The torch relay will follow a six-mile route, beginning at 1 p.m. at McCovey Cove at AT&T Park, following the Embarcadero, past Fisherman's Wharf, and ending at Justin Herman Plaza.

Tibetans and their supporters will hold a rally Tuesday at the United Nations Plaza, at Market Street and Hyde Street near the Civic Center BART, to protest the Olympic torch relay and China's recent crackdown on protesting Tibetans in Lhasa.

Actor Richard Gere and Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu will be at guest speakers at the rally, which begins at 6 p.m.

Is the latest 'Al Gore for president' whisper campaign the last possible option for Hillary to avoid defeat?  

The Fact that Obama has beaten her is clearly destroying her personally.  She’s making wild claims about Bosnia, copycats, and has chosen to indulge in religious McCarthyism.  

But it's not her fault.  She and Bill simply don't lose.  Even when impeached and humiliated, they were not beaten.

Yet, this time they are up against an Obama: A rare mix of intellectual brilliance, rhetorical majesty, and political shrewdness not seen on the American political scene since Ronald Reagan (minus the intellectual brilliance).

I'm sick of the obama people.  What is with you peoples facisation with hillary clinton?  She is a national treasure.  

sure i disagree with her on certian issues (like the war, the role of truth and honesty in the political system etc etc but you sick bastards have given me no choice.

im voting for gravel.   i dont care what you say.  my vote is sacred to me.  its like the child that i never had.  "vote", i love you vote.  you are a cute little thing.  

but when you obamas wake up from all your hopping you'll see that you've turned me into Gravel.  It's your fault. YES you!!! you guys could have won this eleciton if you kissed the edwards peoples ass with a little more endearment

Hillary is pushing this story folks.  It didn't just appear out of mid air.  My guess is she is convinced that Snub-Gate (like NH sniffle gate) will help her scare up sympathy votes.

"You know what Chris, I reached out my hand...and it's still reaching"

Do they think we're stupid?  Where the hell is Howard Dean on this one?  Is he going to just sit there on his butt and let Billary milk the delegitimized Florida contest for their own benefit?  Do these Clintons have any shame?

SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - Stung by her lopsided loss to Barack Obama in South Carolina, Hillary Rodham Clinton is trying to shift her momentum in Florida - even though its Democratic primary won't count for much.

Bill has broken out in a herpes rash.  The former president, now full-time smear politician, is flapping all over Fox News with allegations of voter fraud.  Clinton camp claims to know nothing about last minute robo-call warning Nevadans about the risk of electing Barack "Hussein" Obama to the Presidency.

I will never vote for a Clinton again.

Well our favorite candidate did not enter the race.  Instead he went on to win an Oscar, a Nobel Peace prize, and has remained a wart on George w. Bush's ass about climate change.  We are beginning to witness the once unthinkable: large multinational corporations open to serious talk about climate change and a solution to the non-renewable energy crisis.  

My question is to you out there who were disappointed that Gore did not run (or has not yet announced- for the diehards in the bunch).  Who are you supporting now?  Why?

Here's a chance to persuade your fellow Gorites into your camp before tsunami tuesday.

THE 'HE SPEAKS SO WELL'... RACE-BAIT

Bill and Hillary are not racists.   They are unscrupulous politicians - which means they are experts in exploiting all undercurrents of the American political psyche to their advantage: apparently even racist ones.  In a way that would make Bob Corker blush, they have managed to advance the meme that a scholar who graduated top-of-his-class at Harvard Law and was a professor at one of the most prestigious law schools in the country is nothing but a "naive and inexperienced ...kid".  

That's right; the Senator from Illinois is nothing but another black man in a suit who 'SPEAKS SO WELL' and says a bunch of "pretty things"... "shucking and jiving" to and fro but in the end is just an empty suit.  

with all of her EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS why does hillary need a personality?  

what use is it.  not something that really fits on a resume.  it never was much use for Nixon. His idea of a good time was hoodwinking the gin bottle and shouting profanity at his friends.  Im not suggesting hillary drinks like richard nixon (or that she has friends).  what i am suggesting is that this notion that hillary has to have some kind of "personality" in order to get elected is utter garbage most likely perpetuated by john edwards or the Barack HUSSEIN people.  

...so we have been promised, my friends.  Our Clinton caretakers await your votes.  The Des Moines register has acted this evening by endowing Mrs. Clinton the paper's highest (and perhaps only) honor: an Iowa caucus endorsement...

LOOK OUT IOWA!!  it's a Byrd its a plane, no it's 4 MORE CLINTON YEARS via the Hill-O-Copter (Kerry’s idea last year) and she’s barnstormin' tub thumpin', pig slappin' you good folks from Iowa until the very last hand she can stand to shake.  

