If it was Wright, it'd only be hurting Obama.

Jerome, I know that you're not stupid. So the only option left on the table is that you're being willfully dishonest.

John McCain is polling ahead of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton right now because he's getting a free ride while the Democrats attack each other.

Yeah, John McCain is breaking the law every day he spends more money on his campaign. Only problem is that the Senate won't move on the FEC nominees, so there's no way to enforce this.

You do realize that if Clinton gets the nomination, they'll go right back to sliming her, right?

Don't kid yourselves.

Jerome, you cannot be serious.

You can't have an accurate measure of a popular vote when half of the contests are caucuses.

To say otherwise is frankly dishonest.

No matter, anyway, because it's unlikely that Clinton will make up the 700,000 vote deficit she's facing in the popular vote enough to overtake Obama.

I think this is the one result that would successfully piss off both Clinton and Obama supporters: nominate a white man who didn't compete in a single primary.

Which is why it will not happen.

For one thing, with only two candidates in the race, somebody is going to win on the first ballot.

So if Nancy Pelosi is for Obama, how is Hillary Clinton going to get the 2/3 of remaining superdelegates she needs to overturn the will of the people?

Are you kidding me?

No, seriously. Are you kidding me?

We reserve the right to overturn the voters' decision if we think they're stupid?

I hate to break it to you, but a lot of very intelligent, very informed people support Barack Obama for President.

The will of the voters is sacrosanct. Period.

Meta's a lot less harmful than the bile on the rec list right now.

No, my anger at this is coming from a place where:

- Yesterday, dozens of posters here defended Fox News when Todd posted the Fox Attacks Barack Obama video.

- The rec list at this site is filled with things that would have gotten you banned from this site in any other year.

- About two dozen diaries posted at Daily Kos today using the same "concern troll" rhetoric.

- This isn't considered amplifying the attacks against Obama.

It's one thing to say he needs to address the charges. It's another thing entirely to legitimize them. And Jerome has legitimized them.

No. Here's the fucking difference:

This is akin to saying:

Wow. Maybe John Kerry really did betray his country and fake his injuries in Vietnam.

You aren't denouncing the smears. You aren't suggesting how he could be more effective at combating the smears.

No, you are accepting the smears at face value.

Tomorrow on MyDD: Barack Obama is a secret Muslim!

Yeah, we sure can.

We can also recognize when so-called Democrats are amplifying a right-wing attack.

Congratulations. MyDD has become the Drudge Report.

Yeah. And he fought back tonight. But fuck if so-called Democrats don't want to continue smearing him.

Because rather than defending against an obvious smear, you're getting in bed with Fox News and smearing...

After Obama categorically rejects everything that Wright said in those statements, the concern trolls wring their hands over how this issue will kill him in November...

Christ. I really have to explain why Fox News is bad?

We're not giving this a loudspeaker. Obama answered this crap today. But who wants to keep this going? Hillary supporters.

Those who aid and abet Republicans will find that they will be treated as Republicans.

When the primary is over, MyDD is not going to have any credibility as a Democratic blog.

Yeah, we damn well get it.

It's another way for the right wingers to shout "he's a n***!" without actually saying it.

God damn, you don't think we realize what the hell we're up against?

We're getting kneecapped by Democrats, who are looking more and more like Rove Republicans every day.