But I kind of doubt it. Regarding bi-partisanship, I think Obama views it more as a process than a product, while Clinton saw it the other way around. He'd stake out what he considered to be a bi-partisan position on an issue as a starting point and hope all would rally around it, but the republicans would immediately redefine his stance as left-wing, hence the rightward shift over the last 16 years. For Obama, I think bi-partisanship is a process of listening to all sides on an issue, attempting to work with republicans on crafting legislation, but never losing sight of an ultimate progressive goal.

I'm inclined to go with the latter. People talk as if African Americans are as a race somehow homophobic, while my guess would be that they are opposed to "Gay Marriage" in rates similar to any group of White Americans with a matched level of evangelical identity.

...she could be the republican nominee for the next seven elections. I can dream, can't I?

FiveThirtyEight did a nice analysis of exit polls on Prop 8, and concluded that it wasn't the Black and Hispanic turnout that pushed it forward. It was simply the older, conservative, low-information voters that California has its fair share of. It was "white church" money that duped those low-information voters.

...go into our public schools to complain about all the x-mas crap filling the schools, the general response is "get a life - it's just a fun, secular holiday for giving!!" I'm sure many of these are the same people who bemoan the secularization of x-mas. It's classic bait and switch, "don't be afraid of little ol' christmas, a little tree isn't going to hurt you ...

BUT BOW DOWN BEFORE YOUR LORD JESUS!"

but heard Begich on the radio this morning, and he sounded like a bit of a nutter.

What a stand-up guy. He seemed to have been auctioning off the senate appointment to the hightest bidder. He said if no one bid high enough, he would just appoint himself. I'm a state employee in Illinois, and can't wait to see the guy in jail.

... in 16 to 20.

It's always been popular amongst "compassionate" right-wing conservatives. To me it sounds like "we'd all be having gay sex if we didn't exercise a little self-control!" Or, "if the Bible didn't tell me not to, I'd start being gay." Yep, that's how it works.

....but you have to agree that I was the president for the past eight years, and not you, so nyah-nyah-nyah."

Do you need someone to call an ambulance for you or anything?

Omniscient Omnibenevolent Omnipotent

God can be at most any two of those, but not all three. (that is, all knowing, all powerful, but evil; good, all-powerful, but not all-knowing (unable to prevent disasters he doesn't know about); or good and all-knowing, but powerless to change things.

It is a process most analogous to termination from a job for 'cause,' and the burden of proof is quite different. The state is basically trying to fire Blago for years of poor job performance. No employer, public or private, has to follow all the same rules of evidence as a criminal court in order to have enough cause to fire someone. Let the state fire him, and if he feels his termination violated his rights, let him file a lawsuit later. From prison.

As far as I know, Blago can cross-examine witnesses and can call any witness whose testimony won't interfere with his criminal trial. I can imagine no institution's dismissal hearings would be any different. To those wondering why be's doing this, it's clear he's trying to use the impeachment process to derail the criminal trial, get some testimony that will then have to be dismissed from the criminal trail.

already has a nice little place called San Quentin which houses some of the most violent/dangerous people in the country.

Oh course, it happens hundreds of times a day. If you're arrested for a crime that has anything to do with the quality of your work, you'll be out of a job immediately. If a teacher gets arrested for child-porn, do you think they get to keep their job until their trial is over? If a fireman is arrested for arson? A nurse is charged with euthanasia? Employers, in this case the legislature of the state of Illinois, obviously have the right to fire someone for cause without following all the rules of a criminal proceeding or waiting for the outcome of one. The procedures in this impeachment process are far more accomondating to the accused than any normal employee would ever get in a similar situation.

Yet you sprang your speech on the proceedings at a time when you could not be asked any questions (why are you afraid of being asked questions in front of a judge?)...

Yet you refused to participate in the setting up of rules for the impeachment proceedings (couldn't think of any set of rules that would actually benefit you, could you?)...

Yet you refused to cross-examine any of the witnesses presented...

Yet you refused to call any of your own witnesses (and yes, you did have the right to call witnesses, if you could find any, to testify on your behalf)...

So innocent. I voted for you, twice, and may you eventually rot in prison for betraying the public trust.

A typo would be something like "there border" or "thier border." When you write "our border," there is no typo - it's called a Freudian slip, because it reveals much more than you intended.