Bummer

Wow, way to lay bare the bitterness of growing up as a competitive athlete. It's not going to be easy for me to enjoy watching the rest of the Olympics now.

-- jwj

So right jwj. To Ms. Sey:

Maybe this is why the stereotype of the dumb jock got invented, because you certainly exhibit all the signs of it...

You put down people who make it possible for a pampered snot like you to have pursued your athletic career. How would you be able to participate in your sport if people didn't provide the money for you to make the facilities available for you to practice? Many of them are the fans you so detest.

Your attitude would mean the countless children who get involved in sports, knowing full well that they will never be elite athletes, are doing it for naught.

You most definitely are a "condescending jerk", one that should make you isolated and alone as you so rightly deserve to be...as some say here, you need help, serious help.

Only very ignorant,stupid,racist voters believe this stuff, and they will not vote for Obama anyway. Most of this is racism.

To call into question the premise of Michelle's thesis, which still stands, no matter what Madden or Snopes says, is perfectly legitimate...the fact of the matter is her premise, followed by her attending a church whose ideas very much jibe with the ideas espoused in that thesis, belie any denials on her part that she doesn't believe in a separationist viewpoint of the races. Her behavior at Princeton, well documented by numerous corrobative evidence among interviews with dozens of former classmates, indicates that Ms. Obama tended not to intermingle with white fellow students, certainly something many black students on our nation's campuses do not do, and which certainly was not my experience with African American students on my college's campus, who interacted and engaged with white students and vice versa easily. There is a pattern here of behavior that says more than anything she may claim and anything Obama's supporters may try to claim. As is always the case, Obama's fans toss out the charge of racism when faced with real and firm evidence of problematic behavior on his or Michelle's part. This nonsense must end now. Obama's supporters use the "racism" charge as a cudgel to silence critics...this will not continue.

This is not going to be a game of matching gaffe for gaffe, or tolling a meter to evaluate the degree of seriousness of a gaffe..Biden has a history of spouting off...and that is what matters here.

Almost immediately after the Biden announcement was made, the McCain campaign issued a pre-fab, tiresome and entirely facile criticism that Hillary Clinton was somehow "entitled" to the vice presidential nod owing to the millions of primary votes she'd received...

RichEmery, I thought Mack's rebuttal ads were sheer brilliance...who did John Kerry pick in 2004? The man who garnered the next highest number of votes in the primaries...it happens often in elections...Hillary won many key states that Obama failed to win...in fact, he didn't win very many major states that matter in elections.

Thanks, Joan...as a Hillary backer, and an Obama skeptic, between Michelle's warm and affectionate portrayal of her family and the Obamas' adorable daughters, and then Hillary's slam dunk tonight, a stray Dem has come home...Hillary was wonderful, and she hit all the right notes...now can we end this pursuit of PUMAs and stoking divisiveness amongst the Dems? (Not you, Joan, the mainstream media).

It seems the PUMAs are acting like Republican agent provocateurs...or are they REALLY such?

But for many casual voters, the Bill Clinton and Kerry speeches never existed, since they were not shown on network television, even here in Denver.

That's where you are wrong...the ratings for the cable channels has been higher than the networks, simply because people DID want to see Clinton...Kerry was not interesting at all...

But Bill Clinton - well, I wish he could run again. He was incredible in presentation and message.

Kerry!!! When the hell did he finally show up??

And Biden - a man's man, a woman's man, a people's man... -JCourt

Say what you will about Bill, but he proved once again why he was the only Dem since FDR to serve two terms...the man is a master at presenting an argument...he had to hall hanging on every word...Kerry reminded me of why he was such an awful candidate, as Lieberman was VP...Biden did a beautiful job and his introduction by his son was deeply moving...Biden's comments about his Mother were absolutely beautiful.

I do not share your sentiments about Kerry's speech...it was a crashing bore...and I was deeply disappointed in Al Gore's speech, which was way too rushed, and delivered in a monotonic voice that did not reflect the passion Al had had so many times in recent years.

John Kerry lost me forever as a standard bearer for the party when he gave up so easily in the fight for votes, like Al Gore did. John Kerry lost me when he pretended not to notice a kid getting tazed by cops at a speech he gave. John Kerry lost me when he gamely tried to elude a representative from Amy Goodman's Democracy Now at the convention when he was asked if Barack Obama would be willing to renew Blackwater's contract in April 2009.

Mr. Shapiro, you and all the pundits love to give us this endless line that VPs don't matter on a ticket...Dick Cheney changed all that...we are on to a new era...wake up and put down your Washington insider punditry routine...the rest of the nation neither believes what you are saying or cares.