Adults know that a trillion dollar sop to the financial industry who hold us hostage works out to $10,000 for every household in America, on top of the $6,000 per household cost of W and Dick's Big Iraqi Adventure, and a staggering $100,000 per household share of the national debt, so to take the position that spending a minute fraction of that sum on something of value to every American citizen is a profligate extravagance is the height of asinine myopia.

i don't give him credit for appearing to have principles once again, after having no principles failed to work for him. i'm about as sympathetic as the parole board is to the violent serial offender who happened to find Christ and/or Islam the month before his parole hearing.

luckily nobody cares what i think, cynical devil's advocate that i may be, but would obama have stood a chance were he not running against Bush's record in an election two months after the financial chickens all came home to roost? would obama have stood a chance had he run against the "old" Mccain before he got a bad case of New Republican? would he have stood a chance had he run against a white man of privileged background with the exact same policies and platform as he? i can't believe he would have.

still and all, once a barrier gets smashed it won't get put together again, even if the only way to get the American public to take it down was to beat them to a bloody pulp and promise them 8 more years of the same if they failed, until the thought of a wealthy middle aged white man of conservative tendencies being a competent president was unthinkable. hopefully the future will be truly colorblind; hopefully obama will prevail against the republican doings of the past 8 years and the doings which you know they are planning for the next 8 years (gonna make the treatment they gave clinton look like the proverbial fraternity initiation) and give america the rest of the lesson they have just begun.

or else palin will take that 20% of America she considers the real america, and they will go start their own country. sad to see them go, but can't repeat the errors of the civil war again, if they want to secede who are we to stop them.

yeah; all except the ones who died, of course. and i haven't heard them complain about him!

do you not think the next 8 years will consist of one long nonstop rerun of the watergate "investigation" with obama as the subject, until they catch him not picking up after his puppy or something and add him to the list of tragic presidential disgraces, equal to the Bushies?

clinton got a blowjob from a bimbo; mccain made one his candidate for veep

in that you've now had a chance to grow up and make a difference to the world, at least a little bit.

boomers had the chance in the 60s. some didn't take the opportunity and we now look at them in the white house and wonder wtf?

but the majority of americans, the majority of people of any nationality who are given the gifts of education we take for granted; maybe even the majority of any people (although it's a moot point, the third world by definition never gets a chance for anything) apparently will take such an opportunity and do the right thing.

thank god, after 2004 i was really beginning to wonder how we ever survived as a species.

in that the way you construct so many things in life is to put on a layer, then sand most of it off; repeat until you're tired of it.

dismissing/punishing lieberman will get a resounding "i told you so!" from the shmucks who have been feeding the "obama hates jews and/or israel" line. whereas keeping him around will hype the "see, obama is a uniter not a divider!" line. it's early in the obama presidency yet, i suspect going the latter route to set a tone will be more fruitful; if lieberman acts up later on he can be voted off the island, once obama's picture in the public eye is firmed up. at this point, before obama's actually in power, setting images is the most important task.

once upon a time i might have said lieberman had probably learned his lesson, but if he didn't learn it after ct democrats picked lamont, he won't ever.

you'd get the same half the votes the republicans get. hate blacks, hate foreigners hate "liberals", etc.

all the chickens come home to roost and it's all spiralling down to hell

"what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read?"

oh, so now she "reads the same things" I do? really; Mother Jones, Grassroots Motorsports, and the Hartford Courant? I am surprised.

that GM had shut down the Volt project, and Chrysler had shut down their hybrid SUVs?