OK, it is incredibly regrettable that the one woman on the street's response was "I don't care" -- but how does one answer the question, "The president wants to cut Indian Health Service. Should it be cut?" If I have a knee-jerk reaction to the terms "cuts" or "Indian," what does my opinion really contribute anyway? I hope if Lindsay were to stop me on the street with such a question, she'd indulge the questions I'd need answered (how is the money currently allocated, what are the prez's objections to its continued funding, what does he want to do with the money instead? to name a few) to be able to give her a real, informed response. I assume, tho, that she would want me to be knee-jerky and stick to the "man on the street" plan rather than turning it into "on-the-street lessons in legislative spending."

So many of these arguments are only looking at convenient halves. Sure, she was cast as Bill Clinton's wife, but didn't she also argue that she had more political experience because of what she was exposed to in the White House as Bill Clinton's wife? I don't begrudge the Clinton supporters their support, but I don't understand why it's not acceptable that I am a woman and didn't like her politics/political posturing. That's all I have to say... I don't think I have it in me to engage with the people (apparently older women??) who now think I'm a terrible, terrible person.

I am officially bored with this topic. It would be really cool to hear about something happening, but I think many salon readers are wearied of all the "someone said something about sexism related to Hilary Clinton" stories.

Believe me, I'm all for gotchas of hypocrisy with Republicans whose views I disagree with. But this isn't really all that gotcha-y. It's entirely plausible that a person can be pro-choice until being forced to make that choice. I also think it's very dangerous to expect every politician to never be allowed to change his or her mind on a given topic. If the allegation is true, Erickson doesn't help his case by denying any of this happened, but that's a separate issue from what I'm concerned about.

(Incidentally, I, too, could do without the videos. It adds no value.)

I learned gymnastics as a kid and competed in gymnastics in high school, but my parents weren't interested in my interests and I was only able to be as good as my natural abilities and during-season coaching allowed. Thus, after reading your article, I feel as though I must humbly apologize and beg your forgiveness that I ever identified myself as a gymnast to anyone who ever asked about my high school years. From this point forward, I will tell them, "I didn't do a damn thing."

But they were all related to skin care products. Otherwise, it's light reading at the laundromat.

Among the 36% who think Palin will win, how many have no access to TV or Internet? If she wins the debate, it will be an upset for the ages, but I am surprised anyone *expects* her to win.

This year, ESPN struck me as being very AL East-centric. Whenever I wanted to watch game highlights, it seemed I was treated to a half-hour of every noteworthy play and endless commentary about Yankees, Red Sox, and Rays, and all other teams were discussed by showing a couple of big hits and the last out. Very very lopsided.

What irritates me about statements like that of Obama and now McClelland is that there are Cubs fans who are not at the game. I, for one, am a fan who can't afford a ticket. There are Cubs fans populating many, many seats at games throughout the country. I don't think we can measure fans' commitment to the team, and whether they care or not, based on who is at the stadium or the neighborhood where the stadium sits. There are too many of us who care very, very much and are hoping like mad that this is, in fact, the Cubs' year.

I don't doubt there was booing, but I thought we were booing the umpire. At least I was... there was TV near my seat, and it looked like a lot of the walks were the result of bunk calls.

And I heard a lot of claps for Dempster when he exited. After all, he only gave up something like three hits... it just so happened that one of them was pretty damn unfortunate.

What, isn't there any magazine called Energy Weekly or Alaska Energy?

Well, since the 'liberal, Washington, elite' media gave her a free pass after the debate -- equating "not embarrassing herself" with "holding her own," and not really making too big a deal that she didn't answer any question that she thought was not worth answering (in other words, questions she had no answer to) -- she feels empowered to sling shit around. Unlike the recent blanket accusation I recently saw that claims that because I am from Chicago, I am a brainwashed liberal Jew (???), I would actually think twice about Obama (not to say I would then ever, in a farfillion years, consider McCain) if someone could give me something real, something that goes against my values and proves that he is lowly. So far, the political machine is batting about as well as Kosuke Fukodome in that regards.

Seriously.

I am truly beginning to believe that the McCain/Palin supporters -- the IOKIYAR types who have no problem with the fact that McCain and Palin are guilty of a lot of the things they are accusing Obama of -- live in an alternate universe. Obama is running the dirtiest campaign in history? Hwah??? Has she met her husband?