Dear Mr. Hicks:

I was with great distress yesterday that I read of Congressman Rodriguez' decision to endorse Hillary Clinton for President in the presidential primary. I want to be perfectly clear here: under normal circumstances, Hillary Clinton would be a viable candidate who could win the election and even be a fine president. I fully support the ability of superdelegates to get behind the candidate of their choice under our Democratic primary system. However, it is now painfully clear that Hillary Clinton cannot mathematically win this race. Barack Obama has an insurmountable lead in delegates, the agreed upon metric to win this contest. He is far ahead in the popular vote, her campaign is deeply in debt. Beyond that, she has used destrutive and non-productive racist rhetoric, not unlike that directed toward Mexican Americans by the Republicans in the previous election cycle.

This is a letter I am writing to CT Superdelegate Ellen Camhi. I tried really hard to make this fair, appeal with reasoning and apply it to the Connecticut situation in particular. I urge each and every one of you to start writing letters to the superdelegates in his/her state. Her is my letter (excuse the bad formatting, I just pasted this):

About less than 2 months ago I was an Edwards supporter. Then he dropped out. I was open to Hillary or Barack. To be honest, some Obama supporters on this site, with their claims they would "vote McCain over Hillary" frankly almost drove me to the Hillary camp. But I listened and learned.

This will be a short diary. I am growing increasingly concerned about MI and FL. I think it is very important to take this weapon from Hillary BEFORE August. Obviously, Michigan is the more complex of the two. Obama was NOT on the ballot there. But perhaps once he is over the top, the can give the votes Hillary earned in MI to her and it won't matter.

Dear Peter,

It’s been a while since you’ve posted here.  Perhaps that is because you feel the reaction here was hostile.  I want to say that, although I have become an Obama supporter, I respect what you do. It is difficult to be an online campaign director and be fighting to defend your candidate, particularly in this current environment. I would not like to have your job nor that of your counterpart on the Obama campaign. For what it is worth, I believe you fervently and genuinely stand behind Hillary and truly believe in her candidacy and that you are truly convinced she would be the best choice for president.

To all who have engaged in creating hateful diaries in the name of his or her candidate, who have been cruel and disrespectful to your fellow progressives who work for positive change in the country while faced with 4 more years of the Republican party which

This should be filed under "Duh" but here goes. I found some of the in-fighting that went on here last night disturbing. The different camps get overly passionate, many nasty things are said. However, last night I say many people actually seriously pondering the concept of not voting for Hillary in the general if she is the primary winner. However
this diary in particular broke my heart: An African-American member of the community stated that her family would be voting Republican over Hillary. Join me below for a discussion of why this is such a poor choice.

So there is a prominent piece over at Huffington Post hereregarding a possible run by Bloomberg saying he is interested in Chuck Hagel as a running mate. The possibility of this concerns me as I feel that Democrats would bleed more votes than Republican, quite possibly resulting in another Republican victory. Join me below

Now, wait, this is not a diary defending Hillary. I continue to be an Edwards supporter and Hillary remains about my fourth or fifth choice to be the candidate. But as I read Kos' recent front page piece re Hillary, I am reminded of one of the credos of this community: we are a reality-based community. Join me below for a discussion.

The closer we get to primary date, the more "I hate" X diaries continue to pop up. At the moment, there are not 1 but 2 recommended diaries taking team Hillary to task for bringing up Barack Obama's drug use, as if one were not enough. [Disclosure: I am an Edwards supporter, will support any Dem primary winner, I did right 1 negative Barack diary on the McClurkin issue because I was very upset about it]. Day by day, the diaries mount referencing the slime of such and such candidate. Join me below for why this is not productive...

I have an idea: there are people in our country who hate African Americans, white supremacists and the like. But they vote. And it would be nice to have their votes. So what if we put together a tour with some white suprematist for candidate X to appeal to a very conservative audience in say, Texas. Oh, and for balance, we'll invite Jessie Jackson on the tour too. Sound good? What, your horrified? Say it is not acceptable? You're absolutely right. Now you see how I feel as a gay man over the entire McClurkin/Obama thing. I have been fuming about it all day. Join me for discussion below

And by Dummies, I mean myself. With growing speculation on his possible run, I have to ask, is this good for us and what will the impact be? Sorry for the short diary but some answers would be appreciated. Follow me below the fold

Well I am flabbergasted at all of this campaigning for front page posters. We've seen compromising videos shown of some of the candidates from 26 years ago. Some of the candidates have been swift-boated, suggesting they are pro-pie. I suggest we cut through the crap now. The following application is to be filled out by all potential front-pagers and to be evaluated by the community. Absolute honesty is expected or at very least a compelling lie. You will be graded for punctuation, grammar and aura. You're elementary school teachers are on stand-by for questioning. GO to the application below..if you dare...

While I was bitterly disappointed about Ned, I was also extremely disappointed that Diane Farrell lost to Shays. It now looks like the rest of our CT house delegation will be Democratic. I want a matched set!

I have been reading a disturbing number of diaries here in which the diarist is already jumping on Nancy Pelosi regarding her perceived statements even before she has taken office.

Instead of giving her the support she needs for the mammoth tasks she faces, some people want to tear her down even before she gets out of the gate. This is not productive. Why? Because perception of the public is everything. We must work to have an enduring movement here, not a flash-in-the-pan moment of gratification.

Well, see, I want to say everybody who wrote those 3,580,000 anti-Kerry diaries was vindicated. Kerry cost us the house and the senate and it was a Republican triumph, all because John Kerry's words were twisted and distorted and had nothing to do with the troops.

But it was worth it to tear down a fellow Democrat so brutally just before an election. Look what he did to us!

Sorry for the short diary but I have a modest proposal to all Kosacks. How about this: For the next day and a half, how about not posting diaries of the type "Poll show bad news for Dem candidate X"...

So in the comments and in the diaries, I am hearing this one point again and again...See it's all just peachy that the Nelsons, Mary Landrieu, Sherrod Brown, Harold Ford etc. voted to allow the president to arrest any of us at any moment, keep us imprisoned and tortured forever with no legal recourse (YES, I understand that in reality this will not happen) because see, when we're in the majority, we won't have all of these bad bills. Excuse me? And the assumption that this disgusting piece of crap will be a guaranteed win for Ford, Brown, Menendez etc. already in very tight races comes from where?