... it was nice to see that Apple came out against Prop 8 and Rachel Maddow is cleaning up in the ratings.

When I see desperate tactics like the video I think of what Carlos Fuentes said he hears when he witnesses people trying to make English the "official" language of the U.S.A. If you look deeply, their efforts to designate it as "official" really mean that it no longer is. The tactic of using children's songs to spread your message is sickening but also an indication that you're out of ideas and resorting to desperation. Kind of like calling your opponent a socialist or accusing someone of having "sympathy for Russia" because they believe in debate.

... in the recent Frontline doc "The Choice" in which Cassandra Butts, an African-American law school classmate of Obama's, states the following:

"BUTTS, Harvard Law, 1991: There was an expectation on the part of his more progressive colleagues at The Law Review that he would side with them on issues.

BRADFORD BERENSON [Federalist Soc. President]: Barack was reluctant to do that. It's not that he was out of sympathy with their views, but his first and foremost goal, it always seemed to me, was to put out a first-rate publication. And he was not going to let politics or ideology get in the way of doing that... I think Barack took 10 times as much grief from those on the left on The Review as from those of us on the right. And the reason was, I think, there was an expectation among those editors on the left that he would affirmatively use his position to advance the cause." (link at sig)

Couple that with Obama's response to McCain in the last debate that he departs with his party on tort "reform" and it's becomes obvious that an Obama victory, while obviously essential, won't necessarily mean the implementation of a progressive agenda.

Fortunately, the progressive infrastructure he relied on to, at least hopefully, win will still be in place to apply political pressure so the rhetoric gets realized and not "rearranged." While we can all agree that making the Harvard Law Review "a first rate publication" is a noble goal, the fact that the Fed Soc interpreted the law review Obama supervised and reached this conclusion means nothing.

When the Fed Soc (membership in which was a prerequisite to all Bush judicial appointments) calls your interpretation of any document "first rate," that should be a red flag, not a red, white and blue one. Just look at the way they've interpreted the Constitution Bush put his hand on and then ignored.

... "That it should come to this."

And you raised a good point previously that the enablers of this fall haven't gone anywhere, while the outrage that the minority party should have expressed will now be applied to Obama's every move.

I wonder if they'll take this story to heart or go back to eating "freedom fries" out of outrage at the French?