I've encountered this situation many times in my life: I meet somebody I really like, we get along, we start becoming good friends. Then he/she says something racist and I just sigh.

I drop them like a hot potato.

"Where is the media onslaught from the left?"

LOL. What media on the left?

Elephantman, where are you? I need you to give us your enormous list of the liberal media.

LOL.

Sick. Sick. Sick.

With cosy allies like this, who needs enemies?

The Republican stance has always been "less taxes." That, of course, means less taxes for millionaires. The middle and lower classes get to bear the brunt.

W has been more blatant about it than most (I think).

In spite of all that, blue collar workers are still voting Republican. Why is that?

. . .is scary as all get-out. Each in their own ways. Each in the same way.

"We take care of our own.

Accountability? That's for everyone else."

After reading this, I've been humming the Beatles tune all afternoon. And then the absurdity hit me:

"All we are saying is give killing a chance."

"All we are saying is give blowing up civilians a chance."

"All we are saying is give torturing brown men a chance."

"All we are saying is. . .up is down, lies are facts, Republicans are right in all situations no matter what, and Democrats are wrong in all situations no matter what."

WTF????

kicked upstairs.

This administration's little reward for being so loyal. Competent, not so much. But hey, loyalty is everything, right?

. . .anyone who mentioned the word "peace" has been considered a radical by this administration.

So I'm a proud RADICAL old lady!

Facts. Never let them get in the way of a good spin.

. . .of what's to come.

Exactly right!

It's not playing dirty when you're simply pointing out W's hypocricy and his continuing to make his rich buddies richer and the rest of us poorer.

Why don't the dems get that?

Glory be! Won't that make a great campaign slogan?

I mean, a possible presidential candidate can't say outright that he would NOT pardon his former buddy accused of all sorts of nasty things. Doesn't that stink to high heaven, or is it just me?

"If casualties are so far down, why don't you join and go there and serve? Why don't your children? No, I thought so you gutless coward."

Vondo posts an alternate view, and you immediately ask him (her?) to join up and if not, s/he's a gutless coward?

Pulease. Calling people names for having another opinion is what REPUGs do. Are you one?

Just wonderin'. If not, try to make a point without name-calling. It works wonders.

How would you like it if they did "The Lion King" -- mane and all -- and they called it "The Lion Queen"? Sure, it's fiction, it's a cartoon, it's for little kids. But could we maybe TEACH our kids just a tiny bit while we're entertaining them? Hmmm? Otherwise, we'll end up a nation of people who get W as the president, TWICE.

My reasons for not seeing this movie: I'm sick of all the Jerry Seinfeld promos that have been going on for months now. You'd have to pay me a hefty sum of money for me to watch this piece of crap.

DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO.

I'm sorry, but I choked when I first heard about her new "job."

That's right -- let's bomb away, torture, rendition, ad nauseum; then launch a PR campaign saying we're the good guys.

That might work in America, but the rest of the world is smarter.

I'm ashamed of America.

You've seen it spelled "shoe-in" so often because Americans can no longer spell. After awhile, a mistake starts to look right -- see how this Administration uses that little fact all the time.

"Shoo" is a relatively common verb, and I'm surprised you've never heard of it. "Shoo, shoo, get out of here." "Just shoo the dog away." Etc.

It's "shoo-in", not "shoe-in." Nothing to do with shoes.

I know it's supposed to look like the rest of Salon, but I HATE the new War Room format. Hate it.

Put it back the way it was. Change isn't always good. And change for the sake of change just sucks.

. . .when a real expert comments? Someone who's actually there and knows what's happening?

So much for the Republican spin of "we're almost there; it's getting better every day."

I know it's not polite to point out spelling mistakes/typos, but this is the fourth time JUST THIS WEEK that I've seen this:

"shoe-in"

It's "shoo-in," as in: "Shoo-shoo, little bird."

Has nothing to do with shoes or your feet.

Just saying.

. . .she was really nervous (didn't speak English well), and she bumbled a couple of questions. So, being a history buff, she told the guy that she was good at history.

His question in response? "When is Columbus Day?"

Yeah, this is the kind of stuff you need to know to become a citizen.

. . .that the Wolfewitz Cabal approached W while he was still governor of Texas and a presidential candidate.

He seemed to be the only candidate who thought it was a good idea to invade Iraq (imagine that!), and so he got the backing of Wolfewitz et al.

The rest is history. Sept. 11, 2001 was just a handy-dandy excuse. Those terrorists had nothing to do with Iraq, but apparently the Murcan People will believe anything.

Republicans and the right-wing media (which is 90% of the media) love to accuse the rest of us of those things for which they're well known.

Examples:

Calling Liberals "partisan," "arrogant," "mudslingers," when that's EXACTLY what the Repugs are.

And here, calling Obama "intellectually lazy," when that's EXACTLY. . .well, you get the picture.

It just slays me! Anyone else notice that?