To the person who protested Pennsylvania being called a swing state--I live in PA too, specifically the Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia. From where I sit, yes, it's hard to believe McCain could win PA. Then, it's even harder to believe that Rick Santorum represented the state in the Senate less than two years ago.

I get an incredibly wistful feeling thinking about the very concept of being nostalgic for the Bush era--living in a time when W is safely in the past (even if the incredible damage he's done to this country or the world can't be completely undone in my lifetime) like an almost-forgotten really bad case of indigestion. Soooomewheeere ooooover the rainboooowww.....soooomewheeeerre................

Sorry.

Apparently people aren't getting it:

Attacking W.'s bail-outs isn't an attack on capitalism. It's an attack on W.'s peculiar form of socialism.

Yes, W. is a socialist! He believes in big, generous safety nets! He believes in helping out people when they get into bad financial straits! He's full of compassion! He'd never think of talking about "responsibility" or anything like that to someone who's going through a rough patch!

The only trouble is that his socialism and compassion are only for the wealthy and powerful.

I find it, more than anything, badly done--it doesn't look like she's having sex, boring or otherwise. It looks like she's on one of those Urban Cowboy bronco things on its lowest setting.

Sure, Glenn, the Democrats should take the same hard ideological stance Newt Gingrich and Bush/Rove did after the '94 and '2004 Republican takeovers, using terms like "revolution" and talking about a "permanent majority." It sure worked for the Republicans.

An empty corporate suit on the ticket with the "straight talking" "maverick."

Wow...I used to say that people voted for Republicans because they could at least take a solid stand, even if it was for all the wrong things. So much for that, with these guys the GOP's making the Democrats look like they've got spines....

The most absurd and offensive thing is that conservatives like Limbaugh continue holding up the mantle of "morality" while they push the virtues of unparallelled greed and avarice, and complete disregard for the wellbeing of others.

Actually, what's really absurd and offensive is that liberals and democrats have let them get away with it for so long.

Normally not only wouldn't I watch the opening ceremony, I wouldn't read about it either. And yet, since it was leaked, I'm interested. I don't believe for a second that this wasn't intentional.

Then, I really don't care, either.

You've gotta be arrogant to seriously want to be president of the United States.

In this case, however, the Republicans are simply updating their old Southern Strategy by using "arrogant" and "elitist" as code words for "uppity."

One of the most crass racist political attacks I've ever heard of was the one made on McCain's daughter in South Carolina in 2000. And now McCain's go the people who made it working for him. This is a man with no integrity and no soul.

Gotta say it seems a bit counter-productive to tell them that. I mean, if this were a company that didn't do so much to prevent employees from unionizing--and didn't expect them to work after they've punched out--it might make sense to scare employees with the threat of being forced to unionize. As it is, I'd think they're probably unwittingly drumming up support for the Dems.

"For many of the journalists who regard John McCain as an unusually honorable politician, listening to his increasingly dishonorable campaign rhetoric is a painful and puzzling experience. They are openly wondering what has driven him to denigrate and even smear Barack Obama in a style more reminiscent of McCain's old enemies in his own party than the straight-talking maverick."

Yes, and it probably hurt to be told there was no Easter Bunny, too. Disillusionment can be painful but it's necessary when someone holds a ridiculous believe that never has been and never will be true. And Joe Conason should be ashamed of himself for using "straight talking maverick" without putting it in quotes, perpetuating the myth that McCain was ever anything other than a right wing con man.

I'd say the real celebration and mark of Rush's success happened this past weekend at the Unitarian Church in Knoxville. Rush should be so proud that someone finally took him seriously about those liberals!

When has McCain ever been sincere about anything?

What is wrong with the commentators at Salon that you keep playing this idiotic "disappointed with McCain because we really believed he was a straight talking maverick" game?

What do you do when a "friend" who has no respect for your feelings or values starts making all kinds of demands of you?

Is that really so hard to answer?

I'd change that to "a few of Clinton's die-hard supporters and a whole bunch of die-hard McCain supporters pretending to be Clinton's die-hard supporters."

New presidents as a rule want to move forward rather than battling the previous administration. Eight years ago, the Republicans were saying they were going to keep pursuing Bill Clinton once he was out of office. As right-wing-from-the-get-go as the Bush administration has been, that simply didn't happen. Of course, the Bush administration's crimes are far greater, but I suspect Obama suspects, correctly, that going after Bush et al would consume far too much attention from the media, overshadowing everything else. So, much as I'd love to see President Obama with a solid 60 Democratic seats in the Senate ("solid" meaning Lieberman doesn't count) sending Bush, Cheney and the rest of that criminal gang to spend the rest of their lives in prison as they deserve, it ain't gonna happen.

I sure hope you get paid well to watch this garbage....

The Democrats won't have the chance to marginalize Lieberman. While he's not smarter than I, he's smarter than that. If McCain wins, he'll get a cabinet position, otherwise, he'll officially switch sides.