Making things up? Do you dismiss 'death panels' because you haven't read Zeke Emmanuel's article, or because it's just more convenient to ignore?

What MSNBC opinionator has ever been fired? There was far more Bush-hatred on MSNBC, than Obama has ever experienced on Fox.

Sheesh!

I would not extend credibility to anyone (White House representatives or posters here) who attacks Fox as shrill &/or partisan, but doesn't bother to address the similar tone emanating from MSNBC.

The date on the contract was 1963. And lakeview is right, Dallas overhangs the plot like a shroud.

Glad the former CIA heads have the courage and the integrity to speak up on behalf of the Agency and its staff. Perhaps future attacks on the US will thereby be able to be prevented!

Why would you describe Obama as a black president? His mother was white, and she's the one who raised him, and taught him his foundational values. His poltical priorities are not those of the black community.

It is white liberals and independents that carried him in all of the rural and caucus states, and they are the ones who are now disappointed in his policies. It is racist for this article to blame Obama's policies on his identification with the black community.

The state is the ultimate coercive institution. It has played an oppressive role throughout history, and across countless cultures. It makes no sense to grant it power over the life and death of its citizens.

Sorry that you find complaints about genocidal attitudes annoying.

The demonization spewed by this article, and by many responses, is pre-genocidal, and that's where we seem to be heading. Just because we need broader health services doesn't mean that the state is the right agency to provide them. But, by all means, depict those with whom you disagree as selfish, and then use that as a rationale to kill them off. And you are an example of exactly what kind of 'morality'?

I disagree with CP on a variety of issues, but I greatly appreciate that she is an independent thinker who can express ideas rather than cant. If Salon keeps her column only for clicks, I'm happy to provide a few.

"And before I'd be a slave

I'd be buried in my grave

And go home to my Lord

And be free"

Slip-sliding away

Slip-sliding a..a..way

You know, the nearer your destination,

The more you're slip-sliding away

Turns out that trying to demonize the American people wasn't the best strategy. The DNC is capable of learning from their mistakes. That's encouraging. Hope their representatives in Congress and in the WH follow their example.

From a longer term view, the sixties radicals have ruined the Democratic Party. They've made it the vehicle for absolutist policies that nearly derailed even a pragmatist like Bill Clinton. A Blue Dog takeover of the party is the only way to prevent it from running off the rails again.

In case you haven't seen (heard) it, I want to share a verse from Dylan's song License to Kill (album: Infidels):

Now, they take him and they teach him and they groom him for life

And they set him on a path where he's bound to get ill,

Then they bury him with stars,

Sell his body like they do used cars.

--- chorus ---

Now, there's a woman on my block,

She just sit there facin' the hill.

She say who gonna take away his license to kill?

As much as I would like to, I find it hard to share your optimism. The UN stood by in Rwanda in the face of atrocities of the worst kind. There have also been several incidents of UN peacekeepers systematically raping the women they were supposed to protect.

Whatever progress the species has made looks very tentative to me. The needed transformation looks less (and less) like evolution, and more (and more) like a miracle.

Good thing I believe in the possibility of miracles.

Of course, you are right. But it appears to be easier said than done.

The self-righteousness quotient in these letters is very high. And those expressing hate for all humans, and blaming everyone equally, are the most self-righteous of all. When they finally get the opportunity take it, I hope I do not have to witness their revenge.

Koppelman speechless is a good thing. Humorless ideologues shutting up and going away would also be a good thing. I suppose that's too much to hope for?

Mark Kirk can kiss the Senate good-bye. I would have supported him enthusiastically. Now, win or lose, my energy and money will go to a conservative.

Oh, right. The franchise is so valuable in countries where opposition is suppressed. Thanks for your fulsome appreciation of women's rights!

Are there economic laws or are there not? The Obummer administration doesn't think so, so they blithely spend without constraint. In the first three months, they generate the largest previous deficit times four. A tsunami of inflation to follow.

The 2010 and 2012 elections won't be fun for Pelosi and Obummer, respectively, but it won't have anything to do with European election trends ...

Interesting that Horowitz is more open-minded about Obama than many letter writers are about him. Demonization is always counterproductive, no matter which direction it is aimed. But sometimes it takes awhile to see that pattern.

Thanks for the clarification, but I know what the word means. I just didn't understand the kind of person you are. I normally avoid communicating with people for whom being crude is regarded as a clever argument.

Very classy. Thanks for clarifying with whom I was inadvertantly communicating.

BTW, you seem to have a bad case of logical dyslexia. You get everything bass-ackword.

Are you sure this isn't just your own opinion, coupled with the fact that you don't respect the views of those who disagree with you?