Now imagine the war you borrowed that money for isn't going so well.

Now imagine all those dollars that you borrowed are now only worth half what they were when you borrowed them.

Now imagine how the gangsters feel knowing that have of the value of the money you lent has lost half of it's value.

Now imagine you are the President and you have to do something to convince the gangsters that they shouldn't regard you as a problem debtor and client.

Bush doesn't give a rats ass about the economy, he wants to save his skin.

Who could blame him?

Certainly not the American People or the Democratic Party.

Maybe McCain will explain - don't hod your breath.

Democrats never do anything like that - RIIIIIGHT.

Over half the letters here sound like they come from troll banks with prescripted talking points and issues.

Both sides do it. What do you call it when you only say one side does it?

"Sarah Palin is a stupid mean bitch!"

Isn't there a rock somewhere that needs to be crawled under?

I'll never forget Charlie Rose, Thomas Friedman and Mike Wallace eulogizing Yassir Arafat. It was a Trifecta of hate and loathing.

I like his hair!

McCain and Ovama have weak hair.

I don't trust a man with weak hair.

Masterson! Would MSNBC steer us wrong?

we have been hearing so much about? It is as if he has come from nowhere with a fresh new thing blowing in the wind and we the public needs to be informed by journalists like David Talbot.

Please write an article.

"progressive talking points"

WHAT????

This is Salon - the Mighty Queen of the Tabloids!

That's just awful!

Thanks for the heads up!

"The ONLY thing that this article illustrates is that is that making rational, fact based, decisions is not part of human nature. How depressing."

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Cheer up! We are the most powerful apes on the planet and we have CARS!

VROOOOM VROOOM!

It doesn't get any better than a monkey driving a car down the highway listening to their iPod.

/planet of the apes

"What are you? Competent or incompetent? I mean, knowing that you are always right."

If I answered that question, then I would not be always right.

I hope that answers your question.

"by definition...

shouldn't the competent be able to influence or shape the incompetent?"

But those who think they are competent are incompetent but they don't know it.

If you opposition thinks about you, just like you think about them, chances are you are both right about each other.

Those that think they are incompetent are more likely to be competent than those who think they are competent.

/danger approaching rumsfeldmania - i iteration away.

You know how sometimes when a teenager falls in love they start to focus on and pick on the object of their love - Salon and Sarah.

She's prettier than Obama and she is one of the girls and an outdoors, fishing, hunting, dressing and cooking one at that. AND she 's a beauty Queen!

In short, she is a Salon writer's dream boat. Just like a bad boy, don't you think you could reform her? Who cares? Either way, she is the Salon Hotness.

She is your Britney.

/ I sincerely doubt that anything would have any effect on a teenager's mind which is locked in on and focused on a beauty queen and huntress bad girl such as Sarah Palin. I would suggest just enjoying the humor of the situation.

Identification politics. You know, you could have used Obama's face in the mirror, McCain's face in the mirror or Biden's face in the mirror, but NO, you just had to use Palin's face in the mirror.

Joan Walsh identifies with Sarah Palin, right?

/rimshot

/next time don't take so long to follow my lead

Identification politics. You know, you could have used Obama's face in the mirror, McCain's face in the mirror or Biden's face in the mirror, but NO, you just had to use Palin's face in the mirror.

Joan Walsh identifies with Sarah Palin, right?

/rimshot

/next time don't tae so long to follow my lead

"better to go out and raise consciousness of the McPalin ticket's woeful inadequacies to those who might be swayed."

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Well you will not be finding any of them here, I assure you. Everyone here has made up their mind and cannot be swayed, by a ton of bricks, a hurricane, or suitcase full of cash.

On second thought . . .

Excuse me, back to brass tacks. Before you go out preaching the Good Word of Obama and warning of the Dread McCain and that WITCH, you might want to objectively look at the arguments as posted here at Salon - the Mighty Queen of the Tabloids.

Think about it.

You may be doing McCain a favor by preaching for Obama.

Not seeing that way, huh?

Well look at all those morons for McCain and hating on Obama.

Pssstt pal, they both sound the same.

Lessthat 10 percent of you are going to vote anyway.

I vote and the place was desolate this year.