really?  i have yet to see that.

What I do see is Obama currently under fire from:

• Fox News and the entire VRWC
• Hillary Clinton and her machine
• Bill Clinton, the former very popular president
• John McCain
• and the traditional media's rabid focus on Reverend Wright at the expense of real issues

And he's still winnning.

Has her bitterness brought her closer to god and guns?  I wonder.

they sold the party down the river.  they sold income equality down the river.  They screwed up the possibility of implementing healthcare reform for 15 years.  They sold the poor down the river under the guise of "welfare reform", and sold the manufacturing sector down the river under the guise of "NAFTA."  They sold the LGBT community down the river with the Defense of Marriage Act.  They used every Republican talking point in the book.

Most importantly, they kept on Alan F'ing Greenspan as Fed Chief and racked up huge asset bubbles benefiting the rich and those who own stocks and houses at the expense of all the rest of us.

The Party suffered huge losses during Bill's tenure.

And then Hillary voted for war in Iraq--and then again in Iran.

They sell us out every chance they get.  The only reason I'll ever vote for a Clinton is to disallow a Republican from getting an office--but never otherwise if I can possibly help it.  I don't like being stabbed in the back.

only a "troll" if you're a rabid Clinton supporter.  The rest of you "walked out" on your "strike" because you couldn't take the heat at DailyKos where most of the progressive community hangs out.  So you hang out here in an echo chamber where your talking points go unchallenged, and anyone who challenges them is a troll.

The Clintons were bad for the Democratic Party.  That's a well-established fact that even Jerome Armstrong, current Clinton supporter, acknowledges in his own book.

Dude!  Right on!!!!!  So true.

I'd say it was more of us being thrown under the bus.  

What he did in this situation is the epitome of politics as usual.  Double speaking hypocrit.

Why am I not troll rating this person?

Just want to add one thing.

The hatred of GWB and Dick Cheney has in no way shape or form sparked a social revolution in this country.  That hatred has not made them any less racist, homophobic, or more educated and intellectually curious than they were in January 2000.

I know many Obama supporters are under the impression that such a revolution has taken place.  It won't be the first time that the Democratic party blindfolds itself and walks off a cliff with self-richeous smiles on their faces.

"THE PEOPLE, all they hear is "suspend the tax" and that's all they need to hear.  You start "explaining", they tune out and, actually, stop liking you."

If that is not an elitist statement, I don't know what is.

Bill Frist was killed for offering to send all Americans $100 to help with gas prices. Clinton is offering us around $30 maybe.

So you put these two plans next to each other, which is better?

For once we have a candidate, who win or loose speaks to Americans like adults.  

If getting elected means advocating Republican policies that don't make sense, then frankly, what's the point of getting elected?

I want someone who can effectively explain why the positions of the Democratic party reflect mainstream American values and common sense.  Not someone who takes asinine positions, like this gas tax holiday, because they hold Americans (or their own rhetorical skill) in so little regard that they adopt the next best strategy of failing to differentiate themselves.  It is this thinking that got us the Iraq war (and no, Hillary was not alone in this failure of leadership, which I believe lost us congress in 2002), the defense of marriage act and the patriot act, just to name a few.

And for the record, Al Gore WON.

BULL! People are well aware how useless this will be. EVERYONE is aware of how useless this will be, and when gas actually DOES hit $4.00 a gallon, nobody will care.

I went over the top.  But seeing someone overtly espouse that mentality makes me a little angry.

it's people with your "do the immediately politically expedient below-the-belt thing" that caused the party to shrivel up and die during your heroine's husband's presidency, and I'm working my ass off to make sure that you and yours don't get another chance to use this style of Republican-lite politics to put us back in the same hole.