Sooo typical of this little fraud...he pimped up a "Massachusets Miracle" (the miracle was that economic activity happened at all during his term) as a prelude to a Presidential run, hosted PBS television, under-cut Biden with his leak of the Dimmock tapes, didn't know which end of the tank to look out over, and generally travelled as if the weight of world change rested upon his very broad(--and--oh--so--much--better--than--anyone's) shoulders. Now he's back saying he's at the center of this miasma...pulleeeese!Basically "The Duke" has been marginalized for over a decade (he pops off every so often about AMTRAK) and is now clamoring for the attention that he thrives on. He should be sitting in the darkened third deck of the Pepsi Center, aloof and alone, which is pretty much how he took advice during the "world changing" 1988 campaign. He proves that being "wicked" smart isn't necesarily the ingredient in a good candidate or leader.

While I can endorse T. Boone's emphasis on wind, he wants to centralize its production and make it accessible to the national grid. Sounds like large a utilities/big oil approach to me. Now he's betting on the Republicans. I think a more decentralized approach is clearly feasible without the tremendous overhead of new rights of way and dsitribution lines. Each home should be its own generator of energy, be it solar voltaic, solar HW, geothermal HVAC or natural gas co-generation. Why duplicate the top down monopolistic utility companies when we have the ability to distribute production among millions upon millions of households? The redundancy in that kind of system is astounding and the risk of wholesale shut-downs virtually non-existent. T. Boone's approach is mired in the past...we can't really blame him as that oilman's approach is the only way he knows. But we don't have to accept his view just because he has the money to buy a TV voice. Now we need a bolder, futuristic approach that will rectify our current system's most basic problems before the utilities and oil companies take over this tremendously democratic energy opportunity.

The story DOES matter as it points to yet another case where McCain talks the talk but doesn't quite walk it. As with his supposed heroism, based largely on cowardice bombing of women and children with napalm, his family values mantra hides his less than honorable dumping of wife #1 and his countenance of #2's selfish materialism. He's for the common man, but not enough to vote in favor of the minimum wage. He admires MLK, but voted against the holiday. He's against Bin Laden, but undercut the war in Afghanistan. He's against terrorism, but voted to follow Bully Bush in going after the wrong guy...he's against the establishment, but has lobbyists teeming in his campaign as advisors. He's against bailouts, but helped his friend Frank Keating...he's against torture, but supports Bush's hideous use of it, he's for immiogrant amnesty, until he votes against it... ENOUGH!

There should be a serious debate in NOLA and the US about designing to a category 3 storm. The City was a foot away from a devastating flood AFTER billions were spent. The levees held, but that's not significant if they aren't high enough. The entire Netherlands is under sea level, but they keep the oceans out. We should expect the same in the USA. Anything less is mediocrity writ large.

She's a wolf in sheep's clothing and the wolf is at the door of every middle class American family starting this AM...this is the biggest threat since the radical right unleashed Ronald Reagan and Obama/Biden and the D's better be prepared!!

I'm not buying the hero argument at all. He dropped napalm on innocent civilians and children...he volunteerred to "kill gooks" and he admitted he was a war criminal back in 1998. The TRUE HEROES were the grunts ON THE GROUND who were drafted, served and were permanently marred by an abysmal war promoted by generals and admirals like McCain's father. Look around you and see all the Vietnam Vets who quietly go about their daily lives without pointing to their sacrifice...the hero argument is all he's got, and it has worn thin. And his wild cohorts make fun of community service which has always been at the core of social change and progress.

What a perfect waste of a column...with everything she's done wrong you resort to some sex image???

Oh, I meant pre-emptive. Never mind! How's my lipstick look, Charles?

It's amazing how this situation has been mis-analyzed...many voted against Hillary because of a fear that she'd energize the radical right which had been pretty sleepy about the 2008 race...McCain didn't appeal to the wing nuts and many Dems figured, why wake them up? The Palin nomination was a smart move by McSame's wing nut advisors (he's basically sold his soul to Karl Rove's devil) who wanted to "energize the base"...they knew suit-Romney was a fraud and a HUGE target...they could have nominated Rev. Mike, but cynically tried for a two-fer with an unknown wing nut female (Yeah, John, women will vote for a woman, no problemo")...why should Barack have energized the wing nut right with Hillary??..he absolutely DOES NOT regret his anti-Hillary VP decision, but he may already be thinking twice about Joe Biden, who's absolutely earned an "F" so far in the VP candidate grade/score