It's just another facet of the shut down the primaries and "annoint Hillary" campaign they have going that makes me more opposed to her every single time it happens.

I seem to remember a certain other "decider" whom we were not to question...

to me the biggest surprise from Clinton over the weekend is that she did not support retroactive review of sentences for prisoners jailed for crack vs. powder cocaine. What a waste of lives!

It's also, though, complicated: when I was in school, I made a point of participating in elections... in Maryland, though I went to school in New York. Voting absentee was important to me, and I felt it was voting in the community where i lived that mattered, not the one where I went to school. I understand the desire to be in the process, and I think it would be hard to go to school in Iowa, coming from another state, and seeing the process so up close; still, I tend to sympathize with the notion that kids away at college are still part of their home community, not the school's city or state (then we get into all sorts of "town vs. gown" issues, which I think are also pretty complex). Net - net, I don't think Obama's "distorting" the process; but I do think encouraging kids to vote in the absentee process, in their home communities, is more correct. And nobody's lost my vote over this, though I don't plan to vote for either Clinton or Obama.

Terrible, terrible move by Clinton. I see your point, weboy, but I just remember when I was in school, being at school was what *got* me interested in politics, and (particularly since I spent most of the year there) I would never have dreamed of saving my vote for the place where my parents lived, and would have been outraged to be told by any campaign that I should do so. But then again that was Canada and things work a little different there.

Meanwhile, this:

the shut down the primaries and "annoint Hillary" campaign they have going

is the sort of conspiratorial hyperbole which distresses me greatly about so much anti-Clinton commentary.(Or did I miss her calling for abolishing the nominating process?) That said, I've resolved to be more tolerant of it since realizing that 'Anybody But Clinton' thinking makes some strategic sense in the run-up to Iowa because second choices matter there. I just really hope that if she does win the nomination, that sort of thinking ceases to be operative on the left because 'Anybody But Clinton' at that stage becomes a recipe for a Republican President.

I won't vote for her either, in my state's primary, but I do think she's the odds-on favorite and I just hope, if she's the nominee, progressives who share anonymous' views on her are prepared to dial back the demonizing rhetoric to which they've given such free rein.

"I won't vote for her either, in my state's primary, but I do think she's the odds-on favorite and I just hope, if she's the nominee, progressives who share anonymous' views on her are prepared to dial back the demonizing rhetoric to which they've given such free rein."

Oh, please. Drop the hot rot. Every single time anyone has turned up the heat on her she has cried foul. Either it's the boys are piling on her (nothing like dangling bait in the stupid gender war) or they're pulling from the right wing playbook.

She thinks she doesn't have to take any criticism. Not a good good quality for the next "decider."

Keep walking that plank blindfolded, kids. I don't care what party lable she sticks on her button.

In other words, it's not rhetoric, dear boy, I mean it 100 percent.