If you can scrape the money together you should. Pets are family members, members who depend completely on us for everything. You make a commitment to care for them and you should. We spent thousands on a cat with breast cancer, stopping only when her quality of life was gone. We are spending thousands on a cat with kidney failure, giving him dialysis twice a week and special medicine. He is happy and purring and that's enough. A promise is a promise and we promised to protect them.

He is no more obsequious than the rest of the media is towards Barack Obama. Obama took money from Exelon, a nuclear power company, rewrote legislation until they and the Senate GOP liked it, and no one asks him about it. If Clinton had gotten $230,000 from such a company and rewritten legislation to suit that company, she would be asked about it constantly. But the story appears in the February 3rd NYTimes and no one asks Obama why he caved to a special interest, big business group. The story sinks from view. The rest of the press, including Salon ignores it. The bloggers ignore it. Why is that? Can you answer that Glenn?

Obama is really clever. He consistently charges others with what he is doing or has done--Be in debt to big corporate donors.

Try rewriting an nuclear energy bill to please your big donor Exelon--Obama did and then charged Clinton with be a co-signer. She didn't co-sign the watered down rewrite Obama produced for his big money donor.

Call Social Security in danger, as Obama did and then takes big money from Goldman Sachs a big promoter of privitizing Social Security.

Accuse the Clintons of playing the race card while you are not only playing the race card through your surrogate Jesse Jackson, Jr. (See the stories about him threatening members of the Black Caucus who support Clinton) while playing the gender card against Clinton.

And now the win-at-all cost charge:

"I don't think this Chicago Tribune article (By David Jackson and Ray Long | Tribune staff reporters 6:48 PM CDT, April 3, 2007)ever made it to the national news but it should have:

"The day after New Year's 1996, operatives for Barack Obama filed into a barren hearing room of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners.

"There they began the tedious process of challenging hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of state Sen. Alice Palmer, the longtime progressive activist from the city's South Side. And they kept challenging petitions until every one of Obama's four Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot.

"Fresh from his work as a civil rights lawyer and head of a voter registration project that expanded access to the ballot box, Obama launched his first campaign for the Illinois Senate saying he wanted to empower disenfranchised citizens.

"But in that initial bid for political office, Obama quickly mastered the bare-knuckle arts of Chicago electoral politics. His overwhelming legal onslaught signaled his impatience to gain office, even if that meant elbowing aside an elder stateswoman like Palmer.

"A close examination of Obama's first campaign clouds the image he has cultivated throughout his political career: The man now running for president on a message of giving a voice to the voiceless first entered public office not by leveling the playing field, but by clearing it."

Support him because he is a great speaker, or because he is the less liberal candidate, or because he is black, or because he is a man, or because he inspires you, but don't try to claim he is a different kind of politician or a liberal because he is neither. Don't fool yourselves and don't try to fool us.