I repeat...What a load of crap. Ask him for a freaking date for pity sake and leave the journamalism to less hand-fluttering hacks. Jeezus H Christ!

You choose an arbitrary thesis, manipulate data to support contrived thesis, make preposterous claims that won't be challenged because it really just doesn't matter, and get paid by the word. Nice gig if you can get it.

It's a great mystery to me how a second-rate intellect like Rose acquired such a prominent role on public television. It's painfully obvious that far too often he has no direct understanding of or experience with the topics that are under discussion on his show. He clearly crams for his shows, but is unable to mask the fundamental ignorance that underlies his compulsion to constantly, pathologically, talk over his guests. The fact that Packer and Gelb are brought in as war opponents only highlights a chronic defect in his show: Rose almost never knows what he's talking about.

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, her proxy down in Miami, has removed any doubt:

"Senator Clinton continues to demonstrate that she has what it takes to win the Presidency ... while Senator Obama does well in areas and demographic groups that the Democratic nominee will win anyway."

At least they're honest about it.

Girl, I've coiled off stool samples with more human decency than you've got. Give us time, eventually Texas of tomorrow will put paid to excrement like you. There's' no place for the likes of people like you in the 21st century so just, you know, go away.

Candy Crowley? "Terrific"? Are you freaking kidding? She's an imbecile. How that cretinous buffoon managed to get a gig covering presidential elections with only marginal competence in the craft of journalism is god's own private mystery. She's a reliable parrot of all kinds of foolishness she randomly picks up on the back of the candidates' buses. She's got to be the least competent correspondent covering the presidential election from any cable outlet, Fox included.

Looking ahead 8 years, after two challenging Obama terms, a youngish VP would be the prohibitive Democratic front runner for the nomination in 2016. A creepy DLC hack like Evan Bayh should not be allowed anywhere near the White House. He's a Democratic Quisling who has only a tenuous understanding of core progressive principles and beliefs. Heck, we may as well pick Harold Ford as running mate. Bayh's a bad choice for a variety of reasons, but offering him a platform for the highest office is just plain scary.

You're certainly right about Meachem, but John McCain voted against the bill recognizing the birthday of Martin Luther King in 1983.

He said later: “I had not been involved in the issue. I had come from being in the military to running for Congress in a state that did not have a very large African American population and it had not been in issue. It just simply had not been.”

In a February 2000 interview with ABC News, McCain said his initial opposition to a holiday was based on his belief that “it was not necessary to have another federal holiday, that it cost too much money, that other presidents were not recognized.”

From ABC News:

Tomorrow Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by speaking in Memphis on the 40th anniversary of King’s assassination.

He will no doubt sound a bit different than he did in April 1987, when McCain was interviewed by USA Today about his five and a half years as a P.O.W. “They never gave us any meaningful news,” McCain said. “They told us the day that Martin Luther King was shot, they told us the day that Bobby Kennedy was shot, but they never bothered to tell us about the moon shot. So it was certainly selected news.”

It's staggering that an "intellectual" as lightweight as Camille Paglia is afforded a forum for screeching her hysterical screeds. Her shallow and ill-reasoned insights are a damning indictment of the superficiality of American public discourse. Still, she got my blood pressure up, which is, I guess, the whole point of her rants.