Some here claim Hillary will be "more of the same"...that was the absurd argument Nader supporters gave of Gore vs. Bush...we saw how ridiculous and consequently dangerous that argument was. We have soldiers dying for the difference between Gore and Bush. Hillary or Rudy...more of the same...if you think they would be the same, I have a bridge I can sell you...remember, Hillary kicked Rudy's ass before, and she would do it again. Romney would be destroyed by her...I was just in Mormon country, Salt Lake City. What a scary, bizarre place...

Whining about JFK? Awww, isn't it just so sad that the architecture and length of escalator tire out this poor wimp who wrote this?...poor baby...buck up!

IN TWO WORDS: HELL NO!!!

Vidor sneered:

Why will more people watch The Sopranos? Because nobody but New York tourists has seen any of the plays up for the Tonys, so no one cares.

We love those tourists because they bring in more money to the City than HBO could possibly ever make on their ignorant piece of crap. New Yorkers love Broadway because it celebrates life, rather than celebrating violence and murder, as does The Sopranos and many other godawful shows. Watch your dumb show...we'll be laughing all the way to the bank!

I don't think the theater audience would court the crowd who watch "The Sopranos"...celebrating thuggery isn't exactly the aim of theater crowd...Tony Soprano represents a stereotype that even the actor himself is sick of. It's boring, it's stupid and demeaning to many an Italian American who cannot relate to these mentally deficient lowlifes. TV dwells in such idiotic stereotypes all the time. Will and Grace was the Amos and Andy of gay characters...no, anyone with a brain won't be watching the nitwits on The Sopranos.

Tim Russert's grilling of Richardson was ruthless...granted, it exposed some big chinks in his armor, but still I seriously doubt that Rudy or John McPain would ever get the scrutiny Richardson did...with an excellent resume, Richardson should be batting it out of the ballpark. Sad.

Poor Newt...he can gussy up his far-fringe ideas in serious sounding phrases, but the core of the matter is he is a deeply flawed man, damaged goods...they run him for President and whoever the Dem nominee is would thrash him.

Ah, Bush, the sterling representative of America to the world...love that his idea of American "culture" are football players and other sports figures...honestly, this man is off his rocker.

You go, Glenn...rip the Beltway hacks like Broder and Klein to shreds...Klein lost all respectability with his pathetic "Primary Colors". So many times his columns reflect a removal from reality that is typical of him, Broder, Sally Quinn and all the other mainstream media clowns who ass lick Bush, Rove and all the other crooks in DC. It is the mainstream media pundits who got us into Iraq. Their rah-rah support of Bush's contrived war is as much a condemnation of them as it is Chimpy.

Ms. Zacharek makes the cardinally stupid mistake of assuming Jane Fonda's real life persona is the same as her character in the movie...ah, Stephanie, it's called acting...ever heard of it? I think Ms. Fonda has quite a bit of experience at adopting roles...why do people make the fundamental mistake of assuming a character is the same as the real person?

Tenet, in his infantile defense of his shameful desire to make nice with Bush and Cheney, sold his soul. As Sidney so brilliantly points out here, he has only dug himself deeper into a hole of culpability for not preventing 9/11 and for bringing about the Iraq war. He may be appalled when people say he has blood on his hands, but the facts speak for themselves. His outrageous opportunism he wears as a badge of honor, and for this he should be roundly condemned.

Ever the cipher, it is hard to fathom where Madame Camille is coming from with her often twisted, rarely eloquent blatherings. Although she is surprisingly clear on the war's diastrous consequences, she seems adrift on two points: Karl Rove's culpability in all the political entanglements that have plagued the Bushies and the comparison between the Repub and Dem debates. Ms. Paglia is missing how so many times whenever something tawdry happens in the scandale du jour involving the White House, Karl Rove is somehow involved. Cheney running the Presidency is, true, a major issue. But Karl Rove's doings warrant scrutiny too...ample scrutiny. Subpoena scrutiny. On the debates, it seems Ms. P. was watching some different programs than I was. The Republicans may have been convincing to her on security (and the 28% who still believe in Bush), but to most of us they just spouted fringe notions of safety that had no basis in reality. Especially laughable was how 3 candidates deny the theory of evolution, yet in the next breath discuss the issue of FOSSIL fuels (helloooo!) No, the Dems had their feet firmly planted on Earth in comparison to the kooky lunacy we saw with the Repubs.

Salon, Huffpo, all the major blogs, along with mainstream media outlets keep giving us this crap about electable candidates...it is time to put this nonsense behind us. The American people will have a say in who is electable, not the Beltway punditry, not Hollywood-loving media hounds. We also have to steer clear of the "flavor of the month", i.e., Obama, who is showing his inexperience and lack of finesse as time wears on. I would not want him in charge of the war until it is wound down. I don't think he has the ability to carry out the right decisions.