I thought that Americans all wore Canadian flags when they travel.

In airports and in large public places where a potential mugger can disappear into a crowd, definitely.

I'll admit it -- I am ashamed to be an American many times, especially when traveling abroad. While the country may not actually be full of a larder of fat morons, you would be hard pressed as a foreigner not to come to that conclusion watching our news and TV. And especially listening to our morning radio.

So what's the solution? Well, if you meet someone new while abroad, suss them out, and, in hushed tones tell them "you know, I'm an American, right?"

And then try to not behave like a goddamned moron.

And take off the fucking pin, it /is/ ugly.

Really? The police force is gutted, foreclosures are at record levels, the schools are crumbling and unemployment is up and its the fault of the guy that said "hey, maybe we shouldn't be spending all this money on a war for oil?"

Now I remember why I left.

I just donated $100 to Kucinich's congressional campaign.

Cleveland needs you, Dennis. They just don't know it yet.

You can. Stop watching CNN, Fox or MSNBC, and buying Time or Newsweek.

Is the appropriate reaction to what we are doing in Iraq, and what we are not doing in Darfur. Shame is the appropriate reaction to what is going on in our inner cities and our prisons.

Those without shame have no motivation to improve on what is bad and wrong. Shame and pride are the two sides of the same coin. If you are or have ever been proud of America, then you are also ashamed of what it has come to stand for.

That is what I meant.

WES, your candidate voted for a war that has cost 4000 American lives. Will you please shut the fsck up with your gleeful pro-Clintonlican shaedenfreude?

Joe Walsh.

My father, a lawyer, has volunteered since 2004 to be one of the oversight officials in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

Last year for his birthday I sent him a copy of "How Would a Patriot Act?".

We're trying. I'm not an officer of the courts, but Dad is.. I work to educate him, and he works to make sure things are above board. It's an uphill battle, but your tireless efforts to expose the cynical abuses of government and the lapses in journalism are not falling on deaf, ineffectual ears.

Thanks, Glenn.

Oversight of elections in Cuyahoga County, Ohio..

I am a life long Democrat, like my parents, like my Grandparents. For the first time ever, I considered for a brief second voting for McCain over Hillary Clinton.

Everyone from Jon Stewart to Keith Olbermann to Barack Obama himself claim that Clinton is a woman of warmth and good humor.

I do not see it.

I do not doubt she is extremely intelligent and, yes, capable. But capable of what? To me, there is little difference between her and a McCain presidency, and all things being equal, I would rather vote for someone who I know has a sense of humor.

I came to my senses: of course, I will vote for Hillary Clinton over McCain, and there are many many reasons to do so. But I do not like Clinton, in fact, I find her more loathsome than Kerry (who was a stiff intellectual) and Gore (ditto -- although, his post-political career has changed my mind entirely).

Maybe the best thing Clinton could do to win the affection of people like me who have a visceral distaste for her brand of politics would be to quit politics altogether. Perhaps she would do more good than she can as a politician, like her husband before her.

Clinton does and says things that I do not like. She embraces positions I do not support. The though of casting a vote for her fills me with woe.

That is why she is so divisive.

Not a coincident that Clinton is Grey and Obama Red?

I can't help but think of the "eminence gris", but does that make Obama the "eminence rouge"? I'm sure that's not what was intended, rather to paint Clinton is establishment, milquetoast and Obama as exotic, sanguine.

They report, they decide.

That was aces. Stephen Colbert for President!