"they have three medical personnel for EACH terrorist"

Two standing by with a crash cart, one for checking vitals as the waterboarding proceeds?

"So, if something happened that was so bad in Gitmo, why hasn’t anybody been charged?"

If Al Capone were in charge of law enforcement in Chicago, do you think he would have been charged?

I fundamentally agree with those who say we do indeed need to bring what was done in the last eight years out into the light of day. We need the equivalent of the South African Truth Commission; those who broke laws, violated the Constitution, and departed from what we would hope is the American way need to be shamed publicly, so we don't get fooled again.

A simple DNA test would demonstrate to the world whose baby belongs to whom.

Why would the Governor resist such a test? Why is she so immediately defensive about this matter? What is she hiding? When you smell smoke, isn't there a fire somewhere?

Why is the right-wing media not getting behind this story? Why are those who have been so insistent that there must be something to the BHO birth certificate story not posting daily about the Sarah Palin "whose child is this?" story?

A simple DNA test would clear this up. I say, we must demand such a test in these circumstances. The entire credibility of Ms. Palin is at stake. This woman has run for the second-highest office in the land, and is a distinctly possible candidate for the first-highest office. Don't the American people deserve to know the truth?

Something stinks indeed.

Yet another reason, aside from the fact that the NEA and AFT have long supported Democratic candidates, as to why the GOP hates and fears the spread of education.

Get a college degree, learn how to think, vote against the GOP.

Keep them ignorant, illiterate, and stupid and they'll vote for the GOP.

Kind of says it all, doesn't it?

Hooray for a return to a reality-based administration.

Note that, as the famous French saying goes, "reality has a liberal bias."

So now we should evaluate our actions based on trying to get Republican liars and blowhards to say nice things about us?

Hasn't this been the position of the Dems in the US Congress? And how well has that worked?

Screw 'em, I say. The GOP has shown itself as power-drunk corrupt hypocrites since 1980; screw 'em, who cares what they say or think?

Cheney needs to be prosecuted--note that he didn't object to the fact that he was the most powerful vp in history, just that this hasn't been a failed presidency. So let's take him at his word and prosecute him, for what the last Congress didn't have the guts to impeach him for, high crimes and misdemeanors. War crimes-crimes against humanity, of which he is surely guilty.

Failing having the moral courage to do the right thing (we are Americans, after all), let's put him to a Truth Tribunal. Let's have sit in the dock while his victims testify against him--even if there's no punishment involved.

Oh, and let's tax him down to the lower middle class. We can at least do that.

The Ugly American indeed.

Do conservatives even bother to read the stuff they bloviate about?

"The second generation technology, with the help of some custom-designed semiconductors, assembles the alternator along with required power and control electronics into a 'a single integrated package' that can be plugged into existing car engine designs."

"Either Toyota or Honda has a system like that where the electric is primary and the gas engine shuts off and on on demand. The other brand does just the reverse. We already have that."

Idjit.

And for conservatives, gasoline already costs more than human blood. Look at what they're willing to expend to secure Iraq and a pipeline through Afghanistan...

I voted for Gore in 2000, Kerry in 2004, and Obama every chance I could (twice, for the GOP--once in the primary, once in the general). Didn't like GWB, didn't like his dad. Anybody who doubts that can read all my letters and see for themselves.

But let's be honest with ourselves.

We're dumping on Mr. Bush right now--as we should, his is indeed the worst presidency in history--but we need to check ourselves as we do so. Americans have turned against Bush--now. But how many voted for him in 2000? How many in 2004? How many nodded in bloody agreement (including some members of his cabinet) when he announced that he would go to war with a country that was no threat to us?

Now we can say, "It's Bush's fault." Not ours. Of course not. We're the good Americans, the ones without blood on our hands.

Maybe if there had been a draft (God forbid) we would have seen some real protests in the street. Maybe if the economic debacle--the third great transfer of wealth from the poor and middle-class to the rich in the Bush presidency--had come earlier, we would have spoken against his incompetence, racism, and classism.

But we didn't. Now, when he's going, out the gates of the city, he becomes our scape goat, and we can unload all the sins of the country on him.

We still don't get it. Bush was a tool, of our corporations, our military-industrial complex, our super-rich--and as long as the stock market went up, and no buildings fell, we didn't much care, as a nation, how many Iraqis died or how our allies treated their subject peoples, or what exactly was happening in too-bright rooms in Gitmo.

I hate and despise George W. Bush. He is a fool, a poltroon, a coward, an incompetent, a puppet.

But folks, as he goes, let's be honest with ourselves about who we are and what our country has been, and in too many ways, still is. Let's not simply breathe a sigh of relief that evil has left the land.

All that needs to be said here is that dogs resemble their owners.