Grudging respect is certainly better than the utter lies being emitted from the supposedly liberal blogosphere. Hillary was sensational tonight and the failure of some to admit it is a reflection on them, not her. I suspect that, if anything, men will put her over the top. Maybe some won't admit it in public...but Hillary was the only man in the group. It was visceral. This was a fighter. This was a progressive ready to mow down the opposition..or sweet talk them. But tonight we saw why Hillary is her own woman and why Democrats should nominate her to lead us out of the darkness.

So...there are the whiny, weak men...who trash her...and the real men...who respect her. It's now so easy to separate the wheat from the chaff. As a woman...from my perspective...only boys support Obama....And Edwards looked petty tonight...and small. His attacks on Clinton in support of Obama were transparent and ruined his image completely. Plus Clinton caught him in a lie. After George Bush, are we really extolling the virtues of liars?
He told the country, in this debate, that he had helped pass the Patient Bill of Rights. But Hillary, quick and smart as ever, pointed out that in fact, that legislation did not pass the House and was never signed into law. Pray tell, how does an honorable blogger describe this? A winner?

As for Obama...Mr. Cool looked like another wimp...he was yammering all night...His big lobbying bill which he bragged about, did so little that it became laughable: lobbyists could pay for dinner eaten standing up instead of sitting down. Very impressive. And Mr. No Lobbyist is my Administration had as his co chair a...guess what..a registered lobbbyist. Do we call that hypocrisy here...or something else because it came from Obama's mouth? Maybe inspiring hypocrisy is more apt.

As for change...a woman in the Presidency is definitely that...It's truly amazing that liberal men and some women are oblivious to the sexism on display in this debate alone. Oh golly, if Hillary responds to incessant attacks on her character and her positions with clear distinctions of her own, she is being aggressive and negative...and woe is me...attacking? Well yea...I hope so. Should she have smiled and took it on the chin? Or should she have cried?

By the way, do we need another Joe Biden type slip about truth telling? This Edwards misrepresentation was damaging to his credibility. And isn't there a jury instruction about that somewhere?

as a first time visitor and anon. coward, i must disagree with the comments about Hillary. there's just no way that you can say that she didn't look tired, so i find myself disinclined to agree with much of the subsequent take on her. and i guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on the Edwards-Clinton tiff. i thought she came off the worse for it in this context.

oh, and please stop implying that if we don't like her performance we're sexist. you do yourself no favors using that kind of argument.

Obviously there is a different standard applied to Hillary versus Obama. If you can't see that, then the brainwashing has been effective. Clearly you are not interested in critical thinking. Because on the issues that arose in the debate, you seem uninterested. This is very typical of the syndrome. No further information is allowed in. Why not check out Scientology too...It's been good for Tom.

... have names like AAA123 (for example, lily15). This is also true over at Big Orange.

Is this coincidence, or is there some sort of tracking mechanism at play?

[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.

He [Edwards] told the country, in this debate, that he had helped pass the Patient Bill of Rights. But Hillary, quick and smart as ever, pointed out that in fact, that legislation did not pass the House and was never signed into law. Pray tell, how does an honorable blogger describe this? A winner?

The McCain-Edwards-Kennedy Patients Bill of Rights was a Senate bill = S.1052
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patients'_Bill_of_Rights

S. 1052 passed in the Senate June 29 2001 by a vote of 59-36. 107th Congress - 1st Session.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/ro...

John Edwards was a Senator. He wasn't in the House of Reps. A different version of the PBR passed the House. See H.R. 2563 (August 2, 2001).

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