Ross Perot put it the best : John McCain is a "classic opportunist", able to dump his wife for a younger and richer one because he couldn't accept her after her car accident.

John McCain sold his sold to the theocons who've been ruling the country for 8 years and are only one Supreme Justice away from claiming it totally. He had to pledge allegiance to his former nemesis, hire the very mudslinger who insulted him as a campaign manager, promise to nominate "suitable" Supreme Justice, and veep a born again theocon as a "pro-life guarantee".

What a disgrace

Sarah Palin is claiming Bush's theocon base.

This isn't "true" conservatism, but the very negation of democracy.

The key is to maintain the pressure from the ground up while taking a more forward looking posture without levitating too much.

Obama must distance himself from the campaign to set his vision, confirm the message of hope and optimism for the years to come, highlight the contrast with negative campaigning from McCain.

He must set people in motion so that they actually vote and help other people vote. That's the first step of reconstruction and everyone has a role to play.

Americans must realize something :

GWB never acted as a POTUS for the good of his country,

GWB never acted as a Republican for the good of his party,

GWB always acted as a fundamentalist for the good of fundamentalism.

Therefore, his presidency was a huge success worldwide, and in particular in the Middle East (fundamentalists stronger than ever in Israel and the Muslim world... not to mention Europe and the US).

It's time for the US to declare their independance from fundamentalism.

For the good of democracy, for the good of sound, respectful religion.

You forgot to mention that Palin took over the French Socialist Party.

Obama wants to restore American values and credibility : Bush must be brought to justice :

Same situation as the French Socialist Party : ideology failed, reform is needed, and the base is following an empty passionaria

shredders now part of Dubya's Weapons of Mass Disinformation

By now, everybody should be aware Bush's "war on terror" was actually in favor of it. "Fundamentalist in Chief" Dubya deliberately fueled hatred and it worked at home as well as overseas :

This author simply cannot stick to one thing, even from a swamp.

Moore could lift existing characters to new dimensions, and he changed the Swamp Thing or Batman forever, but he had to move to something else. Build his own universes, without the burden of existing rules.

His best moments ? When he starts from scratch. And even then, he must always move on before it gets boring to him (much earlier than it does to us).

"Watchmen" remains his masterpiece. There is just no way one could add or retrieve any single piece without ruining the work and provoquing its collapse. The movie, any movie, was doomed to fail from the start.

Alan Moore's brain is as powerful as Doc Manhattan's, but twice crazier. The systems he designs are as perfect, but the key difference is that they are perfectly human. Meant for planet earth.

If Stan Lee revolutionized super heroes and the comics industry, Alan Moore revolutionized comics as a medium for human intelligence and creativity.

Republicans are compelled to redefine themselves, and if they keep positioning themselves AGAINST things or people, they are bound to remain at least one step behind things and people :

http://e-blogules.blogspot.com/2009/03/gopgle-dont-be-evil.html

At last ! The only person who could say something relevant and intelligent about his own work (which has nothing to do with a recently movie).

In very deed, ""Watchmen" is an intelligent meditation on the nature of power".

It's not about comics featuring superheroes.

The darkest side of Alan Moore is not Rorschach, but Dr Manhattan : the systems he designs as as perfect, but the key difference is that they are perfectly human, a tribute to intelligence.

I'd love to read his scripts, and I know for sure they will be a delight for scholars decades from now.

It's really FOX's Gulf War redux.

My favorite is Rick Santelli chimin'in from the floor with inept cliches from the 70s. As pathetic as Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.

Obama's rethorics do oversimplify a complex situation, FATA is indeed a small spot, and Talibans do represent a small faction in Pakistan.

Yet. The Taliban problem is not the only fundamentalist issue in the country, and Pakistan remains the weakest link, a priority for all hatemongers.

The country is already on the verge of collapsing economically and the beyond the tiny minority of hardcore extremists, big chunks of the population could be tempted to lose their apetite for democracy. This could only take a few sparks (ie something really bad happens to Iftikhar Chaudhry).

nothing new under the sun, but it's important to remind the American audience that torture played a role in the forging of the case for the invasion of Iraq.

Both are right-wing populists AND theocons. Sarah Palin is the most dangerous combination of Cheney neocon vision + Bush theocon illumination.

Ahmadinejad is as dangerous a lunatic as GWB, and both worked on the same agenda : a final showdown to provoke the return of their hero (Mahdi / Jesus) during their lifetimes.

Congrats.

it definitely beats Home Schooling 101 for dummies (creationism / ID, NRA shooting range, LaRouche / Ron Paul conferences, KKK knot tying lessons...)