What's that you say John?  You don't want Dennis to participate in today's Iowa debate?  Shuffle Mr. Kucinich and the rest of the democratic wing of the democratic party upstairs and into the attic so you and your buddy Hillary can hog the floor to yourselves??  

Kucinich people tend to have a bit more patience than supporters of other candidates.  Certainly, at a minimum they are more understanding than most (at least from this journalist's perspective).  Perhaps they may forgive Edwards because he means well and has sought forgiveness for his misdeeds in the past (see Iraq, no child left behind, for example)

BUT...

David yepsen, Richard Nixon, and Hillary Clinton all share one thing in common, and it's not their make-up artist... CAN YOU SAY FRAUD!!

what do real addicts do when the landlord is about to throw them out on the street?  im not talking about your average addict.  i'm talking about your yalie, wellsely, do and say anything for money power and prestige type of addict. Barack Hussian is even in iowa, new hampsire, and south carolina?    all is not well in hillary land

11.17.07

'debate': a non-combative, uncompeling tangle of giberish punctuated by cat calls, jeers, hooting and howling and premised on the notion it is a moral affront for 'candidates' to disguish themselves (values/positions) from the 'front-runner' (see also: clinton commercial).  

america 2007 is a kinky place. ask that sassy, gentle, SWORD SWINGING SEX FIEND up in seattle.  it is suiting that lost vegas would be the locale for the latest cerebral exchange of rhetoric, I MEAN ISSUES!!!

lost vegas: the city of bright lights and dark alleyways. long a breeding ground for punks, hawkers, tramps, and pimps.  WHO DISTRIBUTED THE TICKETS? someone in fishnet stalkings, i presume.

hmmm...
Diamonds vs. pearls?  dear hillary: you're the only thing shinning up there to me!  

Carvile + Gergan for objective, clear, and insightful post-debate analisis?  cant beat the fair and unbalanceness of it all. like turning to sean hanity for objective analysis of a bush speech? or hiring osama bin laden as chief of the NTSB.  we distort, you decide.

what does the Clinton News Network think??

I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE!! (running straight into the arms of uncle mitt and the brady bunch)

what kind of democrat are you, you snivelling windbag -- always carrying on about 'the politics of hope' and such drivel?  you must support her, and you will, you ungreatful, worthless swine of a "democrat".  

so take your atavistic swill about "principles" and shove them up your poop shoot.  the 60s are over, (sunny is dead and cher has been embalmed at a wax museum in palm springs), and in case you haven't got the memo: this is the brave new world already in progress.  so get with it buster.

after your done with your little bake sales for peace and your childish complaints about the corporate take-over of your existence, get in line and pull that level.

Q: Is the sky blue?

A: well that depends on your definition of blue.  Preconditions must be set.  Envoys must be put in place.  We need to fund a study on what it means to be blue in today's america.  Only I have the sort of experience and forsight to insure that such a determination can be made in respect to such a question.  You can't just go around calling things blue or not blue.  We have to be prudent here and do the necessary leg work.

Are the politics of hope getting under Hillary's skin?  Or maybe its all that money her major rival is raising outside the beltway corporate machine.

Finally the gloves come off and the democratic race heats up.  

but with the latest exchange of blows between Clinton-Obama, which campaign is scoring points with the American voter?

One of the few projects in Iraq that is being completed on schedule and under budget, the $592 million city-within-a-city embassy will house 615 people behind bomb proof walls in a collection of 27 buildings including a pool, gym, "communal" spaces,  and the ever important self-contained water and power supply.  Perhaps the necessity for "communal" spaces is telling of the fact that 'communing' outside the locale of a fortified compound in Iraq would be suicidal.

Indeed, September arrival of the new embassy is welcome news to State Department staff now conducting diplomacy smartly dressed in designer flak jackets and helmets after escalated shelling and mortar attacks in green zone this month.  Perhaps somewhere in their plans embassy architects should remember to include a "large" roof suitable for 'mass airlift'...

After aspiring to the heights of the Sierra Nevada, the North American continent gives up on life.   Heading eastward from highway 395, the road stumbles along an outpost of black mounds before a relentless plunge into the furnace of doom and despair known as Death Valley.  By day, Buzzards browse high on the stale air.  By night, Jack rabbits stare into the stove pipe wind in blurry-eyed paranoia.  

Cars wither on the roadside, unable to make escape.  Radiators melt like swiss cheese on a microwaved turkey sandwich.  How easy is that road which leads downward to hell, and how impossible is that which leads up out of it...