this is the sanest post iv read on the subject, regardless of what the crazies are writing.

Samantha Power said two things 'off the record' to that foolish newpaper. one was an epithet that would get any 38 yr old woman fired from her organisation whilst saddled with a defamation lawsuit. one was the approach that her candidate would take to the war in iraq, against which he had given a speech in 02 outside of the senate.

She was his top foreign policy expert and - as one gushing newspaper hypothesised - possible secy of state. she said he would not pull out of iraq as he had expressly mentioned. Finally - days after Power had been fired amid an uproar over how political correctness had victimised her - a timorous Time magazine, practically shaking at the knees, pointed this out. Admittedly because Power writes for them. Guess who mentioned NOTHING about this? The same people whose discourse you're so disheartened by.

The media has steered this into a popularity contest. The same people who in 02 were never going to be eating Liberty Fries are now answering the question How I Got The Iraq War Wrong by saying Thats Not The Point, How Did Obama Get It RIght... AND getting away with it.

If the US would sign a pledge of NOT attacking a country 99% of its population cant reliably place on the world map, lead your people to choose another prom king by all means. But dont try to blame it on the right. You're doing a fine job of dissembling too.

dude, if u ever read this comment, know that i read my first perry mason when i was 9 and i have been crazy abt that world ever since (im 29). til i joined the workfrce at 22 and saw the light, i assumed the world to be like a perry mason novel. i loved the legal erudition and crime-fighting pals of ESG who he dedicated books to in the preface. I loved the language, the setting, CALIFORNIA and most of all, I LOVED mason himself. believe me, my world was a better, dreamier, slicker, sweeter place before i realised the America of today is NOT the America of Mason's day.

go to someplace where they dont allow computers on the premises. i am so super spectra ultra m**********ing tired of your biased tripe masquerading as journalism/ whateveritis. oh and those jabs, those pokes, those jibes, those pricks, those little bits of humour you inserted in your masterpiece - winks n nudges of reassurance to your hip friends - they p***me off so much im willing to sponsor that trip i mentioned earlier.

either report seriously on something, or play it out to be a dumb blonde hit piece of Gawker (TM) vintage.

The only colour Obama has is green.

When America discusses colour, they forget that its not Black or White. Time I think tried to do an Asian spin on this, but since there are only two races in the American Universe, no one took it further.

But I recall one conclusion from that article which I shall frame in my own words - that Asians (and Latinos, I guess) have had their fair share of movie stars and other handsome, eloquent speakers who allow the voting public to project itself on them, make big promises, talk well and provide plenty of fainting women in the audience. Not all of them have been good for their country. So they are a bit leery of Obama.

However, race has been converted into this double edged sword most expertly by the Obama campaign. If he doesnt win, its because he's black, not because he has faults. That's a depressing part. If they didnt create this mythical uber-man, Ivy-league, Global citizen with that perfect home life too...they wouldnt have had anything to hang his candidature on.

Why hasnt anyone ever asked how a man in his Forties (with no exceptional public service record or other such indicators) suddenly decide he wants to run for the post of Leader of the Free World, despite having a) a Muslim name and b) a black skin? It's extraordinary ambition, and that's the only uber-human part of this bio.

Half of what the idiots/ imbeciles/ never-been-on-a-plane-since-911s are saying abt the Indian Caste System is BALONEY. Thats how it WAS. Abt a Million years ago. Indian upper castes woke up, smelt the coffee and Affirmative Action in most Indian states reserves jobs and education seats upto and over EIGHTY PERCENT for them. So why dont these dingbats either go to India for a change (instead of watching movies abt India, dated about 1919) or just STFU?????

or if you have worked hard for something, will someone like you understand what these women are feeling. 'tasks' like passing tests in grad school and passing out on people's couches do not qualify.

Why else would he comment on Cindy McCain's yellow 'rain slicker' dress.

Good for Slate, in that case.

dont fall into the maureen dowd trap and lose cred by the time this ridiculous, non-serious freakshow of an election is over and the crowds go home.