"For the last eight years, we've had an administration that has had pure contempt for the Constitution. Would it be worse to replace them with people who seem never to have read it?"

-- Glenn Greenwald

I've got to disagree a bit with this statement. In the case of Dick Cheney, absolutely! He has more seething hatred for the United States, our Constitution, and our civil liberties than every anti-American terrorist in the Middle East combined. But not so Bush.

I have been saying since he reared his ugly head in the 2000 election primaries that if Bush had to take the test given to all immigrants applying for US citizenship, I guarantee he would fail. He knows absolutely NOTHING about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or the Declaration of Independence. Hell, I’d be surprised if he could name 10 former presidents, and one was his own father!!

Also, for good measure, Bush should have been given a drug test just like any other civil servant. The man is a walking pharmaceutical factory, pumped so full of emotion-flattening drugs he can't speak or understand remorse.

You’re intreptation of the president's civillian Commander in Chief role is correct. The role serves only over the military, and not American people. But I believe Glenn’s point is that when Joe Biden (or the entire Republican Party, or the national media) use the phrase “our Commander in Chief”, they are saying something that is 100% wrong.

“We” do not have a “Commander.” “We” are not serving the president. He serves us. It’s not only wholly incorrect for someone to say “our Commander in Chief” (unless you serve in the military and are talking about fellow soldiers), but in the last eight years it has set up such a horrible conditioning in the American people that saying “our Commander” has became reflexive.

Let us never forget the man whose presidency was robbed from us all 40 years ago this month. The man who should have been our 37th president. How much different the world would have been.

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"Look for him to embrace Republican legislation and coddle the business community over citizens. Not being stupid, he knows which side his bread is buttered on.

-- doubledave27

"We are all damaged people"

-- doubledave27

One of the forgotten constituencies in all this. Not Republican, not Democratic, not Green, not Libertarian, not even Independent. The people who very sagely understand that things can never get better. The 'We Are Fucked' contingency, I call them. The 'Everyone's-Corrupt-And-I-Know-it' group. In their worldview, they are the only ones being realistic. No one is sincere. Everyone's got an ulterior motive. Everyone's looking for buck (even when there's a fortune to be made in much easier venues).

This way of thinking is not only political. It's personal. "I can't possibly satisfy my mate! No one could!!" .. It's even MORE personal, "I can't take a dump! It hurts too much. I need more pills!!".... To them, everything sucks all the time.

For the duration of their lives they believe that they see through the "truth" -- between the lines -- and everyone else is naive. Despite the fact that for their entire lives they are hopelessly miserable.

George Sanders also got to this stage. I'd advise anyone who falls into this mindset to follow George Sanders lead. Because for you, things can never get better... You wouldn't admit it if it did.

”The bad news: I already have heard two officers saying they are going to hang up their suits rather than have to obey a commander in chief who is otherwise disqualified from getting a basic security clearance -- and that's just in one squadron!”

-- HornetDriver

How is that bad news? The less shameful members in the US military (whose loyalty is to a fringe group like the GOP and not to the United States) the better.

Weren’t you the clown who said the following:

“Already the polls showed women voters were swinging towards McCain. You just lost all of them.”

“What had been a mere whiff of panic and defeat in the Obama camp is now turning into a full-on burrito fart of terror.”

“You idiots, as usual, nominated a loser”

“You think McCain had a bad week and Obama a good one? Dream on.”

“You know why the polls are so tight and getting tighter? Because Americans (and the world) are finally getting a chance to see the breathtaking arrogance of the Obama camp.”

“This view of Obama is more widespread than you think, and the fact that McCain is closing the gap in states that have gone blue in the previous several elections is evidence.”

“Get ready to have your bubble popped in November.”

“It sunk Kerry. It'll sink Obama.”

Wow! With a track record that spectactularly wrong, you’d think your shame would prevent you from making a further ass of yourself.

“He threw them away by having a sexual dalliance with someone he had no reason to think he could trust. He made it worse, apparently, by allowing her to think that he cared about her (even loved her, if you credit her side of the story) And all to feed his ego, not just his need for sexual pleasure.”

-- garcohsf

What a bizarre argument to make. Aside from the fact that none of that – not one iota of your disturbing interest someone else’s sex life – has anything whatsoever to do with executing his job as president, the dismissal of major, Constitutional criminal offenses and egregious assaults on international law versus Clinton's immaterial consensual sex makes no sense to a rational human being.

It’s akin to saying, “Yeah, what Timothy McVeigh did was bad, but those DJ’s in Canada LIED to Sarah Palin when they pretended to be a foreign leader! Do you really believe lying is OK??!”?