It's not about pity.

Let's watch the debate and see what transpires.

If you listen to Biden carefully, he doesn't make any sense either.

This isn't journalism. It's a one-sided hit job. Ask anyone who has ever run for anything in a town large or small, and there are plenty of people who are happy to come out of the woodwork with mean-spirited falsehoods and half-truths. It's human nature.

Sarah Palin ran a well-functioning city and made a positive impact on the city. As Governor, she's had accomplished a lot and has an 80% approval rating. That's how men are judged. Let's judge women the same way.

It's one thing to have the government listen to cell phone calls with identified terrorists when the calls are out of the country. That is for the protection of all of us and, honestly, most of us wouldn't care because we're not chatting it up with identified terrorists.

It's another thing to have people hack into your email. And during a political campaign, it's especially weird to have someone reading your email. Would you like your emails to your friends and lovers up on a billboard? How would you like someone who hates you at work hacking into your email and sending it around the office?

Bottom line: go ahead and listen to my calls with terrorists. But if I'm running for office, give me a little privacy.

Should we let Charles Gibson into Sarah's shower just to prove the Bushies are way too into surveillance?

I agree with what you say about the new femininism.

But I think you should rethink your ageism. It's dated. People in their 70s, 80s and even 90s can be wise, quick on their feet, and great leaders. Don't flippantly put them down as if they should go hide behind a rock or play fossil. McCain's age shouldn't matter. With his health record, he's far more likely to live another 10 years than some journalists we know, or knew. McCain recently hiked all across the Grand Canyon. He's fit.

BTW, the value of his war stories are simple: they help you get to know who he is and how he was formed. That's probably what matters most in choosing a president. Policies will come and go, but character lasts. What's hurting Obama is that he's not for real, he says one thing in Scranton and another in San Franciso, he tries to talk cool (as you say, by dropping those g's) and he's really quite the socialist.

Take another look at McCain. It might feel rather new, and fresh to you.

So, then, to take Parikh's logic to its logical conclusion, a woman should be allowed to abort any fetus with any "problem" at any point in the gestation. So...if I have a fetus who is deemed to have only an average IQ, and it's month 8, I should be allowed to abort?

Since Roe, technology has advanced to the point that we can save babies who weigh less than one pound and resolve a score of fetal medical issues, some even in utero. This ethical standard (Roe) needs to be updated as science has evolved so much in fetal medicine in the last 30 years.