And thank you very much. Tonight, Obama's much-quoted "repudiation" of Rev. Wright expresses the hope that he, Senator Obama, will not be judged by what others who support him might say. I think that applies equally to Geraldine Ferraro.

Can't we all just get along? After all, we have a Republican party to defeat in November.

Everyone needs to calm down.

This is SO not a negative ad. It's a positive ad about why people in Pennsylvania should vote for Senator Clinton tomorrow. If this ad is negative against anyone, it's the REPUBLICANS, folks.

And by the way, the glimpse of bin Laden is not nearly as memorable as the footage from Katrina — another disaster that killed lots of Americans and for which the Bush Administration was not prepared.

When will they be held accountable?

I couldn't agree more with the thoughtful letter from thehappychickenwillsmile. It's as if I had written it.

Joan, because of your post on the Moyers-Wright interview I just zipped over to PBS and watched the whole thing. And then I reread your piece. I don't often take the time to do something like that but I really felt as if I needed to see what you'd written about.

I'm amazed that you ignored the fact that in Wright's sermon (not "speech") on Sept. 16, 2001, he said he was quoting an American ambassador, Peck, who told Fox News that Malcolm X was right; America's chickens were coming home to roost. He even commented about how Ambassador Peck, by putting Malcolm X in the context of current events, was making the Fox News people very uncomfortable.

While I admit that I haven't exactly raced over to Fox's archives to see if Peck actually said the things that Wright cited, I'm left wondering why no one in our sorry-ass news media has managed to step up to the plate and point this detail out. I can only come up with two possibilities, neither of them very attractive: That a white man but not a black man can call on that particular Malcolm X quote in the wake of Sept. 11 and not be publicly vilified, or that our press is lazy and/or disinclined to tell the whole story. Or both.

I also think that you should have noted Wright's explanation that he was warning against conflating one's country with one's faith. Watching the sermon, it became clear to me that since a nation that is capable of creating the Declaration and the Constitution is also capable of wiping out Native Americans and imprisoning innocent Japanese-Americans, one should be very careful before indulging in that (Irving Berlin, are you listening?). Life — and our history — is just too complicated.

And alas, so is the "issue" of Jeremiah Wright. You are correct that the conversation we all deserve to have about him will never happen before November — there's not enough time. But meanwhile, I'd have to say that the Jeremiah Wright you saw on PBS and the Jeremiah Wright I saw were not the same man. The Jeremiah Wright I saw has driven me back to the Bible to look stuff up and to think. Let me tell you, that's saying something.

Can we just ignore the pundits and see what the voters of Indiana and North Carolina have to say next week?

...That even our cats have weighed in. Visit:

http://www.mycatsaredemocrats.blogspot.com/

And you can tell him so, at information@huckpac.com.

Every time I think the Republicans can't get any worse, they do. I'VE HAD IT!

I didn't start watching "Countdown" because Keith Olbermann was a fair and balanced journalist. I started watching it because it was the only place on T.V. that I could get news that wasn't a free ad for the Bush Administration. Journalism still has not recovered, but in the wake of Katrina, with Smirky's poll ratings stuck in the high 20s/low 30s, the Supreme Court ruling against him three times now on detainees' rights, and the lies starting to come out (Scott McClellan's book will be just the tip of the iceberg), perhaps the MSM will eventually turn its ship around. Will that happen in my lifetime? Hard to know. In the meantime, I knew enough to turn Keith Olbermann off during the Democratic primaries. I'll watch him selectively from now on. And I can only wait and hope that when Senator Obama is inaugurated in January and the hateful era of Bush is over, maybe journalists will someday once again do work worthy of Murrow, Shirer, Sevareid and Cronkite.

Isn't Senator O'Bama a nice Irish lad from Chicago? Not that it matters, of course....

The Washington press corps has been engaged in a daisy-chain circle-jerk with the White House powers-that-be for seven to eight years. They despised Clinton and went after him for his personal peccadilloes — but have excused Bush on every post-September-11, rights-busting action he's taken. We can't explain any of this. Except, gosh, we think we see a pattern. Clinton adored women and apparently the guys in the WH press office couldn't stand that. But they excuse Bush violating the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions, because they have the hots for him. (See the July issue of Vanity Fair if you doubt us.) We would be tolerant of their homosexual tendencies if only they would be honest about them. But alas, they are not.

We are holding our breath until January 20. Maybe sanity will return then.