There is a similar product called the She-Wee being marketed in the UK.

My name is college-educated, upper-middle-class white Democrat, and I like guns and religion, and even though the economy seems to be going into the crapper, Obama has yet to convince me that he is capable of resurrecting it.

Obama is an arrogant prick to have said those things, assuming that the po' hicks living in cabins in Pennsylvania shoot varmints and praise Jeebus just because, shucks, they're strapped for cash and haven't even realized it yet. Obama is out of touch with people who are not like him... ie educated, sheltered, and affluent. What else is new.

I think it is fairly obvious here that a bunch of old farts are referring to Obama as a "boy" because he is, in fact, quite young (as far as presidential candidates go, and let's face it, certainly compared to the Republican candidate).

Is it too much to give the Republicans the benefit of the doubt? What they said may have had racial undertones but it's impossible to tell from this context. Sometimes a boy is just a boy.

At least the Germans can be confident that their leader has enough class and taste to actually attend an opera every once in a while.

Meanwhile, Merkel looks fantastic, although this issue certainly makes the case that men still view women as objects of their possession... if a woman is young and attractive, men think she ought to flaunt her cleavage for their visual enjoyment, whereas if the woman is over 35, they think she ought to hide them away lest they be offended by her appearance. In either case the decision is not and should not be his to make....

The real substance here is just how gross sprinkles on doughnuts actually are. C'mon, folks, you should be up in arms over that one. Plain doughnuts for all (Republican) Americans!

I'm not sure how Obama is the odds-on favorite simply because he is winning by a tiny fraction of the popular vote. Or because the polls seem to keep shifting to either candidate depending on the weather. He is in the odds-on favorite of deluded Obama supporters just because they think the only thing standing between him and his ascendance is Hillary Clinton (when in reality that works both ways). He is the odds-on favorite of internet-going Obama supporters because they don't realize the fact that the chatter they see on the web is not actually representative of the voters.

It is annoying that people have decided that Obama wins just by not losing, though. The media, I mean. As long as Obama doesn't bomb terribly, he is still, in their collective opinion, the Democrats' anointed one.

As far as I can tell he just posts the same ad hom attacks four or five times in a row, as though people pay attention to them.

I am both pro-life and pro-choice. I think that abortions are a horrible thing, but I also recognize the need to keep them safe and legal for the women who really need them.

Frankly, even though this is just a ruse by this student and apparently not real, stuff like this just pisses me off. Creating a living thing inside you, many times, then destroying it, many times, for the sake of 'art' is just plain old fashioned retarded, not to mention indicative of a severe lack of morals and ethics. But preying on the outrage that such an incident understandably causes, even if the incident itself is falsified, is also morally outrageous. The only thing she's accomplished here is to disgust a lot of people physically, and outrage a lot of people morally. If that's her idea of art, she's welcome to it. If she thinks she's done anything but further damage the precarious position of legal abortions in this country, then she is even farther off the deep end than we might have originally thought.

Perhaps you don't think she's a bad person, but apparently you haven't been keeping up with the letters section here at Salon if you can't tell where Shapiro is coming from. A huge number of the Obama supporters here seem to think she is some kind of antichrist to their own candidate's messiah. And if you read a few pages of their posts, you'll find that's no exaggeration.

All the recent polling shows that the four issues that matter the most to America are the economy, the war in Iraq, healthcare, and something else I can't exactly remember right now.

Now, lapel pins and bitterness may not have been options on that poll but I'm pretty sure if they had been, they'd be pretty low on the list....

The sad fact is, the media doesn't care what the public wants. If only cares what it wants the public to want, which is, in a roundabout way, merely what it wants to begin with. It assumes it is smarter than the public, therefore what they're interested in is what the public, too, is also interested in, deep down, once you get past all that Iraq and economy nonsense.