Joan, the entire purpose of the right-wing hate rhetoric is to inflame someone with poor impulse control into living out the fantasies that "respectable" right-wingers can't commit or talk about overtly.

A while ago, the comment by golf reporter David Feherty in a Dallas magazine that "any U.S. soldier" with two bullets in his gun who found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi would put both of them into her. Thus did Feherty express the visceral, gut-churning hatred the right-wing white male feels for strong women. It was in fact a call for some deeply disturbed, not-to-bright white guy to live out the fantasy of eliminating such women. Feherty's apology means nothing. Pelosi is in real danger from that "joke."

I suggest that, in general, those who choose the "left behind" version of Jesus's love do not feel particularly good about themselves, and are in fact getting revenge on all those who they perceive as having slighted them, 'disrespected' them and their intelligence, were prettier, more popular, etc., etc. ...

What crueler form of punishment can be devised than choosing a religious view that saves only yourself and those who think as you do.

The absolutely essential thing for Obama to do is to keep hands off!! No messing around with anti-mullah groups, covert Iranian "freedom fighters," or anything else that will undercut the Iranians' own grassroots efforts to bring democracy to Iran. America cannot possibly contribute anything positive to this process.

Has there been any investigation as to whether Dan Rather was completely set up; that the purported "enemy" of Bush who supplied CBS with the phony document was himself working for the Republicans?