Reading the postings here it is obvious that a candidate's choice of advisors matters in the extreme.

Therefore, as voters ponder their choices wouldn't it be nice if all the candidates were to reveal their picks for advisors well in advance of the Election.

Ms. Power is obviously an asset to Obama and reinforces my decision to vote for him.

At least Tom Tomorrow's readers are not the brain-dead variety.

My impression of much of the 20MM blowhard audience is a bunch of sheep being yelled at from a family-room TV set turned up loud enough to drown out any possibility of meaningful conversation.

As a measurement of influence regarding voting choices, the blowhards are not very effective. They merely reinforce the extant beliefs of an audience that, for the most part, cannot accept the fact that human-caused global pollution of the air, soil, and water actually has consequences.

The GOP cannot field an honest candidate, I fear.

Our political, marketing, healthcare, and retail systems all start with the premise of an uninformed and uninterested public.

Advertising is targeted towards the 12 year-old mentality. We are lied to about the benefits of "commercial competition" running our healthcare system. Our political campaigns are usually nothing more than useless sound-bytes.

Professional liars dominate talk radio and talk TV. Nobody applies reason to anything anymore. Extreme positions abound.

Is it hard to understand why Obama is enjoying the success of an effective, intelligent campaign?

Nader will be lucky to get 0.05% of the vote. Obama is too strong to be affected.

The Repukes' attacks on Obama's "patriotism" are bankrupt from the start. Only Fox News can equate the wearing of a stupid pin to one's patriotism.

is what it is.

Nader begone!

And we want to promote democracy in the world?

And we want to export democracy to other countries?

If ours is an example it is easy to see why this will be a very tough job.

Most Americans want out of Iraq, better healthcare coverage, a cleaner environment, better schools but instead we get to spend billions to depose a tinpot dictator in Iraq.

Our election campaigns are a joke. They are nothing more than convenient sound bites and headline stories with very little substance.

is one reason why we are almost alone fighting in Iraq.

Most thinking people were very uncomfortable with the Bush, Cheney, Powell justifications for preemptive warfare.

Americans are seen as terribly gullible, overly religious fools that elect an idiot like Bush as president.

We have a lot to make up for.

how he proposes to pay for an Iraq war that will end up costing trillions(!)of dollars.

This Administration continues to link the attacks on 9/11 to the Iraq War. They are perpetuating a lie, pure and simple, that Iraq (or forces supported by Iraq) was in some way to blame for the attacks on that day.

The fact that most of the 9/11 terrorists were Arabs continues to escape the Administration and that goes a long way to explain the the twisted logic and mislead justification for the invasion of Iraq. Neocon stupidity prevailed and we are left with human casualties and financial ruin.

Three trillion dollars is nothing compared to the loss of respect for America and the increased hatred of our foreign policies by the rest of the world.

Bush has merely increased the fodder for future terrorist action against the US.

is the Kiss of Death.

Goodbye John.

Is it wrong to say that Republican Administrations have created more conflict and peaceful measures were not fully explored?

Seems like it.

We're dumping ice cubes into the water and complaining that the water is too cold.

Looking at the vehicles that people drive, I have no sympathy for the folks that purchase gas guzzlers. They drive the cost of gas up for everyone.

Don't blame OPEC for not raising production because they see us as greedy consumers.

Bush changed his tune from "Rumsfeld Stays" to "Rumsfeld Goes", so let's thank the Democratic majority for forcing Bush to replace Rumsfeld.

Even an idiot like Bush could read the meaning of the Democratic takeover of Congress. It was a repudiation of the Bush Administration's ongoing failures in Iraq and Rumsfeld's failed war strategy.

I mean, here's Bush stubbornly defending Rumsfeld by refusing to replace him, suddenly changing course immediately after the Election.

Let's give credit where credit is due. The American voters assumed the leadership that Bush was unable to provide and we gave him a well-deserved kick in the ass.

Well the old Bush is still at it, apparently, lying and twisting the facts.

I can see where Republicans might view McCain as an improved version of Bush. They pine for a continuance of Bush's policies but without the horribly divisive and incompetent style of the incumbent Administration.

Bush' policies have failed. Proof of that abounds in our relations with other countries, our financial scandals due to the lack of government oversight, Katrina, Iraq, Iran, etc, etc.

Hopefully, the presidential candidate finalists will reveal their choices for cabinet members. This is in light of the incredible incompetence of Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, and others too numerous to mention.

to bring Iraq and Iran together.

I must put these people under close watch under a microscope.

I'm looking for any signs of intelligence as they swim among the other life forms there.

Looking. Looking.

strikes again.

This time we will not have 4,000 soldiers and many more thousands of civilians killed, however.

I keep thinking that the same idiocy that got us into a war in Iraq is somehow responsible for the financial disasters we are experiencing.

Am I wrong?