Obama has a streak of payback petulance, doesn't he?

It's showing.

That's overly optimistic. There's obviously a reason that questions have been shut down.

Why? We'll have to wait to find out that answer.

are being raised, so the "hands-off" attitude of the entire election is clearly over.

And Obama clearly didn't adjust fast enough.

However, there's nothing to uncover here.

What's hilarious is that the public thinks it's perfectly suitable that someone with zero experience in working with voters has the right stuff to be a senator.

It rather explains those "lower than even Bush" ratings congress is getting, huh?

In short, the polls are saying, "Anyone could do it."

While Caroline announces she's ready to be handed the seat, the other Caroline actually works in government, has actually won real campaigns, and actually has earned the right to be considered.

I think the entire story says it all about why Washington is a joke and has such low approval ratings.

No experience needed.

disapproval by Americans for this bailout is what you need to look at.

Also, I'd notice that BofA which isn't union is laying off 35,000.

Give me a break.

Mbote......I agree.

We are comfortable talking about how mental illness infects our inner cities. They live in boxes. They beg for money.

We're not quite so facile as to understand that they also are the ones who file nuisance lawsuits, who create blogs that examine on-line images for evidence, etc., and who hang onto a thread of sanity by saying over and over, "where there's smoke there's fire," even though the fire was started by them.

Sad? I'm not sure I buy that one. I haven't met too many authentically insane people who are all that sad. Depression is a particular disease, and those folks generally are too, well, depressed to get into these discussions.

What I do buy is bi-polar/schizorphenic/paranoid, and I'm so not a professional....they are lumped together in terms of what I personally encounter.

But, whatever my label may be?

The real issue is that these people are irrational.

It doesn't matter why.

Lest, Obama produced. It has sent the neurotics into orbit, who have now decided they know better than the officials of Hawaii, Factcheck.Org, etc.

No document is going to convince the neurotics.

but Obama did not.

As for your question about how "these" nuts exist? Stinky types live for this.

I recognize the thrill of conspiracy theories is attention.

These are people who love negative attention. Why? They really don't know how to get positive attention, and any attention is better than none.

The story will die now, I'm sure, but those of you proclaiming that a lawsuit challenging the validity of Obama's birthplace that makes it to the Supreme Court should be ignored crack me up!

If that ain't news, I don't know what is!

of this ridiculous net story that grew "legs" is that people should understand now the danger of believing every blog story that suits their political perspective. This story was NEVER legitimate. Reading the blogs regarding the B/C was embarassing. 90% relied upon the rationale, "If Obama won't address this, then that proves he's hiding something."

Rev. Manning is clearly a sick man. One aspect of the election that was disturbing was that people who did not support Obama actually convinced themselves otherwise. It is one thing to make odd bedfellows in an election year, but to promote someone with a clear mental problem was alarming.

The news conference sounded about like the one with Sinclair, who is still promoting the story about Obama being involved in a sex and drug scandal.

The ridiculous remarks about being similar to the rise of Hitler is what I saw on blogs that finally have banished anyone who is NOT irrational. That's the tone of 90% of the remarks. Anyone who can't "get" that this is facism is deemed to have a problem.

Perhaps a long-term benefit may be that we recognize that many of our citizens have mental illnesses that probably are going unaddressed. A good healthcare plan is needed.

Good. I'm ready to see a dismantling of many monopolies, particularly in the news industry.

Now, quality is always quality.

And that is NOT necessary becoming the best at the latest details which bore the most dedicated reader.

And it certainly isn't writing one more piece of Palin's wardrobe.

The cream will rise to the top.

is about like the warmth you feel when you pee on yourself on a windy night.

In short, it feels good momentarily, but......

True good-will is pretty boring and simple stuff. It's returning the shopping cart to a proper location, allowing the guy with his blinker on to actually merge into your lane, letting someone know when you sincerely like their sweater.

Small stuff that so many people simply have no time for these days is the actual spirit behind that slogan, Random Acts of Kindness.

It takes a kind of centered person to notice when an opportunity arises.

And it takes a good soul to follow through.

Anon...there's no playbook. This is just a nuisance lawsuit and one of the results of blog-world. I noticed long ago that it was people pretending to research. Nevermind that their "research" turned up virtually nothing.

Some people suffer, truly, from OCD. This is the work of their minds.

a fool, yet again.

Aren't you a perfect example of what the author is saying!

I just love it.

I posted and others did, too, the governor of Hawaii's statement.

But now, your conspiracy has expanded. All these news sources have decided to lie.

*hooting*

The conspiracy grows and grows.

Not at all. This is just a group think kind of problem.

It affects all walks of life.