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.

Was he ever a professor under sniper fire?

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?

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.

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.

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?

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.

Yeah, not like Her Imperial Majesty at all--

When it was too dangerous to send the President, they sent the me... Oh, and my teenage daughter, Sheryl Crow and Sinbad.

Please.

Her Imperial Majesty demonstrates that she is willing to do or say anything to attain power.

It is deeply ironic that she criticizes Obama for a perceived lack of character. From misrepresenting her record on Iraq to the over-inflating of her duties as First Lady, she is not now trustworthy, nor has she ever-- at least in the history of this campaign-- been so.

This is just more tired, old politics of the dying past. How very inspirational. And, sadly, what a telling and appropriate symbol of Her Imperial Majesty's character.

Over at RushLimbaugh Polls, 100% of knuckle-draggers say that there's no way they'd trust ANY Democrat. Also, 95% of troglodytic dittoheads say they'd vote for a tree stump before voting for either "Hussein Obama" or "the bitch." The other 5% still seem to believe they can vote for Ronald Reagan, despite his being dead for many years.

Important news, huh?

We'll be sending a lot more of his ilk into retirement soon via the ballot box.

A move unlikely to effect his income one whit. Fatcats stick together and take care of their own.

Kind of like the Mafia.

And we can all sit around in a circle and shoot at each other for each respectively not doing the "correct" thing in the "correct" way to bring about social change.

That always works SOOOOOOOO fucking well for us!

The truth is that demonstrations and correspondence and one-on-one discussion and probably a million other things I can't think of right now ALL contribute to bringing public opinion around.

You want to snark at somebody, there's a whole political spectrum over on the Right that deserves every bit of criticism poured upon them that we, in our oh-so-creative-and- myriad ways, are apparently able to come up with. You know, the guys responsible for the Iraq quagmire, the economic nightmare, the 40 some-odd million without healthcare and, oh yeah, tax cuts for the wealthy in a time of so-called war.

And, by the way, demonstrations DID help bring about an end to the Vietnam War. The American public didn't just wake up one morning, spontaneously decide it was time for that particular national nightmare to end and in a fit of letter writing induce Nixon to withdraw the troops.