Must read Kick Ass post from Markos (with good excerpts from The Field)

[beachmom]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/17/12417/1285/527/478498

Total smackdown of Hillary and her bloggers. It's about time.

[ginnyinWI]

1. Dkos has been a nice place lately for Progressives.

To any Obama suppoorter who's sick of the partisan bickering here, I recommend a vacation at Daily Kos.

[MBS]

2. I already saw the original piece from the Field, and it

was really great. . Thanks for heads-up on Markos' follow-up on this. Will go take a look now!

[MBS]

3. Actually, Markos was quoting an earlier piece than the one I read

Here's a more recent post from Giordano, and , as I said, it's really great . Title is "Clinton Internet Staffer pushes panic button"
http://ruralvotes.com/thefield/?p=902

[beachmom]

4. I read that one, too, MBS. It is very dispiriting how far Peter Daou has fallen.

I considered him one of the great talents in the blogosphere, yet his talents have been used for a cause anathema to everything he fought for. His heart just isn't in it, and his work has suffered as a result. But he is stuck with her for the duration. Boy did he calculate wrongly when taking that job.

[MBS]

6. yes, I consider it a very sad denouement, for all the reasons you said n/t

[Pirate Smile]

5. I loved it. Here is a good part:

"It is Clinton, with no reasonable chance of victory, who is fomenting civil war in order to overturn the will of the Democratic electorate. As such, as far as I'm concerned, she doesn't deserve "fairness" on this site. All sexist attacks will be dealt with -- those will never be acceptable. But otherwise, Clinton has set an inevitably divisive course and must be dealt with appropriately.

To reiterate, she cannot win without overturning the will of the national Democratic electorate and fomenting civil war, and she doesn't care.

That's why she has earned my enmity and that of so many others. That's why she is bleeding super delegates. That's why she's even bleeding her own caucus delegates (remember, she lost a delegate in Iowa on Saturday). That's why Keith Olbermann finally broke his neutrality. That's why Nancy Pelosi essentially cast her lot with Obama. That's why Democrats outside of the Beltway are hoping for the unifying Obama at the top of the ticket, and not a Clinton so divisive, she is actually working to split her own party.

Meanwhile, Clinton and her shrinking band of paranoid holdouts wail and scream about all those evil people who have "turned" on Clinton and are no longer "honest power brokers" or "respectable voices" or whatnot, wearing blinders to reality, talking about silly little "strikes" when in reality, Clinton is planning a far more drastic, destructive and dehabilitating civil war.

People like me have two choices -- look the other way while Clinton attempts to ignite her civil war, or fight back now, before we cross that dangerous line. Honestly, it wasn't a difficult choice. And it's clear, looking at where the super delegates, most bloggers, and people like Olbermann are lining up, that the mainstream of the progressive movement is making the same choice.

And the more super delegates see what is happening, and what Clinton has in store, the more imperative it is that they line up behind Obama and put an end to it before it's too late."