Lieberman is officially not a Democrat but an Independent, and even when he was nominally a Democrat, he was actually a Republican. The broader issue however is that in the highly imperfect reality we live in,and for the foreseeable future, if we don't get a Democratic president, we will get a Republican president, nothing in between. I completely agree with all the criticism of the Democrats capitulation. However, this republic can't survive 4 or 8 more years of a Republican in the white house, so unfortunately, for the time being, we need to settle for the lesser of two evils.

I'm struck by the dramatic contrast between presidents Johnson and Bush. Both got us into illegal and catastrophic wars. LBJ, even while still president, was consumed with guilt, couldn't sleep at night and generally had a very difficult time living with his own guilt and shame at what he had caused. GWB by comparison, is incapable of feeling any empathy for the victims of his profound hubris, Americans or Iraqis. He seems completely unmoved by the death and devastation he has caused and apparently, he sleeps like a child, feeling no guilt, shame, remorse or regret. The man is obviously deeply psychotic. Half of the USA voting public has voted for this person, a fact that is should make every single person on this planet extremely scared.

Callousness, lack of empathy, irresponsibility, and reckless disregard for the safety of others: GWB in a nutshell. President Bush routinely exhibits these symptoms. Childhood friends have described how the young George W. Bush would attach firecrackers to frogs and blow them up. Decades later, as Governor of Texas, Bush mocked and ridiculed convicted murderer Karla Fae Tucker's desperate plea for her life. Today, President Bush sends our young people to Iraq to fight an out-of-control war based on lies, ships American workers' jobs overseas, runs up the budget deficit, and wanted to put Social Security into the hands (and pockets) of Wall Street brokers, with apparently no consideration for how this reckless behavior will affect average Americans. He and those closest to him remain safe in their money-padded cocoons, far removed from the reality that their actions create.

Chckenhawk Ladeen claims that Iran had declared war on the US in 1979 when Iranian radical students took US diplomats as hostages. Would Ladeen classify the CIA actions in Iran back in 1953, when it instigated a coup that overthrew the democratically elected PM Mossadegh and installed the despotic and never elected Shah, as a deceleration of war on the sovereign state of Iran? Another question-since selling highly sophisticated weapons to Iran, an enemy state according to Ladeen, is certainly and act of high treason, and since Laden was heavily involved in that treasonous plot, does Ladeen agree that he should be in jail now, serving a life sentence for treason?

There's no doubt that if the Iranian intelligence services managed to instigate a coup in the US, removing GWB from office and installing an unelected American collaborator, he would consider it to be an act of war against the US. This neocon thug sees it as our inherent prerogative to topple foreign regimes at will. When Iranian citizens hear the "creating democracy in the middle east" nonsense by the neocons, they must be shaking their heads when they think back to 1953 and the CIA coup against their own democratically elected leader.

Again, Kerry froze and became totally passive. just like he did back in 04 with the Swiftboaters. Why didn't Kerry use his microphone and requested the cops to leave the kid alone? Why did he concede the 04 elections so quickly, while information on massive voter suppression in Ohio was still coming in? It seems like Kerry has lost all his courage and backbone since coming home from Vietnam. He could have reated immediately to the Swiftboat goons and to the goon cops in Florida and in both cases he was MIA.

It seems like Guiliani has become a militant neocon who believes in permanent imperial wars in order to establish US hegemony around the world, particularly in oil rich regions like the middle east. This, coupled with authoritarian and paranoid Mussolini-like personality is a deadly combination. There's also the obvious-he wants and needs the Jewish vote(and money) and will do and say anything to get it.

Kerry has strange tendencies. As someone who voted for him in 2004, I realize now that his tendency to freeze under pressure disqualifies him from holding high office. I wish now that Howard Dean had been our candidate in 04 instead of Kerry. Give me a someone who screams occasionally over someone who tends to freeze and do nothing under pressure. It seems like Kerry had spent his allotment of courage in Vietnam and in the months of speaking against that war back in 1971. Now he reacts to situations by either becoming totally passive or by giving meaningless and tedious lawyer double speak . True, the kid in Florida was obnoxious and a publicity seeking loudmouth and the cops overly aggressive and incompetent, but a true leader would've defused the situation with a few calm words. Per usual, Kerry just stood their, indecisive, frozen and doing nothing.

George W bush, Donald Rumsfeld and other gang members are frequently invited to speak at US universities . Compared to them, Ahmadinejad is an innocent choir boy. Case closed.