Which board of directors are you on? I can tell that you must be very wealthy, and therefor have a stake in continued coporate welfare at the expense of the American public. Do you make 4 or more million a year? Nevermind, you don't have to answer. Being rich garauntees you the privacy rights in the Constitution that the proles are no longer entitled to (or Democratic Governors).

Am I wrong in my assumptions? Because you seem to opposed the classic "far left liberal" ideas of government designed to empower a citizenry as opposed to corporate interests solely, like not getting into foreign entanglements that benefit arms dealers like GE and Boeing, or having a government that actually diverts expenses from war-making to things people can use, like an education, infrastructure and health care. You probably like to lie through your teeth and tell Americans how Social Security is Social Ism (a clever, if entirely inaccurate, word-play inflicted on us by the right), instead of explaining that it was a solvent retirement fund before Reagan and his enablers in Congress started raiding it to pay for illegal shadow wars and long-shot national defense projects (read: RAND cash cow).

I bet you even disagree that instead of literally burning hundreds of billions a year enriching the private Prison complex through the failed Drug-war on the poor and colored folk in this country we should be de-criminalizing all illegal drugs and focusing on prevention and treatment. Because helping an addict isn't as Manly and Righteous as locking him up (added bonus: it gets the Negroes off the streets now that they managed to partially get around Jim Crow).

I understand your frustration! It just seems like a rich, white man can't catch a break these days! I can not imagine the terror you and your peers must feel at the prospect of a President whose name isn't John McCain or some other nom-de-WASP. Of course, we all know this isn't just about race, its about constant war and oppressing the poor, and Obama, regardless of his skin color, hasn't cheered either of these causes on. But fret not, maybe after four years of Obama you can run Condi up the flagpole (too bad Powell is too thoroughly discredited on either side to run -- but, then again, John McCain, amirite??).

"Anything she can do I can do better."

or the Patriot Act. He's at ease, smart and straight forward. Checkmate.

I'm waiting for a counter argument.

Is it Clinton, with everything to lose, or Richardson, with nothing to lose?

Let's go shopping!

Hey.. Jeb Bartlett was a smoker..

I'm sorry, I've been watching her backpedal since the AUMF on just about everything. That is why I can't support her in the primary.

Something of substance from the opposition.

I can say with some degree of certainty that I won't buy this book. It doesn't seem to be written for me, because I already know what the impact of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, Al Franken and yes Dennis Miller has been and continues to be on my political awareness: and it is a strong impact indeed.

When I found myself buying "Assassination Vacation" by Sarah Vowell some years ago, I realized that something quietly profound had happened. Like my intellectually elite lawyer dad, and his intellectually elite school teaching aunt, and my PBS station running uncle, and my Oprah book-club reading mom, I had found a source to feed my idle intellectual curiosities: The Jon Stewart Book Club.

Shortly before this, Jon Stewart had his famous showdown against then CNN pundit Tucker Carlson (most recently fired from MSNBC). And not long after that Keith Olbermann gave his (in modern liberal politics) famous first "Special Comment."

Suddenly, I was no longer alone in the world being an admitted, egg headed, academically inclined intellectual liberal. After years of having been driven underground, finally the liberal intelligencia was starting to take a stand: it's bad to be stupid, it's okay to be well informed.

So, will Colbert, Stewart, Maher, Garrison, Franken, Garafolo and others save America? No. But if people start using their brains again, that's a start.

please look up "partisan" and get back to me..

really? leading off with an obama attack?

she wanted her inevitable bowing out of the primary to upstage the story?

With the exception of Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul, every single candidate for President this election cycle is by any standard independently wealthy.

So, at this point we are left with the choice of:

* The self-made white female lawyer of exceedingly cozy means

* The self-made mixed-race male lawyer of cozy means

* The questionably self-made son of an admiral of cozy (exceedingly?) means

Pick which rich person you want running the country.. or better yet, find something more substantive to cling to.

I'm no Clinton fan, but I know she is rich and it doesn't have an impact on my decision. They are all rich, compared to us.

My point is that not every Salon article is an opportunity to slag your chosen opponent and praise your chosen candidate.

Luckily this abortive attempt at humor failed because attempting to subvert from a position of authority is as intrinsically unfunny as a parent attempting to co-opt youth slang for the purposes of levity. What could be more cringe inducing than your dad telling you to "chill out, awesome dude, it's radical to the max."

Fox needs to stick to the schtick they do best - crude and cruel bullying of the everything they fear or don't understand.

Insert joke about "growth industry" and/or "if I got paid $100k for every time.."

I'm ready for a woman president -- as long as she isn't Hillary Clinton.

Judging from the number of overt, covert and repressed racists I know backing Obama, skin color ain't it either.

Nice try, though.

Maybe its about issues, character and trustworthiness.