"I'm Hillary Rodham Clinton, and I Do Not Approve of that Message"

By Sniffles

One of our favorite movies is this British sci-fi flick from the early '60s (left), in which simultaneous H-bomb explosions by the U.S. and U.S.S.R. send Earth spinning off its axis and hurtling toward the sun. As the two superpowers feverishly work to set off new atomic bombs that will send the planet back into its rightful orbit, newspaper typesetters prepare two different headlines: "WORLD SAVED" and "WORLD DOOMED."

We cats have had occasion to think about this as the traditional media — apparently dying for something which with to fill hours of Democratic convention coverage — foam at the mouth about the alleged feud between Senators Clinton and Obama. (Obviously taking their talking points from the McCain campaign's most recent, scurrilous ad.)

But Senator Clinton has just met with an overflow crowd of her supporters in Denver. She repudiated the McCain ad, reiterated her strong endorsement of Senator Obama, and unequivocally urged the crowd to support Obama-Biden in the fall.

Kind of takes the wind out of the McCain sails, we think.

Make no mistake. We supported Senator Clinton in the primaries. But like her, we realize that for a thousand reasons — the Supreme Court being just one of them — the Republicans must not win in November.

Despite all the media hype and the breathless polls, we trust that our fellow Clinton supporters will, in the end, feel the same. A McCain in the White House would definitely be a case of "WORLD DOOMED" — especially when it comes to women's reproductive freedom.