their lazy as--s instead of speaking to the public.

When Obama takes office, any progressive moves will be halted by media smear campaigns about an old business deal or his 'affection' for the family dog. The public will fall for it like a ton of cabbage.

To counter it, progressives could develop high quality television using the public access channel, as I wrote years ago. But they won't. Many of the progressive elite are Leninists who stumped for Nader. They want systems to fail to give them something to bi-ch about. As for taking constructive action, forget it.

working for foriegn companies and their Reps trying to crush American corporations are just two examples of that hatred. As if more were needed.

The American auto industry was bankrupted by its own stockholders, who also sit on gas company boards, and force management to build oil sucking lemons.

We're just spinning our wheels until Obama takes office. I hope he redoes the bailout, gets control of management, and converts the companies to sustainable manufacturing: green cars, mass transit, clean power generation, etc.

is that false, right wing accussations are BEARING FALSE WITNESS, which is a commandment. It means lying about someone on the public record. And it's much worse that lying about the boyfreind's parachute pants.

Without the integrity of a normal person, the media have made character assasination into an artform, with innuendo, guilt by association, speculation presented as fact, disgusting smears repeated nonstop in order to poison the victim's reputation, etc.

Hopefully we're ready for them.

that both Clintons are adored around the world? Or that she's fought on the right side of the issues for decades? Or that she was part of the most successful administration of our time. Or that she helped create the policy agenda that dems will use for the foreseeable future? Or that, well, let's let it go.

Paglia is a dingbat and it disgraces Salon to put her shallow trash in the public square.

Taxes are the price we pay, etc... Repeat 700,000 times, and maybe you'll reach the level of commercial media's anti tax propaganda.

Lind is off here. We don't need to go back to deficit spending and the borrow and spend, neo conservative agenda.

I would prefer the Clintons' approach: trim government waste and raise taxes slightly on the upper class. But we're in worse trouble now. We should prepare them to take a bigger hit. And get ready for the fierce blowback. But they can afford it. They've made a ton the last 16 years and the country is flush with dough. The only way to get our paws on it, though, is for the public to see the need, and to get behind a mass movement for short term tax reform, translation: require the rich and the corporations to divy up big time.

they'd have been hustled in front of a judge faster than you can say 'cruel and heartless midwestern dingbats are so completely unfair toward gay people especially after all we've done for this backwoods pit and if ya'll would treat us better and maybe throw in a few civil rights we might give you a decent brunch menu, which would be generous on our part.'

They manufactured the evidence to get us into Iraq, to dump mountains of cash on the oil and war industries. Period.

the right and left, the Clinton team had the most spectacular governing record of our time. They looked at the economy and social conditions objectively and generated a set of policies that the party will use to govern for the forseeable future. After 8 years, even their mistakes are obvious.

Obama's positions are very promising, starting with the Clintons' agenda and building on it in this more favorable climate. Fraser doesn't seem interested in policy, and spends his time on vague abstractions and empty labels. Calling Obama a neo liberal is easy, especially when he doesn't back it up with facts. Obama has promised fiscsal responsibility, healthcare, strategic investment, green energy, diplomacy, bipartisanship, and to get rid of free trade, which obviously doesn't work. He's carving an agenda according to present realities, as the Clintons did. And again, the ideologues are flipping out.

is a power mad shrew theme. What a bore.

How about this? The Clintons revolutionized the Party and laid down policy that'll dominate our agenda for the forseeable future. Every Democrat owes them a huge debt, and Hillary and Bill will bring their global popularity to a critical task.

when Hitchens wrote for The Nation that he was a corporate hack hired to confuse every issue with false accusations and misplaced emphasis. You called him on the cherry picking very nicely. The only thing I would have done differently is congratulate him for being able to read minds, and know that Hillary cares only for herself.

But the rest of the news media is a-ok. Please.

I have news for you. The commercial media's number one task is creating selfish and ignorant consumers. They do it by promoting low culture on a planetary scale and excluding educated values from the public square. It works like a charm because Americans are too lazy to open a book, like the Universe white washed and sugar coated, and enjoy having their emotions played like a three dollar banjo.

Wake up and smell the brainwashing.

But you expect us to take the rest of commercial media seriously, probably because they pay your salary. What a laugh.