If there's any way to lose an election, some people will seek it out.

Has this guy ever met Obama? Does he know anything about him at all? He's about as far from this as you can get. Bush, who has no contact with reality, would be a far better candidate. I have it on good authority that after he's out of office, certain fundamentalist sects intend to nominate him for Protestant sainthood.

John Edwards, on the other hand.... You can tell by the way he wears his hair.

I skimmed this article pretty quickly, but ol' Pablo seems to think there'll be only three people on the airplane, as there are in the Toyota Corolla. Most jets carry from about seventy to several hundred people (have to Ask the Pilot about that), so would replace dozens of cars. Wouldn't this affect the calculations substantially? His idea of a "medium-size" engine (1.4-2.1 liters) also seems awfully small, though maybe not for a Corolla.

On the other hand, you don't have to go through TSA if you travel by car -- yet.

There was always a distance in Walker's works, a standing-off superiority. People like her don't relate to others minimally different from themselves, except to judge them.

Which is an apt epitaph for second-wave feminism.

Sorry to reiterate what's already been said and said well, but this impeachment, like Watergate but unlike Clinton, isn't about politics, it's about justice. You know, what this country is supposed to be about. If we let this go, our children will think even worse of us than they're already likely to.

The Democratic leadership is united on this subject like no other, though; there's to be no talk of legal action until after the election. So it takes a maverick like Kucinich (whether he's a laughingstock is personal opinion, but I know a lot people who aren't laughing) to force the subject.

I'm willing to go with the Dems on this, for now, but a groundswell of opinion such as we've seen here this morning may tip the issue next year. I'm not a big Kucinich fan, but he should be praised for keeping the discussion alive, not sneered at by someone who, well, doesn't have the best political vision.

I've been reading the Carpetbagger a lot more, too, along with the Salon parody site.

after this trouncing, I'd be careful who I called a "laughingstock."

I liked it anyway. But I left when I was seven.

I think the enthusiastic support Obama's received in Iowa, which went for Bush in '04, more than makes up for Oklahoma, which will go for McCain anyway.

Why are you making so much of this? Political schadenfreude? Loser's remorse?

He says "It may not be Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses to the church door, but it's about the closest we're going to get."

"Laughingstock?" I don't think he's laughing, and he's a lot sharper than anyone left at Salon.

Wotta dork. Not Abrams.

But does she ever look in a mirror?

The self-righteousness here is pretty nauseating.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Nice letters, otherwise.

or maybe Heather Havrilesky. Joan, don't you read what's on your own site?

If the pouting Hillaristas (who now have their own acronym, PUMA -- "People United, My Ass") destroy Olbermann and MSNBC because their interest bloc isn't fully served to their liking, it will be one more blow to a journalistic community that barely serves the idea of a healthy country. If they do it to the Democratic Party, they risk destroying the country completely. You call this supporting your own interests? It's more like the megadecibel pouting of a gaggle of sensitive sluts, which, by the way, was the subject of your lead article this Father's Day Sunday. I'm not going to bother describing your tribute to fatherhood. Let's just say Obama did it better.

Granted, Griffin is a fool. If you know anything about TV, you know it's overpopulated with them. Give Olbermann credit for ignoring him and going with his inner voice. Did you really want to see Hillary's campaign of electioneering through self-entitlement taken nationally? She would have made Kerry and Gore (both of whose campaigns suffered from heavy influence by the Clinton camp) look vibrant.

But you lost it, thank God, and now you're losing it over losing it. Frank Rich's NYT column today quoted heavily from Amy Sullivan of Time, who said Clinton lost because she failed to appeal to women -- apparently the only women she carried were those in Salon's most desired demographic, suburban feminists from the 70s.

What did Colbert say? "Dear Hilliary, don't stop until all is ashes and death." Hillary has stopped. Your turn.

I would never have used a phrase so coarse as "sensitive slut" if Salon hadn't proclaimed this "the summer of the sensitive slut," on Father's Day, yet. Where I live, it's more the summer of the sandbag. Nothing sensitive about that.

Besides, I ignored you first. One of us can take it.

"eric you mention the overpriced white aging suburbanettes who seem to form hillary's devoted followers. there are enough of them (18 million!) to form an online magazine. will walsh cater to that subdemographic? "

She already has. It's the one we used to enjoy. It began to vanish about two years ago.

I think John Edwards also did a pretty good job of running against the policies of the last twenty years. And Howard Dean started it all four years before. It's he we have to thank for the shape of the party today, both in strength and policy direction, and the relative helplessness of establishment pols like Ed Kilgore.

There are so many attractive VP candidates the Clintons, either or both, look redundant in comparison. One who's gotten a lot of attention around here is Wesley Clark, a former Clinton supporter who supplies a requisite white male/strong on defense image and is still pretty bright. A favorite of mine is Claire McCaskell of Missouri, but there are many others.