...with children in Iraq voted for Bush? Both times? How many? A plurality? A majority? What do you think, Joan?

Elections have consequences. Bush put their children in harm's way. For his own domestic political gain. Period. They can't blame the Dems for that. I do not feel sorry for these people. If all the people who have family members in Iraq had voted for Kerry in 2004, those family members would probably be home now, or close to it.

More and more, I am, reluctantly, but perforce, trusting the Dems to do the right thing. The right thing means crushing the GOP for a generation. Nothing more, nothing less. I hope that's their goal. Because rolling over for Bush at this point is worth nothing less than that.

The GOP is clearly a menace to our country. They need to be permanently marginalized. If the Dems play their cards right, and keep methodically investigating the Administration, while tying this war as tightly as possible around Bush's neck, the GOP may turn into a regional party, and until they transform utterly, and renounce their fascist right-wing (fascist is *exactly* the correct word, btw), that's where I want them to be. Marginalized. Regional. Powerless on the national scene.

If the Dems can do that, I'll forgive them just about anything.

what the President's rabid supporters in places like LGF make of him when he says things like this. I really wonder. Do they think it's cute? Do they know he's missing a few bricks but don't care? Or do they know something about GW we don't?

I could almost imagine some rural southerner responding like that to some yankee question about the weather, ya know? It's as if Bush is deliberately yanking reporters when he does this...as if to say "I can treat you like an idiot and you don't have the balls to call me on it."

I think it's far more likely that's what's going on, than the Prez is the idiot.

Looking back on the last six years, folks, who is the bigger idiot in the room, the reporters who swallowed this shit, or the guy who was shovelling it?

the Administration and its lackies in the press will continue to lie, and lie and lie.

Yawn. Nothing new there. The problem is, that some plurality of people in the country still believe these crude, brazen lies.

If people quit believing the lies and stood up on their hind legs...but, they're too busy anticipating the Fall TV season..or worrying about their jobs. Their families. The usual problems.

Bushco handled this war about as perfectly as they could have. They *knew,* going in, that the war would have to be completely painless for the public. They learned that much from Vietnam.

So, the "public" has no reason to be upset. No obvious reason. Of course, the damage to our diplomacy, our economy, and our future, not to mention the future of the Middle East, has been incalculable, but the "public" doesn't care about that. The "public" is too stupid and shortsighted to care about that.

There really are times when I wish I lived in another country. This morning, after reading this piece, is one of those times.

Nice work, Glenn. But, dammit, what are we supposed to DO? I call my congress-people. I write letters. I've even gone to a couple of protests.

Without a mass-movement, nothing will change. The corporatists have us by the throat. Just where they want us.

...as several other posters have no doubt pointed out, Time magazine has been a worthless propaganda rag from the day it was first published. A more dreary object example of a right-wing establishment mouthpiece would be hard to find.

Anyone who takes anything Time says with any seriousness is an ignorant yahoo, and I knew this before I was 20, too many years ago. It's always been this way.

It's not even good for wiping your ass. The pages are too smooth... [g]

for a not-at-all-nice show. I give you credit, David, I wouldn't have known where to start.

The mean-spiritedness of the "Golden Idols" defied belief. There are no words for the repugnance of that little schtick.

Did anyone notice that, apparently, Bette Midler can't sing anymore? And she's replacing Celine Dion in Las Vegas? Glad I won't be there to hear it. Yeeeesh.

I think my favorite part was the Sgt. Pepper tribute. Because it showed a number of things: that songwriting ain't what it used to be, it seems. That the Beatles were enormously talented at the very moment they broke up, and that they were FAR better, as a band of musicians, than anyone on stage for Idol last night. Except the Aerosmith guitarist, who would, no doubt, have been wondering what the FUCK he was doing there, except they must have paid him a fortune.

American Idol confirms Barnum about as powerfully as any American entertainment could. Where's my Karajan 1963 Beethoven Symphony cycle? Not made for Americans, but it works for me.

..one thing's for sure. Digital communication has put a real spotlight on the sheer number of loony weirdos here in our United States. Used to be these people couldn't get publicity. Now that's all they get.

I dunno about the rest of you...but don't you find it disturbing that something like 40% of the adult voting population of this country is deeply deluded about a number of extremely important issues? It sure as hell disturbs me.

These guys could elect Pol Pot President and be sure they did the right thing. That's how it disturbs me.

The fact that Bush was re-elected in 2004, after all that was clearly known about him and his people, tells me everything I need to know. This country is FILLED with whack-jobs. Scary.