Actually, Joan, yes, I can imagine Joe Biden saying he can't tell us who he voted for, but mark his words, we'll know who within six months and we may think he did the wrong thing and it may be hard to support his decision, but we're going to have to trust him and support him anyway.

Governor Palin was responding to the question: Did you vote for Ted Stevens?

Do you ever bother practicing any journalistic due diligence before you blog, Joan?

And do you still stand by your statement in your "McCain Loses Again" article that Joe the Plumber is "a wealthy Toledo businessman?"

Pathetic.

Duh. Actually Joan, the media drove the bus that got Obambi elected. And mark my words, they'll regret their failure to practice journalistic due diligence, just as they did over their support of the war. And when that day comes, there's going to be a media backlash like you've never seen before. I'd give Obama about three months before he's shocked, yes, shocked that the media is no longer fawning over him. I can see the 60 minutes segment now -- "The first 100 days: Where's the change?"

So the if you're a white person who didn't vote for Obama, naturally you didn't overcome your prejudices? Did it ever occur to you that perhaps us "white people" had no prejudices to begin with, Joan? I didn't vote for Obama, but if I had, race would never have entered my mind. I voted against his economic policies and lack of experience on the world stage.

My post was about white people "overcoming their prejudice" to vote for Obama -- as Joan put it. It was social commentary, not political.

Honestly, Joan, you're such an untalented, predictable hack. Perhaps the brilliant Camille Paglia could inspire you to see things less myopically once in awhile. On second thought, given the limited capacity of your cranium, I sincerely doubt it.

Here's an excerpt from Paglia's article entitled "Obama Surfs Through" -- posted here at Salon today. Read it, Joan -- to see how someone on the left raises the journalistic bar by letting a little truth shine through, even if they're at odds politically with the person they're writing about. Read it, Joan -- just to see how real journalists do it.

“How dare Palin not embrace abortion as the ultimate civilized ideal of modern culture? How tacky that she speaks in a vivacious regional accent indistinguishable from that of Western Canada! How risible that she graduated from the State University of Idaho and not one of those plush, pampered commodes of received opinion whose graduates, in their rush to believe the worst about her, have demonstrated that, when it comes to sifting evidence, they don't know their asses from their elbows.

“Liberal Democrats are going to wake up from their sadomasochistic, anti-Palin orgy with a very big hangover. The evil genie released during this sorry episode will not so easily go back into its bottle. A shocking level of irrational emotionalism and at times infantile rage was exposed at the heart of current Democratic ideology -- contradicting Democratic core principles of compassion, tolerance and independent thought. One would have to look back to the Eisenhower 1950s for parallels to this grotesque lock-step parade of bourgeois provincialism, shallow groupthink and blind prejudice.

“I like Sarah Palin, and I've heartily enjoyed her arrival on the national stage. As a career classroom teacher, I can see how smart she is -- and quite frankly, I think the people who don't see it are the stupid ones, wrapped in the fuzzy mummy-gauze of their own worn-out partisan dogma. So she doesn't speak the King's English -- big whoop! There is a powerful clarity of consciousness in her eyes. She uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist. I stand on what I said (as a staunch pro-choice advocate) in my last two columns -- that Palin as a pro-life wife, mother and ambitious professional represents the next big shift in feminism. Pro-life women will save feminism by expanding it, particularly into the more traditional Third World.

“As for the Democrats who sneered and howled that Palin was unprepared to be a vice-presidential nominee -- what navel-gazing hypocrisy! What protests were raised in the party or mainstream media when John Edwards, with vastly less political experience than Palin, got John Kerry's nod for veep four years ago? And Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas, for whom I lobbied to be Obama's pick and who was on everyone's short list for months, has a record indistinguishable from Palin's. Whatever knowledge deficit Palin has about the federal bureaucracy or international affairs (outside the normal purview of governors) will hopefully be remedied during the next eight years of the Obama presidencies.”

THAT"S journalism, Joan. THAT'S journalism.

Congrats on your win, Faulk. I plan to support this president every way I can for the sake of the country... at least, until (or shall I say if) he really starts f-ing up. I hope he has the good sense to govern from the center (a la Clinton) and actually reach across the aisle as he promised.

You assume that I'm a conservative. I'm a moderate Republican -- a la Rudy. Conservative on taxes, spending and national security. Liberal on social issues. You can imagine how crazy the spending that's going on right now (not to mention the last eight years) has made me. My biggest fear moving forward is that Obama will raise taxes on ANY class of citizen or on ANY business, which I see (and history tells us) is a recipe for deep recession, if not depression. I want Obama to suceed, and not become another Jimmy Carter, cut down to one term by his economic mistakes.

Yeah, that's the ticket to healing -- let's spend our time investigating Bush while the rest of the country is going to hell in a hand basket. Way to reach across the aisle!