Could you be a little more condescending? I didn't get enough "I'm so much better than you" in your first letter.

The impact of using renewable resources for fuel (especially stuff that would end up in landfill otherwise) is a net win over using non-renewable fuel that has costs including impact to the drilling environment, transportation costs, and more.

I know you purists are never happy unless we achieve total goodness in using nothing but bicycles and public transport. Wallow in your misery while the rest of us take positive steps to improve the world.

At their hick American cousins, who always make such a big deal when their politicians, like so many of the rank and file, have an affair.

In 2004, at least twice a week I would bury my face in my hands at the ham-handedness of the Kerry campaign.

Whatever the outcome, Barack is in it to win it. Smart, savvy, and heads-up fighting. I'm proud he's going to be our candidate. Really proud.

Netflix yourself some _Priscilla, Queen of the Desert_.

BTW, I *loathe* most "chick flicks", and in particular was nauseated by _Sex and the City_

...following up with the footage with: "The next President will probably pick two new Supreme Court justices. Choose wisely."

Listen up, women. I sure hope you're not even thinking of voting for McCain.

Really, McCain just damns himself as you see the wheels turning in that grimacing head. You can almost hear the internal dialog:

"Crap. I mean it is unfair, but if I say so, bye-bye to those sweet right-to-lifers..."

"Dang, what am I gonna say? I can't say no, that will look AWFUL to the Hillary women I'm trying to lure away. Crap!"

"Ahhhhgggh. Guess I better punt, and I don't want a sound bite on either side. People who know my record know that I'm not going to give women's issues the time of day, anyway. Why make it obvious?"

This is what a real American hero looks like.

I would like to buy you a beer for that one, my friend. Well said. *fist bump*

s> How can I vote for someone who considers me the moral equivalent of a homicide victim?

With all due respect to your experience, the 5 year old child in this case had so much *physical* damage as to call in a surgeon to reconstruct her after she was ripped and brutally torn.

I do think of torture/dismemberment of a child on the same moral equivalency level as murder. Heck even torture on adults I would like to see prosecuted as murder. Yes, even if it applied to those in government who made it happen.

I don't think torture victims would have a problem with that equivalency. Maybe you could interview some and prove me wrong.

Present your ugly fat faces at the convention. If some delegates feel the need to have a mock minstrel show, or wave grotesque signs that make it clear you are allergic to melanin (or plain decency) oh please please do. Scare and shock the nation as Pat Buchanan did in 1992. Expose the maggoty underbelly of the Reich wing for everyone to see, so we can purge the ichor of the last 8 years once and for all.

I am SO daring you. Or are you chicken?

Clinton simply does not fill out the ticket. We need someone militarily credible to counter the perception that McCain represents war smarts. Hillary simply does not do this. She merely voted for the war, and has no special expertise on such matters. But General Wesley Clark does. And, having been in the Clinton administration, led the most solid and sustained and *successful* Allied effort since WWII, the liberation of Kosovo, he's got all the ingredients to round out and "gravitize" Obama's presidential run.

While Clark is a great choice to campaign with Obama, lure Hillary voters, etc., and could step into The Job if necessary, we need to be thinking about this VP as our candidate in 2016(when Clark will be getting on 72 years of age).

Concern noted, but he's remarkably fit and would be in a whole lot better condition to run than McCain is now.

Start a petition? Obama/Clark 08! Yes they (and we) can!

...or we'll be eating 4 more years of toxic Bush-lite, warmed over.

Do you want that? Well, do you? Okay then. Now shake hands and... Missy, you get that sour puss off your face, I mean it... and you, mister, get that tongue back into your mouth NOW... okay. Now say, "I'm sorry." Yes, both of you.

That's better. Much much better.

Onward. There's been enough foolishness.

China, seriously... Wright has to know that he is doing Obama no favors at this point. I have a bone to pick with Salon's coverage, too, but the simple fact is that the Reverend is trashing Obama's chances right now... probably for his own career and fortune. And that is a damn shame -- Obama has the potential to be Kennedy or Lincoln-great.

I challenge your American Graffiti with Heavenly Creatures, THX1138 with Pan's Labyrinth, and Star Wars, certainly, with the LOTR trilogy.

1. It's absolutely true.

2. McCain will find it almost impossible to fight. The "red meat" Republicans LOVE that he == Bush on the war, the economy, and healthcare. So if he refutes it, the "base" will sit on their hands at election time. If he lets it go, the meme will prosper and flower.