This is the electorate so sophisticated that they permitted Bush to steal an election in 2000.

This is an electorate so sophisticated, that a majority believed Sadam Hussien had a part in 9/11, and a sizable minority still believes that.

This is an electorate so sophisticated that they actually elected Bush in 2004, many believing they were re-electing him.

This is an electorate so sophisticated that at times in the past 8 years a majority have supported government torture and the imprisonment of hundreds of people without trial.

This is an electorate so sophisticated that the media attention over a magazine cover will reinforce their notion that the Democratic candidate is a Muslim radical.

"Twenty-first-century Americans are not, for the most part, sexual prudes..."

HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!

- roGER

It's a shame that Biden's moral backbone turns to rubber when he faces the reality of Israeli apartheid and Israel's ongoing illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

But then he knows he'll never lose a vote for having the 'guts' to speak harshly to a flake like Gadhafi, or for having the moral purity to take his sons to Dachau.

It's a very different matter to speak the truth about Palestine.

The moral?

Be brave, outspoken and moral, but not if it endangers your campaign funding and your standing in the media.

Because the stupid fuckwitted Dems think you can win elections by being nice and being positive.

Talking about being born to lose.

Instead they should be going on and on about King Dipshit and his butt buddy John McSame and keep quoting McSame in all his ass-licking glory in praise of the great King Dipshit himself.

But that would be 'taking the low road' and 'engaging in gutter politics.'

Honestly, what is it with the Dems?

The American people gave them the keys to Congress and they turned it into King Dipshit's rubber stamp.

Now the people are desperate to get rid of King Dipshit, but the Dems are being ever so shy and nice and cute that McSame might even end up with the keys to the castle himself.

Sometimes I think Dems enjoy losing, or more charitably, King Dipshit's theft of the election in 2000 has left permanent and very serious psychological scars.

"....most hungry for financial reward..."

Translation = Greedy.

Of course statements like this:

"...that's how these people feel about Israel, it's like their child."

Have absolutely nothing to do with the taboo subject of duel loyalty.

What complete nonsense.

This article is an utter waste of time and money.

I wonder how long Joan will remain editor if she continues to publish inane crap like this.

"The department's size and functions are so large and complex that to undo them is probably both politically and practically impossible."

BULLSHIT!

The sheer size and stupidity of this monument to Bush means it should be dismantled immediately.

An additional incentive; it may be possible to bring charges against some of the political appointees who liked their pork a little too much.

Flush this stinking turd down the toilet.

Hillary and her henchmen and women ran a pretty good campaign; the core problem was Hillary Clinton's repulsive personality.

You assume Joe Lieberman would have been a good VP and (incredibly) a good President.

Given the stinking choice, I'd have picked Palin each time - at least she's on vague terms with the truth and her primary loyalty is to the USA rather than Israel.

Joan,

You haven't got a sense of humour, nor have your staff.

Spike this bilge from now on please.

Argh!

What a bad article.

Joan Walsh and Erin Aubry Kaplan's bottoms need spanking.

It's essential that the Likud retains its influence on those committees.

Any chance of a new writer to cover sports too?

I'm thinking of some of the more popular world sports, like soccer and tennis, that the King could never bring himself to cover...

Two points,

To try and give Klien the benefit of the doubt; surely the image on the day it happened was very powerful and meant one thing, but as the weeks and months and eventually years rolled by the image became another thing and frankly absurd.

In other words, the image is affected by the perspective of time...

Second point - many journalists simply haven't adjusted to the fact we all have a complete and instantly accessible cuttings library now. It means their old evasions and reinterpretations of history are much easier to expose. in turn this means they are being brought down several pegs, and it's only human to dislike that, and perhaps be in denial about it.

I guess being a Senator for New York means she's already got a lot of experience shilling for Isreal.

Now after the shilling she gets to be a real player.

And to think Obama's campagin message was all about 'change.'

Yeah right.

Pity the Palestinians...

It's been a shock and somewhat depressing to see just how much of the beautiful "change" rhetoric was just that - rhetoric.

Which brings us back to one of Glenn's eduring themes - the incompetance of the mainstream media.

It seems that not one journalist thought to ask Mr Obama "how, sir, precisely will you implement this change?"

or

"What are you going to do?"

or

"Who will you choose to help you accomplish this change?"

None the less we should remain cautiously optimistic.

The United States has just suffered a terrible eight years with an overconfident incompetent in charge. It is hard to imagine any intelligent man or women will be as bad as Bush - surely the odds are well against that!