God forbid Americans come together during the holidays and put the political knives away for an hour or two!

Jeez, from the outrage, you'd think Bush and Laura was plying the press with fruit baskets and stocking stuffers! What horror! :|

Thy name is Alex Koppelman.

The most malevolent and bloodthirsty force in all of human history is lust for power. No human institution, be it religious, political, educational, or otherwise, is immune to the corruption of humans driven by weakness, desire, envy, and all the other lower impulses. Only when we can distinguish the forceful actor from his implement of choice in achieving and securing power can we protect ourselves from tyranny.

The Obama plan is the Bush/Gates plan, with a meaningless "16 months" guideline to try and distinguish it as something new and fresh.

Hey, sounds good to me.

He's always been a better spokesman and advocate for the people than a leader. I'd love to hear both the Dems and Repubs answer some of his questions!

"We have asked pathetic questions like: Who is Sarah Palin? What is her record? Where does she stand on the issues? And is she is qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?"

Now, if only the MSM would ask these questions about Obama.

"the whole convention stood and -- sort of, in a GOP way -- danced"

My God, since the election season started in earnest, I gotta say the War Room coverage has been cattier than a flock of queers.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

should have put this in my last post:

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

For president McCain for the next four years.

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