I chuckled at Obama's characterization of the 3:00 am ad as "throwing the kitchen sink." What was his Harry and Louise ad? The toilet?

Greenwald is on topic with Chomsky. High praise, indeed.

If I found myself agreeing in any way with Noam Chomsky, it would be time to start searching for a suitable mental institution.

"Israel has been ruled by the paranoid right for too long"

That's what many Israelis thought before the Barak Administration. He tried every means to negotiate long-term peace, and the response from the Palestinians was the Second Intefada.

Thanks to anonymous for the citations on limited offers by Hamas to accept a temporary cease-fire in exchange for Israeli surrender to all their demands. Based on those articles, it seems that if the offer ever becomes a serious offer to negotiate, the Israeli government would be listening.

What exactly are we talking about here? I must have missed a step. Do the Hamasniks want to negotiate with Israel? The subjects at issue here, such as the captive soldier, are bilateral. Is there an open offer by Hamas to negotiate with Israel, of which I'm not aware? If they won't negotiate with Israel, to what purpose would the US negotiate with them? If the entire story here is that most Israelis would like to see their government negotiate, if negotiations were available, then why don't we worry about all this when the other side changes its tune, and the possibility of progress exists? Otherwise, it's a pointless exercise in rhetoric.

Shuster is "a scrupulously honest and fair reporter" for going on TV to smear Sen. Clinton and her family? I say he's a nappy-headed ho. Fire him.

"Prosperity and peace are in the balance...."

Is "balance" a euphemism for "toilet"?

No one who is serious about universal health care believes it can be accomplished without a mandate. Senator Obama can make all sorts of speeches about how much he wishes there were health coverage for more people, but unless we all have it, then you and I will always pay for the people who choose not to buy it. His suggestion the other day that people who show up at the emergency room without insurance will somehow be made to pay their back premiums is nothing short of hilarious. Now that's the sort of insurance I'd like to buy - wait until your house burns down, and then buy insurance to cover it. A fifth grader could see what's wrong with that idea.

"Admittedly, the couple around the table was a questionable button to push."

And I'm sure the Republican attack dogs who thought up the original ad are still having a great laugh about Barack Obama picking up where they left off. You're either for making sure people have health care, like in the rest of the civilized world, or you're not. I think Hillary can get it done this time around; Obama clearly won't even try.

"[T]he 'Harry and Louise'-ish mailer [was t]ough, perhaps, but not altogether unfair"????

So, let's see: you support Obama because he can bring us all together, and by the way, anyone who disagrees with you needs a lobotomy. That doesn't seem to be the sort of adult thinking that will help us choose a wise leader. It's also the sort of inflexible attitude that would quickly make Obama irrelevant, if he were to become president. The folks on the other side are just like you, you see.

And after all the Clintons did for Teddy Kennedy, they get stabbed in the back. Without their support in 1994, Mitt would be into his third term in Teddy's old seat, and Teddy's new seat would be in a bar on the Vineyard.

Hillary is the candidate who can't be swift-boated. It's been done to death already, and she's still standing.

The old argument against womens' suffrage was that women would tend to vote for a charismatic good-looking guy, whether or not he had experience or capability. So I guess you have proved a point, all right. Hey, maybe he'll be truly great, and your wishing will make it so.

"Some think we won that battle when we reformed welfare, but the liberals haven't given up"

Oddly enough, others think that welfare reform was, in fact, accomplished under the Clinton Administration.

What - A - Maroon.

Were it not for Bill and Hillary's support for Ted Kennedy in 1994, this stinker Romney would most likely be in his third term as Senator from Massachusetts. And here's old Teddy, out rabble-rousing for O'Bam-Bam. "Surrender to the terrorists". Words just fail me.

If you're going to warm Tim's chair, give us wisdom, not bias.

How was it decided among the Democratic leadership that Sebelius should do the response? It came across as "Democrats for Obama", and the crack about divisiveness seemed targeted more at Bill than George. She'll be the other half of the Obama ticket (God forbid), and I'm sure the Clintons are fuming. Why can't the Dems wait until the body is cold before they eat their own?

Anyway, IMHO It would have been much more appropriate to choose someone like Chris Dodd, a genuine hero who actually would have had something substantive to say.

that Ted Kennedy and Rush Limbaugh finally agree on something.

Glenn, my lad, I think you have gone and joined the noise machine. Let me see if I under your logic: the majority of undecided voters went for Obama at the last minute, because they were disgusted (as you were) with Bill's comparing Obama to Jesse Jackson - AFTER THE ELECTION???

I believe the majority went with Obama because the majority is black, and they voted for skin color. It's somehow NOT OK to call that racist, only Bill's implying it can be racist. And, as you point out, the Swift-Boaters are just waiting to run commercials showing Obama with screaming crowds of South Carolina blacks behind him. If Obama is the nominee, it won't be post-racial, believe me.