Dear Democrat with your head in the sand, you probably think the best way for your candidate to help working people is to find support with labor unions, and push through minimum wage bills. You also probably think we can solve the health care problem by subsidizing it.

You fret over your parties slide to the middle, but you haven't noticed the Republicans are beating you on what are traditionally Democratic issues like affordable housing (Bush called it the "ownership" society, and it was on his watch that Fannie and Freddie generated the mountain of toxic debt. People getting into homes on nothing down, and interest only loans?) What has your party done about working class issues for the self employed; help with regulations and taxes. Democrats haven't a clue on this one.

You still believe in defending America's strategic interests abroad, don't you? A Democratic President probably would have found a way to topple the regime in Iraq, (Clinton and the Republican Congress had bipartisan agreement on the No-Fly Zone. Remember that?)

Hillary wants to attack Iran (Certainly there is bipartisan domestic support, and global multilateral support for keeping the Straight of Hormuz open, and that means war with Iran, doesn't it? Obama already wants to go into Pakistan. Viva La difference, if you can find it.

Finally you really have your head in the sand if stories about the size of the government is somehow news, and that Bush represents failed Republican policies. John Kerry never questioned the war, he questioned the way Bush was handling it.

On the matter of economic problems, Bush is going to backstop Fannie and Freddie and prop up the mortgage industry, with taxpayer money, and deficit spending. (How would your candidate do it differently?) On social problems the US incarcerates 1/4 of all the people in jails around the world, but you haven't said much about that. On immigration, Bush, Pelosi and company were in agreement on the Immigration Bill, it was the Republican congress which blocked passage.

Obama wants change, but what does change mean, at the end of the greatest economic expansion in history? It means its time to give something back. It means austerity. It means fiscal responsiblity.

In 2006 the Republican Congress wanted to give energy credits to taxpayers. McCain supported that.

Simply put, Democrats haven't done anything for their constituents, and midterm elections were followed by plummeting approval numbers. Democrats cannot impeach the President without impugning their own integrity, especially on matters of policy.

Ohio is one of the poorer states in the Union, Obama and McCain are running dead even there, in the latest polls.

This shouldn't be a close election, but Democrats need to avoid talking about policies and talk instead about personalities.

That is a sad comment.

Certain we need films which inform us, I agree that this probably isn't it. Individuals forming individual opinions isn't going to change anything, that is a repeat of the old society. It would make more sense if Bud joined a group of political activists, or started blogging, (well maybe not). The narrative in which the child raises the parent is already a bit thin, like talking babies selling online stock brokers. I recall once twenty years ago I almost cast the deciding vote (against) the city redevelopment project. Imagine the shock at hearing that one vote made a difference, and it did, amazingly. However the people who really wanted the initiative simply kept recounting the votes until the count went THEIR way, and twenty years later the agency is a monstrosity which threatens homeowners with emminet domain, drives merchants out of town, and replaces local businessman with national chains, so that our town is the same as every other town. All because I cast one vote, and it didn't matter anyway. Thats a better story.

Tell me it ain't so.

thpse who claimed Nixon was politically persecuted were right. thanks obama for clearing that up.

My friend, novelist Poe Ballantine, solved your problem. He writes blurbs from dead writers. Check out "God Clobbers Us All", or "Decline of the Lawrence Welk Empire," including this one:

"We'd love to have Mr. Poe at our table. I promise to keep the Bob at bay. Oh, and tell him to bring some of those round pecan cookies dusted with confectioner's sugar. Do you know the one's I'm talking about?" Dorothy Parker

I told him the last sentence should be a declarative, but who can tell the dead anything?

If you can write, it will come to you.

The Scooter Libby case never gained traction because Novak couldn't be touched. Novak has the ear of many important polticians, he once chided Bush for running the economy to the benefit of 'Liberal' stock pickers. More recently he was fingered as the media source used by the Federal Reserve when they wish to 'jawbone' the market. If a Liberal reporter had this cozy a relationship with the administration, Conservatives would be screaming their heads off. Incidentally bicyclists are usually listed as pedestrians. I was in an accident last month, and the police reports lists me as pedestrian.