If I were Edwards, I would have asked the reporter what corporate organ he was fronting for and then asked if he'd recommend to this readers/viewers/listeners if they'd go check out the story at a competitor.

Nothing like being told that the media have already selected the nominee before the first vote is cast. I guess that we should just sit this one out, which as an Independent voter here in WA I'll do anyway, as the Dems have told the state that they won't take any notice of the primary results and will be choosing their preferred candidate at caucus. It's their party, the Dems can choose who and how they like, but they shouldn't count on my automatic vote next November. If they won't heed it in the primaries, they won't need it in the general election.

This ad would have been *so* much more effective using Springsteen's "American Skin (41 shots)" as background along with Rudy's blather. I mean, let's talk about everything wonderful about NYC when it was "Giuliani Time".

The Disneyfication of Times Square wasn't without a human cost.

That's the problem with you losers. You'll never save yourselves, you'll never make the hard choices.

Nulla, sweetums, just exactly what hard choices have Rudy and his bunch of fascisti piccoli made? Last time I looked, they made the choices, others paid the price. They get to walk into a well-paid sunset without a scratch. Choices aren't all that tough when you know that somebody else gets to pick up the tab. Ask Junior.

BTW - something that's been bugging me for a little while now, salus has only a single "l".

If Democrats hold together, they can simply refuse to approve any new funding for the war unless Bush and the Republicans agree to their terms.

If Democrats hold together .... I'm sorry, that was so funny I just had to repeat it.

This comes under the same category as "If pigs could fly, I'd need to carry an umbrella", in short not something I ever plan to see. The Democrats are not a single political party so much as they are a swarm of groups with some common interests. Where one group sees something as against its particular interest, it feels free to go its own way.

They don't need to get all the Dems to hold together, just 40 will do it. But I don't expect to see that either.

We're going to continue to push these same lines. But I think it's also fair to indicate that we're going to watch this very closely."

Translation: "Once some Republicans start calling us "weak on defense", we'll fold, thereby showing that we're not weak on defense, we're just plain weak."

I think Junior is letting his articulation and coherence fall to new lows to lay the foundation for his for his future claims that he's incompetent to stand trial.

But I could be wrong, of course.

Granted, the comic is absolutely, irredeemably awful. but I got a lot of good links from the letters section, so it wasn't a complete loss.

But now that I've got my links can we move on to something more worthwhile, like "Apartment 3-G", or "Mary Worth"?

Jeez, now I'm really embarrassed! I didn't mean for my suggestions of "Apartment 3-G" and "Mary Worth" to be taken seriously, I just tried to think of the lamest comics in the Boston Globe from when I was a kid. They would be an improvement on KOF.

I think I need to check my desk for the sarcasm on-off flags, I know I have them around somewhere...

BTW - I have to read the ferschluggin' strip. It's kind of like the admission fee to the great snarky letters and the links to great web comics like you were kind enough to compile.

No problem, now I can follow the link and see what Prof. Pappagoras has been up to for the last 40 years and if any of the girls have aged.

Gotta be more interesting than KOF! It was certainly better drawn and had more cogent dialogue.

Why is anyone surprised? This is just another, if extreme, example of Republicans wanting to make sure that they only appear in front of "safe" audiences and serves an an excellent reason why states should de-fund primary elections.

The parties are private organizations and their primaries are not required to be open to the public, as this little bit of lunacy illustrates, and shouldn't be funded by the public. I'd also like to see elections publicly funded and the Electoral College dissolved. All of which I expect to happen the day after Junior says he's sorry that he screwed up and he should never have invaded Iraq and that he'll start pulling the troops out. In short, somewhere around the 12th of never.

Instead of saying that I'd like elections to be publicly funded, I meant to say that campaigns should be publicly funded.

We certainly don't want a president with unusual sexual proclivities.

Not so much fun when it's your Ox getting gored (or Clintoned), is it?

If the Republicans want to run as the Family Values® party, that's their business, but they should remember that old saw about stones and glass houses.

If Jack Murtha said "There's no way in hell anyone but an absolute kool-aid drinking Bushite dead-ender would believe that the surge in Iraq is working." all we would see at Faux and other wingnut screech-monkey outlets is the headline that Murtha says "...the surge in Iraq is working." If we're lucky, they'd include the ellipsis.

Just remember, it's not what's actually said, but what we're told that's said that counts.