Who knows if the media can handle this story. The pundit shows have for the most part turned into Inside Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight. They offer no substance and seem more interested in the 'glam' of the race - what are we watching the Oscar's red carpet walk? If you want me watching again, give me something that matters. Yes, this matters, health care policies matter, this insane war spending matters. This country is losing it's ethics and it's standing in the world because we don't stand for anything that matters. We cut corners, we lie, we torture and all anyone wants to talk about is how Obama bowls. Cripes, give me a break.

We leave tomorrow to visit our only child, our daughter of almost 21, who is studying abroad. We haven't seen her since September 1! Garrison, your piece was beautiful - more telling of the story of my own mother than of mine. But what really hit home was the 'honeybuns' at the end.

There was a day, oh, probably 6 or 7 years ago that I came into the kitchen and addressed our daughter with an unintended miss-mash of sweet-pie and honeybuns, coming out sweety-buns. We were both a little embarrassed, but it's been kind of a fun thing to pull out on her once and a while...

Thanks for reminding me - I guess I'll have to pull it out when I see her in a couple of days...

Number one - he's a politician. He's got to play the game or get eaten alive. He's not a saint and he never said he was.

Number two - we weren't paying close enough attention. You weren't. I wasn't. We heard what we wanted to hear. It's not a sin, it happens.

Will you ever be? So you got what you wanted. You always do. Big surprise.

We'll see what karma has to say about this...

McCain. I like it, along with calling out the media. McCain, McCain, McCain. Short and sweet.

This is what passes for leadership? We're adults - treat us as such.

Next.

Yes, Cox’s crime is that he was put there by Bush, to carry out what Bush and the repubs wanted them to do. Greenspan, in the big picture, and Gramm, in the minute picture, are the real policy culprits. Then there’s always the perfect storm of deregulation and greed.

But as mchebert comments, a scapegoat is the last thing we need. It’s simplistic and it doesn’t solve anything, but it works politically. By the headlines in today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, it seems to be working for McCain.

I’d like to see Obama come out of his economic summit and give a fire and brimstone about McCain’s scapegoats and easy fixes; greed vs. smart regulation; what his plan is.

I don’t know anything about economics, but this plan has got to gain the praise of those who do. Co-op ‘Country First’ and frame it in what’s best for us – together. He may have to ask us to sacrifice some comforts and long held ideologies to get there. It’s more than playing to the crowd, as I see McCain doing. It’s gotta be real, it’s gotta be hard. It’s gotta put McCain down for the count.

She left the world a better place than she found it. She gave us a remarkable man, poised to accomplish remarkable things.

Women who need to self-medicate will find a reason to do so – this feminism excuse is just that, another excuse. It’s out in the open and ooooh, someone noticed it. BTW, stay-at-home moms have been doing this for decades. It’s old news.

As some have brought up with this article – and with a bit of a twist – that we’re shocked, SHOCKED at the number of women behaving like men – there is a shame that many don’t consider – the shame of not only being an alcoholic, but the shame of being an alcoholic and a mother. That’s just something you’re not supposed to do. No way, no how. In a way, in a cultural-role way, dad’s get a pass, mom’s do not.

Feminism isn’t changing the numbers, it’s just bringing out more into the open.

When you cross the line into the land of unreasonable expectations, you travel at your own risk. What did you expect to find over there? Sounds like Crazyland....