I can't believe ANYONE who isn't at least a closet Nazi can support Sarah Palin for VP, particularly since McCain has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana. I believe she is intelligent, and viciously ambitious and closed-minded. One can find videos of her as governor speaking perfect English with good grammar and no dropped "g"s. The "aw-shucks, I'm just a hockey-mom" act is just that, an act. But she does it well. But she's stabbed in the back any number of people who helped her on the way up, and her attempts to fire the town librarian who said she wouldn't remove books from the library should strike fear in the hearts of any American who loves the First Amendment. And I can't talk about her fundamentalist, dinosaurs-walked-with-humans religion without foaming at the mouth. Sarah is no dummy, but she's incredibly dangerous. And her hunky husband - he's a traitor.

CNN says McCain/Palin are closing the gap. God help us! For the first time in my life (I'm 60) I really worry for the fate of the nation if the "other guys" win.

OK, kimbah, it’s hard to figure out where to start. You addressed your comment to "Worried Sick", my handle here is Mountaineer. I come from a blue collar family. My dad ran a gas station, my sisters married steel workers and auto workers. God blessed me with the smarts to go to college on scholarships and loans. I was the first in my family to go to college and I now have a Ph.D., I’ve worked in both industry and academics. I own my house, I have no credit card debt, all my kids have gone to college. So yeah, I’ve accomplished things. And I believed Republicans stood for things like fiscal responsibility and not starting unnecessary wars. The current fiscal crisis is the direct result of Republican fiscal irresponsibility. Bush has run up the national debt to astronomical levels. The war in Iraq has been an unnecessary disaster from the get-go. McCain would keep us there for 100 years, he’s said so. McCain got where he is because of his father, grandfather, and his ability to milk being shot down for all its worth (hero my ass). He would have been busted out as a pilot if his father hadn’t been an admiral. Palin took over a small town with no debt and left it in debt up to its eyeballs, not to mention building a civic center on land the city didn’t own. And let’s not forget thinking dinosaurs and humans walked the earth together. I don’t agree with everything in the Democrats’ platform by a long shot, in fact I’m a registered Republican! But McCain sold his soul to Satan when he picked Sarah Palin as VP candidate, and he will continue Bush’s no-regulation policies that got us in this mess. That’s why I’m worried sick.

I see no sense in continuing an argument with someone who thinks Obama is anti-American but will vote for Sarah Palin and her associations with a group that wants to break up the United States. Republicans controlled both houses of congress for 6 of the last eight years while he ran up the national debt. If there’s anything worse than a tax-and-spend Democrat, it’s a borrow-and-spend Republican. My blue-collar family almost disowned me when, as a high school student, I helped pass out Goldwater literature. Hell, I cast my first presidential vote for Nixon (not something I’m proud of). But the Republican Party has become a reincarnation of George Wallace’s American Independent Party, and I’ve had it with them. McCain/Palin rallies are crammed with racists and fundamentalist Christian wackos. If you think Obama is a socialist, so be it. I think he’s just what we need now.

"Progressives", whatever the hell that means, are the Democrats' version of the Republicans' right-wing evangelicals. Obama was elected because millions of centrist voters thought he was the best man for the job. He is brilliant, and I hope he is also a master politician. He's more likely to get something done than an extreme leftist who would have every policy subject to a Republican fillibuster, possibly supported by Blue-dog Democrats. Give the guy, and the country, a chance.

I don't care how Rick Warrn got a ticket to the inauguration. It's a trivial gesture by Obama reaching out to a group that didn't vote for him. He's trying to really be "a uniter not a divider". Too many leftists want a left-wing version of the Bush administration - reward our "base" and punish our "enemies". In the great scheme of things, who gives the invocation at the inauguration just doesn't matter. What matters is not starting unnecessary wars, regulating the economy, and developing alternative energy sources. Frankly, gay marriage is so far down my list of things that matter that, well, it just doesn't matter.

Yes! Apple pie, cherry pie, pumpkin pie, lemon pie. Damn I'm hungry.

Damn the Israelis and Palestinians both. I wish a giant meteor would land on the Temple Mount and take out the Dome and Wailing Wall forever, making the land uninhabitable for about 100 miles around.

Massey Coal and it's chairman, Don Blankenship, are evil incarnate. I live in WV and Massey's money has corrupted politicians and the state supreme court from top to bottom. If there was ever a reason to renew the coalfield wars of the early 20th Century, it's mountaintop removal and Massey Coal. Where's Mother Jones when we need her?

Is domestic violence all too common in the United States? Yes. But I have NEVER read of an American man killing his wife by beheading. Where do I read of beheading being common? In Muslim countries. Any way you slice it (so to speak) this murder has Muslim written all over it.