"Paranoid Christian extremists want our laws changed, our culture destroyed and our families converted. We don't. What is there to talk about?"

McCain, not who you think he is.

we need to investigate Obama's donors to see if they're anti-American!

Question Republican fun raising.

Brainwashing................Here's my definition. CONservative network television, rag reporters, and CONservative pollsters publishing the same thing over and over and over until they think the people are brainwashed. Forget the facts like fascist, Rev. Pat Robertson, organized fraud, FOX News, organized crime and terrorism, Blackwater, and Corsi's completely insane book, just watch TV and listen to the pollsters.

We will see when the curtain closes and it's time to punch the card.

That dumb bitch was given a good 7 minutes to provide all the context in the world. I watched the exchange live. She basically said that anybody who isn't a Republican conservative is un-American. She couldn't have been more clear.

What context did she think her request that the media investigate Congress to weed out anti-Americans would be taken in?

I spoke this week-end to someone who is canvassing for Obama in and around Cass County Michigan, which is just north of and culturally/economically similar to the South Bend, Indiana area. While he's had a few doors slammed in his face, he's also had a lot of experiences with open and receptive people. He even sees the occasional Obama signs mixed in with the McCain signs. This is traditionally a VERY Republican area. While I don't expect that part of Michigan to go blue as the state as a whole probably will, the fact that some of the locals are expressing support for a Democrat is something just short of amazing.

"While I have no evidence..."

That disqualifies your entire post right there.

Thanks for playing.

Do you prefer wealth concentration? How's that working out?

"Ugliness of the Republican party? Not the Democratic Party? Democrats attack everyone -- even an ordinary plumber. They attack, malign and belittle anyone that disagrees with them. Both parties have their share of ugliness. He somehow doesn't seem genuine."

1) That was no ordinary plumber. Apparently, he wasn't a licenced plumber at all. Also turns out he is a relation of an in-law of Charles Keating. Gee, I wonder how the Republicans found that guy.

2) The Republicans mocked ordinary community organizers in their convention speeches. The ugliness of the Republican Party was on clear display this week when Caribou Barbie basically said that small-town conservative America was the Real America. Fuck her.

"Are there really people who are paid to go to websites like these and just 'say the opposite and if you're assholes about it all the better'???"

- Yes. Well, they might be volunteers. This is part of the final "surge" of the McCain campaign. The funny thing is that they are too clueless to know how clearly they stand out. Their comments here (usually predictable RNC boilerplate talking points) are about as out-of-place as Michael Dukakis looked riding in a tank. Notice that all of these Righitie newcomers have appeared the day after the final debate.

"When given a choice about how government should address the numerous economic difficulties facing today's consumer, Americans overwhelmingly—by 84% to 13%—prefer that the government focus on improving overall economic conditions and the jobs situation in the United States as opposed to taking steps to distribute wealth more evenly among Americans."

- Huh?

1) Are these economists or Joe-6Packs?

2) How do you improve economic conditions without redistributing wealth? If people have no money, they aren't going to buy anything. At some point, either via investment in new business or via tax/spend, wealth would have to be transferred downward enough to stimulate mass consumer spending. If the wealth remains concentrated at the top and it isn't recycled, then economic conditions will not improve, and even those at the top begin to stagnate (see your favorite Latin American banana republic...).

3) What if there really is no "choice?" Given the choice between finding $1 on the sidewalk and finding $100, I would prefer the latter, but that doesn't mean that such is a realistic expectation.