Wheeee!!  What a great way to reach out to people -- appetizer allegories.

Which would make Iraq the blooming onion, gay marriage the hot wings, and Mitt Romney the seven-layer dip.

As a CA Latino, I struggle with this alleged bigotry on the part of Latinos towards AA. One part of me wants to say 'says who?" and show me the proof. But, to be honest, knowing what I know, I sense that some of this may be true. Sad, but true.

Still, I do agee with the fellow CA observer and that here in CA, Latino voters love Bill Clinton and this could be the basis for any loyalty towards HC. not an anti Obama context. That said, my guess is that given the choice, HC or Obama, older Latinos - like my parents for example - will go for HC over Obama.

dr. dan -- funny! Your lemon juice turned my boiling milk into cottage cheese.

dr. dan -- funny! Your lemon juice turned my boiling milk into cottage cheese.

Holy Mole, Hillary!

Hillary's Allegory Tour 2008!

"We treat these problems as if one is a mullion and one is a transform when...they both go together."

--Hillary Clinton, at a Glaziers' Union barbeque

"We treat these problems as if one is Astroglide and one is a strap-on when...they both go together."

--Hillary Clinton, in a sex shop in Provincetown

"We treat these problems as if one is ribonucleic acid polymerase I and one is the nucleolus when...they both go together."

--Hillary Clinton, at a geneticists' conference in Bethesda

"We treat these problems as if one is beer and one is beer when...they both go together."

--Hillary Clinton, at Chico State University

etc.

"We treat these things as if one is watermelon and one is ribs when...they both go together."

- Hillary Clinton at a Baptist Church in Harlem.

You guys are terrible.  But funny.  But mostly terrible.

"We treat these problems as if one is terrible and one is funny when...they both go together."

--Hillary Clinton, at a meet-up in bcbaird's living room

Funny you should mention that meeting.  When I offered Senator Clinton some tortilla chips with guacamole, she politely refused.  Perhaps salsa would have gone better?

And the other really droll thing Hillary does, when she's speaking in front of a black audience, especially at a church, she puts on her "black" voice.  You know that lilt she learned watching Gone With the Wind.

This voice thing really helps her bond with people because it puts them so at ease.

how about a bit of context, that she mad the comment in a MEXICAN RESTAURANT while they were eating chips and gauc?  My god, it's the little things that really drive home the Hillary-hate on TNR...must make Marty proud.

Michael

I hope you and the folks here at TNR watch Bill Maher's Real Time, the HBO show that has proven itself to be one of the most on point topical shows of the day, and this evening was no exception.

Bill started with his monologue that mercilessly went after Hillary crying, then went on to question the validity of the New Hampshire primary, and its voting machines.  He also said that the Republicans don't want to run against Barack Obama, and that their preferred opponent of choice is Hillary Clinton.

God I love that guy, he's one of the few people who tell it like it is.

When the panel touched on the Iraq war, Bill mentioned how the US government is paying people, insurgents and insurgent leaders, to be our allies.  Fighters who five months ago were killing American troops, are now getting a US government check, as well as money from Saudi Arabia, to be our friends.

This tactic has been one of the basic tenets of colonialism in Africa and the Middle East since time immemorial.  Those who are working with us now will quickly turn upon us once the money runs out, or it's no longer in their best interests to take our money.

The Bush administration only adopted the current military tactics, tactics which we should've been using since 2003, because of the pressure the Republicans were going to face in this election.  They realize that they would have no chance of winning if they are ran on continuing a losing war.  So now we pay our enemies not to attack us, it's a lot like paying off terrorists to leave you alone, once you start down that road there is no end to it.

It's funny how all I hear is BS coming from the right and left these days, and that Bill Maher is one of the few voices the tells the truth, since he is apparently unaffected by the ultra partisan, toe the line drivel almost everyone else seems to be quietly pushing during this election season.

Clinton has now transformed herself into a populist overnight, after her little fear mongering tactics turned out to be such a dismal failure, now she's proposing an economic plan which is little more than a payoff to the American people, much the same as George W. Bush's tax rebate some years ago.  Vote for me and I'll put money in your pocket. The kind of thing that if you did it overtly would get you arrested.  What a despicable tactic, that the establishment is behind all the way.  Hardly better than the worms who constitute the front runners of the completely bought and paid for Republican Party.

We keep going in this direction and soon it won't matter who you vote for, because everyone is working for the machine, it run us now, we don't run it anymore.

As I look at all these things happening in my country, I'm reminded of a line from Forrest Whitaker's depiction of the paranoid dictator Idi Amin Dada, in the movie The Last King of Scotland.

"I am surrounded by traitors!"

The only difference is, I'm not paranoid.

True, Aaron, but you don't drink enough.