I was at CaseIH when Bob Nardelli was brought in to 'fix' our division. The guy was a joke. In his first speach to the engineers he talked about 'Sky Blue' design. The term is 'Blue Sky'. It was obvious that he was clueless and that he was only sucessful at GE because he was able to follow Jack Welch's directions. He didn't last long, fortunately, and I don't know how much he took from us while failing, but it was certainly more than any of the employees at lower levels who were holding the place together.

He went back to GE and eventually rose to the #3 position. Even the great (and I mean it) Jack Welch promoted based on something other than competence.

Nobody who tries to argue that the best rise to the top, or that the pay is justified by the performance ever gives any data supporting their position. I'm sure that in Nardelli's case a trained monkey could have lead Home Depot to similar results and would have worked for bananas.

Unless there is a catastrophic event Obama will be the nominee. He cannot win the President without HRC's support and he cannot get the necessary legislation passed with her support. So let's get on with fixing the country.

Sen. Obama should offer the VP spot to Wes Clark, who I believe would have been Sen. Clinton's pick. Sen. Clinton should be made majority leader and Reid should be put back on life support. A visonary at President and the ultimate insider and fighter pushing through our agenda. I can see the sun shining already.

As long as we're counting votes: of the 36.6 million Democrats voting, roughly 19 million Democrats voted against Hillary vs. only 18.4 million voting against Obama. We need those extra 600,000 votes in November.

Here's the thing about ablitiy and experience. Gore's ability and experience allowed him to reform our government agencies and make them work better, some (FMEA) world class. Cheney's ability and experience allowed him to reform our government agencies and make them into political assets (competence was not required nor desired).

The job you do requires both experience, ability, and character. I think we can agree that McCain was required to eliminate what little positive character he had in order to become acceptable to GOP power brokers.

Think this story has any relation to the $100MM the oil companies have allocated to argue against renewable resources?

"Islamic extremists want our laws changed, our culture destroyed and our families converted." - Just like the Christian right?

Let's compare the Islamic Extremists (IE) and the Christian Right (CR)

Make abortion illegal - IE yes, CR yes

Eliminate multi-culturalism in our society - IE yes, CR yes

Require conversion to their religion for full citizen rights - IE yes, CR yes

You missed Hume's comments after Obama's victory speech, which has to rank up there with the "nothing to fear, but fear itself" and "ask not what you can do for your country" moments for setting America on the right path. He actually watched that speech and then commented that Barack was good at stage-craft or something in that vein.

I don't believe anyone who really loves America could watch that speech and not feel anything but pride for our choice for the next President. I seriously question whether Hume is a "real" American.

Personally, I found this very funny.

But more importantly Sarah Palin is not going away unless we make her go away. The right wing noise machine is trying to make her out as a messiah. Witness the absurd "Thank you Sarah Palin" commercial.

We need to keep pointing out that she is GWB without the education. Neo-con-ism is like a cancer and you can't stop until it is totally contained or it will consume and kill our country.

Being President is hard work!

I believe the World was relieved by Obama's election as a sign that America was not going to continue down the road we were on. The rest of the World is much more aware of what happened to the World from our actions during the last 8 years and see Obama's victory as a boon for World peace. So the prize may be for taking on the neo-cons and winning the election. To them that in itself is worthy of the award.

Let's organize a Tea Party, since the MSM only seems to report on such things. Then maybe the issue of the anti-Capitalistic financial system will finally become part of the national discussion.