Fundamentalists are able to justify anything if it suits their purposes. To expect them to see the hypocrisy of their behavior or their leaders is tantamount to howling at the moon. Facts are written off as blasphemy and lies; religious ideals are skewed to permit the rankest of behavior. They turn a blind eye and go about praying as if the infidels who write about it are in the wrong! It is mind boggling how they so easily subvert the truth.

Does the Greater Exodus Baptist Church claim tax exempt status? If so, this confluence of so-called Christian conservatives espousing political dogma and backing political figures from the pulpit is patently illegal! It is just another example of right-wingers thumbing their noses at the law and getting away with it.

Kate O'Beirne achieves success by ambushing, dismissing, and cleverly couching her message in mock-honest exclamations which hit the reader up beside the head and shut down his brain. In that respect, she reminds me of Rush Limbaugh.

In this real world, women have to work to make ends meet, not that they particularly want to go out there and slave for some pittance of a wage which is what most are getting. Those professional women who are fortunate enough to have a choice to work part-time are doing what they want to do. But they are not representative of the working woman. Who wants to work, be it man or woman? Wouldn't we all like to do as we please...travel, read, have a hobby? But if we have to work, please pay us equally, please give us opportunities to ascend to higher paying professions, and please, please do not tell me that the apex of life is motherhood and family values and that working is hurting my family. The working woman is taking care of her family!

Half of America voted for Bush and many of these voters were bound to be boomers. Perhaps they dabbled a little too long in the hallucinogenic drugs to exercise good judgment. Every policy these neocons have implemented has blown up in our faces and why the so-called liberal press filled with boomers couldn't see it coming is absolutely unforgivable!

McCain's willingness to speak out against torture, etc. is laudable, and, yes, the press loves him, but he is still miserly and a creature of Republican sentiment about many issues...he has that cold monetary attitude associated with his party. The American people don't really understand the man or his ilk!

Tessa Blake is describing the typical addictive behavior associated with many mind-altering drugs. Cut-off and unhappy without the drug...euphoric and gushy with it.

The media become fashion victims. It is apparent that certain ideas get picked up, repeated, and fused into a fashionable cliche that the public is fed in dose after dose until we unwashed begin to believe the distortions and prejudices. This is the way it is for Al Gore. Certain media people (even so-called liberals)are still painting him as clumsy, unfashionable, vocally unfacile, a prevaricator of sorts and generally inept at attracting crowds through speeches. It is incredible that a man who jumped out there with the truth at the beginning of the Iraq debacle, a man who has fought for the environment and has taken unequivocal stands on numerous hot subjects could be so maligned.

I like him...always did...and have never found him to fit the media painted picture. Not only that, Al Gore received the majority popular vote in 2000. He is easy to like; he is a winner!

In this abstruse article, Manjoo often says "there is no credible evidence" that Blackwell and his crew did this or that; therefore, the election was not stolen. Please! I am not inclined to give these hooligans any benefit of the doubt; therefore that there "may" be no credible evidence does not absolve anybody of anything. Even Manjoo admits that there were long lines in a disproportionate number of blue precincts but he claims that this would not have made up the difference. The fact that the long lines occurred disproportionately should raise anybody's eyebrows. Yes, we may need proof to say that Kerry won the state but the proof already exists that Ohio's entrenched Republicans did not do right by all its voters. Was it incompetence or was there some other factor, perhaps corruptible Democratic poll watchers bought off in key areas or a few fixed voting machines. And who knows how many voters stayed away because of negative voting factors. For the writer to say "no" so emphatically implies that he has made up is mind or has an ax to grind and will not listen to any other point of view, period, end of argument.

It is unfortunate that this writer chooses to attack RFK Jr. when there are so many distortions being perpetrated by the other side on numerous issues that he could address. Why attack our own?

I'm glad to see RFK, Jr. answer Farhad Manjoo in this skillful retort.

Quick reaction: Kennedy, interesting and persuasive; Manjoo, irritating.