He sought them out. He went for Bush. He started making his votes more conservative. He sought out Hagee. He sought out the "agents of intolerance." And then, for the convention, he knew he had to rattle the bars, and what did HE do? He went hard, stupid right. HE DID THAT. He's always been loved too much by the press. He wasn't that good, ever. He's now treated harshly -- but generally honestly -- by the press. He's not that bad, probably, but he stinks pretty bad now, and John did it to John. No more breaks for McCain.

McCain didn't drop out of the race in South Carolina. He went on, and he won some races. He even made robocalls against Bush that implied he was anti-Catholic. He's just never been as keen as the press thought he was.

This silly woman deals with masks and literary tropes. Fine. Except she puts King Lear in the same category as an image in a Madonna stage act and a series of network interviews on network TV. She's got a perfect comic book brain. Images. No reality principle at all. No understanding of how cable news works as a business, as a brainless agenda-setter, nothing. She watches her shows and reacts. She likes this, she doesn't like that.

Everything is flattened into archetype, as it were. How stupid is that?

My mother did the same thing about soap operas. Fewer brains, but a lot more emotional decency. She hated the villains and liked the characters who were like her. No messing around. I think my mother was a lot smarter.

Under the Clinton pardon, Rich would have been able to come home, but still would have had to separate himself from a bushel of money. With all the phony outrage -- or real outrage by silly people -- about the Rich pardon, he is now pardoned, but cannot come home. Happy now?

Now, Bush I pardoned criminals who would have incriminated himself. He pardoned the despicable Armand Hammer. Not a peep.

And after a faint protest, Iran-Contra was dead and gone.

Why exactly is it that the outrage continues against the Clintons? Here's my theory. It's more fun because you have to make up stuff to get outraged against. Whitewater morphed into a million imaginary scandals.

The whole experience is comparable to the experience of being forced to watch a day of cable news, or being beaten about the face and head with eels.

Maybe they don't have anything on Obama. Maybe Obama just thinks highly of Bill and Hill. Maybe most of the crap you've spewed over the years about the former president and the senator from New York is just some crazy old broad quacking doubleplusungood nonsense, like most of the "pundits" we're saddled with. I hope, at least, you're not making the money that nutcases like Chris Matthews make.

Your criticism is all produced by gazing at your navel. You present no real evidence of anything at all, except, "I DON'T LIKE THE CLINTONS." Thank you for voting. Now move on.

1. It's pure politics. Warren is the least fascistic of the evangelicals. Obama is just harvesting votes from the stupid bigots, who vote in large numbers.

2. He actually believes that crap. While we were saying he wasn't Muslim, some boring Christian snuck into the White House. He weasels as bad as Bill Clinton on gay marriage, but we give him a free pass. Obama's fans call him "brilliant." Please. It's just sleaze-bucket politics. Or the bland arrogance of religion. He's okay, Jack. So what if the gays of California are as far under the bus as Jeremiah Wright?

That's the guy I'd like to have heard, by the way. He'd have something to say. But he was Obama's pastor back when he was honest.

Thank you, Glenn. I've had a lot of trouble with this "post-partisan" nonsense myself. Politics is by its nature divisive. The questions always boil down to, "Which side are you on, boys?" You're with the worker or you're against him. You're for the gays or against them. You're for the poor or you're against them. Principles are principles, and you have to decide yours through experience and an activity commonly referred to as thinking. I think the bipartisan appeal worked for Obama in the election of 2008, because it focused people, already desperate for someone with common sense and liberal principles, on the intelligence of the man rather than his, well, color. It took the punch out of decades of GOP lies. And, let's face it, he was lucky to have such a bumbling campaign by the Republicans.

But now the hard part begins, and it makes a lot of people very angry who worked, donated and voted to elect the man. My bet is, Obama raised about $15 from Saddleback, and maybe got a few thousand evangelical votes -- and they're the liberals. And for this, he throws gays under the bus just the way he backed off supporting his pastor of many years because Sean Hannity pulled the most unflattering clips from a long and thoughtful sermon.

I started by supporting Clinton. Why, those old, triangulating, "monsters," they said. I began to really admire Obama's intense focus and political smarts. Was the size of his victory because of his campaign, or would any decent Democrat have done more or less that well with the economy collapsing like a dynamited house? I don't know. What actually disgusts me, at this point, are the people praising this move as "genius," while they condemned the Clintons for much the same thing.

Here's hoping that Obama will stand on the right side in a lot more struggles we'll have to make. But this Kumbaya post-partisan nonsense will have to go, or we're screwed.