Hate to break up the flow of this discussion, but do you have any idea what the term "neoconservative" even means?

Actually, I take that question back. I already know the answer...

you say:

"when 60's types have to illuminate to the 19 year olds that they need to become socially conscious. Young people should be lining the streets to be protesting this war and the Industrial Military Complex. Lethargic, fat, and disinterested young people going to seed. Nauseating at many levels..."

And who raised them to be that way? Oh yeah, those very 60's types who piss and whine about it today. Or more likely, their TV sets or nannies, since they were two busy finding themselves, reading each others auras, or maximizing their potentials at their transcendental yoga classes to be bothered with actually raising their children and teaching them any values whatsoever.

You reap what you sow, dude.

Tim, why are you wasting your time with this? As if any candidate is going to admonish his or her supporters at a rally. Certainly you can find SOMETHING of substance to cover, can't you?

I've lived for years in the Northeast, West coast, and deep South at various times in my life, and have observed and experienced the unique bigotries of each of those regions. I can say with confidence that Mississippi and other states of the deep south are still very racist on a person-to-person level, even if the racist laws have been struck down and the racist institutions largely abandoned. It is not at all surprising to me that the final vote would be so polarized along racial lines, even amongst the Dems. I don't think this can be seen as a harbinger of things to come in the general election. This is indicative of a region (maybe other regions I'm not as familiar with, too, but the evidence of previous primaries doesn't really seem to support that), not a trend to be concerned about nationwide. Not after just the one state of MS, anyway.

We're heading for a new dark age, and its going to last for a LONG time.

For president McCain for the next four years.

blunderdog sez:

"That's the problem with not indexing tax rate to cost of living. It has little to do with AMT specifically."

Which is precisely why the Federal Govt. should be lowering taxes to minimal levels to secure our country and provide for our international interactions and agreements, and leaving it to the states and municipalities to bring in the funds and provide the services.

Plus, you get the benefit of a sample size of 50 as opposed to one when analyzing the pros and cons of various strategies for providing for the public good and solving our problems.

A number of letter writers seem not to have read where it said quite clearly that the rumors of a damning Michelle Obama video were produced by the Clinton campaign, not any Republican group. You might want to go back and rework your posts which seem to be predicated on the opposite being true.

This will blow up in their faces. The dems already have a bad rep for being the party of the trial lawyers, who right or wrong are generally held in low esteem in this country (until you need one, heh). Now they want to be seen as the perty that is trying to handicap the election through legal chicanery? It plays right into the Republican's wheelhouse.

Quoting Time is no different than quoting Salon. They are no longer a source of objective journalism or commentary, and are in the bag for Obama, by their own admission. So who cares what Joe Klein has to say about anything? He's a true believer, after all.

And what's with all the crybaby shit on the pro-Obama side of this race, anyway? I can't remember a campaign so brittle and prickly and poised to take offense at frickin' anything their opponents say. There was nothing offensive or "unpresidential" about McCain's comments, unless I guess you really do believe Obama is the Way, the Truth, and the Light.

I mean, latest weighted poll average has Obama leading McCain amongst respondents by a whole 2%. Clearly this election is all over but the balloons and memories!

should have put this in my last post:

http://www.pollster.com/polls/us/08-us-pres-ge-mvo.php

And immediately thought about the chinese people selling pirated dvds of films that have just been released, or even before release, on the streets and subway stations here in NYC. Somewhere there is an ironic, un-PC joke waiting to be unearthed here!

You've got to be a moron to think this has anything to do with McCain's age. This has everything to do with telling the electorate his term in office won't be a 4 year reelection campaign a la Bush, Clinton.

The voters didn't care about Theresa Heinz money when Kerry was running, despite all the teeth gnashing amongst the punditry, and they won't care about McCain's wife's money, either. They'll see all the talk for the mudslinging that it is.

But "Southern Belles" was an entertaining comedy. The first 20 minutes or so had me rolling with its spot on satire of modern small town culture down south.

He's really not that off calling them such. The territory has been whittled some, and the name on the map now says Russia, but the folks tightening their grip on the country over there are the same folks who held it for so long during the Cold War. The days of Perestroika, Gorbachev and Yeltsin are over. This could indeed be the new Soviet Union arising, for all intensive purposes.

As he stands in front of erected greek columns meant to evoke the White House in a stadium of 40,000 people? Really?

Is more executive experience than McCain, Obama, and Biden have COMBINED.