Mr. Brune: your statement in this article that Ronald Reagan aided the career of the current John s. McCain by appointing his first wife to a job in the White House in 1981 stands the facts on their head. According to the easily-googled, easy-to-research Los Angeles Times artice on this subject that was published a couple months ago, the facts are that the Reagans were both very upset with McCain for what they saw as his abandoning his wife, and President Reagan's hiring of Carol McCain to a White House job was seen by all who knew what was what (and most especially John McCain) as a slap in his face. While he used his former relationship with Reagan to promote his political career, the facts are that he never had any further personal contact with the Reagans, since Nancy never forgave him.

If your facts on this are so egregious, especially when the actual truth is so easy to get hold of, this unfortunately makes everything else in your "expose" suspect. That's the way it works with expose journalism: each of the parts have to be the equal of all the other parts, or none of them are believable.

Had you ever taken Journalism 101, you'd know this. Why are you Generation Y-Bothers such a bunch of illiterate morons? I particularly dislike it when idiots like you claim to be on my side.

As someone who spent 40 hours a week raising money for the campaign and personally raised in excess of $300,000 between June 1 and October 20 when we stopped, I can tell you that Americans just really got pissed off at the Republicans. I would estimate 20% of those I called were Republicans, who were giving money because their party needed to be out of power if it was to survive, as one man put it. Almost everyone said a variation of "I've never given to a political campaign before," "I can't believe I've given this much to a political campaign," etc. We were dealing with "high-dollar donors," i.e., those who could be persuaded to give the max and had donated at least $500 to begin. In my experience of 30 years in electoral politics, these people are traditionally not teachers and small business/home business people, or retired folks or homemakers. The people who gave the max to me were people who had to think about what it would mean to them financially, what they'd have to give up or delay. And they gave as they did because they wanted their country back.

I was never so proud of my fellow citizens as I was talking them into giving us their money.

Now I just hope to hell Obama delivers all the promises those folks believed in, that made them open their checkbooks and pull out their credit cards and make those financial calculations and then "give the max."

That is the single most bullshit statement I have heard in the past 30 years. What is it with "progressives" that they love to keep their heads up their ass and recycle "the truth"??? You'd think they were "conservatives."

Hey, Ubercrombie and Fitch - if the manned space program was so terrible and such a waste of time, how is it you are writing your baloney on a computer like you have? Or did you not ever hear of how the "miniaturization revolution" spurred by the manned space program had "fallout effects"???

There wasn't then and there isn't now a dime spent in "space." It's all spent here. What we need is to get back to something approaching the old program. Of course, the engineering and computer sections would all be staffed with Indians, so maybe we should turn over the planet's space program to a country that still educates people in something more useful than how to get rich pushing pieces of paper around.

But thanks, Uber-bnaby, for demonstrating that being a moron is a bipartisan activity.

From his first appointments, I have been thinking that Obama is doing the wrong thing here with these choices - not just Senators, but the governors too. Not that these people aren't great for the jobs - they are. But they're not the only ones who could do the cabinet jobs equally well (if not better in a couple cases) with someone who isn't in elective office.

I would think Obama would realize that these people can do the country more good staying in the office they're in and continuing to build the kind of record that lets us turn the country blue on a long-term basis. It's at least as important - no! moreso! - to build Democratic power in the legislative branch, maintain it across the country, and do everything we can to put the Republicans down for a long count.

It's almost time to scream "Enough Already!!"

Has a cedar stake been driven through the body? Has it been left in the open for daylight to come?

If there's any news that proves the truth of the statement "the only 'good Republicans' are pushing up daisies," this is it. Paul Weyrich, a "good Republican" at last.

The only difference, policy wise, between Rick Warren and Pat Robertson is Warren doesn't claim to hear from god that hurricanes are god's punishment on anyone. He is your standard-issue Southern Baptist Taliban schmuck, with a shiteating grin and a cute little goatee.

Ever since the election, Obama has been going out of his way to poke liberals and progressives in the eye. We're the ones who supported him when everyone else thought his candidacy was a joke, and in return he sucks up to people who actively worked to defeat him, from Hillary Clinton to Rick Warren.

I think the people who gave the $350,000 I raised for his campaign might want a refund.

Oh, please, Republicans, please please please! Vote for Blackwell! Continue to run yourselves off the cliff and demonstrate what 10 generations of Southern inbreeding can create.

Wow, the rest of my lif spent Republican-free. What a great idea!