We don't need to ask & he doesn't need to tell. The music & dancing say everything. Somebody dress him up in a wig and chiffon and put him on stage.

Stop and look at what Neil Bush was selling in the name of "educational reform" when he was the featured speaker at the technology conference in Dubai in 2002.

Go to the Ignite! web page to see this "revolutionary" educational program Neil is peddling. It's a computer like thing sitting on a three legged rolling cart. Not a word about curriculum content, no evidence provided on how this particular technology improves learning, no information about the target age levels, and no specified outcome goals for students. No school system or administrator in their right mind would invest money in this garbage.

The way Bush talks reveals how he thinks- incomplete, shallow, and illogical. Louis captured this perfectly. I'm still laughing.

"This all got started when I cringed when I saw the use of the term 'premortem' on a blog site called InstaPundit. It hurt me..."

Try getting a prescription of oxycontin, Rush. I heard it's great for pain.

I'm a lifelong Tennessean & have lived though every election in this state since the Kennedy administration. I'm curious to know what was the Carville southern strategy in 2000 when Al Gore lost his home state to Bush? The democrats had little if any ground organization, a few TV ads,& no GOTV effort. I couldn't even get a yard sign. Two days before the presidential election there was only 1 volunteer in the Nashville Democratic headquarters all morning. It was Sunday and seems like they all had gone to church and afterwards out to breakfast. How quaint. If Carville had any kind of strategy down here in 2000,it wasn't apparent to me.

Sadly,Gore had a better than average chance to win TN if there had been an organization in place that ran as efficiently & effectively as that run by Ford. TN maintains strong democratic centers in Nashville & Memphis,as well as the counties on the plateau region near the Gore family farm. His father was a very popular Senator in the 60's and 70's and he might have garnered more votes on his family's reputation alone. If you looked at the vote percentages across the state in 2000 we were far more purple than red.

Ford did much better than I expected against Corker,who was backed by Bush "Pioneer" Jim Haslam, one of the wealthiest oil barons in TN. He lost by a little over 54,000 votes out of over 1.5 million cast. Not bad, in spite of his family's terrible reputation (well deserved),his phony religiosity, &the race issue. Maybe it was Howard Dean's 50 state strategy that improved Ford's campaign efforts? Had the 50 state strategy been in place in 2000, could Gore have won TN and avoided the fiasco in FL? I can only speculate. But my experience suggests it was possible. Instead, we had Carville's southern strategy.

Was I the only person who thought this was hilarious? I don't understand the hysteria from other posters suggesting this game is an assault that deserves retaliation. I wanted to run out with my girlfriends,a video cam & play,too.

is Grove Nordquist. I could happily drown his tax pledge in that bathtub he recommends for government filled with water from his private, unregulated, polluted water supply.

is a dangerous thing". Paglia's disconnected rants remind me of Newt Gingrich's "lectures". Both try to cover too many topics with little or no depth, shallow on historical and empirical facts,and peppered with words they found in Roget's Thesaurus. Unfortunately for both, their pomposity does not lend credibility to the loosely connected arguments they pass off as discourse. Do you guys in Salon's editorial dept. read Paglia's bloviating essays?

Chris Matthews acted like a scared teenage boy who wanted to ask a girl for a date but couldn't bring himself to confront her. I've watched him verbally obliterate guests on previous shows but he was cowed by Coulter. Maybe Coulter's tight,low cut black dress,throw-me-down black shoes and seductive hair flipping reminded him of his dateless high school days, when he was afraid to talk to a girl. This is Coulter's method. In addition to the verbal vitriol, she seduces while simultaneously bullying her male counterparts. She was unable to use her seductive "charms" on Edwards so she resorted to interrupting and rolling her eyes whenever Edwards made a legitimate request. I wish MSNBC and other MSM outlets will stop giving this dominatrix a public platform

I'm not exactly sure how removing junk food from schools is the only viable solution for childhood nutritional problems when families are inundated with grocery aisle after aisle of food-like substances containing high fructose corn syrup and partially hydrogenated oil. Grocery shopping with children is a mind boggeling negotiation process that makes the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks look downright pedestrian. Most families buy what their children will eat and do not want to engage in either grocery store or mealtime fights. If I were to visit 100 homes during mealtimes I would bet in 80% of them the children were eating an alternative meal from the parents. The child meals would consist of sugary cereal,instant grits, macaroni & cheese (from the box), buttered pasta, chicken nuggets, hot dogs, french fries, pizza... You get the idea- nothing green or fresh within a mile of their plates. We have a cultural obesity problem that is not confined to the poor. Until families recognize how to select and eat healthy foods as part of their routine, we'll continue to have an obesity/health problem. The only way to change the agra-food business at the grassroots level is by NOT buying their food-like products. In addition,the best way to change ppor eating habits is to confine regular meal choices for all family members to healthy foods.

These stooges never stop trying to drive a Mack truck through the eye of a needle.