Well, before this turns into a Woodstock love-in, let me just say this-- I'm no fan on Hillary because: 1) I have real reservations about her oddly cautious and tentative approach to the Iraq quagmire and; 2) Based on recent polls,I have severe doubts about her electability.

Should she win the Democratic nomination, I fear she will just be another in a long line of Democratic candidates for which I have had to hold my nose and vote. And frankly, I'm just a little tired of having to SETTLE for yet one more fatally flawed candidate who got where they are because they know how to play the nomination game and who goes down in flames at the polls because that knowledge was their sole asset.

We're the US of A, goddammit! We can do anything! Let's put our shoulders to the wheel, our noses to the grindstone and push our erstwhile newfound ally on the TOP of the list! We're winners and we don't back losers. Let's go, people! Number one! Number one! Number one!

What's that? Not a good thing? Oh.

Never mind....

Well, that's a relief. For awhile, I thought we weren't going to win in Iraq!

Frankly, she and all her ilk-- and by ilk I mean every other gutless Dem who voted to enable the witless squandering of American blood and treasure on this misconceived and immoral war-- sicken me beyond belief. I am so weary of these bend in the Republican wind, spineless masters of the kowtow behaving as if they were acting on some courageous principle back then by knuckling under and allowing this woodenheaded dauphin to have his splendid little war. The blood on his hands stains theirs just as much. Perhaps more so, because they knew better.

Had I my way, she'd have not only been booed off the stage, but out of the public limelight altogether. That she is now the frontrunner for my party's nomination makes me ashamed to be a Democrat. Mark my words, I can see it now as though it's already been written, if she wins the nomination, she will lose in the general election and likely pull this party down with her. She is THAT polarizing to the bulk of American voters.

What're we fightin' for?

Don't ask me I don't give a damn,

Next stop is I-ran!

And it's Five! Six! Seven!

Open up the pearly gates!

Well, there ain't no time to wonder why,

Whoopee! We're all gonna die!

(With apologies to Country Joe MacDonald)

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?

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)

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.