Well for starters, I must apologize for implying that your husband was a woman. I had somehow got the idea that you were a man. Perhaps you should consider a more feminine type font.

You won't get any arguments from me about Education in America. But the finest education in the world is not going to make someone smart any more than inner city schools education guarantees you won't know shit for the rest of your life. Some of the dumbest people I have ever met were in AP high school classes and in college lecture halls, both here and in England.

To keep it to Presidential examples, Lincoln was essentially self taught and perhaps one of the three smartest Presidents we have ever had, whereas GW got the finest education possible culminating in graduating Harvard, and the man's so dumb its surprising breathing is still an involuntary muscle reflex.

Your husband probably just comes from a very smart strain of humanity. That kind of thing can be genetic. My family is full of very intelligent people as well, and apart from a brief tour of Germany we all came from the US education system.

This is all off the original point about Maureen, which is that she is a pseudo intellectual windbag, someone who may have committed a lot of great words to memory, but appears to have essentially understood very little- if any- of those words at any critical level. Quoting Oscar Wilde doesn't make you Oscar Wilde, just as being as foul mouthed as George Carlin doesn't mean you're ignorant.

And again, if you are a conservative, and you support McCain, okay, that I get. Plenty of good people support McCain. God knows why, but they do.

But if you supported Hillary in the primaries, and did so mostly based on women's issues, then you need to explain what problem you have with a candidate that is the mirror image of her on those very same issues, not mention about 99% of every other concievable policy stand. If you have a concrete, clear, and coherent reason that is not about race or gender, then I'm more than happy to hear it.

But again, this is way off topic. So if you want to answer, okay, I will read and perhaps comment on it, but otherwise I think it should probably get put to rest.

Boy, two straight posts going after me, in your usual rambling, nonsensical way. Your Samantha Power Schtick is weak at best. And Deval Patrick, wow, how about grasping at straws. How exactly does Germany suddenly play a part in all this?

Actually never made it to Germany when over there. Did spend a weekend in Dublin though. Lovely city. Impossible to get lost in. Just find the Liffey and you're set.

Anyway, its interesting how you focus on the mention of plagarism and not on the bigger point. Its great that you use quotes around the passages, just super that you know enough rudimentary essay writing to do that. And your ad naseum use of them does mean you either have read a lot in your life or are really adept at Wikipedia. But again, you only use all these literary name drops and such to hide the fact that you really have no solid ideas of your own. Real intellectuals don't go wall to wall with the Huxley quotes (just an example, whether you have riffed Huxley or not is not the point), but psuedo- intellectuals, ie. well read idiots do.

And one other point: Don't worry so much about the man hater bit. I did confess that I was only assuming one of two possibilities. You could just be racist instead.

Okay, now I suppose you are going to write back in your usual third rate trying to be Woolf way. I promise I'll read it, but you are starting to get really boring, and I have a life away from this keyboard, so I don't know whether I'll bother to waste more time on you. I've said my piece.

is not so much how this is not a good pick for McCain, which it isn't, but the fact that this got leaked this early, if it is indeed true. What's the better news about this, if true, is that it takes the wind out of McCain's sail about being able to roll this out himself. He had planned a little rally of his right after the Dem convention ended on his 72nd birthday to announce his running mate, and if its already known well before that then it loses most of its ability to dominate a single news cycle, let alone one or two. It'd be old news already. That reason alone might mean if he had chosen Romney that he'd reneg on that and choose someone else.

Rezco is old news. The way the media is today, it might as well have happened in the eighties its so old news. I very much doubt this will have any effect whatsoever.

Perhaps all the low brow attacks Hillary used in the primary could have an unexpected effect of squeezing all the juice out of things like this. I mean, what could McCain possibly say that she didn't already try to say with no success?

Wow. That was the most ethnocentric, imbecilic post yet. And here I thought some of my previous drunken posts were out there. But you, you mentally challenged space cadet, you just do not live on the same plane of existence as us humans do you? Seriously, is it even possible to get your head any farther up your own ass?

I'm done with you. You're dull.