And I am a Democrat.

But Ron seeemed like the only one at the debate who understood that America has a Constitution and that the American President vows to uphold it when he is sworn in.

If the only candidates available in Novemebr 2008 were the ones at the Republican debate, I would vote for Ron.

He defintely won the debate. You don't seem to even take into account that the vote for Ron might well have been an honest opinion of the majority.

Are these "protesters' really Dems? What's to stop the Pugs from sending over a bunch of hooligans to disrupt the proceedings?

And are all those "Hillary supporters" actually supporters of Hillary?

If only George Bush - either one of them - had that kind of a conscious.

But then they wouldn't be Republicans.

and sent them to Denver.

And the media's buying it again.

Thought Salon was supposed to know better.

try to spoil Obama's speech like he tried to spoil Biden's speech last night when he anounnced he was ready to announce that he would announce an announcement on Friday.

Releasing this "important" statement ten minutes before Biden appeared onstage in Denver, simply exposed how mean-spirited John McCain is. My eyebrow went up for a minute after I heard the "news" and then I basically forgot about it. It seemed like a pretty petty attempt on McCracker's part to call attention to himself.

So let him try to "step" on Obama's speech tonight. It can only do the good guys (we Dems) more good.

Why did he go on that "Reverend Rick" show?

The people who view these kind of TV shows are not going to vote for Obama.

What did he have to win. You can't explain the tax code to Fox News viewers. All they want to hear is people yelling at each other.

Sounds like a pretty nice thing to say, to me.

If they put lipstick on Joe, would he look more like Hillary?

(just kidding)

Bush is a total phoney and a failure?

No wonder you live in Philly.

And, in reference to the writer below me, this campaign IS about issues.

The Dems are talking about issues and the Republicans are trying to avoid talking about them. That, in itself, is an issue.

he can't believe McCain would stoop to it, even though his face and voice appear on it claiming "approval".

Now, we all know McCain did, in fact, approve the ad.

Disingenuousness is not a technique unheard of by Carville.

Of course she's not agreeing with Obama - she was reciting a string of cliches she'd memorized especially for the occassion.

If America is so stupid and self-hating to put the McCain/Palin ticket into office, there is no question we are in deep decline and will deserve to lose our role as world leaders.

If we hven't already.

Short, catchy, funny, it doesn't ask you to think much and makes you feel "cool" for being on Obama's side and against the old man.

Snarky? Sure.

That's what gets their attention in Sheboygan.

election, go over to Slate Magazine and check out what has been posted there on sites like Ballot Box, Today's Papers and Politics regarding Sen. Obama's color.

What people say about racism when asked directly and what they think are two different things.

Obama IS starting to show an 8 point lead and I expect it will only grow larger.

So to hell with Bradley and his effect.

Obama came across so well in the debates because he actually answered questions. McCain talked about grizzley bears and Eisnehower.

Murphy's suggestion seems to be particularly bad when it comes to Palin. If dodging questions makes you a winner, she pulled rabit after rabit out of Coruic's hat.

The problem was, everyone could see her dodge and sense the tension just below the surface, the fear that she would be found out.

Palin is playing with the big boys. Maybe the good folk of Alaska will settle for a little lipstick but in the bigtime, the pig has to actually have an idea or two.

And Poehler's joke about Palin becomeing "increasingly adorable" the more she screws up was not said out of pity. It was meant as a criticism.

Palin attacks well when she is well scripted - she did that at the Republican convention - but when questioned and unable to respond intelligently, she falls back on a "cute little girl" persona which, conciously or not, she is using in order to distract her audience from the fact that she has made a fool of herself.

This tactic may work well in beauty contests or in marital spats. It does not work well when being considered for the posiiton of Vice-President of the United States of America.

what the "morning after" pill was. At first she seemed in favor of it but then seemed to sense that her base would object to her approval of the pill and so she became vague.

She also didn't seem to know the names of any news/political magazines or publications and was very defensive about Alaska.

He's only known her a month. When was he getting this advice from her?

Does McCain expect anyone to believe him when he says things like this? Doesn't he realize he's insulting our intelligence.

Does he think we're all as stupid as Palin?

He has a talent for stating the obvious.

Palin has been using exactly the same strategies in her interviews as she used in her debates with Halcro.

Alaskans may have bought it; the rest of America is agahst.

I think Joe Biden has probably noticed Palin's habit of getting folksy and going off-topic.

But we appreciate Mr. Halcro's attempt to be helpful.