Americans aren't that smart. The matter isn't helped when the mainstream media consistenly portrays the issue as the Democrats asserting their power and treats Bush's veto of the bill as if it were some deterministic given rather than a decision on his part. And when Bush chides the Democrats for "not giving me a bill I can sign", not one of them responds with the simple answer "the funding is there, it's not our fault that you refuse to sign it."

Liberal media my ass.

Holy crap guys, he's right. Al Gore wants to EXTERMINATE global warming, therefore he's like Hitler! Because global warming is...human beings...I'm sorry, I can't even follow this kind of thinking enough to keep up the sarcasm. Basically, what he's saying is that Al Gore is like Hitler because 1) he has a goal and 2) we don't like him.

Where is all the media outrage about 'civility' and 'appropriateness'? Oh wait, that only happens when someone compares Bush to Hitler.

...it's not going to do anything to change the fact that Israel was founded on colonialism and remains an occupying power and an ethno-religious state. There are some problems that warm, fuzzy, rhetoric just can't solve, and this is one of them. I know many within my friends and family who agree with the central message of efforts like these and yet maintain the most hardline Zionist stance in regards to Israel. Unless the 'we're all human' realization somehow results in Israelis allowing the thousands of humans encamped outside their walls to return to their homes, this is an exercise in futility and distraction.

Kerry was chosen precisely because he was supposed to be more 'electable' - an idiotic concept that reeks of reification. In all the pre-primary polls, Dean was favored over Bush and Kerry barely charted. But the MSM didn't like the fact that Dean got his support from the netroots rather than playing their idiotic little games, so they did a hit job on him by using noise-cancelling mics and playing the 'scream' over and over. And then they proceeded to repeat over and over that he's 'unelectable', disguising this opinion as objective by adding 'some Americans consider...' in front of the sentence. The media doesn't report the news, it creates it.

There's your crash course in the history of the 2004 election. But anyone who equates Kerry with Bush is an utter fool. Really, there wasn't much that was actually BAD about Kerry - his main problem was his lack of a personality and his inability to clearly rebut the ridiculous charges leveled at him (something Dean would have done easily).

I would support Dean in a heartbeat if he ran again. But failing that, Obama seems like a candidate in the same vein.

That was a Joe Pesci moment if ever there was one.

Salon is a MAGAZINE! A MAGAZINE! If you really want to be consistent, you should also go fill up the Slate messageboards with your bitching, as they too have a Spiderman article up. Then perhaps you can write the editors of New York and The New Yorker and the offices of every broadcast station. Also, you should run for office and campaign for anything other than political coverage to be banned from all media. And maybe afterwards, you can bask in the warm glow of your utopia where CNN and C-Span are force-fed to everyone non-stop, 24-7.