Right. A feminist Hillary supporter is going to put her vote behind someone who's against womens' reproductive rights, just because she's carrying around a vagina. Sure.

Hey, v for vote, v for vagina! That must be it!

Pandering, lame, obvious, insulting pick of someone who really does appear to be the female Dan Quayle. The scary thing is that Quayle didn't stop Bush I from being elected. However, it's safe to say that Mike Dukakis was no Barack Obama.

Of course she hasn't thought about Iraq. Loyal Repugnants don't THINK about Iraq. They just line up behind whatever Great White Father Dubya wants and say, "Brilliant!" like they're in a Guinness ad.

In fact, Repugnants aren't encouraged to think at all. That's egghead stuff that libs and John Kerry do. They'd rather look in the eyes of world leaders like Putin and "know their souls" so they can be sure they would never do things like...what? Putin did what? Really? Not that Georgia but the other one? Oh dear...oh dear me... When I looked in his eyes, I didn't see that coming at all...

She's a great VP choice. For Obama.

Some people's obsession with Hillary is no different than the cult of personality that grew around Bush. She can do no wrong, and she's the embodiment of everything that this country needs, blah, blah.

My take on it is this: whatever you think of Obama, whatever you think of Clinton, this country does NOT lose when it has two people of this caliber shaping policy, whichever of them is in the Oval Office. My feeling is that if Hillary can wrestle Bill's ego to the floor and support Obama 110%, then she should be his first Supreme Court nominee when an opening comes up.

Now I have to ask you, disappointed Hillary supporters, what is this election about for you? Is it about making a bitter, Naderesque point, or about getting this country back on the right course? To put it the way I wish Hillary had during her speech, you are all patriots. Every person who so passionately supported Hillary in her historic quest is a patriot, and you should be proud that she got so far. But the best way to honor your patriotism and to serve this country with it is to turn it to supporting Obama, who is the nominee.

True patriots are able to set their personal passions for a candidate or a cause aside to devote themselves to the big picture and do what is right for all. By God, that's what we're supposed to be about as progressives! So, Hillary supporters, what say you?

Bout damned time.

Telecommuting.

I still don't get why this is not the rage in this country. It should be. With so many of us working information-based jobs, and with the high-speed communication and data transfer technologies we have now, there's no reason (other than entrenched executive power structures) that millions of people could not be working at home all or most of the time.

Imagine if 50% of the typical daily workforce--lawyers, administrative assistants, PR flacks, computer programmers, engineers, writers, basically anyone who works primarily with data and ideas and talks to people on the phone--could be taken off the roads on a given day. They could do meetings via Webex or something, spend time with their kids, reduce commuting stress, even walk to the grocery store, by God.

Sure, doctors, nurses, cops, firefighters, teachers--they would still have to drive to work. But getting HALF the workforce off the roads would be huge in terms of reducing emissions, cutting petroleum demand and improving traffic, not to mention the social and family benefits.

So, um, why the HELL aren't we spending billions on it?

Bravo. Truly brilliant.

Where's your damn book deal?

You're right, in a way. The key is to follow Corsi's laughable standards for "reporting": interview biased sources, do questionable research, only corroborate the "facts" that support the thesis with which you went into the book (e.g., Obama is evil) and then when you get called on the carpet, all anyone can say is that you're an incompetent journalist as you drive to the bank to deposit your latest royalty check.

Incompetence isn't a crime (though with the Bush White House, wouldn't it be splendiferous if it was?), so you're covered. There's the method: write a "research profile" of Corsi that cites "sources" who insist he's a nun-raping, meth-tooting pedophile, then say, "Oops!"

According to journalism law, being considered a public figure raises the standard for libel exponentially in the courts. If Corsi were to write a smear book about McCain, Hillary Clinton or Bill Gates, the same would apply. When you're in the public eye, unless a piece is a blatant fabrication clearly written with only malice and harmful effect in mind, a libel case is almost unwinnable.

Guess it's up to the blogosphere and Netizens in general to do a Corsi takedown. Anyone game to do some digging and link him to the McCain campaign? Bet there's a link somewhere.

I just heard Corsi interviewed on NPR. My goodness, our standards for journalism have become loose, haven't they? When I was in school getting my communications degree, your stories needed to have some kind of, er, facts involved to be classified as nonfiction. This book belongs on the fiction shelf, or at least the "political and personal axe grinding" shelf. Corsi's nothing more than a character assassin who's done secondhand research and ginned up what sound like a lot of half-hearted "scoops" about Obama for the purpose of raking in a buttload of cash. Never mind the election; these parasites don't care. It's all about the buck.

What a travesty.