thanks for that...

i don't know what gub'ment means, nor what the gub'nor's office is.

holy crap people...it must be nice to hide behind pseudonyms and trash a whole group of people. Is this all it takes to bring out the racist in you?

why is there a holocaust museum in DC? Why not?

oh right, and the comment about it being near the mint...classic, you had me rolling.

Is that all you've got?

did you hear the one about the bigot who lived a life of misery? that one is awesome too...

thanks for playing

totally disagree about the HBO comment. Obama is talking about changing behavior/culture of spending, not necessary getting back into the black right away. But if you cut HBO, refinance, conserve heat/AC, cut back on shopping at Whole Foods...these are changing behaviors that in my analogy will serve our country well going forward.

i like stimulating the conversation and glad people responded - i was purposefully vague because I studied Psychology and NOT political science!!! I am not an expert on the parlimentary system and I was simply trying to point out that there are stark differences in how we elect leaders in the US vs in the UK. I believe my point was supported in both responses: the comparison made in the war room's post glossed over the main differences which impact the tranistion to power.

There are major differences between countries like ours who elect 'presidents' vs countries like England that vote for prime ministers. I will hold off on the civics lesson, but suffice to say, making such comparisons over simplified the major distinctions between a parliamentary goverment and a federal goverment

You removed my post with Diane Fedele's contact info. I pulled this directly off the website of the group she chairs. If she includes a 'personal' email address, rather than an officially sanctioned one that shouldn't matter. When we share information and ask people to contact an editor of a paper, a news channel, etc - how is that different from posting a legitimate set of contact details?

-Yaqui

so let me get this straight - McCain suspends his campaign to attend meetings which require us to rise above politics "to get a deal". Instead he buttrussed the House Repubs to balk at the plan on the table. That doesn't sound at all like politics...

i hope this comes up tonight.

is quite prescient, keeping in mind Moveon.org started as a way to 'Move On' from the impeachment...what is it that this group is moving on from?

and lemmings...

Are we to just believe Obama slipped up? I doubt it...this was just a floated idea to gauge reaction.

Biden is riskly because he spouts off...and not the kind of attack dog spouting off...does anyone recall the 7-eleven comments?

Biden represents a very small, very blue state

I like Biden, but similar to Gore...they are stronger outside the ticket that they would be on the ticket.

my vote goes to Powell, Bayh, Kaine...or my outside hope is still Mark Warner, especially given the potential of him running for pres as well.

no one is a perfect choice.

you know what really made me uncomfortable was that he smiled during the questioning, not after which I am very accustomed to...for example when Costas asked him about Human Rights, Bush is smiling...if I were deaf or had the TV low I would have definitely thought he was talking sports.

But I agree, with friends over for dinner we all agreed that he sounded so much LESS anatagonistic than he ever has. Except for that very strange comment about relgion taking hold...I think that was a holdover talking point from earlier in the day when he went to church.

please don't fall for it...they are just floating it around, gauging the reaction...so you are giving it to them.

Just ignore it. Rather than providing caveat after caveat...'whispers, likely entirely unfounded'...oy

but isn't Barr running from Georgia? I hear he's quite popular there...couldn't that have an impact?

It's pretty sad, then, to consider McCain's planned trip to New Orleans as a publicity stunt. He is desperately trying to make headlines while Obama is traveling abroad. First, leaking to Novak that a Veep decision is coming this week, then a scheduled trip to New Orleans...the press says, 'oooh I wonder if it's Bobby Jindal'.

Pawlenty or Romney then. sit back and wait. There's nothing to report on.

Did she really say that?

Hazelbaker concluded by saying that while McCain "believes children should be raised by a mother and father if at all possible ... he recognizes that there are many ABANDONED children who have yet to find homes. McCain believes that in those situations caring parental figures are better for the child than the alternative." (Caps added by me)

ms hazelbaker you are fired. children are not abandoned when put up for adoption.