibly powerful.  The guy will take a plethora of white male working-class votes if Hill is the nominee; all he has to do is walk around with a Navy hat and it won't matter how many Crown Royals Hill pounds down.  Obama will bleed a ton of independents to him as well; McCain has spent the last eight years in the Senate fostering the notion that he has a maverick in order run for president this year.  The Republicans nominated not just the toughest candidate among their nominees, but probably their tougest candidate among any Republican in America to run against either Hill or Obama in this climate.

Remember the lessons of Bush.

For a lot of Americans, the Presidency is the most personal office in the land, and the vote largely based on very abstract things, like their "sense" of the candidate's character, and so on.

McCain is amazing because he contradicts himself so often, and so blatantly, but all he needs to say is: "My friends, a little straight talk" and people trust him implicitly.

That is what makes him dangerous.

I hate to be cynical, but I think it's a combination of low-information voters and many people refusing to have nuanced looks at things.  I think many/most people (including members of my own family) desperately want the world to be painted as black and white with no shades of gray.  They want easy answers to things like immigration (deport them all), free trade (f#ck globalization), education (move to a better school district if your school sucks), race (I don't see race), sexism (I treat men and women equally all the time), and foreign policy (bomb everyone that disagrees with us).  

I'm not going to pretend that I'm not an ideologue at times when it comes to this primary cycle.  But that's the result of the acrimony going on and I expect/hope to become reasonable once again after this is all over.  

Come on people, WAKE UP, it is entirely because we are infighting while McCain gets a pass.

I don't know who you support.  For disclosure, I am 100% Obama. But either way, the fight is badly damaging both Clinton and Obama.

In the mean time, the media is having an all out love fest with McCain right now.

The thing the republicans did best for quite a few years was get themselves disciplined and on message and ostentatiously supportive of each other, despite wildly varying viewpoints.  Social conservatives and economic conservatives with relatively little in common were in lock step with conservative cable, radio, and think tanks.  All of them actually had great misgivings towards each other regularly, but you almost never heard about it until you went digging hard.

Democrats seem utterly incapable of pretending to overcome differences and getting on the same page with each other.

THIS IS WHY DEMOCRATS ARE SUPERBLY, LAUGHABLY, EXCEPTIONALLY BRILLIANT AT SNATCHING DEFEAT FROM THE JAWS OF VICTORY.

AND WE ARE DOING IT AGAIN RIGHT NOW!

So I don't care who you support.  I really don't.  Me, I never liked Bill Clinton, and though I used to think I kind of liked Hillary personally, she has deeply offended me every day for months and the love is long gone.

It goes pretty much without saying that there are plenty of people reading this that feel just as much dislike for Obama that I feel for the Clinton's.

Well, we can keep at each other as we have been and give McCain a win in what should have been the hardest damn election any republican has ever faced.

Or we can get our shit together, get on message, stop doing the republicans job for them, pretend like we actually can all see eye to eye, and start kicking the crap out of McCain instead of each other.

And we damn well better be willing to get over our personal feelings and vote for whomever gets the democratic nomination, or we really will be screwed.

And for those of you who think McCain can't win, and once the nomination is figured out we will easily beat him, I say think again.  I remember people saying the same in Bush V Gore and Bush V Kerry.  There was no good reason at all we should have lost 2004, but somehow we did anyway.  Taking anything for granted is suicide.

I will telll you why people seem to trust an idiot like McCain on taxes. That is because our politicians are too stupid to highlight the fact that Democrats wont raise taxes for the middle class. I hear Obama mention it occasionally. But it is not made into a mantra the way republicans do. People ignore the fact that a lot of republican controlled localities have just as high property taxes or even higher.

What the democrats need to do is come up with a consistent LOWER TAXES message and say it applies to most people with a few exceptions. Let the superrich scream that they are being left out but as long as the democrats keep saying they are for lower taxes, that should be more effective than giving silly statements like "oh we need to raise taxes".

Democrats need to emphasize cuts in government spending but they do not need to keep repeating that those cuts should come from areass conservatives favor.

Clintons and Republican Spin Machine all aligned against Barack!  Both are liars, distorters, engage in fear and smear... there is no truth from either of the Giants only domination... they have even colloborated together for greater strength, then one will overthrow the other if they get what they want!

Most of the corporate media, cable news, ABC, NBC are owned and Republican controled.  They tell us what they want us to Hear, not what we need to Know to truly inform us as a society, which will give us power and aid in their demise!  

They know Clintons have ailenated African-Americans so they are now actively courting their support while trying to elevate Hillary and deflate Barack. They MSM are not asking Hillary any of the pertinent questions, not on Iran, not on Mark Penn, although he is still on conference calls to this day, not on a pending lawsuit in California or anything elese that might damage her candidacy in the eyes of the people.  There is even some talk of personal dalliances of Bill Cllinton which they know about and plan to release if she is nominee.