It would be alot more refreshing, if Democrats took on the Republican turds who got the country in the mess it is and is now so in need of an overhaul. (Notice I did not use the word "change", the next politician to use the word change should be excorcised form the union as an enemy of the state. Who in their right mind except for the Bush 25 percenters would not want change) It would be even more refreshing if Obama, Hillary, or Edwards were able to make news by not sniping, then complaining about the other guys sniping.

When I want to see this type of bullshit, I'd rather turn to championship wrestling.

Disapproval From The People Is leadership.

I am going to assume W.E.S. was being sarcastic, since lengthy massive dis-approval is not a sign of leadership; it is a sign of being an authoritative prick with no leadership capability. When your only justification for your decisions is the power of your position, you are the weakest form of leader. Give the dumbest dick in the land the authority to shoot people at whim and they will get a lot of people "following" their "leadership".

Leaders influence people and persuade people, get them on the same page, for fuks sake, they lead people to walk the walk with them, to work and sacrifice as necessary for a common cause. Bush has demonstrated he has ZERO capability to do those types of things.

"-- he [Atrios] then recognizes he's in no position to assess the propriety of the court ruling because he's not yet familiar with the legal issues governing the decision. That's the basic distinction which right-wing adherents have been taught to ignore." --GG

Due to the root problem that for a significant portion of humanity, ignorance is bliss, it is easy to teach the willing to ignore context, facts, and other inconvenient snippets of reality.

I do see this as shameless pandering to the evangelical base, and probably deserving of some period of time in hellfire, but no different the the usual pandering that politicians do. Ok religious pandering is the worst kind of pandering, but all politicians do pander. Importantly though, I wonder if as governor he ever did anything to force his religious views on the state like for example when Jeb, Georgie, and the syncophants in Congress over-reached in the Schiavo case.

Outside of the politics, the theology implications ("What we need to do, is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than trying to change God's standards...") in his statement is terribly goofy or terribly presented, or just terribly terrible depending on the vantage point. What truly religious person would ever consider that a government document or proclamation could have authority over and/or influence Gods standards.

I could not see Jesus saying, "Yep as the Constitution is written thats really screwing with God and all. Gotta amend that Constitution, change it, because God is all confused."

I could see Jesus saying, "Sorry Huck, no barbecue sauce in Hellfire."

Ultimately I think Zandru got it right. High oil prices do help one of Bushes primary constituencies. To believe Bush is seriously asking for lower oil prices is to believe he actually cares more for the country than his own sweet ass and his friends. I don't think so.

Politically it does look pathetic. I do not have any idea what Bush was thinking going over there and appearing to beg for lower gas prices. If it was an attempt to perform the "look I'm fer the little guy" kind of shtick, it failed miserably and Hillary properly gouged him on it.

The "sprezzatura" incident is blatantly dishonest, for Lee to express that only as a prank and not to have admitted wrong, unfortunately helps him remain dishonest.

Okay, I look forward to the links to your criticism and exploring in full the vast contribution that G L and Had_Enough have made to Western culture. - kingfelix07

Now there is irony. Someone defending a critic, by criticizing accusing critics for not having made criticisms of great profundity themselves, while not noting the targeted criticized critic himself never made contributions in any of the areas he criticized. In criticizing this paragraph, I gladly note it might have been helped by "the skill with which Siegel deploys his pen".

People like Lee are being marginalized. Really the internet is marginalizing all opinion writers. In many cases the original article is only the catalyst or the primer so to speak of the really interesting ideas, thoughts and interactions that come out of the comment sections. Not to mention as someone else noted the best place to get a review of a movie or book is to go to the comment areas of IMDB or Amazon respectively.

Thank you god for letting me win!!!!

But why don't they thank god when they lose?

I've never understood this concept. -- kickstarts

I don't understand it either, but I am going to guess God is pissed off about it.

The basic premise Huckabee starts off with is that he knows what Gods will is for the direction of this nation. Which would be great if it were true and not delusional.

The basic premise that I start with is that I barely understand what God wants me to do, nevermind everyone else. Regardless of my admitted ignorance of Gods will, my take still is that God is not looking for a few good jews, good christians, good muslims, good hindus, good catholics or good whatevers. If he could just get a few good people, he would be happy.