I used to love this pub, but no longer. Those ads fluttering down from "above" that you can't get rid of until they feel like going, are the most irritating visuals since the last photo of George W. Bush.

I'm finding the same problem unsubscribing from this newly untidy site. And with today's announcement of a "News Roundup," well I can get that from AP. Where's Doug when ya need him?

by Maggie Van Ostrand

Following up on a disturbing rumor, I asked the Obama people if the Senator would be asked to pay Hillary's campaign debt and here's their response:

Hillary’s Debt Will NOT Be Paid By Obama for America.

It is not legal to do so.

Coming from a family of people who, without exception, voted Republican since the 1870s, I'll be the first to vote Democratic, provided Obama is the nominee.

Since Obama's speech at the Democratic convention when he spoke the words "...no red states, no blue states, just the United States..." when I felt a thrill of hearing the right stuff, I've followed and supported his career.

By Maggie Van Ostrand

Between the Clinton act itself starring the ex-first family, McAuliffe, Wolfson, and a few babbling blondes, you'd think Hillary still had a shot at the presidency.

If this were a perfect world, the people of West Virginia and Kentucky would read this from the New York Times:

http://www.alternet.org/election08/85095/

By Maggie Van Ostrand

Seldom has the word "thrilled" passed these jaded lips, but from another mad-as-hell-and-I'm-not-gonna-take-it-anymore citizen, I'm thrilled that Barack Obama has withstood the Clintons' kitchen-sink strategy. Hillary threw at Obama everything she and her henchmen could dig up, make up, and throw up. He withstood all of it.

Wright's timing appears designed to hurt Obama, especially the portion of his interview with Moyers where he shouts "...Barack HUSSEIN Obama Barack HUSSEIN Obama Barack HUSSEIN Obama... " Was this worked into his talk under the guise of what's wrong with the media but was actually designed as a damaging sound byte itself?

It was difficult to get through Rove's article, Is Obama Ready for Prime Time, in Thursday's Wall Street Journal because it was so fraught with lies, er, I mean "misspeak." The Clinton Machine, which now includes Rove, the so-called mastermind behind W's campaign, insists she won by double digits: ten per cent ... except she didn't. She won by single digit 9.2 per cent.

"In an interview yesterday, Hillary -- whose connection to President Clinton's 2001 sentence commutations for two members of the Weather Underground has become an issue since she tried to raise questions about Obama's acquaintance with another ex-Weatherman -- told "Inside Edition" that she "didn't know anything about" the 2001 clemency case."

by Maggie Van Ostrand

On this morning's Today Show, Hillary Clinton bragged about winning Philadelphia over Barack Obama by a double digit ten per cent.

Except it wasn't ten per cent, it was 9.4. Close Hillary, but no cigar (no Monica pun intended).

On one of her Indiana stump speeches Wednesday, she boasted "I won the popular vote in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan."

I'm not a fan of Michael Moore's, but I am a fan of his letter, posted TODAY:

Mike's Letter from MichaelMoore.com

Monday, April 21st, 2008
My Vote's for Obama (if I could vote) ...by Michael Moore

Friends,

This is from today's Telegraph, U.K.

Why women shouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton

By Camille Paglia
Last Updated: 12:08pm BST 20/04/2008

Is Hillary Clinton the saviour of feminism? Or its albatross, dragging feminism backwards under a weary weight of old-guard victimology and male-bashing?

Hillary Clinton, disguised as Pope Benedict, arrived at Yankee Stadium in a replica of the Popemobile, to the thunderous applause of 60,000 adoring people.

It was the only way she could get an audience revved up as Obama consistently does.

My name is not Hillary Clinton, so it doesn't matter if I approve this message or not.

Following is taken from New York Magazine online 4/18/08. Link follows these two quoted paragraphs:

The endorsement in question is that of Robert Reich, Bill Clinton's first Secretary of Labor and a friend of both the former president and his wife for four decades. Around 1:00pm EST, Reich informs me, he intends formally to declare his support for Obama on his blog.

Monday 4/14/08 -- Hillary on the news speechifying before AAM, and the audience is booing her. I wonder what this same event will sound like after the Clinton Machine edits the audio.