to give sensitvity training when he's through slapping around a row of teen mothers in a Eurasion sweat shop and gutting a live deer.

targetted stimulus of Clintonomics, which he promised, and giving us this Keynesian blubber fest instead. He thus showered the repubs with political capital at a time when we need every scrap to put in healthcare.

But all the blame doesn't go to the Pres. The democratic base let him do it. They probably didn't remember that major promise, just like they barely noticed the Clintons' successes.

It's the same story. The public are hopeless dingbats lead around by the sleazoid pundits of commercial media. Thanks for the reminder, Robert.

That aside, we could turn it around on healthcare if liberal money would kick in for an ad campaign to counter repub lies. Chances are they won't.

some good legislation, I would expect no less from a man whose family fortune bought him a Senate seat. Big whoop.

Now he's gone, and the three brothers of that generation are gone. It's kind of an end of an era. Beyond that, kissing up to another rich man, and inflating his accomplishments is really too vulgar.

It looked that way in the primary when he only spoke only in canned rhetoric, and the far left went all frothy over cliches too shallow for words. Then instead of giving us a fiscally responsible, Clintonomic stimulus as promised, he put out a Keyensian blubber fest that shifted political capital to the republicans at a time when we need every scrap to put through healthcare. Now we can look forward to more weak rhetoric in front of congress, when he should have come out swinging on healthcare from day one.

But Obama may yet succeed. And he can't be blamed for all of this. The democratic base has been sitting on their lazy butts during this time of great opportunity. They slept through the switch from Clintonomics to Keyensianism, just as they didn't notice the Clintons' huge successes. If ever there were a time to get active, this is it. And fire breathing is the name of the game.

Obama must be successful. He's the first African American President. His success will be a huge moral victory for liberalism. It would roll over the right's racist foundation.

Obama must succeed. He must. So please. Let's all get involved. Please, I beggeth.

Mostly it's all shallow, feel good rhetoric. But David Gregory hinted that Obama's speech writing team is the best around. And they showed it tonight. It was so fine. The logic was impeccable, the cadences were perfect. And his explanation of the public option, as a safety net for people who can't afford private sector insurance, actually convinced me.

Let's not just pray it does some good. Let's get active and push this honey through.

The logic was perfectly ordered. The cadences were sweet. And the politcs were surprisingly well crafted. Public option was defined in a way that wouldn't threaten the insurance companies. Of course, they won't buy that, but maybe a few republican voters will.

I never cared for Obama as a public speaker. The shallow rhetoric totally gets on my nerves. But he knocked it out with this one. His talk for the munchkins a few days ago was also excellent.

The bill sounds great. Those dems have shown they can craft something serious when they want to. And it's a joy to see Obama, someone hugely talented, make it to the top. I get so tire of hacks everywhere.

The healthcare trigger would be spelled out in the law. That's totally different. And this is incrementalism. Once we get the public option, and the public get used to it, we'll be in a position to open it to more and more people.

The far left are so gloom and doom about everything. It totally works my last nerve.

square with crap and no one objects?

For good straight poetry, see Sonnet 4 on my blog. For good queer poetry, see Sea Man, same place.

Just trying to be helpful.

Of course I don't have your experience of moving there at twenty five. I've only hung out there on and off for thirty years starting at seventeen.

If memory serves, that particular crowd are unsure of their masculinity and obsessed with looks, age, and muscles. They have no use for kindness, education, or responsibility, which is why everyone with character lives a thousand miles away. They're not much different than the rest of mainstream gay culture, only a hundred times more shallow about it.

is really a come down for her. Delivering heartless critique of amatuer talent? I just don't see it. She's is too kind hearted for that.

Reading through the bigotry here has been too depressing. And I appreciate your speaking out.

People like smartheart and crisis=government make fun of the defenseless minority by laughing at our weaknesses. That crisis guy is seriously cruel. I think he just makes things up.

It's always surprising how heartless some people are.

who stumped for Nader in 2000. Instead of apologizing or even admitting what he'd done, he spewed in his next book a bunch of nut job rationalizations.

Of course his films are ineffectual. Commercial media doesn't employ anyone who makes serious argument. Moore's work, like everything else in the media, is an opiate to distract the masses.

But maybe I'm biased. I detest the far left elite for what they did in 2000, Vanden Heuvel, Cockburn, Hitchens, etc... I'll never forgive or forget.