Dammit, either he is either a Muslim or a guy who went to a church run by a crazy preacher. The GOP can't have it both ways. After seeing this ad I think people will be as likely to remember that Obama went to the same church for 20 years as they are to think he was wrong to go to that church.

I love how the Republicans just pick these random lies with no connection to the truth

I don't know if McCain was taking the high road by ignoring rev. Wright or not, but the long-term effect of doing so probably helped him with the "Obama is a Muslim" crowd. After allm lots of churchgoers have sat in the pews uncomfortably listening to their priest or minister going off about politics, so focusing on Rev. Wright would have done more to reinforce that Obama is a Christian than it would anything else. He could have just said that he never really agreed with Wright's politics but loved what the man told him about Jesis, and he would all set.

Call me a right-winger but I think that if Exxon spends money developing oil supplies and gets to make money when the price of those supplies go up, the system works. If the price goes down, they make less money.

Oil rose quickly as the dollar fell and investors put money in oil futures chasing yield. Both were symptoms of a mismanaged macro economy.

In the long run, Exxon wil fail because it has chosen to invest in debunking climate change instead of alternative energy, as opposed to BP and other competitors who now call themselves energy companies instead of oil companies.

Right now, the oil supply has essentially set a ceiling on economic activity. Every time we rise to a certain point of growth, oil will become to expensive and cause a crash. Barack Obama would serve the future better with a gas tax that kicks in below $2.50 a gallon and sets a bottom for the price of fuel, so that investments in efficient transportation and energy can allow us to grow beyond our shrinking supply of oil.

It's the nice parts of upper Bucks County that are increasingly filled with high-income New York commuters that signals the major Democratic shift. Lower Bucks is still mostly filled with people for whom the Great Northeast is still too diverse (those damn Russins).

The Democrat's own Ragin' Cajun once asked "What do you call a candidate who is relying on new voters?" Answer? "The loser."

To use another one of his lines. Pennsylvania between Pittsburgh and philadelphia is Alabama without the black people. Luckily, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh can help take this state for Obama through high turnout without relying on new voters.

Working people will always need trucks, and the F150 can probably pick up some sales from the even larger trucks that some contracors favored in the past (the guy I hired to build my patio said he was using his current 150 more than his other trucks).

Still, Ford and all the other car companies are really ignoring the small pickup truck market. If all you need is a 4'x8' bed for drywall, Ford only has the Ranger, a truck that hasn't been redesigned for 15 years.

The long primary helped Obama enormously. Just being in the public eye for a year was invaluable to the new kid on the block. He built a 50-state organization of volunteers and campaign workers, and the incredibly tight managment of his campaign proved to many American's that he was able to lead.

However, don't call Hillary's run historic. She was tainted by the fact that she was the wife of a previous president. It would have put an asterisk next to "first woman president."

Of course, Obama, being "black" in color but not a decendent of slaves is also an asterisk on his "historic" run, but not the fact is, Obama came from nothing, much like Bill Clinton. McCain was the son of admirals, Kerry a Boston Brahmin, Gore the son of a senator, Bush the least talented among a president's sons, Reagan was an actor.

I'm not big fan of Wal Mart but I've always had a problem with them being seen as an evil corporation. They are no more (or less) evil than K-Mart, Woolworth, etc., they just did what their predecessors did a lot better. The conversion of the American commercial landscape from small independent retailers to chain box stores was the result of the independent retailers' failure to respond to the shift to two-income and single-parent households. There are lots of small businesses left in my area that I would love to partonize, but the damn places are closed at 5:00, so I shop at the box stores that are actually open when I come home from work.

As the letters here suggest, many people do indeed make credit card purchaes for convenience rather than w/ the intent of carrying a balance. But we often forget that credit card companies skim abour 3% off every credit card purchase, and is worked into the cost of everything we buy. It's essentially a national gross receipts tax, only Visa and mastercard get the money. Imagine if the US gov't got that money instead... it would probably wipe out the deficit.

I think Toots may have just decided that coverage of her death the day before the election could swing a few more votes in her grandson's favor. That's devotion.