Right up front: I love Hillary, am working hard for her election as President by voicing upcoming TV/Radio spots for her and can't wait to feel the tectonic shifts she creates getting America pointing in the right direction once again.

To read screeds by some posters here...Christopher1988's are especially opaque, with no light getting through at all...is to see naked biases and non-functioning brain-matter. It's fun to see the various buttons that she pushes with some of these people and the reasons behind their reactions.

I'd posit that many are misogynistic and wouldn't even vote for their mothers. Others are nicer, but, are still afraid to break with "tradition" and vote for a woman.

Finally, the vapidity of those posters who focus on what photo of Hillary is used is hilarious. The style-over-substance crowd can always be counted on to add their "challenged" opinion.

Folks, relax: Hillary will make a first-class President. She is an amazing person who is bright, engaging, of great humor, possessed of gravitas, seriousness and abundant compassion.

She will be the perfect antidote to the wretchedness of George W. Bush. Thank God!

Tigerr wrote: "I can't believe this. Who are "the Germans", who are "the Japanese"? Are they all guilty of what their government has done? So they all got what they earned? It is exactly this kind of dehumanizing war rhetoric that makes war, and public support for war, possible. We need documentaries like this to give innocent people who suffer from the atrocities of war a name and a face. Even more so today."

Dude/dudette:

I knew you'd write; you just don't get it: "the Japanese" and "the Germans" not only voted for their leaders but aided and abetted them in their vileness and evilness. They can't then turn and say "Oh, golly, we had no idea." They tried that at the Nuremburg trials; it didn't wash then and it won't wash now.

Those "Germans" and those "Japanese" worked at the factories that turned out the war materiel that killed our citizens. They weren't just peacefully tending their gardens or making beer or cuddling bunnies; they were ALL part of the war machine. And, I maintain that, as active war participants, whether they wore a uniform or not, they were legitimate targets. Period.

Now...as I wrote above...take the lessons of war and work for peace. I embrace that concept and have vigorously fought against the illegal "war" against Iraq by Dubya. I continue to warn people about the phony propaganda the Bush Maladmistration spews non-stop about Iran and the scarily likely prospect of war with THAT country.

By your naivete and revisionist history, you attempt to make the United States the predator viz-a-viz Japan and Germany. It wasn't true then and it isn't true today.

Being a pacifist for the future is admirable; being a revisionist of past history isn't. Big difference.

While I would have preferred a different outcome to the vote authorizing even more power to Dubya, I must make this point: we, as democrats, have a diverse caucus who represent a vast variety of constituents: conservative to moderate to liberal.

We are and always have been a fractious group. Wasn't it legendary humorist Will Rogers who observed in the 1930s that "I'm not a member of an organized political party...I'm a Democrat"? Sounds like the Democratic Party of the 21st century, to me.

We, as Democrats, are united, however, in our fear of and dislike and disdain for George W. Bush, his policies and his priorities. How the Democratic legislators express that disdain and dislike, however, depends on how their constituency is constituted. We cover the political spectrum.

All things considered, I'd rather have a good and vigorous debate among ourselves rather than march, lemming-like, in locked goose-step as the Republicans do. You may not win every point, but, at least, you get to express those points.

Republicans do have points; unfortunately, theirs are at the top of their heads.

OK, if you say so, you're not a "revisionist of history". You ARE, however, painfully naive, incredibly simplistic, sadly out-of-touch, Pollyannaishly disingenuous, woefully ignorant of facts and history, unflatteringly simple and obstinately unwilling to admit error.

In short, you'd make a fine apologist for the Bush Administration. Karl Rove awaits your phonecall.

Tigerr, we seem to have a difference of opinion: you think you've presented a coherent and cogent argument and I think you've ignored fact and history to the detriment of truth and reality.

I must remind you, however, that you are typing your naive screeds freely in English rather than Japanese or German; that, in my opinion, is just one simple testament to the determination and decisions made by our parents and grand-parents and their generation toward the Japanese and Germans during WWII.

You may not like the decisions they made, but, those decisions made the very freedom you and I enjoy here today possible. I can't and won't second-guess very wrenching decisions made in 1945; I will join you, though, in helping make sure that there will never BE other Hiroshimas, Nagasakis or Dresdens in the future.

I hope you can see that difference.

Comparing the Democratic candidates debating issues of gravitas, meaning and substance to the Republican candidates debating which of them is holier, gets IMs from Jesus or has deeper stigmata, I'll take the Democrats every single time.