I was originally for Edwards - imagine my disappointment, and it doesn't have anything to do with Clinton or Obama. Oh well, moving on...

I think the McCain ads aren't designed so much to sway Clinton supporters to vote for McCain insomuch as they want to keep Clinton voters from wanting to vote at all.

I think it will be the Republican convention that will start people to thinking about whether they really want another four years of the status quo.

I don't know what to make of it.

My mother has been a Republican all of her life (still is) and she can't wait to vote for Obama and Biden.

If my world represents a microcosm of the Democratic convention, this is really a delicate matter. I have one friend who was a big Bill Clinton fan and now he ranks him along side George W. Bush as what is most wrong with American politics - the sense of entitlement. I have another friend (mutual friend of the first) who is a Hillary supporter, although not a PUMA, but also not happy. My 76-year old mother who is a life-long Republican can't wait to vote for Obama and Biden (although she never would have voted for Hillary), and my mother-in-law who is very liberal and was a Hillary supporter who now supports Obama but wasn't happy with Biden. (Both women each belong to a church that actively supports migrant safety issues.) My brother-in-law (my husband's brother) said the other night that he and his girlfriend may not vote (disappointed Hillary supporters), and my husband who used to like Hillary but didn't like Bill, wants them both to go away and maybe take his brother and his brother's girlfriend with them. My youngest brother and his wife both voted for Bush four years ago and, after a very uncomfortable dinner last Christmas where I included protection of the Constitution from the fascists in the prayer and went on a well-lubricated rant, my sister-in-law won't discuss politics with me (I don't blame her), although my niece is now president of the young Democrats club at her high school. My younger brother and his wife (both Southern California conservative) will be visiting this weekend so I guess I'll find out if he still plans to vote for Obama as he said he would last summer, or if he's getting cold feet and in danger of reverting to form even though he told me that he ended up screwing himself over by voting Bush-Cheney. I supported Edwards and switched to Obama.

I have another friend who was a major Hillary supporter (on the gets-her-calls-returned by Hillary level) who raised a lot of money for her campaign, and worked tirelessly until the end. Two weeks ago she hosted a fundraiser for Obama and raised over $100,000 in one event. She'll be doing more.

We can work it out. We have to - this country has never felt so stale.

I agree with Al Lewis, it sounds like James Taylor.

With so many musicians and bands asking the Republicans to stop using their music, I think the McCain response will probably be set to "Cat Scratch Fever".

Chuck Hagel is the maverick, not McCain. I live in Arizona and can tell you first hand that's only hype. He thinks that cutting government pork is the only way to help the economy. It isn't. He also thinks that the military is the answer to every foreign policy question. It isn't. After those two things, he's out of ideas.

Hey Debra, it's okay to admit you're wrong. Really.

The reason Cindy McCain rates lower than pond scum on the vegetation chart is because, in her eulogy to her father she referred to herself as "his only child", while her half sister sat in the front pew looking on.

John and Cindy give me the creeps.

I haven't been this excited since the Rico Suave guy.

About 15 minutes ago on Hardball, Chris Matthews was interviewing three women who described themselves as Hillary supporters who were voting for McCain. The second one launched into a tirade about how she had a report from a former Senate investigator that proved that Obama attended a madrasah as a Muslim.

I haven't really kept up with the PUMA movement except in broadstrokes; is this their complaint? Are most of them this nutty?

Next time pony up enough scratch to bring Robert Plant along, as well. Jimmy Page looked great, but it just didn't come off as well as it could have.

Who wears bandannas these days? I give up. Who?

The current administration has sold our kids future to China while they've enriched themselves and their friends with the war in Iraq, they're desperately pushing to give oil companies everything they want in the way of off-shore drilling before they leave office, companies and corporations continue to go for everything they can get away with and the government bails them out when they fail, and companies and corporations fail because the government (mostly Republicans) fight any kind of oversight or regulation, the gap between rich and poor in this country has continued to widen every year for the last 28 years, we pay a larger percentage of our income for health insurance and receive less than any other developed nation, sending children to college is becoming cost-prohibitive for a growing number of people, this administration has treated the Constitution and Bill of Rights as optional, American kids aren't receiving the kind of education that will keep them competitive with emerging nations, Medicare is going bankrupt, Social Security will be right behind it, and the government keeps raising the issue of privatizing Social Security as if that wouldn't turn out to be a bigger disaster...

Is change scary? Are you f***ing kidding me?