Glad to see that she's as bad a "thinker" as she is a "musician."

She and Obama share something else too: they're both apparently very easily flattered.

If any other group of Americans held the nonsensical, nearly delusional beliefs that these people espouse, they'd simply be written off as total wackos and (rightly so) left out of the national conversation. But they're "Christians" so we have to listen to their incredible stupidity and sheer, willful ignorance. Obama is going to make the US a Muslin country? What does that even mean? What shred of evidence is this woman basing this crap on? And when President Obama leaves office and she is still free to practice her bizarre and very very sad faith and still sees it given incredible deference in this nation, will she even recognize that she was wrong? And that she is really, really stupid?

I wish somebody had spilled a beer on her scrunched-up-face ass!

McKinnon's jaunty response demonstrates the fact that these people (in the Bush camp) care not a bit about the serious damage they're doing to our nation, the lies they are passing off as truth, the crimes they're committing, etc. It's all a sort of "game" and nothing more. Please, Mr. Conason, don't ever sit down to a meal with this man again. He deserves scorn, not collegiality.

I wanted to reach through the TV set and shake Jimmy Carter and SLAP the CRAP out of Miss Viera (or whatever her name is). He said what he said because it's true and we all know it. And now they look like they've won. I was sad and disappointed, to say the least.

As that old quip said, 'when fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.'

While Gore Vidal and a few other brave voices have long touched on such things as Kamiya discusses here, I have not seen them voiced in as popular a forum as Salon before. The American people must face up to their complicity in the state of our union and the crimes and misdeeds committed in their name both within and beyond our borders. The Bush administration is shockingly criminal and un-American yet it gives respectability to so many of the small-minded, weak, and dangerous impulses that make up the American character today.

American citizens didn't need (or particularly want) a real, legal reason to attack Iraq. This nation has harbored violent anger toward the Muslim world since the Iran hostage situation of President Carter's term. I submit that the widespread approval for this war on Iraq is directly descended from that unrelated incident years ago. 9/11 simply made the anger and violence rise to the surface and boil over and seem newly justified.

But so many of Bush's vile tactics, serious misdeeds, and assaults on a civil American society simply reflect the laziest, most inward-looking, and base impulses of our culture. We have met the enemy, and he is us.

Thank you, Mr. Kamiya.