I am reminded of the breathtaking arrogance of the Athenian ultimatum to the Melians in Thucydides' The Peloponessian War-- "For you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is in question only between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

Given the current sad disarray of the Democratic Party, we suffer what we must until we can become strong enough to stop such malfeasance and injustice. Although it seems a truism, in a democratic society there shouldn't be one law for the rich and powerful and another for the rest of us.

I have a big problem with Hilary and it ain't because she's a woman (please, what century is this, the seventeenth?) or that she's a Clinton (an argument too stupid to require rebuttal).

My objections are simple ones.

She voted to approve this dauphin's woodenheaded national nightmare in Iraq and she's been strangely unrepentant about it ever since. This country doesn't need yet another President who can't admit they've made a mistake. That's precisely what got us where we are now.

Second, as this poll seems to demonstrate, she's a public figure about whom the majority of the voting public has major reservations. The whys are debatable, but frankly I don't care what they are. I personally have long had SERIOUS doubts about the nationwide electability of Hilary Clinton. My party doesn't need another seemingly acclaimed Annointed Leader to follow into glorious, preordained defeat. And I really do believe that's what will happen if she's the nominee.

For the love of God, can't we choose somebody for once who will lead us out of the mud, blood and travesty of leadership which we've come to accept as the Democratic role model into the green fields of victory beyond?

Why don't Tucker and Jonah just give the guy a blowjob and spare the rest of us their homoerotic swooning?

This is the price paid for handing control of the legislative and executive branches to the Republican Party. The American people have just themselves to blame. Unfortunately, the systematic dismantling of modern American constitutional law has only just begun.

Dump the g/f, take the job in Toronto and get on with your life. If you're successful and have a job you love, the rest will follow. Maybe with this chick, maybe with someone more compatible, who knows? But you're young, you've got a lifetime to figure it out. Besides, Canadian women are hot...

Now, fly! Be free!

That some dead millionairess took a few minutes for photo ops with the less fortunate?

Did she turn water into wine, too?

Sheesh, enough with the endless paeans to dead Di. The truth is that the only thing that separated her from Marie Antoinette was better publicity hacks. Too bad they weren't in the car with her.

What's to decide? This was a travesty of justice. It should be appealed. Furthermore, the judge needs to be asked to step down from the bench and forcibly retired if he declines. He clearly has some personal issues of his own to work out.

70% of Americans only now believe that the war in Iraq is unjustified? Big effing deal.

Who voted this knucklehead into office-- not once, but twice?

Who unwaveringly handed control of Congress over to his Republican buddies, year after year after dreary year?

Who unfailingly allowed themselves to be diverted by wedge issues like abortion and gay marriage while ignoring and betraying their own economic-- and ulimately their own national-- self-interests?

That some of the sheep have looked up is encouraging, but I doubt it's a harbinger of any real change. American blood will continue to soak Iraqi sands. American treasure will continue to flow into the hands of a few corporations. The American middle class will continue to shrink and the disparity between rich and poor continue to grow.

That these are the legacies of the current administration is indisputable. That these legacies were bestowed and legitimated by the selfsame Americans who finally now begin to have doubts about what's been done in their name is our national tragedy and our national disgrace.

I don't think LW is as bright as she thinks she is. Otherwise, she wouldn't be fantasizing about tossing away (for no good reason)a sure thing just to have some stranger's penis in her... again! With thought processes like that, her "art" probably ain't that great, either.

I'm sure her arty, bohemian side will find a way to rationalize betraying her lover though and, in 20 years-- as another writer so astutely put it-- she'll be alone and have lots of cats to keep her company.

I got all warm and fuzzy feeling hearing Yoo referred to "lightheartedly" as Dr. Torture. One imagines similar japing at Third Reich (that paradigm of conservatism) get-togethers-- Hey, look everybody! It's Al Speer, Herr Genocide! Herm Goering, you ol' Mad Bomber! And Joe Goebbels, or as we like to call him, Doc Truth.

Oh, the chuckles...

Catch 22: They can do whatever we can't stop them from doing.

Right now, they're just running out the clock and looking to leave the whole mess for the next President to deal with. We can't stop them, ergo they'll do whatever they can get away with-- which looks to be pretty much anything at this point.

Sign me,

Waiting for the other shoe to drop and wishing as well that my party's leaders felt as fervently and deeply outraged as I... (then maybe they'd actually DO something about it all)

Then we can have pro-abortion states and pro-right-to-life states, pro-sane gun law states and pro-let people buy over-the-counter machine gun states, Free states and Slave states... Wait, we did that one already and it kind of decided why we don't get to decide EVERYTHING on a state by state basis, didn't it?