just want the first female president so bad they are willing to overlook ANYTHING negative just because she has that sacred (D) next to her name.

If a female candidate on the right supported the exact same positions as Hillary with the same history of policy decisions, etc. they would be crucifying her.

It's sad, but it makes me think that too many voters will excuse anything their candidates do out of a "Team" mindset.

While not realizing it, what they are doing is quite comparable to cops turning a blind eye to other cops bad behavior, something they universally condemn.

Hypocrisy has never seemed to be in short supply over at camp Clinton...

It's some kind of odd tribalism that seems to come in many flavors but made with the same basic ingredients.

one with delusions of grandeur about how witty he is, full of the obviously mistaken notion that he's some sort of Hip Insider, which in turn feeds an ego the size of Mt. Rushmore.

Like you should flock to his posts, that you may be enlightened.

Yecch. Some of his colleagues are there all damn day, being front pagers--you know damn well if they work in that lovely California office of Little Napoleon, that at least some of them are regulars who go around shitting on dissent against Her Majesty for a paycheck.

Traitors to America, they are. Straight up...

I try to only go twice a day - once to do my BNR comment in early morning and once in the afternoon to see who's posted anything to tip, rec, and sometimes mess with a troll - same peeps on your list.

At the SOTU President Obama said, in effect, Joe why not make yourself useful and cure cancer? I don't think there was any budget for this, and whatever it was it would have to wrap up in less than a year. Maybe I'm wrong, but I put it in the same category as Bush's mission to Mars.

The guy ran in 2008 and had to drop out, due to the collective and massive YAWN from the electorate. So there is no effing way that's going to fly with anyone that's actually paying attention. They'll be inviting civil unrest, just like the RNC is courting with all these trial balloons of "a brokered convention" on the right.

IMO, there are enough people paying attention that know what a skeezy pair of grifters the Clintons are and there are MORE of them than there are actual Clinton supporters.

And nobody's impressed with Chris Cilizza that I know of. He's got a honkin' case of Overeager Cub Reporter Syndrome lately, and I don't get it, because he's been around long enough to be good at what he does.

Virtually everything will be controlled by corporations instead of corporations just gaining more and more power via taking over various roles in the federal government - but this will be for every country who signs on to that shit, not just the US which has enough corporate control of almost everything (including our health care!!!) to pose a real threat. I've felt the noose tightening harder and harder since 12 Dec 2000, followed by taking away our rights - which have STILL NOT been reinstated by repealing the unconstitutional and illegal legislation that have taken away our rights eight years after Obama was sworn in; he capitulated to corporate, banking, Wall Street, war power from day one.

The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.
— President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
— Benito Mussolini

Socrates: First, shouldn't we explain how a democracy becomes an oligarchy?
Adeimantus: Yes.
Socrates: The critical step is that the rich figure out how to manipulate politics so the laws benefit them instead of the public.
Adeimantus: So it seems.
— Plato, Republic, 550 BCE

granting non-government entities sovereignty on-par with nation-states. At that point, "boundaries" become meaningless.

Did you ever laugh at anyone in the last 20 years when they'd start ranting about a "UN Takeover of the World" and "One World Government" and all that? I did--lots of times.

And now you know why I have such an intense hatred of 'Net-based disinfo trolls.

I never thought of looking there. Great tip.