Odog, who has already demonstrated his brilliance so often since his recent flowering here, has found out that a DEMOCRAT hacked into the Palin file. Given that democrats comprise a growing majority of Americans, any Bozo could have guessed that, and had a better than coin toss chance of being right. But since this particular scoundrel has a politician for a father, well, boy howdy, that clinches it.

Well, if a Democrat hadn't found a way into Palin's legally questionable, hackable, and designed to cheat Alaska email files, I'd have changed parties.

Although that forecloses, if true, the idea that this isn't another in a long line of Rovian ratfucks, it adds further evidence that Caribou Barbie is such a nincompoop that she left herself vulnerable to the real enemy, which is an opposition party, in a country she envisions as a one-party crony dictatorship, where only lowly citizens and non-Republicans can peek at what supposedly public officials are doing.

The one test of Republicanism, which Cheney learned at Nixon's knee, is NEVER let the enemy see what you're doing, and the Nitwit of the North failed miserably.

The advantage the Republicans have is that their followers, like Odog, are dumber than they are, but sadly, even the Democrats children have not been similarly left behind.

Always in error, but never in doubt.

To the retarded and discredited troll who wishes to change the subject, as do they all...

Of course I hated Obama's FISA vote; as did nearly everyone here.

Sadly, in a two party system such as ours, though, I have no vehicle to contest it, save supporting better Democrats in other races and making sure that the Authoritarian right's domination of the courts is halted. You see, because liberals such as myself have accepted the fact that the opposition are our fellow citizens, and can't be simply jailed, tortured, and eliminated, I have always been forced to accept compromise, even deeply nefarious compromise with the opposition, which due to well-funded misinformation, the targeted defunding of public education, and a consolidated and compromised media, is a permanent and implacable force in the US, and will continue to be.

You are a perfect example. However, given the disastrous and and worsening situation Republican rule has given us, and the plain fact that it will only worsen under McCain, I am emphatically supportive of Democrats, if only as the lesser of two evils.

But all this is fairly irrelevant to the discussion at hand. As many posters before have explained, to no avail, apparently, the Bill of rights was not designed to protect the government (or its aspirants) from the people, but rather the people from the government. Ordinary citizens simply lack the means or motive to marginalize, spy on, imprison, torture, or make war on the people, who are rather prominently mentioned in the preamble to the Constitution. The Revolution wasn't fought because politicians were in grave need of privacy against uppity people. It was fought to protect people against uppity government.

As an American, I find it as bizarre as it is disturbing that ordinary people go crazy defending the "rights" of George Bush or Sarah Palin to "privacy," rights they simply don't have once they've decided that they want to govern a nation of 300 million people, and, basically, squander its treasury, send its citizens into useless and illegal wars, and impose their creepy religious beliefs as they go.

Democracy, as conceived by the founding fathers, was supposed to be a corrective against against such behavior, a concept which seems to escape so many fascist Americans who would plainly like a different arrangement.

If Obama had been using private emails to circumvent public scrutiny of his actions as a Senator, and a hacker had exposed him for it, I would be just as eager to find out why, and I would clearly consider such actions to be disqualifying for the office he is seeking. And, in the unlikely event that a random Republican had the brains to expose him for it, since that party commands the awesome and unaccountable power of the NSA et al, and needn't work so hard to do so, I'd be impressed.

None of that happened, however. Please make a note of it.