It would be great to wrest control of the terms of our political dialogue again. There have been many rather egregious examples of the perversion of our speech that has helped pave the way for certain accepted notions and one of the worst is Commander in Chief. I cringe every time I hear it as it reminds me of Bush climbing out of the cockpit of that plane wearing the big codpiece -another example of inappropriate political imagery, (the President dressed in military garb that is), not to mention the whole presentation itself.

Other misused terms are "weapons of Mass destruction" to describe any cache or stockpile of weapons or delivery systems in order to deliberately confuse conventional weaponry with the threat of immediate nuclear annihilation.

My current favorite is "domestic terrorist" is which a 60's radical is purposely associated with swarthy middle-easterners with bombs strapped to their chests and nefarious plans for toppling our government.

There are probably hundreds of such misuses and someone could perhaps right a book on the linguistic "incongruities" of the Bush Era, but I agree that it's almost worse to hear those misappropriated terms picked up by Democrats in order to score points in an arena set up to prove the false premises of the Right because it tends to validate those terms. I do hope that there is a concerted effort to redefine many of these accepted terms so that our dialogue can become honest again because right now we are waging a losing battle where our intent is pre-defined by the constructs we have all agreed to.

Loser-boy would be just as ungracious and petty, congratulating himself on the endurance of conservative ideals ad nauseum and triumphing the victory over "Wonder Boy". Is it any wonder that these clowns lost?

Don't think for onr moment that the Republicans aren't already sharpening their knives. They're not really interested in things going smoothly for the new pres and the Democratic Congress. Trent Lott out and out admitted that their goal after the 2006 elections was to make things as difficult as possible for the new majority by stonewalling and filibustering and they in fact broke some records in that regard, so if the new President feels that he needs some muscle to get things going, I wouldn't blame him.

Here is my favorite line, "She uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist." Gee whiz, (a charming colloquialism), to my ears she uses language like someone playing a kazoo as a stand-in for the first chair violinist at the symphony.

I think the jury is out on Ms Palin. The people who so need to believe in her will intellectually contort themselves into virtual DNA strands of logic while calling the rest of us philistines for not sharing their peculiar uhh, "vision". Yeah, we're soo intolerant on the left. So unaware of our own prejudice. So sad and so ironic. etc etc. etc. Yet this is one of the most intellectually dishonest pieces of shit I've ever read. From the backhanded warm and fuzzy "appreciation" of Obama, (before re-interjecting the whole Willaim Ayers B.S. once again by way of a nice movie review about the Weather Underground??!!), to the tired old meme about how poor Sarah's true genius wasn't understood, (obviously her verbal gesticulations were actually the stuff of a virtuoso's elevated command of the language and were beyond our ability to fully appreciate), to the same tired yet increasingly pathological haranguing for our lack of acceptance for someone so utterly lacking in the basic skills required for one of the most important jobs EVER. This is not a popularity contest. It's not reality TV. If she had displayed one iota of the knowledge needed for the job of V.P. or that it required more than simply trying to bullshit your way around a topic, she would have won us over. But it was her absolute sneering certitude and crass exploitation of the racially-charged rabble that surrounded her that so many of us find so repugnant. So please don't get on your high horse about our supposed misguided attitude regarding the Governor. She'll rebound fine and place herself into whatever opportunities God chooses to crack open for her, (God and the frantically flailing Grand Old Party). So please spare us the high-toned sanctimony. You, are better than that. And you know what? So am I.

combining the worst aspects of American Triumphalism with the myopic earnestness of the Free Marketeers saying things like "I want to fill them ,(the Iraqis), with Coca-Cola and Big Macs..." as a way of swaying them to the glories of American Commerce and thus convince them what a glorious enterprise awaited them by turning their country into a land of strip malls lined with American businesses. It's been this purposeful blurring of the distinction between the notions of commerce and democracy that has been so galling (and so damaging to our national diologue), that I find so reprehensible, especially from hacks like Mr. Friedman who seem to float above the fray like a mere gadfly, dropping his half-baked speculations like there was serious theoretical thought behind them.

I for one have not heard a substantial mea culpa from any of these f**kers who cheered on this fiasco with such impunity.

when the Tigh, (especially Tigh), and the others started running around humming with a Bob Dylan song in their heads?! Was Dylan a cylon? And why THAT song?! Why not "Highway 61 Revisited"? or "Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands"? oh yeah, the apocalyptic imagery.got it. The show has become a weird mixture of existential brooding, long-suffering machismo and religious allegory. And they've painted themselves into a corner by having to resolve a rather labyrinthian story arc. I'm not sure how they can avoid being heavy-handed at this point.

I'm still gonna watch it. Can't hep myself...