I would have been at the inauguration if I could have, and I am immensely disappointed by the Obama administration, but I would never be caught dead within 20 feet of the raging idiots at their little tea party (unless I was the ballsy guy who walked through with a "public option now" sign).

There are a lot of liberals, progressives, and moderates who are feeling disenchanted with the Obama administration. But being turned off by His Hopefulness is not the same thing as being turned on by a bunch of racist, paranoid, overweight good ol' boys and their simpering overweight former-trophy wives.

(Apologies to people who are overweight and not scum, but no one could see pictures of the protestors and not notice the one thing, other than whiteness, than most bonded the group together....)

This article is fascinating. I'm sure the comments letters would be fascinating as well, if I were actually capable of reading them and attributing them to their proper writers. With this new format that is next to impossible.

Please change it back.

This new comment section format sucks. In a big way. It is very difficult to read and to figure out who wrote what. It looks like some kind of intentional error.

Please change it back.

I consider myself a relatively intelligent person and I'm still having difficulty finding a relevant connection between Byrd's history lecture and allowing gays to openly serve in the military.

But it sure as hell has nothing to do with his race. It has to do with the fact that he pretended to be the face of change and hope and all things good, but he's never been anything more than a pandering centrist who can make lofty speeches.

In other words he is like every other politician. Except that his self-proclaimed strength is his ability to rise above politics.

As many have mentioned, the real reason behind his dip in popularity with whites is the growing dissatisfaction among progressives, who are mostly white, who are finally figuring out what I dare say I knew all along. Obama's skin color and biography do not make him immune to all the same political failings to which all politicians are subject.

Glock has no gainful employment to speak of, nor is a productive member of society in any way, and is probably missing his therapy appointments as well, since all he seems to do is come here and puke out his thinly repressed idiocy.

Now now. Don't rag on body language experts. These are the same people who can tell you weekly how much Angelina and Brad secretly hate each other in Us Magazine!

Would someone like that ever lie to you?!

"The first thing that strikes the observation is an innuerable multitude of men, all equal and alike, incessantly endeavoring to procure the petty and paltry pleasures with which they glut their lives. Each of them, living apart, is as a stranger to the fate of all the rest; his children and his private friends constitute to him the whole of mankind. As for the rest of his fellow citizens, he is close to them, but does not see them; he touches them, but he does not feel them; he exists only in himself and for himself alone."

Alexis de Tocqueville

See no similarities between what Snoop Dogg said and what Barack Obama said. Sorry. No similarities. Except for the "we will."

Which just makes me think of Queen.

WE WILL, WE WILL ROCK YOU.

Which ALSO has nothing to do with what Obama said.

He got that right. We're frustrated and angry by tools and fucktards like Joe Wilson who make a mockery out of the entire American political process, who bend over for wealthy insurance and pharma CEOs in order to prevent Americans from getting decent, affordable healthcare.

Kennedy fought for healthcare reform his whole life. He dedicated his life to being a "political tool" for reform. The only person it can possibly offend to use his death for the same purpose are the Republicans who stood in his way the whole damned time.

Kennedy would dance in his grave if he could accomplish in death what he tried so hard to do in life.

As a native Montanan, Moose Drool is my fermenty beverage of choice. They even sell it here in Saint Paul!

Ron Paul is a fucking nut who manages to think that interstate highways ought to take care of themselves, but women should be forbidden from receiving comprehensive reproductive care if that care involves even the discussion of an abortion.

It has become fashionable to idolize Ron Paul simply because he is such an extremist. But it is still a faux pas to a world that recognizes that a system based on greed will not provide for everyone equitably.

As a Montanan, I can say... keep your senile, selfish old seniors off my wasteland, asshole.

I'd bite your pinky off too if you jammed it in my face like the right-wing nutjob who started the whole fight.

As a progressive Montanan Democrat, I have always been wary of Max and his "blue dog" ways. But I'm glad to see that he's not willing to stop the train just so that a handful of moderate Republicans can continue to hem and haw about whether they want to get on or not.

As of 2002, the number of Americans dying unnecessarily because of inadequate health insurance was 18,000. Why does 22,000 seem like such a big leap?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/healthcare/2002-05-22-insurance-deaths.htm

A better question is, why do you bother posting comments in the comment section? And why will you come back and check this comment section, eagerly anticipating any response to your asinine comment? And why will you continue doing it in the future?

Figure out the answers to those questions and you'll be well equipped for your next therapy session.