"Don't lose sight. This race is so not about her. It's about restoration of this country and people. Obama has the vision and the goods to back it up, McCain...Bush's playbook and we know who lost that one. Obama's been campaigning for over 18 months. I trust he ain't going down without a fight. I trust he ain't going down.

Obama/Biden 2008"

I share the same trust. Thanks for the reminder.

Overexposure is putting it mildly.

Even if Salon isn't willing to comment (sans "concern") about the Democratic party's policies, or whatever McCain thinks, then yeeesh, report about the third-party candidates (or global warming or international politics--more studying-up for Palin). Anything to run the Popular Palin Press out of ink!

From Ms. Paglia and me:

<"Conservative though she may be, I felt that Palin represented an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism.">

Obviously, I should get my arm and ankle weights in action if I have to be muscular to be feminist. Conservative, in Palin's world view, though...how does one muscle up to that?

<"Sarah Palin, if her reputation survives the punishing next two months, may be breaking down those barriers. Feminism, which should be about equal rights and equal opportunity, should not be a closed club requiring an ideological litmus test for membership.">

Equal rights? Equal opportunity? I await word (which I don't expect, at least not in "straight talk express" terms) about which part of Sarah Palin's reputation speaks to equal rights or equal opportunity, especially (but not only) when it comes to addressing reproductive rights?

<"I may not agree a jot with her about basic principles, but I have immensely enjoyed Palin's boffo performances at her debut and at the Republican convention, where she astonishingly dealt with multiple technical malfunctions without missing a beat. A feminism that cannot admire the bravura under high pressure of the first woman governor of a frontier state isn't worth a warm bucket of spit.">

I do NOT admire neither a woman nor a man apart from his/her basic principles. I guess I'm not worth a bucket of spit, however tepid it may be.

Life happens.

I was thinking I should go to sleep, but night-owl that I am, went to checking a few Salon sites for active threads. When three out of three had the exact same and LONG anti-Obama creeds, I decided it was time to turn in...

(I know this won't make one iota of difference, but sheeeez, can't we discuss differences without spouting outright lies?)

I'm considering changing my site name to: obamaisbrainsmart

For my "subject," I renamed a previous troll (look for him/her on virtually any recent article thread on the Salon site right now to find him/her--heaven knows Joan & Co. aren't monitoring garbage) and just try to find some facts among the lies by someone posting with a horrible username. Guess I went ballistic because some people I've known and loved went "brain dead" (ya know, tumors and such) and died--so, not one bit clever or humorous username to me. Also I know that whatever happens with Obama in the election, nobody can accuse him of not being smart--unless they're stupid.

Ms. Joan Walsh, please get this site back on track. You are currently part of the problem, certainly not the solution.

fell down the hill

into a mire of quicksand

I thought AKA Smith's post on p. 21 deserved repeating (and I'm taking liberty to re-post, I really hope you don't mind; tell me if you do, and I won't do it again).

"@ odog11: Ayers may have been wrong about violence but he is right about resistence. He said: I don't think violent resistance is necessarily the answer, but I do think opposition and refusal is imperative.

He is merely saying that his position on Vietnam was correct. It was. That the American people didn't do enough to end it when they realized how wrong it was. They didn't/

When I think about the current war in Iraq, I realize that I have not opposed it often and loudly enough. I am embarrassed that this is true because it is costing lives. I may never be violent, but I haven't protested enough and neither have many people.

Also, we were lied to over and over by the Bush Administration and we are not doing enough to hold them accountable."

I'm one of the "many people" you mentioned. And maybe I'm trying to make up for lost time. I just know we've got to change course. I'm doing the best I can toward that objective.

"What to do? Donate time and/or money.

I just came back from my first session as a campaign volunteer.

Palin is smarter, tougher and more ruthless than me. I admit it.

The GOP will do anything to win.

But I will fight for my family against Palin/McCain until this thing is over."

I'm late to the threads, but I applaud you. Even my husband is getting cynical. I can't. I simply can't. I'll do whatever I can do (and so will my husband, frankly, because he's a definite case of scratch a cynic and find an optimist, or at the very least, bark worse than bite ;)

Kudos to you--and your family.

"I may not want to vote for him or feel that I have to vote for him, but I don't want to see him lose. His losing would cost us all too much."

Then why don't you vote for him? I'm just not getting it. I really don't.