My friend, Hillary is not going to pick either Biden or Dodd. Stop your conspiracy theory. When kos crowd rated your candidate below Kucinich, you have a real problem. LOL

they don't have IT...

Another tid bit.

Mayor Brown said something very interesting on MSNBC.  He said that Hillary Clinton must disspell the "lobbyist" issue and quickly.  He stated this could run like a bad virus.  I agree.  It was a very bad stumble at the Kos Convention and was just a look into how she "really feel and think".  It was brave, the admission, and honest, but stupid, none the less.

The public may not know the in's and out's of lobbyists.  And many lobbyists come from good organizations, unions, environmental and so forth.  But their horrible name has come to the credit and on-going scandal of Jack Abramhoff.  Remember, in the November elections, corruption/scandal was in the top three, which helped to oust the GOP.  So, to think that this is nothing and will not be warranted.  Think again.  These ads are in the making, right now, don't think it is not happening.  I expect ads on this by the end of the month, against Clinton.  She need to heal this wound to move on.

Tonight it was also a new development.  The tag team of Dodd and Biden to flank Clinton.  It was extremely obvious.  Especially the attack of Obama and Edwards to an extent.  I don't know if it will work, but it was apparent and obvious.

The winner was Kucinich.  He is a real liberal, and a real labor man.  The loser is Biden.  Not answering that widow's question to "try" to score political points, was just shameless.

Obama improved and beat the tag team back, and the audience and viewers respected that.  Clinton unscathed.  But overall, it is politics 101.

Next debate on the LOGO TV (cable) and streaming video.

Let's be brutally honest here:  If this lobbying thing does not gain traction, they'll drop it within a flash.  It is just the latest "issue du jour."  I don't recall anyone talking about it last week, or the week before, or last month.  

On healthcare, Clinton said that health care was going to be the first thing she will work on.  And, don't forget that 1/3rd of her plan is already out there (very solid proposals) with the other 2 parts still to come.   It will be unveiled for maximum political impact at a time when more people are paying attention, which makes sense, politically speaking.    

Does the AFL-CIO have?

Hillary couldn't pass a landmark bill in 8 years in the Senate. Lobbyists are going to help her write a healthcare bill. She just need to sign - no reading required (remember AUMF?)

Lobbbyists will work overtime for Hillary. Forget about Universal Healthcare if you vote for her.

Tarheel, it is a bit curious that after a debate where the candidate who is supposedly the most pro-union, progressive and populist had a debate in what should have been in his home audience, you write about others doing Hillary's bidding.  It is clear that you think she is omnipotent.  The fact is Edwards did not deliver tonight.  Biden gave him a hard smack down about his walking the picket line.  All he could come back with was that he had walked the picket line 200 times in the last 2 yrs, including SAT and Sun.   That's exactly the point Biden was making, that Edwards started walking picket lines to boost his Pres. campaign and not when it was actually a hard or costly decision, like when he was in the  Senate.  He had nothing, which is why labor is holding its' fire and  waiting to endorse a candidate(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/us/pol itics/31unions.html?_r=1&oref=slogin ).  Kucinich stole Edwards thunder tonight.

anyone else take offense to the jock strap comment? Seems a little Elizabeth Edwards-ish on Hillary trying to act like a man while being in the senate.

The Obama and Edwards folks are just upset that their candidates aren't matching up to their hype; is Hillary a perfect candidate? No Way! But she can definitely get things done and that is what I want to see, things get done, not the same old b.s. about being the candidate of change; that is what Bush said in 1999/2000 and see where we are?

As for Edwards, he is stuck in a quagmire, with polls showing him flattening out in both Iowa and nationally, fundraising a dead boat for him, where he has to use his wife to create a stir and get money from online donors and his pathetic radical liberal positions on everything. The guy is a big phony; such a dramatic change from 2004 makes Romney look like a Saint from heaven.

You ought to change the very poor title of this diary.

Obama would do well to heed the advise of the adults, like Biden, Clinton, and Dodd.

As the recent polling suggests, they aren't the only ones taking issue with Obama's increasingly erratic foreign policy, military, and diplomatic musings.