That we have been approached like adults and asked to examine-- like adults-- an issue which has plagued and bewildered this nation since it's inception.

Instead of doing so, and elevating the discourse and perhaps moving us away from the morass and stalemate into which examination of race in America has devolved into, we are treated to nonsense like this little screed.

Oooh, he said "typical white person!" Let's focus on that bit of phraseology and parse it ad nauseum as though it has real meaning. While we're at it, let's review the Wright videos again and again and again until any sense of rational discourse has left the building.

Obama had the decency and good sense to treat us, the American public, as rational adults. Can we expect just the same from our media? Is that asking too much? Is it asking too much from Salon?

I had hoped not, but clearly I may have been mistaken.

I have two questions:

1) Will I have to touch my forehead to the floor or does mere genuflecting suffice as a symbol of obeisance?

2) When my plane lands, will I have to run from the plane to the car to avoid all the sniper fire?

But Her Imperial Majesty will never be my President.

Prevaricator, opportunist, character assassin... She is no kind of Democrat that I want to be associated with.

If this were my letter, my home, my elderly neighbor being bullied, I could not in good conscience allow this behavior to pass.

The shrubbery planter has trespassed and has taken her neighbor's property to use as her own. These are the facts, plain and simple. And why? Because the elderly woman's house doesn't look very nice.

If the esthetically (and ethically) challenged planter were a big corporation, the howls of outrage would echo from end to end of this website. Instead we have a neighborhood busybody committing this mugging-- let's face it, snatching the elderly neighbor's property for one's own benefit is really not much different than snatching her purse (and either way, it's a both an act of immorality and a crime) and calls to "mind your own business."

Call the police. Frankly, I'd be amazed if they took any action, but please do so.

If they fail to act, as a firm believer in the effectiveness of direct action I'd dig the plants up in the night and leave the lifeless stems on the planter's doorstep.

We all are, in the end, each our brother's keeper-- and our sick and our elderly brothers (and sisters) perhaps most of all. Allowing this to pass is no different than turning a blind eye to a physical assault or an act of arson.

It's funny. As a liberal, I just assumed that this whole looking out for your neighbor thing was a given.

Clutch Cargo/Obama

Speed Racer/Obama

or

Princess Leia/Obama?

I mean, as long as we're just pulling baseless fantasies willy-nilly out of our collective posteriors, why let the limitations of reality interfere?

Was he ever a professor under sniper fire?

To a-holes like this-- i.e., conservatives who have done their best to dismantle and strangle by underfunding our public school system-- is beyond me. By first creating the problem and then endlessly complaining about it (while doing nothing to actually bring about solutions), they have brought public education in this country to the sorry pass it has become.

Newsflash-- Educating our kids is not in their best interests or that of their corporate masters. Creating generations of semi-literate, miseducated, easily manipulated wage-slaves, however, is.

but she may have been under sniper fire when she did so and thus unable to fully weigh the consequences of her decision.

Or maybe she did so after answering one of those 3 am phone calls and thus was suffering from sleep deprivation...

For continually pointing out what a ridiculous dog-and-pony show our mainstream media has become. As someone with fond memories of Walter Cronkite's nightly broadcasts and Woodward & Bernstein's outstanding efforts, I often find myself filled with disgust at the fawning, derivative and ultimately masturbatory reportings on the latest "scandal du jour," whatever it might be that week.

It's got to be hard and unrewarding labor to have to report on the antics of the media circus day in and day out. But thank you for doing such a great job of it.

To hang his future on an already fading Clintonian star, that is certainly his prerogative.

Personally, I think he's bright enough to tell which way the wind is blowing.

is not going to be saved by this rearranging of the deck chairs.

Yet another tailor-made paean to the misbegotten Hillary.

She trusted the wrong people and ran a crappy campaign.

From the reason for her vote on Iraq to sniper fire to now this mythical uninsured dead mother, she wound up telling some real whoppers and getting caught out on them-- and rather made herself a national joke doing so.

She failed to plan for adversity and she failed to develop any long range plan beyond an ill taken "kitchen sink strategy".

She practically swept herself into history's dustbin-- at least for this campaigning season.

She-- contrary to what appears to be the opinion of herself and many of her erstwhile "democratic" supporters-- is not entitled to the position of Democratic nominee. She ran and she has apparently lost.

So stop the whining already and particularly this "we was robbed" self-pitying nonsense. Better luck next time.

Isn't that rather liking whoring one's opinion out?

In a totally non-sexist fashion, I mean.

After smearing your opponent to high heaven and just making crap up to inflate or alter your record haven't worked?

I mean, it's great that this is the next path she wants to try, but it really isn't all that noble given the plethora of ill-conceived machinations and vitriol that her campaign has consisted of heretofore.