You think you're so flipping clever, don't you? You're exactly the kind of 'clever' that's winning votes for McCain - and you're apparently too dumb to know it.

This is what has Kimaya's knickers in such an ugly twist. No wonder he's so damned afraid of Sarah Palin. She just might eat Biden's lunch (and more power to her if she does):

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/palin_on_cspan.php

At least in the (D) column, women's section. Believe it, because it's true. Call it the Max Factor: ever try cramming lipstick back into the tube?

Is this the new definition of 'progressivism' - attacking a woman who stood up for a tasered child and various threatened family members, while rooting for an apparently abusive COP who is being propped up by the aforementioned woman's political enemies? My, my, how things have changed here on the, uh, Lef.

'Left'.

Wonder just how well Obama - who's in the Presidential nominee slot, would have fared under Gibson's rather nasty, patronizing, adverserial, jackhammer approach? Almost certainly not as well as Palin did. Have you bothered to watch the full, unedited interview, in which Palin's answers appear far more substantive? Didn't think so.

You've turned out to be a huge disappointment. Looks like you're more concerned about keeping up the kewl klick kount, than writing anything fair and balanced. Oh, and about that absolutely disgusting Kamiya dominatrix screed? The assumption is that you endorsed it, seeing as how you're in charge here. Unbelievable.

You and your fellow misogynists are exactly why McCain will win, if women have anything to do with it. And oh, do they ever. You, unfortunately, are the face of the Obama campaign, the face of the New Left, and what millions of us are seeing is pretty damned ugly. Ugly enough to vote against.

One of the most offputting aspects of this site is the sheer number of posters who don't seem to have the first clue that we can indeed Lose It All, or most of it, anyway. So very many of you have this utterly adolescent air of economic invincibility, combined with an assumption of innate, generational superiority/virtue. The foregoing is frequently compounded by astounding condescension, and pointless, viper like nastiness of a degree I've rarely witnessed before. If and when the center can no longer hold and things do fall apart, heaven help you: you are some of the least prepared to survive among us. Not to mention among the least attractive candidates for mercy.

A little here, a little there, and pretty soon the frog is boiled.

You got the recipe down perfectly in your wonderful post. Thanks for letting us know that you learned everything we need to know (well, sort of) from Dr. Krugman. I'll definitely be reading his book now.

p.s. It was worth slogging through the preceding slough of virtual vitriol to stumble on your bit of high ground.

...[Obama's] decision to support the telecom immunity bill last summer was a sign that he had acknowledged the power of the gate keepers

Oh, and they threatened to beat him bodily about the head and shoulders if he dared say 'nay'? What's your next excuse for Obama? We can't expect him to get those nice trouser hems soiled, what with all the rarified company in DC?

Obama supported telecom immunity because he was in the telecom industry's deep pockets (among others), and he wanted that desk in the Oval Office real bad, badly enough to sell out at any price.

There, that wasn't at all hard to say.

He's a Democrat who strongly supported Hillary Clinton because of her views on the economy. Cramer was against Bush's uncontrolled spending and against the bailout. It appears Cramer was prescient rather than mad. But don't let that get in your way.

As long as Obama's people are quietly cooperative and encouraging, we can reach our goals, and eventually put our creepy old leaders behind bars.

I simply cannot believe you typed that. So much for the bully pulpit. We'll just hope the bad guys creep off into the night while Obama's "people" whisper quiet, encouraging words to, uh, who exactly? If this is the change you voted for, you're dealing in a hopelessly devalued currency propping up an intellectually bankrupt way of thinking.

This is today's headline:

"New and worse secrecy and immunity claims from the Obama DOJ"

Do your world and Glenn's ever intersect, Joan? Do the two of you even know one another? Glenn's growing outrage, and that of his readers, isn't faux and it isn't right wing. While Obama is busy swanning around Europe, America is going to hell - for real. So yah, Obama is anti-American. Just not in ways you see fit to mention.

C'mon Hate-tex.. Everybody knows which side of the bed you always get up on...nuthin' new there.-- Omar Effendi

Instead of addressing the content of my post about Glenn Greenwald's substantive and alarming update on the Obama DOJ's actions, you choose instead to employ the standard ad hominem attack favored by those with a mindless grudge and without the shred of a decent argument.

BTW, you have all the hallmarks of Klytus by another name.

There. Just corrected your screen name for you.

You've become such an Obama tool, you're in danger of having Craftsman stamped on your buns. Where in all this do you take Obama to task for giving this country's future away to Wall Street and the banksters, at the expense of millions and millions of us out here who are already really, really hurting? The 'tax cut' is b.s window dressing, a foregone flop. Wake up. Forget the Republicans - they're not in power. A "Democrat" is in the White House, remember? Try being like Glenn and do some honest reporting one of these days.